Page 31What's exciting you at the minute outside music? Honestly, music is my life init - no corny shit. There's this band from Ireland called Some Images of Paradise. I don't think I've ever been so excited about a group of musicians. There's a band from London called Hitmen who are really, really fucking sick. It's like if The Strokes and Dinosaur Jr. had a baby. And Novelist of course!
Page 39B: Definitely that visual aspects film 100 percent, even pictures sometimes. Books, I've been absolutely just fucking blown away by the writing of Cormac McCarthy. I'm reading All The Pretty Horses at the moment, just the turn of phrase, a way of describing something. In the moment when I'm reading the book, I don't read a passage or get an image of something or get a sense or a feeling and run to the guitar. But what it does is it instils something in a deeper place and then in the dead of the night when you're sitting actually working on something all of these things colour your mind. I definitely get my meat and potatoes of inspiration out of spiritual stuff, the Bible, two pillars of good and evil. What happens in a person's heart. S: That's why I think like our relationships between each other, being what they are, it's so crucial to the creation.
Page 47Z: I think Nina's just got a very distinct voice that she uses in her writing, and that's just something that was there from the beginning and probably won't be going away anytime soon. We've also been struggling with a ton of venues closing in the last couple years, so we have some really great events that happen but it's not like there's always a tonne of music and touring acts stopping in Burlington. We're just lucky we have a lot of creative friends who are awesome and supportive here.