Question: Is it just me or does in reverie make you wanna sleep, and when you do sleep it to it, it's like the best sleep ever

Answer: in reverie makes me wana throw down some cardboard and do some old school break dancing, and when i do, it's like the best break dancing ever

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 23rd 2008

Question: ohhhh who lives in a pineapple under the sea?

Answer:     this dude------------------>                                                                            

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 23rd 2008

Question: Your thoughts on travis barker? good drummer?

Answer: i think travis does some cool shit, he was the most interesting thing about blink for sure. but i still think he is only impressive in reference to punk rock standards.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 23rd 2008

Question: the name of the game is snaps....do you know it....(snaps x5)...ready?.....(snaps x3)...jimmy got it on the second try the other day...(snaps x1)...how don't you know this!?!?!?

Answer: i know it, but does anyone else?

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 23rd 2008

Question: no question just venting... Duh-raja... I was the person that originally brought up the whole you guys touring with Weezer which led into the Harvard thing (posted 8/1). 1st off I found your response to my question both humorous and brilliant (Harvard worthy in fact) and was not offended in the least bit and since you were responding to MY question� everyone else should quit their bitching :)

Answer: if thats all it takes to get into Harvard these days then i have some family members who need mocking post haste.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 16th 2008

Question: Would anyone be disappointed in me if I wrote a song and titled it "Sell My Old Robes, I'm Off to Hogwarts?" It's not like it'd be a parody or anything; that's just what I would call a song about Harry Potter. Haha.

Answer: i think weird al would prolly have you killed. i heard he's a crip

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 16th 2008

Question: U no wut some dern terrirst trid 2 tel me? that guy said jeasus was 1 of dem arabs. i sed dont u read the bible it ses in plain english that jeasus was a ful bloded americin, he even drove a ford truck to work. wad do u think of dem crazie terrirsts D?

Answer: i think Hubert Selby JR would of  admired the written accent in your question

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 16th 2008

Question: can you give me your autograph in ASCII? try hard to make it look legit.

Answer: _ _ _ ____ __| |_ __ (_)(_)__ _ _ _ / _ | / _` | '_ \| || |__` | | | | | | | | | | | |_) | || | | | |_| | |_| | |_| |_|_.__/| \|_| |_|_.__/ \____| \__|

Answered by dur-raja on Aug 16th 2008

Question: Ever thought of having a "apartment warming" party after the show tomorrow? It'll be Friday, everything likes music in Venice on Fridays!

Answer: show?

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 15th 2008

Question: Have you ever stared at a fan so much it started moving in the opposite direction, human fan or cooling fan, either or.

Answer: yeah it's probably happened with both varieties.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 14th 2008

Question: who is your favorite former std drummer style-wise? p.s. did you know std CDs are $15 in newbury comics ($16 for in reverie?) no wonder people download music illegally!

Answer: pete, no contest. and everything is super over priced at newbury

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 14th 2008

Question: cactus stomp moonbeam

Answer: peyote cats sunflare

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 13th 2008

Question: do u guys get alot of groupies on tour n shit?

Answer: i think you spelled motley crue wrong and ended up here some how           www.motley.com/ that ought to take you to the page you wanted

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 13th 2008

Question: crap.... I just went reallly blank... what's your favorite show?

Answer: my fair lady? or maybe stomp?

Answered by andrew loyd webber on Aug 12th 2008

Question: Ok, you get a big mansion filled with many of one type of thing - you're choice. You also get one tool you will use to smash the bejesus out of these things when you're angry or just feelin' like smashing stuff. What do you choose to smash? What do you choose to smash with? example: I'd probably pick TV's and a dinosaur bone.

Answer: clones of the president and giant wooden replica of the rolled up constitution

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 12th 2008

Question: I dont wanna sound like a queer or anything, but I think unicorns are kickass!

Answer: i don't really think that would make you sound like a "queer". unicorns are pretty cool as far as imaginary creatures go, maybe only topped by the devil. now if you had said "i don't wana sound like a queer or anything, but i think blowing other dudes kicks ass!", then maybe.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 12th 2008

Question: FOr the record....Ford broncos are the sHIT@!

Answer: you want one?

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 12th 2008

Question: what are u talking bout in the dvd when u ask dave "you know snaps"?

Answer: dude i seriously can't tell you even if i could explain it

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 12th 2008

Question: where are you right now?

Answer: im north east of new york but south west of texas

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 12th 2008

Question: So like is the rest of the band too goddamn cool to do this qna shitt? I mean seriously wtf is david doing thats so fucking important?

Answer: actually he's doing ground breaking research in the field of quantum physics, string theory in particular. you should check out his work it's really interesting, but it might make your brain want to chew it's way out of your skull

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 12th 2008

Question: hey i sent a question a while ago to chris but hes not here so lets see? anyways is cant slow down is D standard tuning ir drop D? and why is saves the day the best band ever and the reason i play music and live!!! duh-raja!

Answer: im pretty sure the only song in drop tuning is "banned from the back porch", all the others are on standard. it could be d standard, might be e flat, might be e

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 12th 2008

Question: why is there a black guy in the band?

Answer: because we're really big fans of the plain white t's

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 12th 2008

Question: I just watched the video for the end on youtube and was wondering if chris got dirt in his mouth? hmmmm, d you weren't there so you answer.

Answer: yes he did, but it was stunt dirt so it's  ok. i can assure you that the dirt was very professional the entire time it was in his mouth

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: How come you like all of Tim Sain's questions, Durijah? IT'S NOT FAIR! Look, I'm reverting to the ways of a four year-old!

Answer: i dunno, i just read a question and if words start rapidly forming in my brain-zilla-tron, then i start banging on the keyboard like a monkey banging on the reward button in some weird science experiment.  i guess tim is good at making that process happen. that fucker is manipulating me! 

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: If I was in a popular band, I would probably hate the vast majority of people who listened to my music. Do you ever feel this way? Or meet fans that you can't stand? Or even worse, fans that aren't really fans that just make themselves look like retards? How do you deal with that shit?

Answer: i don't think i have ever really had that adverse of a reaction. there have been times when a conversation turns awkward out of lack of conversation. there is something genuinely fucked up about people taking as much interest in your existence as they sometimes do. talking about yourself in an objectified manner is really weird, especially considering that we're all pretty normal dudes. the only quirk might be the urge to run and vent to the nearest piano or guitar during moments of distress. i remember one time when this girl told chris her favorite std song was "cute without the e." that was pretty amusing, it wasn't something we had to deal with.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: Wow D, I love how ignorant some people are on here... I love how someone can try to say that your band is less educated than Rivers... haha chris only went to NYU for gods sake! Hmm... I guess that's considered not being well educated... anyway here's a good question... if you get bit by a mosquito when you're drunk, does the mosquito get drunk after it sucks your blood? Please help educate me... and if you don't answer this one I might just have to go ask the highly educated Rivers... haha

Answer: haha, that's awesome.  education is underrated!  life, baby!  the only teacher you need!  and you know the mosquito seeks out drunkards on a friday night.

