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If you could introduce yourselves and give a brief (or detailed) biog of the band?
Matt-OK, ready? Are you going to try and decifer this by the sounds or words or
I was just going to basically type it out, putting spaces between each person
I dont think your going to be able to tell the difference between our voices
(Its the same with every interview I really dont know how big cheese etc do it ah yes I do they only ever interview a few people or individually which is what I prefer!)
My names Matt I play guitar and I sing, My names Steve and I play guitar and also keyboard
Hi I am also Steve and I play saxophone and also vocals. My names Chris I play drums, Im John I play bass
Matt-There is another member but hes not here
Oh right whats he doing now?
Matt-Hes sleeping now he sleeps a lot he was still sleeping when we got here he slept about 14 hours today
(From here on in as most of the interview answers were fielded by Matt. I can recognise his voice as its quite distinctive plus he was sitting closer and maybe for a joke aspect Ill write Unidentified RXB member but the humour will wear off so if I dont recognise the voice and attach the name RXB will just be the general abbreviation. Bold are my questions and when I use itallics that idicates confversation on my part but not in question form or my thoughts or desciptions of emotion!)
What have the venues been like that you have encountered so far?
Probably moderately sized venues I suppose. The largest on was probably last night in Glasgow
At the Cat-House it was really cool; really cool
The response from the crowd?
Matt-It was huge there were like three hundred people there, were really surprised!
Is it bigger than this venue? (furnace is about 400 capacity maybe more)
Unidentified RXB-yea, It seemed like everyone was excited to be there
Were you all mobbed by fans?
RXB-It was just a good exchange between the people in the audience and ourselves.
So there was quite a connection then? (I have this real knack for expressing the bleeding obvious)
Yea for sure
Do you guys consider yourselves rock stars from your beginning to where you are now with the deal with Drive Thru and what you have been doing with them, do you lok at yourselves from how you began as a band to being able to tour Europe the UK did you envision being able to do that?
Matt-Definatly envision being able to do that, Thats No Comply their sick!
(At this point No Comply begin their set the support for RXB as well as The Exit from New York)
Yea they have played here before
RXB-is it (referring to the tape recorder) going to be able to pick up alright?
It should be able to
RXB-Cause I can barely hear what you are saying
It should be allright I dont wanna inconvienience you guys and it is quite a good recorder
Matt-Ill just talk right into it
MICROPHONE CHECK ONE..MICROPHONE CHECK EIGHT
Ah this must be the mic. right here?
Matt-OK anyway what you said Yes When I fist started playing music I envisioned playing the entire world so my goal is not complete I want to travel the world playing music but I definitely dont think we are rock stars because we are not. This is our first headlining tour of the UK, ever, and Europe and there has been between some shows there has been 70 people and some shows there has been 300 when you look at it thats nothing. Certainly not rock stardom but it is definitely something to be proud of. Something we really appreciate doing.
What moment, album or person turned you onto playing music, was there a particular influence that you have had say above all a friend? a musician?
Matt-Initially?
Yea what was the inspiration
Matt-Life was the inspiration, when I was born, the snow of the concrete outside my window as well as the birds chirping away and speak to each other and the smell of freshly cut grass
That was the inspiration?
Yup and the sound of huge waves crashing down on the shore next to the (burbs? Im not sure ive spelt that right) and the way the sound reflects back of that, that is the whole inspiration to me.
The place where you grew up, your hometown did that have an impact on you as well?
Matt-huge
Where is that cause I tried to find out on the website to no avail?
Matt-Seal Beach, California
Do you guys surf / skate?
Matt-yea everyone does sort of right?
Steve- Ive only tried surfing twice I liked it but you know as far as inspiration goes for me my mum was a big influence she lisens to Led Zepplin and the Beatles and she played the saxaphone in elementary school
Did she teach you?
Steve-No she didnt but I just look up to my mum cause she played sax
URXB (just catching on to the just of the conversation)-your mum played sax?
