An Interview With Jhonen Vasquez And Rikki Simons

[the_grey_jedi]

The following is one of the most laughter inducing interviews I have read in my rather brief lifetime. I like Jhonen more and more everytime I see something about him, it seems. In this interview, his brilliant dead-pan humor is right on and he never misses a beat. I really admire that in someone. Also, I really like making unnecessarily long posts

Comments

[antifreshmaker]

IGN DVD: Rikki, how did you approach voicing Gir? What were the most important elements of the character for you?

Jhonen: First, I began with....oh wait, I'm not Rikki!

Dear Jhonen,
Let me bear your magnificent children.

[the_grey_jedi]

Dear Jhonen,
Allow me to sadistically murder this girl before you so that I may aquire the privelege of bearing your magnificent children.

I love your icon, Remy! It's amazingly-stupendously-awesome!

My fave part of the interview... It just conjured a most precious mental picture.

Jhonen: I mean, the kid is SO not dead, so very healthy that he now has the ability to FLY!! How much better can you get than that? They thought we were making fun of them. That's when I blew my head off in frustration and became a crime-fighting ghost.

By the by, have you been to Question Sleep recently? I just looked at it and it is quite the wealth of morbid and twisted creativity as only the lovely Jhonen knows how to do it. I was very impressed with its look and feel considering the current level of progression reached and the distance it must still travel to completion.

[kei_noesis_kei]

Once again: LJ CUT. Though the subject matter is more amusing than your gaming nonsense, it still needs an LJ CUT LJ CUT LJ CUT LJ CUT

[the_grey_jedi]

I dunno what an 'LJ cut' is... Lost on me, sorry. And, regardless, it looks alright to me. By the by, what is this 'gaming nonsense' you speak of? For some inexplicable reason the words 'gaming' and 'nonsense' just don't form a recognizable semiotic domain in my mind. Forgive me, but I must ask you not repeat your point, either. I'm not stupid and patronizing me will have you blocked. This is my world, here, so let's play nice.

[sheiko_henjin]

al you do is put "lj-cut" into those (<>) then your crap then "/lj-cut" in the thingies....
it looks alright but goes on forever on our friends pages and when it's about things (like games) that we couldn't give two shits less about...it's irritating to deal with.
I annoyed the hell out of my mom by reading her like half of that...she was yelling at me by the end....

[the_grey_jedi]

Since it's so irritating and you generally couldn't give two shits about anything here, you could just un-friend me... Or I could block you, if that'd work better. I was under the impression that the only reason anybody read anybody's journal is because they gave at least two shits. I don't really see a problem, either, since all you must do is move a mouse to scroll past it... You're not rearranging cinder blocks or anything!

I'm also quite insulted by your disrespect to my video game articles. Always remember that I AM A GAMER. Thus, whenever you look at my journal, there's a damn good chance you'll be confronted by something concerning video games. That's not going to change. Also remember that you look at my journal by choice, and if it is such a nuisance on your FRIENDS page then just un-friend me, this is my on-line space and I'M NOT HERE TO PLEASE ANYBODY. And according to the vast majority of you, I'm an asshole anyway... So don't you go telling me what to do with things.

[the_grey_jedi]

I also go through a considerable amount of trouble to make my journal look interesting and the thought that you only view my entries through your FRIENDS page causes me a degree of distress.