Answered by chris on Aug 11th 2008

Question: i don't see where Durijah gets off calling Rivers Cuomo pretentious just because he has an education or because he had previously been annoyed with a band of annoying younger dudes. maybe he meant you should all go to Harvard because you have some growing up to do or so you would all have something in common then. I especially don't get why Durijah was so offended by that comment, seeing as how it wasn't directed towards him at all. And by the way, calling Weezer's "phans" retarded may not be the best decision making at work, since you guys share much of your fan base. Also, you should make sure you spell "you're" correctly before you even begin to talk about other people being stupid or someone condescending to you for your lack of education. Oh...and Under the Boards was GRRREAT!

Answer: ok first off, the whole harvard thing was just something i said, i have no idea how rivers felt about the guys in my band during the tour. secondly your going to have to step up your game if you are aiming to offend me. third, i think well educated people are awesome and usually try to make sure the people i surround myself with are literate and have interesting ideas to talk about. im sure rivers would have lots of interesting things to talk about as he is presumably a very bright guy. i guess all i was saying is that there are lots of bright people who don't feel the need to talk down to their audience. i have never seen Noam Chomsky go off on a tangent about how all the people who attend his lectures are stupid and annoying. at any rate, don't take this whole q&a thinggy too seriously, for the most part the answers are on the level of word association and are usually nonsense. on that note, even if by some weird circumstance everyone in saves the day got into and graduated from harvard, weezer would still probably be uninterested in taking us on tour.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: so what is dave doing all summer since chris is out far away from the home state he abandoned years ago playing shows?

Answer: trimming his beard

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: I guess I am good at making that process happen.

Answer: kudos

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: Who are a few of the best drummers in your opinion, and which ones influenced your stlye of play the most?

Answer: will calhoun from living colour , Philip "Fish" Fisher from fishbone, tim herb alexander from primus, stewart copeland from the police, mackie from bad brains, John Stanier from helmet, ?est love from the roots, matt chamberlain from fiona apple and tori amos, derek grant from alk3, David King from the bad plus, art blakey from all sorts of cool jazz stuff, bernard purdy from ungodly amounts of old soul records aretha franklin etc. dude i could go on forever, there are all sorts of really great players. in some sense everything i hear is an influence, some come out more than others depending on what im playing. i guess i like guys who play what the music wants rather than trying to showboat the entire time

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: ya kno, I know some friends of friends of the detoit red wings and rumor has it they played glassjaw in the lockeroom before the stanley cup final games.

Answer: thats kinda weird. i guess stranger things have happened

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: D, ya know how chris always puts up videos of him playing acoustic jams...why dont you do somthing like that, just like play some shit on guitar and show us what you got?

Answer: because my computer isn't as awesome-tastic as his, i ain't be havin no camera

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: yo, do you have an interest in fast cars? do you now or ever owned a badass muscle car? or wtf do u drive?

Answer: im not really into cars. i mean fast cars are neat, but thats about as enthusiastic as i get in that area. i have a big dumb ford bronco that i never drive. i have been walking most places as of late

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 11th 2008

Question: Did you ever used to play a rig with a double-bass drum? your thoughts on that??

Answer: i did, i stopped because all the drummers that really blew me away didn't use one, so i decided that i didn't need it either. it's one of those things where it can totally become a crutch in your playing, getting rid of it was kinda a good way to force creativity.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: hey durijah. i'm from western north carolina / eastern tennessee. a few years ago i went to see secret lives of the freemasons at the hideaway in johnson city, TN. and i'm pretty sure classic case opened. i think it was around halloween time. i could be wrong, but if so it's crazy to think that i went to see you in a tiny rock bar and now you're in two of my favorite bands... do you remember that at all?

Answer: i totally do, it was that crazy halloween show where everybody was all dressed up. im pretty sure i got really drunk and said something along the lines of "thats a very original costume, you must be really creative" to some girl who was dressed as a slutty nurse or cat or maid like just about every girl above the age of 16 i have ever seen.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: Hey Duh-raja, I know that you are quite fond of alcoholic beverages yourself. So, I was wondering, do you think the drinking age in the US should be younger? There are many countries all around the world where it's way younger and as far as I know they're doing alright with it. Anddd, what is your favorite beer and/or alcoholic beverage? ;)

Answer: i guess in my mind, if your old enough to go to war for your country then your old enough to drink. seems like making drinking taboo only serves to make binge drinking more prevalent. in countries with no drinking age, there seems to be way less problem drinking. i guess i have been really fond of the dogfishhead 120 minute ipa and i tend to enjoy bourbon

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: So, is it like, cool to make phun of Weezer because Rivers is more educated than you are, and found you guys annoying when you were on tour together... long before Durijah was even in the band?

Answer: who made phun of weezer? is this the dean of Harvard? can you pull some strings and get me in? i desperately want to be as educated as rivers so that on the off chance i ever meet him we can discuss high minded ideas, like how awesome kiss is, or the merits of wearing makeup and spiting fake blood out of your mouth or maybe pontificate about how all the kids who like your band and come to your shows are stupid and annoying. im pretty sure that my lack of contempt for the kids who like what the bands i play in do, is directly related to the deficit in my education. if only i could be bright enough to condescend to my audience like i was talking to a golden retriever "your so stupid, oh yes you are, OH YES YOU ARE."    

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: d...how did u first hookup with GJ? I read on some internet shit that you played with them in the "early days" of glassjaw, but Iv never seen a video of u in gj exept recent shit.

Answer: just from the same area, unless you can find some videos from 98 or 99 your probably only gonna see me from 05 on

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: duh-raja... should marajuana be legalized in the states?

Answer: abso-fuckin-lutely. but i doubt that will happen any time soon. the people who make booze and smokes and pills don't want the competition, and also god forbid a country of brown people should have a way to boost their standard of living

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: I ask alot of stupid questions under aleis? names. thanks for answering them and shit. means more than you will ever know :)

Answer: i try to have fun with it. i usually succeed

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: Im not gay, but i think i like saves the day.

Answer: oh dear, it won't be long now until your living in San Francisco in the tenderloin district, drinking expensive white wine through the zipper in your bondage hood,  picking up mid-western republican senators at leather bars  to have your way with in airport bathrooms. it's sooooooooooooooooo weird that just listening to saves the day has that effect.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: do you like dave matthews band?

Answer: they have their moments

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: Been busy? walk us through a day in the life of Durijah. From what you've told us it would seem as if you wake up, get toasted on bourbon, smoke 9 packs of marlboro reds, and answer some questions on here.

Answer: your not far off, i also consume an unhealthy amount of coffee before the bourbon (on most days at least). recently my activities have included waking up on random lawns surrounded by cops, getting hit by drunk drivers, lying to strangers, making weird fucking music in a cabin in the middle of the woods, fighting the urge to blow up a propane canister with a rifle, giving in to the paranoid state that comes with spending more time in long island than i should, reading some books, etc. it's hard to walk through a day when you don't have any constants in your life.

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: Naked.

