LEXclusive
Interview:
Mike from
Who ever
said that all singers were rude obviously never met Mike, lead singer of
Although we
had trouble finding him at first, he greeted me with a smile, and was polite
through out the entire interview. This was his first trip to the
Mike with a
LEX37 shirt inside Pipeline Café.
Although the interview was a little awkward due to the fact that the interview was conducted outside, (give me a break, it was windy so my papers were flying, thank goodness he helped me gather my papers when they did fly) the interview went pretty dar n well.
The most uncomfortable part of the interview, in my opinion, was probably when a fan came up and asked Mike for a picture, but other than that, it was all cool, not that I minded the distraction.
Thanks to our staff, and you, our readers, we had some very interesting questions lined up for Mike.
For starters, let me just say that I am an idiot, heh, I had to ask him for his name twice…but we all know his name now (it’s
Mike for those of you that missed it the last five times that I had mentioned it). When he first introduced himself to me, I totally missed his name because I was meeting so many cool new people, and it was all at once, that I got confused. One more side note to this, when I was trying to figure out the band member’s names from online profiles, in the picture that I saw of him, he had long hair, I am going to guess that that was either an old picture of him, or someone time traveled and took a picture of him, then time traveled again and posted that picture online.
Hello!
Hey, What’s your name again?
OMG! She forgot my name!
When I
asked him my own question, what is your favorite tech toy, he was unfortunately
confused, so I told him “you know, like an MP3, or 
computer,
or laptop” He replied with “oh, my computer, my laptop.” His computer is his
most favorite tech toy because he plays World of Warcraft
(W.o.W.) and apparently, he used to play the online
game starcraft as well. Psst!
While we are on the topic of computers, and the internet, go check out
yousuckirule.com, it is Mike’s favorite site at the moment because it’s his friends site.
Our staff member, Linzi asked him the silliest question in the world, the question was “are you too sexy for your shirt, too sexy for your shirt, too sexy for your shirt? If so, can I have it?” That was such a weird question for me to ask, but I am sure that it was awkward for him to answer as well, but he answered it gracefully “No, not by any means am I sexy, but if you want it you can have it.” If Linzi was there, she probably would have taken it, but I am not her (Too bad for you Linzi) So I told him that she doesn’t need any more shirts. For you Mike fans out there, imagine if he had a company, do you want to know what he would name it? Well, guess no longer, he would name a company “Umbrella” after Resident Evil because he had always thought that it was a cool name…I would never have guessed that.
Well, I learned many new things about Mike, such as His favorite place to be on holiday (ß vacation),that place is home, mainly because you don’t get to go home much when you tour as much as Halifax does, but don’t get me wrong, he still loves the fans, and some of the cool things that they do for the band, such as getting a Halifax tattoo, or totally psyching them out with a fan page. Even with the cool fans, and the tours, Mike doesn’t feel that they have really hit it big, “I don’t feel that we have hit it big” he stated “but I feel we were successful.”
I am sure that he would much rather
be touring with Halifax, even if they drive through bad weather---which is one
of the scariest things that can happen to 
them
while they are on tour--- than doing the data entry, which was his least
favorite job before touring, his favorite job was working at Applebees.
Although Mike is the lead singer for Halifax, if he could play any instrument, he would play the guitar again, when he was in high school, He didn’t like his economics class, and he never did join any clubs because he was the “indie” kid that would be playing the guitar during lunch time. Aside from his guitar sessions during lunch time, he volunteered helping mentally challenged people all through his high school years. Mike did take a little bit of Spanish in school, but if he could speak any language, he would speak Italian.
As far as
shopping goes, he has been to a Hot Topic store, but he has no comment as far
as what he thinks of it… as long as he doesn’t hate on store #205, it’s all
good (if you didn’t get the memo by now, I work at that Hot Topic, yes, I am a
loser if you must know). He doesn’t shop on ebay.com, but if you ever 
found
yourself wondering what was the most that he had ever spent on something, it
would be $1,400 on…would you believe it, his cell phone bill. The bill was so
inflated because he didn’t have roaming on his phone, but rest easy everyone,
he has roaming now. When asked “DIY or
buy” he says “buy, pay someone else to do it.”
