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LOLZ: Do you take steroids? If so, have you thought about a career in major league baseball?

No. Chris and Brian were both scouted in high school though. Little known fact.

iplayinabandwithafatnegro: I've been going to the Dillinger shows since they played with Dimitri back at the Dixie Tavern. Why hasn't the Dillinger Escape Plan come to clean up New Orleans?

Thanks for supporting us throughout the years. Someone tell that place about sump pumps.

holycitybradley: Has anyone ever had a seizure due to your light show?

Yup.

deframon: Are Mike Patton and Trent Reznor your heros?

Nope. There is music that they have both made that I like but I am more of a fan of the way they have ran their careers than I am of their actual vocals, not saying that I am not a fan of their vocals. It's just honestly more of a coincidence than anything that I happen to sound like them at times.

jesuschristsuperstar: Time table for a new record?

We are shooting for 3rd or 4th quarter 2006 to release our new record, which translates to about 2012. No, seriously it won't be as long this time as it was last time.

jesuschristsuperstar: When are you playing Florida again?

As for playing Florida, I don't know when we'll be back. We couldn't book any dates their for this upcoming tour. Routing just didn't work out or something.

Hox: Given the success they've had and their appearance on the Gigantour, does DEP see themselves moving to a 'major' label? Have any major labels shown interest in them?

Major labels have definitely been expressing random interest for a couple years now, most heavily right before we released Miss Machine. I wouldn't say I would never sign to a major label and we talked to a few for a while at one point but it just wasn't for us and I don't think given their state and our state that they are for us right now. I don't think once you have good distribution and a name for yourself it's really that important for a band like us. Sure if you want money to buy your band onto Ozzfest then yeah, but we don't care about that. Most of those labels are full of shit anyway, they call us because they see that we've sold almost a hundred thousand albums with little to no help from anyone other than a small label that has grown with us, and they want to try and capitalize on it. Then they hear our records and have no idea what the hell is going on, and no idea how to classify it and neatly market it to a target audience. They come see us play and they see us lighting shit on fire and throwing equipment at each other and the crowd. They are still curious so they try to tell us to tone down when we play, or that they would want us to bring in a hit writer so they could have a guaranteed hit single so they could sell at least X amount of records, we tell them to fuck off, and they go away.

Hox: Hummer or Mini?

Neither.

clevelandhardcore: With all the time changes that Dillinger has in most songs, is it difficult to keep time while singing? In other words have you ever gotten lost during a live show?

No, we have played these songs a thousand times each. We tour relentlessly so the timings are all instinct at this point. Which is good because not having to think of them allows you to put all of your focus on the intent of the lyrics.

LOLZ: what inspires your lyrics?

Anything. Typical things from relationship issues and day to day shit to crazier things I might read about or witness, fantasies you dream up, whatever. Most are just abstract emotions, more trying to evoke a feeling from the lyrics instead of a concrete message. Finding words that go together that make you feel a certain way not necessarily paint a direct picture. The Perfect Design was about killing someone you loved so that they could never be with anyone else and then realizing that you wanted them back but now can't have them. Sunshine The Werewolf was originally about an article I read about people called "Gift Givers" and "Bug Catchers," people who try to give or catch AIDS deliberately. I changed it a little bit to make it more abstract so that it can be related to as a relationship song too, but it originally started as that. It works on both levels. Feeling can be derived from anything, not just the lyrics but the actual phonetics of them, the consonants and vowel sounds of them are just as important I think.

saw_in_your_colon: Most embarrassing on-stage moment for the band?

I don't know really. The benefit of being in this band because of the way we are onstage is that if I fall off the fucking stage or something, which doesn't happen often haha but still, something like that, it's not as embarrassing as if Chuck singer-dude from Coldplay fell off the stage. It's honestly worse just to forget a lyric or something.

frenetic_amnesic: Is Dave Mustaine REALLY clean?

