Edit/Update: After being offline for ages, here’s an archival link for the first-ever published interview with Rick Genest / Rico / Zombie Boy/ Skullboy.
Sorry about not getting this online earlier — it’s been a long day, which among other things, includes having a transport truck smash into me while I was driving with my daughter to an appointment! Ack!
Big thanks to Veronika for scoring (and doing) an interview with the infamous “Skullboy“, more appropriately known as Montreal’s Zombie. Click through to check it out, and as always, come on back to comment.
PS. You may remember Veronika from her cat portrait neck tattoo as well as her half-sleeve — she’s no stranger to both being featured and creating features!
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425 responses to “Zombie (“Skullboy”) Interview Posted”
I think “Skullboy” is a pretty cool guy,
he has been changed into a zombie…and doesn’t afraid of anything.
I read this interview once and thought he was an ass. Then I read it a second time and realized I was mostly judging him for his grammar and that I was being an asshole. Maybe he didn’t give a paragraph for each question and go off on tangents, but he gave perfectly sufficient answers. You know a little background, how many artists worked on him, how many hours, how it started, where he wants to go from there…
Besides, horror movies *are* awesome. You don’t need more reason than that to become a zombie.
very good interview
HA HA HA HA WHICH WAY’S THE CIRCUS
oh man i laughed for like 10 minutes on that.
If I were to get a facial tattoo, especially a horror-themed one, it would really affect my future and my job options. But for some people, it wouldn’t affect them at all, and it might even make them MORE employable. Zombie is obviously a hard-core punk: he wouldn’t be able to get a job at McDonalds anyway because of his clothing or attitude: nor would he want one. The venues that he would want to work in would probably want to hire him more because of his tattoos. There are many other people who are in their subculture and don’t want to step out of it. The thing that makes him different is he got some really excellent and well-concieved tattoos.
Not everyone lives in the same world as you. Some people have very different options in life, both through outside forces and thier own choices. It seems like his tattoos havn’t really changed things for him all that much.
This interview was excellent, because I think it made it clear who this person is and why he chose to do that. I’m sure he doesn’t care if you don’t like his reasons.
wow. Really puts things in perspective.
So…I dont want all the “he can do what he wants, dont judge” bullshit.
This kid is an idiot. Way to have no goals or ambitions. Im really irritated that he sounded like a total moron and couldnt put together one semi-intellectual sentence.
I personally think his “I dont give a fuck” attitude is bullshit. Everyone cares about SOMETHING.
True #307…everyone cares about something. And I’m sure Skullboy does. I just don’t think giving an interview is one of them.
You can’t be 100% “I don’t give a fuck”, that’s for sure.
I had a drink problem aswel once but then I got in to aa and got sober and stoped acting like a cunt with a masive ego .but what a cool mask to hide behind when you have a really low self esteam,
290 he ment fuck the world you thick cunt
now thats punk rock at its best.
i seriously dont get how people take his answers so damn seriously. cant you all see he was just taking the piss? and props to him for not even owning a computer. i think he’s even more interesting to me now than from before i read his interview.
i really wish i knew this man in person, he seems so cool and to have such a rightous attitude. and im sure he cares more about his tattoos than what you all think, he just didnt feel the interview to be such a huge deal as far as getting his life’s philosophy across.
devo – he cares about his tattoos, he obviously cares about something.
#307, #308 – EXACTLY. It’s cool to put on the “I don’t care about anything” ‘tude, but it’s fake. So, boring. Which is okay, I guess, but people are just calling it like it is.
FWIW I do appreciate the art of the suit. It does flow together quite nicely.
And add me to the list of people who would be interested in a 10 years on interview.
As for the “which way to the circus?” bit, seriously I wonder if he will ever get into performance art.
I find him really interesting, Id love to meet him or at least see his tats in person!
well I was not surprised at all from the interview.He certainly is employable as an idiot.Maybe he should get a tattoo of an I.Q on his head.Everyone on this site are proud tattooed people who have a reason and used a thought process before being marked where as this twit has no thought process at all.Sorry to be blunt but I am honest.
yo bill #103- i heard that you fuck your little sister at night. why do you do that man? what does family think? why don’t you come over to my house and i’ll make love to you instead… i’m eager to see you in the streets… little clown bitch-ass; pull out my 9 and we’ll see who’s the real punk… fool.
