Chris Black and Matty Matheson on How to Master Your Personal Brand
MATTHY MATHESON: Do you see my architecture? I have architecture posters in frames, okay?
BLACK: That means you’re rich. I get what that means now. What’s up with your hair, bro? What is wrong with you?
MATHESON: I don’t know. It started off as a unifying thing between me and my daughter. She’s two. She does a top she calls a ponetail. She’s like, “ponetail, ponetail.”
BLACK: A top ponetail, I think, is really appropriate for your two-year-old daughter. I don’t know how well it’s going to work for you.
MATHESON: I don’t know what’s happening either.
BLACK: Have you had long hair before?
MATHESON: Yeah, when I went through my folk phase out of hardcore, when I was just like, “Oh yeah, Neil Young’s cool. Let’s do a lot of cocaine and listen to The Band.”
BLACK: We’ve all been through that phase. Unfortunately, Neil Young never really clicked for me.
MATHESON: You’re such an insane person. I’ll tell you one thing. If you want to talk about a great music: Jennifer Castle. If you’re not on the Jennifer Castle tip as a whole, she is the greatest singer-songwriter of the modern day. She used to be a server at a restaurant I worked at in the early 2000s. She did a winter solstice show, a livestream from a venue with just her and two backup singers.