I was going to write an intro about Glass Candy and why I wanted to talk with the band's producer Johnny Jewel, but the interview turned out to be one of the longer and more interesting ones I've done so far, so I guess I'll just let it speak for itself. And oh yeah, Glass Candy is playing with Farah and the Pretty Vacant DJs tonight at Art Club (823 Exposition Ave next to Avenue Arts). Here is my conversation with Johnny Jewel:


So you're from Texas, right?

Yeah I grew up in Houston

How did you end up in Portland?

I moved out of Houston when I was 18 and lived in Austin for a couple years, and then my friend and I took the Greyhound up to Olympia in 94, and the northwest just had this vibe, it wasn't because of the scene or meeting people or anything like that, there was just something about the air up there, I felt like there was something really drawing me there. Then I went back to Austin and stayed there for a year, and then just went up to Portland and picked a spot. It was bigger than Olympia and cheaper than Seattle. Its great up there, it has everything you need and you can get a hold of anything you want, but its small enough to still be affordable so you don't have to spend all your time working just to get by.

How did you end up starting Glass Candy?

When I got to Portland I got a job at a grocery store, and I had been working there for two weeks when I met Ida, who was there getting carrots for her rabbit one day while I was working in the produce department. She seemed cool, and we decided to try to make some music. We had similar interests, but then we had some stuff that were polar opposites too. I had never been in a rock band before, I had just done noise and experimental stuff in the early 90's, but we just started messing around with music and she couldn't sing worth a shit, but her lyrics were incredible. Anyway, we experimented with a bunch of stuff, and I was really into the New Zealand scene at the time, like Dead C and Forced Exposure stuff, so we started messing with some dark experimental stuff, and then got into things like Nico that were more vocal oriented with music as a backdrop. That stuff was pretty cool but it was a little too dark for Ida because she's already a pretty dark person, so she needs the music to be a little more upbeat for her to be inspired by it, so we kind of started messing with garage a little bit. We did that for like two or three years and never played a show, and then we decided to put out a record. I put all the money I saved from the grocery store into putting out the first two seven inches, and we had a seven inch before we ever played a show. We weren't sure how people would take it, but it started snowballing right away, which was shocking because we didn't have any friends or anything. Certain people heard about it and there was a buzz.

What is your relationship with Chromatics and the Italians Do it Better record label?

Italians Do It Better is a label out of New Jersey run by these Italian guys, and they gave me the green light to do whatever the hell I wanted because there is a Chromatics song called "Lady" thats just vocoder and very minimal, and they asked about that song, and I told them that it wasn't even really a Chromatics song, it was just something I was fucking around with. And once they realized that, they told me they were starting a label, and they asked me if I'd like to use it as an outlet to put out 12 inches, and if I wanted to put out a record by someone else, they said I could do that too. Its a really experimental and informal label. There are no strings attached and no rules, and everything is vinyl only. As long as they like it too, I can do whatever I'm compelled to do. But it's not just for me, there are other artists too like Professor Genius and a few other new people too. As for Chromatics, they wanted me to record their first record in 2001, and they had asked me to do it because they wanted it to sound like this Glass Candy demo I recorded on cassette, so I recorded their album on cassette. And after they went on tour, the band basically broke up and wasn't talking, but I still wanted to release the recordings because I liked them, and so we released it and everyone was very happy about the way it turned out. At that point, half of Chromatics splintered into a band called Shoplifting, and then the other half, basically just Adam, started working on stuff with drum machines. After that, I didn't see them for a couple years, but then I saw them on tour, and Adam asked me if I could record the new Chromatics record, and I told him that I liked some of his Salsa beats, some of his Suicide stuff, but that his singing kind of annoyed me. I'm just very frank when I'm going to work with someone. Anyway, I was really interested in the girl he was playing with, who was a visual artist, and we started messing with stuff in the studio, and I slowly started having more of a role in the band and playing live, and now Chromatics is me, Adam, his brother, and this girl named Ruth, which is probably the version of Chromatics you've seen on Myspace and stuff.

Well I was going to ask you about visual art and image because based on all the Glass Candy footage I've seen, it seems like the image you project live and in your visual art is very important to you and the group. Would you agree?