I’d hit it.
Oh my god please let #316 really be him… the irony is too delicious. Look out ModBlog, he has a computer! And he really does care – when it comes to allegations of fruitiness. If that’s really him, he just totally settled the debate.
Everyone expected Shakespeare and they got a 22 year old kid with Zombie tattoos. I want to make out with him post haste.
Can someone do a fake interview with someone who’s perhaps interesting and/or coherent and post it up here? Just for those of us that wanted something more than …. well….that.
In most cases I tend to favor more subtle tattoos but I have to say the way all of his tattoos tie into each other really makes me love the way his body looks. Plus I have always been a fan of zombies.
I pretty much laughed the entire time while reading the article he seems like a funny guy.
Well i really hope that they mark the word Up and DOWN on the posters.When god was handing out brains he thought he said trains and asked for a slow one.Shit I know why the brains tattooed on his head now.But hey 10/10 on Veronica for getting as much out of him as she did.
love # 297 answer, you totally got the idea 😉 I know Rick (Zombie) just enough to say he keeps his deep thoughts for himself and some people he wants to share them with, he’s just not gonna spill his guts for a bunch of strangers in an internet interview!
…I must had that for those of you who didn’t notice his irony and were expecting a dramatic story ”a la miami ink” sorry for your disapointment, he’s just a fun guy to hang around, he’s not gonna depress you with his life story ’cause he is, actually a kind of positive guy who enjoys life just as it is
He’s on MySpace girls, start sending your love letters…now!
#321 – Yeah, the tying together really is good. I appreciate it much more than I did after the first face-only photo. The greyscale is really nice.
Most of the punks i’ve met behave like overgrown drunken children, so i don’t know why i was surprised when he came across that way. but it was kind of obvious to me that he had drawn some boundries in regards to the interview’s content. and if he’s spent that much time and effort on something, he obviously cares about it. so he chose to present himself in a certain way and we’re eating it up. i’d like to meet him someday, he seems like a complex guy, not like an idiot at all.
UGH! This whole debate has just reaffirmed why I hate most people with tattoos and mods. Fucking wankers, get over yourselves. None of you cured cancer or built a spaceship so stop acting like your flavour of the year japanese quarter sleeve makes you some kind of god. Fuck I keep as much of my body covered for fear some modnazi wanker will try and talk to me about tattoos and bore me to death with their life journey through outward body change AAARRGGHHH HATE HATE HATE
“I do understand that you got to see a whole lot more to him than we know, but that’s just the point: we can only read what was published in the interview, not what went on behind the scenes.”
Exactly. The thing is, if there’s nothing interesting in the interview, it doesn’t matter how many scintillating conversations you had with him … the interview is boring and unrevealing. And what is the point of publishing a boring, unrevealing interview?
I found this interview horrible… well, actually the questions were not too bad but “skullboy”‘s answers were awful. It’s as if he had zero interest in doing an interview at all, and he comes across as very dim witted.
I too wish I hadn’t read it- his tattoos really are something extraordinary, but now that I know how shallow his is in real life it makes them somehow not nearly as nice.
Not to say there always has to be a “journey” involved, but this person seemed to be extremely apathetic and insulting, while at the same time demeaning all of us who are intelligent and work to be seen as such in a world that is sometimes hostile to modified individuals.
His response of “fuck you, assholes” to people with computers who are reading his interview was also particularly enlightening…
Overall: awful.
lol @ all.
live and let live – zombie has caused no harm to anyone here so try not to cause harm to him – he seems like someone just doing what he likes to do – right, wrong, proud, regret, etc, etc – that is life and we all belong to it – lower expectations.
why do we put people up as hero’s and then get down hearted and angry when they don’t live up to our expectations?
it just goes to show in a subculture that is ‘supposed’ to be excepting of difference that we have women’s weekly, new idea, etc lovers who have ‘those’ opinions..
opinions only serve to make arseholes of us all and useless unless they are well constructed and back up with factual evidence – beat down on another.
again live and let live.. fark i bet 99% of the folk who posted here are farked up in someway or another!
i am..
bme is too..
life is beautiful..
you don’t have to partake.. unless you have tried you’ll never now – walk a mile in my shoes as the saying goes.
xx
“one of the most decent, nice, and interesting people”
Hardly.
