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THE HALO FRIENDLIES
with Natalie & Judita

Steph: State your name and what you do in the band.
Judita: I am Judita. I play guitar and sing.
Natalie: Natalie. I play lead guitar… and I sing.

Steph: How did you come up with the name The Halo Friendlies?
Judita: It was a Damian Jurado song called Halo Friendly. He was staying at our house when he was recording his first record a few years ago. We were looking for a band name and he's like 'Why don't you call yourselves the Halo Friendlies?' We just thought that was cute and girly and we were younger and girly then.
Steph: How young?
Natalie: In our teens.
Steph: How old?
Judita: I was in college.
Natalie: 16

Jess: If you were a piñata, what what shape would you be and what would you be filled with?
Natalie: Hmm… I'd be a pony! And I'd be filled with like… money sign rings and uh… boston baked beans and Snickers… and fortune cookies.
Judita: I guess I'd be a giraffe and I'd have lots of Skittles and cake and pie.
*We laugh*
Natalie: That's a messy piñata!

Steph: What would you do if you were walking down the street and you came across an explosive camel reading a book about your mother?
Natalie: Duuuude! I'd take a shotgun and blow its head off for reading a book about my mother.
Steph: But it's explosive!
Natalie: Yeah! Exactly! He's explosive so if you shoot him in the head… BOOM! So it's a lot quicker. Sniper attack.
Judita: Sniper attack on the camel.
Natalie: And give him a wedgie.
Steph: What about the book?
Natalie: Burn the book. Actually… I'd either burn the book… or I'd steal it.
Judita: Read it and then…
Steph: What if it was a well written book? Would you show your mom?
Natalie: Nah… because… I wouldn't wanna give her a big head.

Steph: What would you do if you were walking down the street and you came across a radioactive llama dancing a tango with your mother?
Judita: I'd tell her to get away because she could get cancer from the radioactivity.
Natalie: I'd wear one of those E.T. suits… cause it's radioactive. And uh… what was he doing again?
Steph: Dancing a tango with your Mom.
Natalie: My mom is taking tango lessons right now. I would get a radioactive suit… then try to find another one… put it over my mom…
Judita: And let her have fun!
Natalie: Hook her up with some kick-ass shoes… and just say "Girl… Mom… keep on dancing the tango cause I got you a radioactive suit."

Jess: Explosive Camels land the same day you inherit 5 million dollars and say they're going to blow up the earth. How old are you?
Natalie: 21
Judita: 25

Steph: If I were to take both of your shoes, throw them across a vacant lot, run over and pick them up, look inside at the tags… what size would the tags say?
Natalie: 2
Judita: Yeah. We like to lie a little. I'm a 5 ½.
*They laugh evilly*

Steph: Alright, you're walking down the street and Martha Stewart comes up to you and says "What's the dilly, yo?" What do you do?
Natalie: The dillio, biatch, is the fact that you are stealing…
Judita: Swindling
Natalie: Swindling the stock market money! I'd be like… What's the dillio NOW biatch?!

Jess: What inspired you guys to wanna be musicians?
Judita: You guys.
Natalie: What inspired us is to do something different… be in an all-girl band. And hopefully… like when we started we're like you know… hopefully in the future we'll get girls to be inspired as well. So, that's really what inspired us… to just kinda do it and then get other women to do it as well.

Steph: What would you say are your favorite bands as of this moment?
Natalie: Good Charlotte, The Used, The Beards, The Muffs, Dance Hall…

Steph: What are your thoughts on Avril Lavigne?
Natalie: Funny that you ask, because 2 nights ago when we were in New York, I hung out with the drummer.
Jess: Oooh… he's cute.
Natalie: He IS cute. His name's Matt. But get this, I didn't know, right? We're all hanging out… We got to the hotel, we're hanging out with Benji and Joel, we all had our own hotels or whatever… and a group of guys… one is uh the bass player from Sum 41, then the drummer from Avril Lavigne. Just a bunch of people, right? And I didn't even recognize anybody… So we all get in a group and we're ready to go out to the diner, so while we're walking to the diner, I'm like "So, what do you do? Who are you?" and he's like "Oh, my name's Matt. I play for Avril Lavigne." And I'm like *starts laughing insanely* Exactly like that. I thought he was joking around. He was like "No… seriously… I play drums for Avril Lavigne…" and I'm like "Uh… That's… rad! ...Cool!" I didn't know what to say because I felt so bad. Benji was there. He was telling everyone.
Judita: Yeah, I heard the story.
Natalie: Yeah. He ended up being so cool. He had good things to say about Avril. And… I give her props for just kinda being out there before us.
Steph: It kinda bugs me because half the people here tonite are wearing like… ties and armwarmers… and are dressed like Avril…
Natalie: Yeah. It's because she's out there and everyone just sees… out in the world…
Steph: Yeah, It's kinda like with Benji and his little Sid Vicious lock and chain.

Jess: What's your advice for people in high school? And what's your advice for people in high school who want to be musicians?
Natalie: Don't sleep to get to the top.
Judita: Just be true to yourself and just follow your own heart. Don't worry about what anyone else thinks. If you wanna make good music, do what you like. Don't worry about what other people think. Just follow your heart.
Natalie: And befriend other musicians. That's what I did in high school. I hung out with guys that were musicians and that's how I ended up getting into music.

Jess: When you were in high school, what did you get in trouble for the most?
Natalie: I ditched a lot. I ditched a lot… and I'd get to class really late.
I don't know. Somehow I always got away with it cause I would just like… make friends with all the teachers. But that was like… the only thing. Not like fighting or anything.
Judita: I was bad but I never got caught. And I kept my grades up. So they never suspected me.

Steph: What was probably the most embarrassing thing that's happened to you while on tour?
Natalie: Tonight. My garter belt fell down. I don't know if you guys saw that… but it fell down! It looked like some lacey underwear at my crotch… So I'm like, playing out to the crowd and I look, and I see kids looking down around my crotch area… and I was all like "What's up? Yeah. What's up?" And I looked down and I was like Hoooooly… Do you remember when I left stage?
Steph: Yeah.
Natalie: That was when I fixed my garter belt. It fell down. That's the only thing that's happened so far… well, it wasn't that embarrassing… like, I didn't care… I just wanted to fix it because I jump around a lot onstage and I don't fix it… it's gonna be all the way down to my freaking ankles.
Jess: You guys had quite a moshpit going.
Natalie: I know!

Steph: Do you like the crowd at the Good Charlotte shows?
Natalie: They're honestly like… the best fans. They're sincere and just awesome.
Jess: Yeah, but are those the real fans or the teenyboppers?
Judita: I think that's what our fans are gonna be…
Steph: That's probably the only bad thing about playing with Good Charlotte now that they're a TRL band. They have all the teenybopper fans that are like 'Oh my gawd! Benji & Joel are so0o0o0o hott!'

Steph: Okay, thank you for doing the interview and do you have any last comments?
Natalie: O'Doyle rules.
Steph: Great movie! Billy Madison!

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