on thing is the whole, “my name is josh and i play guitar in boysetsfire and you are listening to WJERK! the rock of bucks county and surrounding areas! yeah!” man i feel stupid doing that but i do it because nice people ask me too and i can’t help but say yes to nice people. it’s a curse, i know, i know.
another is the dreaded photo-shoot. normal people don’t do this, you know? stand around with some friends and try to look cool while a less-than-stoked photographer desperately tries to achieve some degree of hipness with five rednecks from delaware, maryland, and germany. (and yes robert is a redneck. bavarians are the rednecks of germany. you know i am right!) we try to do something original but it usually fails miserably.
the video shoot is another bizarre aspect of boysetsfire. we have only done one video in our history and it was pretty fun, we got our friends together and had them all involved in the making of the video.

now before you film a video you have directors send what is called a treatment. a treatment is basically a little description of the video and how it will be filmed and all that. the treatment can be unintentionally hilarious much like we recieved for last years nest.
this video had a monkey sitting in the oval office, talking on the phone, signing laws, being busy. the monkey was the main character and the video featured a scene where nathan and the monkey danced around and had a blast. uh....really?
on a deeper note. america has just executed its 1000th person. this makes me feel so sad inside. i am not going to talk about it too much, but we are the only first world country to have the death penalty and still we are the most violent nation on the planet. senseless. actually, maybe it makes sense after all