Senses Fail - Buddy Nielsen

Yeah we’ve never been there before. Can you get every different kind of weed there?

I don’t know. I can’t really do that stuff anymore because my brain freaks out now. I might do it but I’m not planning on it.

High school [laughs]. I did a bunch of good stuff there.

Maybe it’s because we’re young or maybe it’s that we don’t give a shit. We’ve done lots of stupid things where we really haven’t been consciously thinking that we might give our band a bad name. When you’re on tour and young you don’t really think about that shit. Also when you are put in a situation where it’s a free for all you don’t think about that shit. I think we’ve calmed down and been a bit more mature.

Music wise everyone is always going to talk shit. I think it’s funny. We recently got a thing in Rolling Stone which called us new faces and kids were telling us that they thought that sucked. I like making people unhappy with our success. All these people can talk shit but we will still have kids come to our shows and really like it. I don’t have to sit around listening to people who have bad things to say because they’re jealous of us.

Yeah and that’s why they’re critics.

I used to a lot just because I was bored but now I really don’t care. I would really just not deal with that stuff because I don’t want to see any negativity.

Yeah that’s going to be really great. I heard it’s intense over there and they treat anything American like it’s the greatest thing in the world. It’s probably the only country left in the world that still loves America. I like America but I don’t like certain things about it.

I find that people from New Jersey have a bit of a different sense of humor. I know that because our senses of humor have gotten us in trouble. The northeast has this pessimistic humorous outlook on life that’s like live fast and don’t give a fuck about anything. We’re miserable in the most happy of happiest ways.

Musically we came up listening to a lot of local bands which got big like Saves the Day and Thursday. It’s such a good local scene.

Yeah on my hand. It’s a winged bomb with skull and crossbones.

I have about 22. I got my whole chest with skull and crossbones with daggers. One of my favorite ones is a gravestone that says FUCK YOU with a zombie hand coming out of it. I got a pinup girl and a martini glass with a girl’s legs coming out of it then a snake eating out the girl. My neck has a girl’s face with a crossbones behind it.

He was huge influence on my lyrics, my attitude and everything. I always liked his pessimistic romanticism while living this lifestyle of being an asshole alcoholic slob. I like that idea of finding complete fulfillment in your life through a miserable lifestyle. The successes you have are so much sweeter because you have such a hard life. I was always into the beat writers’ lifestyle of traveling and living out of your suitcase.

I find Bukowski to be less depressing and more realistic. He wasn’t afraid to speak his mind about anything but at the same time he also had these little hints of happiness in these poems he wrote. I felt that if this guy could write something with that feeling in it then I could as well.

Those girls are awesome. I’ve only met one and her name was Autumn. I’d definitely like to hang out with some SuicideGirls and I think the rest of the band would feel the same way.

Yeah I’m just messing with you but if I didn’t have a girlfriend I’d be trying to hang with SuicideGirls. Even though SuicideGirls is tasteful, I just love porn, it’s my hobby. I know a lot about porn. It’s like collecting baseball cards.

by Daniel Robert Epstein

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