Matt writes his first song at the age of three on the piano. The chorus is entirely played on the black keys, and the verses solely on white. It climaxes with a descending chromatic scale that dramatically ritards as it approaches the inevitable low A.

1974 - 1994

Matt composes about a thousand more songs. He also acquires chops on several instruments, spends five years married to his 4-track, joins and quits many bands for kicks, and gets a degree in music composition. During this time, about 0.5% of his creative output is heard by less than 0.0000003% of the world population.

1995

In a fit of boredom, Matt goes to his rehearsal space in San Francisco which he shares with Jai Young Kim. He hooks up Jai Young's expensive recording gear and within 3 hours writes and records the song, "Blatherskite" onto 8 track 1/2" tape. Impressed with himself, he speeds over to his friend Linda's apartment to play her a tape of it. She wasn't in, so he played it for her housemate, Dina. Dina at least pretended to like it.

Days later, he reappears at his space and in less time writes and records a second tune, "Funky Spelunker." With a renewed sense of purpose, he plans to continue doing this and eventually compile all this material under the band name Fun.

In the coming months Matt records, "The Swell Guy," "Can't Hear Shit," "Pal," "Jeers for Beers," "Most Toys Loses" "Rock Stars Aren't Gods," and "I'm Only Having Fun." On one early winter evening he mixes all these songs down to DAT. Most songs get completely cleaned up by this procedure, but he only keeps the opening theme to "The Swell Guy," (the remainder of the tune gets reworked and eventually evolves into "Agoraphobia") and the closing minute of "Most Toys Loses," (the first three minutes to be transformed into a pop tune of sorts that still requires lyrics). This cropping brought the total music to just under 20 minutes, or 10 minutes per side of a demo cassette.

Matt makes about 5 copies of this collection of Fun tunes and titled it, "Hazelnuts to Some, Filberts to Others." Then he gets bored making all these DAT-to-cassette dubs one by one so he stopped. Not like anybody cares, anyway.

1996 - 1998

Once again Matt finds himself at the rehearsal space on a whim. He records 30 minutes of improvisations straight to DAT, simultaneously playing drums, keyboards, guitar, and singing. Inspired, he decides he should have a one-man improvisational act called Midline Errors. Eventually he decides he likes this name better than Fun, so he merges the two "bands."

Temporarily out of work, he takes a recording class which earns him some momentum and studio time. With the help of Jenya Chenoff he records several reels of crap. Well, some of it wasn't crap. The basics for the songs "Sick Building Syndrome," "Voices," "Johnny Rosin," and "Kid Sister," were recorded during these half-assed sessions.

Meanwhile, he begins to get bogged down dealing with "real" bands, you know the ones that record CDs and go on tours. This was all well and good, but really the music he wrote and performed by himself was infinitely more satisfying.

1999

The stars aligned - Matt had some extra money and Dan Rathbun had some extra time. So Matt finally began recording some of the extensive backlog of tunes at Polymorph Studio. All the basics were laid down for: "Suzie Speex," "The Campers," "Cancer," "Agoraphobia," "Truant," "Bus Wreck," and "The Story of my Life."

Then Dan ran out of time and Matt ran out of money, so all the material sat in the can for a year. More band stuff occupied Matt's time.

2000

Out of nowhere Dan summoned a free day at the studio, and "The Campers" gets mixed. But that was it for this year. As always, Matt had other projects to vacuum up his dwindling stash of money, inspiration and free Saturdays.

Jai Young happened to get a few Wednesdays to book at the Port Lite, so Matt made his life easy by asking to play a show there. This was the official debut show for Midline Errors. Five people, all of which Matt knew personally, attended this grand event.

2001

Matt scraped together a couple more mini-shows, actually grabbing the attention of people he didn't know previously. Outside of a few compliments (either sincere and forced) he garnered nothing from these experiences.

Miracle of mircales, Dan had time to finish mixing all the remaining aforementioned songs. This happened on selected weekends up until the end of December. Thank God. This material was so old at this point Matt didn't care to do anything with it except burn CDs for friends or whoever.

2002

Matt obtains the midlineerrors.com domain if only to get extra space to deposit .mp3 files.

Matt played another show, opening for one of his other bands, Dropsy. That was fun. Many freshly-burned CDs were handed out that evening.

In June, Dan returned from seemingly endless touring with Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and plans were made to get busy on a lot of Midline Errors stuff in cracks of time. In July, Dan and Matt spend three long days working on mastering the first CD, as well as reviving the old Fun stuff which, at this point, only existed on a crappy old DAT.

And when mastering was making them weary, Dan and Matt got to work on basics for 8 songs to pontentially make up the meat of a second CD. These songs were: "Well," "Sleepboat," "Shopping at Midnight," "29," "Repetitive Stress Injury," "Bleeding to Death," "Bullets," and "I-80." The last two tunes still require lyrics and possibly different song titles.

That brings us to now.