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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Shaggy 2 Grote on February 04, 2008, 04:48:34 PM
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Probably not. But I tried to slip a Mickey Dolenz/hate pit reference into an interview, just to see if it would make it in, and it did (I don't think the site in question (http://www.hotreview.org/articles/inagardenstate.htm) is very heavily edited):
"CS: I think as writers we are as much about what we don't like as what we do. So to subvert the usual question: what don't you read, don't you gravitate toward for inspiration, and how do you think it affects what you make for the theater?
JG: I really dislike "political" plays that are more about making the audience feel smart than actually fomenting any kind of change (or at least making interesting art). I don't like anything that takes the point of view of powerful people -- I'm far more interested in people on the ground in Iraq, or some mid-level functionary at Halliburton, that I am with anyone in the White House. They're crooks, who cares how they intellectually justify their crimes? I hate pretty much any political coverage on TV, especially those talking head pundit shows -- they're reactionary and stupid and boring and awful. I don't like bad, derivative comedy, exploitative reality TV (though I love Project Runway),
CS: So do I. I admit it. That show completely hooks me.
JG: Or anything that's based on an ad. I hate most top-40 music, though I am obsessed with music generally, mostly indie rock, hip-hop, and jazz. I don't like football, or any video game more advanced than the 1989 version of Super Mario Brothers. I think Thomas Friedman of the New York Times is more or less a buffoon, and I don't like Mickey Dolenz of the Monkees because he was mean to my friend Tom once."
It goes on for a while, but that's the key point.
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brilliant
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Thanks, Colin. I should add that I did actually enjoy the Superbowl last night, and I kind of liked watching a high school football game that my wife's cousin was in last year - some sort of Indiana state championship or something. But I stand by everything else.
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I love it!
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Thanks, Crimestick!
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Hilarious!
Please do more of it in future interviews.
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From now on I am going to try and slip a Best Show reference into every interview I do. I've gotten the taste for it. Obviously, it's a lot easier to do with these sorts of no-word-limit, email interviews that get posted on websites read exclusively by theater academics (if that). Imagine trying to slip something like that into conversation with a reporter. I'm going to try, though.
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Very well played. :)
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If push comes to shove, you could just say "nem"; it probably wouldn't get transcribed, but you'd know.
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That's true. Or I could take a page from Dave From Knoxville, and just refer to "chainfights."
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That's true. Or I could take a page from Dave From Knoxville, and just refer to "chainfights."
If someone asks you a dumb question, just get really offended and threaten to turn the interview location into a car wash. Unless it's a telephone interview. Or unless you're actually in a car wash.
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I can just say that something made me madder than a rattlesnake at a Thai wedding. Though I want to be more on the promoting-the-Best-Show side of the line than the stealing-from-the-Best Show side of the line, if that makes sense.
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I think the best way to do this is to go into an expletive-laden tirade that forces the interviewer to delete what you've just said. Then call back, apologetically, and do it again.