SuburbanHorror: So, how was your first day on Warped Tour?

Shawn Harris: My first day on Warped Tour? Well this year. This would be my 120th day. We played two years before. So 120, probably wrong addition, solution, but you get the idea. First day this year, feels like about a month. Forgot to put on some sunscreen. I’m wearing my mom’s blazer because I got a blazer tailored, or tried to do one myself and completely ruined it. So I went to get one tailored to my size, and it was like $200 bucks! So, I tried on my mom’s and it fit just like my tailored one. So I stared stealing my mom’s coats, and I cut my own hair, because I can’t afford that either right now. But, we’re in a bus! Can I just underline, asterisk, and exclamation point that sentence. We are in a bus!

SH: So, how did you move into the bus from the van last year?

S: We didn’t do Warped that year, we did it two years ago. We shared a bus that year. The first year, we were on a van. We slept every 48 hours and nearly died on the freeway trying to follow buses at the middle of the night. Everybody had fallen asleep on the wheel at some point or another. I think they call it micro sleep. That was not a good scene. Warped Tour is a lot more fun when you have a sleeping pattern. Not that I have a sleeping pattern, which is perhaps part of my problem anyhow. But, I’m glad to be out here this year. How’s that for platitude!?

SH: So you guys have changed your sound from "E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals" to your latest album. What do you attribute your change to? Maturity or"? They’re both really good albums.

S: Change in character. I wonder if our albums will keep having saving sound shifts, more dramatic than any other band sound shifts. I don’t think, I wonder if we’ll keep having those as we get past the formidable changing ages of ones life. I just turned 25, maybe we’ll grow into some skin, or perhaps we won’t. We actually just finished recording our new record. It really doesn’t sound anything like our other two records again, so" It’s unintentional; it’s kind of the songs that we write. I look at a lot of music, both new and old, it kind of seems like the more new bands come out the more old bands I find out about that I never knew about. I would describe myself as an impressionable fan of other music.

SH: What other music have you listened to recently?

S: I don’t think we had a genre. I got really into Bob Dylan while we were beginning recording our next record, which kind of manifested itself in the video for "Salty Eyes II," which we shot in January, which was a reference to the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" music video of Bob Dylan’s song. So, yeah we just had a new video out of us dropping televisions, with the lyrics of the song on them, much like Dylan did with the cue cards - it’s kind of a modern version of the idea. So, Bob Dylan. I like Circa Survive; I like that they are on the tour.

SH: Have you got to talk to them? I just talked to Anthony today.

S: Oh cool! I haven’t met Anthony. I’m in a book club with Collin, their guitar player, so me and Collin argue about books online. It’s the Spin.Com book club; this month he chose this book called "The Cosmic Serpent." It’s about DNA and the origin of knowledge. So, I kind of, I wrote my critique of the book, and I wrote my argument.

SH: I think he’s making Anthony read that now. (Reader’s note: Sorry I messed up. It was hot and a long day. Anthony was reading another book about knowledge, sue me.) Because, I asked Anthony what he was reading, and he said "The Cosmic Serpent."

S: Oh that’s cool. Yeah, I like to read. It was funny, I just finished that. I read it in one night; it was pretty quick read. It’s not a novel; it’s like scientific theory kind of. It’s funny because last night I was showing the guys in the band, "Look what I just wrote! And look what Collin wrote back." And our guitar tech was like, "Which guy from Circa Survive are you talking to?" "COLLIN!" "That’s weird he just text messaged our friend in the next room." I didn’t even know she knew him, and so I went in the room and grabbed her phone and called him up. And, I continued the argument on the phone. He was like, "Wait, who is this? Is this Sean from the Matches?" Yeah, I think were going to be friends.

SH: So the big debate this year won’t be the religious debate between Underoath and NoFX. It will be the book debate between the Matches and Circa Survive.

S: We have a little of the religious debate in the book club. It surfaces, you know.

SH: So how do you stay cool wearing all those layers?

S: Well it’s hot anyway. So what’s a few degrees?

SH: So what do you guys do on the tour bus when you have nothing to do?

S: I’m animating a music video for the Matches for the song, "Little Maggots." I have to have that done like, now; I have about 100 hours left to go.

SH: So this summer, that’s pretty much it for you.

S: That’s right.

SH: So what do the other guys do? Do you watch a lot of movies, play a lot of video games?

S: I prefer TV shows to movies, to be honest, lately.

SH: What does are you really into?

S: Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm.

SH: I haven’t seen Curb Your Enthusiasm, but every one says I’d like it.

S: Yeah. It’s kind of like a mix between Arrested Development and Seinfeld. But, it’s Showtime, it’s not like Seinfield - they can go farther. I like David Lynch, I like Twin Peaks. I just found the second season online that streams for free.

-Magic Stick Mish