Ruben Farias is someone I've known for a short amount of time
& has been playing shows as an acoustic act for years. We talked about how he started writing music, going to shows, moving to Austin
& catching Far From Breaking shows on the regular, a wild Selena
story, practicing BJJ & various other things while we day drank
at a bar:
- Going to the first show at Trenton Point
- How to find out about shows at that time
- Hastings
- Picking up the guitar
- The Price is Right appreciation
- Recent hiccups during a set
- Playing 200 shows & then stopping
- Returning after a hiatus
- Adam putting Ruben on shows regularly
- How we became friends over The Suicide File
sticker on his guitar case
- Living in Austin
- The Malcontent Party
- Attending his first hardcore show
watching The Snobs & Far From Breaking
- Ryan Desperate Measures story
- Iron Age
- Ruben's "Selena story"
- My friend's uncle danced with the devil: Yolanda Saldivar
- New band Fairweather Girlfriends
- Naming the EP after someone in binary code
- How I named a song after a street a girl lived on
(like a psycho)
- How he started training jiu-jitsu
- Nolan Ryan beating up Robin Ventura
- Learning about yourself when training
- Teaching at Alamo Combat Academy
- "Every Friday I'll be teaching an anti alt-right jiu-jitsu class"
- New solo EP coming soon
https://rubenfarias.bandcamp.com/