Well I think its as important to us as anyone else. I think everyone cares about the way certain things look, and anyone who says they don't shouldn't be believed. In the music scene, there's a lot of identity wrapped up in fashion. Everyone decides what they wear and what is on the record covers, and certain kinds of things culturally right now are considered flashy and certain things aren't. All of them take work and all of them are important in some way. Certain people respond to a Glass Candy aesthetic and certain people don't, but that's what makes the world go around. Everyone identifies with different types of visual images, and to attempt to separate yourself from that is kind of pointless, especially these days in the computer age will all the visual stimulation on the Internet, people just want that instant gratification of being able to see everything. We definitely care about the visual aspect of the band, but that's not necessarily a fashion thing. We care more about the artwork of the band. We don't wear a uniform, but we just want to express ourselves visually and that includes fashion. We don't take it really seriously, but everything is a reflection of who you are and where you want to be and what you identify with, and we're comfortable with that. Anything that anyone wears identifies them with some kind of camp, and if people are into what we are, that's cool, and if they aren't, that's cool too. The art is definitely a bigger deal to us. It sets a psychological head space.

And when I watch your live performances, I notice Ida's striking stage presence, not just how she sings but her whole persona on stage, her whole presentation, it really sets a tone.

That's just her, she's just a freak. That's just her tapping into what she needs to tap into in order to be onstage. She's basically really shy and has to go to this other place to get through it. Its something we don't really talk about and I never know from night to night what she's going to do. If you've seen us a couple times, then you know she's different each time. Its not a shtick, she just reacts to the energy in the room and we try to stay really open to what is going on around us. When we're on stage, we don't consider ourselves the stars of the show. We're the same band and we play pretty much the same music every night on a tour pretty much. We improvise too, but what really makes it different each night is the people in the audience and the mentality and energy they bring. We see a live performance as an exchange between us and the audience as equals.

And since a lot of your stuff is more dance oriented, that attitude makes sense because putting the audience in a role as important as the performer is something that club/disco and rave emphasize.

Well we just sort of provide the music and see what happens. We never have a desire for it to go a certain way, we just try to connect to whatever is going on in the room and try to be a part of it and try to bring a rhythm for people to lock on to.

I was going to ask you about your influences: I'm sure people mention Cerrone, Giorgio Moroder and Italo quite a bit. Are those your primarily influences? If not, what does influence your music the most?

Everything you hear and see as a person trying to create something, it all goes in and it all comes out, so I wouldn't say that anything influences us more than anything else, but I would say that we go through phases where we're feeling certain tones more. Its funny with Italo because a year ago no one even knew what it was or what the term meant, and now a lot of people are getting into it, and we're big fans of it. What I like about Italo is that it's so emotional, and dance music isn't always void of emotion, but a lot of it doesn't have the romance that the Italians do, and we really love the blood and guts of Italo stuff, but thats just one aspect. The band is constantly changing, and we make no allegiances to any other bands or genres. Live, we focus more on the beat because thats what works for us live, but we do a lot of abstract stuff too with no drums, and some that are just piano, and some that are just vocals. We listen to a lot of rap music, and Italo and disco, but Italo is kind of a limiting term, because what does that actually mean? Italian disco? Anything with a really strong pulse and strong vocal, whether its dancehall or Frank Sinatra, is what we're really drawn too. Anything from Missy Elliot to Alan Vega to Iggy Pop, they're all very strong vocalists who paint strong images and set a stage for the music to reside in. It's all very visual, and in my opinion that's what Ida does.

The music is trying to animate the lyrics, which are always written before the music for us. She writes the lyrics, and I get a feel for it visually and try to write music to wrap around the lyrics and underscore the weight of the lyrics. We love horror movie soundtracks, and Ida gets a lot of inspiration from metaphysical books and physics and she's very interested in how the universe works on both a scientific and spiritual level. A lot of the music I make is based on the cultural references to galactic sound since the lyrics deal with these galactic universal themes. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, the sounds that represented space were burned into your memory and we use those as a juxtaposition. I'm sure that outer space doesn't really sound like a synthesizer, but because of movies and television, it's a powerful thing to spring off of to take people to that place. Synthesizers are so surreal that they have the ability to take the listener out of the every day organic reality and the tangible things in front of you.

Well it's interesting you say that because on the one hand you're pulled toward the romantic almost humanist aspects of Italo disco, but a lot of your music also has a very cold synth heavy detached feel to it too, you know?

Well the term "cold" I don't necessarily agree with, but I understand that that's how a lot of people perceive it, the synthesizer being icy and cold. But to us, it's more like crystals and trying to put light into sound. Not to be pretentious or anything (laughs), but to us it doesn't sound cold. It does have that juxtaposition and that yin and yang of warm and cold, and we're trying to bring a whole picture, a whole spectrum, and the cold aspect is part of that. Everything is the same, everything in the sun is in us, and all music, movies and books all say the same thing, and it's all part of one sentence, you know? There is definitely going to be a little bit of everything in music if you do it right, and we strive to touch on a lot of different bases.

