here's an accidental interview i did with macho mel a while back. this is at least loosely what was said:
me: tell me your life.
mm: i worked as a segment producer at vh1. can you believe it? i worked on best week ever. nother life. i was doing animation for a production company and all of a sudden they started taking a lot of commercial work. my tasks went from animating dweezil zappa to erasing dog's genitals from flea & tick commercials.
me: amazing changes.
mm: so i kinda got myself fired and collected unemployment, hung out with bianca all day every day, and we just sort of got wild and did a lot of stuff for a few years. i couldn't go on like that, broadway rush hour, trl lunch break stampede... i just got desperate. and sometimes desperation comes holding hands with luck.
me: and free comedy.
mm: totally. and also, a little spirit crushing. eating at the ski lodge in the mtv building one day, i had a mini breakdown/thru. i started regressing in age, stopped being afraid of having no stability, looked around and saw my friends all hanging out and making art and all of a sudden doing pretty well for themselves. so i just dropped out. that's what it felt like, dropping out of school or something.
me: what else?
mm: pete wentz is a family friend. we played soccer together. why did he name his kid bronx?
me: i don't know.
so, go see the capricious show before it's gone, aka before tomorrow.
+ schnipper interview/walkthrough
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