Cath: For the record can you state your name.
Josh: Josh Partington

Sara: : What's your inspiration behind Firescape?
Josh: umm. [pause] That's a good question. Hold on. That's a Redbull question. [sips red bull] I think what it was when Something Corporate… the last few albums that we did we did very much on the heels of each other. And thankfully with that band both Andrew and myself are very prolific guys like we write…you know when someone steps on our foot we write a song about it. You know so and I think for a very short period of time in the beginning of that band that was a very frustrating thing for both of us but I think we have come to really see how that is a great thing because there is just so many good things that come out of it like nobody is saddle with this entire idea of like I have to be the guy that writes the hit or in that sense like you never have writer’s block when it’s him and I, I think partially because it’s like we feel like we are never pressured to be that guy because the other one is there. And I talk with my hands by the way it doesn’t go on tape. And so I think that when we…. I am really long winded at explaining things. When we went and did….we were talking about doing another album and we said well maybe now is not a good time. I’ve been writing like a lot of really rock stuff at the time and I was like okay this isn’t really Something Corporate stuff and I have always kinda been that guy in Something Corporate anyways that guy who writes the rock songs not that like Andrew or myself never went into each other’s realm but like I think if you were to label us and so I kinda was like… right before we went to Australia with the Offspring which was about a little of a year ago I said listen you know I am going to go and do these songs I don’t know what is going to happen with it but we’ll see how it comes out and I think the entire band was just really really tired we just toured and toured and toured off of North and before that we had no break between North and Leaving Through The Window so we were just like this isn’t how it is supposed to be and so I think that if you ask kinda Andrew the same thing the real inspiration about it was we both him and I needed a break from playing Something Corporate song and I think we needed to write songs and play songs that for him I think he didn’t necessarily want to write Something Corporate songs for a little bit. I didn’t want to write Something Corporate songs, not that we have a problem with it just to kinda get our head out of it you know and I think that now when we go back in to do another record I it will be a really… I think that everything is going to benefit from it, it was never like a… it’s a good thing to be stated it was never like a fuck you I am going to do this on my own. It was never that ever you know a little bit of it is I am really frustrated with being here not necessarily personally just because we have spent so much time consecutively together I think that all of us… it was definitely frustration the best way to let that out was through a different musical outlet. Now like going back into it you know I think it did exactly what it needed to do you know. The Firescape album isn’t going to be like this huge like 20 times platinum album you know though you have dreams with that I’m kinda okay with that being the way it is because I am really proud of it and in a way… I think that… I’m really happy because I think... I am so long in answering questions but like I’m like really proud of everything that I have done musically in my career and on different levels and I think that like with this kinda under my belt it kinda shows like a breathe of like wow like I’m very proud of myself with saying like wow like I really kinda went through different genre and different kinda like idea and I think that and did them well.

Cath: What sorta hopes and things do you want to have accomplished with having Firescape?
Josh: I think that…. you know really like obviously those change all the time. But I think that personally I just want it to be… I think that I have kinda already gotten there with it to…. I really just wanted a lot of people to kinda discover it be like wow it’s almost kinda like being the indie hero you know you kinda want to be the guy that’s like why was that band never big. You know and like I kinda you know I have no problem with if Firescape ever became that. Like if the next Something Corporate album does really really well and this is the only time that Firescape was really it’s thing it’d be really fine with that because I think it’s kinda like this cool thing that I put a lot of heart into and that I feel like I accomplished you know and so like everything on top of this is like gravy. People… every person that comes up and says man I really really like this I am like wow like nobody helped me do this like I did this. I mean like well take that back take that back scratch that like a lot of people helped me do it but like it wasn’t like this there was never like a major label behind it there was never like a big thing just something that was like real like break out for me so it’s like cool every person that finds out about it I can kinda take full credit for and that’s kinda awesome you know.

