Here are a few of our favorite things:

Meet the Band: John Mark Frank Ed Tim

Name: Ed

Plays: Electric rock bass.

First show ever: The Conservatives @ Euclid Tavern, maybe 'round 1996.

First job: Filing tickets for campus security at Vassar.

Song I would listen to if crashing in a plane: "Tell Me When It's Over," by the Dream Syndicate.

Cats or dogs: Always dogs.

Best concert: Rye Coalition/Hot Snakes, NYC 2000.

Last meal I would choose: Only the Colonel's finest fried chicken.

If you see me out and about, buy me: Coffee.

Favorite books: "This Band Could Be Your Life," Michael Azzerad; "A Wrinkle In Time," Madeleine L'Engle; "The Crying of Lot 49," Thomas Pynchon.

Favorite flicks: "Blazing Saddles," "Godzilla vs. Megalon," "Memento."

Childhood hobbies: Eating.

Something you don't know about me: can read and write in Latin.

Favorite song lyric: "Time feels the backside of my hand," Rocket from the Crypt.

Greatest irrational fear: A fear of math!

Sign of the Zodiac: Sagittarius.

Favorite junk food: Smokies.