July 2009
28 posts
The Hardest Question You've Ever Answered (Unless...
Who is your favorite member of Interpol?
MTV : You Hear It First
Carlos: Dan was, like, hitting on me in class one day.
Dan: I was like 'You gonna use that pen? Huh? You gonna use it? You gonna use that pen?'
MTV Interview
Interviewer: Choose one - Sex, Drugs, or Rock N Roll
Carlos: Well what kind of drugs are you talking about? And what kind of sex are you talking about??
Sam: I would have to say Rock N Roll.
Paul: I'm going to say drugs.
Sam: Because drugs let you down, sex lets you down, but music does't.
Paul: I changed my mind, I say Rock N Roll.
Sam: No, you can't!
Carlos: ::roguish smile:: No comment.
Dan: No comment.
October/November 2002 issue of Magnet
‘We’re not going anywhere,’ Banks sternly counters. ‘Go get something to eat.’ (For the past week Banks has been trying to get the rest of the band to refer to Dengler as ‘Shamu.’ Why? ‘No reason,” says Banks. ‘It just occured to me to start calling him that.’ This of course, drives Dengler insane.)
(LATER IN THE ARTICLE)
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“As soon as we pulled up to the club and I got a look at the gothic lettering and...”
– Carlos (such a goth)
Watchof course everyone knows all the words
Interview : Unknown
Interviewer: Like you said about the disadvantages of not having your anonymity, of someone already thinking that they know you?
Carlos: Exactly.
Paul: And I might be ignoring the disadvantages, basically.
Carlos: But you're a loser and you don't talk to anyone, so you don't really come into contact with people.
“I put a lot of stock in Carlos’s moustache. I thought when I first saw it...”
– Daniel
“There was nothing attractive around. You wouldn’t want to go to any of the...”
– Sam (about recording in Connecticut)
NYC
The song that makes us think “god, this...
Paul Banks Solo Project
To the Paul Banks fans (but who isn’t a fan, really?), he’s going to be putting out an album under the name Julian Plenti. I’ve heard a bit of it, and it’s not exactly my cup of tea, but then again they might have been demos. The album is called Julian Plenti Is…Skyscraper and will be out August 4th, so check it out then!
“I take my image very seriously, more than the others members of Interpol. If I...”
– Carlos
May 2009
24 posts
mind over time
NARC (Paul Bank’s Remix)
Interview : Pitchfork
Sam: I think underneath the Williamsburg Bridge somewhere.
Daniel: He was just a poor little hobo, he was just like banging on cans and stuff, we were like, "Sammy come here," and we just lured him away a bottle of Jameson to get him out of there.
Sam: Jameson, and a joint.
Interview : Unknown
Interviewer: What about "Precipitate"?
Paul: We haven't done "Precipitate" since the release of the record, but there's definitely a chance for "Seven" to make an appearance on this tour. "Specialist" definitely.
Interviewer: Why the shun on "Precipitate"?
Carlos: Because it sucks.
Interviewer: You don't like it as a song? There's a moment in "Precipitate" I love.
Paul: Thanks. I think some of us like to think the whole song is good!
“time away from me, will get you down”
– specialist
precipitate
From : Pitchfork Interview
Paul: Daniel has no annoying habits whatsoever.
Carlos: Oh yes he does!
Paul: Well, he is so on top of shit that it's annoying. When you pull into the town and you want to get out of bed and go to the hotel room, Daniel is always fuckin' there first, he's never fuckin' hungover ...
Carlos: He has like five hundred different vitamins in his bag.
Interviewer: So Daniel's annoying habit is that he has none?
Paul: Well he's annoying in the sense that he's so squeaky clean. And it pisses me off that when you wake up and you feel like shit and he's like, "Oh yeah, I walked into the town this morning, I checked my e-mail, I did some dry cleaning ..." And I'm like, fuck, I've got twenty minutes before sound check.
Carlos: Yeah, when you can't open up one eye through the haze, he's already done ten things.
“There’s something that’s invisible, there’s something you...”
– lyrics from Stella Was a Diver (at the way end of the song)
