Pete Interviews Rachel

I decided it might be a good idea for me to interview Rachel. You know, so you could get to know her a little better.

Pete: Hi Rachel! Thanks for agreeing to do this interview for our blog. So, what did you have for breakfast this morning?

Rachel: I had some delicious "Tastee Ohs" for breakfast this morning, which are in no way, shape, or form to be confused with the famous General Mill's brand breakfast cereal, "Cheerios."

Were they delicious? Did you eat the recommended serving size? Where did you purchase said "Tastee Ohs"?

Yes, they were very delicious and satisfying because I ate an amount that was probably two or three times the recommended serving size. Have you ever measured an exact serving size of cereal before? It's insanely small.

I believe that Tastee Ohs can be found at your friendly local Dollar General in the breakfast foods aisle.

What other fabulous treasures can you find at the Dollar General?

Besides amazing bargains on whole grains? Well, let's see... I'm pretty sure you can also buy roach bait and beautiful garden "decorations" at the Dollar General. I hear some people also buy things like toilet paper and shampoo there.

Wow, it sounds like they have some great savings. I'm sitting at the back of a bus going to work right now, and there's a man twitching and glaring at me. He appears to have a bike chain wrapped around his pant leg. I can see his underwear. What do think about that?

Are you sure he's glaring at you? What if he's just glaring at the space around you?

He's definitely glaring at me. He snarled, just now. How does that make you feel?

He snarled at you? That is bizarre. I don't know how I feel about that.
Akward, I suppose.

Tell me a funny story about something that happened last week. Keep it brief, please.

Last week someone broke into my camper and slept in it. I knew because they put all the blankets on the counter and tracked grass clippings all over the place. They didn't steal anything.

Was there anything in there worth stealing?

My hello kitty phone and sandwich maker

Let's say you're having a party this weekend. All of your co-workers are coming over. What would be the 3 worst choices of board game to play at said party?

Does Twister count as a board game? That's a game I absolutely would not want to play with my co-workers. As for standard board games, I think the worst choices would be Charades, Parcheesi, and this Garfield board game that I loved when I was a kid, but probably isn't the best now that I'm all grown up.

Isn't that always the way it works though? You enjoy something as a kid, and then as an adult you see it again and you think "wow, this is really lame. I really thought I was smarter than that as a child." But you weren't. Nobody was. What else did you enjoy as a youth that you now think is ridiculous and stupid as a grown-up?

When I was in 4th grade, I read way too many "Sweet Valley High" books and decided that if I was going to be cool at all in middle school I was going to have to start my own club. So I made baseball-style cards with cardboard and pictures I cut out of a Horse Fancy magazine and started my own horse club. I really don't know what the cards had to do with anything, or why I picked horses to be the central theme of my oh-so-exclusive club. I think 3 or 4 of my friends joined, though.

I also used to play my own version of MASH, but instead of using it as a magical charm to figure out who I was going to marry and what kind of car we'd drive, I put numbers, colors, and body parts on the board. So I'd get results like "You're going to live in a Hut and have 4 blue arms!"

Magical. If there was a Peroxide Mocha Saturday morning cartoon, what would the plot be?

I imagine it would probably star Pete and Rachel and their magical recording studio. An evil villain would always be trying to sneak in and steal their records, but would be foiled at the last minute by Pete & Rachel's wacky antics.

What's the evil villain's name?

I'm trying to think of something really clever, but nothing's happening. Perhaps he'd be a Nameless Villain, referred to only as "The Mean Guy."

What advice do you have for aspiring young musicians who look up to you and want to be like Peroxide Mocha?

Never try to be anything that you're not. Be kind to people. You don't have to be cool.

Another True Story

AS I TYPE, my boyfriend is driving in a truck cross-country with his cousin Andy. A while ago, I asked how he and Andy are related, since I know they're not really first cousins, but are indeed kin of some kind.

He was unable to answer this question, and was only able to offer as evidence: "We grew up across the street from each other and have the same last name. He's my cousin."

