You Are What You Eat was a practice run. The goal of making the EP, in the end, was to basically practice recording music in a studio, so that when it was time to make a real album, we would know what we were doing.

While these songs are all technically well-recorded and passably produced, we look back and think that these songs are, for the most part, badly written, mostly unfunny, artistically unfocused, too edgy/offensive for the mere sake of it, and the fact that they’re well-recorded actually might make the experience of listening to them even worse. With the high school albums, there’s an indie charm to how bad they are, and there’s a case to be made that makes them somewhat fun to listen to. With You Are What You Eat, there’s a certain cringeworthy arrogance that comes across in these professional quality recordings of a triad of just-turned-eighteen year old college freshmen utilizing a recording studio for some embarrassingly bad attempts at mean-spirited 2009-internet era comedy music. Despite the EP’s shortcomings, the song “Fan Fiction” became a modest hit with the online My Chemical Romance fandom, and its homemade music video garnered several thousand YouTube views for us.

Only certain selections recorded from this EP are included, with some of the songs being removed for us being just *that* ashamed of them. Although, the cut songs can be heard on the retrospective "Heady Exxxplosions" collection.