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Interviewer: Will there be another Monsters of Folk record?

ConorOberst: I hope so. Actually I think geographically we're getting closer, because I have had a place in LA since 2009 or something, that I rent to my friend, that I have like a little spot there. And then Jim just got a house out there and M. Ward just got a house out there. So we at least will be in proximity physically, which is, you know, half the battle. If you can just... gonna be like a random Thursday night, like 'you guys should come over'. That's easier than like 'you have to buy plane tickets and make all kinds of big plans'.

Interviewer: Even if it ends up like a basement tape session, we'll take anything! We're rabid at this point.

Conor Oberst

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M. Ward

Interviewer: Your coolest connection to Omaha is that Mogis has a Mellotron where your voice is recorded at different pitches.

JimJames: I know!

Interviewer: He played it for me once and it was so cool.

Will Johnson, talking about Monsters of Folk

Interviewer: Do you want to go back to college someday?

ConorOberst: Well, in theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible. [Laughs.] Sometimes I romanticize it a little bit, but then I snap out of it.

Interviewer: What were you studying before you dropped out?

ConorOberst: I guess I was an English major. It was real early, just the first three semesters, so I'd only had core classes and the bullshit you have to do. I guess I didn't get to find what I wanted to do exactly. I'm sure it would've been somewhere in that world of English or literature or writing.

Interviewer: What would you have done with that?