You know I couldn't really tell. We aren't really a bro down band so it wasn't like we were trying to get bombed with Dave Mustaine but I didn't see him drink or do anything. He had a pastor walking around with him on tour and riding on his bus, I think to help keep him on the straight and narrow path. The amount of visible drug intake on that tour was surprisingly low, but then again like I said we don't really hang out alot anyway so if there was blow being hoovered off of 50 year old metal moms in the back of a Fear Factory bus I was probably sitting on a fucking laptop eating a hotdog.

truthsayer: Anyone at your shows get burned this tour? Did they try to get any handouts for it?

Yeah, some kid complained to the club about his hair burning. That's the last I heard about it though, but I'm sure I'll get the lawsuit papers soon. It's about that time. I'm due.

LOLZ: What is your typical diet while on tour?

Lots of water, Gatorade, and food that doesn't go bad easily or can be easily cooked in a microwave. Tuna fish, bread, bagels, peanut butter and jelly, protein bars, apples. We are all also pretty into hot dogs. Check out the Ballpark Grillmasters, and these little microwave roast beef dinners by Hormel. Fucking unbelievable. Truck stop/waffle house/Ihop food is always a staple as well, I'll go to those places and order ten scrambled eggs no problem.

clevelandhardcore: Did you have to pay alot of money to use the Aphex Twin song?

We actually didn't at all! I don't think he even knows about it. Or maybe he does, who knows? Not me. I think we tried to ask him for permission but then couldn't even figure out how to get ahold of him. He is a pretty mysterious individual.

trapped_in_texas: Greg, do you remember holding my hand when you guys played in OKC recently?

It was a tender moment that I will cherish forever.

trapped_in_texas: Why is Ben so freaking short?

I don't know! Don't be deceived though, he is a fierce little jew. A lot of ferocity in that little kosher frame. He's like the little dog you see that you think is nice but then scares the living shit out of like all the marmadukes and dobermans. The little dog you won't pet.

d00fus_maximus: If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?

I don't know man. I think any tree would pretty much suck. Standing in one place forever, in the hot, in the cold, little bastards climbing all over you and breaking off branches. I would have to say a cactus, so people leave me the fuck alone, but then again it would be too hot. I don't know.

clevelandhardcore: Do you ever get sore throats on our?

No but every now and then I get a little bronchitis, but Robitussin CF will knock it out every time.

willy_wanker: Do you have any plans to record the NIN - Wish cover? You doodz rip that song up.

Nah, I don't see any reason to. That song is pretty straight forward and perfect the way it is, and mine and his singing voices are too similar to make it worth redoing. Thanks! We haven't played it in a couple years now.

frenetic_amnesic: Really though, I'd like to know what being on Gigantour was like. Do you dig Megadeth?

I think Rust In Peace is one of the few perfect thrash metal albums of that period, along with ...And Justice For All and Reign In Blood. I definitely wore that album out when I was a kid. They lost it after that though. That was their perfect album. Gigantour was pretty bizarre. We had never done anything like that in the US. Never really done a metal tour like that. Gigantour was like this for us: we get there, stage hands and production people treat us like shit because they know we are gonna make their lives hard for 25 minutes a night, we go onstage, 4000 forty-five year old dudes who still live in their mom's basement and collect swords and dungeons and dragons cards give us the finger and yell faggot at us, we throw equipment at them and instigate them in any way possible, people that work at the arena are horrified and come running toward the stage to try to get us turned off, we are done, people boo, we stuff ourselves with catering.

frenetic_amnesic: Is the new album really going to trump Calculating Infinity?

The new album is gonna be ridiculous. I can promise you that. Chris and Ben have been writing shit they can hardly even play and then practicing it until it's blazing fast.

eadup: Do you guys ever find it hard to find the energy and passion that's found in your live set when you're playing for a small or uninterested crowd? or do you do you guys pretty much feed off each other?

One of the things about this band that is great is that we pretty much polarize people. Crowds are rarely uninterested. We will make them interested if they appear bored. Trust me, when someone is yawning and doesn't seem to care they will when a mic stand flies by their head or when they are being choked, or when they realize one of us has been staring at them for five straight minutes. We feed off each other and for me off of the lyrics alot but a crowd is great whether they hate you or love you. Both are fun.

eadup: Who are the most fun bands to tour with?

