User Interview: Jayclay Lyrxo Users (Ft. ​jayclay & Seaeffess)

Long ago and far away, in the dark, dank depths of a region called The Firehose, I was rescued into editorship by the effulgent-minded and great-hearted being called Jayclay. To this day, I thank my lucky stars to have been mentored by the best of the best, and I wanted to interview him because more people need be aware of his awesome. So here it is! Prepare for lots of lit, lots of love, & the shameless mingling of American and British spellings.

seaeffess: You're a legendary annotator. What Lyrxo annotation are you most proud of and why?

jayclay: Most likely this one, which was the first one I ever pinned and I don't think it's ever been unpinned. I'd been reluctant to annotate Joanna Newsom because I was sure I couldn't do her justice, but I pretty much said to myself, 'OK, if I'm gonna have a go I'm gonna go all in'. And it took me a while, but it quickly got a couple of pyongs and more upvotes than usual (this was very early in my genius days). This gave me a sizeable hit of confidence, and I've since been dropping Joanna Newsom tates every now and then.

I am pretty proud of my Simpsons annotations, which make me feel that my dream of writing a book on the show might not be impossible after all.

seaeffess: If you were a fruit tree, which would you be?

jayclay: I don't really know my trees—which, according to an apocryphal Nabokov anecdote, means I'll never be a writer—and am more into vegetables than fruits. But perhaps I'd like to be a cherry tree, if only that a poet might think and call me 'loveliest':

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.