I wanted to ask you about how you met Farah and if she told you about the first write up we did on her for the blog.

Well I actually don't really know Farah that well, but let me tell you how I met her. She wrote Glass Candy on myspace a while back when she was covering our songs live, and we don't really have a computer. We're not anti-computer, we just don't have one. Anyway, she emailed us saying that she was doing Glass Candy covers, but I wasn't able to really ever hear the songs because I didn't have sound on the computers I used to check email. Eventually, she mailed us a tape that her dad had filmed of her doing some of our songs at Rubber Gloves, and we were just struck at how intense it was, and obviously she's not a professional singer, but traveling around and playing with so many bands, it's rare that you see something that's so bizarre and out of left field and shocking, and we were struck by how strange she was and how it wasn't ironic. There was a lot of passion. And even though she was playing a Glass Candy song, she was making it her own and connecting lyrically. It's hard to describe, but it's just something that when you see it it affects you in a certain way. So then I told her that she should do a show with us the next time we came to Texas, and by the time she did the show with us, she had her own songs that I liked better because they were so raw and totally fucked up. I'll say that we're not really musicians, we're getting better but we're more visual artists (Ida is a poet) and we're coming from more of a design angle instead of a musical angle. Music is the medium, but we're basically just a concept band. So for us to see something like Farah, which is 100% conceptual, we were blown away by the fact that she doesn't look at music the way most musicians do. I was very moved by her lyrics too, and I offered, she didn't ask, I offered for her to come to Portland so that I could make some beats for her, and she said ok... I liked the way it turned out, and after we recorded it, I played it for those guys in New Jersey, and they were blown away, and they asked if she wanted to do a 12 inch for Italians Do it Better, and she said ok. It's being pressed right now, and I'm not sure if we'll have them done for the show.

I don't really know her that well or anything, but I don't care, I know the music and like the music, and that's enough for me. Her and I don't really talk that much unless she has questions about stuff or we want to talk about stuff she's working on, but she never told me about the thread. I found out about it about a month and a half after. A producer in France who is a friend of mine did a Google search for "Johnny Jewel" and "production" looking for some info, and he came across it and sent me the link. And then I read it and I was like, oh my god, this is hilarious.

I think she got pretty mad about all of it, and for some reason she got really mad at me about these comments, and asked me to erase them. My response was that I certainly didn't want people to say mean shit about her, but this blog is a public forum, and if I start erasing comments, then it'll ruin the whole thing.

Yeah, I don't believe in censorship in any capacity, but Farah is very emotional and she's also new at all this, and she's getting the hang of it and figuring it out as she goes. But I believe that if you put yourself out there and you're going to make a record or put music on Myspace, you kind of release it to the wind and people can say whatever the hell they want. It doesn't matter, you know? She makes music because she wants to make it, and no matter what anyone writes it doesn't change that fact. After I heard about it I talked to her and explained to her whats important and whats not in terms of what people say, but I think it's awesome because she's really intense, and theres going to be a love/hate relationship, some people will really love it and some will hate it, and that's not going to change. That's the way it is with anything else I work with, and I think that's a compliment because she is affecting people in extreme ways. People are either really inspired about it or pissed off by it, but in a world full of half assed watered down art and media where nothing is shocking, I thought it was really cool that people were so perplexed by it. They were like, is this a fucking joke or what is this?

The nature of the blogosphere is just like that with anonymity. A lot of people aren't saying who they are, and a lot of people are just having fun fucking around and don't mean it as viciously as it seems. I thought it was great and really interesting to see how long the thread was, like what, 200 comments long?

(laughs) Yeah, something like that.

And I think Farah needs to understand, she'll have to let stuff go or not be involved at all. It's really not that big of a deal, and when you're a local artist and people are starting to take interest in you outside of your local scene, some people around you will be excited about it, and others will look inward at their own frustrations and failures or whatever, and wonder why people don't care about what they're doing. If I hear music I don't like, I don't listen to it. I just turn the dial, and it doesn't make me mad. I think all music is important, and just because I'm not getting something out of it doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. And with Farah, she's really out there, and theres a niche for it. Some people are really going to like it, but most aren't. And that's fine. It's art, not business.

this is great. johnny seems like one of the nicest and most down to earth guys around.

thanks for putting this online. glass candy are total geniuses and deserve all the recodnition possible.

