I'm not familiar with Challengers – what I heard from it at the time turned me off – but I deeply love The Electric Version and I'm feeling pretty ornery toward the people here who think Twin Cinema or especially Mass Romantic is above that. Really, you all need to look yourselves in the mirror.

This is the first installment I've read and it's probably the best interview I recall on this site, even better than Andrew W.K. That may be for personal reasons: I have never been famous but I have made a solid living as a writer, and that living is currently in flux. But I know there are a lot if people like me and…