The number 1 reason people get tattooed TO LOOK TUFF, the number 2 reason TO GET LAID. I think alot of people in the bodymod community lie to themselves about the real motivations for those first few tattoos they got and try to make everything they do seem so much more important than it is.
I have a personal number 3 SO PEOPLE LEAVE ME ALONE. Why does everyone who has tattoos and mods have to want to be part of some artifical community? Alot of people do this stuff to opt out, and that means they don’t want to hang out with people who they have nothing in common with except tattoos or mods. I certainly don’t want to hang out with a bunch of wankers who think they are cutting edge and interesting cause they have altered their apperance. Why do you all care so much what society as a whole thinks of you?? Why is it so important that some lady on the bus thinks your smart? Seems like theres alot status anxiety around here to me.
reason number 4 they just fucking like it
but i do agree with alot of your points maddy
who gives a fuck what people think & why should we try to change peoples opinions
Oh dear..
i was really dissapointed with that.
to be honest he sounded like a school child.
Great interview! Some questions could have been answered more thoroughly, but the all the pictures were awesome. I’d like to be in a band with him. He could definitely make a living off music.
Oh and I think his back might be my favorite part.
Huh. First, let me say: I LOVE HIS MODS.
Second: I hate his attitude. I know that you should be free to feel like you want, but…
Anyway, awesome mods.
oh my!
When did a 9 become punk!?
There are a lot of thugs out there who just turned punk.
So, zombie_mtl #316, just how would you make love to me?
I’m waiting and eager,
@bill- You should of seen that one coming after what you wrote. Seriously, C’mon people, what’s wrong with all of you? And bill, when you post something like you did, don’t get pissy after a negative response, what you said first was immature, seriously (after going on how the interview “sucked”) you write about cock sucking… Please, what the hell is that? He’s not an insult to body-modification, if someone is in all that, it’s you, not only you sunk to his “level” (which of course you think is inferior to you) you managed to go even lower than him with that comment.
Ohhh and if people still read this thing PLEASE for God Sakes, my E-Mail adress on the bottom of the interview is to contact me personally or Zombie for business (interviews, photoshoots and so on…), not hate or fan mail. I don’t mind positive comments being E-Mailed (I don’t care about he bad one too, just most of the people don’t speak english or french or polish, so the rest I don’t understand)but I don’t like being added to random lists, I didn’t do that interview to make new friends. I had 9-10 adds, and most of the people said “good interview” and waited until I would of start the conversation. I apprciate it, but please, you have something to post, post it on here. Thank you. (PS I didn’t get that much hate mail, mostly religious people on fire frsutrated, and I think some russian guy writting in Russian, and a few other things I couldn’t understand).
And for all the negative comments, how the hell you want people to go and do interviews if your responses are like this to people who get interviewed and you don’t like what’s being written. You want every one to write the same thing or what? Or everyone to be the same? If you backed off a little, didn’t pump yourself up for a novel, you wouldn’t of been sad, or angry or whatever. So instead of being pissy, why the hell don’t you go out there and interview “better” people instead of whinning? No everyone sees the world as serious as you do. This is a BODY MODIFICATION website, stop being stuck up about people’s, to all those with modifications, you should understand that all of us, at one point in our lives got “rejected” for our mods, and now, that we found a place, we reject others? How does that work? I feel turned down by a community, I’m happy it’s not in general…
For all those who send positive comments, thank you, some of you I know aren’t modded and you kept this civilized, compared to other people with modifications, who had no decency at all. And Shannon, thank you again.
OS sorry for my spelling, it’s late (early).
