There is a confession I have to make, though. Whenever someone would ask me what band I was listening to, either at work or wherever, I'd mention your name and then proceed to describe your sound as something like the lovechild of the music and sensibilities of Barenaked Ladies, the geek-rock groove of Weezer, and the smartness of 80s R.E.M. Okay, that would be one kid in need of therapy. How would you describe your music?

We call it arena rock for geeks because we all adore the bands that you just mentioned. We love the cleverness of a Weezer or REM song and the comedy of a Barenaked Ladies' number but we also love the trappings of a great rock 'n' roll band and all the ridiculous showmanship and foppishness that come with it. There's a time to be clever, a time to be blunt, a time to sing softly and beautifully, and a time for a face melting guitar solo and a bunch of E chords banged out. We try to mesh all the stuff we love into one thing and hope that other people like it too.

One of the things I'm intensely curious about, are your song titles. Much like the eternal question that concerns the chicken and the egg, which comes first… the song or the title? Do you name a song after it's been fleshed out, or have you ever had a great idea for a song title, and then went about creating a song that brought it to life?

Little bit of both. There's been songs that seem to have grown out of their title ("Meat Market," "Prozac Girl," "Don't Tell Me I Missed The War" in particular) and ones where just the idea of the song title, like "Heidegger" or "Sisyphus" seem to put a good capper on the theme of the song, whether the title's in the tune or not.

"Sisyphus' Rock" is in close contention for my favorite title, but "The Heidegger Paradox," "Mr. Foff," "Viking Funeral," "Don't Tell Me I Missed The War," and "Scott Bakula" are very close contenders. Are there any particular favorites of the band?

We love them all, but "Scott Bakula" and "Heidegger" seem to get the most double takes.

Okay, focusing on one song in particular, as a fan of Mr. Bakula and his work on Quantum Leap, where in the heck did that song come from? I just love it and I'll occasionally find myself humming the damn thing.

Lord of Illusions was on cable one day, and this was right before the Star Trek show with him came out and we were all monster fans of Quantum Leap. So we were just wondering whatever happened to Scott because we hadn't seen him in awhile. Plus he seems to embody certain qualities of masculinity that chicks love. He's macho and sensitive, smart but not afraid to take action. He's really Hamlet and Fortinbras rolled into one.