The other day Jeremy swallowed his fake front tooth. He was eating pita bread or something and realized that it disappeared. He also just shaved a really big, red beard off. That’s okay. Things get lost sometimes. He’s also undergoing a lot of dental work and has braces and all kinds of metalwork in his mouth, so he looks pretty badass. Jeremy’s a fierce drummer. He’s also really humble and kind, which is pretty Canadian.
We’re going to France in a couple of weeks and I guess Jeremy will probably look very Canadian to people there, like a hockey player or a lumberjack or something.
Louis is really worried about the plane crashing over the Atlantic. He used to be an airplane technician and I guess that gave him some kind of scary insight into the flaws of airplane mechanics. I’m just looking forward to watching in-flight romantic comedies and drinking the free wine. I told him he should just relax and do the same. Normally, I’m the irrationally anxious one. I grew up in the Middle East and traveled around quite a bit as a kid, so planes are pretty alright to me.
This is our first time playing Europe and it should be interesting. We’re a weird pop band. We used to (and still occasionally) call ourselves “sloppy pop”. It’s just the three of us, with Louis and me writing the music, which has a pretty recognizable DIY rock sound (think: Pixies, Flaming Lips, etc.). I guess what drives us to write music is an appreciation for pop songs – little shiny artifacts that kind of come out of the unknown.
Louis and I are often fighting. We have pretty conflicting personalities. I sometimes wonder why we’re making music together, but when we get around to doing it, it just makes sense. He’ll probably be pissed that I wrote that, but it’s his fault because he was supposed to actually write this piece but probably forgot about it while smoking pot and playing video games over the weekend.
Who knows? Things get lost.
We’re writing a new record and it might seem like we’re losing an epic side to our sound, but I think we’re actually gaining a new one. Maybe I’m wrong about everything, but right now at this moment I’ve got the helm. I’ll lose it pretty soon to one of the other two, but that’s just the way it goes. And it works for now and that’s what matters most I guess.
From Montreal, Canada
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