Gimme a BBT with mashed potatoes and gravy. - by Nicker
Nicker on 9/4/2009 at 19:07
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Who'd have thunk that Billy-Bob Thorton doesn't just excel at portraying colossal pricks, he actually is one!
His (
http://www.dailystab.com/billy-bob-thorntons-interesting-or-not-radio-interview/) amazing meltdown on the CBC program "Q" has spread with viral velocity.
Maybe it's just a Canadian nationalistical thingy with me but, Billy, you don't have the musical talent required to display such arrogance. Strictly garage-band quality. If it were not for your celebrity, the Boxmasters wouldn't rate a Tuesday night booking at the local peeler bar.
I can see an ad appearing in the Hollywood trade rags soon: Vanity band seeks new drummer. Sense of rhythm required. No "singers" please.
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fett on 9/4/2009 at 20:44
He's from Benton Arkansas where I used to live which means he is most likely:
a) Stoned
b) Drunk
c) An Asshole
d) The offspring of a union between his father and sister
e) All of the above
I'll give you a hint: go with e
The rest of the band just sits there looking embarrassed instead of coming to the host's rescue or telling bbt to shut the fuck up. He's clearly fucked in the head because he's sitting there comparing himself to Tom Petty like he deserves the same amount of respect and deference (for the record, I think Tom Petty sucks ass, but you get my point). Even when the rest of the band speaks up, they act like a bunch of naval-gazing dick munchers with their oh-so trendy black glasses and pensive expressions. Why even do the interview? Oh yeah - because even though we don't want anyone to know BBT was an actor, our whole fucking "career" is predicated on his past celebrity because god knows otherwise we're another two-bit bar band who couldn't get noticed if we set ourselves on fire. Even then we would be boring as muted senate hearing with subtitles, so this is all we've got going for us. BUT DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. Oh wait, we just drew attention to it. Oops.
Pussies, the lot of them. Bring back Van Halen and Metallica and fuck this sensitive country-rock "artiste" shit. Fucking losers. :mad::mad::mad:
Nicker on 9/4/2009 at 21:43
Hahaha, fett. Never thought I'd see country-rock and artiste in the same sentence.
The original link I posted seems to be screwed so (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJWS6qyy7bw) here's the youtube link.
Muzman on 9/4/2009 at 23:28
Well that was dull. I've been duped. There was even 'blow up' in the title.
Seems more like he's a having a weird laugh at their expense than anything else. Nobody come a-clicking expecting Christian Bale or anything.
Noidypoos on 10/4/2009 at 00:00
Bruises bigger than dinner plates
jtr7 on 10/4/2009 at 00:13
The host screwed up, disrespected BBT's wishes, and was often condescending, so I'm not surprised BBT played mind games with the host.
On the other hand, he may need to take a break if he's that sensitive.;)
TBE on 10/4/2009 at 00:22
What?!!? What interview did you watch?!
Maybe the interviewer shouldn't have mentioned he was an actor/director/etc for BBT's wishes, but fuck, it was like pulling teeth to get him to answer a damn question.
Interviewer: BBT, what were some of your musical influences growing up?
BBT: Well, there was this contest at the back of the comic book to build a monster diorama, you could be Frankenstein, whatever......blah blah....
BBT was either stoned off his ass, or just a complete asshole. You decide
jtr7 on 10/4/2009 at 00:31
Are you an artist? Do you not understand he went in there as a musician who'd been playing music for more than the last two years of his life? That he intended this interview to be about Billy Bob, Musician, not the false construction of Actor-Turned-Musician? You don't see that? I could assume you were just another insecure, envious jerk who likes to tear celebrities down. I could assume you were the kind of person that feels entitled to have these questions answered for your own sense of entitlement. But this would not necessarily be true, either.:D
Maybe, like so many people, he's a grouchy bear in the early morning.
And now we'll see what kind of PR comes out for this.
New Horizon on 10/4/2009 at 00:34
Quote Posted by jtr7
The host screwed up, disrespected BBT's wishes, and was often condescending, so I'm not surprised BBT played mind games with the host.
The host did not screw up. There were no questions regarding his career during the interview. Perhaps BBT's manager didn't make it clear enough that it shouldn't even be mentioned during the introduction....but in any case, it is Jian's show, so the introduction should belong to him. He totally respected those wishes during the interview.
fett on 10/4/2009 at 00:42
jtr7 - playing music for two years doesn't make him jack shit, much less Tom Petty. He knows and the interviewer knows that the only reason the Boxbusters (or whatever the fuck they're called) is getting any face time is because the man won awards for Slingblade back in 1937. He's washed up, and suddenly declaring himself a musician on par with Tom Petty doesn't make it so. The interviewer was doing the standard intro that any other interviewer would. He would have looked like a dingus to not mention the acting career, but he seemed to approach the interview in a very professional manner. How does, "What were your influences" translate to treating him like an actor turned musician? He only became condescending when BBT said he had "no idea" when the band got together. It was obvious from the outside BBT had something up his ass - and why didn't the rest of the band try to intervene? Because BBT runs the band. Why does BBT run the band? Because without him, they'd be playing Joe's Big Bamboo across the street from a community college in Fresno, and they fucking know it.
For the record, if they were any good, we would be talking about the music, not about his acting career. Same goes for Keanu Reeves, Jada Pinkett Smith, and a ton of other actors who got a record deal because they were on the A list in Hollywood at some point. They didn't earn shit and every media person who interviews them knows it. The guy wasn't condescending, but he had every right to be.
I especially love how BBT tells the guy, "I grew up as a music historian." I've heard better bullshit from drunk 70 year old's trying to impress college girls. What the hell does that even mean? Also - no band has done what they're doing in thirty years. Yeah, right. You're the picture of originality. Asshole.
He's a tool. Period.
