Nesey: i love vermont. my only complaint is there isnt an ocean nearby. burlington is good because the lake is there but everywhere else there isnt enough water. in bennington i had to work in a factory but it was the happiest time in my life. i didnt mind so much. its really beautiful there. i went to pure pop in burlington some but i had so little pocket money i could never buy anything. and the school limited your ability to go anywhere. so it was quite a feat that i convinced them to let me go see olivia when they played at metronome. and quite a feat that metronome was convinced to let me in. (i was fifteen.) there was almost no one there but Olivia was wonderful. john came up to me and chatted before the show and i talked to will after and thats where our friendship began

Nesey: i am going on some kindof tour in september. its an east coast (probably to the midwest) tour but im not sure where we are going. our booking agent is figuring it all out. one of these days this whole schedule will just appear suddenly. thats how the other tours were. i would like to play in burlington, but it might not happen right now if i had to guess. someone in the band is banned from canada and i bet we would only play burlington if we were going to montreal. i cant drive but i have this idea of planning something on my own where i just play new brunswick, new england, and quebec. maybe then?

Nesey: the truth is i can barely remember my dreams anymore. its awful. my writing just drifts out of the void..its completely unconscious, its like a flash flood that appears from nowhere. it is as if my imagination, my dreams, my feelings existed elsewhere and just blew through me sometimes. like wind coming through cracks around the windows… it wasnt always like this though. i dont know what changed. its like im a dead person who sometimes comes to life. my earliest dream was probably when i was a year old or within my first year…i was floating around the ceiling of my grandparents kitchen and i seem to recall my grandfather saying something to the effect of “whatcha doin up there ya little dorkus?” oddly my mothers first dream she can recall is much like mine.

Nesey: its one eye of a stereoscopic card. i found in new york state in a box under a tarp. in the woods. it was around when i first started writing the songs. i knew it would be called “eyes & eyes & eyes ago” before i found the card or wrote any of the songs. there was a song called “i remember eyes” that existed already (that isnt on the album)..the funny thing about the card is its like an eye exam. you look through the stereoscope and see how far back you can see where the dot is…top bottom left right…so the album title has an unintended/accidental humorous aspect to go along with its real meaning.. the back cover was ripped out of a library book. its a classroom of kids looking through stereoscopes. the insert inside the LP is a little booklet of photographs around/in the house in bennington where the album was recorded and much of it was written.

Nesey: musically i have no idea. i never meant to write songs. it just started happening. i never meant to be a musician..it also just kindof happened. its also an accident that im any good at it. i liked making sound recordings. beginning when i was a little kid. it was really the olivia records that helped connect the idea of songs and sound world coming together. it was the first thing i heard that was like my soundworld, but they had wonderful songs living in it. until then everything was too produced and studioy. i also came to like microphones, erics trip and music tapes, for this reason too. later i got interested in the opposite end of things..really beautiful studio records. like the beatles, beach boys, marquee moon, five leaves left, whats goin on, etc. records i already loved but didnt fully appreciate from a sound recording standpoint yet. “eyes ago” is actually my version of that sortof record. my soundworld stuff hasnt been shared yet at all. which is odd it worked out that way. when i was very young (between 9 and 14) i loved the first violent femmes record a lot, and murmur and siamese dream. those were the first records i connected to in a vaster sense and i still love them… i loved sonic youth too. the 80s stuff especially. but i havent heard a new sonic youth album since i bought a thousand leaves over 10 years ago.i go through cycles of what im listening to. i could list a lot of things. the four tops, nico, broadcast, etc. i always listen to clara rockmore & nadia reisenbergs theremin and piano recordings. those are my favorite things in the world. otherwise this past year ive listened to the album “lost wisdom” by mount eerie continually. it is already one of my favorite albums in the world. it really kills me. there are so few manmade things that feel like they are looking through your heart. or my heart anyway. w. cullen introduced me to joy division this year and thats played on a loop too. its wonderful. especially side two of closer. im also fascinated with it from a production/engineering standpoint because it has this combination of sounds i naturally love and sounds i typically abhor but in this context are very expressive, comprehensible sounds. im afraid it speaks to the hopelessness in me quite deeply, so its probably kindof unhealthy for me to listen to. lately ive also been listening to a lot of julie doiron. i love her. i wish she lived down the street from me or something

Nesey: yes, i do. and its nice to have had a hand in making things happen. that it all worked. and its been an honor to play with everyone and have brer hart ask me to finish his album and everything. its beautiful to see everyone together doing what they ought to, building worlds. im sure a lot of wonderful things will come drifting out of what has reawoken. in the coming year i plan to live in maine and work on a bunch of projects and things ive neglected during this past year. for some reason i have to be alone to really work properly on anything of my own.

Nesey: oh ive surely already been much too long winded so i shouldnt be encouraged!