Garrett: First off, how is your day going?
Dave: It's going, well, interesting so far.
De'Mar: Yeah, its kind of, me and this guy had to drop our girlfriends off at the airport.
Dave: It's De'Mar and Dave for anyone who is not watching us through the tape recorder.
De'Mar: Oh yeah.
[Laughs]
Dave: The airport was…
De'Mar: We uh, It's been an interesting day, the airport was…
Dave: We just came from the airport.
De'Mar: The airport was packed.
Garrett: Seattle Airport?
De'Mar: Oh it was retarded, it was so packed, so many people. But I think that our girls got on the flights and that's all that matters, right? Good.
Dave: We all had a good day off in Seattle yesterday.

Garrett: Right on, you guys enjoy the city and stuff?
Dave: I love Seattle.
De'Mar: Yeah, I love Seattle, did a lot of shopping.
Dave: It is one of our favorite places to come and I think, what, the last two or three times we have had days off here?
De'Mar: Yeah.
Dave: We've gotten really lucky.
Garrett: That's pretty sweet.
Dave: Oh, it's really sweet. Yeah, we are getting to know our way around the city pretty well.

Garrett: Good, good. Alright so, you just kicked off a tour at the beginning of this month (March) and how is that going?
Dave: De'Mar?
De'Mar: Well, tour is going pretty well. It's going good, I mean it is our first headlining tour ever so I think we are all a little bit nervous and getting in the groove of it. It started off a little rock, you know, cause we haven't, you know, it's our first time. But now we are getting into the groove, it's been like what, over a week of shows? Like what 10 shows, this is probably our 10th show.
Dave: Yeah we came, we started in the mid-west, came out here from there and pretty much all the turn-outs have been pretty solid.
De'Mar: Yeah.
Dave: Couple shows have sold out already.
De'Mar: Yeah it's cool, it's not, we're not like selling out every show, but they are still great turnouts. You can't really expect, you know, I mean, I think we're, I am satisfied; I think it's great.

Garrett: With all of your guys' success, what would say is your proudest accomplishment, like thus far?
Dave: Ohhhh, I think uhh, last fall when we got to tour with Panic (at the Disco), they were doing their arena tour, and we got to play a couple basketball stadiums.
Garrett: Dang.
Dave: And I mean I am a huge sports fan, that was a pretty big deal to play like where the Pistons play and where the 76ers, like those were mind-blowing shows, you know?
De'Mar: Yeah we were playing in front of like 15,000 people a night, in like a basketball, like a Pistons basketball arena.
Dave: Which, it was incredible, that was one of them. I think the MTVU award last year was probably…
De'Mar: Yeah, that was a good one!
Dave: Because we never gotten the opportunity to go to an award show of any kind, you know?
Garrett: Oh yeah that's definitely sweet.
Dave: Yeah, that whole experience was awesome, it was super weird, and it was cool because a lot of our friends were nominated and were there, like the Academy Is guys were sitting right close to us and Gym Class Heroes guys were sitting close to us, so we all partied with them there and had a good night. That kind of stuff has been really awesome, out of the ordinary.

Garrett: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, so I kinda get bored of like regular interview questions.
Dave: So do we, so do we.
[Laughs]
Garrett: Alright, so I try to mix it up.
Dave: Hell yeah.

Garrett: So what is your biggest pet peeve?
Dave: Ohhh. I have a lot of pet peeves.
De'Mar: You wanna know one of my biggest pet peeves?
Garrett: Yeah.
De'Mar: Are stupid questions. When people ask me stupid questions like, for instance, say we are parked in front of the venue right now and someone goes "Hey man, where's the venue?" Or someone goes "Hey man, they got a bathroom in there?"
Dave: Which…
De'Mar: I'm like…
Dave: Some of our guys will like…
De'Mar: And there is seriously, I think some people, those questions, you think it's stupid but I would get that question right now. Someone would be like, if they woke up they would be like "Where's the venue?" It's like "Dude, what?" You know I hate stupid questions, I think yeah, stupid questions is like one of my, probably my number one pet peeve, I cannot stand stupid questions.
Dave: I don't like when people, I don't like when people slam doors.
De'Mar: Ohhh, I don't like that either.
Dave: That's a huge one for me.
De'Mar: Yeah, that's another one of mine.
Dave: Like if I hear some slamming, I remember there was this one venue, we were in the U.K. recently and there's this one venue where every door slams so hard and I was just sitting there grinding my teeth, like sitting in the dressing room and stuff.
De'Mar: When people are sleeping people, sometimes people don't like, because our doors slide between the bed, between the bunks and sometimes it's just like "SUPLOOSH!" You're just like "God…"
Dave: You're woken up by what you think is gunshots.
De'Mar: You're like "Why do you slam it?" I try my best to not slam like the bay doors; people are always like "PSSHH!" I try my best to just go like "psh" or even this door like "choop." But people, I don't know.
Garrett: Treat doors as you would like to be treated.
De'Mar: Yeah! Ya know?
Dave: Exactly.
De'Mar: Oh well.

