Magic & Fur is a London based band made up of Chris Wilde, Gary Legend, Gavin Ellis, Julian Simon, Artur Dyjecinski, and Dom Ryan. This week, they launched their debut single Christine and in the midst of the celebration madness, Chris found some time to talk with me about who in the heck Christine is, what is in store for the band in the future, Leonard Cohen and, of course, prescription drugs.

AC: Who is Christine? and how did you decide that Christine was going to be the first single?

CW: Christine is the big red car from the Stephen King Book, it’s also the name of the little girl who drowns at the start of the film Don’t Look Now. The song is about an old ex-girlfriend who was more than just a little bit confused, I didn’t want to use her real name, so I used a name with a few omens attached to it. (I don’t think there’s any Christine’s in the Omen though right? hmmmm) Its got a lot of energy so seemed like the obvious choice for a debut single.

As far as forthcoming releases go, next up is a free download, sometime very soon. We’re currently clawing each others eyes out as to what that’s going to be.

AC: How would you describe your sound?

As if launching their single wasn’t exciting enough, Chris told me that his friends at Duckeye just made a video for Christine. He describes this generous gift from his film buddies as the bands best moment so far and says “I think its totally mind blowing. Psychedelic whirly weirdness man!”

Magic & Fur – Christine from Magic & Fur on Vimeo.

The Merry Andrews met The Postelles at last years Lollapolooza, and were smitten with their catchy retro pop tunes and pleasant personalities. Being that they are fresh out of high school and brand new to the music making scene, we made it a point to keep in touch and up to date with their stroll to success. At early intimate shows in Manhattan they caught the attention of The Stroke’s Albert Hammond Jr, who produced their single “123 Stop” and is now taking on the task of cultivating the bands debut album. After his own solo release, this is Albert’s first producing attempt. The Postelles have been picked up by Capitol Records after being nursed by Retone Records and all parties are stoked by the possibilities. I caught up with our friends at The Looking Glass Studios on a recent visit to New York City to capture the excitement from the source. After our chat we listened to the fresh recordings. Be anxious with anticipation lads and lassies, these tracks will make you tap your toes and twirl your girl.

TMAS: You have been working 2 weeks strait, now you will take a month break and head back to the studio in March…
The Postelles: Yes, to record Buddy Holly covers. Albert has a cool one picked out he thought it would be a good idea to include one on the album.
TMAS: Billy, those are mighty cool boots you are wearing. Quite shiny.
Billy: Yeah, there from a company in Harlem. I think they also make ghetto shoes.
TMAS: They seem stiff, are they comfortable?
Billy: They’re like wearing slippers.
TMAS: Are they fur lined?
Billy: No, just really soft leather.

(pair on topic is farthest from view)

TMAS: Your EP was released on Retone records. They describe themselves as a womb for young bands, did they have any part in your deal with Capitol?
Daniel: Sort of. The person who ran Retone ended up getting hired by Capitol, and that kinda helped us.
TMAS: A shoe in. And so far so good with the change?
TP: No, we hate them (stern sarcasm). We are really close with everyone at Capitol, it’s a great label.
John: We are like the first band to say that.
Daniel: Well, it’s cause it’s a new regime. They have fired everyone and brought in these new Englishmen.
TMAS: All Englishmen?
Daniel: Literally, everyone is English. Nick Gatfeild and Steve Melrose.
John: Top Deck are all English.
TMAS: Tell me about your recent tour with Jukebox the Ghost.
TP: Love those guys.
TMAS: And you played new songs and they were well received?
TP: If they were not well received we wouldn’t be recording them.
TMAS: What are some of the highlights of working with Albert Hammond Jr.?
TP: Fashion advise obviously.
TMAS: Did he recommend those sweet brown boots?
John: He didn’t recommend them, he wore them and Billy copied him on the sly.
Daniel: Albert has helped out the most with the guitar sounds. Also the writing structure of the songs. He’s helped us evolve and sound more mature than before hand. He’s just really cool and has helped out a lot.
John: And his work ethic. He really kicked our ass in here.
TMAS: You must have needed it and you should appreciate it.
John: Oh yeah. It’s defiantly one of those times you are thankful for a good ass kicking.
TMAS: Producing is new for him isn’t it?
TP: First time, this is his first album. Well, he produced his own album and he produced our single “123 Stop”. That was fun, we did that in his room.
TMAS: Wow, never would have guessed that. It sounds brilliant.
TP: We’ll show you the differences between that version and what we have recorded for the album. We haven’t heard it yet, but if you want you can stick around and listen with us.
TMAS: I feel so special!
TP: You are.

