Are we the Mashed potatoes or the Gravy?

Wallace

Wallace

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The Billy Bob interview is here:

YouTube - Billy Bob Thornton 'Blow Up' on Q TV

Drunks are often nabbed the next morning , picking up their cars from Pub parking lots while their breath still melts the breathalyser.

This interview was at 6am. Billy Bob was still wasted from the night before. He left his brain in bed and didn't even bother to bring his drums to the studio. I felt sorry for his band, which had to do an "instrumental" version (ie without the star) of a lesser-known track on the album they were supposed to be promoting on the show.

Jian Ghomeshi was patient and professional. He lobbed easy questions in Billy Bob's direction, deflecting the more complicated issues to the other band members. Eventually the insults were too much and he just let the idiot twirl in the wind. He could have rescued him at any time, but you can only cover for an assh*le so many times. At some point he just thought "what the heck" and let him dangle, gibbering on about monster magazines.

I'm surprised at how long Jian Gomeshi's patience lasted before he decided to skewer him.


Personally, I think Canadians are the gravy. The mashed potatoes are down south...
 
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Unforgiven

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Heh heh my friend almost drove off the road while he flipped out over mashed potatoes. I damn near broke out in monkey bites laughing so hard!

As for Ghomeshi, the easy questions were the best he could do. Face it, he's just not that bright, some might say he's mashed potates without gravy. :lol: But like most of the CBC, he's got his head up his ass so far he doesn't know any better at this point.

Honestly is he had God himself sitting across from him he would ask what it's like to be God.:roll:
 
RanchHand

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I'm not making excuses for Billy Bob, but what do you expect from an American redneck.
I'd say a better analogy would be you're like the looser table in the high school cafeteria vs the tables around you.
 
sirlorenzo

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That was almost hard to watch near the end. BBT is a real dick in the morning! What he said about the Canadian crowds is not at all true from my experience. Possibly true for his band (although I have never heard them)
 
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sirlorenzo said:
That was almost hard to watch near the end. BBT is a real dick in the morning! What he said about the Canadian crowds is not at all true from my experience. Possibly true for his band (although I have never heard them)
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Probably the whole day through but still, the guy means what he says.

As for Canadian crowds, I've seen it. From people who are so into the music and the bad they know more about it than the people playing. Rush fans for example. A lot of them, know songs so well they can tell you if a lead is not right or if something in the song is missing. Others, don't even know enough to clap their hands at the end of a song. Some just sit there chewing away wondering what happens next.

I think the Boxmasters are pretty good at what they do. Not for all tastes but they have an interesting and unique sound.

It seems that most people just don't understand that it's not the Billy Bob Thornton band. It's the Boxmasters. What is important is the music, not what BBT did in his acting career.

Far more people are deeply concerned with BBT telling Jian to go hump his own leg than they are about anything the Boxmasters have done. Sadly it goes to show just how shallow people are with their taste in music. In everything it seems lately. It's not the quality of the music or how true it is to the genre, it's how pretty the package looks.
 
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