"Fiction writers as a species tend to be oglers. They tend to lurk and stare. The minute fiction writers stop moving, they start lurking, and stare. They are born watchers. They are viewers. They are the ones on the subway about whose nonchalant stare there is something creepy, somehow. This is because human situations are writers' food." - David Foster Wallace, "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction"

"This interview is making me super self-conscious, y'know? Because you're asking me most of the questions. I get it, I'm the frontman, I'm the voice, I'm the one strutting it on stage. But Matty writes better than I do. I wrote maybe two songs' worth of lyrics that made the record. The rest is all Matty. I'm terrible at lyrics; they come out all didactic and obvious, without fail. For me to get something that sounds like poetry, I have to write an entire novella about the song and then pare back all the prose and home in on a few lines that really get at the heart of the subject matter. And in the space it takes me to do that he can write two whole records of songs that I think are way better than anything I can come up with." - Heath Sanding

While Heath is talking to everyone at a house party, Matty hangs back, observing, gathering detail.

Character adopted from  junisek
Matty belongs to  clayburn
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