Any band that we are already friends with. We don't tour with many bands more than once though because what's the point, so you just go in hoping that the other bands aren't assholes. In the end we are pretty self entertaining though and really only care about slaughtering when we play so we don't really give a fuck if dudes are cool or not. It does help time go by though if they are. We have had alot of fun with most every band we have toured with. It's nice when people take their music seriously but don't take themselves too seriously.

ghetto_paul: Do you have any trouble with vocals on any particular old DEP songs that may keep you from playing them live?

No. We are capable of playing anything at any time.

jedstylesux: Do you guys ever plan on releasing anything good? If so what type of music will it be and why the consistant lackluster din?

Probably not.

Check_Your_Vital_Signs: Are you sick of every shitty band you play with asking you to watch their sets?

If they are worth watching I will. I'm not sick of it if they are shitty because then I just won't watch.

clevelandhardcore: Are you looking forward to the new Ringworm, which came out on 10/18?

I didn't know it was coming out, but yeah I'll listen to it. They are pretty interesting.

jedstylesux: How much better is Scissorfight? Infinitely?

How much better than what? Than they were? Than we are? Than your mom? Oh! "Your mom" never gets old.

march_of_flames: What are some of the bands in music right now that you disrespect/dislike the most? What are some of the new bands coming out that you respect or like the most?

There are alot of bands I respect, not necessarily new. New bands I like? They aren't super new but Breather Resist, Pelican... I don't know. I listen to more old stuff honestly than new. Not many people come out with something great right out of the gate. As for the other half of the question, there are plenty of bands I dislike, far more than I like, but disrespecting is a different issue than disliking. I disrespect bands that are pretending to be something. This whole shit with bands acting like they are Motley Crue or Guns N' Roses at their most decadent, acting like they party so much, it's such a fucking joke. I can't believe kids buy into it. I don't need to harp on one or two bands anymore, I've used bands as examples before and it's easy to find those interviews. The point is pretty clear. Stop pretending you rock so hard and party so much. You are a liar. You don't fight and fuck and drink non-stop, and your music is for 12 year old girls. What type of asshole writes shit like that? Do they really like what they play? It's hard to believe. It's music so that middle school girls who liked boy bands two years ago can fool themselves into thinking they are listening to "hard" shit now.

Captain: What happens when you fuse the brutalness of death metal with the emotion of hardcore?

Is this a trick question? Like Nile mixed with Terror? Floor punching mummies? I don't know.

Captain: You guys and Shat - was the 2002 tour REALLY that debauched?

It really was. All assortments of perversion were definitely witnessed on that tour. We watched a girl piss on Jeff Wood's face while he was lying on a street in front of a church, then she threw up spaghetti all over his face and he started eating the noodles. We saw a girl put a drill with a dildo on it inside of her and turn it on, the "drilldo." Those are just two of a very long list. Seriously the list of unspeakable occurences from that tour is unreal. There is nothing I could ever see that would be shocking now, all because of that tour.

junk: What's the most insane thing you saw Mustaine do during the Gigantour?

This story is insane but not in the way you would expect. One day we were all in the catering area of this club, fuck what was it, the one in Milwaukee, Eagles Ballroom? I think that's it. Well in the catering room there were all these collages on the walls with pictures of musicians on them. Right in the center of one there was a big picture of glory days James Hetfield. Like 1987 Hetfield with the white ESP explorer, roaring like a lion. Mustaine walks in and starts looking at all the collages, gets to that one, and just stares at the Hetfield picture for like 3 minutes. We're all like holy shit look look he's gonna have a fucking freak out or a break down or something. Then he walks over to an open window, leans on the windowsill, and just stares out the window for 15-20 minutes. It was pretty intense. Just the shit that must have been going through his head. He was obviously affected. It was crazy just seeing 25 years of metal history colliding in that dude's head.

d00fus_maximus: Have you ever known one redheaded drummer that could keep a beat?

