Here it is. The glorious LiqudGeneration Interview with Seattle's The Lashes. We are seeing a continuing trend here at LG headquarters regarding the correlation between "rockingness" and interview prowess. Apparently, the harder you rock directly corresponds to how witty and capable of an interviewee one is. Oh, by the way, the Lashes rock really, really hard. Their new record, Get It, hit stores on February 21 and they'll be playing not one or two but three shows down at SXSW. So if your in the area (like Texas) you should definitely check 'em out. Here are couple of MP3s for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
The Lashes - Please, Please, Please.mp3
and
The Lashes - Sometimes The Sun.mp3
LIQUIDGENERATION: If you could fight any celebrity past or present who would it be and why? 
And the follow-up: If you could party with any celebrity past or present who would it be and why?
THE LASHES: I think that we can definitely say that we’d love to fight Paris Hilton. I know it’s wrong to hit girls but name just ONE reason why we shouldn't’t. First of all, she’s not even a real celebrity. She is a billionaire celebutante with a crooked nose and bad fashion choices AND we’ve seen her in bed and she looks terrible. I mean, if a girl answered her cell phone and kept talking while I was getting it on with her, I’d definitely have to end it. I’d also be crying myself to sleep because I’d be insecure about my skills. That being said, Paris is also the girl we would want to party with. It’s like free drinks and table dancing all.night.long. and then arm wrestling and body slams in her olympic sized swimming pool at the after-party. Can you beat that?
LG: What’s the worst band name you’ve ever heard? Bad because it’s trying too hard to be smart, bad because it doesn’t make sense or bad because it’s just annoying as sin?
THE LASHES: I really dislike names that are deliberately misspelled. What's the point? Let's talk about what I love, which is misspellings that involve clever wordplay like Ludacris. Kills me every time!
LG: What’s the last record you bought borrowed or stole?
THE LASHES: I really can't say because some "people" who I "know" may come "looking" for me "possibly" and then I wouldn't be "invited" to "places" around "town". sorry.
LG: Has any event, experience or other worldly influence ever made you doubt the life of Rock that you have chosen?
THE LASHES: Never! I think that a lot of people from Seattle judge us harshly because we don't take ourselves too seriously and we like music, we like our music and lots of music from the northwest, but we're not like shoegazey types that like feeling comfortable all the time. We're a very public bunch of guys and we like being seen and heard around town and we've caught a lot of shit for it. The thing is, we're not hating. Everyone's still invited to the big party. The whole damn city. Even the Republicans.
LG: Who’d you rather? Meg Ryan in Sleepless in Seattle or Bridget Fonda in Singles.
THE LASHES: Who’d I rather do it with? Definitely Meg Ryan, because she’s quirky and is the bigger celebrity. And the neurotic, codependent but strangely appealing Bridget Fonda character - well that just hits a little too close to home.
LG: Like a lot of Rock bands, you guys have gone through a ton of drummers. We were wondering if you could explain to us why drummers, as a general rule, are kind of, well, freaks? Also, for a super fantastic bonus prize could you tell us the names and reasons for leaving the Lashes of all 11 drummers?
THE LASHES: I don't know!! There should be a disorder called "drummer drama" in the DSM. It would be characterized by unpredictable fits of poor decision making and a serious inferiority complex. It's like, you should be happy about being the drummer! Holding down the fort! All of the glory none of the pressure! Seriously. I have to admit that I can't remember all the drummers we've ever had. I know it's sad, but let's just say that between the one that left us for the cult (not the band The Cult, just some cult) and the one that left us for Warrant... well that's just all that has to be said isn't it. Mike is a great drummer. He's super laid back and has a cool mom.
LG: Rumor has it that on your current tour you’re having a couple of good ol’ drinking contests. We here at LiquidGeneration are quite proud of our drinking prowess and would be happy to sit down and have a couple bottles (each) of Makers with the band when you come through our lovely town. First though, we were curious as to the most a single member of the band has consumed (booze only!) in one “session?”
THE LASHES: Makers is dangerous stuff! We don't do anything but tequila as a group, just as a general band rule because everything else gets us in a lot of trouble. With tequila, there's just the run-of-the-mill civil disobedience and disturbing the peace, but last time whiskey was in the mix... well let's just say some animals got hurt. And Nate accidentally married a waitress from OklahomaI don't think we ever measure how much we drink because that would take away from our desire to be serious artists.
LG: What are you most excited for in 2006? Is it world domination, or will you be happy just to make it through a year of touring without killing one another? THE LASHES: We’re all best friends so no one would ever be afraid of losing their life. We’re definitely excited about the new ‘GET IT’ coming out. We’re so excited that we don’t care about anything else right now. We’ve all stopped showering and eating because we’re too busy staring at the clock.
LG: If you had to make a choice, would you rather never record another song or never play live again and why?
THE LASHES: I know I’m supposed to say that we only want to tour and tour forever because first and foremost the music is the most important thing. But if we really could choose our fate, we would become so rich and famous from the album that we could stop playing shows for people who had to pay and start throwing notorious parties where we would bust out with our instruments and play and unplanned show wherever we want whenever we want to whoever we wanted to listen. Like we’d be on an airplane to Japan and like some fanatic girls would be like "play a show on this Boeing!" And we’d be like “hell yeah!” and then the pilots would put the plane on auto and all the old stiffies would stand up and get in on the fun because they wouldn't be able to help themselves. Then Britney Spears would serve me a nice cold beverage. Playing shows for like fifty bucks a ticket is so 2002. We’re not striving for fame so much as infamy.
LG: Finally, do you ever get sick of all the damn hippies in Seattle?
THE LASHES: We’re not going to hate on Seattle because there are so many reasons to love it and we want the support of all locals here, including the dirty hippies. If it weren’t for the hippies in this town, Seattle would be even more overpopulated and overexposed of a city than it already is. I’m surpised that you’re not asking about the snobby hipsters. Now that’s a group to hate on. Goddamn dirty hipsters, taking all the cool jobs and buying up all the leg warmers in town. It’s like, go away already.
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