The Guest Bedroom
By wavelength ~ Posted Thursday, March 9th 2006Why is there not already a record label called 'œFuckpop?'? Everybody would buy all their albums and fuck to them all the time. The Guest Bedroom would be their first signed act and produce exclusively 3-inch CD's like their appropriately-named release, Tight, and in exactly one decade be credited as the catalysts for the influential 'œfuckpop revolution'?. Come explore this alternate future with Wavelength's Evan Dickson and Sandi Falconer, Tim Smith, Rob Castle, and Paul Clifford: The Guest Bedroom.
WHAT ARE YOU "ALL ABOUT"?
Sandi: Triumphant endings, baked goods, novelty items, cluster chords, themes, puns, exclamations, random facts, minor keys!!
Paul: Texas sick packs, sick humour, the mutual desire to rock.
ON MYSPACE YOU CLAIM TO PLAY "FUCKPOP". HOW DO YOU LIVE UP TO SUCH A LABEL?
Sandi: All our songs have a very obvious pop influence to them, which we generally try to bastardize with enthusiasm. We live up to this self proclaimed title by continuing to stomp on pop, but also maintain and not deny its influence. Also, quite simply, someone made that verbal observation at a show once and we stuck to it. Quirky-rock, fuck-pop; they are the same.
Tim: You take pop, and you fuck it!
Paul: It's not like we are "anti-pop," but instead of our music making you feel nice or making you get along with your co-workers better it's going to lay you down and'¦ well you know.
Rob: If "fuckpop" were a label we'd be signed to it.
HOW DID YOU END UP PRODUCING A 3-INCH CD? WHERE DID YOU EVEN GET THEM?
Sandi: I've always liked they way 3-inch CDs looked. We had recorded a song and made a video and thought that these 2 small things would be good on a similarly small piece of media. We located them at a computer store and thought it would be a fun thing to make. Also we're way too poor to press vinyl, and when our desire to make a 7'? fizzled (for now) we took on this idea. 3-inches to the max! YES. Plus Tim loves things that are small. You should have seen the gingerbread diorama of Henri Faberge & The Adorables he made once.
Tim: 3inch-topia! Everything is smaller in 3-inch-topia. It just so happens we're good friends with the president of 3-inch-topia and he let us take some of his little tiny CD's. We also have a miniature toaster for little 3-inch toast and a very tiny lighthouse where I one day hope to live.
Paul: Sandi and Tim thought they were "cute".
EVERYBODY LOVED WE LIKE ACCIDENTS LAST YEAR, PARTICULARLY NOW'S TIM PERLICH, WHO MAY HAVE MASTURBATED TO THE TITLE TRACK. DO YOU FEEL PRESSURE NOW TO ONE-UP YOURSELF?
Sandi: HA! I doubt that first statement to be very true at all, however hilarious! Unless by everyone you mean our friends, and by Tim Perlich masturbating you mean Tim Perlich saying something really nice and rad. If we weren't motivated to one-up ourselves, what would be the point of writing new songs? If we actually felt any sort of pressure, we'd believe we have something to prove, which we don't.
Rob: The weird thing is I may have masturbated to Tim Perlich's review.
Tim: Did they? Frankly, I HOPE Tim Perlich masturbated to We Like Accidents. Not often does a song really DO that to someone, you know. Also, there is no pressure. We are 'œone-hit'? wonders!
Paul: Considering we did that recording on a serious shoe-string budget and time constraint, the new recording is going to feel like a relief more than anything. I think people are going to like the new material too.
IS SANDI FALCONER A STAGE NAME? FRANKLY, IT SOUNDS MADE UP.
Sandi: Does it really? I can assure you it's very real.
Rob: Sandi has earned her name. It takes a great deal of patience and persistence to properly train a falcon.
Tim: Hahaha! Awesome. My stage name would be Timothy K. Wonderful!
Paul: Hmmm, is your mom's real name Candi Dimpleton?