"This song is about my dad.
'Shaggy Dog' was the first song KOLS ever did as a band. I got a band together because Braid and The Get Up Kids offered me a spot on a few shows. I was so psyched that I fliered everywhere. The Portland show ended up selling-out. It was our first show.
'Shaggy Dog' is kind of a spaghetti-western. My dad is not dead, but I haven’t spoken to him in 11 years. He was the drunken father who’d say, 'How dare you read and get smarter than me!' There was a cycle of violence and praying and knowing that if I just closed my eyes tight enough, it all might go away. When I wrote it, I remember thinking about how the pain I felt when I was 12 was so different from my pain at 22."
"This song is about my dad. 'Shaggy Dog' was the first song KOLS ever did as a band. I got a band together because Braid and The Get Up Kids offered me a spot on a few shows. I was so psyched that I fliered everywhere. The Portland show ended up selling-out. It was our first show. 'Shaggy Dog' is kind of a spaghetti-western. My dad is not dead, but I haven’t spoken to him in 11 years. He was the drunken father who’d say, 'How dare you read and get smarter than me!' There was a cycle of violence and praying and knowing that if I just closed my eyes tight enough, it all might go away. When I wrote it, I remember thinking about how the pain I felt when I was 12 was so different from my pain at 22."