1 - Tell us how
your project(s) were started.
Jon (drum) and
Nick (guitar) were playing some music-theory-heavy music with a friend of mine
from my music theory class. Eventually the friend couldn't play bass for them
anymore and so I got asked to. Later Nick and Roger started a band called Malone
Dies and asked me to play bass. We then got Jon back on drums. Roger left for
school in Boston and Malone Dies slowly fell apart. Later Nick and I (William/keyboards/bass)
started a project with John Carter from Sioux City. He eventually had to return
there. Nick and I had some songs that we didn't want to go to waste, so we got
Jon to come play drums with us and changed our name to Witchcraft by a Picture.
This is where I first started playing keyboards. Eventually we added Jacob on
bass full time and Camden as our light man/eye candy.
2 - What does music,
in it's entirety, mean to you?
Music means expression to me. It's as expressive (if not more so) than any spoken/written language. It can mean or say anything.
3 - What does art,
in it's entirety, mean to you?
Music and art have always been synonymous to me. I don't see any reason to distinguish between the two. Music should be affect all sense as should visual art/dance/performance art/writing, etc.
4 - Who is your
favorite author, and why?
Orwell because of his vision and tastefully restricted descriptions of any and everything.
5 - As your best
friend, describe yourself.
You're interesting, fairly responsible, fairly intelligent, secure, and moderately creative and driven.
6 - As your worst
enemy, describe yourself.
You're inconsiderate, distant, insecure, and that mustache is really ugly.
7 - If you were immortalized as a cartoon character, who would it be?
I'd probably be
Ted Johnson from the Red Meat comic strip. At least that's where I picture
myself in 25 years. Happily married, insanely quirky,
willing to expirement with garage substances, and hanging out with my pensive
7 year old son.
8 - Do you think
there are conspiracies against the "everyday person"?
Less conspiracies
then policies. The "everyday person" is basically getting clusterfucked
on a daily basis by everyone, including himself. The world is just set up to
exploit and manipulate the masses so as to retain order. If the majority of
people were forced to think individually and took action
from what they decided then the world would grind to a halt.
9 - What do you
do with your spare or free time?
Well, I don't attend school and I'm unemployed so my whole life is pretty much spare time at the moment. I usually walk/bike around Raleigh, complain about how boring Raleigh is, talk to friends, scam the local grocery store, read a little, work on the computer, work on music projects, etc.
10 - Please give
us your interpretation of "the meaning of life".
The meaning of
life for me is to get as much accomplished as possible through any means necessary.
I'd just like to get to the end of it and say "well, that was productive,
look at everything I've made". That would give me the greatest satisfaction
of all, to have gotten everything out.
Physical pleasure should be as prominent as possible at all times without getting
in the way as well. You've only got one shot to get as much as you can out of
this one set of molecules/cells, your body.
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