Answer: green machine

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: would you ever run across an entire city butt naked and covered in neon paint for all the cupcakes in the world? (God im stupid)

Answer: im not sure i feel the same affection for cupcakes as you do. like steven wright says "you can't have everything, where would you put it?"

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 10th 2008

Question: You haven't answered any new questions in like five days! Are you ok? What's wrong? Are you mad at us?

Answer: nah man, been busy

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 8th 2008

Question: Hey dudes, I'm sure you guys have plenty of vegetarian/vegan friends being in the music biz...do you all have a variety of food options available to you at shows and on tour?..because I know from attending a lot of shows that I can NEVER find anything to eat around there except shitty nachos or pretzels. Beyond that, it seems like being on the road would cause you to have a very limited supply of healthy food to eat, so how do you all avoid becoming porkers while on tour?

Answer: it's tricky man, tour is the kind of living that totally messes with your body. the nutrition tends to be so poor that i personally end up craving salads, or just something green and leafy. they can be hard to find on tour, but it's so much worse for bands who are really struggling and paying their dues. if you have no personal cash because your always on tour making no money and no real steady job then your really screwed. if you get say five bucks a day to live off of you have to make calls that kinda leave you in a bad spot. water is important, so you buy a gallon jug of water for like 2 bucks. you now have three dollars left to spend on your food for the day. if you happen to be a smoker, sometimes that need totally wins the priority war. and whats more is small bands usually get no rider food and if they get anything it's usually a bag of tortilla chips and some crappy salsa. i guess thats kinda an answer to what you were asking. seriously tho, if there is a small band who tours their asses off and you like them, support them in any way you can because i can pretty much assure you that their life is really crappy. there is nothing quite as dismal as playing to an almost empty room where the majority of the people don't care about you or what your doing, then packing up getting stiffed on what you were supposed to be paid for the show not selling any merch and stressing out about if you have enough money for gas so you can get to the next city so you can play for ten more kids who don't know who you are, rinse repeat

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: duh-raja...Despite the nuges political views that im most positive you highly disagree with, all that aside...would you play drums on tour with himif he personally asked you?

Answer: ya know, while im sure it would be way more cred-tastic to say something like " no man, i would rather starve half to death in the desert in the middle of the summer in a van with broken air conditioning than sell out and play for that guy" thats not what im gonna say. being able to survive without having to consider things like mugging wealthy college students to be able to purchase eggs so you can eat one crappy meal a day is more important to me now. i would totally do that for the money and the story. i have spent a really long amount of time way below the poverty line and often homeless to be able to make music that i loved. while i don't regret a day of it, after ten years of neglecting my health and general well being to do what i was passionate about i kinda feel like i have pushed that kind of life as far as i can. if i can keep myself alive doing something im not super thrilled about and have that finance my venture into music that nobody gives a shit about then it's totally worth it

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: Just letting you know, they didn't have any cake mix at 7-Eleven... I'm taking your advice and going back there!

Answer: go get em killer, maybe you should start selling cake mix outside of the seven eleven. that will teach em

Answered by angry grrrr- raja on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: dont you hate being bored, and just leaving weird shit under these q&a, under weird names. have you listened to new h20. sooo goooooood.

Answer: i actually kinda like it. it's quite a good time when im drunk and my insomnia is killin me. i actually haven't heard it, but i can't wait to

Answered by samuel clemens on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: I'm watching Shark Week on the discovery channel. Why aren't you?

Answer: sponge bob is on

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: I would really like to see you guys play with weezer again... any chances of that happening in the near future?

Answer: rivers said he won't take us out on tour again until we all graduate from Harvard like he did

Answered by duxurijehskaha on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: How do you decide which questions to answer?

Answer: magic 8-ball. thats why my answers are weird and make almost no sense and tend to go on tangents and then i wake up the next day and my nose hurts and i swear off the magic 8-ball for good. this time i mean it

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: do you like to poop or pee better

Answer: depends on who it's going on

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: neil peart over rated? yes, agreed. now, what is your opinion on carter beauford?

Answer: great drummer, tends to over play quite a bit. but i can definately see why people dig his stuff

Answered by duh-raja on Aug 2nd 2008

Question: Where can I submit my Saves the Day tattoo picture?

Answer: Rj,     You can email them to steven@savestheday.com and I'll gladly post them for you. -Steven (the nerd)

Answered by Steven on Aug 1st 2008

Question: Do they sell cake mix at 7-Eleven?

Answer: i don't see why they wouldn't. they sell all sorts of other random baking items there, like bread crumbs. i actually bought some bread crumbs there a few weeks back, i didn't need them but i thought it might help make the genius who decided to stock bread crumbs feel better about his poor decision. i can only imagine the logic involved in deciding they needed to stock bread crumbs, "i mean what if someone is making chicken cutlets at like five in the morning and they realize that they don't have enough bread crumbs? where are they gonna go? 7-11 thats fuckin where! god i am the smartest man alive." so i guess what im trying to say is that there are probably a lot more people who are stoned or high and want cake mix at stupid hours of the night then there are people in need of bread crumbs. so i would have to say they prolly be havin some cake mix and maybe even some brownie mix too. if they don't it's now your job to mock them relentlessly by purchasing the most random items in the store, like a baby shoe, some miracle grow, and some bread crumbs. as your checking out be sure to tell them about how "you were making chicken cutlets and  your baby's left shoe fell into the egg mix when you weren't looking and you ended up breading it by accident and now you didn't have enough bread crumbs to finish breading the chicken and now your baby wouldn't stop crying because you ruined it's kicks which reminded you that all your plants were dying" follow it up with some sort of  " i didn't know if i would be able to find all the things i needed at this hour, but fortunately for me the people who make the purchasing decisions for your store are bat shit crazy! thanks 7-11"

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 31st 2008

Question: D, I totally agree with you when you say dave looks like a yale professor with a turtleneck on... when him and chris played an acoustic set at rutgers, he wore one and I totally agree with you... but here's a slightly different viewpoint- he was also wearing a scarf to top it off so I'm pretty sure he could have passed as a law professor at harvard... not a question but oh well.

Answer: or a theater professor at Stanford?

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 31st 2008

Question: Detroit Rock cirty loves saves the day...does saves the day love Detroit Rock city??

Answer: i love me some d-town

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 31st 2008

Question: This year Seven Mary Three and Sponge are playing at the county fair. Last year Skid Row played. Now my question to you is, how come you haven't played the fair yet?! The town pays handsomely. If you did play here I would throw in some home cooked meals and I'd buy you guys tickets to ride the rides. I think that's a good deal.

Answer: county fair seems kinda general. which county are you ralking about? .  

Answered by corn dog on Jul 31st 2008

Question: d-do u evert play rush covers in your down time? I know u dig those drums...

Answer: ok here we go, i hate rush, and i think neil peart is probably one of the most over rated drummers possibly ever. let the hate mail start .............................now

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 31st 2008

Question: Is Saves the Day a religious band at all?

Answer: we play music religiously. im not sure if thats really the same thing tho

Answered by tha dope pope yall! on Jul 29th 2008

Question: Daybreak???

