JOANNA: What�s your name and what do you do in The Icarus Line?

JOE: My name�s Joe.

JOANNA: And what do you do?

JOE: I sing and write the songs.

JOANNA: How long have you guys been a band?

JOE: Approximately four years full time. We�re fucking professionals. We don�t have to get jobs now. We get to run around the world like little assholes, burn down venues and destroy equipment.

JOANNA: Do you guys tour a lot?

JOE: Yeah, we�ve been everywhere that a touring rock band could go. Australia, Japan, Europe, all of the United States, Canada, South America.

JOANNA: Do you go to strip clubs while you�re on the road?

JOE: We sometimes go for breakfast. Like if they offer a breakfast or a lunch, we�ll stop by.

JOANNA: Did you ever get like, a prostitute or anything while you were in Amsterdam?

JOE: Myself, no, but some of the other members have.

JOANNA: Why didn�t you want to get one?

JOE: Because I was fucked up on mushrooms at the time, and that�s not really the right state of mind to get a prostitute. I bought an eighth so I was swimming in the subconscious for a while.

JOANNA: Do you watch a lot of porn?

JOE: The only pornos I actually enjoy are Max Hardcore. Are you familiar?

JOANNA: Yeah, I am.

JOE: Yeah he�s from my hometown.

JOANNA: What do you like about them?

JOE: It�s just extreme, and I can relate really well to extreme emotions. And it�s kinda funny, more humorous than others.

JOANNA: So you don�t really watch it to get off?

JOE: Not really. It doesn�t really get me off sexually. Sometimes I�ll put it on to entertain guests.

JOANNA: Like if your family comes over for dinner or something.

JOE: Yeah, whatever. Whoever�s over, just for the spectacle of the situation maybe.

JOANNA: So what do you write your lyrics about?

JOE: That�s a tough one. I�m really influenced by Charles Bukowski, stuff that I could always relate to as a kid which helps me to write about real life. Charles Bukowski�s a Los Angeles writer so I can relate to a lot of the locations he writes about. I guess his frame of mind is pretty close to what I�ve developed over the years, just because he�s an alienated individual. He drinks. He has a love hate relationship with women. Ultimately he is in love with some of them even if he doesn�t know how to fully be in love.

JOANNA: So what is the band working on now?

JOE: We�re writing our full-length right now, which will pretty much redefine modern Rock N' Roll.

JOANNA: And what label are you signing to?

JOE: V2.

JOANNA: And what were you on before?

JOE: Nothing. We toured the entire world on our own merit. It�s really rare these days that a band could tour the world on a record that was barely released.

JOANNA: So do you have any sex stories from tour that you could tell?

JOE: Well, we tried to get these two girls to like lick my asshole on video one time, but that didn�t exactly work out.

JOANNA: They weren�t into it?

JOE: No. Not really.

JOANNA: Was it the video part or the asshole part that you think stopped them?

JOE: It was more like, they were that close to doing it. Like their faces were right there, but then it just didn�t happen. My stories with women on the road aren�t really that exciting at all. They�re just kinda depressing.

JOANNA: Well maybe now that you�re on major label you�ll have some exciting stories to talk about.

JOE: Hopefully.