Interview With Myself
By: Pat AdamsYesterday I did an interview with Chaos Theory for my print magazine... It got me to thinking about a few things. Here's an exclusive interview with myself. I'm not sure if this is good journalism or not, but if you've read volume 1 of this e-zine, you'll remember our experiences with a horrible journalist. Anyway, here we go, my interview.
DD: You produce a print zine, an e-zine, and have plans for a web zine. Why the interest in this print media?
PA: It's all a matter of having a personal sounding board. I've never considered myself a good writer, but I have both a need of speaking my mind and a love of an anonymous spotlight. In addition, I know it is very difficult for writers to get published, so I'm doing what I can to help people see their names in print, even if it's in a zine with a reader base of less then 100.
DD: So what about your record label and all the work you do with bands, is that just more love of the spotlight?
PA: That's something entirely different. I love music. Sometimes I wish I was in a cheesy movie just so I could have a cool soundtrack going whenever nothing's happening. I tried to make music, and I found that music is yet another thing that I can't do. But I want to have a part in the music "scene", so I'm helping smaller bands make it past that first step. So my music label basically boils down to my inability to make music.
DD: You write alot of really depressing and angry stuff, is your life really that bad?
PA: Why are you asking me these stupid questions? You are me!
DD: Just answer the damn question.
PA: It's not THAT bad. I'm an eternal pessimist, so things always look darker then they probably really are. But you have to understand how I go about my writing. I'll get hit with inspiration, the muses hit with a flash of insight, and I start writing. It can be something real small, or it can be something big and important, but it's all the same. I slip into a creative fugue, and write until my lyrical pen has run dry for the moment. And I really do go into a somewhat altered state. I've had messages left on my answering machine while I was sitting right next to the phone. Never noticed the phone ringing. I'm merely a conduit for my writing, and instrument of whatever message I need to get out.
DD: Do you ever shut up?
PA: Bite me.
DD: Explain what you mean by "conduit".
PA: Many of the things I write, I have never experienced. But I get inspired by something, and I might as well have done whatever it is that I write about. Through my writing, I've killed, raped, pillaged, and loved. Things you don't get to do every day in the 'real' world.
DD: We're tired of hearing you talk.
PA: Good. End this stupid interview. Who's idea was it for me to interview myself?
DD: You produce a print zine, an e-zine, and have plans for a web zine. Why the interest in this print media?
PA: It's all a matter of having a personal sounding board. I've never considered myself a good writer, but I have both a need of speaking my mind and a love of an anonymous spotlight. In addition, I know it is very difficult for writers to get published, so I'm doing what I can to help people see their names in print, even if it's in a zine with a reader base of less then 100.
DD: So what about your record label and all the work you do with bands, is that just more love of the spotlight?
PA: That's something entirely different. I love music. Sometimes I wish I was in a cheesy movie just so I could have a cool soundtrack going whenever nothing's happening. I tried to make music, and I found that music is yet another thing that I can't do. But I want to have a part in the music "scene", so I'm helping smaller bands make it past that first step. So my music label basically boils down to my inability to make music.
DD: You write alot of really depressing and angry stuff, is your life really that bad?
PA: Why are you asking me these stupid questions? You are me!
DD: Just answer the damn question.
PA: It's not THAT bad. I'm an eternal pessimist, so things always look darker then they probably really are. But you have to understand how I go about my writing. I'll get hit with inspiration, the muses hit with a flash of insight, and I start writing. It can be something real small, or it can be something big and important, but it's all the same. I slip into a creative fugue, and write until my lyrical pen has run dry for the moment. And I really do go into a somewhat altered state. I've had messages left on my answering machine while I was sitting right next to the phone. Never noticed the phone ringing. I'm merely a conduit for my writing, and instrument of whatever message I need to get out.
DD: Do you ever shut up?
PA: Bite me.
DD: Explain what you mean by "conduit".
PA: Many of the things I write, I have never experienced. But I get inspired by something, and I might as well have done whatever it is that I write about. Through my writing, I've killed, raped, pillaged, and loved. Things you don't get to do every day in the 'real' world.
DD: We're tired of hearing you talk.
PA: Good. End this stupid interview. Who's idea was it for me to interview myself?
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