Answer: rhymes with gay cake or date rape or flay mape? im not sure what kind of response you were looking for

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 29th 2008

Question: Mccain or Obama? Or should i just shut up?

Answer: both

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 29th 2008

Question: Dave = beard Chris = beard Manny = beard Durijah = no beard So here's the question: When are you going to grow your beard so Saves The Day can finally become a full bearded band and finally being playing the music that you were all destined to do - indie alt-country bluegrass?

Answer: never and here's why. ya know how some people look distinguished with a beard? like say dave, put him in a turtle neck and he could pass for a yale english professor. now if i grew the same amount of beard regardless of the clothing i was wearing i look homeless. seriously,if i asked someone on the street for the time, even if i was wearing a suit im pretty sure all i would get out would be "excuse me" before i was cut off with "i don't have any change"

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 29th 2008

Question: Hey Durijah, Do you really record cymbals seperate than the drums like on the DVD? If so, do you find that challenging?

Answer: i think i only did it for like one song. but yeah, it's really weird and screws with your feel

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 29th 2008

Question: How much wood Would a wood chuck chuck... If a wood chuck was Durijah?

Answer: just enough not to get fired?

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 29th 2008

Question: Do you think we are going to destroy the world in the next four years? I'm always surrounded by 2012 conspiracy nuts.

Answer: i think the world will be just fine, we on the other hand, are probably all gonna die due to our indifference towards our surroundings. i don't know about 2012, but at some point it seems like we're gonna end up making the planet uninhabitable. in the long run tho, i would say that humanity is the cosmic equivalent of a 24 hour virus. the earth will deal with the bug and move on.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 28th 2008

Question: hi, im from mexico. If you ever come to mexico, would you eat some tacos and drink some Tecates or Coronas with me?

Answer: throw in some horchata and tequila and you my friend have got a deal.

Answered by vicente fox on Jul 28th 2008

Question: is it really 5:00 somwhere?

Answer: well i guess that depends on what kind of theories you subscribe to. if you believe what you have been told about time and time zones in the world then i guess it would probably always be 5:00 somewhere, although you might need a boat to have that be a good rationalization for your problem drinking. even more troubling is the idea presented by many quantum physicists that time doesn't really exist and that the illusion that we perceive as time is caused by a flaw in our perception that does not let us see that everything is happening at once.(at least not in practice) if your more smitten with this theory than it could be argued that it's never 5:00 anywhere and your just a out of control drunk who can only deal with events in a linear pattern and and uses the rationalization of time to bolster the rationalization that "it's always 5:00 somewhere" to excuse his or her crutch of drinking so that they can stay drunk enough to never have to consider the idea that everything is happening at the same time   i hope that clears things up for you

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 26th 2008

Question: I'VE GOT A MONKEY! WANT TO GET IT DRUNK?

Answer:  hells yeah i do! we can get that daggum monkey drunk and make him dance for us, all slow like.

Answered by jessie helms on Jul 26th 2008

Question: How often do you normally arrive in a city before a show, and what do you normally do once you get there, as far as site seeing or recreation?

Answer: i don't have a catch all answer for this. all i can say is we usually get there between 24 and 6 hours before a show, and someone is usually taking a nap or playing video games

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 25th 2008

Question: you are all beautiful human beings.

Answer: you're way too kind, thank you

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 25th 2008

Question: when can we expect the new STD album or just the Two Tongues Album? also did you wanna read this when you say jesse lacey wrote it (identity theft!)?

Answer: you can expect them whenever you want, but you'll get them when we're done. and i totally wanted to read this when i saw jessie wrote it, he's usually a pretty clever word smith. you got me this time bizarro jessie lacey

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 25th 2008

Question: Durijah, where do babies come from?

Answer: they come from being drunk and irresponsible,  or quixotic perceptions of life due to being in love, or sex-ed budget cuts. actually no matter what you do your probably gonna end up with a baby as the outcome. don't change your oil on time = baby cheat on your sat's = baby get drunk and forget to brush your teeth before going to sleep = baby so yeah, i guess what im trying to say is that baby's can come from anywhere and anytime. they gonn ge cha  

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 25th 2008

Question: You know, I've been listening to you guys for a pretty long time now. Not one of your albums has let me down. One of my favorite tracks is the live version of Jessie and My Whetstone. You guys planning on putting out a live concert cd?

Answer: anything is within the realm or possibility. even putting out a record performed in a black hole and recorded from just outside. granted it would be pushing the boundaries or minimalism, as nothing of substance can escape from a singularity that is applicable to an event horizon. at any rate what i suppose im getting at is that we're pretty into new ideas

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 25th 2008

Question: D or C- I'm thinking of buying a new guitar in the next month or so. Any recommendations?

Answer: acoustic or electric? budget? on the acoustic front anything martin or taylor is usually a solid guitar. electric, i tend to be a gibson nerd. really tho," a poor craftsman blames his tools". granted i sound like a dad now, probably because i had this phrase pounded into my head on a regular basis as a youngster. at any rate, while great instruments can surely provide a refined quality to someone who is a good player that same person should be able to sound good on lesser instruments as well. k, im done preaching

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 25th 2008

Question: if STD was a real std, what would it be? i put my money on chlamydia, because you guys give me a cheesy white discharge =D

Answer: wow that was absolutely the most disturbing thing i have read in the past week. i dunno, probably some shit that we don't even know about yet. i would say aids but thats not catchy enough. good luck with your obgyn

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 24th 2008

Question: Where was the picture taken on the cover of Under the Boards?

Answer: out back on the paramount lot in hollyweird. it's actually the same tree from the cover of "big fish". shhhhhhh don't tell Tim Burton.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 24th 2008

Question: Who would you rather have in bed: Rosie O'Donnell or Dennis Rodman?

Answer: why those two? were you reading old tabloids or something? did you meet doc brown? did you go back to the future? do you now have Parkinson's  disease as a result of too much time spent near the flux capacitor?  ummmmmmmmmmmm Rodman. actually ya know what? why don't you just inject blood contaminated with aids directly into my ephemeral artery? i think i would sleep better

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 24th 2008

Question: Can one of you silly boys tell me a nice bed-time story?

Answer: just go lay down dear and i'll be in to tuck you in and read you a story in a minute

Answered by mom on Jul 24th 2008

Question: what came first, the chicken or the egg? also, is it true that some of the band tries to be vegetarian when possible?

Answer: i was here first, the egg is a liar! don't eat me!

Answered by chicken on Jul 24th 2008

Question: is it pets-mart or pet-smart?

Answer: pet-smrt

Answered by homer simpson on Jul 24th 2008

Question: Durijah, you seem like a smart guy, right? So I was wondering if you have any advice for me. Just like in general. Like life lessons or words of wisdom or whatever you want to call it. Just like how to be successful and do what you enjoy for a living and all that junk. Got any you'd like to share?