(Albert and his pretty babe, Agyness Deyn)

TMAS: Do you have a favorite song on the album?
John: White Night.
Daniel: This new song, I don’t think it has a name yet. Yeah, we were thinking about opening the album with White Night.
TMAS: How many songs are we talking here?
TP: 10 or 11.
Daniel: Well more than that. We have to do like acoustic songs and B sides.
Billy: We are going to try to do at least 16, not all will make it on the album.
John: You have to leave some for Japan. I don’t know why Japan gets to do that, their special.
Daniel: Japanese releases are the best.
John: But why though?
Daniel: I think cause their fans are more of collectors. They buy all the stuff that we wouldn’t buy here. The EP’s and live recording’s and stuff.
TMAS: Then the super fans here buy the Japanese releases.
TP: Yeah bidding wars on EBAY.
Daniel: I actually saw kids in the UK buying our EP off EBAY. Cause they can’t buy it there.
John: You can’t buy it anywhere dude, we sold out.
TP: Capitol may release it like 10 years down the road.
TMAS: Aren’t you including most of the songs form the EP on your debut album?
TP: Well, only one so far and four new songs. When we come back to the studio we will most likely record the rest of them.
TMAS: I want all new stuff.
John: Some of the songs I really love though. Like Stella. I don’t know, we’ll see. They may end being the B sides.

(Progression of studio work)

TMAS: Besides the obvious inspiration of The Strokes and the sounds of the 60′s, what are some other influences we can expect to hear on this album?
Daniel: (pointing out his shirt) The Beatles.
John: She said besides the obvious!
TP: The Ramones are a huge influence. You can hear it a lot in White Night. The Clash.
Daniel: Also some new bands like the Wambats. I love them.
John: I have always loved the Velvet Underground. That New York band sound. Interpool. But you wouldn’t hear it necessarily in our music.
Daniel: But they are an influence. A lot of English bands are. The Stone Roses, we could go on forever.
TMAS: So you stick to the pop and rock genres?
TP: We don’t think like, we gotta write a Notorious BIG song, we love listening to it. Classical music has been a big part of this. Some of us have had training in classical music.
John: David has, Billy, I have.
Daniel: Billy has? Classical drums?
John: No, theory.
TMAS: Did you or are you guys attending college? Didn’t you just graduate High School?
TP: We are attending “Capitol College” (laughter). We went to college for a year.
TMAS: And you might go back if you can find the time for it?
TP: Yeah, exactly. College sucks compared to being in a band. All of our friends are jealous.
TMAS: Will you be headlining your own tours anytime soon?
Daniel: I think we are going to do a few one-offs, which is what we did before we started the album, in a few cities.. Like we are going to do LA, and we are doing SXSW.
TP: Yeah we want to play a supporting tour before the album is out.
TMAS: Do you have a tentative release date?
TP: June/July, but don’t quote us on it.
TMAS: And do you have a name?
TP: No. It might be self titled.
TMAS: Have you attended SXSW before?
TP: No, and we are so excited!
TMAS: I have been toying with the idea of attending…
TP: You should!
TMAS: Or I could use the funds to move to New York.
TP: You should do that instead.
TMAS: Deal! Alright, looks like everyone has arrived, think it’s time to get this listening party started? Thanks again guys!
TP: Thank you!

If you are heading to Austin next week, be sure to check out The Postelles performances! Dates listed on thier myspace.

If your ultra hip you’ll follow them on the latest social networking site too.

Lawrence Bonk has begun a year long journey and music project called Another Day On Earth. This project requires Lawrence to write, record, and post one song each day for an entire year. He says, “Some may be good. Some may be bad. Whatever. I guess I’m trying to teach myself to let go and be happy with things as they are. Here are the rules I have come up with: They have to be written and recorded that day. However, once a week I am allowed to post something I had laying around to give myself a break. That’s it pretty much. There are no rules regarding length or epic-ness of content. We’ll see how I’m feeling that day.” As if recording a song a day isn’t enough of a challenge, Lawrence’s recording set up doesn’t make this any easier. His equipment includes an old laptop and a karaoke microphone that was made for a Nintendo Wii game.

