MTV: And the video is a parody of [Jeff Krulik's cult film] "Heavy Metal Parking Lot."

Jones: For those people who don't know what it is, you know the Judas Priest concert in '86 at [Maryland's] Cap Center? A guy just took a handheld camera and filmed dudes partying in the parking lot beforehand, and so everyone's just like shirtless f---in' sick mullet dudes getting f---ed up.

Nolan: They have their 13-year-old girlfriends.

Jones: 26-year-old men with 13-year-old girlfriends. It's incredible stuff.

Jones: The director sent us this treatment: we're gonna re-create "Heavy Metal Parking Lot." And we're just like, "F--- yeah." We stopped reading all other treatments ...

Arentzen: Because we've been fans of it for years now. It just seemed too perfect.

MTV: You guys just finished up a tour with Eve 6 and VAST, and now you're on the road with Our Lady Peace. How has the crowd reception been?

Arentzen: It's great, everybody is so cool to us.

Jones: We're really lucky.

MTV: What's your live show like?

Jones: We turn our guitars up and scream into the mic and jump up and down and f--- sh-- up.

Arentzen: We're just a rock band up there, playin' the tunes.

[They all laugh]

MTV: Is there a favorite song off the record you guys like to play live?

Jones: Yeah, "Surround." I like "Blue Day" too.

MTV: During your shows, are you only playing songs off this record?

Jones: We can do some new songs — we just figure nobody knows who we are anyway, so we'll play whatever we want. No covers yet. We know some covers — we just don't do them.

MTV: Do you have a lot of new stuff written?

Nolan: We got like two or three records ready to go, I think we have 40 songs right now.

Arentzen: It's so good to be able to choose from a large body of work when it's time to decide actually which tunes will be on the record.

Jones: We do a song called "The Girl Gets Around," which is one of my favorites. I think, hopefully, that'll be on the next record. There's a song called "Happy" which is pretty nice, pretty sweet.

Arentzen: We've got "Indie-Rock Song" and "New Song." A bunch that don't have titles yet.

MTV: Those are great working titles.

Jones: Ours aren't very creative — ours are like "New Song," "New Song #2."

MTV: Better make sure those don't leak out. What's your opinion on Napster, anyway?

Jones: I was really freaked out about Napster originally, but now I think it's cool. ... Our single is just now starting to get played, and we go to these gigs and people know every word to every song on the record. They're sitting in the front, singing along. I think that's pretty rad. Our record's on Napster, so they're all downloading it, and I think it's cool 'cause it's just a new way to turn people on to your band. I think the complaints people have — 'If those kids download it they're not going to buy your record' — is a problem if you're the band. You've got to make a living, and if you don't sell any records, your label will drop you and you're back at Burger King. But I think the number of people you can turn on is going to balance out the whole record-buying public where some kids might download it and not buy it. [RealAudio]

Arentzen: It's a great promotional tool. You can go in and check what other people are doing, like Blink-182, Foo Fighters. People can go in there and say, "Hey, check out American Hi-Fi." It's a great way to get people to know your music.

MTV: From the bands you've been checking out lately, where do you think rock is headed?

Jones: I don't know where rock is right now. I feel like the bar is really low in terms of music right now, so maybe we're contributing to that as well. [Laughs] I don't know. People always ask me, "What do you think? What's gonna happen?" I have no f---ing idea. You never know. We're just gonna keep doing what we do, and we love these songs, and this is my favorite kind of music, what we're playing, so I think we're just gonna keep doing what we do and see what happens. [RealAudio]

MTV: Excellent. Any final words?

Jones and Arentzen: I love you.

[They all laugh]