Answer: dude you might be giving me more credit than i deserve. i mean i think im better off than when i was younger, because i used to think i knew everything. at least at this point in time im at least aware that i don't know anything, which is a good starting point for gettin your learn on. i don't really have a master plan, my life is about as close to impulsive chaos driven madness  as you can get without totally undermining your goals. i guess i just think that so much of life is bleak, depressing and terrifying that i try to enjoy as much as i can. in my particular case this comes at the expense of having any illusion of security or nice things other than my drums. as bad of an idea as that is, it's worth it to me because of how much i enjoy it. that being said, when i see a drunken homeless guy on the street i almost can't help but feel like im looking into the future. im sure this probably leaves you with no new ideas to apply to your life, but im not tony robbins and im not sellin anything. as far as i can see everything comes down to what your willing to give up for what you want.  like the corporate lawyer who has really nice stuff but has estranged kids and wife because of the stupid hours he works. or the dumb ass drummer who can't maintain any serious attachments and has nothing to show for the stupid hours he puts in, but he enjoys every second of it

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 24th 2008

Question: listening to saves the day and bruce springsteen makes me want to drive somewhere far to get awesome pizza. can you explain why?? im getting fat.

Answer: i know the feeling, i lived in north carolina for three years and the best they had to offer was in my opinion "toy pizza". true story, i got so drunk once that i blacked out and threatened my then girlfriend that i was going to drive back to new york among other things that im not so proud of. i suspect pizza may be to blame for this, either that or copious amounts of booze. at any rate, you should never drive drunk even if good pizza is at stake.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 17th 2008

Question: D- whats the story with the glass in food at ihop????

Answer: okay here we go, i rented a car and drove up to nor-cal from hollyweird before tour a few months ago. because david is a fairly together human, he scheduled  flights so that i could pick up manny from the airport on the way up. this was a perfect plan or borderline genius until some lady on manny's flight turned out to be completely out of her mind and managed to delay the flight by a few hours. Now if you know anything about me at all your aware of the two things i have in common with Sammy Hagar, one i have an unhealthy relationship with tequila, and two "im a wild man, i can't drive 55". that being said i got up to the airport way faster than i needed too considering the insanity that had occured on manny's flight, so i pulled off on an exit to find a place to kill some time. i ended up pulling off in a town that probably only existed because there was a big airport a few miles away. now at 12 at night (or morning if you wana split hairs and argue semantics), not too many things are open in the nor cal area. i drove around for a little before seeing an ihop, glowing like a beacon of light and decided to stop and get some coffee and salad. now i know, "who the fuck goes to ihop for salad?" and aside from the one time i did i can't really answer that question, there has to be some demographic who loves them some ihop salads because otherwise their just wasting space for new artery clogging goodness. but i digress, i ordered a greek salad that came with french bread. the french bread was pretty decent, but then after a bite of that i bit into the salad. the first bite was sub-par at best, but what the fuck would you expect at nearly 1am in god knows where califonia at ihop, but it didn't seem life threatening at this point so i continued. the next bite was at first as underwhelming as the previous bite, but as i continued to chew i felt something that was more cruncherific than any vegetable i had previously encountered. now i am from new york and i doubt we rank high on the nations list of fresh crunchy vegetables but this made a crouton seem like pre-chewed baby food. so i spit it into my napkin for closer examination, "oh fuck thats glass" was my first thought. i was just throwing my napkin of glass salad into my bowl as the waitress came over to ask me how everything was. i told her about my problem and presumably in a panic she took the salad back and asked me if i would like another salad. my first reaction was to laugh like a mental patient at the suggestion and ask if she was fuckin kidding, but i just said no, as working the over night at an ihop in the middle of nowhere is probably not the job that keeps the revolver out of your mouth. now i know that i totally could of sued, and im probably an idealistic idiot for not considering the fact that im borderline destitute, but i have no desire to be a part of the frivolous law suits that are ruining our already flawed legal system. so i guess the point to take away from this is that you should get pancakes from ihop and keep your desire for salad under wraps until you get to cheesecake factory.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 17th 2008

Question: you know what would be a reallyy epic tour? STD, Say Anything, and Andrew W.K . seriously. :D

Answer: party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party part party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party party

Answered by andy double you kay on Jul 17th 2008

Question: Favorite record from 2008 so far?

Answer: either the portishead record or the new he is legend demos which i think are up on their myspace and are awesome im not sure if they count, but me likey http://www.myspace.com/heislegend

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 17th 2008

Question: How awesome is Dr.Manhattan?

Answer: awesometacular!

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 17th 2008

Question: Durijah, what do you want for your birthday?

Answer: a pony.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 17th 2008

Question: D. If this is the truth. Someone secretly told me it was your birthday via cock suck. So. Happy Birthday. 8====D~~ ... exactly.

Answer: thanks dooder, love the syntax in your opening sentence.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 17th 2008

Question: Tattoos. Who's got em and what are they?

Answer: i got em, they're awesometastic

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Dag Nasty cover?

Answer: we did one, it's on can't fall down. kinda rare, but some dude is sellin a copy on ebay

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: I have two questions that you guys probably don't hear very often. One, what is your least favorite song to play live? Two, does the 'Jesse' taunt ever get annoying?

Answer: free bird sucks to play live, that song is at least five minutes longer than it needs to be. we get it you can play a solo on the same notes forever.     i don't know how to play jesse, so it kinda stings when people point out my short comings. it's like putting on a grass skirt and taunting a broken lawnmower.  

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: not a question just a response to duh-raja....sorry man i didnt see it was just you recently my bad......i can be more patient haha.....also, your a bad ass drummer!

Answer: not a problem, just wanted to address the situation. thanks duder

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: you guys are amazing and incredible and like nuts and berries but would a simple thank you for your music suffice? or do you like to hear that every two out of three people who have listened to saves the day consider their individual lives here on earth saved by your peculiar sentiment? im sorry if this cameof sarcastic or asshole-ish i didn't intend for that.

Answer: thank you is just fine and right back at cha. glad we can brighten peoples day

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Well for one, Saves the Day is one of the only bands that I can listen to whenever I want and never get tired of it. My question is what genre of music would you classify yourselves as? Thank you

Answer: gangster pop

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: what do you all do to make money when you're not touring/making an album? basically, how do you guys survive?

Answer: i run a small company that manufactures clever cardboard signs for panhandlers. 

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: will daybreak rise out of the depths of sorrow and completely destroy everyone in its path? p.s. i really like your new genre (speed metal played really slow)

Answer: it's gonna be like the rapture except everyone is invited to ascend to heaven and there isn't any need for all the fire and brimstone and flying skulls and giant Dick Cheney.  everyone loves speed metal, even jesus. underoath told me

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: hows life saves the day? i might be the biggest std fan in the whole of australia. gets pretty lonely sometimes. well, not because you know, but i don't know anyone else. what do you think of austrlia D? lovelovelove :]

Answer: life is life-tacular. i love the idea of australia but i am terrified of the wildlife that exists there

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: When are you guys going to start covering R. Kelly's "Sex in the Kitchen"?

