"I thought what I'd do is that I'd become one of those deaf-mutes ..." It makes me feel dirty, sometimes, to take on a different persona from myself just to deal with a situation and make someone feel better or clarify a situation. But I wish that people would listen to me as I am, me, Melissa, you know? Rather than me have to take the role of someone I'm not ... ... some readers out there will know what I'm talking about. The rest of you, don't worry. I'm just rambling ... ONWARD! A word about Messier Jhonen Vasquez ... Actually several words ... several hundred, really ... There are people out there IMing me, asking me if I know him and whatnot. Where they get this information is beyond me, I haven't a clue. I don't think I've even been to the West Coast since the sixth grade. (Ah, yes, and I remember that well. That was the week I got my period. Oh, the memories of a pre-middle school road trip ... but MOVING ON!) No, I don't know him. I honestly haven't the faintest idea why people think I know him. I mean, yes, my name is Melissa and I am a DJ/Voice Actress - and that a Melissa did the voice of Gaz on Invader Zim, yes, I can see the "connection," but come on, people. Although I am all for truth - and sometimes I do grin when I receive a slight bit of satisfaction from bursting someone's bubble upon realizing that I'm not who they think I am - I do detest when others start accusing me of being a poser or an obsessed fan just because I have a few pictures of someone or his/her work lying around. I happen to be very fond of Vasquez's work. I also have an original Ana Chalkley hanging on my wall, a door covered with Kaori Yuki art, as well as several Edvard Munch prints ... now, if there's an artist I want to be associated with being obsessed over, it would be Edvard Munch. Mmmm ... Red Madonna. I also own the entire collection of the Chronicles of Narnia ... and every piece of Lewis Carroll literature known to man. That doesn't mean I'm going to resurrect these guys just so I can worship the ground they walk on. *shifty eyes; hides her copy of the Necronomicon* What brought on this little talk, you ask? I recently got into a conversation online with a reader of my journal, and he started out associating me with Melissa Fahn (voice of Gaz), which when he realized I wasn't her, decided to accuse me of being one of those obsessed fanatics, and yet somehow shifted the conversation into saying that I "talk like him" so I must be covering up some sort of close relationship with the guy ... Oh ... Jesus fucking Christ on a goat-shaped anal swizzle stick ... First off: NO! I am not in a relationship with Jhonen Vasquez. I've never met him - and I'm fairly sure that if I did, and I had been in a relationship with him, I would remember it ... and have nightmares ... ... but in a good way, I'm sure. Sometimes nightmares are good. I always go lucid in nightmares ... which is the fun part, because then I can make them not be nightmares anymore. I do some of my best work while sleeping. Secondly, I think Mr. Vasquez would be slightly offended in discovering that someone out there thought I "talked like him." Other than the fact that some stranger claims to know how Jhonen talks as though he knew the guy personally and yet still didn't "know" for sure if I had a "relationship" with the guy - other than that ... Okay, I admit, I've listened to the commentaries on the Zim DVD's (my brother owns them, and the commentaries are the best parts) - but, uhm, I'm pretty sure I don't sound like that. Besides, he's far more articulate and intelligent-sounding than I ... and a guy. Though Richard Horvitz is a guy, too, and I have my "Zim" moments where the kids at work are all like "Do the Zim voice" ... But Richard doesn't count ... because he's Richard. I hope to someday meet the voice cast; that would be awesome. And Tress MacNeille ... yeah, she's cooooooooooooooooooooool. **For those who don’t know, Tress is the voice of Babs Bunny/Dot Warner/Fang from Dave the Barbarian and various others.** I'd love to work for the Ocean Group someday doing English dubs for anime - that would be fucking awesome. And sure, I'd like to meet Jhonen as well ... but there's a hell of a lot of people I'd love to meet. And lastly, if I wanted to be associated as having a relationship with any celebrity (living), I am pretty sure that I would choose Daniel Johns of Silverchair - and anyone who really knows me would attest to that. ( I have a ... thing ... and have had this thing for Daniel since "Tomorrow" was released.) Oh, and as an afterthought - 'Nny fans that have been IMing me always ask this question - so I'm going to answer it here so you will all stop asking. "If Johnny was real, would you be his friend?" Hm - good question. Friend? I think it to be quite impossible unless I was a dead rodent nailed to a wall. I'm actually a rather shy person, and unless the figure happens to be a small child or an elderly person, I will undoubtedly not speak first ... unless they are doing something that warrants some sort of comment - i.e. "Nice puppet" and so on and so forth. However, circumstances permitting, I probably would talk to the guy - kind of be like the Devi striking up conversation in the bookstore or whatever, but I doubt we'd become close enough to be considered anything more than acquaintances. Besides, I've been told on countless occasions that when people talk to me, they in general feel better ... So Johnny would probably kill me once he realized he was feeling a little happy and decided to immortalize the moment ... ... don’t know what I'm talking about? Go read. Reading is good for you. T.V. is bad ... *turns back to the television screen to watch another gripping episode of Looney Tunes* P.S. The rabbit that lives in the shrubs at the Fine Arts Center on campus - yeah, well she had her babies ... now there's baby bunnies curling up in this hole-looking thing in the middle of the lawn ... ... and it's starting to rain ... supposed to have severe thunderstorms all weekend. Poor things will drown. I'd move them, me being the compassionate person that I am, but I'm afraid the mother bunny won't find them ... or that she'll eat them because they smell like human. ... so I'll just keep telling myself that she'll move them herself when it starts to rain ... Oh ... the poor bunnies ... P.P.S. Thanks a lot to quietseth for posting a rather interestingly amusing picture of Jhonen in his journal. I like puppets ... ***** P.P.S!!!!!! NO! I'm not Jhonen! Stop asking and assuming!!! You're crazy. I'm obviously female ... but then, I could be male and just using a picture of some chick. OR I could be an ALIEN!!! Who knows?! This is the internet!*points to the "Photos" entry*