The Academy Is…
William Beckett & Adam T. “Sisky” Siska
Warped Tour, Carson, California
August 17, 2008
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A2SSteph: So how do you guys feel about your new record [Fast Times at Ridgemont High] coming out on Tuesday?
Adam: Couldn’t feel better.
A2SSteph: Really?
William: Really excited.
Adam: Very excited. Ginks
William: I said really excited.
Adam: Very and really…
A2SSteph: It’s a little different. There’s a variation, you know?
William: A “very”-ation ha ha ha… A2SSteph: (laughter) Gotcha! Anyway… how do you guys feel about the fact that it leaked? Are you guys kind of sad about it?
William & Adam: We did it ourselves, people just didn’t know.
A2SSteph: You did it yourselves? Really? I didn’t know that.
Adam: We knew that it would probably leak within this week anyway, so we just wanted to be in control of that.
A2SSteph: So you’re just like “We’re going to let it go”?
Adam: We gave it to our friends to listen to it. We hope that they like it.
A2SSteph: That’s pretty cool.
William:Yeah. We had contest winners and we gave each one of them a different song. Um… a widget of a different song, which I just recently found out what a widget is.
A2SSteph: You learn that in econ[omics]. It’s like just look at a…
Adam: A widget is a female midget. Right? Like a women midget.
A2SSteph: (laughter)
William: Uh…No Adam, no.
A2SCatharine: I don’t think midget is the correct term. I think it’s “small person”.
Adam: Ah! Whatever, it’s midget. (laughter)
William: Or dwarf?
A2SSteph: I think that’s like an actual term though. That’s like the disease “dwarfism“, right?
William: Yeah, dwarf.
A2SSteph: I don’t know, is that correct to say “disease“?
Adam: I saw that movie ‘Little Man’.
William: Midget is also right. You know it’s also a “little man”, right?
Adam: Yeah, a “little man”. The Waynes Brothers.
William: Little people.
A2SSteph: Yeah, little people. That sounds good. So are you guys excited to take off for Aussie Land?
William: Yes!
Adam: Yes! It’s amazing, just a couple of hours.
A2SSteph: Yeah? Kind of crazy flight, gnarly. How long is it?
Adam: I am looking forward to it.
A2SSteph: Yeah?
Adam: 15 hours. Something like that. I’m looking forward to it because I can sit down for like 15 hours and do nothing, which is one of my favorite past times.
A2SSteph: Pretty cool. Sleeping maybe?
Adam: Yeah! Sleeping, movies…
A2SSteph: Reading? Are you guys into reading? I don’t know. Do you guys read?
Adam: Yeah, of course.
William: Yeah. We read. I write. So, I like um… I like plane rides because I like to write. And I write quite a bit on plane rides.
A2SSteph: So you guys excited to tour with Panic, the first time since Truck stops and State lines, right?
Adam: Yeah.
William: Yeah.
A2SSteph: Pretty cool.
William: You did your homework.
A2SSteph: Been there. (laughs)
William: Oh, great.
Adam: We’ve done a couple shows since. But uh… we love the guys and…They’ve even gotten way cooler than they were back then. I always liked them back then. But now that Jon (has) joined the band…
William: They grew up a little bit. They became men. Like boys to men.
A2SSteph: (laughter)
Adam: Our friend Jon joined the band and he kind of like brought this whole new energy.
William: He showed them the way.
Adam: Yeah! This whole new energy in the band and I’ve always loved all the guys to begin with, but now like having Jon in the band has made it that much better. We’ve hung out a lot since that tour but we’ve never really had a chance to really like… do it for an extended period of time. So we’re really looking forward to it.
A2SSteph: Cool! So last question. What’s your favorite song off the new album? And why?
William: Mine is… I’m not sure if I can pick one.
A2SSteph: Really?
William: No.
A2SSteph: Alright. How about the most fun to play?
William: Well we’ve only played two in front of people.
A2SSteph: That’s true.
Adam: Um…I’d say, (I don’t)… it changed a lot. One of my personal favorites is a song called “After The Last Midtown Show”. I remember the afternoon it was written in Los Angeles, with uh… you know just feeling like there’s something really nostalgic about it and that’s the type of songs that I always like the best. Nostalgic songs, you know a song that makes you feel like you went somewhere else or that you had an out of body experience.
A2SCatharine: Like a little moment?
Adam: Yeah! Like a little moment and that song in particular is one that like just even the first time I heard the rough demo of it, just being really excited about it.
A2SSteph: Very cool. Alright, well thanks guys. I really appreaciate it.