Aly Carr: You live in Brooklyn now, but didn’t you used to live in Florida?
Lawrence Bonk: Born and raised, yeah. Ft lauderdale/Miami area for most of my life and then Tallahassee for college.
AC: wow. FSU?
LB: Yeah!
AC: Go Seminoles! So, why did you leave us!?
LB: That’s actually a long story. I don’t know if I can tell it all. I moved up here to record at this fancy pants studio for free, but suffice to say, it got majorly cluster fucked.
AC: So, now that you’re there, do you plan on staying for a while?
LB: I don’t know. I’ve been here a few years now. It really stresses me out. I don’t know how long I’ll stay. Probably at least the year because moving and still doing this will be hard. I’ve actually thought of that. What am I gonna do? Write a song in the moving van? I guess I could.
AC: So, did you ever end up getting to record in the fancy pants studio?
LB: A couple of times. I ended up burning the reels
AC: Seriously?
LB: I worked on an album for…2-3 years? Yeah. It got so clusterfucked that I burned em. I went kinda nuts. So this is the exact opposite of that. Instead of …3 years given to like 12 songs. This is…one day given to one song.
AC: I can’t imagine what it must have felt like to burn 3 years of your hard work. Would you say it was like a death? or was it empowering?
LB: I’m not sure. I think it was just something I needed to do. It was definitely more empowering than a death because I think the death feeling was what led me to want to burn them in the first place. I actually found one recently that escaped but I don’t have the tape player to play it anymore. I don’t know what’s on it.
AC: That might be an interesting tape to play and revisit that time, now that you’re in such a different place.
LB: Yeah but I’m also the type of person who hates every song he does 20 minutes after he does it. Which isn’t exactly healthy but it also keeps me going.
AC: Speaking of that, on your website you say “I am going to write, record and post a song each and every day for the next year. Some may be good. Some may be bad. Whatever. I guess I’m trying to teach myself to let go and be happy with things as they are.” How much headway have you made in learning to let go and be happy with things as they are?
LB: I’m not sure yet. Not as much as I’d like. Now that people actually listen it kind of puts a slightly different spin on that.
AC: Mind you, its only day 23.
LB: That’s true.
AC: How does it put a different spin on it?
LB: Well I’m not sure. It kind of activates perfectionist tendencies. But at the same time, my set up is really so limited and small that I can’t go too nuts over any song. Not all that many options.
AC: So its a double whammy of pressure that is facing you. You started this to be okay with things as they are and just let them go. But now you’ve got a pretty big audience that makes it seem like its nearly impossible.
LB: Yeah kind of. Exactly. But at the same time, I’m sure I’ll get into a groove where I can, I dunno, stress out over maybe 2 songs a week. Do like two 12 hour days. And the other five just knock out quicker stuff. Plus, I want to work with other people! If anybody in Brooklyn reads this..
AC: Also on your website you say at the very bottom “P.S. I’m scared.” Are you just trying to be funny or are you actually scared?
LB: Both. It’s kind of a tall order to be inside yourself in such a drastic way for so long. I’m a bit scared of that.
AC: Naturally.
LB: I already barely see friends! I miss em.
AC: So you post these songs, once a day, with a picture and generally at least one line of text. On one day you said something in one of your posts, “I guess I sort of want some semblance of a normal life, eventually.” What is your idea of a normal life?
LB: I’m not sure. Some kind of romantic notion of having a basil garden mixed with sleeping regular hours. Maybe having a dog. Spending quality time with people where I’m not thinking of ways to sneak away so I can work on a song. Swimming. I have very specific ideas of what a normal life is and swimming is always included.
AC: hahahaha. What is it about swimming that is normal? I love it, but to me it feels like an un-natural activity. I mean, you can DROWN.
LB: Yeah. It’s true. There is a danger element. But I don’t know. I think I like it a lot because it’s the only physical activity I can do and shut my brain off. Almost get into a trance state. I think I like swimming for the same reason I like making music. 4 hours will go by and you won’t even know how. But all you know is you were just intently doing something.
AC: Yeah, that’s a really good feeling. On another day you posted the song I Was Alone and said in your blurb “Sundays are depressing.” What is depressing about Sundays? Beside of course, the fact that god is watching you….
LB: hah they aren’t really. I don’t know. Yeah, that feisty god. I just think I was trying to divert from the fact that it was a sappy love song and I didn’t want anyone to think it could be about them. I get kinda conscious of that stuff. And of course it was about someone. It always is.
AC: What would be the worst case scenario if the person who it was about actually knew that it was about them?
LB: Well, I just think that people who don’t write songs don’t know what writing a song is. I get paranoid they’d think I was hung up or something. When in actuality…who knows where songs come from? Or anything like that? They just kinda…pop out. Sometimes they mean something. Sometimes they don’t.
AC: I can see how the possibility of misinterpretation would provoke anxiety. So, if you were an outsider and you heard about a guy doing what you are doing, what would your initial impression of that guy be?
LB: That he was pretty nuts and cool. I guess it would depend on if I liked the songs. But I’m always attracted to bombastic displays of nonsense. Once I met these people who make these adventure computer games. They spend, sometimes years on them. Years and years. And then when they are done they just get posted to this message board and the 9 other people on the board play it and that is that. No real…reason. Just this huge display and huge effort for the fuck of it. I like that.
AC: That kind of passion is extremely inspiring. What you are doing is really time consuming. Do you have a day job?
LB: Sorta. I haven’t exactly figured out how to juggle both yet. I’m a freelance writer and I just don’t feel like doing it lately. So yeah, homelessness is one of the only things that can stop me from completing this. Homelessness. Serious illness. Uh, getting kidnapped by music hating aliens might do it.
AC: hahaha. What do you write about?
LB: Nonsense mostly. Celebrity junk. Gadgets. Reality television. Stuff I don’t pay attention to.
AC: What a funny parallel. On one hand you are doing something that means so much to you, I mean, this project that you’re doing… this song writing and creating… it IS you. And then you also spend time writing about things that mean nothing to you. It’s an interesting dynamic. I would imagine that it has to give you some sort of sense of balance..
LB: Yeah, eventually. I mean, it’s not bad work. I’m able to be funny most of the time. And it’s super easy and I do it from home or a coffee shop. I am definitely in the market for balance though. Ideally doing like, 3 songs a week would give me balance but…that lacks the romantic awesomeness of every single day. And I love romantic awesomeness.
AC: Who doesn’t?
LB: Some scumbags.
AC: Well, Lawrence, we love what you are doing and I really appreciate you taking the time to talk to me.
LB: Thank you! I love what you are doing too. It’s refreshing to see a music site that was obviously put together with such passion and its also devoid of snark. I live in Brooklyn. There’s so much fucking snark here it’s deafening.
AC: I think we get the same feeling from what you’re doing. ☺

