User blog comment:SodaCat/Style Chapter 5/@comment-26358727-20150706013054/@comment-26358727-20150706035114

Wow! You can almost feel the chest-tightening experience that Alexis is going through in the moment! It's an interesting time and place for all of these emotions to come unraveled, too - symbolic, even. It was great momentum for the most pivotal point of the story!

Oh! Well, I've called up Brand New just now and I'm giving "Jesus" a listen as we speak! I'll give "Sweater Weather" a go next. I'm a very music-oriented person, so just about everything I do is inspired by music. And I'm very open when it comes to what I listen to, so I'm willing to try anything once! ( :

I actually really liked the theme behind "Fourth of July" and it did give me a better glimpse of where you're going with Alexis, I think. It was a lot more lonely than I thought it would be, and I feel like that's going to play a big part in where her development is heading. It's very emotional!

Well, that's certainly a long time! I was listening to them pretty avidly back then, but then they sort of fell off the radar. None of the radio stations I was listening to at the time were playing them anymore, so I lost touch. But I understand the feeling. I first saw Simple Plan in concert in '05 and have gone to see them when they're playing local ever since! Certain artists just stick with us, I think ( :