URXB-my mum played sax too
What about you guys (pointing to who else hadnt taken their turn)
URXB-Id have to say my parents also got me into music at a young age
What sorts of bands?
Beatles and old rock
How have you found the promoters at the clubs, have you drawn any comparisons to how youve been received and the people you have met to back home in the US? Do you see a lot of similarities in the way people handle the shows?
Matt- What I noticed about the UK is like they appreciate music were captivated and music seems more appreciated in the UK...its more important I think.
How So?
Matt-I dont know have you been to the states before? If you go to the states you will notice that its a higher priority. You cant play a show an hour in the next city. People are more jaded because in the United States everyones in a band. Every band is always on tour and the United States is a pretty good place to play there are multitudes of places you have to play in you could go on a six week tour in the states and just the states you know? And you wouldnt even cover each place you know what I mean?
Name five good things about touring and three things youd never leave at home?
Steve - Being able to experience different cultures, meeting different people and bands it makes it easier to converse with people.
Matt Its cool going somewhere where nobody knows you.
How would you describe the touring experience?
For me I love it a lot. When I was younger I liked it more, my first tour was 2 days after I turned eighteen, so I just graduated high school and my girlfriend at the time broke up with me the day I turned 18. So I had mad motivation dude, It was like we had this one van, no trailer put all our equipment in the back of the van and we had six people with five seats. One person had to sit on the cooler and it was killer man our van broke down the first couple of days on the tour & every day and there was also someone who would come to our aid. A different stranger that I will never see again in my whole life and it really took my small town middle class mentality and warped it into this world, man you know?
Did you all come from middle class backgrounds? Surburban backgrounds?
I think pretty much all of us did, upper middle class, None of us are extremely poor and none of us are extremely rich. But we are all fortunate and none of us are unfortunate either, obviously otherwise we would have never met each other & we would all be in the army or something like that.
Do they have a call up or anything olike that in the US at the moment or any time?
URXB-A draft?
Steve- You have to sign u. Like you have to sign your name in so that if they ever need you they would know how to get a hold of you, on your eighteenth birthday you get a phone call from like the army representative saying hey so you turned eighteen today
Really...thats crazy!
Matt-Yea, like are you interested in the army at all or going to college?
Steve- and Im like uh bye; bye.
Thats also quite scary!
Steve- it is!
Matt- They come to our schools for job fairs for example, but it doesnt really go further than that and of course you always see them at business fairs.
Matt-You cant buy beer yet
RXB-Oh exactly
Matt-and more than likely your still a virgin do you want to go kill someone..OK!
Are any of the band actually younger than 21 some bands that come over can come over and drink cause the legal age here is 18
Matt-We didnt really experience that it would have been cool when we were on tour when we were under 21. We were drinking stuff and just getting people to buy it for us. But you know beer really doesnt have any bearing on anything cool its just something that happens
As a bonus?
Matt-not necessarily though cause you can pretty much get just as high off water as a can of beer
You drink like 2 pints of water straight off youd get loads of energy!
Is there anything in the world you would do anything for or anyone your looking forward to seeing when you get home?
URXB-Well I have my mum
Do you miss your families?
URXB-Yea and dogs
Matt-Its very hard to have a relationship whilst on tour.
Have you kind of given up that because of the constant touring?
Matt-I think she kind of gave up on me So I gave up on her...but you know a lot of people go on tour and dont see there girlfriends for years. And a lot of people couldnt hack it and I suppose thats cool and respectable, but its definitely tough.
I cant imagine it. The longest Ive ever been away from my girlfriend is about a couple of weeks
Matt-One thing about it though. When I had a girlfriend when I was on tour it was fuckin cool because you know it gets pretty intense before you leave, and the separation and anxiety. But then when you come back its wonderful and its like sometimes Id accidentally forget pictures of my girlfriend like I forgot my shoes on this tour
Is that why you tried shopping for shoes in Swindon?