Yeah I have.

john_doe: How long will it take for your guitarists to heal, and will this delay the recording of the new record, and when is the record to be released?

Ben's surgery is a 6 week recovery time, and Brian will take a little longer, but it won't stop them from writing just performing, which we aren't planning on doing during that time anyway. You can never say for sure when it will be done, but we are hoping by the end of 2006. We have a pretty good amount of loose ideas right now and a few pretty fleshed out songs.

john_doe: You dropped off Gigantour early because of Ben's arm injury, and you've also mentioned that the crowd was not very responsive. what additional negatives were there doing a tour like that, and what were some of the positives (working w/ Mustaine, Dream Theater, or any other of the bands)?

Well there weren't any real negatives, we like playing in front of people who don't "get" us. It's fun and adds extra weight to the aggressive and confrontational vibe that our music and performance already has. Positives were playing with and learning from sick musicians like the guys in Nevermore, Dream Theater, and Symphony X, being on a tour with someone you admired as a kid, and more importantly for us as a band that tour really made us so competitive. We really wanted to crush every show to get under the skin of the people in the crowd who hated us, and coming out of that tour now back into our own environment in the clubs we are still carrying that feeling with us and it has made our shows probably the craziest they have ever been.

john_doe: What direction do you see DEP's music going toward? The last release had more rock, electronics and melody. will there be more of that, or a return to Calculating Infinity? Or will DEP be incorporating more elements into its music?

It's hard to say this early on, the few songs we have done right now are definitely more along the Calculating line, just really intricate and really ferocious, and it seems we are going down that path but I'm sure other things will come out as time goes on. The technicality isn't the main point really and it never has been, it's just a tool to use to get your point across. I hate bands that are "techy" just for the sake of it, it just sounds like emotionless "dink deedle dink" music to me. When people hear us or see us play I want them to feel something. Feel excited, feel pissed off, aggressive, afraid, intimidation, uneasyness. The technicality is just a way of achieving that and when the players in the band are good and put songwriting first of course the technicality and wanting to push themselves as musicians will come out.

john_doe: Will shat ever release another record?

Jeff Wood is working on it now.

john_doe: Do you visit GNC daily?

I don't go there at all.

conduit: Best Sitcom Band? Uncle Jesse and the Rippers OR California Dreams?

I like the Fat Albert gang...just a bunch of guys and a fat cartoon Bill Cosby beating on pieces of garbage in an alley.

conduit: If you could form the ultimate side project with you on vocals, what other dudes would you have playing in said band?

I think I have it pretty good right now man. I couldn't ask for better players than the ones in this band. If I could put together an ultimate band it would be this one. But for fun? I would just want it to be friends since I am already surrounded by sick musicians. Andy from Every Time I Die on guitar (we've talked many times about having a band full of devastating riffs ala Crowbar/Entombed), Aaron North from The Icarus Line/Nine Inch Nails on guitar (because he is an out of control performer and talks massive amounts of shit), Animal from the Muppets on drums (because he's a fucking muppet and hits harder than anyone), and Caleb from Cave In on bass and backup vox (dude has crushing tone and a heavy voice). Honestly though it would still be a side project because I don't prefer any of those guys to the guys in DEP at all, but just to have a band that bashes out massive riffs and a fuzzy thing beating the shit out of drums? That would be the one.

brohammer: What supplements do you take?

None.

brohammer: Obviously you must do some training on the road... what and where do you train?

I really don't do much. Chris honestly works out more than me. He does like 500 push-ups a day and like 1000 jump ropes, in addition to playing crazy drums. He is a fucking cyborg. I just eat a lot of protein and work out a lot when I am home and then just from being healthy on tour I keep most of it. I don't go to gyms or anything like that on tour. I don't want to be sore when we play.

HumanSteamroller: What is your workout routine (detail if you please, I am feeling both curious and aroused)?

At home? I go like 3 to 5 times a week I guess. I don't know how much detail to get into. Lots of heavy basic exercises, squats, deadlifts, cleans. I basically just thrash myself and then eat and sleep alot.

