New York, NY
South Street Seaport
Scurvy
Sara: You should eat a lot, and, uh, don’t forget about fruits and vegetables and scurvy isn’t as rampant as it, as it used to be, but Tegan got scurvy last year and it’s nasty so eat fruits and vegetables.
Tegan: How come I had to be the one in the fake story that got scurvy?
Sara: It’s not fake, Tegan, own up! It’s okay she had a lot of diarrhea, but it’s cool, whatever. You can still be cool with diarrhea and scurvy. But she’s always going to eat fruits and vegetables let me tell you so…
Tegan: I’m all about the show folks... All about the show.
Divided
Tegan: So, we’re from Vancouver, Canada, and uh, about a year ago or I guess it’s two years now… oh my goodness time flies… but about two years ago we recorded an album that we called Under Feet Like Ours and while we were writing the record and recording it in my mom’s house which she, well, she seemed really excited about, then, like, before we recorded it, and then after we recorded it she seemed like she didn’t really ever want us to ever record in her house again. But while we were recording me and Sara got to fight a lot. That’s what we did a lot of. And, uh, I wrote a song while we were recording all about how we should be in therapy together because we’re kind of like a married couple like it’s kinda’ like because we’re twins it’s like we’ve been married for 20 years except that we can’t get divorced, we’re like perpetually in a relationship together me and Sara. Hey, we’re like best friends, but some days we’re like not such good friends we’re like in Grade 7 again and we’re like we’re like being mean to each other and passing notes about each other. So anyway, this is called Divided…
The Recluse
Tegan: I don’t have any really interesting stories to tell you ‘cuz I’ve been off for about 5 weeks at home so everything I want to talk about is like really dumb stuff like I bought a bird and I moved apartments and my new apartment is really weird because it has –this is going to be really difficult to explain-
Sara: I’m not funny yet, don’t laugh yet.
Tegan: No, I’m funny –Whatever. Anyways. Let me get into it a little bit more here. Okay, so basically in my apartment I have… there’s these windows through the whole apartment building there’s this shaft that I don’t know if it was like a elevator shaft or whatever but lots of the apartments have windows that look into this elevator shaft and I, uh, in my apartment I don’t know why but I have two windows that look into this elevator shaft and I can look into another person’s window and theirs, they have this big towel over it and uh and so anyways one night we hadn’t really moved into the apartment but we were hanging out in our new apartment and uh I know that sounds really weird but just bear with me. So anyways, the hallway from the bedroom to the bathroom looks into this window and looks into the other apartment and apparently this recluse lives in this other apartment and so I’m stumbling… no like someone who never comes out of their apartment like ever…
Sara: Isn’t that was a recluse is?
Tegan: Yeah, well they’re reclusive, right, so but anyways, so anyways as I’m stumbling through the apartment one night from the bedroom to the bathroom I imagine myself living there and the lady peeking though her little towel at me so I have to buy blinds for this window. That’s where I’m at right now.