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The answer, I'm afraid, is that there is absolutely no connection between me -- Emo Philips -- and "emo" music. my look is eerily, prophetically "emo" in terms of hair, clothing, and physique (beatings at the hands of others not depicted)... but other than that, no... there is absolutely no connection!
True, before the musical genre we now know as "emo" was christened, I had -- after years of effort and months of luck -- shot the name "Emo" (with -- between 1984 and 1987 -- six appearances on Late Night with David Letterman, a half-hour Cinemax Comedy Experiment, an hour-long HBO special, and two comedy albums) irrepluckably into the zeitgeist;
and true, on my first comedy LP, E=MO 2 (Epic Records, 1985)
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