Marc and I caught up with Aussie artist Whitley recently at the Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida. He had been on tour with Ben Kweller for a few days and was unfortunately nursing a hang over. He didn’t have the energy to sit down over a hookah, so we bummed him a clove instead.

TMAS: We went on MySpace and saw the picture of the guitars used in the recording of your debut album, Submarines. We counted 20 guitars.

Whitley: Yeah? And some lap steels as well and some resonators.

TMAS: You don’t actually own 20 guitars, do you?

Whitley: A lot of them were mine, yeah.

Random Girl: You rock out dude! Keep off the heroin.

Whitley: Uh, I’ll do my best. It’s really addictive.

TMAS: So, you collected the guitars over time?

Whitley: Out of that photo I reckon 12, 13, 14 of them were mine. I have gotten more since then. I just buy them. I go to second-hand stores all the time.

TMAS: How do you decide if you want a guitar, or not? Is space not an issue? Do you just find a place for them somewhere?

Whitley: It totally doesn’t matter. The thing about guitars, and what I like about them, is you just pick one up and know. I can’t stand Taylor guitars. I pick them up and I think they sound like shit.

TMAS (Marc): My one guitar is a Taylor.

(Laughter)

Whitley: They’re really nice sounding guitars, but to me they sound terrible, like they sound very sterile. Which is good. Listen to some of the players who play them. They’re amazing, I can’t say anything bad about them. My guitars are always old shit guitars. Old beat up pieces of crap.

TMAS: You only played one on stage tonight, what kind of guitar was that?

Whitley: It’s like a 1930′s Gibson. It’s based off the model that Robert Johnson used to do all his stuff with.

TMAS: Another observation I had of you while on stage. I wouldn’t call them follies by any extent of the imagination at all, but it seemed you kind of had some hiccups?

Whitley: Totally hiccups.

TMAS: But not at all because you play them off so smoothly. Is that on purpose? Is it a part of the act?

Whitley: I just think if you accept who you are and what you’re playing and you’re just kind of happy with what it is and you’re not bothered by it, its totally fine. I mean, it just comes down to being sterile again. I can’t stand that, people being sterile in music. If I went to go see a band, I want to see a band that is playing exactly what they are, they’re not obsessing over being perfect or anything. It has a good energy and people just sort of play to the best of their possibilities. I used to shred like all the Joe Satriani stuff. It wasn’t an interesting path for me to take. I’m trying to come up with some sort of other meaning, other than perfection.

