Disa: Okay, from Sarah in California.
Andrew: Oooh.
Disa: How do you feel about this whole new direction that both the bands are going into?
Andrew: What's the direction?
Disa: I dunno, I guess they're both getting pretty famous...
Andrew: But direction... direction like, musical, or...?
Disa: Whatever you think it means.
Andrew: I just feel pretty good about everything. I feel like both bands musically have gone in a really good direction. I'm just really enjoying everything and it's been fun. Hard on my body, but fun.
Disa: Okay, from Danny in Connecticut. How do you come up with the names of the songs? Like So Peter, You've Become A Pirate?
Andrew: Oh, that's all Eric. Yeah, Eric just comes up with all of them and it's really funny 'cause he thinks a lot more in depth about that type of stuff so like I'll write something and I'll give it to him and he'll be like "Ah, dude, this is perfect, I have this great name for it." And I'm like "Weird, I was just gonna name it... uh, batteries. I dunno..."
Disa: Okay.
Andrew: Dude, I dunno. I'm sorry.
Disa: Haha, no it's okay. From Danny in Connecticut again. Honestly, where is your favorite place to play?
Andrew: Honestly where is my favorite place to play... well. I really do like playing Connecticut. Which is... not that weird. It's always really good. We have like, a lot of friends there and they're all really funny. Some of them cry when we play it and I find that kind of humorous. And uh, other than that... I love playing Houston. And Austin. But mainly Austin 'cause I just like being in Austin. But Houston and Connecticut are up there.
Disa: What about Seattle?
Andrew: Seattle is awesome. Seattle's always a given 'cause it's home. I thought they meant like, other than that.
Disa: Okay, from Karina in California. Andrew, I love you and your music. I see you as a great person all around and and love what your music does to me, it's a nice feeling. I'd love to know what are some of your favorite bands to listen to?
Andrew: Oh, wow. Um, some of my bands that are my favorite to listen to... I really, um... it's crazy. I dunno, I like a lot of bands... I like a lot of artists. I love Ryan Adams. I love the Get Up Kids... anything that their singer does, he has like two other projects. One's called The New Amsterdam and he put up a solo record as Matt Pryor and I love him. And uh, I dunno. I like everything. I love Maroon 5, and uhhh, I really like The Maine.
Disa: True that, brothaaa.
Andrew: It's like a really random one to throw in there, but I feel like it's all good. Alright, so what's the next one?
Disa: From Kayla in Illinois, what was your inital reaction / feeling when you saw Eric for the first time in two years?
Andrew: It was crazy. I mean, it wasn't like... it was weird, but it wasn't weird. I saw him, and he came to my house with my friend Sammy, and that was just it. It was like... "oh you're home." I mean, I was excited and I had been waiting for him and I anticipated for so long and it was kind of just like we took of where we left off and it was almost like he never had left.
Disa: Okay, from Jessica in New York. If you were a kitchen appliance, what would you be and why?
Andrew: Uhhhhhh... I'd be a blender.
Disa: I totally called that. I was think about that earlier and I was like "he's gonna say a blender."
Andrew: I dunno, it just seemed like... well the first thing that came to my mind was an egg beater, but that was just the first thing that came to my mind. But a blender is so cool. Like, I dunno, 'cause you can put anything in a blender and it just blends it, it's sick. There's these really funny videos on YouTube and it's called uh... I think you can find it with like, "does it blend?" And it's about these industrial blenders, and they put like baseballs and iPods inside of them and stuff and at the end they're like "does it blend?" And they're the funniest videos... like, they did like a golf club... it's a serious blender.
Disa: And it actually blends things?
Andrew: Yeah.
Disa: Golf club smoothie. Okay, from Margaret in Missouri. Do you remember pink drank? Not orange drank, but pink drank?
Andrew: Pink drank... oh my gosh, yes. And Marg--yes. Of course I remember that girl. I'm pretty sure she came to our show and she was there with a group of girls, one of them I believe her name was Maggie who like, draws pictures. And she had this gallon thing of like... pink drank. It's not juice, 'cause it's like sugar... Kool-Aid, that you can buy at the store. It's pink drank. It's hilarious. I was like, "wow... that's a lot of... fluid." She just had a large gallon of this pink Kool-Aid.
Disa: From Erica in California. Though you became well-known after Beauty In The Breakdown, what is the song you like the most or are the most proud of?
Andrew: I really like, we just released called Humans not too long ago and it's a song personally I really love. It's a song, for me especially, that hits a little closer to home. I wrote it about a family member and it's just, I dunno. I think it just turned out really well. I was really happy with it. Beauty In The Breakdown, though for some reason will always really catch me by surprise more than anything. Especially on this last tour 'cause we hadn't toured in so long and we saw a lot of these older fans that came out 'cause you know it had been like a long time since we toured. But at the same time, all these little kids that came out and still knew the song. And I was just like... there's something just, really crazy going on with this song. I don't know how it happened but it's just a surreal feeling. It's kind of weird.
Disa: Okay, from Megan in Virginia. What was your inspiration to get into music?
Andrew: Um, I dunno. I decided I wanted to be in a band in fourth grade and I played trumpet for a long time. And I think it was my seventh grade year, I was in Puerto Rico on a family reunion and my cousin was playing guitar and started teaching me how to play guitar and ever since then it was like oh, I wanna play guitar. And I started getting more into music and I fell in love with Blink 182 that year and then I met Nico. And then we started a Blink 182 cover band. And it just kinda went from there. I dunno, it starts with a little seed and grows from there.
Disa: Nice, uh... metaphor.
Andrew: Yes.
Disa: Okay, from Megan in Virginia. If you could perform with any artist or band, who would it be?