Answer: as soon  as we find some under age girls to pee on

Answered by m.c. pee pants on Jul 16th 2008

Question: d

Answer: -unit

Answered by fiddy on Jul 16th 2008

Question: may be asked, but, first song you ever wrote, how did you feel about it?

Answer: i was prolly really stoked about it. im sure it was terrible, but i didn't know

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: when u were in skool wat were u? nerd? class clown? jock? musicion or the goths/emos? i love u!!!! all of yall!!! ur my fav band in the whole wide world!!! my bday is on july 8 and it would mean the world if u cud email me or calll me :] or sumthing im 11 turning 12

Answer: i have no idea. i like to read so maybe nerd? but i also like music so musician? and i own some black t-shirts so maybe goth? it's all so confusing

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: If I were to have a party at my house would you all come to it? Would it seal the deal if there was a slip n' slide and a moon bounce?

Answer: only if you get andrew w.k. to come too. that dood knows a thing or two about partying.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Do you like the Arbiter

Answer: im gonna level with you. i have no idea who/what that is. i wasn't really paying attention for the last decade or so

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Hey guys, I feel stupid asking this - but am I not seeing the option to send you guys my tattoo picture? I'd love to have mine posted too.

Answer: dude i have no idea, all i know how to do at this point on here is write surely responses to questions that people ask in a drunken stupor at 5 in the am. i'll find out

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Did you guys realize that the release "Daybreak" will mark only the 2nd time that two consecutive Saves The Day records had the exact same line-up? Unless Chris leaves the band, then you guys have to get Dio to take over like Black Sabbath did...Regardless, psyched for the album, this is the best line-up the band's had anyway so this is a good thing!

Answer: are you daring me to quit?

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Why is in reverie always missing from the discography? even itunes.

Answer: because it's my favorite and therefore doomed to be obscure and hard to find

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Armor For Sleep or Set Your Goals?

Answer: this question is more loaded than i am. this is like asking someones mom which one of her kids she loves more. so on that note " i love them both the same *muah* "

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: So I Was Dancing To Your Music. And I Hit My Head On A Self. Do You Feel Bad Now?

Answer: how do you hit your head on a self? i guess i feel kinda bad, but look on the bright side at least you didn't hit your head on a shelf.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: I was thinking of writing you guys in when i vote for president in the upcoming election. just wanted to put you on notice so your not surprised if you win.

Answer: great, now when we win we'll all be so used to the idea that we'll look like we don't even care that we are all presidential and shit. O'riley  is gonna totally tear us apart now

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: AYE MANE, I"M FINNA GO IN THE POOL

Answer: don't forget to put on your floaties

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Why do you guys never come to new zealand? We love Saves the Day but you guys seem to hate us or something >.<

Answer: shit we don't not be not hating yall, we're just really scared of getting eaten by sharks or beat up by Russell Crow

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Duh-raja, McGovern isn't running. Better re-think that one. I'm voting for Barack Obama because I love giving my paycheck to the government so they can spend it on welfare and shitty health care. What about you?

Answer: im voting for the one that compromised all their ideals to get to the level of politics they are in

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Hey jumanjah, Are the employees at guitar center all assholes or is it just me? and what's your opinion on electric-drum kits?

Answer: im pretty sure thats a prerequisite for getting a job there as i have friends who work there and if their friends with me it stands to reason that they are most likely assholes. i know that was a job requirement at Tower back when i worked there. im also pretty sure that they have Stephen Hawking design all their buildings so that even the most simple transaction will take a freakish amount of time. thats why you go to buy a drum key real quick and emerge three hours later. it's all in "Brief history of time" if your interested in better understanding the principals of the universe and consequently guitar center. i like electric kits for practice or a quick demo so i don't have to spend three hours programing the drum part i could play in five minutes. i wouldn't ever want to use one live, but it's a good tool. actually probably forces you to play cleaner so that you don't  doubble trigger the sounds or miss the tiny pads  

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Durijah, do you have any hobbies besides answering questions that were directed to Chris? Haha, I'm only joking with you, your answers are quite lovely too.

Answer: oh you know, i be gettin my read on and shit.  i also like to get drunk and walk excessive distances in the wee hours or the morning for no good reason. i like to pet cats sometimes. i like to create totally avoidable drama in my life, preferably involving women who for reasons that are unclear are drawn to my drunken incoherent and often unreasonable shinanagins like priests to alter boys.  around christmas time i like to rent an easter bunny costume and attack mall Santas. i like riding my bicycle. i like to paint portraits of Bill O'riley dressed in drag, while riding a unicycle, and juggling sex toys. i have completed 36 of them now, their not for everyone but their a great conversation piece. sometimes i like to call random numbers in Darfur and just drink water and eat potato chips really loudly until they hang up, then i usually call the number back and in my best jock voice i say "USA USA USA, O'Doyle rules!!!!" and then i hang up. oh i like to play guitar too. so yeah stuff like that

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: When is Daybreak coming out? not soon enough i suppose...

Answer: if "tomorrow is much too late"  than yes it's not coming out soon enough. get it? god i kill me puns are evil, sorry the devil made me do it

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: just so you know, Russell Crowe is in Sydney right now. (And if Crowe comes after y'all, people will Gladiator his ass, I'll make sure of that) So if you ever get down here.. Megadeth/Slayer/Anthrax/S.O.D cover played really slow? And one more question: Frodus or Jawbox?

Answer: ok cool, that bastard is out of control. thanks for getting rid of him now you just gotta deal with the sharks, snakes, and spiders. dude, south of heaven ala lounge singer? or maybe medusa ? always jawbox unless you pick someone really awesome to put them up against

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: It's raining hardcore at my house... you want to come dive in puddles with me?

Answer: maybe im being a nervous nancy, but im not sure it's safe to dive in puddles. considering the kiddy pool i bought a few years ago had a warning about the dangers of diving into it and consequently breaking your neck, im not sure a puddle would be adequate for diving as kiddy pools tend to dwarf most puddles and im really into not having a broken neck lately (i know, it's trendy. but i like it) . aside from my safety concerns i would love to dive into puddles with you. i hope i didn't ruin anything for you  

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: "everyone loves speed metal, even jesus. underoath told me" hahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahaa best show you have ever been to. 1,2,3 GO.

Answer: they did, i don't know enough about the guy to argue no matter how unlikely it seems. but they hang out

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 16th 2008

Question: Is that thing loaded?

Answer: always

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 15th 2008

Question: Any chance of a Stryder reunion one day?

Answer: i wouldn't hold your breath.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 14th 2008

Question: Today is Bastille day, and more importantly, my birthday. Tell me you love me?

Answer: you know i do baby

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 14th 2008

Question: Isn't it an amazing thing...how cannabis helps with the effects of chrons and ulcerative colitis!? Amazing thing it is! Make everyone aware!

