{"id":1627,"date":"2009-04-11T14:55:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T18:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1627"},"modified":"2009-04-11T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T18:55:30","slug":"here-comes-the-gravy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/here-comes-the-gravy\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Comes the Gravy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, it must be hard to be a Billy Bob.<\/p>\n<p>In case you haven&#8217;t been following this, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billy_Bob_Thornton\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Bob Thornton<\/a> and his band the Boxmasters made an appearance on a CBC radio show (inexplicably also filmed and available on YouTube, below) recently.\u00c2\u00a0 Good old Billy Bob (can I call you Billy?\u00c2\u00a0 or maybe Jerk?) took offense when the radio host mentioned that he is an actor too.\u00c2\u00a0 Imagine that, he&#8217;s also an actor.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, what followed was the strangest interview I have ever seen, and it amounted to a hissy fit of epic proportions.\u00c2\u00a0 This man is off his rocker if he thinks his little band would be going anywhere if he wasn&#8217;t also globally known as an actor.\u00c2\u00a0 His star power is opening doors for his music career, and then he pitches a fit when someone mentions that he&#8217;s an actor?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s crazy.\u00c2\u00a0 And no, Billy, you are not <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Petty\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Petty<\/a>, that much is clear.\u00c2\u00a0 Tom has been a legendary musician and recording for over 30 years, while you got bored with acting and started a vanity band a couple of years back.\u00c2\u00a0 Also, from all accounts, Tom is a nice person.<\/p>\n<p>Good times, and despite his recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pollstar.com\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2009\/04\/10\/660220.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">apology<\/a> to all of Canada, it seems that Billy can&#8217;t take the heat and is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/article\/616937\" target=\"_blank\">packing up his crap<\/a> and leaving town, with his tour unfinished.\u00c2\u00a0 Yep, that sure seems like what a professional musician would do.\u00c2\u00a0 Good job.<\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t have it both ways buddy.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Billy Bob making a fool of himself for everyone to see.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a credit to the host that he handled himself as coolly as he did to that pathetic display.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IJWS6qyy7bw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, it must be hard to be a Billy Bob. In case you haven&#8217;t been following this, Billy Bob Thornton and his band the Boxmasters made an appearance on a CBC radio show (inexplicably also filmed and available on YouTube, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/11\/here-comes-the-gravy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,5,6,8],"tags":[106,107,40],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-news","category-stupidity","category-video-diversions","tag-billy-bob","tag-cbc","tag-moron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}