CHARGE!!! Another AQUABATS show at Slim's in San Francisco
After missing them the last 2 times, we FIANLLY caught up wit the "Bats.
Only 5 of the original heros are left standing.
Now, without a horn section, the Aquabats have redoubled their attack.
They sound more pop-punk, but isn' that what we all want anyway?
It was the same old 'Bats. They fought villains, instucted "the kids" on the finer points of good diet,
dispensing justice, sharing, and proper Aquabat hand gestures, like the ones below for "Martian Girl".
The 'Bats sounded tight as ever. and the fans were rabid with delight throughout the night.
We even hooked Michael up with a sweet 80's look. You KNOW he looks good.
What a terrific show. The bats are alive and well. Thet even have commercials between some songs now.
Our favorite was for a toy called the "Pudding Belt". Guess ya had to be there...
















("The Kids" doing the "WO, WO, wo, wo, wo")

I'm a Game Designer!!!
I'm no longer a tester, I design videogames.
I got a sweet job at Backbone Entertainment as a level designer.
No longer a tester, I now create levels for games, make enemies and bosses, and dictate enemy behavior and A.I.
I'm having an absolute BLAST doing this. It's all creative work. Now, games testers TEST what I MAKE!
I feel like that scene in The Simpsons where Homer finally gets to go into the executive washroom.

WE GOT MARRIED!!!
May I present, Scott and Joni Matt.
Joni and I are officially Husband and Wife! Can ya dig that?
The ceremony was held at San Mateo Central Park, in the Rose Garden Gazebo. Kate Talbot performed a wonderful pagan ceremony to the delight of all onlookers. Practically everyone I know showed up.
Even Joni's son, Michael was there. We gave him a ring too, to make him feel like part of the family.
So now it's official! Joni and Scott are Husband and Wife!
And yes, I'll have the pictures up soon!

FUCK LIBERATE!!! I QUIT!!!
I quit my job, and have spent 6 months on unemployment! Why, you ask? I had to. I was gonna be fired just like my other friends were.
See, these 2 assholes called Dav and Bob took over our department, and just started FIRING all my friends I worked with. When it got down to ME being the last one, and they REALLY started leaning on me, I went to H.R., got myself a a decent severence package, and high-tailed it. Still, I had a good 3 year run there. I made a TON of money, got a SWEET entry for my resume, made some pals, and best of all, I met my little Joni!
So, jobs are few and far between here in "Gamer's Gulch". Y'all just wish me luck.

Kids in the Hall: Tour of Duty 2002 at the Warfield
Yep, ANOTHER Kids in the Hall show!
This brings the grand total up to 3!
A great show, plenty of old favorites, and a few surprises as well.
And Joni FINALLY got to see 'em live.

Joni Said YES!!
We're gittin' hitched!
Xmas Eve, at my Dad's house, I asked Joni to marry me in front of the whole family.
She said yes right away, and was all smiles. It was a pretty emotional moment, don't ya know. Even my Dad got choked up!
So now, it's all about the planning the wedding. I've seen movies about it, and I'm expecting a wacky, nutty, irreverent, yet emotionally touching experience with a varried number of interesting and funny characters.
Much like "Father of the Bride". Gee, I hope my wedding doesn't suck like that movie did...

Today the worst disaster in my whole life happened. BOTH towers of The World Trade Center were slammed into by 2 fully loaded hijacked passenger jets. At the same time, The Pentagon, our symbol of military strength, was plowed into by another hijacked 747, full of passengers. A fourth jet was apparently aiming for the white house when passengers may have overpowered the hijackers, crashing the jet in a field in PA. This is the most terrible thing I have ever seen. Such massive loss of life, and repercussions that have not yet even surfaced. The hijackers were apparently Islamic in origin (duh!) and they were on a holy mission to destroy the American Devils, and our religious freedom. So, I can't help thinking that our divine being, this "God" everyone speaks of, is wholly responsible. We worship a god, and we think ours is the only one true god. And our god is on our side. Islamics worship their god, and they think that their god is the one true god. And that god is on their side. So whose side is God anyways? From the looks of things, THEIR SIDE, not ours. Lucky me, I'm a proud atheist. So I can't help thinking that perhaps if the world could have just woken up long ago, and realized that there's NO God up in the sky, that this terrible tragedy could have been avoided. How many wars have been fought for religion? How many crusades? How many inquisitions? How many hate crimes? How many imprisonments? How many inane laws passed?' How many families divided, for religion.......For God? My deepest sympathies to those who have lost lives or loved ones in this terrible tragedy.

