Melissa: I was in my garage, in my car garage, with the car on and running. (laughs) And then I thought “No!” I thought to myself, “You know what, I shouldn’t really kill myself over this situation.” So I turned the car off and I got out of there real quick. (laughs)
Allison: On the third I was at work—I work in a restaurant—and we moved a TV from one of our private rooms up to the bar. Everybody at work was around there for every new thing. We were all kind of shocked quiet. A little bit teary eyed. I was just in such a funk when I went home, I sat on the couch depressed. Yeah, that was how it was for me.

AE: So how does this all play into your plans for world domination?
Melissa: I think I might quit the band and actually get into politics. (laughs) But actually, when you asked what I was doing on November 3rd, I was driving with my girlfriend and I was just like, “You know what, I totally want to get involved in politics.” That’s how change happens: getting involved. If I want things to be the way I want them to be, I see running for office, doing something—how little it could be—I just thought about that.
Kaia: Do you want to run for office?
Melissa: Yeah. Not for president, you know what I mean, but something that could be on a smaller scale you know.

AE: Why not president? You get better perks, fly around in helicopters…
Melissa: When I was a kid I wanted to be the president, but after watching Manchurian Candidate....we want to dominate the world in a good way.

AE: So where are you guys at in your tour; are you halfway through?
Melissa: This is a funny tour, we are doing a week on, week off type thing. This is the end of a week off so we are just doing West Coast.
Kaia: But we did a couple of weeks on the East Coast and this is the beginning of our West Coast run. We flew out here yesterday.

AE: It took three years to get this latest album…
Melissa: Was it three? It wasn’t two years?

AE: I thought it was three; it seemed like they were rolling out quick and then this one had a longer time.
Melissa: Yeah yeah, I know exactly.
Kaia: It was recorded for a year before it was released. So it could have been.

AE: Were you shopping around for a distributor?
Melissa: We were. We knew that we didn’t want to be on Mr. Lady.
Kaia: Mr. Lady is no longer.

AE: Yeah, how has that affected you?
Melissa: What do you mean?

AE: I heard you hooked up with Amy Ray’s label, or something to that effect.
Melissa: There was a possibility that we were going to put out a record on her label, but it just didn’t work out.
Kaia: Lots of respect for Amy and that label of course, but it’s hard to tell how it’s worked out with the new label versus our old label. It’s just rough being who we are in music. We are such an anomaly; we really fit between so many worlds in our music. We fit between cool indie-hip-punk whatever, and we’re not quite at the accessible level of, like, Jimmy Eat World, let’s say. We’re not quite there and we’re not at the punk indie experimental weirdo. I mean, we consider ourselves weirdos but that doesn’t matter. We fit in between there, and we’re butch dykes.

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