Me: Do any of you listen to music outside of what most people think you would, and if so what is it?
Matt: im a big fan of chuck perry
Alex: hardcore i like norma jean alot alot of older music like the eagles and alot of joe walsh's solo stuff the beatles Paul McCarttney Wings
Alex: o ya by the way i dont believe in commas
Mike: i listen to van morrison, sixpence, the temptations, moby, anything
motown or jazz ,lol, we can tell alex, we can
tell
Me: Mike obviously does however
Mike: strong believer
Alex: lol im to lazy to reach over and hit that darn comma key
Mike: i got to church w/ commas
Matt: i like the smashing pumpkins
Alex: haha o ya
Mike: me too
Alex: pumpkins
Mike: smashing pumpkins are huge
Me: What inspires your lyrics and songs as a whole?
Alex: girls
Mike: personal experiences for the most part
Matt: whatever mike and alex write about
Alex: alot about girls and i gotta get away from that
Mike: my parents' divorce has had a huge impact on the lyrics i've written lately
Matt: for me its food and milk
Mike: and listening to mewithoutYou over the summer changed my
writing style completely
Matt: but you know
Mike: and then there's the occasional mt. dew rant
Alex: o yes the mt dew
Mike: then i touch matt's butt while he sings about milk
Me: mmmmmm milk, Gummi Bears or Sweedish Fish
and why?
Alex: gummi bears variety
Mike: definitely swedish fish for
the texture and stronger flavor
Matt: man, i like gummi bears
better but i'd perfer sour patch kids
Mike: man, you guys suck.
Matt: i'd go for the variety
Mike: i didnt know you liked gummi bears, otherwise this band would not
exist
Alex: haha
Mike: i just cant deal w/ that kind of diversity
Me: Are you candy prejudice, Huh mike?
Matt: fatty foods all the way
Mike: i am, what about it?
Me: At least you've come to terms
with your bigotry of the candy industry.
Mike: i'm tolerant, haha, no hate crimes from
me...yet.
Me: Good or Evil and why?
Alex: good
Matt: good, cuz mean people aren't nice
Mike: generally good
Alex: very observant matt'
Mike: but then you have the "party of god", in which case i'd go w/ evil, sorry, i had to throw politics in there for fun
Me: Politics are fine, I will get to those later though, maybe
limblesshamster: hehe
Matt: i don't pay attention to
politics, thier too confusing
Alex: fox news matt its very user friendly
Mike: haha
Me: Any favorite local bands?
Mike: definitely autumn w/o audrey, PVS, sides of the north
Alex: autumn without audrey (Six days until Sunday)
Alex: sides of the north, pvs, doug says hi
Mike: those are the biggest, but there are very few we dont like (*stratus*)
Alex: haha you mean bonnevile
Me: I hear they are changing their name to Mustang soon
Mike: how about the girl-jean-car-name-faggots, haha,really? i heard Coupe
Deville
Matt: ummum dangit........when sparks fly
Alex: hmm i dunno then
Me: Who pees in the shower?
Alex: ME!!!!
Mike: i pee in the shower all the time
Matt: thats who i was thinkin of
Alex: im not walkin all the way to the toilet
Mike: i'm sure we forgot like at least 20 bands that we love
Alex: when there is a drain and water running alread
Mike: yeah, it's the same basic structure as a toilet
Me: LoL
Mike: hole, water, urine, occasionally feces
Alex: haha
Me: If you could spend a day with
Osama Bin Ladin, what would you do and
what band would you take him to see?
Alex: marilon manson, and hope he dies in the pit
Mike: that's a toughie, i'd hafta say.....take him to a strip club
Alex: haha
Mike: then to someplace that involves beastiality and goats/camels
Matt: some kid broke his arm in our pit, thats crazy
Akex: ya
Mike: yeah insanity
Me: Stupid violent pitters
Alex: ya
Mike: yeah i think he just fell on it wrong, though
Matt: but still
Alex: to surviving monday they should've done it in pvs's pit they are so much more moshable
Mike: yeah
Me: Yeah you guys have that whole
we could kick your ass but we'd rather play
good tunes instead thing.
Alex: do we?
Me: Yeah
Mike: haha, thank you muchly
Me: PVS plays good tunes that make you kick someone elses ass.....Well moshing wise
Alex: im an emo kid at hard
truthfully you could slit my throat and w/ my
last gaping breath i'd appologize for bleading
on your shirt
Mike: haha
Matt: your a fag alex
Mike: that's the worst thing i've ever heard you say
Alex: lol,its a taking back sunday line
Me: Is punk dead?
Alex: no
Mike: carpet biter
Alex: haha that would make me a lesbian mike
Mike: whatever
Alex: your so dumb
Mike: homosexual
Alex: there you go
Matt: i think punk music is making a revival but not in the way people
expect it to
Mike: no, as long as there are kids rebelling against injust authority, kids in their garage w/ guitars, doing however they want to, punk will live, yeah
Me: Any mention of Avril Lavigne in
this answer gets you kicked
Mike: as far as music, i'd say it's
alive as ever
Alex: ya punk has evolved like any other style has and people just wont admit it
Mike: haha, no no, i'll admit she plays decent pop tunes, but no punk credibililty whatsoever
Me: exactly.....she is kinda hot too
Alex: thats what the mute button was invented for though
Mike: yeah, the beatles and the ramones experimtented w/ their sound, but if
a punk band tries that now, it's 'sell out'
Alex: i hate people
Mike: yeah, avril on mute is like
pizza w/o mushrooms
Alex: haha perfect
Me: What is in everyone's CD player at the moment?
Matt: coheed and cambria
Alex: further seems forever saves the day
Me: you really are an emo kid LoL jk
Alex: i have a 5 disk changer so do i get 5 cds
Alex: i am
Mike: my room: MxPx life in general; my car: the Ataris
Alex: and after this i will go
cry in the dark
Mike: and in my PC: antiflag in my living room: Ultimate
Fakebook
Alex: hey thats my cd when can i get that back
Matt: i only use one c.d. player
Mike: oh! in my tape player in the basement: oasis
Alex: dude your done now
Mike: yeah, i am now
Alex: good
Mike: now let me touch your butt
Me: Ok and my final two questions are jokes of sorts that I'm asking because Alex made me think of it. How many emo kids does it take to screw in a lightbuld?
Mike: none they all cry in the dark
Alex: they cry in the dark
Mike: just like alex.
Me: exactly
Matt: 2
Alex: guys stop ur making me all misty over here
Matt: one to hold the crying kid
screwing the lightbulb
Mike: haha
Me: How many ska kids does it take to screw in a lightbuld?
Matt: 2
Alex: i dunno
Mike: ooh, that's a new one for me
Mike: one to skank to the other doing it, that sucked
Alex: ya that did
Matt: one to hold the kid with trumpet screwing the lightbulb in
Alex: that was worse
Mike: haha yeah
Me: 2.......one to drop it the other one to pick it up pick it up
Alex: haha
Mike: hahaha i dig muchly
Alex: me too
Me: And I am done and thank you for giving me an interview I can use to make you guys look funny if you ever end up on Vh1's Before They Were Stars.
Alex: how many member of stratus does it take to screw in a light bulb
Mike: haha
Matt: 2
Mike: rod stewart
Alex: none they pay sumone to do it