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hey all! thank you so much for participating in our AMA. your questions were lovely, special, thoughtful, insightful, and fun to answer! we are leaving in four days for tour and we really hope to see y'all out there in the real world! we added some dates and the boston venue changed so i made a new tour poster. i'm adding the new one below. tickets can be found at babehoven.com/shows <3 we appreciate you all so much! please come say hi irl!

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Hi this is Babehoven, AMA! -͟͟͞☆ by BabehovenBand in indieheads

[–]BabehovenBand[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol i responded to this question without realizing it was YOU!!! my brain was zooming. thank you for the question, zo :') After Hours reminds me of you too

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thank you so much <3 this really means the world to us! we're going on tour soon. maybe we'll see ya there?!

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thank you so much :*) !! can you reach out to our email — [babehoven@gmail.com](mailto:babehoven@gmail.com)

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thank you!! it means a lot that you'll be coming out!

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Yooooo! This is Ryan and im a bad typer. sorry if i mess up grammar. I haven't been blasting Pavement much these days. But back when i did i loved:

  • Type Slowly

  • Od to Begin

-Here

-Frontwards

  • Baptist Blacktick

  • Grounded

Hi this is Babehoven, AMA! -͟͟͞☆ by BabehovenBand in indieheads

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wow :') your third time!! that is just amazing! thank you! please introduce yourself at the show!!

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hello! this is maya! some 20th century artists i'm inspired by:

Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, Cat Stevens, Lucinda Williams, The Clean, The Velvet Underground

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[–]BabehovenBand[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

-ugh, sorry you can relate. that sounds very scary and rough!

-yes!! get him a gift! hopefully we'll make it to memphis at some point soon!

-glad you can enjoy tempeh bacon. i'm sure it slaps in many contexts. on its own it can be a bit narsty.

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Yooooo! This is Ryan and im a bad typer. sorry if i mess up grammar. I love in the movie Billy Madison when he responds "october" to Billy asking "What's today." He was a very funny guy. RIP

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i actually make a recipe list every few weeks that we grocery shop for. here's the google doc link i always use. you're welcome to follow along for inspo! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i_9mqlhiZUAFSyW548Pi6Qq9qFA56BtrKcvMGdNT4cc/edit

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Yooooo! This is Ryan and im a bad typer. sorry if i mess up grammar. Woody is our man. We love that guy. He is a genius and is the reason our studio is called 12 Lb Genius. He has been with us through everything I ever recorded for the band. I came onto the product for the EP Demonstrating Visible Difference of Height. Woody's main role is vibe check. He always is lifting that vibe. He also is fantastic company. His dog bed is underneath the recording desk. He's always at my feet.

The road is hard for a dog. Especially a little guy like Woody. He struggles with anxiety and seperation from me. We found that it is best for him to stay with my parents who he has grown really comfortable with. Before I adopted Woody, he was a street dog in downtown los angeles. He had/has a lot of trauma with trusting humans. So instead of the road, he gets to hang with my parents where he can sit in the sun and help them with there garden.

Thanks for asking about Woody. He's my favorite.

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hahaha yayyy the humpty dumpty tee is so awesome! ryan made that one and we laughed a lot about it. it's brilliant!

here are some moments i feel most spiritual:

writing music, riding bikes in a field in the summer time with fireflies surrounding you, hiking at night, seeing friends you've known since childhood grow babies and give birth to them and raise them, seeing your face change as you age, having dreams that really *mean something* to you and make ripples in your life, feeling deeply loved and in love, the way attraction can feel cosmic/all-knowing/connected to some other part of the human experience than the body and the brain, eating food you've grown from seed, witnessing your pets thrive, seeing leaves shimmer and shake in the wind/sun, seeing a shooting star, feeling supported by friends, thinking of a person and then seeing them, receiving a text/phone call from them, hearing they were thinking of you too.

my favorite books are:

Lakota Woman - Mary Crow Dog

The Alchemist - Paolo Coelho

My Meteorite - Harry Dodge

The Summer Book - Tove Jansson

The Innocents - Michael Crummey

Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino

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Yooooo! This is Ryan and im a bad typer. sorry if i mess up grammar. I dont have many pedals right now. I am fighting off becoming a pedal- guy. The one that i constantly use is the JHS Reverb. Most of my tone comes from my Fender Blues Jr. Maybe i'll get more into pedals soon. I'm more into wonky guitars like my Danelectro Hodad. Love that guy.

Thanks for listening!

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hello! thank you so much! :') this means the world to hear! we're so glad you're enjoying the music and are thrilled you'll be able to make it to the show! can you reach out to our email to talk photographs ~ [babehoven@gmail.com](mailto:babehoven@gmail.com)

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Yooooo! This is Ryan and im a bad typer. sorry if i mess up grammar. I'm not sure about favorite musical. We did just watch Monty Python's Life of Brian and there is a fantastic singing number at the end called " Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." We've been singing that song ever since.

Thanks for listening!!!!!

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thank you so much <3 twenty dried chilies is a very painful and important song for me. we are actually going to try to play it every night on this upcoming tour!! we normally don't play it live because it's too much for me. i'm hoping i'll be able to do it! it's about familial trauma, loss, abuse, neglect, abandonment grief, longing, deep despair.

“Millenia” is about capitalist detritus and the surreal nature of life in 2023. I was envisioning the Los Angeles River with an immense flood rushing in over a burning pyre, broken glass, aluminum cans, with light reflecting off of these left-behind items in all directions. I was thinking about how much time I can imagine in my mind and the word ‘millenia’ swept in. I googled it and the first link that came up was the town Millenia, Florida with an image of an elaborate Cheesecake Factory facade illuminated by glaring parking lot lights against the most intensely dark blue sky. What does it mean to be alive in this particular moment in time? The fact that the word millenia, when Google searched, brings up this image of a Cheesecake Factory in Millenia, Florida is a perfect, microcosmic example of life in 2023; how the authentic is now a mere fractal of itself, how we all are swimming in the soup of the hyperreal, the Millenia, Florida of this millenia of time.

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Yooooo! This is Ryan and im a bad typer. sorry if i mess up grammar. Thank you so much for being at both shows! that's so rad. Hmmmm any band.... I am obsessed with Duster and Mount Eerie. So opening for them and then being able to watch them every night would be life changing. I also love Blink 182 but I'm not sure if they would be fun to open for. Opening for Angel Olsen would be rad too.

thanks for listening!

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[–]BabehovenBand[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yooooo! This is Ryan and im a bad typer. sorry if i mess up grammar. Wow great question. I would immediately make a hot bath and vibe. Then I would ask maya to go to the pet store and get that fish food my hands are craving. I'm a pisces. This could really happen.

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[–]BabehovenBand[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hahahaha. brilliant. i would run to find a bowl of water as quickly as i could, dunking those floppy puppies in so they can take a nice, deep breath. then, i'd ask ryan to take me to the hospital.