This is the bitter vibe of Austin/Denton- no thanks, I'll stay home.

I'd like to hear some Fry St. busker and John in the studio, no doubt.

uh, i don't see farah on here bashing you and your "classically trained" singing...

jealous much?

hugh downs???

"I am ABSOLUTELY not jealous of Farah, that is Goddamn hilarious. I am a clasically trained singer with experience in front of crowds of alot more than Farah. LMFAO"

this has jealousy written all over it...

jeeeeez larzzzzz, queer, fag, gay... these are, in fact, still common terms for crap, garbage, take yer fuckin' pick. picking on someone's sexuality, as i think just about everyone knows by now, just ain't where it's at. unless they're flaming, of course. you know. like you...

I'm sure 1:39 PM hasn't known Farah for 10 years.

You know, you try to be a nice person on here, and them some retard has the gall tho say some bullshit like this:

"i think that farah is the sweetest, most talented singer/ songwriter to ever come out of dfw, and everyone bashing her are just jealous petty little pricks."

What a complete load of shit! Do you think Hitler did a lot of good for equal rights too?! Shut the fuck UP.

Both of you with the diarrhea of the mouth!

I think you would think differently if you knew the Farah I know, 1:39 PM. All the same, I think Farah can do what she wants. She seems to enjoy what she's doing, as does Johnny Jewel. And there are obviously some people out there who like what she's doing.

I wish she was a nicer person to me, but that's a personal thing.

10:18 - Don't think you got my point.

I'm quite sure Dusty Sparkles and Johnny Jewel weren't trying to garner the approval of Texan homophobes like you when they chose to adopt those names.

i think that farah is the sweetest, most talented singer/ songwriter to ever come out of dfw, and everyone bashing her are just jealous petty little pricks.

eureka! i have it: bands supporting themselves. how novel.

Well it seems like the majority of us aren't going to be going to a Farah show or buying her album in the near future, so next time Johnny, I recommend supporting a local band that has a fan base/an act people respect....swear to God you'll make some money/make more friends/whatever it is you want out of all of this!

And yeah, if Farah had been a more decent person to me in the past I wouldn't be so blunt on here, but she was, so........

You have absolutely no sense of humor, Heather.

what are you talking about? oh my...

Dusty Sparkles: Worst name EVER. Danava fuckin' rocks the shit though.

fan base? oh my...

'talent' & MTV?? larz, do you deal exclusively w/oxymorons???

fuck johnny jewel. what a queer name.

what next, "diamond dave"?

That's more fun to talk about, is it not?

This once I masturbated into a pile of my own puke while screaming: "Do you like it, Handy? Do you, you little bitch-hole? SAY SOMETHIIIIING!!!!!"

You're all just giving you-know-who what she wants: attention.

BLEEEAAAAGGHHHHHHH!!!!

I agree. I feel like some kid is leaving anonymous notes in my locker or some shit.

And yes, I just swallowed a bit of spew. I think this entire thread is nauseating, actually.

Laura Veirs is playing at The Cavern this evening. Laura puts on one hell of a show and I highly recommend everyone check her out. She has one of the most unique guitar sounds i've ever heard.

Does anyone else wanna puke every time Lars gets on here and masturbates himself?

And i'm sure we'll see both of you at the next Farah show.

to anon 1:27 pm:

what lars just said was basically what i was trying to say.

Helmets, democracy, magick? I wonder what you think you know about me.

And, by confusing I mean; I didn't really know what to think, whether I liked it or not, and usually I make up my mind pretty quick. I like it when I'm caught off guard by something. It's stimulating. Bear in mind I'm basing my opinion on one 10 minute impression of the show at RGRS when Farah opened for Glass Candy. I don't give a shit who Farah is, if she's a bad person , has talent, or whatever. If the performance or the music connects, entertains, amuses, or fucks with me in some way... I like it.

Fresh ideas and a driving compulsion to create are worth millions of times more than any sort of "talent." You get skilled at things by doing them, it just happens faster or slower for some people, but usually that has way more to do with work ethic than "talent."

Anyway, shit, this is a lot of ridiculous talk for a musician dude (who is a very down to earth guy) who was probably like "hey i think it might be cool and fun if i invite that girl from that weird video up here and record her for a couple days, it'd be a good way to spend a weekend", etc. not taking his music lightly at all, but you know what I mean. it's not like she's got major label producers trying to get her shit on MTV or something.