Garrett: Right on, who is your favorite actor?
Dave: Oooh, I got, I'd see, I got a couple I think, I love movies. I would say, lately, it's kind of a new one, new entry, but lately anything Christian Bale has been in, yeah.
Garrett: My favorite actor!
Dave: That dude's amazing.
De'Mar: Christian Bale is your favorite?
Garrett: Yeah.
Dave: He is incredible.
Garrett: Have you seen American Psycho?
Dave: Yeah, yeah that was the first thing I ever saw him in.
[I show Dave my American Psycho T-shirt that I am conveniently wearing]
Dave: Oh hell yeah! I see it, yeah totally, yeah the first thing I saw him in was that, I think.
Garrett: Have you seen Harsh Times?
Dave: No, that's the one where he's like all ripped and it's like a crime…
Garrett: I just rented it, er bought it, it's a weird role for him cause he is like this gangster guy but it's really good dude, you would like it.
Dave: Yup, yup, yup. The guy's incredible.
De' Mar: Yeah, huh, Christian Bale…
Dave: I remember when Batman Begins came out and everybody was kind of flippin' out because Batman actually gained credibility again. I don't know there is a lot of them though, Johnny Depp is awesome.
De' Mar: I like Leonardo DiCaprio.
Garrett: Yeah?
De' Mar: No joke.
Garrett: He is coming back again.
Dave: Yeah, Blood Diamond.
De' Mar: I don't know if he is my favorite, but I love that dude.
Garrett: Blood Diamond was good.
Dave: And also Mark Wahlberg in The Departed, I think he stole that movie. He was awesome in that. Steve Buscemi is another one.
De' Mar: Buscemi! Dude, Oh, I got it, Christopher Walken.
Dave: You sure?
De' Mar: That's my favorite, hands down, has to be my favorite. John Tuturro…
Dave: Oh, oh, Bill Murray!
De' Mar: Yeah, yeah, John Tuturro… Eddie Murphy, you ever heard of him?
[Laughs]
Garrett: Maybe once…just now, no I'm just kidding. Of course.
Dave: Yeah we are big movie fans.

Garrett: Right on. Is there a difference between who you think you are and how others perceive you?
Dave: Ooooh…Maybe De' Mar.
Garrett: What do people think of you that's not true, or they get the wrong impression.
Dave: I would think that, I would think people who see De' Mar maybe just in social situations, like De' Mar gets like funny and crazy and stuff but I think really, De' Mar is pretty quiet and to himself usually.
De' Mar: Yeah, kinda. I am loud and I am outgoing at some times but I think at the end of the day I'm really like I'm still a shy little kid I've always kind of been. I've always been really shy, like I'll tell people "Yeah I'm pretty shy." And they're like "Psssh!"
Dave: It depends on if he has a few drinks in him too.
[Laughs]
Garrett: That helps.
De' Mar: True.

Garrett: What would you save first if your house caught on fire?
Dave: What would I save first?
Garrett: What would you save first?
Dave: Ooooh…
De' Mar: My life.
[Laughs] De' Mar: Hands down.
Garrett: Besides that, like a material item or something.
Dave: Besides your life or your families lives.
Garrett: Yeah.
De' Mar: (undecipherable) …my life.
Dave: I don't have much, I really don't have much.
De' Mar: Yeah I don't have anything at my house.
Dave: I think one of the things that happened after like 5-6 years of touring since we did most of it in the van and with no money, I ended up selling a lot of my stuff. I've pretty much all of my music that I have… All of the guitars I really cared about are pretty much with us. God, what would I save? That's a strange thought because being that we are like, nomadic, you know? When you go home it's just kind of like your bed… Your bed and food.
De' Mar: Barely.
Garrett: And memories
[Laughs]
Dave: Exactly!
De' Mar: I would save my drum set! Oh wait, probably not, because there's probably another one somewhere else.
[Laughs]

Garrett: What is the most significant life lesson that you've learned so far?
Dave: Jeez…
De' Mar: Wow.
Garrett: These are kind of deep.
Dave: Yeah, it's good. I think being in a band cause we have gone through some pretty rough stuff over the years with each other… Learning to kind of respect each other and their simple things every day has improved in our band. I think back and we used to be at each others' throats at the smallest and most insignificant stupid crap, and learning that nothing is really that big of a deal to get up-in-arms about, because we are doing something that we love and it's way better any other kind of job. We just learned to appreciate what we have, and to not give up because we have seen a lot of bands that we really liked give up around us. If you don't give up then good stuff is bound to happen, you know?
Garrett: That's true.
De' Mar: I just... concur with him.

