 Interview and intro by: Matthew Parrish / Photograph by: Matthew Parrish Arietta: "Ghostbuster Ear KO!"I once got a pea stuck in my nose. Serious! Actually, no...I'm full of shit. I feel like that sort of thing only happens in the movies. Haha. Or maybe not... --
Patrick McCormack: This is one of my first memories.
Truth.Explosion.Magazine: From what age?
PM: When I was 7. I had these really awesome Ghostbusters the movie action figures, complete with guns and life like expressions.
TEM: Man! I had Slimer and the car – but not sure if I had all the guys. Which ones did you have?
PM: I had Pete Venkman and Ray Stantz. I still have a fond appreciation of Bill Murray’s work to this day! I would say Dan Aykroyd too but I haven’t had his wine.
TEM: Haha! Oh I have. And I must say that it does the trick! Did you play with them a lot?
PM: Oh yeah I was way into Ghostbusters as a kid. I bring up these toys because I had excessively waxy ears and wanted to use the guns on these toys to clean my ears out.
TEM: Eww man! That’s so sick!
PM: I guess it’s one of those things when you’re young, you’d rather play baseball and get dirty then keep clean.
TEM: Very true. Why did you do that to your ears though?
PM: Well, first I asked my mom if I was allowed do it…
TEM: Please tell me she said NO?!
PM: She quickly replied with "no, don't do that, that's crazy, you're crazy" or something to that effect.
TEM: Haha! Good!
PM: Well, I was not one to take “no” for an answer, so rather than accept it I hid under our large oak coffee table, ready to clean my ears.
TEM: Ohhh man!
PM: I took both guns and shoved them in my ears. The next thing I knew I was in the doctor's office.
TEM: Ouch! What happened?
PM: Honestly, I don’t know. What my mom says happened is that I let out an ungodly scream for about half a second and sort of jumped up due to the pain, banging my head on the underside of the coffee table and knocking myself out with two toy guns stuck in my ears.
TEM: Oh man what a sight! Did you lose any hearing?
PM: It was about two weeks until my hearing returned to normal.
TEM: Well, at least it came back!
PM: Mostly it just felt like I had water in my ears for a while. A few years ago, I saw Mission of Burma and it was so loud – of course I was at the front – I couldn’t hear for two days!
TEM: That must have brought back some memories…
PM: I thought a lot about when I was a seven – I didn’t want to lose my hearing again!
TEM: No more cleaning your ears with toys I hope!
PM: Now, I keep my ears clean – properly clean – and wear my earplugs. Oh, and no more sharp toys in my ears.
TEM: Man, I should hope so! I have one final question – what is the “truth” about Patrick McCormack?
PM: The truth about me? If you are one of the people who know the truth or truths about me, I will probably take a bullet for you.
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