Thought this was a pretty interesting article...

Only somehow, it wasn't. Over the course of a weekend in Tallahassee, Brock proved to be a genuinely nice guy. He got me drunk and bought me cigarettes, he played me songs from Modest Mouse's upcoming album and we spent two nights wandering the halls of a Howard Johnson hotel (he had a knack for pointing out stains on the carpet — "This one's blood," I recall him lisping). When I left for the airport, he called me a "nice kid." It was the most surreal 48 hours of my life, capped off by me returning to my apartment in Brooklyn, unpacking my suitcase and realizing that Brock had totally stolen my hoodie. I laughed. It seemed that even when he was being cordial, Brock still had a bit of a--hole in him.

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They have clout — so much so that Heath Ledger wanted to work with them; so much so that they can release an odds-n-sods EP (No One's First and You're Next) and 27,000 people will buy it, even though some of the material on it is four years old.

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