The concept?
I don't know, I think it's just me like cataloguing fucked up shit that I’ve seen and like trying
to make little stories out of it you know.
As I got older, I started to realize that that shit's a lot more common than I used
to think when I was a little kid.
You know?
When I was younger, I still feel it now, I thought the world was going to be something
much different than what it is.
And then you get older and you're just starting to realize and hear more and more things.
I feel like every week, I'm like, “Wow this is fucked up.
This is fucked up.”
You know?
“Typical Story” started ... I wrote the beginning of it when I worked at La Bou Sandwich
Shop, Sacramento, California.
I would just be washing dishes, thinking of songs to write.
One day I was just like wiping down a table with a cloth and it just popped in my head
and I looked up.
I was like, “Hmm, that's not not bad.”
Working with a producer named Jason and we made the song.
Put it to it.
Yeah
Dude, the bassist kills the singer part, I don't know.
It would just be weird to be a bassist.
Dude, you're always like in the front man, the front man's in the front whatever.
Someone getting all the spotlight.
I don't know I just tried to write the weirdest story I could, basically.
I had a flight to LA that I was supposed to get on to do, we had some meeting or I had
a session with someone.
And then I had this ex girlfriend that, we dated for like a year and a half or something,
and broke up.
So right when this like I was working on the album we like, stopped talking as much.
So I went over like I was supposed to get on a flight, my suitcase was on, and I just
walked out of the airport and went to her house and like, talked to her for a bit and
just tried to like get some closure, or whatever.
And we talked about if we should continue dating.
And I think it was a for sure reference to that.
I made my first album, it's called, “Hobo Johnson's 1994 Toyota Corolla”.
So I made it in my car, I was living in my car and made my first album in it.
And I remember, once I like had it finished, I thought, like dude, people are going to
love this, everyone is going to freak out.
No one liked it at all, listened to it at all.
Dude, they don't talk about it too much.
I took it off all the internet.
It's not very good I don't think, I can understand why people didn't like it.
But some hardcore fans, they can, you can find it on the depths of YouTube somewhere,
and they'll listen to it, yeah.
The whole chorus is about when you like invite someone over to your house, a girl, whoever
it is, and then you just sit there, and you obviously don't like each other, you guys
can't figure out shit to talk about.
And then you basically trying to get them to leave, but in like the nicest way you can
I guess, by just saying weird shit.
After me and my girlfriend broke up that one time, I was trying to date people, it just
didn't really work that well.
So I've never been punched in the jaw before, but I've seen videos of dudes getting punched
in the jaw, like sucker punched, and I don't know.
It's tough to tell, it's tough to see yourself.
Before you get punched in the jaw, it's hard to see if you could get punched in the jaw
hard.
And it's like, some dudes have just got fucking granite jaws, and mines just kind of normal
looking.
Whenever I feel bad, or like depressed, or anxious, I just feel like almost like not
able to handle an adult life.
So it makes me feel like a little kid or whatever.
Sometimes I'll legit feel that if I'm really anxious, I'll feel like my, almost that same
feeling of your bones shaking in your skin, you know.
I think I've always just been anxious.
But I started to realize that it's a real like issue, probably in the last three or
four years.
I like start talking to people, and I'm like, “Wait, you don't feel this?”
You know?
I don’t know just a powerful woman trying to figure out like what men even, what’s
the point of them.
You know?
I think dudes are just gross.
I feel like dudes just naturally have this weird complex of being dudes.
You know?
It's really just a metaphor for my own life.
I imagine this grandiose life that I could have for myself where, fucking play rock music,
and drive cars, and drink.
You know?
And then I get it, and I just realize that it's not, it just makes me feel worse.
It's kind of similar to the dog in a cage, it's like, before, I was in a cage, and then
I got out of the cage, I look around and I'm like, “That wasn't good, or better.”
I think the longest tour we did was two months straight, right.
So when you're on a tour like that, you rarely look in the mirror because you just have shitty
ass green rooms, or we do at least.
And then I got back and I looked at myself in my mirror in my house when I took a shower
the next day.
I like didn’t even recognize myself it was really weird.
I had like long fucking hair and I just felt, I don't know, I just felt like I was looking
at another person.
I think when writing the album, I just got really depressed for some reason.
I wasn't at home very much.
Like as soon as he got back from tour, I went to L.A. like a lot of the time.
I think that combined with like my fear of dying probably, you know, combined.
So it's like you're gonna put, you're gonna put everyone here to be stressed out all the
time and be sad and then there's going to have to die, you know.
Just kinda kind of weird.
No matter where our band goes, I think I've realized in the past few months that it's
never going to make you feel happy or better as a person, you still, we're all humans,
our brains operate similarly.
It's all about like now, and family, and like love, and art you know to me.