Honey, don’t buy what you saw on TV
I know it’s got a lifetime guarantee
But when it falls to pieces you’re gonna see
Why handling and shipping it ain’t free
Folks don’t watch the news and expect to find
Anything important or anything of use
Walter Cronkite died on July 17th Oh-Nine
His memory is buried under gossip and abuse
Welcome to Justice
Welcome to fair trade
Welcome to the memory of when we had it made
—“Welcome” (Thornton/Andrew)
FORGIVE ME WHILE I CLEAR THE AIR HERE. MAYBE YOU CARE ABOUT this story, maybe you don’t, but I had this incident happen in Canada when we were touring, opening for Willie Nelson, and it’s gotten completely out of control because of the Internet. Basically, a guy on the radio up there didn’t do a very simple thing that we asked him to please do for us, before the interview, on air. So when he’d ask me a question, I wouldn’t play his game.
One way or the other, all of a sudden we got like millions of hits or whatever on the fucking Internet because supposedly I went crazy.
To me it wasn’t a big deal, but now supposedly I’m some Canada hater. I’ve always been a Canadian supporter and done movies in that country. A lot of my friends are from Canada. Montreal is like my favorite city in the world, I love that city. But the next thing you know, I’m some asshole who doesn’t like Canadians when the truth is, I took exception to a Canadian. I wouldn’t give a shit if he’s from Topeka, Kansas. I was just shocked that was actually news. I love Canada.
See, if it was only newspapers and magazines now, it would’ve never been news. That a guy got pissed off at a radio guy and wouldn’t answer his questions is news enough to get five million hits on the goddamn Internet? Are you serious? But now it’s important to people to find out what star shit himself in a restaurant yesterday.