TMAS: We wanted to know more about the hardcore. You appreciate all genres of music, we wonder if you will ever incorporate some of the heavy music of your past into the music you make in the future?

Whitley: I think the next album is going to be a bit heavier. I just think I got all of my teenage angst out of me. I had nothing left after that as far as being angry goes. I think I have a short temper, but I’m not an angry person.

TMAS: You’re only 24. Do you consider that old or young?

Whitley: It depends on the day. Today I feel old.

TMAS: When do you feel old?

Whitley: I feel old when I’m hungover. It depends on what your attitude is doing. Sometimes I wake up and think, I’m 24. I should have done something better with music. I should have written something better. I should have done something better, and then like, other days you wake up and it’s like fuck! I’m so lucky.

TMAS: You are so lucky.

Whitley: Then I see these kids that got signed to my record label at like 18-years-old. They’re doing really well and I’m like man, when I was 18…

TMAS: We don’t know the specific artist you are referring to, but feel most of the time younger bands have short lived careers. It seems you are on the right path to a lengthy career. For instance, touring with Ben Kweller.

Whitley: Right, which is totally the aim of what we are doing. Management, and all the people on my team, the band, its totally the long haul for all those guys. We are not making a whole heap of money, but what we do make we put back into touring and back into other albums and paying artists for artwork. It’s just like building it. It could bomb in six years and I couldn’t have a cent, but at least I’d have a body of work that I’d be proud of.

TMAS: Are you happy right now?

Whitley: Uh… honestly, it changes from day to day.

TMAS: That’s an artist.

Whitley: (laughing) I’m manic as hell. It’s either ready to put my head under the bus wheel or completely ecstatic.

TMAS: Did you find a home for the Chad [an adopt-a-dog who needed a home]?

Whitley: The Chad has a home with a girl called Lisa who lives in Melbourne.

TMAS: Country music, you said you liked it.

Whitley: Love it!

TMAS: Heard you like country music because they tell stories. We share that same sentiment. Can you share with us one of your favorite stories?

Whitley: I think Glen Kimpton?, Sun Kill Moon is a great one. Any of Gillian Welsh’s songs have that really deep, dirty, not in the sexual sense, but like it’s gritty cool stories. I just fucking love Gillian Welsh.

By Aly Carr

In this interview we talked to Wild Sweet Orange about how Birmingham has influenced their music, toes being stuck together, adorable babies, and Preston having the cops called on him.twice.

THE MERRY ANDREWS SHOW: I’m going to be totally honest for a second. You were one of the two bands that I actually cared about seeing at Lollapalooza and I realize that you’re not really supposed to say that sort of thing because it’s “unprofessional” or whatever but…
PRESTON LOVINGGOD: We’re going to tell everyone that you said that.
::laughter::

TMAS: Just to start up with some easy stuff, I know it’s a lame question, but how did you come up with your band name?
PL: No, it’s not a lame question. Chip doesn’t really like to talk about it much, but he worked in a coffee shop for a long time and there was an old man that he got pretty close to while he was working there. He passed away recently but he made us a list of band names, and “Wild Sweet Orange” was one of the names on there. It was the one we liked the best.

TMAS: One of our listeners wants to know…”to what degree did growing up in Alabama influence your music?”
PL: To every degree. It’s like, we’re just these little blank canvases and if we grew up in Africa, Africa would have painted us, you know? But we grew up in Birmingham so Birmingham painted us and there is a lot of Birmingham in these songs. It’s just Birmingham is this record, and Birmingham is like a lot of different cities. But I like to think of cities…like… cities are a lot like people. Like New Orleans…there are a lot of things in that area like a lot of people, and New York is like a lot of different people. So what we took from Alabama and Birmingham is that Birmingham has an inferiority complex so you feel like you kind of have to rise above something. You know, when you’re younger you have this idea of wanting to move to New York but now it’s like, we’re so happy to be a southern band. We’re so happy to sound like a Birmingham band. We’re so happy to not sound like a band from Brooklyn because if we were from Brooklyn we’d love to sound like a band from Brooklyn but we’re not, you know? So it’s just like… everything that has to do with our music; the spiritual, the rebellion, the dark, the light, the confusion, the confidence, like, everything that sort of represents southern culture.

