Friendly Words With Nick Hipa | 3,791 views

So just yesterday I was involved in a conversation about how secretly jealous I would get of other Warped Tour ’08 bands who were creative and fortunate enough to have their own hand signs.  The specific bands relating to the topic were Cobra Starship and 3OH3!.  Somewhere along the way one of them figured out that there was a sensible way to spell out or symbolize their respective names with hand gestures.  The result of this discovery is that a sea of kids at every Warped show was throwing up these non-dangerous gang-type signs while the band performed.  Sure we’d get the ole metal horns during our set—which is great and all—but your own unique hand sign is kinda powerful and awesome!  Anyway the result of this conversation was that I spent the remainder of my car ride trying to spell out our bands’ initials with my hands.  The closest I came to something reasonably deece was a lower case “a” with my right hand, and the letters “i,l,d” with my left.  It kinda looks like the “blood” gang sign that every self respecting teenage suburbanite knows how to throw.  I showed it to Phil and Jordan but they suggested it might be a bit of a stretch.

If I was to draw any sort of reasonable moral to that story, or at least tie it in to something that doesn’t make you regret wasting your attention so far, it is this:  We’ve been enjoying a month off of touring and it has been awesome; but a month off from touring does not mean a month off from this band.  Between eating burritos and hard hanging with our loved ones, we still manage to exchange ideas, epiphanies, thoughts, and even potential “aild” gang signs we can flash at people. Time will tell what actually comes to fruition, but the intent behind all our efforts is to become a better band for you to get stoked on.