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Let's start out with a positive statement: I Need, Narcoleptic Mary, and You Will Heal are all valued parts of my live shows. Now, as for the rest of this record... You would think the natural progression for a writer would be to get better, but personally I prefer my earliest album Idiot Express over its' successor Big Energy Dream, which I think is too folky (and my voice sounds weird because I was sick right before we made it). Any time I hear a skinny white guy with an acoustic guitar singing a song as preachy as God Of Fossil Fuel (even if it is true) it makes me want to stuff an ether rag in his yap. But hey, I was a young, troubled, justice-oriented, apocalypse-ushering type of guy, and it seemed a good song at the time. Before I became a monk, I did a lot of preaching to the converted. I'm still almost young (26), I remain a frequent host of trouble, justice is as important as ever, and I continue in my apocalyptic expectations, but, the way I approach a song has changed dramatically. That is to say, I have become a good songwriter (before Self Untitled I had written some good songs, but I was not quite a good songwriter. Now I am, but I still write bad songs, which is how it will be until I ascend and become a Perfect Holy Monk Songwriter in Heaven). I have the Divers, Peter Mayer, and Carl Menk to thank for much of what is cool about Big Energy Dream. I haven't seen the Divers or Carl in years, so if you see them tell them I said hello. I'm still in regular contact with Peter Mayer, so I'll tell him myself. Let's just say BED was an interesting milestone. -Stuart Davis, 1997