This is North Carolina, my friends.

A True Story

So last night around 11:00 pm I was rudely awoken because Granny was screaming "Rachel! RACHEL! RACHEL!"
I of course assumed she was dying, bleeding, barfing, or whatever and leapt out of bed and went running to her, prepared to call 911. She was all thin and gasping and generally looking pretty pitiful, and she said to me...

"I want a cup of coffee and a peanut butter sandwich."

Holy Crap, I moved a whole bunch

Did I tell you guys I moved? No?
Well, I moved, and so did Pete. He's now back in Portland, and I'm in North Carolina.

Other than the fact that I'm ONCE AGAIN 3,500 miles away from my BFF, life is pretty good out here. There's lots of delicious meats to eat and everyone is always frying stuff that normally just gets steamed or even left raw. If you are a vegetarian, I don't recommend living anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon: there's pig meat in absolutely everything here. I'm not even kidding.

But for seriously-reals, things are good. I'm working at a newspaper, just like a modern-day Lois Lane, but with more spreadsheets and less falling into giant pits or being captured by villains. Can't complain, really.

Speaking of how amazingly great everything in the whole world is, Pete and I are committing ourselves to be more dilligent in updating this blog and maybe even making some new friends.

STAY TUNED!

Help Peroxide Mocha!

Dear Friends Of Peroxide Mocha,

As you may know, it's an uphill battle to promote a new music act, and even though we've been around for 11 years in some capacity, we're still pretty "new" - and we need all the help we can get in promoting our band and our album "Making Out With Strangers". Here are 3 super easy things you can do right now to help us out!

1) If you have an account on iTunes, please submit a quick review of "Making Out With Strangers" - it doesn't need to be long, just say something nice about it and give it a rating. If you don't have an iTunes account it only takes a second to make one.

Here's the direct link to the album in the iTunes music store:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=302429761&s=143441

2) If you have an account at CDBaby, or have a second to make one, please post your review there too - you can even re-post the same review from iTunes if you want!

Link to sign up with CDBaby:
https://cdbaby.com/account

Link to our album:
https://cdbaby.com/cd/peroxidemocha

3) We've sent a promo to KEXP radio in Seattle, one of the only radio stations with a history of playing our older material, but it doesn't look like anyone has played it yet - so please take a quick second and fill out this request form, requesting your favorite song from Peroxide Mocha's "Making Out With Strangers":

http://kexp.org/about/email.asp?email=dj

Thank you in advance for your time & energy! We really need your help to spread the word!

Love,
Pete & Rachel

You Totally Want Bread

Do you like bread? How about home-made bread? I bet you'd do pretty much anything for a nice warm loaf of home-made bread right about now... I know I would. Well have I got a deal for YOU!
Any person who can prove that they have forced a DJ to play a song off of our awesome new album "Making Out With Strangers" either on the radio or in your favorite club will get a nice fluffy loaf of bread baked just for you! Plus, we'll even post a picture of you holding your loaf of bread right here on our website so all your friends will know how cool you are. What could possibly be more awesome than that?

Making Out With Strangers! And stuff!

Sorry we have been so quiet lately right after the release of our album, but Rachel and I both have a ton of things going on these days and you know how life sometimes just gets in the way. I'm still adjusting to life in San Francisco, and Rachel has made a move to the other side of the country for a while. We've done this countless times before though, and thanks to the miracle of the internet we aren't going to disappear or anything.

So! Making Out With Strangers is now out in various digital music shops including iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, CDBaby or whatever shop you usually buy music from. If there's some digital shop that doesn't have it and you think we should sell it there, please let us know! We had a few pro-duplicated CD-Rs printed with full color printing and nice inserts with lyrics and everything - they look really super awesome. I just started mailing them out to radio and mags and such this week. We've got some available for purchase from the donut nook records shop too, and they're on their way to CDBaby right now in case you'd rather purchase from there.

We're getting a lot of cool remixes back now and have a couple single/promo/EP things planned with some b-sides and whatnot - we'll be announcing that very shortly.