Sara: : So I’ve been reading you’re like online blog and there it says you’re recording so what should fans except for the new CD like more of your EP?
Josh: No the only songs for the EP are His Midas Touch and Postcards those are the only two that are going to come and if you’ve seen the show live it’s like a lot of… I think the only song that from the EP tonight... oh we are playing two songs from the EP tonight but um it’s a lot more kinda hard rock it’s a little bit but you know it kinda flows you know. I think that it’s you know again I’m just really proud of it. It’s a really catchy rock CD. I think that people who really like the Foo Fighters will like this CD. And honestly like there was a brief moment when people were like you know there was a thought of it being major label album and stuff like that you know everybody was oh like it’s a Foo Fighter’s album and blah blah blah blah blah you know and that the thing that I hear the most it’s very I think that it’s very akin to like a rock and roll Foo Fighter’s album you know big catchy chorus but rock.

Cath: What’s the one artist that you think has made an unforgettable contribution to music?
Josh: Beck. Easily Beck. He’s probably arguably the only artist that was able to really successfully cross genres back and forth. He puts out this somber song writer CD that’s Sea Change and he comes back with like Guero the full like almost hip hop and he keeps doing that he did that with Mutation and Odelay before that and then what’s the that Sexx Laws is on Tropicalia no something like that I can’t remember anyways but you know it’s like all the CDs they go back and forth one is almost a dance CD and then one is like this singer song writer poem deep moving CD you know and so I’d say that Beck easily of especially of recent is the best example of anybody who has done that who has contributed to music.

Sara: : So when you like meet and fan and they say that you have helped them a lot through your music and basically saved their life and showed them like music and everything like what’s your reaction to that?
Josh: I think that’s awesome but at the same you can’t look into it too much because then you start like you get this…I think that you take it for what it’s wroth and you feel flattered by it but it’s kinda like and I think you should always feel good about it but not too great about it because you don’t want to start thinking that you are the person that saving someone’s life. Cause you’re not. As much as like people are like oh your music has really touched and stuff like that I have to believe that just for their sake that if I didn’t make music somebody else would have filled that void. You know and so though like I am very thankfully that I have you know I had a part of it you know you don’t want to turn into have a God complex you know you need to take everything kind of a little bit lightly when it comes to that but it’s awesome you know when you hear someone say that that’s a big thing you know.

Cath: If you could be anyone dead or alive for a day who would you chose to be?
Josh: umm probably Brad Pitt. He’s hot. Like that’d be kinda cool I mean if it’s only for a day I mean yeah
Cath: You get Angelina Jolie
Josh: Not because of that. For a day like you know if it was for a year a couple years you’d choose someone who could like really change the world but no one is going to change the world in a day. Chose the hot guy who could get any girl he wants.

Sara: : Alright so what like do you think is the main thing wrong with the music scene right now?
Josh: I don’t think there is anything wrong with the music scene. Kids are listening to music what’s wrong with that you know like you could say like there’s shitty bands on the radio but there have always been shitty bands on the radio. Deal with it. And I think it’s probably better off now because kids are going to places other than the radio to find music because they are fed up with it. So it’s like now that like I would say now radio has so little to do with music now.
Sara: and Josh: I don’t ever listen to the radio.
Cath: If I listen to the radio I listen to oldies.
Josh: Yeah like seriously though okay cool and I think that is part of just the way your life is you start getting older and you don’t listen to things you don’t like anymore. You become less hip unfortunately and you know like that’s the point. Kids are going to the internet more and more to get music like purevolume and myspace and all that stuff. That’s the new radio kids spend more time going on myspace then they do going on the radio. Like people used to sit in their room and listen to the radio now they sit in their computer and go on myspace visit friends and all that.
Sara: That’s my life.
Josh: You know and that’s what you do and like cool. Rock on. You know and I think that’s like the point that it’s what you spend your time doing. A lot of people say oh no one is making good music anymore no one is making good music anymore. That’s old people talking like I can tell you like you know 3 to 4 CD I have bought in the last year that have changed my life. And so it’s like sweet how can you say that the music scene sucks. You can’t.

