surprise!

This morning I got to the office at 11 and the bottom of my (short) to-do list from my editor says, "Interested in interviewing Jenny Lewis at 1:45?" As in Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley.

WHAT?!!

I knew she was being covered in the fall issue, but I also knew someone was supposed to interview her in person in New York or Los Angeles. Apparently stuff fell through, it got changed to a phone interview, and the writer couldn't do it at that time. I'm a big Rilo Kiley fan and I have all of their albums, but I don't know a whole ton about them, and hadn't heard their new album that comes out in August. But thankfully, the writer already had a list of questions, so my job was pretty much to ask those questions. I was still freaking out a little bit (some nervousness, but mostly excitement).

So my editor sends me a link to stream "Under the Blacklight" (which is awesome, and lot different from their other albums), and I reword a couple of the questions.

Ten minutes before I'm supposed to do the interview, the publicist e-mails me and changes a bunch of things with how I'm supposed to call Jenny and Blake Sennett (Rilo Kiley guitarist, who played Ronnie Pinsky in Salute Your Shorts and Joseph "Joey the Rat" Epstein in Boy Meets World). And it wasn't even until that point that I knew I'd be talking to Blake too.

So I did the interview, asking the writer's questions, and it was the weirdest interview I've ever done. They're obviously doing a million interviews for the new album, and both of them were just so spacey and distracted. And I could tell they thought some of the questions were really dumb, but they knew I didn't write them so that made me feel a little better. Very, very strange/bizarre though. I think the original writer is still doing the story though, based on answers from this interview.

And less than an hour after that I interviewed Lindsay Powell (who performs as Cake Bake Betty). That went well, and her music is amazing. She's the same age as me, which seems so weird, not sure why.

But uh, yeah, busy day!

Oh yeah, and my Feist review from last week. Crazy, crazy.