184:"So a lot of the freshmen had the same classes. My very first was this drawing class. Sam was in that class. Later that day, I had these sunglasses I used to wear. They were the Back to the Future shades. Neon yellow and neon orange and kind of an odd shape. I used to wear them all the time. I was walking across campus and Sam showed up and said, "Hey man, cool shades." He had really thick sideburns. They framed his face. It was almost a full beard. There was a little bit under the chin. "Cool sideburns man!" We found out that we were going to the same class. Pretty much immediately we started talking about music and ideas."
216:"Then, right before Christmas vacation after the end of the first semester of school, we had this strange idea for a performance group that would be based around this character Locke Ernstfrost. The idea was kind of a group that was more of a performance art piece, like a social commentary on how we treat rock stars and pop icons — art stars. Just how society treats them, kind of idolizes them even though they seem to be often very narcissistic or just full of themselves."
355:, so it all kind of came from those sounds... We were just using what we had at our disposal to create, and that were old Casio and Yamaha keyboards and a borrowed bass guitar, borrowed amps. We scraped together what we could to make music with, weird shakers and sound makers and stuff, and that just kind of lead us down a road. These kinds of things defined us early on and we kept with that sound, kept painting with that palette."
222:"We were going through different old classic art pieces. I kept saying stuff like, "I don't really like this piece. I don't care!" Sam was like, "We need to learn this!" My friend Kristen had come to pick me up, and she was, like, saying how I was being an art lord. Sam's roommate Ryan was laughing his ass off. I brought up the idea of having a project called Art Lord & the Self-Portraits."
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235:"I had never played music with anyone. I had always played alone. So I came over and I brought my guitar. They were just jamming around and playing stuff. But it didn't really work out very well. But there were a lot of extra keyboards lying around, so I started playing on one."
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