Thanks for visiting the site and for your comments. My feeling has always just been that, based on the substance (or lack of) of some of the negative comments I’ve gotten on posts, people feel like they have authority over certain subject matter that they feel is “special” to them. Not they want to protect those subjects but, rather, they want to protect the “authority” and “specialness” that they feel they have regarding it. I realized a long time ago that, just because you like the same thing as somebody else, it doesn’t necessarily mean shit. A lot of people like pizza too.

This interview was conducted via email, due to me being in Seattle and them in L.A. As far as keeping in touch with them, I haven’t, which is unfortunate. Even during this interview, Charlie was swamped trying to edit and write everything. He was incredibly busy. Back then, everyone had myspace accounts, but Rob. I first wound up communicating with Glenn, after sending him a video that I made, which was denied entry into a competition that they had. It wasn’t I “didn’t win”, I wasn’t allowed to even enter. I also sent the video to the myspace pages of Charlie, Mary Elizabeth and, I think, Kaitlin. I wasn’t even being nice about it, I was telling them that, if they were gonna censor me, then they were all full of shit. Glenn, graciously, responded telling me that it was the best one that he had seen and explained that he also felt that it was bullshit but that they didn’t actually run the concert. The thing was that they didn’t really have anything to do with the contest itself. He went even further and sent me follow up emails, telling me that he showed it to the writers and that they loved it too and then he encouraged me to keep making videos. That was the first one that I had ever made and, in retrospect, it was pretty corny. Still, it was really cool of him to do that and I did make another one. Since I was joking (somewhat) to him about FX being racist and that it was the reason for them rejecting my video, I made a new video of myself as a white supremacist and they actually accepted it. That was the second post on the site, so Glenn kind of, indirectly, encouraged me and had an effect on me starting the site in the first place. Eventually, I sent him some pictures of men with beards of bees and, with the possibility of that weirding him out and the fact he had just started dating his now wife, the communication kind of disappeared. If you want, the post with all of that bullshit is right HERE

Then, one day, I got a response from Mary Elizabeth. She was the one that I spoke with primarily from then on and kind of helped me set up the interview. It was super casual; we were probably talking about Pavement or Ricky Gervais or something, and I just said that they should do an interview with me. There was little mention of them being a married couple back then, and I wanted them to both be in it as a couple. Like I said, Charlie was really busy so, most of the communications were made through his email about the interview, and there were only a couple of those.

I wish that I still had contact with Mary Elizabeth, though, because we’d send each other messages all of the time and she’s really awesome. We like a lot of the same music and she was pretty psyched about the concept of me photoshopping her into a mermaid. As their popularity grew, their facebook pages got swarmed and they all closed them down, one after the other. The shittiest part is that, the day that Mary Elizabeth closed hers, I got a message from her. The problem was that, when I went to check the message, her account was gone, which means that the message was gone. It sucks, because I’m pretty sure that the message that I got was probably a message telling me that she was shutting down her account but, ironically, that’s also why I couldn’t get it. I wouldn’t have any idea about how to get a hold of her now. For all I know, that info was in that missing letter. I was doing an interview with David Berman from the Silver Jews and she sent me a question to ask him, since were are both fans. I hope she comes across it, if she hasn’t, because he answered it. That interview was the most ill-received one since this one. It’s funny because I told her after that kid accused me of faking the interview and she told me that meant that I was “famous” and I clarified for her that it actually meant that somebody just thought that her and her husband were too famous to talk to me, because I’m not. Things might have changed but, at least back then, none of them seemed to act like stars or egotistical assholes. They were actually concerned about their show being renewed.

Again, thanks. If you can take time to read this shit and post a comment, I can take time to respond to it.

The irony is that, when it was all said and done, the second guy who freaked out told me that he thought I was “intelligent” and his only problem was that he didn’t think I needed to use profanity. Maybe he’s never seen the show before. The characters have sold coke, taken acid, sold oxycontin, got hooked on diet pills, smoked weed, and done a lot worse.

One guy on another site even told me that, after reading my interview, he could tell that it was “obviously fake” and that it wasn’t even real. Whatever. If you go to the front page right now there is an article about the new project that the Sunny guys are working on right now. It looks pretty promising.

P.S. I smoke weed and say bad words

Perhaps my biggest flaw is that I can’t bring myself to censor comments and that I respond to all of the comments that are left but, perhaps the greatest hope that I’ve had for any of the content on the site, was that it would be easily accessible and not distance the readers who feel distance everywhere else. There will always be a distance for some, however, especially with subject matter that has been able to fuse itself into the popular culture’s consciousness more than most of the topics that we’ve chosen to cover on the site.

I enjoy creating a dialog with readers even if they contain elements of spitefulness and resistance to actual communication. I’m not trying to come off as some unique elitist or enigma when I say this but, I think that my overall personality and character would confuse you regardless of where you met me or in what situation. Just because you like a show that we covered doesn’t mean that you would be interested in the interviews we’ve done with Jazz Organists or independent film makers. You obviously linked directly to this article and are not one of the rare individuals that read through my site from topic to topic. If you had read through other posts from me, however, I think that you may understand my confusion with the existence of some “character” that you are referring too. I also feel that the concept of some contradiction between characters may actually evaporate.

It’s not new to me to have someone impose their own viewpoints about how specific people should be operating in a specific situation. I used to go to my 8th grade honors classes with a mohawk and get resistance from my teachers even when I’d win the ridiculous and worthless medals and national scholastic awards. I think that my comments about being old and my back going out also may have been misleading. I wrote that when i was 28. The problem is only that your first post was packed with implications but they were coming from someone with a one dimensional point of view.

I’m not saying that this article isn’t for you because it is. It’s for everyone without censorship or exclusion. Just as you’ve used this comment section as your own forum (may I suggest linking to our forum “the Soapbox” which was created for people like yourself). What I am saying, however, is that the presentation was not intended for you. I write like I speak and, although some people feel that anyone who smokes weed or steals for any reason in any situation are “misguided” and “unintelligent”, that is not the consensus for me or the writers on this site. The contradictions that you feel you are seeing are only visible to you because of your own perceptions that have been projected. All of your perceptions are projections of yourself until you are able to see beyond them.

i don’t think i ever said they were “amazing” so the quotes are inaccurate, but yeah i definitely do want to find out more about them and i did, thanks to you. i meant everything i said in my first comment and still do. obviously if you care about it you are able to come across as intelligent, so why all the slang and swearing in the interview? if people are reading it they are already interested in the subject, there’s no need to ‘jazz’ it up by trying to appeal to, or make fun of, anyone. especially your audience.

i wouldn’t say i want to interview them. it’d be neat to get to know them but i’m not interested in dialoging in a professional level. also it’s not technically “trolling” as the main purpose of my comment wasn’t to piss you off, but to honestly comment on the interview itself.

it’s cute how defensive you are and honestly i didn’t care enough to read all of your response. like i was trying to put across earlier, i don’t care about you, i care about what the actors had to say. i’m not going to respond to any further comments you write in response to me but i will say this;

if you are intentionally trying “crack-on fools” as a sort of character when conducting the interview, don’t take it so personally when people get a certain impression of you. either stick with the character or don’t bother with it.

again, not trolling. just an honest opinion.