ronnie james deo.
i switched to a hippy deodorant about a week ago.
not AS hippy as rubbing those crystals on your pits…
but pretty hippy.
it has no fragrance, no mercury… or whatever the shit
is that the big bad deodorant companies put in their stuff.
anyway..
it does NOT work.
and by ‘not’ i mean, like, at all…
i think it is actually doing the opposite of it’s job.
it’s activating funk.
it makes me smell like the floor of the forest.
i think aaron described it best:
“with the hippy deodorant, you put it on in the morning
and by 10 or 11am, you smell like a sandwich.”
yep.
a sandwich.
wow.
deodorant doing it’s job is one of the few things in life i count on.
it’s right up there with automatic toll booths working.
now that absolute is being challenged….
and while i’m in a foreign country, no less.
oh the humanity.
i just reapplied. thick.
i’m hoping it holds.
i don’t want to offend any folks tonight at the australian radio awards.
that would be a total bummer.
maybe it’s my pheromones?
maybe i’m too much man?
yeah, i’m gonna go with that angle…
i’m too much man, and the hippies do not have enough
chakra and firepower in their patchoulli arsenal to squelch me.
they cannot handle my man-ness.
yeah, that feels right.
October 10th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
“not AS hippy as rubbing those crystals on your pits…”
HEY!!!
I…but I…
nevermind…
October 10th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
i’ve always considered sandwiches to be delicious.
i feel like i may have to reconsider now that sweat has been thrown into the mix. ew.
October 10th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
haha. I love sandwiches
Including a Matt sandwi….
NVM. haha.
October 11th, 2009 at 6:03 am
Maybe it’s supposed to make you smell bad, since most hippies don’t bathe. Read the fine print mr. nathanson.
October 11th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
I just about died when I read “smell like a sandwich”. THAT is funny!
October 11th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
You are so delightfully random. And good short story about deodorant. I have a good one for you. “Way back when” my mom decided to try the deodorant crystal, convinced that the aluminum in conventional deodorant would give her Alzheimer’s. One bright Sunday afternoon, my boyfriend at the time and I received an answering machine message from my mother—-the message was for my stepfather (who does not live with me)—detailing a grocery list. And despite the fact that our outgoing answering machine greeting said “This is Scott and Paige, leave a message,” my poor, confused mother left it for my step-dad anyway. We promptly called her and told her that she may as well go ahead and wear regular deodorant. The take away for you is that you should, too. Hope this tidbit helps you. And the Atlanta show was great, by the way. Really enjoyed seeing you with Sugarland. Have fun down under. -Paige
October 12th, 2009 at 2:10 am
Hey! re: non-aluminum deodorants - basically none of them work, and I’ve tried a bunch. The BO smell comes from bacteria feeding on hormones that are released under your armpits, so if you use an antibacterial spray or gel or whatever, that will kill the bacteria and, therefore, the smell. The caveat is that you have to reapply a few times a day, at least. I go back and forth between that and using a regular deodorant every few days. Works pretty well, but I am a girl and I rarely rock star out onstage.
Anyway, hope that helps! WOOOOO HIPPIES THAT DON’T SMELL BAD!
October 12th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Matt…in your music, as well as your written expressions you are a genuinely deep, and profoundly funny individual and I appreciate your style…and my girlfriends 6 year old son sings your music with all the inflections and intonations right. hes in the tub right now singing Come on Get Higher…
….CAN SOMEBODY PLEASE GET THIS GUY SOME AXE, OR SOMETHING???
October 12th, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Hey Matt! from one san franciscoian to another..hang in there on the tour in austraila. It would be very cool for you and Keith Urban to cut a single together. When can I have you on my show here in Washington, DC? We play the heck out of your song here we love it! Have someone get in touch with me to make this happen!!! Best of Luck!
October 12th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
“deodorant doing it’s job is one of the few things in life i count on”
You don’t have very high expectations, do you?
October 13th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Just pretend you’re the other Matty McMusk. Or use toilet liners to soak up the pit goods then auction it off
October 13th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
A pheromone (from Greek φέρω phero “to bear” + hormone from Greek ὁρμή - “impetus”) is a chemical signal that triggers a natural response in another member of the same species. There are alarm pheromones, food trail pheromones, sex pheromones, and many others that affect behavior or physiology.
The male Axilla (more commonly known as the armpit) has been hypothesized to be a source of human pheromones.
yeah, this is a wordy way of saying that wikipedia says it could be your horomones…feeling frisky this week?
But if it is your pheromones they are supposed to elicit a similar response from a memeber of the same species…than sandwich in the late am makes sense but what does early morning forest glen get you? Is that the pachouli scent? Pachouli is actually grounding and sexually activating in aromatherapy. The chakras are seven although some cite more spinning vortexes of energy that run along your spinal column. The third, your solar plexus, deals with your willpower/fire and is connected to your Endocrine system and your pancreas. Okay now I’m babbeling and trying to make some broad connection. Fyi I have natural deoderant and it smell like watermellon, have you tried putting it on at night something with sleep patterns on my box
Maura
October 13th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Since I can’t smell what you actually smell like from here, I will just imagine that you smell really good. You and your music are such a turn on; my husband is a very happy man these days. Thanks.
October 13th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
Hippy, fresh from the forest, funk and a SANDWICH? Be still my olfactory epithelium! Any chance you smell like teen spirit too? What the fandango have I stumbled across? One minute I’m singing/ listening to “Some Mad Hope” (checkin’ out my own brown skin) the next thing I know hit a key and I’m on a new site, reading about a guy whose pits smell New York City in August! Matt, I’ve never been to your site until now and I’m thinking about reading your other posts but I’m kinda afeared (combination of afraid and fear). But, I love your music so I have a feeling I’m gonna like your journal entries. I’ll just hold my nose and dive right in…can’t be that bad right? Wait…on second thought, Matt…can you pass the patchouli first, man?
October 14th, 2009 at 7:25 pm
if you are in the southern hemisphere, maybe you need to apply deodorant in the opposite direction to get it to work?
October 15th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
See now..it’s only fair to “follow” someone on Twitter if they “follow” you…especially if you are one of the first 10 people doing so and have mentioned “Matt Nathanson” several times in blog postings….hint hint…
October 15th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Matt Nathanson, you even manage to make deodorant sound poetic…however “it’s” as in “it’s job” should be spelled “its” because it’s possessive so lose the apostrophe there…can’t help it, I teach high school English. Still love you, though:)
October 16th, 2009 at 12:15 am
Matt, I think you should twitter. It would be fun to hear your random, daily tweets. It is so you for you. xoxo
Michelle
My twitter name is MichelleAtlanta
October 16th, 2009 at 7:16 am
You have some weird commenters (I don’t even think that is a word oh well)on here. I love the ‘too much man’ view. I guess I am ‘too much woman’ since even the thick stuff stops working after awhile. I will have to use that when I start to stink. HA!
October 16th, 2009 at 8:56 am
Yeah… what Maura said. Oh, and Matt? I totally buy the “too manly” line…. If I were you, I’d stick with that one. Enjoy Australia and come to the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of East TN soon. I’d love to see you in concert.
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Matt Nathanson has the sweat-iest pits I have ever seen in concert. But I have never smelled any funk coming from the stage. Perhaps stick to the mercury deodorant :0) enjoying the blog. keep it up.
November 14th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Hyperhidrosis ain’t no fun at all