Salt Lake Magazine just posted this great interview with Creighton Barrett, in which he talks about the artistic process behind making Infinite Arms, skating, acting, and Roscoe, his boston terrier (and, maybe, the namesake behind the limited-release song “Desperoscoe“).

Check out a couple snippets below, but make sure to go and read the whole thing.

How did you and Ben Bridwell find the new band members and all come together?
Barrett: Well, we moved from Seattle. We wanted to come back and get out of the rain.  We went to Asheville to Echo Mountain (recording studio) to record. We saw Bill Reynolds a lot as a producer, but didn’t know he was a bass player, and then we saw him killing it on bass; there were radical noises coming from this room. We thought, “We need a bass player and this guy’s awesome.” So we stole Bill. Two to three months later, we still hadn’t filled our band quite yet, and Echo Mountain had their star musician/writer/artist Tyler Ramsey. We loved his solo records and thought, “What if we steal him?” So we stole him, too.

You’ve started to move beyond music artistically, and are in a movie calledNightfur: Tell me about it and how did it happen?
Barrett: (Laughing.) Before this record was in the demo process, I was talking to a good friend I grew up with in Columbia (South Carolina). We were talking about Sci-Fi and how we’re nerds. Later, I was surfing and when I got off the beach, I got a call that his friend Jason Brown had a movie. I was pretty scared. I never acted before, not to that scale. But the project fell into a time where I had three weeks off. So I thought, even if I fail miserably it would still be fun to try.

The film’s super low budget—I haven’t seen the full film yet, actually. But it was really fun. I’m someone who’s trying to constantly be creative. That makes me happy.

If you’re anywhere near the SLC, make sure and go check out Band of Horses.  They’re playing tonight, and I am fairly sure tickets are still available.  In the meantime, hope you’re having a great day out there!