Brandon Curtis Quotations

We experienced a deconstruction of our personal lives. Coming home to a familiar setting and being alien to it created a sense of isolation from the people we're close to. There were all these invisible barriers that were tough to reach through. So we ended up with songs like 'Alone, Jealous, and Stoned,' about how our emotions propel us toward these conflicts and away from the people we love.

But for an agency the size of Corvallis, they are advanced, relatively speaking.

He was a good guy and a good worker. We were all shocked. He was great to work with and we all enjoyed his company. He was a good man.

Passengers will know that if there is a problem on the bus, the driver isn't disconnected from help.

There was no effort to abandon any aesthetic or embrace a new one this time around. But the songs are more 'song-y,' perhaps because they were honed out on the road. There's something about the immediacy of performing in front of an audience, as opposed to a performance in your own head...what you do can be shaped by the reaction you get from the crowd.