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.