Friday, June 1st, 2001

Jim Rose Circus at The Punch Line
A freak and geek show with no equal.
Let's see here, Jim ate (and regurgitated) razors, got darts thrown at his back,
stuck a spoon up his nose, and let some girl stand on his head while face down in a pile of broken glass.
Jim's WIFE got smothered in a garbage bag, got cinderblocks broken on her,
ascended a ladder of swords, and turned Joni ON!!
There was also sword-swallowing, bile-drinking, body-piercing, and other horrors.
It only took about 10 minutes for the first couple to storm out, horrified and disgusted.

Brian Regan at Cobb's
TAKE LUCK!!!!
One of my all time favorite comics got seen by me and Joni this weeknd
We met 2 girls and a guy in line before the show and decided to sit together.... BIG MISTAKE!!
Turns out, we sat with the loud, drunk assholes. Just our luck
We shoulda known. They were already pretty drunk in line, and still drinking.
When we got sat...LONG ISLANDS all around for them.
One of the girls wouldn't keep her damn hands off me, and the other one passed out drunk halfway through the show
Other than that, Brian Regan puts on a hell of a show, without ONE cuss word. Now THAT'S talent.

Dave Chapelle at the Warfield
1/3 of Half Baked graced our city last night
We got great seats near a totally humorless party, but that's ok
I laffed enuff for 10 men
Someone even threw a joint onstage. Dave did NOT throw it back, but
placed it gently offstage, assumedly for later....

Too Tough to Die
One of the most influential punk musicians died today.
Joey Ramone has joined the chior invisible.
Man, I LOVED the Ramones. It's like the end of an era. Bummer.

Memento
Easily the best film of the year, Memento will soon join The Usual Suspects,
The Sixth Sense and Pulp Fiction as one of those rare
movies that joins your all-time favorites list after only a single viewing.
Unfortunately, like Blair Witch, most of you will have to wait until
the big multiplexes to carry it, seeing as how it only plays in arthouse type theatres for now. You're simply going to have to take my advice:
Go see this movie immediately. You'll be glad you did.

Greg Proops at the Punch Line
Yes, I know...I haven't updated in AGES
Well, just shut up and read this....
How cool are we? We FINALLY got to see 1/2 of the funniest pair on "Who's Line is it Anyways?"
Proops was a laff riot.
He mostly made fun of S.F (where he was born) and DAMN, he's angry.
That's about all.
Joni's son Michael gets here soon...more on that later...

I GOT A PLAYSTATION 2!!!!!
FINALLY!!!!
Seems everyone but me had one until yesterday
I musta got real lucky. I just strolled into Best Buy and asked if they had any.
The guy headed to some mystical back room and emerged with MY BABY!!
A brand spankin' new SONY PLAYSTATION 2
As I was heading to my car, I got some longing looks from some more unfortunate gamers
but it was mine....MINE!!!
I think I'm gonna sleep with it tonight......

Joni got me a DVD player for my birthday!!!
Damn, I love that girl!!!!
Now I can watch EVERYTHING in letterbox format, cuz I'm such a widescreen snob.
My first DVD? The Matrix and Fight Club of course.
Hey, why don't y'all come over this weekend for a movie-fest!

