not normie enough to fit in but not fringe enough to lean into being a freak, worst of both worlds, pure liminality, just the weird coworker, and unrelatable classmate. and your mutual
[on how the reunion happened] “It was a barbecue. We did an MCR barbecue in 2017 just to get the kids together, and we hadn’t seen each other for like…two years, something like that… And um, we just kinda hung out. We didn’t play any music, we didn’t do anything like that. We were just like, ‘Why don’t we hang out anymore?’ It just took some time, you know?
“And I think maybe a year later, we got the barbecue together again, and then we played some music. And it was really fun. And I probably have a phone recording of it, somewhere, just for us. No one will ever see. But that was the first time we played anything, and we played, like maybe five or six songs…just jamming. And I think our wives were there…it was in California, at Gee’s house.
“It was nerve-wracking, like, going into it. ‘Cause it’s like, we’re friends again, we’re in each others’ lives again, but we haven’t made notes, we haven’t made noise together. Like, that could change the dynamic. Do you want to sacrifice the good…what we have now..? And it just ended up being the best thing in the world, so we were like, “Oh, this is really awesome. We should do this. This is really fun to do.
“The two years of just…kinda talking and dancing around it, and then we really, I think, decided in 2019—if we were ever going to do it, we had to do it that year because that was the shot call. We did the reunion show, and then we were like, ‘This would be fun to do again and again, if we did it on our own terms.’ We’ve been really lucky to be able to do it the way we do it.”
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