Garrett: Which song evokes the strongest memory for you?
De' Mar: These are thinkers!
Dave: I've got a bunch from back in the day… I think Tom would probably say Michael Jackson type stuff. A lot of us would probably say Beatles stuff because I know that my parents listened to the Beatles in our household growing up. But more than that, I think when we and Tom met in high school and all of our friends got together in high school, there were a couple of bands we listened to that if I listened to now would really zap me right back there.. A couple of my friends from back then aren't alive anymore and you know, it kind of brings back those better times before stuff got all messed up. I think those bands would probably be like, Radiohead and Blur, and then as far as happy memories… One of my oldest buddies who I don't really get to see anymore; me and him loved Pavement so hearing those songs brought me back to his basement when we were like in eighth grade and stuff like that.
De' Mar: I would say… For me… Any song off Alkaline Trio- God Damnit.
Dave: Oh hell yeah!
De' Mar: --Probably brings back the fondest memories.
Dave: Anything off of Alkaline Trio- God Damnit brings me straight back to any party that we've been to from like '96 to '98 in like the suburbs of Chicago.
De' Mar: Or Get Up Kids… Anytime I hear any of those records I'm like .. FFFF YEAH.
Dave: We were just thinking the other day about covering a song off one of their records.

Garrett: That's awesome. Alright, what was the worst haircut you've ever had?
Dave: Oh dude, that's easy for me. You got one?
De' Mar: Oh.. Mine would probably be like, the year that I didn't get my hair cut.. I think that was probably the worst haircut I have ever had.
Dave: That was kind of recent… Like in the past couple of years.
De' Mar: Yeah it was bad.
Dave: De' Mar was starting to grow an afro and it stopped growing after awhile and instead he kept trying to convince us that it stopped growing and we were like, "That's B.S., man, that doesn't happen."
De' Mar: I'm like "Look! Three months later dude, it hasn't done anything!"
Dave: And looking back at pictures like.. It's all misshapen and stuff and all over all the place. It looked like he stuck his finger in an electrical socket kind of… And like for me, I remember a couple of years ago one of my friends- this guy who was like a big burly metalhead guy- he was going to cut my hair with these shaver-clipper-like things and I just wanted him to go short all the way around, maybe just an inch long all the way around… And he did it almost bald. It was like, God I don't even know, I looked like either a patient in a hospital or like.. a jedi. I don't know. Mike, our bass player too, when he first joined the band, he came out on tour one time with a completely bald head and he looked like a madman.
De' Mar: He still wants to shave his head. I'm all for it.
[Laughs]
Dave: He looked crazy. He looked really scary.

Garrett: Alright, describe to me a typical day-in-the-life of you.
Dave: You wanna take an hour with this one?
De' Mar: Well, I wake up at about.. Anywhere from 8:45 to 10:00 and I have to like.. really really really really have to go to the bathroom really bad. And I don't mean pee. So I usually figure out somewhere to do that, and then I do that. Then I'm just up for the rest of the day. And then I might go find some coffee, and probably go take a shower somewhere between there. I like getting the first shower if we are at a hotel. Then I pretty much.. Just go get some lunch.. Then just sit around until we play. Maybe have some beers. It's basically just a cycle.
Dave: See, I stay up late usually so I probably get up at around noon or one, and roll out of bed all groggy and just go and see if we have anything to do during the afternoon.
Garrett: Like interviews!
Dave: Yeah exactly. Then the rest of it follows like clockwork, it's kind of like.. 'Look at the piece of the paper typed up on the wall, let's see what we have to do.' You know? It's cool though because it's pretty much the same time every day that you do stuff, so we get into a routine... Regardless if you get up in the morning or sleep in like a bone… Like me.