Gawd, the typos/spelling errors for that last comment are awfull, sorries for this, it’s still readable an least. Really late here, need sleep.
Wow, mind blowing. You can only admire his innerself. For those of you who are bitching, EAT MY SHORTS…
THE DUDE IS LEGIT, haha i think he’s rad! when did everyone here get so uptight? 🙂
Let him know I wouldn’t cut into his beer drinking time. Thanks for the interview guys!!
Damn right.! I`m soo going to Mtl this weekend. I MUST find this dude!
If you ain`t satisfied with the interview, go do it yourself.! Thanks.!!
As an interviewee he wasn’t much to call home about, but I must say I’m hoping for more pictures and detailed such! Is it sad, the way he seems to view life and himself? Possibly, hopefully he will never think so.
#340 – Nowhere in my reply was I getting pissy. I found his response pretty amusing.
And why is no one allowed to not like something? You seem to be pretty defensive over this interview, which is fine and understandable, but people ARE allowed to have negative opinions. And the general opinion of some people seem to be that this interview wasnt that great. And that has nothing to do with you personally, or the quality of your interview, but instead the person you did it with. As far as I understand, interviews are generally expected to be either interesting, informative or entertaining. And “Zombie” there failed on all points. Not your fault or his. It just turned out that he had nothing interesting to offer. And that makes a shitty interview, in my opinion. No one is expecting a “miami ink” story with his tattoos, but if an interview is going to be done, people do expect a little something out of it.
Now if some pictures had been posted of him, along with the following: “Zombie here is a street punk whos only interest are beer and blunts, dont expect anything profound from him people” no one would have had a problem. Nice pics, a bit of info to settle curiosity, and no pretense that he is interview worthy.
@ PiRi; How do you even KNOW how he views life if he kept the interview very VAGUE for this exact reason (not wanting to spill his opinions all over the place)…
Seriously, a lot of people missed the point… @SID, TKO and Kaymile; Exaclty, you all got it! And you’re VERY welcome for the interview, was awesome and had otns of fun!
@bill, you’re allowed to think what you want, you’re allowed to say what you want, you’re allowed not to like whatever you want. There’s a ton of stuff I don’t like. But there is WAYS to formulate what you say, BUT of course, you had to go into “dick sucking”… AND calling someone and idiot. There’s WAYS to present your point, why people aren’t happy with the itnerview, the way he answered, you’re not better than him with the past comment.
And yes, damn right I’m defensive after seeing what people (YOU in particular) are writting. You bitch about the interview (well his answerd) being “stupid”, but look at what you wrote. PLEASE… and people call HIM a shame to the “mod” community…
Seriously, I give as much of a fuck about your “opinions” as you do about mine(submitted any interviews lately?), you can say what you want, but don’t go attacking personally people, what you wrote is just so wrong and saddening on so many levels… Read the posts I wrote before, still standing by what I say. If you want to take this conversation further, I invite you to do it through my IAM or E-Mail, but I’m done with the BS carrying on here.
And by the way I didn’t HAVE to do the interview, can’t you just appriciate what you got? And how the hell you wanted him to be “open” and talkative after the posts that were made in the first Modblog post. You should be grateful I even got him to say one word, lucky for us HE’S A NICE GUY. Ok, I’m repeating myself, read up what I wrote, do what ever the hell you want with it. And once again, the DICK SUCKING wasn’t necessary to voice your opinion, and you proved yourself to be as idiotic (if not more) than the one you acused of being an “idiot” in the first place. There… Wanna add something, do it by mail or whatever, as I said, I’m through…
Well obviously I don’t know. I guess based on what I interpreted from the interview. But hey, I might be wrong in assuming the interview was intended to give some sort of glimpse into who he is. Anyway was my comment not meant to be read as a negative.
“This guy layed on the sarcasm about a foot thick and its amazing that some people think all his answers are serious, this dude rules” i agree.
Why bother being interviewed if you’re not even going to be truthful though? That annoys me. He obviously doesn’t even realize that other people are actually genuinely interested in him. Seems kind of self-centred actually. And for all the front he puts up, he doesn’t seem at all happy. What’s up with that?