This was an enjoyable interview. The dudes of Scary Kids Scaring Kids were all pretty funny and energetic, which pretty much matches their live show. This is a band well worth checking out, depsite some bad reviews that they have gotten for their new album, The City Sleeps in Flames.

PL: Introduce yourselves.

P: I'm Pouyan and I play keyboards.

Pete: I'm Pete and I play drums.

DJ: I'm DJ. I play the bass.

Chad: I'm Chad and I play guitar.

P: With our powers combined

Chad: We create

P: Scary Kids

Chad: Scaring Kids.

DJ: Well 2/3 of it.

PL: Is hype a good thing or a bad thing?

P: I like the fans' hype. I like it best when people come out to a show; thats what I'm all about. I think thats a good kind of hype to have: people that say, "Dude, I saw them live and they put on a great show."

PL: How do you guys feel when you end up getting a bad review?

DJ: It doesn't really matter to us all that much. Its just one person's opinion.

Pete: We've gotten a lot of bad reviews and we've gotten a lot of good reviews.

P: We've got a lot of bad reviews, so we're good with it now. The first two really hurt, but then after awhile it didn't bother us. Now they're getting clever.

Pete: I think its the way you look at the music. A lot of people look at us-if you look at the genre of screamo-I guess our band would just be another screamo band, but I think our band offers something different. I don't know. There's lots of people that review albums, you know.

P: They don't know how to listen to music. Just kidding.

PL: Well, you can't like everything.

P: Yeah, totally.

Pete: I don't care. I have fun playing my music, and the fans seem to like it a lot.

DJ: I think we could have done a much better job, but we did the best we could. We never gave up writing it. This is what we have, and we have to like it.

P: We love the music we write, and thats what it comes down to. No matter what critics say, we're gonna love playing it and we're gonna continue to love writing it, as long as we have the opportunity to be writing music.

PL: As a combination of those two questions, do you think hype will make people want to give you a bad review?

P: Oh totally, totally. I noticed on the After Dark EP, which I like a lot, but I believe we stepped it up with the full length. But, I didn't see one bad thing about After Dark, but that was mainly because people didn't know about it. But when The City Sleeps in Flames came out, there was a lot of hype about it. Immortal backed it up a lot, and because of that hype, people listened to it thinking that everyone loves this, whats the reason I should love this immediately? If they're not sold by the first song. Just with me, if someone comes up and says: "Oh man, this is the best thing ever," I'll be like, "give me one reason to like it. I'm gonna listen to it for a little bit, and if there is any little thing that I don't like about it, I'm gonna drag it out."

Pete: But also I think I would rather get a ridiculously horrible review. Like, in AP, I'd rather get a one or a five. If people see a one, they'll be like, "Oh man. I want to hear this band. They've got to be shitty. I want to hear how crappy this band is." If you get a two or a three, or even a four, people will be like, "Okay, whatever." A one and a five are better publicity than anything.

P: So we'd either like to make really shitty music or really awesome music.

Pete: Yeah. We're bipolar.

PL: Who was the first band you've ever seen live?

DJ: Goldfinger.

P: I saw No Doubt with the Vandals.

Chad: That was your first show?

P: That was my first show ever.

Chad: Mine was my brother's band, but that was a local show. My first big show was probably Less Than Jake.

Pete: I think mine was the OC Supertones, Squad Five-O and Insiders. It was tight.

PL: I think mine was Billy Joel.

Chad: That was your first show?

P: Thats so awesome.

Pete: That is awesome.

P: (Starts singing "We Didn't Start the Fire")

PL: What do you guys do to conserve gas since gas prices are so high?

Chad: We don't.

P: We siphon a lot of gas.

Pete: Especially from the bands we are touring with.

P: We should do that. That would be hilarious. We'd be like: "Hey, we were just joking. You caught on? That was funny. Thats funny, right guys? Its just another tour joke story, right? Hey hey, we're buddies."

Chad: You could take a few bucks.

P: No, fuck that, we'll take it every day. They'll be like, "Dude, who's driving this van so hard?"

PL: You could just take a gallon a day.

Chad: Yeah, dude, they won't notice.

P: We could take it from each of the bands.

PL: Yeah, thats 50 miles right there.

Pete: Yeah, but if we stole 15 gallons each day, we'd have a full tank.

P: Could you just imagine sucking gas from their gas tank and they pull out of the gas station with chips and a soda and they're like: "What the fuck are you doing?" That'd be hilarious.

Pete: No, there's no way to conserve.

Chad: We tried, and maybe we'd save a buck.

P: A buck, every two days. We tried all these methods. We tried 2500 RPMs, going 55.

Pete: The best is not to run the air conditioning. Thats the thing that saves the most gas.

PL: I wouldn't even think thats worth it.

Chad: Yeah, and that ends up being a buck.

Pete: There's people that have to have the AC on in our van the whole time.

P: Yeah, with seven guys in there all the time, the AC...the AC is cool, I'll say.

PL: Whats your favorite holiday?

Chad: Christmas.

P: I like Halloween a lot.

Pete: Halloween through Christmas are good months.

P: If there's a party, its Halloween, but Christmas is always the winner no matter what. If someone has a bad Christmas, you hear about it. Thats how rare it is. With Halloween, its like, "Oh, just another Halloween."

Pete: Everybody has bad Halloweens.

P: Yeah, but if you have a good Halloween, thats a memorable one.

PL: Whats a little known fact about Arizona?

P: There is more than sand in Arizona.

Pete: It snows there.

Chad: It snows a lot in Arizona.

P: Oh yeah, in the mountains. We have hurricanes.

Pete: Tornados.

P: Komodo dragons.

Chad: Tell him about that.

P: Oh, yeah dude, this Komodo dragon came into my house one day. This thing was like 12 feet long, jacking my TV and shit, going into my snowmobile and shit. I was like: "Yo, Komono." And then we got into a big fight.

Chad: Komono is a Japanese-

P: Yeah, I know, it was wearing a komono. Thats why I called it the Komono dragon. It was a very mysterious one. Dude, Arizona is a city and Surburia just like any town. The only difference we've noticed is that the East Coast has lots of trees.

Pete: And its really old.

P: And its really old.

Chad: Everything's really new.

P: Everything's new and its a grid. There's a suburb, there's a city, just like any other state. You have your ghettos. We have lizards. The drummer of The Forecast was scared when we were talking about having see through geckos. He wouldn't move there because we have invisible lizards.

PL: Whats one movie everyone should go see?

P: I think "Amile" is the one movie everyone should go see.

DJ: "The Princess Bride."

Chad: He's really into Princesses.

(They take a few seconds to try and figure out if they are supposed to be setting up their equipment, but Sunday Driver was still playing their set)

Chad: I'd say everybody should have to see "Cannibal: The Musical."

P: "Cannibal: The Musical;" on the real. (leaves to see if they should actually start to set up)

PL: Name one album, besides your own, that you feel all kids should have in their collection.

Chad: Radiohead-Kid A, or any Radiohead CD.

DJ: I listen to a lot of He is Legend.

Pete: I don't know. There's a lot of stuff; its not just one band. (Answers phone call)

PL: Any final comments?

Pete: (Is talking on the phone) Are we done?

PL: Yeah, I was pretty much done.

Pete: Okay, alright cool. (Takes phone call outside)