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Please give a short bio of yourself for our readers I was born in France and moved to the US before I was one when my parents got sick of eating cheese. I'm 28, I'm a bass player, a history student, a tech support jerk who's rude to his customers. I live in Connecticut where I spend most of my time losing money at the Indian casinos, but don't feel bad because I look at it as restitution for what this country has done to the natives. I try to lose lots and am really good at it. Why did you choose this username? Because that's my name! I'm Genghis Jon. That name was bestowed upon me by a teenage girlfriend. I got that name one day when she came to a band practice and commented later on how I rule over people like a "tyrant. You run that band like Genghis Khan. No, you're Genghis Jon!" Such a clever girl, she was. It wasn't long before that name caught on. Twelve years later, my friends still call me Genghis. I have an inner circle of friends with four "johns" among them, so it's nice to have a nickname. In this entry, you say: "Sometimes I wish I had another diary where I don't feel the need to entertain. That way, I could just write stuff like I'm about to, and not feel weird." What is the purpose of your diaryland account? Well actually when I started out, I was writing stuff I didn't want anybody to read. I didn't think anyone would find it. I had very little interest in the diary until people did start reading it and dropped me a line. Once people started coming by on a regular basis, my interest was renewed by a motivation to entertain them. The aforementioned comment was me in a rare mood when I felt sort of emotional, and struggled with the choice between entertaining my readers, or boring them with how I was feeling. That said, if I did keep a private diary, I'd lose interest in it very early. So, in one of your entries, you posted this about 'Interview': "I'm not going to ask you a bunch of dumb questions like "Do you think layouts are important?" If that's what you want, Go here and wait in line. It's not much of an interview when they ask all the same questions to everybody. Plus, I could really care less what you think about layouts. I'm more interested in finding stuff out about you that nobody knows. Not in diaryland anyways. I guess I won't have to ask what you think about layouts then. Here's what I'll ask instead: if layouts don't matter to you, why do you have a deliberately provocative image of an x-rayed hand showing the finger with the text 'Genghis-F-ing-Jon' in your diary? LOL, you certainly do your homework, don't you? If I remember correctly, that was the entry when I was introducing my own series of interviews called "Genghis Jon interviews your punk ass!!!!" But you misunderstood me. It's not that I think layouts aren't important, it's that I think it's an uninteresting question. As a frequent reader of diaries, and Interview, I find that I don't care much if people think layouts are important. I mean, of coarse it is. I judge whether I'm gonna read a random diary or not. I understand your resentment though. That was kind of rude of me, and I don't think I'd say anything like that now. I'm learning to be more civil. Slowly... You are known to request for reviews and interviews, but when they don't come out to your liking, you attack whoever conducted them. Will I be next? Why did you want to be interviewed? Well, there's more to the story that we should explain. You're referring to when I submitted my diary to be reviewed. I didn't get a bad score (80, I think) Honestly, I really wasn't sure what to expect. During those days I had a picture of Johnny Cash flipping the bird. I thought that was great! My reviewer did not, and I was criticized over that. I thought that was really uncool. Of course I'm not going to attack you, I'm a teddy bear. Just misunderstood. And I wanted to be interviewed because I think I'm a pretty interesting fellow, and like most people, I enjoy talking about myself. Are you deliberately setting out to be politically, historically and anatomically incorrect when you write entries, or does it come to you naturally? You see, from reading many of your entries, I get the feeling that under all that bravado and forced entertainment, lies a normal human being in search of love and acceptance. Especially acceptance from what you call the 'Diaryland social circle'. Or are you just a dick? Well, I'm certainly not trying to be "anatomically incorrect." I honestly don't have the money for it. But seriously. Most diary folk try to put an angle on their diary to get attention. Graphic sexual details are a common theme. What I wanted mine to be, was whatever was floating in my head, without being filtered. I've been turning the corner on that as of lately, because I've never taken into account that their are real emotions that I'm affecting. I'm sort of thick skinned when it comes to talking garbage. I do it with my friends and family. In real life, people can size me up and know that no matter what I'm saying, I don't mean to be cruel. I just say what I say, and that's me. But what I've learned is that we have that filter in our brains for a reason. There's been more than one account where I was sorry I opened my mouth. One girl said I made her cry. That doesn't make me feel too good. I always thought that if people read what I write (or at least saw the giant middle finger and got offended) that hey'd just find something more their taste. The majority of people like that don't. People naturally need an enemy, and I'm that's what I designed my character to be. Negative attention IS attention. That said I don't see why people take what I say too far. I mean, half the fun of having a bigmouth is watching seemingly intelligent people go insane over what I say. Really, I'm just one guy with a big mouth. But anyways, I'm losing interest in all that now. I'm interesting even without the angle, just like some diaries are interesting without the orgy tales. Since when is calling someone a nipple an insult? Please explain. Excellent question! Calling someone a "nipple" as an insult is ridiculous, and that's by design. My point, which nobody has seemed to pick up on, is how the hell could somebody be insulted by being called a nipple? Being called an ass, or a jackass, ect, nobody thinks about those words literally. But a nipple? That's funny in itself. Funnier if someone gets bent out of shape about it. It's a win-win situation. Why did you skip all the spelling lessons at school? Because I got high, because I got high, because I got hi-gh. La-da-da-da-dadada.... Ha! See, people really do WANT to argue with me. I've never seen you once say something even remotely antagonizing (did I spell that right?) in your interviews. This has to be the tops. I should be asking you why you would rub a guy that is well known to be temperamental and confrontational? It's because you enjoy confrontation as much as I do, and the rest of the human race. Rather fascinating what you learn in life when you pay attention, ey? Interviewed by Gingerbug
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