Timonium perfects the overcast sway. Diligent since the mid-90s, Timonium applies its form with a grace and tenor second to none. The following is an interview with Adam from Timonium. He is also the founder of Pehr Records and co-runs Pehrspace in Echo Park.

me: are you feeling better?

pehrlabel: yes, i am coughing up blood, but i got a Wii so it’s okay

me: what??

pehrlabel: i still have to set it up

me: you need to go to the hospital

pehrlabel: no, i looked it up online. if you cough up less than a few teaspoonfuls, you’re okay

me: online. good enough for me. how did the show work out last Saturday?

pehrlabel: like 150 people showed up. they came in waves.

me: this is going to be the interview okay?

pehrlabel: i’m sensitive to the alternative press now, after someone wrote that i was using this guy for his money, when in reality that guy actually stole money from me, and lots of it.

me: ahhh

pehrlabel: that dumb blog will stay there forever; my grandchildren can even enjoy it

me: grandchildren?

pehrlabel: well, grandnieces or nephews.

me: i was about to say.

me: i notice how you refer to stuff as “alternative”

pehrlabel: well, I guess “underground” is more appropriate. “alternative” now is very different from when i was in junior high school and elementary school.

me: oh yeah?

pehrlabel: i mean alternative was like depeche mode and stuff. now alternative, well you know how it is, it’s like dishwalla and korn

me: yeah, dishwalla

pehrlabel: the people in my work environment listen exclusively to music en español, so i don’t know today’s “white things”

me: work environment? You mean emily at pehr?

me: i know she likes her raggaeton

pehrlabel: yes, they like the reggaeton and daddy yankee. they say he is “cool”

me: daddy yankee is cool

pehrlabel: ay, papi! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Yankee

me: I wanted to ask if there are any Timonium songs about boys.

pehrlabel: hmmmm… there are some songs about boys, but not exclusively, like within the song it might move from boys to war.

me: are you thinking of recording the song that Aaron helped work out, now that he’s in SF?

pehrlabel: yeah Aaron wrote the entire guitar part for one, but we haven’t practiced it. I’d like to.

me: i hear there is going to be a choir on the next album.

pehrlabel: i am looking for an eastern orthodox-type choir.

pehrlabel: eastern european choirs make you feel depressed and internal, yet otherworldly.

so yes, the choir rumor is true. i’ve been trying for a decade

me: what song or songs do you want choir on?

pehrlabel: choir ideally should be on every song, but can be applied sparingly.

pehrlabel: i wrote a new simple song about my lungs today.

me: remember my lung thing?

pehrlabel: maybe if you did more drugs/alcohol you would have had more robust lungs.

me: hey as far as this interview is concerned I’m a heroin addict… and wearing a hat

pehrlabel: is there really pig blood in beer?

me: what? pig blood? why would someone do that? i mean yes.

pehrlabel: i heard that’s why some straightedgers wouldn’t drink beer

me: wellllll, I wouldn’t know, remember: heroin… and the hat

pehrlabel: oh, your little newsboy hat. that is adorable.

me: it’s a tough cap. i mean hat. Tough like mustangs

pehrlabel: mustang—that is a beautiful wild horse

me: i can’t win. okay, it’s a unicorn hat. and the unicorn is wearing leather chaps

pehrlabel: that’s my kind of hat

me: I know. I think that’s a good place to stop.

me: i have to go and edit this so you look like an asshole now

pehrlabel: okay, bye daddy yankee