HumanSteamroller: What, exactly, do you have against boxes?

Fuck boxes. What with their lazy ways...lying around and doing nothing. Actually that's pretty awesome. I take it back. Boxes rule.

EveryTimeHeDies: What is your max bench press?

I can't believe all these types of questions. I don't know. I haven't done that exercise in years.

EveryTimeHeDies: Are the songs you guys are writing now really more technical than Calculating Infinity? If so, shed some details on them.

Yeah, they are more technical and definitely more aggressive. Ben and Chris like to write things they can't play and then make themselves get better until they can play them at normal speed, and then over and over until they are ridiculously fast. People always say that Calculating is more "tech" than Miss Machine, but I know for a fact that there are guitar parts on Miss Machine that are harder for Ben to play than Calculating, and the same for drums and bass, and vocally the songs on Miss Machine are way more tiring than on Calculating. Not that stamina has anything to do with technicality. But yeah the songs we have for the next record are pretty out of hand.

Puppies_need_discipline: When is Dimitri coming back?

Are you looking for him? I'll call him and have him come right over. Oh wait, I forgot, he doesn't give a shit about you.

ezstevemcqueen: What's your favorite sex position?

This is ridiculous. If your girl isn't a prude you should like them all. You're gonna blow load eventually anyway, hopefully.

ChemicallyImbalancedSloth: Who do you see as the forerunner in the world of metal right now? Hardcore?

I think it's too diverse for there to be an obvious forerunner. There are alot of good bands.

maudlin: Why the hell do you never play at the Chance in Poughkeepsie, NY?

I don't know?

manbitesdog: Do you ever feel like "tech" music will reach a creative dead end, when all the potential for complex time changes/weird signatures/mathiness will just run out of steam?

Not if people keep themselves from getting trapped into set ways of thinking. Someone new will always find new things to incorporate or ways to think differently.

manbitesdog: Do you think you will be doing this in 10 or 15 years' time, like, say, Neurosis?

If we still have something to say in 15 years time and still feel creatively stimulated by one another and we haven't killed each other yet, than yeah we will.

thefaceeater: If you could tour with any 3 other bands who would they be?

1987 Michael Jackson, Aphex Twin, 1987 Metallica.

thefaceeater: Laguna Beach, yay or nay?

Is that a TV show or something? A place? I seriously don't know.

portslob: No questions... Just thank Liam from Dan, for the free beers at the MA gigantour show.

I'll thank him.

Tim_Diesel: Do you haev respect for those guys because they are capable of releasing an album such as Calculating Infinity?

what?

Tim_Diesel: Did Irony Is A Dead Scene make you want to vomit?

What?

xsamx: Do you guys ever get lost during songs? P.S: Dressing up as My Chemical Romance was hilarious!

No, we don't get lost. As for MCR, we thought so too. The best is that Chris just didn't go with it at all. Dude just took his shirt off and put sunglasses on and socks on his hands. Weird dude, Chris Pennie.

dudecore: I saw you guys at Hellfest 04, were you pissed that Life Of Agony was tuning over your set? It was hard to hear you guys with them getting ready to play.

Yeah that was pretty fucking lame. But then they turned out to be nice on Gigantour and when I asked them about Hellfest they said they didn't even remember us playing before them. Weird.

dudecore: After the release of your next album, who would you like to tour with?

Mogwai, Converge, Dresden Dolls, Aphex Twin, Melvins, Tool, Deftones, NIN, Breather Resist, Pelican, Neurosis, Meshuggah, there are alot of bands we would love to tour with, but it's hard to get everything to work out.

say10: How many more pop songs will be on the next album?

How many more lame "trying to be offensive and shitty but not really achieving that goal" questions are you going to ask?

say10: How does it feel to know that Miss Machine is worthless and forgettable compared to the impact Calculating Infinity had?

Oh, I guess one more. How does it feel to know the time you are spending on here is in turn making your life worthless and forgettable? This little exchange was fun. You obviously hate everything our band has done post Calculating Infinity. It's alright man. There are other bands to listen to. Lets flip it and talk about the impact the album you made has had. Oh wait.

