MTX
From Erik Smolin
Have any of you out there ever had your heart broken? Not a broken heart, I mean has someone stuck their cold lifeless hands deep into your chest only to rip out your innocent heart and show it to you while it's still beating. No reason, no logic- just lies, deceit and trickery. They say they need space. "I need space, things are going too fast, let's start over and just take things slow," they say. Bullshit! They need to clear their damn conscience because they were fuckin' someone else behind your back.
Well, me and the MTX boys rapped about that ever so resilient topic-LOVE. Maybe because they just released a kick-ass new album on Lookout! Records all about girls and boys called Love Is Dead, or maybe just because there really isn't anything quite like exchanging devastating break up stories in the back of a dive over a couple of brews.
Erik: So this Love Is Dead thing, is it really dead? What made you guys decide to write about love?
Dr. Frank: (Dr. Frank is the lead singer, guitarist, chiefsongwriter and all around good egg of the MTX) Well how much time you got? I've been and stayed at the "Heartbreak Hotel".
Erik: Okay I'll start off. Check this, I had two girlfriends, count `em TWO, and both of `em left me for my best buds. A four year relationship, down the tubes and then a year long relationship.
Dr. Frank: I had a girlfriend who had a multiple personality disorder. I discovered half way after going out with her that the personality I was going out with was a five year old girl.
Erik: You pedophile!
Dr. Frank: Well you know, I don't know if that would stand up in a court of law, but that was definitely the weirdest.
Erik: In general how was the relationship? No-wait tell me about some of the other personalities.
Dr. Frank: The little girl, a seventeen year old lesbian...
Erik: That would have been cool.
Dr. Frank: In some ways it was cool, and then their was one who was in her twenties and a seventy-six year old woman.
Erik: I had a girl who had two personalities.
Dr. Frank: Two? Yeah two is...well one is hard enough...
Joel: (Joel is the bass-master of the mighty MTX, only 18 years old and a funny guy) I have yet to master one, I can only imagine the complications arising from more than one.
Erik: All right Joel-man what about you, have you been tossed? Have any input lyrically?
Joel: Lyrically speaking, I can't say that my romantic woes yet have contributed to the material for the band. But I certainly have been done wrong in my time.
Erik: Let's hear it.
Joel: No particularly juicy stuff, just things broken off. Once, well nothing really interesting. (Disturbingly long pause) Wait I might get in trouble for saying this.
Erik: Don't worry I won't tell anyone. (Good cover, huh?)
Joel: A girl once dumped me to return to her ex-boyfriend who she said she was still in love with. She said she was pregnant with his love child. (Yikes) That one really hurt. I had the proverbial heart ripped out of my chest and stuff like that but I don't want to place blame. Things like this are a little bit too close to home.
Jym: (Jym is the wild man. The frantic drum thumpin' beatster of the MTX and also nervous around reporters) Well, now that you've talked about it with us don't you feel better?
Joel: Why yes, I feel closer to everyone here.
Erik and the MTX: (SIGH)
Dr. Frank: Disappointment, heartbreak wishing you were dead-it's all a part of growing up.
Erik: "You're The Only One", who wrote that tune? That's a really cool song. I think I'll call up my new girlie and leave that on her answering machine.
Dr. Frank: If the relationship spoils, that's the cool thing about our songs-they are recyclable.
Joel: Reduce, recycle, re-use.
Erik: So anyone else have a good fucked-over story? Jym, I know you've been fired.
Jym: I don't have a good fucked over story.
Joel: Jym's being modest, I know for a fact Jym's been fucked over.
Jym: Who hasn't, it's all the same you know. Girls leave you for someone else, that's always the case. When a girl leaves you, it is always for someone else, at least in my case.
Joel: If they say different-they're lying.
Erik: What about relationships now?
Dr. Frank: I have one now, could you believe it?
Erik: Normal personalities? How long?
Dr. Frank: It been off and on, but about a whole six weeks now. It has been a rollercoaster. I met her on tour in England.
Erik: Is she European?
Dr. Frank: Yep.
Erik: Does she shave?
Dr. Frank: Yes, she shaves. She's a real cutie! She's out there right now. (I got a look at her during the show and well...Frank's a lucky guy)
Erik: I saw you guys out there with a few cuties, was she the blonde?
Joel: That's my sister.
Erik: OOPS.
Joel: Hey man, that was my sister you were...
Erik and MTX: (Much more group laughter)
Erik: What about you there Joel?
Joel: I'm just sorta relishing my sort of freedom. I wouldn't say it was a freedom, because it resulted from emotional devastation. I'm not sure if it can be accurately described as freedom, you know. I am currently uninvolved and that is an emotional necessity for me. (I think old Joel is suffering from a case of the broken hearties)
Dr. Frank: Larry told me, Lawrence Livermore at Lookout! Records, claimed that he engineered the whole break up - the last break up, so the record would be better. When he found out that I was back together with her, he said were gonna have to pay her off again so that you could come up with more good songs. I'm not sure if I should believe him. So afterwards I went up to my girlfriend and asked her if it was true. She wouldn't say yes or no. Just a little smile in a mysterious way. So she could be raking it in from Lawrence Livermore who is trying to keep me productively unhappy.
Joel: Well the rest of us are much richer for it.
Erik: I am like in that prenatal stage of a relationship.
Dr. Frank: Prenatal?
Erik: Yeah, well maybe prenatal isn't the right word for it, no pregnancy or anything like that, I mean the beginning, birth - I just met her and I think she's rad. Any last loving words?
Dr. Frank: Love is like oxygen. You get too much, you get too high. Not enough and you die. Love gets you high.