I'm not sure what you mean by financing. I bet the only thing it cost him was time. That label is printing the record, and even then, 12"s are really not that expensive to press. I guarantee you the Glass Candy folks are scraping by just like the rest of us.

And fuck, Johnny (and Dusty) HAVE supported us... they've been a huge fucking help to both Undoing and Chief Death Rage on our west coast tours, with booking and spreading the word. As have a lot of Portland bands -- what he says about the northwest is really true, something in the air.

And, thanks for the kind words, honestly, but I don't really need to fly up to Portland to have Johnny Jewel produce songs for me, I've got that covered already. I like what he does but I like what I do better. It'd be fun to work with him sometime, I'm sure it would come out cool (I love the Danava recordings he did) but they're usually not in town when we're up there.

I appreciate all the sentiment about the Undoing deserving to "make it" and all, but I don't think most of you are aware of the kind of fan base we have outside of Texas. Not saying that we don't desire further exposure, but at this point we're hardly confined to DFW, waiting to be plucked away to magic label mountaintops by A&R fairies.

Why I wasted my time writing all that shit, I have no idea. 'Night everyone.

i've known farah for atleast seven years. i think she is a decent person and i've seen her become more and more disconnected. She does play an instrument....stand up bass in fact.

I'm happy for anyone that receives any attention for music. Is it possible to make enough money in music now without having somekind of backup job. --Not sure

I hate you, I hate you, I don't even know you, but I hate your guts and hope that all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else.

To say that Farah is the Mrs. Miller(or Shags..it's "The Shaggs", by the way) of electro, is just about the biggest insult you could ever give to Mrs. Miller or The Shaggs or to anyone who loves their art.

Farah is simply what happens when kissing ass pays off.

And I know you're reading this shit, Farah. Well know this: NONE of these harsh words would have been said if you were a DECENT HUMAN BEING. You are a bitch who throws away her friends like it's a cool thing to do, and it's all coming back to bite you in the ass now. If you weren't such a fucking asshole then I wouldn't get on here and make such a fuss, but I find it really shitty when bullies and generally insensitive people get the kind of support you've been getting lately.

If you'd like me to name instances, I can do that. Please don't make me.

heather

i think taste is subjective and relative and "talent" has nothing to do really with creating

amandacobra

what is your point?

i don't mean this as a slight to johnny jewel, any of the labels he is associated with, his band, his status as a musician or producer or even farah herself but i hardly think that the guy from glass candy producing some beats or a 7" for someone being the equivalent of really getting a big break.

yes, there are plenty of more talented artists around town and plenty of bigger opportunities for them outside of the guy from glass candy letting you open for him at artclub. again, this is not a diss of anyone involved but it's not like steve jobs just asked farah to create the default ringtone for the iPhone. weak nerdy analogy but bear in mind this isn't exactly the big break dreams are made of.

Farah is the Mrs. Miller(or Shags)of electro. If you don't know what that means then look it up.

Do you guys like Alf?

More than supporting it. Financing it. I'd much rather he support someone like you, Lars. Or any number of other kids around here who really deliver in a creative way. God knows you deserve it. Shit, if Johnny would have supported a talented artist like you I would be praising him right now.

But in the end I guess it all comes down to personal preference, and Johnny prefers Farah. I don't know why, but he sure does.

So be it.

I criticize Johnny for supporting bad art.

I don't like being confused. I think most people don't. What the fuck are you talking about, Lars?

look larzzzz: this is a DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY we be livin' in, comprende??? try takin' the fuckin' helmet off, will ya? it'll help w/the magick, i promise.

wait, let me guess: and better lays??

Later days.

And i'm sorry, but being "interesting" means nothing to me. A lot of diseases are interesting diseases, but i'm staying as far away from them as I possibly can.

Well, usually at least. Some days im just evil and air(head)y. Like Farah.

Then I guess I bring it wicked and stellar too, since i'm a fuckin' gemini. Whatever.

cliff isn't the guy who made that weird ominous message.. however this one is.. dallas all weekend? not tonight for I.. the rest?

style counts

farah has red moon pix- we eat it

law of life is capital reminds me of the time i found myself in some indoor pool in some mansion in the west hills in austin in 1998

the bottom was painted like the galaxy and the black lights made the water sparkle blue and when one dove into the water- well you get the point- that is if your imagination hasn't run dry from a lack of vision

and johnny jewel? well lets just say that geminis bring it in two kinds of ways (usually)

wicked and stellar

Great interview, great responses!! Glass Candy are really amazing people and performers, and also they care and they help.