KoreanKibbles: Will you ever tour with Psyopus?

Perhaps, we've played together before.

KoreanKibbles: Do any of you ever listen to Philip Glass?

Yeah, I like a lot that he's done, particularly Glassworks and the Candyman Soundtrack, but I think I am the only one.

mydixiewrecked: What exercises/rudiments does the drummer due to warm up?

It's non-stop man. He hardly ever stops playing. It's ridiculous honestly. He has his practice pad and sticks with him at literally all times, or he will do the rudiments at an insanely high speed on the lid of a fucking water bottle, which is insane.

mydixiewrecked: If you could kill anyone, would it be?

I don't have anyone premeditated offhand. It would probably be wasted in a spur of the moment killing like someone in traffic or something, or the redneck neighbor of mine that insists on mowing his lawn at 8am like three times a week. Die neighbor.

xmh: Do you remember the Garbage Pail Kids movie?

Of course!

didITbykillingyou: What's up with CD cover art/who picked it?

We all decided on it. It was done by our friend Brian Montouri.

didITbykillingyou: Did you hook up with any of the nurses from the Unretrofied video?

No, I didn't.

2scene4u: Are there any pics of said dressing up as MCR?

I haven't seen any.

RobertRedford: Will you come back to the Chameleon Club in Lancaster even though security was a bitch? Great show by the way! It was great to see you guys on a smaller stage!

They probably won't let us come back. The owners pretty much told me that I was never welcome there again. I had nine security guards circled around me trying to fight me outside of that show. They were so strict there. Not really necessary at all. They were the biggest dickhead security guards of all time. Thanks for coming though! Hopefully you can see us when we play in Philly.

Cory: How come you don't play "Wish" more often? You obviously still love NIN.

We have enough original songs to play right now and have a hard enough time deciding between which ones to play. We don't really have enough space in our set right now for a cover. We'll think of a new good one when the time is right.

Cory: Is your music in any way actually based on math or is that just a bullshit moniker that the music media made up? Is there a differential equation that somehow dictates time changes and chord progressions? If so, what is it? If not, do you think this is possible? In the future will this be how all music is made? Will robots take over the music industry and will their light show be aimed right at the eye level of their human fans like yours is?

Hahahah we really tried for so long to make our light show as uncomfortable to look at as possible, but we realized that it was too much when we started noticing people turning around while we were playing, telling us it made them nauseaus and so forth. Now I guess we can just settle for it being complementary haha. That math shit is all bullshit. We hate the whole thing. Math-rock, math-metal, it's all bullshit. You can break any style of music down into mathematical things like time signatures. It's a sad time when just because people can play their instruments and are doing something creative with that ability that they are considered "math" music.

steve_cannae: Have you ever been on tour and made someone in another band you were on tour with shit their pants? I wanna know if we're the only one.

HAHAHA, no I don't think so. You have an exclusivity, my friend.

TTU: Why was Dmitri really kicked out the band? He needs to make an appearance again I'm thinking.

It was a mutual decision. There is enough about that for you to read somewhere I assume and I am the wrong person to ask. He makes appearances at the New Orleans Steakhouse in Woodbridge New Jersey. Go there and stalk him. Everyone is there from time to time and our old manager owns it. Dimitri is there alot though, drinking and eating crab legs.

blackpower: Guitar solo VS Werewolf. Who would win?

Who is playing the solo? If it's a werebear, then the wearbear wins, Altered Beast style.

biohazardfiend: What are your current favorite music releases?

I haven't really been playing anything new a lot. The last things I got that I really liked were the new Fiona Apple record and the Team Sleep record.

biohazardfiend: Any chance of you and Patton together on a song in the future?

Doubtful, but I guess you never really know. I doubt it though.

john_doe: Do you ever get tired of the stage 'antics' (breaking amps, boxes, throwing shit, lighting fire), or are they just a consistently honest reaction from performing live? Do you feel that new fans identify you as 'the band that fire-breathes' or 'the singer that shit on stage' or 'the band that breaks stuff?' What were you thinking when you jumped off the Jones Beach stage into the water?

