Talk:Jimmy McIntyre
Though it's probably not the smartest reason to create a talk page, should we create a page for this guy? According to Myke Weiskopf Interviews Billy Schecter, Jimmy was a creative genius living among the Giants in their youth, specifically in their journalism/newspaper thing for their school. Apparently he had a huge effect on Them:
There was this DJ in New York when the Beatles came who was doing this big hype in '64, '65, who fancied himself the Fifth Beatle. Just thinking of that as a metaphor, there was a "third Giant". A lot of times, people who are in the scene have very different perceptions (from the teachers). I don't think you can really understand their high school years without knowing about this guy, Jimmy McEntyre. John Linnell was very quiet, very thoughtful, interior, introspective person who definitely did not fit the mold of the suburban high-school student, and did not find the suburban aspects of Lincoln-Sud life very interesting. Flansburgh was much more extroverted; he was witty and clever, and I think that often that masked a real sensitivity that he had, which he didn't always let show. I think Flansburgh's a person who was very capable of being moved by injustice. He was, compared to Linnell, much more lively. Jimmy left Lincoln-Sud at the end of his sophomore year. He worked on the listener line of (Boston's) WBCN, and within two years he was the music director of the station. Even as a sophomore, Lincoln-Sud was no longer of great interest to him. He was writing music criticism for the then-underground newspaper, the Boston Phoenix. Linnell's writing I don't remember very well; Flansburgh was a good writer. McEntire was one of the best professional writers I've ever come across; again, it was unusual to have a boy who wrote that well and was getting professional press. He was an incredibly bright, smart, clever, witty, knowledgeable kid. When I think of Flansburgh and Linnell, I think of McEntyre; these were kids who were really in the avant-garde of the school. McEntyre would write 90% of the newspaper in one night; he had an enormous collection of LPs that we would go over and listen to. I'm not talking about "you should know they had a friend who later died" and that sentimental business. This is why the Giants agreed to come back to Lincoln-Sud and do a benefit for this MLK Action AIDS project; they did it in Jimmy's memory. I think that you can't understand their high-school years without understanding the catalytic qualities of Jimmy McEntyre. This is the kid who was the genius. Looking at it historically, he was very important.
PS: I know that the interview spells Jimmy's last name with an E, but this article uses an I. ~ magbatz 03:22, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
New Interview[edit]
I'm still interested in finding out more on this guy and making a page once I/we can get some more solid info about him. They talked for a minute or so about Jimmy Mac with this guy who went to school with him on the recent (1/30/08) XM broadcast appearance. Hopefully someone will have this recorded and we can add that to what we know about this cool kid. I just get the feeling that Jimmy is essential to understanding the pre-TMBG days of John and John, and I want this page to be good, especially because he's not really mentioned much of anywhere on the internet. ~ magbatz 04:22, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
And ooh, I am relatively sure he was mentioned in Gigantic, right? ~ magbatz 04:23, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