TMAS: I actually got from this album a reminder of Bright Eyes’ Cassadaga album. Do you feel influenced by that music at all?
PL: I feel very influenced by Conor Oberst, for sure. Not so much Cassadaga, but that’s cool. I take that as a compliment.

TMAS: This is from a listener in Michigan- “What question do you guys absolutely hate being asked?”
CHIP KILPATRICK: What do you sound like?
TMAS: Who would ask that? People ask that?
CK: Everyone asks that.
TMAS: But people interviewing you, and asking what you sound like? Isn’t that sort of rude?
CK: They say, “How would you describe your sound?” and that’s really hard.
TMAS: Do you say, “It sounds like my fist in your face?”
CK: Haha I mean, we don’t like to be dicks, you know, but if someone has never heard our music, and they’re assigned to come interview me by their boss or whatever, I mean- I might be able to tell them- but it’s really hard.
TMAS: I guess from our perspective with the way we approach interviewing, we would never interview someone that we haven’t listened to before, just out of respect.
PL: Right, yeah, and it kind of puts you on the spot. It’s like “How do you kiss? What’s your kissing style?” it’s sort of weird.

TMAS: Another one of our listeners wants to know if you run your own MySpace page
PL: It would be very silly if we didn’t manage our own MySpace page. I check it everyday.
CK: I go to it but I’ve never like, logged in.
PL: Yeah, I log in and check the messages.
TMAS: Do you read the comments?
PL: Yeah, I accept and decline the comments..

TMAS: Is there anyone you hate being compared to?
PL: Bright Eyes. ::laughing:: I don’t know, here’s the thing about being compared to people; people compare you to people that they listen to. You know? So you just kind of have to be chill about it. It can hurt your feelings because, I know a lot of people that are in bands and they’re like “Everyone’s been comparing me to Cat Power!” and it’s like, “Take it as a compliment.” But you’re trying to do something original and you don’t want to be compared to everybody but honestly, there is nothing original and you just have to come to terms with that.

TMAS: Do any of you have any weird talents?
::to Chip:: Is this a wedding wring?
CK: Yes, I’m married.
PL: That’s his special talent. Marriage.
TMAS: How long have you been married?
CK: A year and 6 months.
TMAS: Do you have any children?
CK: Yes, I have a baby girl. She’s 6 months old.
::shows us a picture on his phone::
CK: She’s beautiful.
::to Preston and Garrett:: : Are either one of you married?
PL: ::laughing:: No.
::Preston to Garrett:: Show them your toe.
TMAS: What about your toe?
GARRETT KELLY: Two of them are stuck together.
TMAS: They are not.
::he shows us:: It’s true!
TMAS: That’s pretty awesome.
PL: I was in theatre.
TMAS: What types of roles do you enjoy the most?
PL: If I ever did it again I would want to do dramatic theatre.

TMAS: Favorite holiday?
PL: Christmas, it’s like… Halloween, Christmas, and Thanksgiving make me so happy inside… just saying those things! It’s all about the weather, and the environment, and the mood that people get in and it’s about the memories you have as a child, I just love Halloween, Christmas and Thanksgiving together. It’s unbelievable.

TMAS: I recently asked a musician “What is the worst experience you’ve had with a police officer?” and I was surprised that the musician “passed” on that question, because I feel like it’s a question that everyone has a funny story about unless you’re like, trafficking cocaine or something, then I could see why you would pass on it. Is that a question you would feel uncomfortable answering?
PL: Actually, speaking of acting, this has happened twice to me… me and my friends, we used to just get together and act in our apartment or at a park or something and we would come up with these crazy situations and get into these characters and TWICE I’ve had the cops called on me like…for ACTING. When the cops come they’re like “Is everything okay?!” and we’re like “Um, yeah everything is fine?” It’s pretty funny that it’s happened twice.
GK: I’m really bad when I get pulled over. A lot of people are good at being like “I’m so sorry” and I’m just like…I just get rude. I’m like “I don’t want to talk. Just give me the ticket.”
TMAS: It’s a weird power hierarchy, and they come up to you and expect you to beg for forgiveness right off the bat.
GK: And you don’t want to give them the satisfaction. I’m like, “Give me the ticket!” I’d rather pay that than try to get out of it.
CK: We got pulled over by the best cop ever in Arizona. He searched our entire van.
TMAS: Did he find anything?
CK: I don’t know?
TMAS: I’m going to stop recording so we can actually have this conversation.
…and our lips are sealed on the rest of the story.

this video has a clip of wild sweet orange performing, followed by chip talking about his baby girl.