AWESOME AQUABATS SHOW!!!!
The Aquabats came, saw, and conquered!
I swear, this was the tightest I've seen the 'Bats since the Fury tour.
Slim's was PACKED and sold out an hour before the 'Bats hit the stage.
Just about evryone I knew showed up too.
Alex, Tracy, Chris the Hippy, The Pickle King, Paul, his bro, John, and even MY brother Brian showed up.
Paul's brother's pal Dan lit up a paht zepelin of a joint and just started passing it around moments before the show started.
When the 'Bats hit the fog-shrouded stage and belted out "Playdough", the entire croud stared pogoing in unison.
From there the singalong went, as the Aquabats led us through adventure on the high seas, battles with villains, Snack Time, an appearance by the Magic Chicken, a pseudo Limp Bizkit concert
and even a Cool Pool Party with huge inflatable toys bouncing over the crowd of Aqua Cadets.
Ronald Regan totally pegged Paul in the spleen with a water bottle he threw from the stage.
We were all sweaty and the walls in Slim's were soaked when the "Bats finally closed with "Super Rad"
and the Bat Commander did a few backflips for us.
Then it was "Bye Hommies!" and the short drive home....
Awesome!! Totally Awesome!!!

It was a hell of a show.
There was fire, smoke, juggling, blood, and cruel jokes played on 10 year-olds. Mentalism, Misdirection, and Mayhem were the order of the night.
The COOLEST part was, after the show, Penn & Teller hung out in front of the theatre meeting folks and signing stuff. Then, as we waited in the parking garage for the lameass car-jockeys to find my car, who should come strolling in to that very garage but Teller himself!
I think he was pretty tired, cuz he was NONE too hip to talking to us. He just wanted to get his car and begone! But the show was fabulous nonetheless.
Just 3 little days till AQUABATS!!!!

Monday, October 30, 2000

The AQUABATS are comming!!!!!
The wait is finally over! In two weeks, the new Aquabas CD comes out!
Then, on DECEMBER 7th, at Slim's in San Francisco, the Aquabats will decend on our fair city, despensing musical justice for all.
With a delectable mix of Devo, Oingo Boingo, and Marvel Comics, These spandex-clad heros will redefine everything you thought a band could be.
You'll see Heros!!
You'll see Villains!!
You'll see Firebreathing!! (if we're lucky)
They even fight crime on stage...JUST FOR YOU!!!
Check 'em out at TheAquabats.com

Phantom Hacker Bastard!!!
Some Sonofabitch hacked my site yesterday.
I wouldn't be so affected by it if not for the fact that this seems like it was done by someone who knows me. WHO would do such a thing? Ya got me.
The Scott Matt Homepage was ripped down and replaced with a very cruel, BADLY coded site.
The HTML was VERY simple and badly written.
Some very uncool things were said about me on the site, but the WORST part, was that cruel things were posted about my fair Joni as well.
I mean, WHAT has Joni ever done to anyone I know? If you have a beef with me, keep it with ME, dumbass!!!
Now I'm all pissed again. I'll update later when I'm bit happier....

The Coolest Action Figures Ever?
You be the judge: Click here for the COOLEST toys ever.
Looks like I'll be back on the old toy hunt in a couple of weeks.
Jeez, that and trying to track down one of the 3 Playstation 2s that Sony decides to release in October.
Ok, so get this, on October 24, Sony will release only 500,00 PS2s for the ENTIRE country. Then...that's IT for over 2 months!! No more PS2s till NEXT YEAR!!! What are they thinking? Sony originally announced 1 million the first day, with 100,00 each following week. Why that changed, I have no idea. All I know, is that I can't pre-order or reserve one ANYWHERE.
I hope my girlfriend is cool with me camping out in front of Best Buy the evening of the 23rd......
Well, wish me luck.

Hooked on Hawk
It's FINALLY here!!!
Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 has arrived!!
And it's once again my Playstation Game of the Year.
I spent all weekend reliving my wildest skating fantasies. EVERY pro skater worth mentioning is in it. They even dusted off Steve Cabalerro for this one!!! AWESOME!!
All told, Tony Hawk 2 is 100% perfect. Absolutly flawless. And Joni can't keep her hands off the controller. She was even hoping I'd go golfing so she could play all by herself.
She's hooked! I tell ya, it's a real turn-on watchin' my girl ollie from a 540 Benianna to a FS Nosegrind. I spent more time watching her on Sunday than I did actually playing.
And as far as I can tell, my little princess will be making a little skatepark of her own with the slick Park Editor tonight.
I can hardley wait for my session in it.
I'm as giddy as a little girl.....