Yea and there are no size 12 well that are made out of canvas
Are you vegan or veregetarien?
No I dont eat meat though or eat anything that was once alive besides plants
Swindon being the mecca of must see places in England (the guys couldnt detect my sarcasm I dont think)
Matt-Is it?
NO it was kind of me being unfunny and sarcastic
Steve-It has a massive town centre
I always think its pretty small! Have your played in Brighton yet?
Steve- Its the last date on the tour. We dont wanna play in Brighton and leave, I want to stay there!
Matt-yea
They have every kinds of shops its very 50s america esque. Comic shops & independent music shops, gadget shops and ones devoted to robots and all sorts, I love it
Steve-They got hot girls working in every shop
Dude they have hot girls everywhere
Matt-Its where they hid them all
Yup, I reckon it is actually, its quite a trendy place though, Is that one of youre favourite places to play?
Glasgows good
Whats it like?
Matt- Cool, very cool, there are a lot of really old buildings mixed with new ones so you can see capitalism coming through
Do you get much time off? Each band that Ive had the opportunity to interview has varied in the extent to their sight-seeing
We dont really have the time, we have 16 shows in a row
Are you looking forward to the European shows?
(In Unisom) yea!
Are you playing the Czech Republic and all that? Cause its so beautiful
Ive been to Germany which borders it and ive seen Prague, ive also travelled in France, Spain, Belgium, Norway. What I love about every part is that there is so much individualism, when you are in the UK Leeds will have similarities to Swindon and Bristol will end up looking like London.
Outside of the band what sorts of things do you like to do personally? I saw on the website the anti-war stance and the t-shirts with the was is worthless tour on. Have you guys got a political mindset, because your lyrics also convey that sort of awareness. What sort of books would you recommend?
I could recommend a whole lot of books, Id recommend any book by Noem Chomsky (I was just going to mention I have a load of his books at home) I think the favourtie book Ive read by him was Media Control, Propaganda and the Public Mind.
I have that, it has a few essays by some other established political analysts.
The way he writes is really cool cause its super intelligent but he doesnt speak in a bourgeois fashion, have you ever read anything by Raoul Benin (I think?) Hes a situationist in the late 60s who wrote a bunch of revolutionary books and pamplets in France. He was also a big reason why the social revolution in the 60s happened and his writing uses a lot of big words which means if your not smart enough to read this then fuck off. Chomsky; although its intense the way he explains his reasoning and breaks down his analysis with lots of references, quotes and statistics and the word structures he uses his works are accessible.
He is known for being a linguist because no-one has written like him before. Ive also got Profit over People and the one every book store recommends Deterring Democracy. There is a shop in London near to Westminster called Politicos, a specialist political book shop.
Anything written by Howard Zinn, but I have to recommend an author named John Faete, he wrote books back in the 1930s to me hes the first person to try and really write honestly, humanly and like write as an animal. Not as someone who is exulted over their birthright. Sort of like he writes sort of really beautifully and really ugly at the same time, his feelings are exactly there on the paper. It must have been excruciating for him to write that shit because he is so straightforward and to me that is a really respectable thing for an author to do.
I know this from my experience just writing music because I tend to write about things that have nothing to do with me, like a lot of the political content is just something that I think about. That I feel but those kinds of things arent coming straight from my personal experience, do you know what I mean?
Although its cool because Im into bands like Dead Kennedys & Bad Brains (background noise prevents me from deciphering all the other bands listed) who had that same sort of promotion of political agenda, which is not the same as someone who writes about exactly what they feel.
Its very difficult to convey emotion
Especially for the people who write about what they dont like about themselves thats what I respect about John Faete
Where did he come from?
Italy, well his parents immigrated from Italy but he lives in Colorado now, when he was 19 he moved to LA and lived in the ghetto and he was really poor until his first book was published he lived by stealing food. When that first book was published he became famous and he was also the one who influenced Charles Bukowski.
