Bemis.

???A lyrically elegant machine, no one has made the Holocaust more romantic, or phone sex more dance friendly than Max Bemis.

???Bemis began his foray into the music world in 2000 while forming the band Say Anything with a group of buddies from Hollywood High.

???Doing their best Blink 182 impersonation and producing self-proclaimed "horrible songs about girls," Bemis and drummer Coby Linder released "Baseball" and "Junior Varsity." Due to Bemis' egomania and inner demons, he not only kicked everyone else out of the band other than Linder, but also grew to hate what he had done, refusing to this day to play it live.

???In 2004, Say Anything would release their epic production "...Is a Real Boy." In collaboration with the album's creation and release, Bemis lost his mind. Thanks to a schizophrenic cocktail of anxiety, heavy marijuana use and a bipolar disorder, Bemis landed himself a spot inside the padded walls of a mental institution.

???As the band started to tread bigger waters, Bemis took a prescription for Zyprexa and substituted it with other drugs, leading to more insanity and the cancellation of their headlining tour with Circa Survive due to paranoid delusions.

???Bemis would later man up to this situation and earnestly apologize about in the song "Sorry, Dudes. My Bad." Save that knowledge.

???After multiple successful tours and a huge fan base sprouting up across the country, largely fueled by their morbid, yet romantic Treblinka set single "Alive With The Glory of Love," the band was signed to J Records and re-released "...Is a Real Boy" with a bonus disc of material originally slated for their AIDS compilation.

???With the addition of the undeniable "Wow I Can Get Sexual Too," the band saw huge increases of airplay on MTV and radio stations.

???Bemis and crew would follow with the vastly experimental and disappointing double disc "In Defense of the Genre."

???One of the few gems on the album was the aforementioned apology "Sorry, Dudes. My Bad." ??????

???Here Bemis would collaborate with his favorite songwriter and self-admitted idol Chris Conley of Saves The Day.

???The recording sessions led to an unexpected closeness between the two and that friendship would set their creative clocks in motion and would eventually lead to the creation and release of...