Friday, September 22, 2000

San Jose Sharks VS Anaheim Mighty Ducks
My Mom got us tickets to the pre-season game in San Jose this Friday. The seats were like 10 rows from the ice!
She somehow gets these great tickets to games every once in a while. Joni went too. It was her first Hockey game, and she had a blast. Mom even invited Brian to the game. Unfortunately, Pop was down with a bum knee and couldn't go. Not a bad game. Sharks won 2-1. Not enuff fights, though.

Lake Don Pedro Vacation
Joni and I left for Sonora early Saturday morning to hang out at my Dad's cabin for the weekend. He has a little cabin up by Yosemete. The ride was going great until we got to Manteca. There, I was feeling kinda sleepy, so I picked up a couple of Ginseig tablets to energize me. I pop the tabs, and the next thing ya know, for some reason, some little muscle in my throat clamps shut...PAINFULLY!!
It was some wierd spasm or something. Within minutes, I've pulled the car over into this little orchard and I'm doubled over, heaving my guts out...but NOTHING is comming out! My throat is totally shut. And OH, the pain.
An hour later, I'm in the emergency room in some little hospital in Mantica. They're WAY understaffed that day and after an hour, no one has seen me still. The whole time, I'm like half barfing in front of Joni. Good thing she loves me so much.
Well, after about 2 hours, my throat miraculously just HEALS. and I'm totally fine. Whatever.
So off we go, and get to he cabin about 4:00. It's nestled in the woods and really cozy and secluded.
Me, I'm totally spent from heaving and barfing and dealing with the immense pain my neck was giving me (Plus, I'd only had a bagel that morning, which eventually came back up when my throat finally opened)
and I just wanted to lay down and die for a while
But the folks were insistent we go eat. I was feeling like Superman when he gets hit with the Kryptonite, but I went to dinner anyways.
Turns out it was just the thing!! I felt GREAT after some chow! That night we came back to the cabin and played Mario Tennis for hours before hitting the sack before a big day on the boat.
The next morning, we woke up, had a little breakfast of eggs and biscuits, and headed out for the lake. We rigged up the boat and dropped her in the water. Right after we launched, we all leapt into the water to cool down. We did this a LOT!! After cruising at top speed for about 45 minutes, we rigged up a tube for some fast, furious Tubin' action.
I got whipped around by Dad pretty good that day. We got Joni out on the tube and she had a total blast. Dad went easy on her. He didn't try to blast her 30 feet in the air off a wake. Maybe next time...
Then there was Dad. He hadn't been up on a ski for about 4 years. He was kinda thinking he wouldn't get up this year, what with his "Old Bones" and all. Well, Dad straps on the vest, dives in the water, and I hand him his 50 pound O'Brien wood ski form the 60's.
We moter froward, and Dad straps on his plank, and yells "HIT IT!!"
He pops up on the FIRST TRY and just starts attacking his turns like a man of 30 again.
I tried to use the wakeboard the the folks just bought, but since NO ONE had ever really been UP on it yet, I had no teacher. After 4 unsuccessful tries, I screwed up my hand during a bail and had to quit.
That pretty much brought us to the end of the day. I tubed it all the way back to the boat launch site, watching Dad get lost for a good 1/2 hour. My body was totaly beat by the time we finally found the right dock.
We were all pretty sunburned and sore when we sat down to dinner in this quaint little mexican place before Joni and I shoved off for home.
Now, Joni and are sunburned, sore, and sleepy.
We gotta do this more often!!

January 16th, 2000

Kids in the Hall at the Warfield
The Kids once again visited our fair city of San Fransisco.
They played at my favorite venue, and BOY, were they on!
During the last skit, at a somber moment, Alex yelled "AGAIN!" and busted up the whole troupe.
They were even good sports about it, and seemed happy for the break in routine.
This is supposedly their last tour...
Never Say Never

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