Steve- Im reading a book right now not on the same subject by Duke Collington (?) he wrote (again I apologise I couldnt get the name sounds like tall music is my mistress) basically it wasnt edited by anyone and its just Duke Collington on a typewriter and hes like here it is and its really cool to read and really positive and like pondering on life and its really refreshing to hear. Im kind of lucky this point in my life
When I first got into politics although its totally clique I bought a book by John Lee Anderson widely regarded as the most informative and detailed biography of Che Geuvaras life and that was what spawned my interest in politics and movements.
Reading about his endeavours through Cuba, Africa and eventually Bolivia. If I need inspiration I just think about something from that book I mean the guy was studying economics whilst handling Cubas bank and being their political spokesperson which is insane whilst working in the fields you know as part of their communist regime. He also travelled extensively all over South America on his motorcycle whilst studying for his medical doctorate before
Its just the things he and they achieved through sheer will and power. I think when Im down on luck I think well shit you know fuck, they did all that and Im worried about what people are going to think about some layout that Im working on, its pathetic that I actually loose sleep because of it lol.
Or going to a gig when there isnt that much in the bank and missing my bus home from London; and consequentially sleeping at the bus depot on my own. But it isnt that bad there may be strange people walking about but at least there are lights and Im not walking through a forest with gun shot wounds a broken ankle and suffering from pneumonia so my lifes pretty good its a dumb contrast to make but the perspective is there
Steve-Ive been studying a lot of jazz musicians
Do you draw a lot of inspiration from jazz musicians?
Completely, well not until recently, I didnt know much about it and I watched this documentary called (? Again I missed what Steve said)
There was this amazing set of documentarys by the BBC with 24 episodes and a book accompaniment
Oh I heard about that today
Im quite tired and so the only name I can think of is Charlie Parker
Its really cool because for all of them back when there position in society in America, It took so much
They were like we dont care weve got to
Its sad that a lot of them died because of poverty victims of exploitation in the 20s and 30s by record labels and that particular issue is very controversial in itself.
But yet they kept on touring
Id better round up because although its been great talking to you youve got a show to prepare for, so is there anything youd like to say to kids who want to do bands that maybe advice you could give?
Definitely I would have to say to anyone starting a band as stupid as it sounds you can be whatever you want to be. This thing which built up around us, this hierarchy its a strange creation of false customs and the absolute denial of all that is animalistic, its all fake.
I wish Id brought this zine (Scanner issue #13) in Brighton yesterday (the Punker Bunker stocks it) and I wish I could remember the name because Id bet youd know the author basically this person lives his life like you do or similarliarly not call himself vegetarian or anything. He views it if Im going to eat some meat it doesnt bother me because if the whole world crumbled today because of our animal instincts to survive Id go out and eat meat and kill for food but because of the state of the world where it is so accessible to get every type of food, or I can grow it...do you know what I am getting at?
Matt- Absolutely man that exactly my sentiments if I was starving and I was hungry I could and would kill an animal for food I just personally and this is my personal belief I dont think its wrong to eat meat. I dont think people shouldnt eat meat, people should do whatever they want to do. Whatever that may be, but I just think that knowing how convenient it is, knowing how wasteful the meat industry is, I just dont want to be a part of that. Or I dont want to pay taxes to my government but I have to. I dont want to be a part of you know coca-cola or nike or whatever I dont want to be a part of that because it means
The way you buy your shoes is an example of that intolerance.
Do you check out clothes companies before you buy them for example?
I try, but in a country like this it a little more different. Here there is a lot less variety as far as corporations go. In America there are still small companies. For example there is this clothing company called American Apparel so (another band already told me about it) its pretty cool because they are based ion LA and there whole vibe of it is real quality, they are trying to bypass capitalism. Capitalism creates quantity which decreases quality and they are trying to counteract that by paying there workers like nine dollars an hour and they have health benefits and payed vacations and sick pay. As a pose to every other company which trys to cut corners by sending there workload oversees to China or Guatamala so basically what it comes down to is you can choose either way it doesnt matter.