Answer: wait a second, this seems like a trick question. kinda like when a cop pulls a drunk person over and asks them the recite the alphabet backwards, hoping to get the response "i can't even do that sober". you a fucking narcotics agent! i knew it! sneaky swine

Answered by karl rove on Jul 14th 2008

Question: how do you feel about donating your organs? do it

Answer: im all for donating organs. And as much as this was a really great setup for a totally crude and perverse answer, im going to take the moral high road and tell you what i actually think. once your dead, who cares what happens to your innards? granted i suspect that i may have ruined mine beyond repair at this point, but if they can help someone who is in need im all for it. and i'll go you one further, i think bill hicks wasn't totally off his rocker in saying that old people who are sitting in nursing homes pretty much waiting to die should be used in action movies as stunt doubles. do you want grandma waiting idly for the family that never comes to visit or would you rather her meet chuck noris? you know the native americans used every part of the buffalo. just sayin

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 14th 2008

Question: Are you guys gonna tour with Say Anything and Two Tongues this fall?

Answer: yeah, we're trying to put together a tour with rage against the machine, audioslave, and soundgarden  on the bill as well. fingers crossed

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 14th 2008

Question: Lifetime or Refused?

Answer: refused

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 13th 2008

Question: Is there any chance you guys will do another European tour? I'm asking this being 90% sure your reply will involve sarcasm and avoid any serious answer to the question. Ah well. P.s how many members of saves the day does it take to change a lightbulb?

Answer: dude we were just there last week. nobody showed up at the airport to pick us up so we flew home. p.s.- one member? do i win something?

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 13th 2008

Question: When you guys were in Reno for the Bamboozle Roadshow, did you guys hit up any casino's?

Answer: i walked into one, but the last thing i need is another vice

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 13th 2008

Question: Name a painful band breakup?

Answer: i was really bummed when faith no more broke up. is that even what you meant by that? i didn't really understand the question

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 12th 2008

Question: This is really more of an affirmation than a question, but here goes: A featured article on MSN posed the inquiry, "Why is bourbon the new 'trendy' drink?". Would it be proper procedure to respond back to the site saying simply 'Everyone wants to be as cool as Durijah'?

Answer: i think that might be kinda obscure in the grand scheme of things. but a few people might get it. people need to stop making the things i like trendy, driving up the cost of my medication. david told me this was starting to happen

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 12th 2008

Question: Durijah...are you picky about what kind of cymbals you play or do you just rock on whatever you can get your hands on?

Answer: i've been a zildjian kid my whole life

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 12th 2008

Question: Come back home to Jersey and play for me? K? Deal?

Answer: wait, we were just there. where were you?

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 11th 2008

Question: hey you should come to rochester. i need your autograph

Answer: no come to long island i need yours. the key to identity theft is all in the details.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 11th 2008

Question: Quick Question Fellas... Why is it that you guys' (or most other amazingly talented bands) rarely come to Indiana?

Answer: i really have no idea. is dancing banned there like that town in foot lose? disproportionately large deaf population? im grasping at straws. one thing i can tell you is the last show i remember playing in Indiana was at a bagel store in south bend about eight years ago. so your observation seems pretty on point to me

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 11th 2008

Question: beer pong partners next game?

Answer: can we use bourbon instead of beer? i like high stakes

Answered by duh-runkie on Jul 11th 2008

Question: Some day, when I run for office, one of your randomly selected songs is going to be the theme song for my campaign. Speaking of which, who are you voting for?

Answer: im voting for McGovern

Answered by richard nixon on Jul 10th 2008

Question: Do you play Wii?

Answer: oh hellz yeah we paly wii!!!! it's pretty much the best thing evers

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 10th 2008

Question: durijah youre pretty cool can we be bffs?

Answer: i don't see why not. wana get matching tattoos?

Answered by bff4eva on Jul 10th 2008

Question: so do you guys really save the day?

Answer: i don't think i can craft an answer that wouldn't come off as being dismissive and/or condescending for this one

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 9th 2008

Question: Jawbox or Burning Airlines?

Answer: thats totally not a fair question. both

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 8th 2008

Question: Why did i say "thanks" this morning when someone pointed at my shirt and said "that's a great band?" I didn't do anything to make you guys great. Sorry for taking credit where credit wasn't do. It was the one with the hand guarding the candle That's it!

Answer: i guess we'll let it slide this time.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 8th 2008

Question: Durijah, what brand of cigarettes do you prefer? I would think you smoke Kools, because you seem kool as hell. Also, after watching the DVD, you inspired me to work on my open-handed hi-hat style

Answer: i can't openly endorse a cigarette company they all suck. it would be like picking a favorite heroin dealer, or maybe a favorite person to receive a swift kick in the nuts from. the open hand thing seems like a good thing to know, i just kinda fell into it. but i have met people who say it has opened new doors for them once they figured it out

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: Durijah, did you ever listen to Saves the Day before you joined the group? If so, what's your favorite album/song? Also, how do you feel about people asking to take pictures wtih you?

Answer: yeah i got into in reverie and sta before i started playing with them. in reverie is my favorite record, favorite song might be hell is here tho.   pictures, im not sure how i feel about it. i avoid thinking about it to avoid having an anxiety attack

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: i have indigestion! what should i do? i listened to Under the Boards and my stomach still aches!

Answer: under the boards isn't the record we prescribe for temporary relief or acid reflux or indigestion. you were probably thinking of in reverie.in the future you should be more careful to read the suggested uses and dosages on our records.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: so durijah Steve Gadd or Vinnie Colaiuta?

Answer: if i had to pick i would probably go with vinnie. but stewart copeland  is twice as interesting as the both of them put together

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: Hello, i just read through some questions, and i want to reiterate someones point to maybe further the importance of it... Come back to Europe soon pleeease! love you guys

Answer: ok we're commin tomorrow. we'll be getting into heathrow at noon local time. you should be waiting at baggage claim holding a sign that says "bin ladden". if your late we're turning around and going home godspeed.  

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: ily

Answer: illy

Answered by say on Jul 7th 2008

Question: last day on earth...what are you eating for breakfast...for lunch...for dinner...for dessert?

Answer: bourbon......acid.......heroin...............shotgun shell

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: I just downloaded Batman: Gotham Knight. It's 3:52am and I have to get a root canal tomorrow at 10am. Should I watch it? Please get back to me promptly.

Answer: apparently our server has some lag in getting questions to us or you live in a different time zone. either way i hope your teeth are ok

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: Ever met another Durijah?

Answer: met no, i know there is an Islamic fundamentalist woman who has the same name, and i heard a story of a little kid on a table at chuckie cheese who's mom was yelling "durijah get off the table" which sounds about right. aside from that no, although i have had friends threaten to name their kids durijah which i think is the making for a bad scene

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: will you listen to my music? i listen to yours, its only fair

Answer: send it to me, but don't expect me to pull any punches.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 7th 2008

Question: Denny's or ihop?

Answer: i have never had glass in my food at denny's. so yeah

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 4th 2008

Question: if a tree falls in the forest what happens if nobodys around to hear it?

Answer: the other trees point and laugh

Answered by garry larson on Jul 4th 2008

Question: should i worry about death?

Answer: nah man, thats like worrying about terrorism. worry about clowns, they're the greater threat. they are everywhere

Answered by john wayne gacy on Jul 4th 2008

Question: so my baby's mama ......

