wanted to pursue
Billy: i was kidding about mike
Chuckie: will HMH ever play again?
Angela: NO!
(All laugh)
Reid: no
Alex: no (imitating angela)
Chuckie: how does it work out having a drummer that
lives so bloody far away?
John: he actually practically lives down here
Reid: ya so it doesnt really hurt us
Billy: im moving down
Chuckie: are you officially moving down?
John: he likes officially moving down after this
weekend
Billy: im moving into my sisters basement
Reid: were going up this weekend to get his stuff
pretty much and bring him back home
Billy: ya
Chuckie: ok do you guys hope to make it big?
Reid: no
John: what do you mean by that?
Chuckie: make it big. sell out
(all laugh)
Billy: i would totally sell out
John: well we hope to get successful enough to make a
living off of this
Reid: in other words we dont play the music to get
huge but if we did im sure we wouldnt mind it
Billy: music for me is not about......
John: i would let them play our video on MTV but i
dont think i would ever make an appearance on MTV. you
know what im saying
(all laugh)
Alex: thats rock and roll
John: i wouldnt go to the music awards i wouldnt go on
TRL but hey they can play my video if they want
Billy: personally music to me. its not about getting
big and stuff. just as long as i can make a living
doing what i love. thats what im all about i dont
wanna get notareity for it necessarily. even though
thatd be cool
Reid: youre such a cheese
John: exactly, exactly. hey i didnt get an exactly out
of you
Alex: i do wanna get notareity
Billy: ok well thats not what im thriving for
Alex: i want chicks
Billy: alex you dont need the band to get chicks. we
all know your past
Chuckie: what do you guys think of band that have sold
out like blink 182 and green day?
Billy: green day didnt sell out. they are hardcore
from the heart
Alex: i used to have like a really big disrespect for
it but thats just like personally biased because i
dont see how anyone could take something that means so
much to them like music and then just like totally
dilute it with that kind of ambition but then again
like....
Alex: but maybe music just isnt as important to them
and thats cool
John: ya maybe for them it was about getting big and
just getting famous and not playing the music
Reid: those bastards
John: whoa thats gonna be edited
(all laugh)
Chuckie: thats going in. this is the uncut version. ok
what is each members favorite song? starting with you
Billy: Alex
Alex: i think my favorite song is �for me this is
heaven� by jimmy eat world
Chuckie: no no no favorite song for this band
Alex: OH!
Chuckie: i shoulda specified
Billy: put that in put that in
(all laugh)
Alex: you can put that in if you want
Chuckie: i will
(phone rings)
Billy: answer it
Alex: um im not really sure
Reid: ill call you in a second
Chuckie: excuse me can you turn that off
Reid: shutup its my mom
Alex: cuz like right now.....shutup
(billy laughs)
Alex: dont talk about your mom in this interview. so
anyways i dont really know cuz we are sort of in this
period of we are trying to like build up a song bank
just so that we can have some kind of like
thing.......k i donno
Chuckie: alright
Alex: but wait.....i think scream out its like our
newest song and i think thats just like really fun and
its like....
Reid: we like screaming
John: its the most technical
Alex: ya definitely like its really unique not to like
toot my own horn
Billy: toot toot
Alex: beep beep
Billy: you suck. beep your own horn? beep your own
horn. you beeped. you said not to toot my own
horn.....beep beep
Chuckie: Reid?
Billy: you shoulda said toot toot
Reid: i love all of them equally...no but
Alex: but mostly he likes the one that he sings
Reid: i never said that
Alex: im kidding
Reid: so cut that out
John: hes about to say it
Chuckie: you know im gonna put that in and say that
you said it