Farah really confuses me, and I like that. I don't know her as a person, and I don't care if she's "good" or not, but she is certainly interesting. Why the fuck would you want to talk shit about Johnny for thinking she has something unique and odd, and wanting to capture it? He's being completely honest. And I'm pretty damn sure he doesn't intend to "hit it big time!" with the Farah record.

My neighbor's puppy is really cute. It also has shit ticks, but hey, cute as a fucking button.....

I find loneliness is the physical pain which hurts all over. You can't isolate it in one part of your body.

Fuck you all.

I think Farah's really cute.

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Performers include:

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Burnt Sienna Trio
Christian! Teenage Runaways
Deep Snapper
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Ashley Cromeens (Record Hop)
Jenny Seman (shiny around the edges)and friends
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It's gonna go laaaaaate.

And if you're wondering who wrote this, your first guess is probably correct. I don't really give a shit either way though. Have a great day!

I could keep going all day, so i'll just stop. Go ahead, praise Farah. Praise all the bullshit that you fucking want. I simply don't give a shit anymore. It's your world, boss.

There is absolutely no justice left in the world. Johnny Jewel had a myriad of talented, original, kind hearted bands(and it DOES make a difference) to choose from, and the dude chose FARAH. Goddamnit.

'So that means that Farah lied about calling her "producer" and telling him how hurt she was on here. How surprising!'

you mean farah is full of shit just like her music?

So that means that Farah lied about calling her "producer" and telling him how hurt she was on here. How surprising!

Yeah, Johnny Jewel should hurry up and sign that hippie dude with glasses that plays(I think I heard him play a distinct "note" once) on Fry St. It would make about as much sense as signing Farah.

I will say that he rocked the shit at Rock Lottery. Like a goddamn...well, it looked like it was gonna' storm. I felt a drop or two, I swear.

I meant A mentally insane girl. Duh.

Thank you Johnny Jewel, for boosting an mentally insane girl's ego into the stratosphere. You do know that you look like a huge fucking fool to most everyone in Denton, don't you Johnny?

On a brighter note, I just found Duane Eddy's HAVE 'TWANGY' GUITAR, WILL TRAVEL on LP for FREE!!! Produced by the great Lee Hazlewood, I might add. Ahhhh....life is swell........

heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee

i've never really gotten into glass candy. just didn't have the time or urge as i guess i thought they were something that they obviously are not. after reading jj talk about the Dead C and stuff, i will have to give a listen.

proud of farah.

that was a great interview, stonedranger.

how about ishtar's absinthe?
electronik sterility??
magick???

jr's the last of the famous international playboys..

you're in!

master, i have my dongtone available for download...

'i don't believe in censorship in any capacity'
'it's art, not business'

too fucking right...

Good day I said

tonight is a special night

oh what a night

For tonight there is a top secret show featuring four acts that you will no doubt want to pay attention to as if they were a four act play

Where is this super secret show taking place? Well, some people refer to this location as homoville, a land where nothing is what it seems, and everything is what it seems it should be. Others, refer to it as Ishtar's Labyrinth where flying animals are no big deal.

the only way to get there is to call the secret number 214-316-1537 and say the code words "Master, I have your ringtone available for download."

Do you want to know what admittance to this show will gurantee you? Well first off the bands:

Sarah Reddington (Doing an acoustic set)
Chris Garver
The Dozal Brothers (From El Paso)
New Science Projects

Mayhaps they will all be covering Slayer songs and sacrficing virgins left and right to the God of lust (the mighty Cody Seals.) Also you will be able to bring your own beer and not worry about somebody else spilling it. At this secret show, EVERYONE IS NIMBLE.

End Transmission

p.s. I'm still going to try, and bang her...

that will be out of purely ironic 3 year ago nostalgia

farah sings out of tune.. and i would pretty much equate her music, message, and style to that of a mtv hollistor emo band..

except they can sing in tune.. and probably have more depth in their lyrics..

at the record company meeting on their hands, at last, a dead star.

no, i've never had a job because i've never wanted one

i've seen this happen in other peoples' lives but now it's happ'ning in mine

and when you want to live how do you start, where do you go, who do you need to know?

unruly girls who do not grow up must be taken in hand.

some girls are bigger than others...

(laughs) Yeah, something like that.

now i know how joan of arc felt...

and they had to shart, stupid!

parade of flesh?? really...

So you were awake before everyone else, and?

Thanks for posting this. I have been a fan of Glass Candy for a long time and never had seen or read an interview with them. I guess I'm a lazy fan.

first! and that was too long.