You can choose to live your life pretending that you dont know where your money is going or you can live your life with full awareness of what its doing and really whats happening. Do you know what I mean? Just because you dont see something happening does not mean its not going on.
Im straightedge but I eat meat and through doing the mag and meeting so many different people vegetarians, vegans, people from all walks of life. When I started out I wanted to eventually try veganism etc but theres a lack of information and variety in the UK Im not even sure if there is a vegetarian restaurant in Swindon.
Matt- I still eat fish & crabs and stuff, it was really easy because for the first couple of weeks I had the withdrawels. (Me too when I stopped drinking because no matter what it is when you stop eating or drinking or eating something you are accustomed to its an odd feeling). But I honestly think it was more the drugs they put into the meat than it was the actual meat itself.
Really? They put drugs in meat?
Oh yea totally they have. First of all all fast food is grade F which means it has up to 15% of other animal meat in it.
What would that be?
I dont know about the UK standards but this is the way in the United States that it allows up to 15% of another animal be it a human hand, a thumb in a grinder a rat bugs or soy sometimes they put soy in to make it cheaper. Macdonalds does that and then all those animals that they grow, they grow on factory farms and they dont have time. Time is money the more meat they make the better because Americans are the largest consumers of meat in the entire world so as fast as they kill the cow it will be eaten and thats the industry right there. Also Americans, well all-western culture, are the biggest wasters an average of 32% of every meal is thrown away. We are the only countries where someone will eat half a hamburger and throw the rest away. Where some kind in India is bleeding out of his ass because he hasnt had any food in his stomach and the stomach lining is being eaten away we dont see that, so we dont care.
I think theres a lot of blind consumerism what gets me is the charities and stuff that get celebrities to speak out and when I see celebrities on T.V. lecturing about what theyve been doing for humanity. To me its an embarrassment when you see some thick a shit non-politically motivated celebrity try and relate to these African kids on red nose day
Well maybe they are trying to help but its almost like actors never stop acting
Its good that they are there raising awareness and promoting charities, but it always seems like a façade
They can never turn that off, cause that is their life. How would you just turn that off, like I cant just stop being a musician, but being a musician is luckily about being honest. I think, well most musicians, I cant say for everyone, but a lot of actors, well acting generally is about being fake so its like, where would you stop?
Either way it doesnt really matter what you do everyone should choose there own way and I think what it comes down to, is just be happy. If you are happy with yourself then thats cool you know? Part of me wishes I could be ignorant again, part of me wishes I could tell myself that I dont care where all my moneys going, I dont care what Im putting in my body because I was really happy before I knew.
I have some friends that are vegans and vegetariens and stuff basically I read a bunch of different stuff and I cant recall different names and authors, Im pretty sure one of thems called fast food nation.
But it doesnt matter what you are, Just be yourself, Who cares?
Matt-Have you ever listened to KRS-One
Yea
He has a really stoner song about vegetarianism, hes a vegan but I think hes a vegan because of his religion
What are your inclinations towards religion? Or were you raised in religious communities?
Is what I see and what I feel, Maybe one day I will be religious (in reflection and collecting thoughts) who knows, Im not saying that I think its bad I think its just like anything else that people use to. Whats it called when people use / search for their own affirmations like for example since you have ideas in your head you know about your straight edge, its true they put drugs in meat
-Obviously if Im ill I have to take medicine and its like Im not against what it is people do in their spare time, I used to drink a lot. Every day is a new experience, I know every day is a new experience and thats kind of how you have to live life, Im a layed back guy I can obviously see that you guys are too
Matt-people look for affirmations of their beliefs
I think everyone wants something to call their own or be a part of, thats why I changed my ways and got into the straight edge. (I dont have to be around people or straight edge kids I can just flick a youth crew / posi band on the stereo which will motivate me). Kind of feels like a family aspect I like the reactions talking to straight edge kids. But now I obviously see the wider picture that sometimes it can be negative in the sense that how it can put people off but the same time its important to me so I wouldnt change it at the moment Im really happy with the way I am.
