Josh: If people call you “Fata” do you punch them in the face?

Scott: I don’t punch them, but I have a tendency to take peope home with me and tell them I’m going to take them out to dinner because we’re a really nice band. Then I give them this drug my doctor gave me to relax, it’s called trybadone. I mix that in Pepsi. Then they drink the Pepsi and they pass out. Then I tie a string around their ankles. Like a guitar string. Then, I’m on the second story, while they’re dangling, I run downstairs real quick and get naked. Then I start jerking off and they wake up and they’re looking at me. Then I give them the money shot right in the face. They wake up and look at me, and then I run upstairs. Before they die, the last thing that goes through their head is my cum.

Josh: So don’t call you “fata” then.

Scott: You’re going to print that, right?

Josh: Yes.

Scott: What is this interview for?

Ben: I don’t know. Some local thing.

Smally: I think it’s just for his stereo at home.

Josh: Yeah, it’s just for my personal enjoyment. I bought a tape recorder one day and... Ok, let’s go. I actually love Ferretstyle as a label. Do you think it’s beneficial to be a part of a label that is run by someone who has a kick ass band?

Ben: I tihnk that it’s favorable because he knows so many people all around. But at the same time, he can’t devote all of his time to the label. Yeah, that’s about it.

Smally: And he knows what it’s like to be in a band and go around and play shows. All that.

Ben: There you go. I love him to death. He’s my lover.

Brian: Let me do this interview.

Ben: No. You cannot do it.

(Someone pukes, I’m not sure who it was)

Josh: We should have brought the camera!

Ben: Dude, I bought you those chips. I wasted a dollar. Yeah, so, I’m not rich. I bought him those chips and he threw them up.

Josh: Can you tell me something positive about the Long Island scene?

Ben: Smally is in it. That’s it. Smally is the epitome of the Long Island scene. He kicks ass. He fights everyone. He likes no one. And no one likes him. That’s the epitome of the Long Island hardcore scene.

Smally: Those are all facts too, by the way.

Ben: The Long Island scene is awesome. A bunch of cool bands, it’s really cool.

Scott: It’s very easy to get famous in Long Island, there’s a thriving scene. So when you’re in the right place at the right time, now you’re the buzz band of the time. Long Island is the breeding ground of the hottest little thirteen year old girls ever. EVER. So then you go to shows and there’s all these little girls and they just give you money, like our pockets are filled with money every night. And Brian touches all the little girls.

Brian: OH!!

Scott: It’s fame and fortune all at the same time. It’s amazing. And you can have limos.

Brian: Is this something big that people are going to read, like my mom?

Josh: No.

Brian: Good.

Josh: No one’s going to read this, don’t worry. Would you say that now is a good time to be a part of Long Island with all the bands blowing up?

Smally: No, ‘96 was a good time to be a part of Long Island.

Brian: In ‘96, I was proud to be a part of Long Island. Long Island’s got a few good guys that keep it good. Long Island is good to go home to every six months or so.

Scott: Do you want us to rap?

Josh: Yeah, kick it freestyle.

(Scott and Ben kick it freestyle, no joke. Look for the MP3 soon)

Josh: What do you think of all these melodic parts in hardcore these days?

Ben: It seems to be the norm. Hardcore bands seem to be playing more melodic stuff because their influences are just all over the place now. This guy right here- Earth Wind and Fire is his major influence.

Brian: I don’t like hardcore. Earth Wind and Fire, Barry White, Billie Holiday, Johnny Cash not so much...

(Someone knocks on an apartment window near by and the girls are freaking out)

Brian: The influences now are just so wide ranged and they’re all there in their music. It’s not a bad thing, it’s a good thing because it’s a freedom of expression in their music.

Smally: It was like, a while ago and in the early ‘90’s there were a lot of bands like that. Like V.O.D. It’s just another natural step in progression in hardcore.

Josh: Do you feel like you’re leading that at all though?

Ben: No, we’re definitey not. There were so many bands before us doing shit like that.

Josh: Maybe if you weren’t the first ones to do it, then maybe just to kind of bring it back to a wider audience.

Ben: I think we’ve still got a long way to go, and bands like V.O.D. were doing the singing and screaming thing long before we were.

Josh: But I didn’t see any V.O.D. shirts at the Burnt by the Sun show. I saw like, four or five From Autumn to Ashes shirts.

Ben: Burnt by the Sun rules.