A lot of people now days dye their hair weird colors, but as far as Mike’s locks go, the only thing that he has done to it as far as color was bleach it, lets take some time to imagine him blonde…hmm, interesting.
There are a few facts that were in the questionnaire, but they are not in the actual article part of it because I could not figure out how to incorporate it into the article, so if your question is not in the Q&A at the bottom of the page, it didn’t get included in the interview, I am sorry, we got over 500 questions, and it took two of the editors over a week and a half to pick the top 20 fan questions, and the top 10 staff questions (one fan question unfortunately got lost around the time of the interview).
Before we go on to the transcript of the interview, I would like to extend a big thanks out to a few people. First I would like to thank Mike for his time and patience, I would also like to thank Josh and Daniel (http://www.myspace.com/TMG808), the coordinators of the Scene Show, for all of their help, and finally, I want to send a HUGE thank you to Ana Bustilloz, without her, none of this would have been possible.
Questions from the
24/37 Ezine staff members
1)What is your name for the record? (LEX37)
Mike
2)What is your favorite tech toy? (LEX37)
My computer, My laptop.
3)What was your favorite and least favorite jobs? (Cass)
My favorite job was a
job that I had at Applebees, do you have one of those here?
Yes we do, I think we do, maybe not, but I know of Applebees.
My least favorite job
was doing data
entry.
4)Do you feel that you have hit it big? (Cass)
No, but I feel that we
were successful
5) Where is your favorite place to visit (on
Home
6)If you could play any instrument, what would you play?(Cass)
Guitar
7)What school clubs were you in? (Linzi)
None, I was the guy
playing the guitar, I was the indie guy.
8) What is the coolest thing a fan has ever done for you guys? (Lizzie)
9) What is the scariest thing to ever happen to you on tour? (Lyane)
Driving through bad
weather is always scary
10) How many times have you been to
This is my first time.
Fan Questions:
1)How psyched do you get when you find out about a new fan page?(Kiri)
Very
2) Do you shop on ebay.com? (EbAy MaStEr)
No
3) What is the most that you have ever spent on a single item, and what was the item? (Kitty Krash)
Um…$1400, it was my cell phone bill because I didn’t
know that I didn’t have roaming.
4) If you could own a business, what would you name it? (Xennie)
-PAUSE- um, Umbrella
because of Resident Evil, I think Umbrella is a cool name.
5)Have you ever shopped at Hot Topic? (Liv)
Yes
What do you think of Hot Topic? (LEX37)
I will have to say no
comment.
6) What was your least favorite school subject? (Pias)
Economics.
7) If you could speak any language, what would you speak? (Shenae)
Italian
8) Can you speak any other languages? (Shenae)
I can speak a little
Spanish.
9) What is the most “feel good” thing that you have ever done? (Miss Understood)
I volunteered helping
mentally challenged people when I was younger; I did that through High School.
10) Have you ever dyed your hair a different color? (Rainbow)
No, well, I bleached
it once
11) If so what colors? (Rainbow)
Just the bleach blonde
12) How do you keep such high energy at a show? (Liv)
The music just
motivates me, I don’t do crack or anything, no crack for me.
13) Are you too sexy for your shirt, too sexy for your shirt, too sexy for your shirt? If so, can I have it? (Linzi)[Hers somehow got mixed in with the fan questions…]
By no means am I sexy,
but if you want it you can have it.
14) What is your favorite pizza place? (Tonie)
Segesta, it is in my
hometown, and I have been going there for a long time.
15)What is your favorite website at the moment? (John)
-Thinks-
Please don’t say myspace, please don’t say Myspace (LEX37)
-Laughs- No, f*ck myspace um, yousuckirule.com, it is my friend’s site, it’s
like myspace, but better.
16) DIY or Buy? (Mizz B)
Buy, have someone else
do it.
17) Cats or dogs? (Mizz B)
-thinks-
This is a hard one
Both?
Yeah
both, because I love them both.
18) What are your ethnicities? (Crash)
Well, I am Russian,
and I know this isn’t an ethnicity, but I am Jewish.
19) What is your biggest guilty pleasure? (Miss count [VP/AP])
My biggest guilty
pleasure -laughs- I play World of Warcraft, that is why the laptop is so important.
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