Bri's Bio
Who are you?
Bri Dellinger
What do you do in this band?
Oboe, Keys, Flute, Banjo, Glockenspiel, Vocals (is it cool to say vocals? Or should I put vox? I don't know... all the cool people write "vox")
What do you do as a day job?
Reality television editor
Hometown:
Luxurious Stockton, California (suburb-city nestled amidst agriculture land in the middle of the state known best for its soaring crime levels, county prison, and delicious fresh produce)
Do you consider yourself an adult?
Not a girl... not yet a woman. Honestly I don't know many adults in the entertainment industry who strike me as actual adults.
How old are you in age?
25 and planning to stay that way.
Why do you live where you live?
Moved to Los Angeles to work in television/film. I live in the neighborhood of Los Feliz because it is the happiest place in LA. Adorable architecture, restaurants, shops, bars...There are less babies than the Valley, less crackheads than Downtown, less beach cruisers than Santa Monica and not nearly as many dogs as Silverlake.
Favorite weekend activity?
Riding around LA with my bicycle gang.
Weird hobby?
Hula hooping. Yes, I am completely serious. I picked it up after attending too many Burning Man related events. It started seeping into my brain and the only way I can release the poisonous hippie toxins is by hula hooping for hours in my building's community area. I'm alright at it. I can do tricks and stuff, but I get nervous in front of people and drop it a lot. Working on getting better. Thinking of giving up and getting a normal hobby.
Current musical obsession?
I'm really into electronic music. My most recent favorite is DiskJokke, thanks to my sister.
All-time overarching favorite band?
I have to name top 5: The Darkness, Sufjan Stevens, Daft Punk, Erlend Oye, and Of Montreal
First album you owned?
I wasn't allowed to listen to pop music until my older siblings began introducing me to 90's Contemporary Country music like John Michael Montgomery and Garth Brooks, so before that all I had was this Huey Lewis and The News tape of the album "Fore". Recently bought it on vinyl for a trip down a cheesy memory lane. It's weird that "Fore" was one of Jason's firsts as well.
Favorite viral video?
Planet Unicorn ("Heyyyyy")
Favorite blogs, if any?
Blogging LA, Best Week Ever, Drudge Report, and for some solid music suggestions: Good Weather for Airstrikes
Best restaurant in the world, (or LA):
I go to Niko Niko Sushi in Los Feliz a couple times a week, but the best sushi I've had in LA is at Katsu-Ya in Studio City. Sushi is my favorite food.
Favorite bar in the world, (or LA):
Coolest bar in LA just happens to be a speakeasy near (not IN) downtown LA. What you want to know the name? Can't tell.
Has a band ever changed your life... or your perspective of music?
I'd say Daft Punk changed my life for sure. I just can't pinpoint how. They are just amazing. I really can't get enough.
Weirdest/most embarrassing music phase you've gone through:
Hands down: freshman year of college. I listened to all of the following (while wearing flip-flops in Malibu):
Dashboard Confessional
Jack Johnson
John Mayer
Jimmy Eat World
And a whole bunch of emo bands. Now you know I am holding nothing back.
Most embarrassing album you own and still listen to:
Musical soundtracks. I'm a band geek, not a drama geek, and I've been listening to a LOT of musical soundtracks lately: Newsies, The Buffy Musical, Across the Universe.
Album that you own just to make you look cool:
I bought the M.I.A. album because everyone kept saying how amazing it is. I really only like Paper Planes. Some of the songs on there give me a headache. I liked her last album, but I never listen to Kala. But it does make me look cooler I think. So everyone benefits.
Pop culture: love it or hate it? Why?
Love love love it. I don't love everything about it, but I love a LOT of things about it. My obsession with celebrity gossip has been broken ever since a blogger of the Best Week Ever blog started saying mean things about Project Runway (SACRILEGE!), but I am absolute fanatic about certain television shows:
Lost (I hold weekly meetings at work to discuss theories)
Buffy and Angel (My boyfriend and I watch these on dvd chronologically and we are obsessed)
Veronica Mars (Has better television EVER been written?)
Beauty and the Geek (I have a thing for adorable geeks)
Project Runway (Best reality show ever. And I'm not just saying that because I work on it)
Something weird about you or your family or how you were raised:
When I was growing up, my family was in a cult in the Bay Area.
Were you in band in school? Go to band camp? Cool musician/dorky musician?
My early life = band. Concert band, pep band, symphony, jazz band, band camp, playing in the "pit" of operas, youth group band, and one Christian ska band. My mom made me learn oboe to help get me into college, then after freshman year I got distracted and now all I've got is lousy Pro Audio.
Has being a musician ever gotten you laid? Gotten you married?
My first date with my boyfriend was a Pro Audio show...I think I melted that cold, cold heart right there.
Who are you voting for?
Obama
Best band you've stumbled upon through blogs or some random way:
Heard Sufjan Stevens for the first time in the background of a podcast called Dailysonic... the birthplace of the original F.U. Robot radioshow
Trendiest device you own:
iPod Video
Dorkiest device you own:
Hula hoops
Do you wear pink fuzzy hats?
John's always trying to get us to wear funny hats for shows. Writing this question was another way of saying no.
Do you wear bowling t-shirts?
Jason has a shirt that says "Split Happens" and it makes me laugh.
Do you text message non-stop?
This was the only question I could think of to tease Paul, but according to Jason, John and I do it all the time too.
Do you live in shitty-ass Korea Town half the week, but benefit from free music space?
That'd be me. I only hate it because there's nowhere to park and I get cat-called the whole way by loitering neighbors.
Do you have doubts about being an indie-rock band in a Hollywood-glam-make-it-big Los Angeles
Yes but I'm hoping to be wrong.
