I interview myself all day everyday.

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I'm constantly interviewing myself, in my head. In the shower or on the street, I share my thoughts on the world, my political beliefs, my theories on art and my grave doubts about man's current path. What's truly insane is my firm belief that anybody would give a shit what I think.

Do you do this? Is this a recent phenomenon, born in the celebrity media frenzy that was the 20th century? In my strange delusional duality, I've become a pretty good interviewer as well!

(I also check myself out in shop windows, but I try to be discreet unlike some folks who primp in the glass.)

― andy, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw you mouting something at a newspaper box on Shattuck.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

mouthing.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

well, at least he was in good company. also, I used to work at the V1rgin1a B4kery on Shattuck.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

THE ONE WITH THE SECRET CATHOLIC AGENDA?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup, I lied and told them I was a Catholic - I got fired a month later, but not before I'd gotten interracial ass.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't interview myself, but when I do things or go places, I often imagine that I am teaching people how to do those things, or telling them about those places or how to get there.

― na (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

x j e r e m y, are you following me?

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait, you were here before me.

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to read this interview.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I often (when cooking) act like I'm Nigella Lawson or someone "so, what I'm going to do is roughly slice this lettuce....just throw in a good handful of parsley..." In my head.

― isadora (isadora), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

im often talking to people i know and imagining a conversation related to what's happening at that time. Oftentimes recently its someone omline who i have never met.

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

when i'm on the way to something, alone, or doing something, i imagine how i'll describe it to people later.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

You people are ALL weird!

― adam. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You can stop talking to yourself, Adam.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

We're all just meta.

― na (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

if by 'weird' you mean 'desperate, pathetic, and alone'

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

when i'm on the way to something, alone, or doing something, i imagine how i'll describe it to people later.

i do this. also, i like to imagine the behind the music or true hollywood story of my life.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

then, in the summer of 2004, was the party that would CHANGE EVERYTHING.

― g--ff (gcannon), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

SADDEST THREAD EVER

― dean? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

You're just jealous because your life lacks narration.

― na (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I do this all the time. Also, if there's a little Q&A interview in the paper, I get about four questions in and realise I'm not reading the celeb's answers at all, but making up my own.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh God, I do this. Not all day everyday, but sometimes in bed at night. When I'm on my own. I haven't done it for a while, actually. I'm a great interviewer and interviewee!

I loved that line in 'I-Spy' where Jarvis Cocker talks about composing his own critical notices in his head. I used to do that too.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I do this, but only about music. It happens at a very subconscious level, and I think that sometimes it makes me think more clearly about my playing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

(NB the one or two times I was actually interviewed, I hated it)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I concoct wry witticisms, thoughful asides,and stern warnings to pepper my already fascinating interviews. Also, deliberately mysterious and ominous musings.

― andy, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Am I alone in finding this incomprehensible? I guess I just have too low an opinion of myself to imagine anyone being interested in interviewing me or anything like that - it wouldn't occur to me to do anything like this.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I play Just A Minute while I'm waiting for buses.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:54 (twenty-one years ago)

And my arrogance knows no bounds.

― andy, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Andy, you're one-step away from joining me in Stand-Up hell.

― Huck, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

in certain situations (like on planes) i tend to imagine my funeral, complete with eulogy after eulogy, hundreds of weeping loved ones, and ex-lovers tearing their hair and flinging themselves on to the coffin. it's totally fucked (not to mention morbid), but i can't help it!

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I wasn't suggesting arrogance on the part of anyone who does this - I have a very, very low self-image (due to childhood condition and a major depression problem). Having a self image much higher than mine is simply normal and healthy, not remotely arrogant.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Not a pity-comment at all (and I know that's not what you're looking for), but I'm probably more likely to be in what you have to say than in what most other ILXors have to say, Martin.
I would interview you.

― Huck, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, since I don't interview myself, I wouldn't say it has to do with high self-value. I don't know what the impetus is behind my "explaining things to an unknown other person in my head" impulse is. I guess I'm just a know-it-all. Maybe my self-value is too high.

― na (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Martin, surely you've been actually interviewed for publishing-related things?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i do all of this shit.

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I do this. I don't think there are any adequate defences to the "overhigh self-value" charge though. I guess I'd plead a terror that my best me is passing unrecorded into oblivion, or something, but, y'know, like whispering "So, why the brown t-shirt then?" is gonna help.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ha, I've even been asked for autographs a few times (and yeah, I have been interviewed) - I'm not suggesting my self-image makes any sense.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i used to narrate my life in my head ALL THE TIME, not so much lately though

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Now you've shifted to subtitles.

― na (Nick A.), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

when i asked an old friend why he'd started drinking again, he told me that when he's drunk he has no interior monologue.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren do you live in a hal hartley movie?

― |a|m|t|r|s|t| (amateurist), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

An interior monologue wouldn't be so bad... it's the combatitive, insulting interior dialogue that's wearisome.

― andy, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

lauren do you live in a hal hartley movie?

sigh. no. but sometimes, if everything aligns correctly, a little ray of hartley breaks through.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 10 August 2004 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I think it comes from reading (in the broadest sense) too much. Not only am I a compulsive narrator, it happens in the style of whatever I last read or saw on tv. As others have said, its not a self congratulatory narration by any means.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

as long as you don't become your own paparazzi and start taking pictures of yourself frantically while driving around.

― Joseph Pot (STINKOR™), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm interviewer, interviewee and audience.

being a legend in one's own mind > the pitfalls of indie 'fame'

because

having dental coverage for your kids in ten years > managing a Starbucks when you're 35 and having a lot of really positive press clippings from Alternative Press

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

isadora - that is EXACTLY what I do. Not ALL the time, but quite frequently.

I also MST myself (that is, comment on derisively in the style of Mystery Science Theater 3000).

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Does anybody else blurt come-backs aloud 2-3 hours after a confrontation? I can't tell you the number of times I've argued, gone on to another activity and suddenly shouted something like "All things being equal, I'm the one who isn't a date-rapist!" to a startled (and innocent) companion.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I do all this stuff too! Narration, interviews, even pretending to talk to an imaginary shrink (a suprisingly good self-therapy technique as it happens).

I cant shut my head up anyway so I figured I might as well just get in there and make it interesting.

If I'm alone at home I also talk out loud, frequently. I really dont care if anyone thinks thats barmy.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

j e r e m y, that is easily the funneist thing I think I've ever read on here.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

It isn't terribly funny at the time of its happening. Once, sitting at my desk in front of a fifth grade I'd given a test, I said "Big ol' front butt!" Thankfully my kids were (for once) engaged and didn't notice, though a few of them looked up rather puzzledly.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 02:20 (twenty-one years ago)

My whole inner life is one big late night talk show. So far, I'm still at the opening monologue. Unfortunately, Dr. Joyce Brothers was the best guest I could get.

― Huck, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 03:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't so much narrate as I occasionally imagine a book being written. But it happens.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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