It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.

I was prepared to be visited by my spirit animal — I was just sitting there saying some sort of prayer inviting that presence into my life. Her harp teacher Diana Stork taught her the basic pattern of four beats against three which creates an interlocking shifting pattern that can be heard on Ys particularly in the middle section of "Sawdust & Diamonds. She is the second cousin twice removed of Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom of California.