It's Just Hard To Have

First Of All, [st. Stephen's] Is A Radical Church. It Was One Of The First Dc Churches To Have Gay Ceremonies. A Woman Said Mass There, Which Almost Got A Priest Excommunicated There; Black Panthers Spoke At The Church; It Was A Sanctuary For Civil Rights Protesters And Anti-war Protesters.

We're On Tour For Six Months Out Of The Year.

I Think About Dischord. There's Been A Pretty Consistent Notion That Dischord Have Been Some Sort Of "overlords" Of The Scene. Some People Have Felt 'they Are Too Cool For Us,' Or 'they Won't Put This Out,' Etc. All We're Doing Is Our Own Work, Our Own Thing. That's All We've Ever Done. Our Work.

I've Had People Call Me From Bands That Are Very Popular, And They're Like, "what Do We Do? We Want To Do What You Do." It's Almost Impossible To Do What I Do, Because You Would Have To Start In 1980. You Can't Just Do It.

I Don't Need Any More Avenues Of Communication, And Frankly I Think People Are Still Working Out To Realize That It's Just A Tool[social Media] Rather Than Something That You Have To Do Or Participate In.