Andrew: Probably... Blink 182? Haha. Keep my fingers crossed! Uh, I love Blink 182, which is like... it just seems really funny coming out of my mouth. I dunno, I love them. I still have kind of a soft spot for Dashboard Confessional, though too. So that would be legit.
Disa: From Lindsay in New Jersey... Ironman or The Dark Knight?
Andrew: The Dark Knight.
Disa: From Lindsay in New Jersey again... NeverShoutNever! or The Honorary Title?
Andrew: Oh, that's a hard one. It depends on what mood I'm in. Is that an answer? Can I answer that way?
Disa: Yes, I guess.
Andrew: Okay, good.
Disa: From Lindsay... this was asked by two people. From Lindsay and DeAnna who are from New Jersey and South Carolina. If you never made it into the music business, what would you probably be doing?
Andrew: I'd probably be an elementary teacher.
Disa: What grade?
Andrew: I'm gonna say fourth or fifth. Still, I mean like, who knows? Maybe sometime in the near future, it might still happen. I really have no idea. I like kids. They're funny, honest, mean and I think it's hilarious.
Disa: From Lauren in Pennsylvania. What did you dream about last night?
Andrew: Um. I honestly don't remember. 'Cause like, last night we were driving 'til 6 AM and I got like 4 hours of sleep, I don't remember. I'm sorry.
Disa: Do you remember any dreams you've had recently? That are weird?
Andrew: Um. I dunno. I had this dream, like, last week that I was in this house and I walked into the kitchen and I was going to get some cereal and I'd go and pull out my spoon and my spoon was as big as the bowl. And I was sitting there with this huge spoon and I was getting really frustrated 'cause I couldn't eat with it 'cause it was too big to fit in the bowl. Which is kinda weird, I guess?
Disa: Maybe you should analyze that... like go online...
Andrew: I know. Spoons are too big. I do that sometimes.
Disa: I do too!
Andrew: I dunno, sometimes I'm like dude. For the longest time I was having really weird dreams about spiders and I'm really scared of spiders so I'd like, wake up and think there was spiders on me. And like, I would look up stuff about it. I've had lot of dreams about my teeth...
Disa: Me too! And like, they fall out?
Andrew: Like falling out... like, dissentegrating or something and then I wake up and I'm like...
Disa: I heard that's good luck, though. If you have a dream about your teeth falling out.
Andrew: Really? I dunno, I've heard other things.
Disa: Okay, well, I dunno where you're lookin', but...
Andrew: Alright... alright, girl!
Disa: Haha, from Jessica in Ohio. Why do you wear a gold band on your ring finger? Is there any special significance to it?
Andrew: It's my mom's. And uh, she gave it to me and I'm left handed and it just feels really weird on my right hand. And there's not really a meaning... it's just my moms. It's just a little piece of her I carry everywhere with me.
Disa: Okay, from Taylor in Lousiana. Are there any fans that you could never forget and if there is, why?
Andrew: Um, yeah. There's like, tons of fans everywhere that I'll never forget. It's always like... I'm a very forgetful person. I'm pretty good with faces, though, weirdly. But like, as far as like, names... there's always fans that you meet that for some reason really just pop out. Like, we had this girl and her name's Ashley and I've only met her once, but she came to our show and she was like "hey, I have a present for you guys." And I was like "aw, cool. What is it?" And she was like "well I can garuntee you've probably never had anything like this before." And she made us balloon animals. So that is one unforgettable fan. I dunno, we have some fans in Connecticut that are really close friends of ours now and I think the only reason I can never forget them is because whenever I look at them when we're playing, they're crying.
Disa: Okay, from Bailey in Ohio, what kind of guitar do you play?
Andrew: I am currently playing a Taylor 314 CE.
Disa: Okay, from Alina in Germany. Do you think you'll ever come to Germany? With either Eric or Danger Radio?
Andrew: I hope so. I would love to. I've heard really great things about it. I've heard you guys got a kickin' music scene. So I would like to go.
Disa: Okay, from Puja in California. Hey Andrew, have you ever thought about changing the name of The Scene Aesthetic? We all love it, but if you absolutely had to change the name, what would you change it to and why?
Andrew: Oh man, I have no idea. I'm not very good at naming things like I was saying before with the whole song names...
Disa: So it'd be Eric?
Andrew: So it'd probably be Eric. But weirdly enough, I named the band. It was my sophomore or junior year of high school we decided that we had to rename Danger Radio and I made this long list of names and it was like 4 o'clock in the morning. And The Scene Aesthetic was just one of the names on there and I kept it for a while. It's the only name that really stuck in my head so when Eric and I started playing music together, he was like "hey, we need a band name." And I was like "hey, weird, I got that name." Kinda cool. Hard to say, kids of trouble with it so they just call it TSA.
Disa: From Bianca in Texas. How does it feel to be touring with Eric again, and are you excited for the tour with Danger Radio?
Andrew: I'm very excited. We just started and it's been great. It's awesome and touring with Eric is awesome. It's completely different, it's a whole different animal. But it's a lot of fun. I love playing guitar, it's a huge thing for me and it's really chill. Both are really fun in different ways, it's cool.
Disa: From Maygen in North Carolina. How much money would you ask for a private concert, such as a birthday party?
Andrew: That honestly all depends... we are totally up to play whatever. It kinda depends on how far we have to travel and whether or not we're there at the time which makes things so much easier. So it kind of depends on a lot of things. There's a lot of contributing factors.
Disa: Okay, last question. From Suzanne in Florida, what is your middle name?
Andrew: I don't have one. Isn't that crazy?
Disa: Crazy.
Andrew: I come from a Hispanic family and usually what they'll do is the two first names type deal and I didn't get one and my sister did. But yeah... I don't have anything. I have two last names, so that makes up for it.