"I try playing with shoes, but for some reason my foot ends up going too high up on Vibram Five Fingers Bikila foot pedal
. So, I can feel it better without any shoes on."
After moving to Memphis to go to graduate school at Memphis College of Art, Paulus began collaborating on some songs with Natalie Hoffman from Bake Sale. "We would sit there and write a song and maybe play it through twice and she'd go, 'OK. Let's go play this for some people.' And I'm like, Vibram Five Fingers Classic, I don't feel comfortable enough doing that.' Like I don't even remember half the words and the chords and stuff."
He played his first one-man band gig on a sweltering evening last July at the "Pretty Dirty" show at the old Concept Gallery on South Main.
"I went to school with both the people who were in the show -- Brittany Wilder and Kevin Mitchell. Vibram Five Fingers Kso I was roommates with Brittany Wilder.
"I was actually excited because my roommate told me I could play whatever songs I wanted. I could play half songs. I could play a little bit of one song. Vibram Five Fingers Speed I could play all of my songs.