It was over a week ago that I posted this note at work on Easter Sunday and now I am posting it here too, and the other job I have gotten sick at and sick of. I will keep the lights down for you but I won’t be returning here either unless I need to grab something quick. I hope you enjoy my art below.  If you’ve felt my art you’ve felt my heart. Yours always, Matthew

He first noticed me at 14 when I bought a keyboard to learn to play imagine. It wasnt until 14 years later When I sang Working
Class Hero that he remembered me. When I made sure everyone knew Yesterday was not his song on the anniversary of his death he laughed. But when I played Real Love on April 20th, that’s when John decided he would never leave me alone again.

I keep my hair cut short so you can still the scars from my halo. 3 holes on each side of my head. As you can see they leak blood bad when I get on stage at the Fez. When I said “it’s so nice to hear my friends instead of fucking annoying girls,” it sounded unlike anything I’d ever say. Now I realize it was just John stopping in to give a little help to his friend because John Lennon never leaves me alone.

Paul is not dead, because he was never born. He can still lead you home but John Lennon will never leave me alone. Nearly every McCartney song is about going backwards while every Lennon song is about going forward. That’s why I ask people Paul or John? and if they answer wrong I move on. Happy Easter

By Matt Foran

Matt is seated on stage with his legs crossed tuning his guitar at the Fez in Downtown, Stamford. An hour before he went on stage he realized the girls in the booth on the right are going to be a problem.  Their voices are shrieking and it’s one of their birthdays and they are drunk.  
BIRTHDAY GIRL:
“It’s MY Birthday! What are you gonna do for ME?”
MATT:
“What do you want me to do?

BIRTHDAY GIRL:
“Dave Matthews!”

MATT laughs.  “What song? Crash Into Me?”

BIRTHDAY GIRL:
Yes!

MATT laughs,

BIRTHDAY GIRL:
Don’t mock me! It’s my birthday!  

Matt struggles to engage the mechanism. The Birthday girls are talking so loudly it is impossible to hear or think…let alone perform his music.  Play “Celebrity Obsessed American Girls”  He thinks to himself.  “No that would be too mean.”

MATT gets an idea and grabs his Bob Dylan song book, and covers  “Things have changed:”

MATT (singing):”A Worried Man with a worried mind, nothing in front of me and nothing behind, there’s a woman on my left and she’s drinking champaign”  
CUT TO Enter stage left, a stumbling girl from the booth table with a Miller High Life beer can.  

MATT (singing):”I’m out of sight I’m out of range, I used to care…things have changed”

He hears the sound of  KRISTEN’S voice and applause in the distance. and accidentally says what he thinks: “It’s so nice to hear the sound of a friend instead of these annoying girls.”

BIRTHDAY GIRLS get up immediately and complain to the owner “that guy’s an asshole!” ERIC rips up their $33 check and says “He’s a saint here, get the fuck out.”  MATT struggles to regain his composure and engage the mechanism. The rest is black.

Cross fade to MATT sits at the bar. Supposed record company people come up to him and say it was incredible theater, a reporter for a music magazine wants to interview him.  But he’s more concerned with the state of the youth in America.  He tells the owners Eric and Donna that “I have never experienced Real Love in my life until last Wednesday when I looked out at everyone paying attention to me singing and screamed “I’m so in love with all of you!” ” He tells them that being on stage gave him the ability to tell someone how I felt about them, and if he gets nothing more from all of this, he got that.  
DONNA:
You don’t have to hide your love away Matt
MATT:
It wasn’t that scary and it doesn’t hurt that bad to not have your feelings reciprocated immediately.  That’s Real Love too right?
If I can put a John Lennon frame around tonight I think “All you need is love” approach would be throwing up your hands and just saying “peace… be cool birthday girls” and playing #41. On the other hand Real Love is allowing your artists to remove people he doesn’t want from his audience even if it means it will hurt the bottom line.

ERIC:
Real love is having your artists back.  We know you can handle yourself on stage but we’ll kill for you.  You know that Matt

MATT puts The Beatles “Good Night” on both the bar stereo and Facebook.

OVERHEAD SHOT We see Matt walking home down a silent Main Street singing to himself “I used to care…things have changed”

Cut to next day Matt checking his cell phone.  There’s a text from JOE:
Listened to the audio on the way home…laughed my ass off.  Thanks for being exactly who you are.
MATT smiles as he pulls out his corporate ID Card at the entrance  of 770 Broadway.
FADE TO BLACK END