Q1, Would you like to introduce yourself?
Nicholas Posthumus, bassist for Midnight Vesta.

Q2, Did you ever run away from home?
Only once when I was 7 or so. I packed a ziplock full of chips and rubbed some dirt on my face so that strangers would feel bad for me, and my siblings would regret not being nicer to me. I got halfway down my street before my parents drove by, heading back home. They told me to go home, put on a jacke and wash the mud off. All in all I was on the open road for about 2 minutes.

Q3, How would you rate your negotiating skills?
Somewhere between ‘Hostage’ and ‘6 year old that doesn’t want to go to bed yet’

Q4, What causes would you actually fight for?
Say I was spending some time out of town with a few of my siblings for an undisclosed amount of time. What if we found out that an ancient prophecy from a magical parallel world had predicted our arrival via mysterious wardrobe? I’m not saying that the geopolitical landscape of an entirely new world is so simple that I can boil it down to basic good vs evil, but I will say that my position on ‘Always Winter/Never Christmas’ is more left of center than the average Evil Sorcerer Queen.

Q5, What has been your most glorious failure?
Back in 8th grade, Eddie Westbury and I had used multiple sleep overs to make progress on Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. I’ll admit that it’s an imperfect, unfinished and rushed product, but I don’t blame the developers. The game itself is overrun with beautiful ideas and characters worth becoming attached to. Not to mention the fact that turn-based combat in Middle Earth is an itch that most fantasy gamers at the time (and now, maybe) didn’t know they needed scratched. Suffice to say, I accidentally saved a new game over our progress one time. Things haven’t ever really been the same and we don’t keep in touch all that much. He’s a really great guy though, and I hope he doesn’t still blame me.

Q6, When did you last smuggle goods through customs?
For legal reasons, I can’t say. I will say that we wrote a song about it, though, and it’ll be on the new record.

Q7, Who is your favourite actor?
Peter Young Jarvis. Fully biased.

Q8, And, most importantly, what is your favourite type of cookie?
Oatmeal Raisin Peter Young Jarvis. No contest.