They are an honest reaction when they happen, it's not some kind of gimmick. You do what you feel like doing when the music makes you feel like doing it. We are excited by this music even when crowds aren't into us. I definitely am wary of being in the position where people expect that out of you but we have brought it on ourselves. I would love to play a whole show where we all sit in rocking chairs or something or on stools just so that people that come just to see me throw a cymbal or spit fire can be bummed out. I'd like to think our ability to play these songs is also important, but I understand. We talked about all this recently and when the day comes that the music doesn't make us want to perform the way we do now we will more than likely just stop performing and just write records. Sometimes before we play I think to myself "this sucks, half these people are here just to see us jump around like monkeys and break things and be completely out of control, but I don't really feel like doing that right now," and then the second we start playing, the music almost always makes me do all that, haha. The Jones Beach water thing just happened. I don't really even remember consciously thinking about it, I was just all of a sudden in the water, and it was like being in the fucking Star Wars trash compactor.

Cory: Did you realize that when you set your shit on fire at Hellfest 2k2, you started a chain of events that ruined the sound for the rest of the weekend?

No, I actually didn't realize that. Sound dudes were pretty pissed about that though. That was the best Hellfest we played though in my opinion.

scared_to_death: What do you think about New Jersey as a state? Most people on Lambgoat seem to hate my location!

It's a nice state, I'm not too into the whole idea of one big suburb, which is pretty much what New Jersey is, and the not whole "not being able to make lefts" sucks, but it is an overall pleasant enough place and there is plenty of 24 hour eating which is great.

scared_to_death: Do you ever listen to your own band on CD in your free time?

I've listened to Miss Machine maybe twice in the past year, and Calculating about the same. Just to brush up on a song we haven't played in a while before a tour or to see how it sounds after not hearing it for so long. I recently listened to Miss Machine after not having heard it all the way through for almost a year and it was good to hear. We are proud of that record and when I listen to it it makes me think of how long it took to write and record and it makes me excited to make a new album, which we are in the early stages of doing, but it also kills me to hear the things I wish I/we would have differently, but there's nothing you can do about that unless you are crazy like Axl Rose and choose to never allow something to be finished.

didITbykillingyou: Oh, and just so you know... you're the one "celebrity" my girlfriend is allowed to bang.

That's pretty weird. You should keep her on a tighter leash, man. Don't ever ever allow that sort of thing. If she even so much as thinks of another guy you should execute her.

The_Legacy_Virus: Are you currently writing with John and Spylacopa, and when can we expect something?

Yeah, the Spylacopa thing is a slow moving and pretty ambiguous project. Due to the amount of time Dillinger takes up in my life right now and due to a recent computer crash that wiped out my non-backed up main hard drive I lost all the Spylacopa shit that I was working on, which really made it hard to start back up on it again. We are gonna get it going though. John has been working really hard and now Chris Hornbrook the drummer from Poison The Well is involved too so I'm sure they have been bouncing ideas back and forth. I am excited about the possibilities of this but just need some time off to spend more quality time on it. It's gonna be a Massive Attack type of vibe I'm gathering, but we're not gonna put anything out that isn't good, I don't care how long it takes.

LEX_LUGER: How is Mike Patton in general? Is he an egotistical asshole because of all the projects he's done, or is he like everyone else?

The times I have met him he is definitely a very quirky and opinionated person, but also very nice and supportive of us. He is a normal guy you can have a conversation with about the Lakers or something like that, but also very eccentric.

killa: How can you guys play perfectly every time if you don't practice?

We do practice, but most of our practice time is spent working on new material. We brush up on the songs we already have maybe once or twice before a tour if we haven't played them in a while, but we all practice individually a great deal. Nobody would show up to practice before the beginning of a tour out of shape. It would be extremely disrespectful to everyone else.

killa: How do I get your size, quickly?

Eat all day. My height? Chop your legs off from the knees down and then attach your feet to the stumps.

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