Cath: And on that note, what bands are you currently listening to?
Josh: I am a huge Death Cab For Cutie fan. So the new CD I don’t think is as good as Transatlanticism. But it’s still really good. And there some songs on there that are just breath taking. You were saying you read my blog there’s that from Brother's on a Hotel Bed I was like that is just one of the most beautifully written songs. I think that the imagery in that song is just so vivid and if I could have ever written a song I wish I almost wish it was that one. But there is the guy named Mike Doughty who I am a big fan of he used to be the lead singer of Soul Coughing and he just came out with a solo CD called Haughty Melodic which is really weird that’s it one of my favorite CD’s because it’s a very happy CD it’s like the whole it’s kinda like a very like if I were to describe a CD it would be like CD that is about yeah life is messed up but it’s really beautiful and that’s the way life is supposed to be and you find joy in it. And it’s you know and this is another quote from that thing this song called Sunken Eyed Girl and it’s all about him like digging these girls in life but it’s a real happy song and it’s like there is this line it is “Sunken-eyed girl on Delancey Street bulletproof glass in the KFC to keep the man safe in his paper hat keep the wrong hands off the biscuit fortune.” And it’s like this really hilarious thing he is just like talking about a KFC and you’re like what a fucking awesome thing. And it’s like poetic the way he puts it you gotta look at the song it’s like my favorite song right now. But yeah like definitely Mike Doughty the new Eels album is really sad but really good. The new Beck yeah I’d had to say Beck, Mike Doughty, Death Cab. Um yeah.

Sara: : Okay if you could have any superpower what would it be and why?
Josh: That’s hilarious I was talking about that today
Sara: Really?
Josh: Yeah I was talking about this with my good friend Candice we were talking about you don’t ever want to she was saying that she would want to read people’s minds and I was like I wouldn’t I would never want to because no you would look at your dad and hear him like go oh look at the rack on that girl. And that’d like freak you and it would like suck and then you what’s the mystery of dating? There is none you like know. So I think if I and so we came to the conclusion or I came to at least my conclusion I wanted to be able to jump as high as I can or like just jump 15 feet because it’s like one of those superpowers that not like really that outstanding but it’s really cool but it’s like Hey what’s up [pretends to jump on the building] I just jumped to the top of that roof. And you are like oh sick that guy just jumped to the roof I’m going to you know like life goes on. You gotta put that whole story in there.
Sara: I will I’ll do the motions too.
Josh: Yeah, Yeah. Put that whole story in there.
Sara: I think we were talking about that today too. The superpower with our drama teacher about how you would want to like just take someone’s being able to remove things.
Josh: Yeah.

Cath: I want the potato ability be able to turn into a potato when ever you wanted. Alright anyways if you were stranded on a desert island what 3 things would you bring with you and you can’t bring anything to get off the island because that’s cheating.
Josh: Yeah that is so cheating. I’d bring a full iPod
Sara: What size?
Josh: Like 100 whatever is the biggest one.
Sara: The video...
Josh:Yeah the video. Yeah with like an entire season of 6 Feet Under on it. The other thing I would bring is a poetry anthology because there’s like thousands of poems in it so you can like always feel like you are reading something new and it’s not the same story you know I wouldn’t read the same book. I would read poetry anthology. And... I would bring... hmmm and a bounce house.
Sara: Totally.
Josh: Yeah bounce houses are awesome. I would bring a bounce house.
Cath: You’d never get bored.

Sara: : What’s your favorite cartoon character.
[Brian walks up to talks to Josh and to tell him sound check is in 10 minutes]
Josh: So what?
Sara: What’s your favorite cartoon character?
Josh: Troy McClure from The Simpsons.

Cath: Is there anything else you wanna say?
Sara: ...To the Internet world
Josh: That’s it. Thank you guys so much.
Sara: Thank you.
Josh: Sweet.