MOIST: "O.K. COMPUTER" Part Two

If you answer back, then they think they're starting up a friendship.

Kevin:Well, that just happens with people in general, the more and more you start talking to people, and you banter back and forth. It's like an extended telephone conversation, and that's a difficult thing, because you don't want to... I would rather talk to people face to face or on the phone than via e-mail. There are some things you just have to say to a person's face, or at least over the phone. It's hard to express yourself the same way in e-mail.

There are certain nuances that can't be conveyed.

Jeff:The other thing that's weird, too, that I've noticed from the dealings I've had with people who are really into the being online thing, is that for a lot of kids these days, e-mail is a place where they actually have genuine friendships. And that's not the way it is for us. We're old-school. For us, it's just a tool. It's not like a-

Kevin:-analog friendships.

Jeff: [Laughs] Yeah, we have analog friendships.

You know you're getting old when you start a sentence with the phrase "Kids today..."

Jeff:Yeah!

But I can't imagine having had the Internet as a research tool.

Kevin:It's totally amazing.

Jeff:It is amazing.

Kevin:Now, since we're not in school, if we have to research things, we can go anywhere we want and check out information.

And I get very impatient when I can't find something online.

Kevin:I go to a bookstore when that happens. I immediately go to a bookstore and I buy the book I want, and then I go home and I read it, and I leave online alone.

Nettwerk has always done really cool multimedia stuff. Is there going to be some Moist multimedia?

Jeff:There aren't any plans for it right now. We have a hard time with letting anyone do anything that we're not totally involved with, and doing a CD-R, the "R" portion of the CD, is great, except that none of us have... We're too busy making the record to have time to want to bother getting into that kind of stuff. But it's not something we'd want anyone else to be...

Even, like, a Nettmedia thing?

Jeff:If it's separate from the actual record, that's one thing, but if it's actually included on our album, we'd want it to be something that we really liked; we'd want to be overseeing every aspect of that, and we just didn't have time.

Paul: Are you talking about the thing that Barenaked Ladies did?

And Sarah McLachlan.

Paul:The Barenaked Ladies record isn't... We're not really that kind of band.

No, I know. But Sarah's had interviews on hers, and lyrics, all kinds of stuff.

Jeff: Hers looks really great. Actually, all the Nettmedia ones are really nice. And maybe at some point in time, perhaps if we put out an EP or something, between this record and the next one, it could be included in that - when we had more time to actually focus on it. But say we put out a collection of B-sides or something, then that could be something we could definitely do, because we wouldn't have to worry about the music that was going on. But this time, we just wanted to focus on the music.

Paul:We're not against it by any stretch, but again, it's something that's completely foreign to us, and we couldn't really take the focus away from what we were doing.

Mark:We're actually very hands-on with the website. Jeff has designed a new web page for us. www.moist.ca