Friday, November 17
People will often ask me, "what’s your band’s politics? What’s your politics on this? What’s your politics on that?" And I tell them that one of the main things for me, and for the rest of the band, is that the whole place has already burnt down. That everything went wrong in Rome. I don’t know who was trying to put a Band-Aid on a sinking ship. The idea of trying to fix things and like, what’s really to blame is the written language. That’s where everything started going bad.
I think one of things we've always struggled with is trying to figure out how you get the energy of being live, 'cause obviously a tape recording of a live show doesn't convey that at all — at least, not to us. Maybe it does one time when you listen to it, but then after you listen to it once it's gone. Obviously, live, we're really interested in spontaneity and improvising. And one of our big things is, how can you record in a way that, when you've got this thing that's never gonna change, but you can still feel like it changes?
— Tim Harrington
