OMO's fantastically loquacious interviewee

There are some interviews that completely fail at being useful for anything at all because they are really short. Mine was not one of them. In fact, I had a problem on the completely opposite side of the spectrum. It took hours to transcribe the forty-six minute recording of my interview. In addition to that, my interviewee answered most of my questions in her first response, which happened to be quite thorough and elaborate. I was winging it for most of the interview. Not that I'm really complaining. Having this explosion of content will be great when I start writing my feature and will provide me with a broad selection of quotes to choose from. 

I've been talking about "my interviewee" in very broad terms and to this point in the post her identity is unknown. This is because I don't know what to call her profession. Christina went to college for studio art classes, graduated from design school instead, and works with surveyors. She says that she doesn't call herself a designer and what she does doesn't exactly have a title. Essentially, all of this means that I'm not sure what the focus of my story is anymore and that I may a few follow-up questions for her to clarify some  things.

Exhibition of Jean-Michel Folon

~OMO

not much of an experience

So here's my feature story experience.

I read two or three chapters of a book on the Internet.

And sent an email.

And made a phone call.

And looked through a week or two of [daily dose of imagery].

And wrote a blog post about Internet pranks.

All whilst waiting for my interview with Waterloo.

But it's today. So that's good.

Uninspiringly yours,
IBI

Swedish people suck at being interviewed.

So for MY feature story, I decided that I would interview some bands because I like music and couldn't think of anything else. SOOO I emailed Bombay Bicycle Club, one of my favoritest bands, and they were like, "Sure, email us the questions!"

BUT THEN IT ALL CAME CRASHING DOWN.

They would only allow me to ask 10 questions (or actually, their manager would only allow ten). So I was forced to move onto making it into a topic based. So I emailed this band called We Were Promised Jetpacks, who also agreed, but they have yet to get back to me. Even though I gave them a deadline of last Sunday. But whatevs.

So THEN, at a lack of email for Blue October (who I should really look into interviewing at the last moment, since my step dad went to high school with him. I always think that's so cool, and I started freaking out when my step dad showed me that Justin Furstenfeld had friend requested him. Also, he has a funny sophomore yearbook picture. Now I'm rambling. RAMBO! That's my friend's nickname, since she has a superlong last name.) and Stars of Track and Field (the least known band that I thought about contacting, but they opened for Blue October on their tour last year), I emailed Taken By Trees. Taken By Trees is the solo project of Victoria Bergsman, a Swedish singer. I posted a couple of her videos a week or two or three ago.

But guess what she does? TYPES IN ALL CAPS. All the answers were done with the caps lock on. I had to retype it all. But it wasn't too bad.

So yeah, not such a good interviewing experience. HOWEVS, I got some fantabulous quotes from both interviewees and the bands are all cool and suck at giving good background info. But, that can be googled.

So long, loves, and thank you for reading my rant (I need to write another rant about life)!

- EJE