The words, "Let's record an album!" have likely birthed many an album. (Because what else would that sentence prompt someone to do?)
HAHA Highschool is one of those spontaneous things to spawn from that phrase. To be a bit more specific, Matt Trustman and I (Skylar
Hensley: Harmonica-ist and air guitarist extrordinaire)
were just hanging out, having another one of those days, you know how it is? You're just sitting there with your friend and one of you asks,
"What do you want to do?" and the other gives the inevitable reply, "I dunno, what do /you/ want to do?" and then you both contemplate
the rapid shift in tone this inside cover just experienced.
You both then realise that you're breaking the fourth wall and become quite uncomfortable about the fact that you're living in a world
created specifically for an example of a boring day
to be used in an album's inside cover. Anyways, it was one of those moments, but instead of the "inevitable" reply, one of us chimed in with
the idea of writing and recording an entire album.
And as a result Bush vs. Shoe was born, my name for Matt and I as a band. [American Soy Sauce comes in later, don't worry. (Yes, you were
worried, you thought you'd bought an album from the wrong band. Rest assured, you bought precisely the album you should have.)]
We picked some song names from a list Matt had been keeping, determined that Aircraft Adam was an important enough piece of history to
make it on, and went to work (Maybe when you're older we'll tell you about Aircraft Adam)
and I got going on album artwork, which was eventually scrapped, and we recorded as much as we could for the album, which would soon
become an EP because recording an entire goddamn album in one day was a bit too ambitious even for us.
It was actually only four songs recorded that day [Aircraft Adam, Intro to Mexico, Some Things Are Just Destined to Fall, and Porcelain King if
you were curious. (Which you were, don't lie.)]
"Please Kill Me Before I Die" was re-recorded the previous day in my presence as an example of proper tuning and more importantly the
recording process, so we added that in because why not, right? I think it was a good idea.
Beyond that we'd selected the names of HAHA Highschool and Airport Southern and determined to write and record them on another day.
(Note: The aforementioned "another day" never actually happened.)
Between the first day and the day that never actually happened things happened on Matt's end, and JC Ford of Hella Dad Records did some
figuring and determined that HAHA Highschool could become more than the goofy, spontaneous idea that it was and as a result,
the day we were going to record the last two songs became a day that Brandon Rosas, Matt, and I re-recorded Aircraft Adam,
Some Things Are Just Destined to Fall, and Porcelain King, and re-re-recorded Please Kill Me Before I Die.
And henceforth this album was under the domain of American Soy Sauce, (I told you not to worry,) this session was followed by the re-
recording of Intro to Mexico at Trenton Ackerman's house. (Which had terrible acoustics apparently? But he had a rag so it was okay.)
Soon Brandon proposed the idea of adding a song called Hallucinations, which was later replaced by Space Wanderer. (And may or may
not one day become a thing in of itself. Who knows? I don't. You might though.)
It, HAHA Highschool, and finally Airport Southern were recorded at Tori's dad's house with the help of, (or at least observed by)
Matt, Brandon, Tori, Andy, JC, Vero, Sara, Misel, Jose, Tori's dad (naturally), and Skylar. (that's me!)

In the words of Matt here's a special thanks to everyone involved:

(thanks to) Everyone in ASS, thanks to JC for being an insane (hella) "dad", sunny for her amazing photography skills
(she took the album cover photo!) vero for the incredible drawing of skylar, thanks to trenton for
being alive and letting us use his house, special thanks to my dad for not laughing at me when i showed him this,
thanks to sara for screaming with us, and thanks to misel for recording drums (which we eventually cut sorry), thanks to tori's dad for being a
huge help, and to jose as well, thanks to everyone listening, and especially thanks to skylar for inspiring us to write this entire album and
being a wonderful human being.
(Matt is literally my boyfriend if you couldn't tell. Well not literally but pretty much. And by that I mean he should be literally my boyfriend ;) )
Back to the skylar monologue. Anyways, I've gotta thank you all again, this whole project was a wild ride from start to finish (and at the time of
writing it's still not technically finished even though the songs are recorded) and you all
have made sure that my last couple months living here have been some of my best.
But most of all, thank you for buying this album, or at least reading the inside cover, or whatever?
(disclaimer: I'm not dying. Ever.) - Skylar Hensley, March 12th 2014 (one month before release!)

In Dedication to Skylar Reese Hensley, Recorded in Central Florida from February 14th to March 16th 2014