It all started on the night of April 22, 2000.  It was a Saturday night, around 7:00 p.m., when my sister and I decided to go for a drive to the mall.  Before we left, we got a big lecture on how we should be home before dark (despite the fact that it was already dark). The main reasoning behind the lecture, was that my mom was afraid of all the rapists and muggers out there who like to attack young women after dark. We got to hear about how people are getting raped and mugged everyday in the mall. Imagine that!  Right there, in the middle of the mall, with tons of people watching!  Pretty scary if you ask me.  So anyway, I guess the rapist and muggers only attack people in malls (inside well lit malls) after it gets dark (outside the mall).
            My sister and I, after listening to warning upon warning, finally made it out to the car and breathed a sigh of relief to be out of the house.  As usual, we spent the entire drive talking about how ridiculous and over protective our parents can be (no offense to them or anything.. but its the truth). I guess it's better than having parents that don't care about their kids at all, but sometimes it gets a little bit annoying.  So anyway, we can be pretty weird when we're together, and when we get in weird moods, we say some weird stuff.  We were talking about some of the things mom had just said, and Michelle made a comment that I can't remember exactly, but it was something to the affect of "yeah we better watch out for all those mugists and rapers", and we started cracking up laughing (it's supposed to be rapists and muggers).  After our fit of laughter, the car was silent for about 5 minutes, when all of a sudden I started laughing again.  She asked me what I was laughing about, and I said "Mugists and rapers... that sounds like the name of a band!" and we started laughing all over again.
 
 

            So we decided to start a band and call it Mugists and the Rapers.  Only we thought that people might think we were a little "sick" if we called our band just that... and that they might not see the humor in it... and that they might think we were making light of a very serious issue.  So we decided to be cool and rename our band to Mughists and the Raypers.  Sometimes, spelling is everything.
 
 

            Our biggest musical inspirations are Weezer and Aerosmith, but our music doesn't necessarily sound like either of them. In fact, we don't have our own music just yet. But we will some day. Okay, so right now Michelle and I are the only members.  But we're taking applications and stuff so if you want to be in our band email me.  We're the singers, but we need all the other parts of the band besides the singers.  Lets see, we need a drummer, a guitar player, a bass player, a triangle player, a symbol player, a gazoo player, a saw player, a spoon player, a garbage can lid player, a few dancers (so we can be cool), a few backup singers.... Hmm.... if you can think of anything else, that's cool too. Just email me, and once I get a decent list of band members I'll post them along with what instrument (or whatever) they'll be playing.
 
 

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