Matt-thats fine, there is nothing more annoying than someone who is self-righteous about whatever it is they believe in straight edge or vegan or whatever its nothing more annoying than someone saying they are better than some one else because of there personal decision. What we wear and what we choose to eat its all a manifestation of our society anyway. If there was none of this around if we had no walls and if were living somewhere cold wed kill an animal and wear its coat because we simply saw it with fur and we were cold and they wernt you know what I mean?
It doesnt mean anything really its all about being happy. You know be what you want to be, because if your sitting there and your thinking you know one day I want to do this and one day I want to do that one day, one day, one day, then your going to dream until your dead. You are going to be a dreamer till your dead there is no other time but right now.
Do you really get annoyed by people who dream?
Thats one of the biggest annoyances I have ever had in my life, is people who say one day i will do this one Day Ill do that. Ive done it.
I hope that Im the sort of person that isnt like that (only time will tell lol) it doesnt bother me because Im happy with who I am
Matt- people with a stuck position in their lives, your always stuck if you want to be stuck.
Why complain?
Because a lot of people like the drama, a lot of people thrive off this strange misery which I dont understand. Look at me I cant complain Im in a situation where I can say something like this. Im in a situation where Im with a bunch of my friends and were playing music in a different country.
Obviously Im not in a situation where I could complain but for anyone who is bummed on their life or where it is they are going, I mean you can do whatever you want to do and be whatever you want to be. You just have to be it, you just have to do it and thats something that always sounds stupid but truthfully there isnt any other time but right now
Every second you have a choice, do whatever it is, you have a choice that second right there and its like a lot of people dont realise that.
Were taught to plan for the future and were taught to plan for the future and never forget our past and were taught to believe that there is an absolute law and an absolute right thing.
There are a lot of strange things America both says and does I dont want to point the conversation back to politics but theres a lot of things which point towards America wanting to be this world power, like the current situation in Iraq. If it is going to generally help the Iraqi people
Matt-like I said there is no absolute right and no one has to believe me and I dont care its all my opinion, there are thousands or hundreds of people oppressed countries with oppressive governments and people like Saddam Hussain. He is just a rich dictatorship basically put in power by the United States and Russia because we didnt like Iran and we wanted Iraq to beat Iran and they didnt win and he remained in power, a military coup like anyone else Fidel (Castro, Cuba) whatever. When we look at it as a whole I think we as human beings since we only know this we know a beginning and an end to every thing. Because we see births and we see death and we see the sun and we see the moon and we see empty and we see full. We dont know or think beyond our lifetime. I think that although we may be liberating a lot of people and that those people may be really happy what kind of thing are we saying to the world, when we say we have this United Nations set up. That we have this conglomeration of people of all races, all religions, all in one building and we are trying to come together and decide on one thing as a world unit. As the world, thats the closest thing we have to world peace so far. Were not perfect were humans and what kind of thing are we saying when Britain and the United States say fuck you, were going to do what were going to do because we have more money than the rest of you and none of you are going to stop us. What kind of thing are we teaching our children and future generations, the children who are ten years old right now who are routing go good guys, kill, kill, kill with their GI Joes. And what you and all they know is that they live in this country and that country is right and so all theve learnt is how you solve a conflict. Some kid takes your toy at school you punch him and take it back that relates, they have our oil we go under the gize that there oppressing us, but thats not the truth.