Answer: if you are the person who's question started out like this, please write me at durijah@savestheday.com. this doesn't belong on the board due to the intensely personal nature and the gravity of the situation. but not responding isn't an option

Answered by duh-pressed on Jul 4th 2008

Question: Dog Whisperer? Survivorman or Man vs. Wild? House music or Trance music? 4chan?

Answer: dog whisperer on mute with trance music playing in the background

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 4th 2008

Question: whos your favorite nascar driver?

Answer: anyone who hit's a wall at 190 mph is in that moment my favorite nascar driver

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 2nd 2008

Question: glassjaw or saves the day?

Answer: bill and ted"s excellent adventure    or       bill and ted"s bogus journey?

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 2nd 2008

Question: chris...do you have saves the day on your ipod? do you ever listen to your own songs for the heck of it

Answer: hahaha, actually yes i do have saves the day on my iPod, although under the info for the songs i make sure to click the "skip during shuffle" setting!  (it can be a little unsettling when you're rocking out to fela kuti and suddenly "collision" comes on.  ha!)  i only listen to our music right after we have finished an album, or while we are recording.  in fact, while recording, i only listen to the music we are working on.  i listen to it over and over, digesting, getting ideas, recalibrating parts, fine-tuning.  and then i listen to it quite a lot once it is finished.  but after about a month or so, i'm ready to focus on the next album, and then i listen only to the saves the day songs currently in the creation stage.  last night i spent an hour listening to our new songs for daybreak.  quite good, i must say, in my opinion.  werd.

Answered by chris on Jul 2nd 2008

Question: whos your favourite superhero?

Answer: i dunno, maybe Jesus? the water to wine thing seems way more impressive than flying or turning green when you get mad.

Answered by duh-raja on Jul 2nd 2008

Question: When will your songs be available to play on Rock Band?! In My Waking Life would be so fun!

Answer: i dunno, it would be kinda rad. but kinda scary too, it would be such a bummer to keep being smoked at your own song by some 8 year old rock band prodigy in best buy.

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 28th 2008

Question: how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

Answer: 21,067.006310

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 28th 2008

Question: Not really a question but Durijah you have one of the best sense of humor ever. Right on man

Answer: thanks man, im no carrot top, but a boy can dream right?

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 28th 2008

Question: Durijah - I have to say that even though just about every time I see you guys play you're sporting a UNC jersey and I cringe (I'm a Duke fan), I can let it slide since you're an absolute beast at answering questions. And for the record, you can be Biggie instead of Tupac.

Answer: if it's any consolation at all, i don't really care about sports all that much. i just hate duke because i used to live in Durham right down the street from duke and worked at what might be regarded as a "duke bar".  seriously, the attitude that most of those kids have is out of control. but thanks for letting us be biggie, maybe p diddy will sign us to bad boy now. sizzy tha dizzy

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 28th 2008

Question: Do you guys ever rock to your favorite cd's in your underpants anymore??

Answer: do blue feetie pajamas coun't? if they do then yes

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 28th 2008

Question: D. what's your top 3 favorite saves the day songs to play right now?

Answer: probably- hold, hell is here, and always ten feet tall. but it's kinda hard to choose, i have a lot of fun playing them all.

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 28th 2008

Question: Where did my question go?

Answer: here it is

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 26th 2008

Question: Imagine for a second that Saves The Day is Tupac... who is your Biggie? Or you guys are Jay-Z... who is your Nas? Just know I've got your back, dawgs ;)

Answer: can we be biggie? pretty please with shug knight on top?

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 26th 2008

Question: it's awesome you answer questions all the time..thanks my question today is in regards to sci-fi. i heard some of you like it! my favorites shows are Firefly and Stargate. my favorite movies lately have been Children of Men and Sunshine. What are your favorites?

Answer: haven't seen children of men yet, heard it was sick tho. sunshine was pretty awesome. if you have never seen 12 monkeys or brazil you should prolly get on it

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 26th 2008

Question: Hey this is in regards to Joe's question on May 22nd.... Why do you even post that on the site... I can see where he is coming from saying the music has changed.. but he needs to realize as the person holding the pen and guitar the music will change as well... keep doing what you are doing it has saved my life...including every album not just one ore two of them....Thank you

Answer: i posted it because, i found the wording of his complaint to be kinda silly and quite telling. one because he used "GAY emo" and "PUNK emo" and thats the kind of language you might expect to hear from a middle school kid who isn't comfortable with his emotions. and personally i think the word emo to describe music is kinda redundant. if it's supposed to be short hand for emotional music, what would the opposite be? even the more cerebral music that i have been into over the years have seemingly been trying to get across some feeling. i dunno, i like what we do. maybe i shouldn't of posted it, but even if i didn't post it the sentiment still exists. the reality is that not everyone is going to be into the artistic direction you choose to head in. you kinda have to learn to be ok with that or else your screwed. that being said, glad you like what we do

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 26th 2008

Question: would you guys ever switch instruments on a song? no like weezer switching, but like radiohead switiching.

Answer: it's been mentioned in passing, if it will actually happen is debatable

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 26th 2008

Question: I asked a question a while back and it never got answered but a bunch of other peoples did. how come?

Answer: hey man, i have been trying to answer as many questions as possible. however there are questions that are either addressed to someone in particular or are questions that i either don't know the answer to or don't feel like i should be answering considering how short of a time i have been playing with std.

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 26th 2008

Question: Do labels provide band's with health care? Do you have to get your own. I've heard about so many bus, van, and show accidents, what do you do!

Answer: i don't know if any of us have health care. if ya get injured ya just gotta pour some tussin on it

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 25th 2008

Question: PLEASE READ THIS and stop making GAY emo music and go back to the more PUNK emo. Im not tryin to hate i just think every CD " sound the alarm" is so much better. I think you would sell so many more records if u guys just went back to your roots and did more shit like that. You guys are the greatest. Thanks - JOE

Answer: is "GAY emo" a real genre? does the GAY portion always need to be capitalized?

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 25th 2008

Question: Do you still listen to Jawbreaker? What is your favorite song?

Answer: "i love you so much it's killing us both" is absolutely amazing.

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 25th 2008

Question: How you guys doing? Just a little question...Do you think you'll come play in Europe some day??

Answer: we would love to, with a little luck we'll make it back across the pond

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 25th 2008

Question: This question is for all the members of Saves the Day(hopefully everyone is able to answer!) What did ya'll want to be career wise before playing and performing music for a living?

Answer: i used to wana be a fireman/astronaut/doctor/president/g.i.joe, i dunno it just seemed unrealistic. maybe one day

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 25th 2008

Question: What's your favorite descendents album?

Answer: i know it's blasphemy but i think "everything sucks" is amazing.

Answered by duh-raja on Jun 25th 2008

Question: canada loves saves the day but why doesn't saves the day love canada?

Answer: dude we totally love canada. i love canada so much that im gonna go sit through that new shitty mike myers movie just because he's one our neighbors to the north. then im going to drink canadian whiskey mixed with canada dry