Garrett: If you could ask a psychic one question about the future what would it be?
De' Mar: Who am I gonna marry? I think that would be one question I'd ask. Or, when am I gonna die? Or maybe there's three questions I'd ask. Who am I gonna marry, when am I gonna die, how much money am I gonna have?
Dave: Yeah, I would say, is the band ever gonna get big enough to where I could raise a family and not have another job? I don't know.. I wouldn't ask the death question.
Garrett: Yeah cause then it would change how you'd live your life.
Dave: Oh yeah dude.
De' Mar: That's why I wanna know. Cause then let's say.. You know what? Dude. I'm dying tomorrow. Shit there's a lot of shit that I would need to do.
Dave: Oh yeah like Big Fish.. That happens in Big Fish; the movie. He looks in the eye of the witch and he's like "Oh! That's how it happens!" then throughout the rest of the movie he's in dangerous situations and he's like "It doesn't happen this way!" and then like… he's totally fine. Yeah. I think love and money are probably the two most pertinent questions on peoples' minds.

Garrett: Who has had the greatest impact on the direction of your life?
Dave: Ooh.
De' Mar: I would say my dad.
Dave: Without a doubt my parents. A lot of us have really strong families… Regardless of whether or not our parents are together, all of us are really really close with our parent and they're pretty incredible role models. We all live at home still because we never.. are home. [laughs] Tim's the only one who lives on his own and the rest of us we go home- we're only home like two or three months out of the year so when we do go home and we get to spend time with our families it's incredible. We really appreciate it that much more.

Garrett: What is your favorite music video of all-time?
De' Mar: Well.. I've always hated music videos until the last year or so. And I think lately my favorite video that I've seen is the new U2 video. I don't know if you've seen it but it's so cool. It's like they just take all these old clips of all these legendary people and they like sync it with all these musician like Elvis, the Beatles, Nat King Cole and all these people and they sync it up with the song somehow to make it look like they're actually singing but it's like.. so crazy.
Dave: I think in the '90's there was that slew of incredible videos from really big bands. Weezer had some amazing ones, and Pearl Jam and Nirvana both had some really cool ones. Radiohead always made good videos; we were just talking today about that one video that Tom York's a part of… "U.N.K.L.E." The guy is a kind of a crazy, schizophrenic looking guy walking through the tunnel and then a car hits him at the end… That's a pretty intense video.

Garrett: Okay, so on a more serious note, what would you do if you found out you were pregnant?
[Laughs]
Dave: De' Mar?
De' Mar: Like if I was pregnant?
Garrett: Yeah.
Dave: How would you deal with the cravings, De' Mar?
Garrett: Would you go through with it?
De' Mar: Oh… Man. Well, do like, all men get pregnant?
Garrett: No, no…
De' Mar: It would just be a one-time thing? Just me?
Garrett: Yeah. De' Mar: Oh hell yeah I'd have it dude. I'd be the only man who ever had a fuckin' kid! I'd get so much attention, and I'd get like money and shit.
Dave: You'd be on Oprah!
De' Mar: Yeah, exactly. I'd get paid like thousands to be on Oprah… Pregnant dude on Oprah.
Mike: It would be the first virgin birth!
[Laughs]
Dave: Who said that?!
Mike: What do you mean?
Dave: How do you know it's a virgin birth?
Mike: It's De' Mar!
[Laughs]
De' Mar: Jesus!
Garrett: What would you do?
Dave: I'd go through with it.
Garrett: For money?
Dave: No, not for the money… Just to…
Garrett: Have a kid?
Dave: I don't know…
De' Mar: I'd do it so I could be the fuckin' guy that said I had a kid! …and some money.
Dave: I'd see how much it hurts… I guess.
Mikey: Yeah so that women for the rest of all time could not say "Man don't know what it's like to give birth!" and I'd say "I know what it's like!"
Garrett: Good answer. Okay, which hobby would you get into if you had more time?
Dave: Cooking.
De' Mar: Yeah, probably cooking.
Dave: Cooking, and if I had a lot of money I'd probably put a darkroom in my house and go back to doing some photography. Screw around with that. Maybe draw more.
De' Mar: Sex!
Dave: Sex? You want to start sex as a hobby?
[Laughs]
Garrett: I'd take up crack again…
Dave: Yeah Mikey wants to take up heroin… Cooking though, for sure, number one, because I don't know anything about it.
De' Mar: Yeah that's been seriously like, when I get time off I want to get some cookbooks and seriously learn how to cook.
Dave: Me and De' Mar, one of our first loves in life is food.
De' Mar: Yeah I like food a lot.
Garrett: Me too. Well that's about it for questions, thank you for your time!
Dave: See ya man!
Garrett: Yeah, thank you!