Something I want to recommend to you is a magazine in the UK called Fracture, try and get this months copy it has a picture of a robot on and it, this issue features an article on the conspiracy of how the Americans announced after September 11th that they had planes that could fly themselves like into buildings. They have that technology to do that and how people reckon its a set up the pentagon the amount of damage that was caused was no way in comparison to what it should have been. There are lots of crazy stuff and the article makes sense and thats the scary thing about it. In the 1950s the then administration set up this what was it called have you seen Swordfish (with John Travolta)
Matt-that was called the Creole Commission, its a propaganda commission its was also established in 1917. Because American leaders knew it would be a lucrative business to go to world war one, so they took pictures of German soldiers with Belgian Babies on there bayonets. But really it was French soldiers with Germans babies and they put it in all the newspapers and in 6 months they changes the United States from a pacifist nation into an aggressive military nation again.
Lets round up but go back to all that positivity we Had a little while ago rather than this cynacism and talk of war morals
I know your going to edit all this out
No, every word that you say, gets said will go into the interview, irt takes a long time, because you can see when people edit interviews and you lose some of the flow of conversation and the more importantly content...
I agree,
See the first issue a lot of interviews are really short more like a couple of questions and a band profile (most of the face-to-face ones etc). But now I have a recorder and thats what I want good in depth interviews I like it when you wet to know someone and hopefully I can convey this onto paper.
Talking to people from all different parts of the world is amazing and I can honestly say this has been one of best interviews because you know what your talking about, have a conscience or an awareness more so than people who perhaps are not interested in politics or vegetarianism.
Thats what I love about music because anyone can play it and anybody with whatever intellect can do what they do. In which case goes back to your conversation about you can do what you want and you dont have to keep lying to yourself rather than dreaming dreams go out there and really live.
Matt- To keep it on a positive note. Dont worry about all the things so much as feelings cause material, material is really nothing at all the only reason we wear clothes is because our society has manifestation in the first place. Have you heard of the term survival sickness the International Noise Conspiracy uses it because there really into situationalist international writings, all about the social revolution in France in 1968. It goes back to the idea of where our society has progressed, and its true our society has progressed like you go to school and your taught that these are the things that you have to do, you are going to be a loser if you fail.
What about the jock culture? If your not good at sports, youre a geek or whatever?
Yea, if you dont do this if you dont get a job or go to college and get a job. I remember one of my relatives told me the other day that a college education is like a high school diploma basically telling me that Im an idiot because I dont have a college education, because I dropped out of school to go on tour. But then you go to college and you get a degree and you live in a little apartment because that is all you can afford and you are perfectly happy there. And you have this little room which makes you happy and then you get a better job that pays more but takes up more of your time and in order to compensate for that you buy more material things, with the more money that you make. You buy a bigger house and you buy a bigger T.V. and a car to get you to work to make your money.
I myself am lucky to not be able to drive and be in that circle, I work 6 hours a day in the Pathology department in the local hospital and would love to have more hours earn a bit more, but I like what I do and I can work at the magazine and website also (my other two jobs lol). Being around that scientific atmosphere is really interesting its not what I eventually want to do maybe fire-fighting for example is what I have myself set on if music doesnt work out for me, Id love to push the magazine as far as it can go. To keep it going for years and years and thats the plan. I like my work and my sister earns three times as much as me just so she can run her car and to be honest thats not me and I could not ever seeing myself working a night shift to pay for maintenance on a car!
Steve-We were actually talking about this today how I just have my cds and my clothes
I talk to alot more people now, I go to as many shows as I can and sometimes I feel like Im on tour because I feel like I do so much! Yet Im so passionate about it and enjoy what I do I try to make the most of what Im doing, although I dont play many instruments now I used to. Just try and get as many people involved in what Im doing and build up a real community feel. In the first issue there was an article written by myself on the straightedge and on the CD a documentary also. But that is where I feel it will end it will always have some aspect of the straightedge floating around because anti-drugs stance whatever you call it is always an important message. I love bands like Good Clean Fun who make jokes cause Im quite a sarcastic person and you know you cant be serious 24/7, respect everybody.
Matt-I agree man
Steve-whats you name again
Oh Im Phil, I can give you a flyer to the site ?The End?
