Entire Corbett/Westhoff interview, part two

This is the awkward part

Part one of this interview, where we talked about Keanu Reeves and Corbett's album, is here. The OC Weekly story based on this interview is here.

Westhoff: So, you opened for ZZ Top?

Corbett: I just love those guys. The fact that I got to be friends with them is pretty cool. I saw Billy Gibbons at an event not too long ago, and it’s pretty cool to be able to go up and give him a hug and say, ‘That’s my pal.’ I love that.

Was that the most people you’ve played before?

The most we ever played for was 160,000 people, at the Daytona 400 when we opened for Lisa Marie Presley. That might have been 2006. [It was actually 2005.] That was very cool.

You’re a born again Christian?

Well, I mean, I accepted the lord in ‘86. I guess you could call me a born again Christian, of course. I’m going to heaven when I die, that I know.

Does that element of your life ever influence your music?

That’s a good question. I don’t think so. No, no, we sing about…we have some pretty good songs that a lot of Christians may not think we should probably sing. I don’t let that influence anything I do, as far as movies or… I have my own personal taste. I’ll be in a movie about the devil if it’s a good script. But I won’t be a flasher movie if good people aren’t involved with it.

We have a clean show. There’s no cussing with the John Corbett band on stage. You know. We have people come out from all walks of life. We have a lot of kids that come out to our shows, so, I don’t want them to say, ‘That dude from Big Fat Greek Wedding dropped F bombs all over the place.’ So, we put on a good show, man. Our show’s about music. It’s not about anything else. We don’t do any preachin’, we don’t do any politickin’, vote for whoever you want to. We don’t get into any of that when we play.

Are you excited about the Sex and the City movie?

Well, I’m not in it. I’m not in that movie.

Is it something you’re looking forward to seeing?

Um. [pauses] Yeah, I’ll go see it when it comes out. All those people are my good friends. So, yeah, I’ll go see it. I don’t make it to the movies that much. But, that’s one of em I’ll put on the list. I want to see Ironman, though. I’ll go see Ironman first. Then I’ll go see Sex and the City. Is Sex and the City out already?

No, it doesn’t come out until the end of the month.

Yeah, well I’ll find time to go see it, definitely. I think it’ll do well for those guys.

Who are you endorsing for president?

I never talk politics. One of the few actors that you’ll never get an answer from.

And then, the last thing. Heard about that guy impersonating you on his blog?

No.

Well, I just wanted to fess up that I penned a few humorous entries as you. It’s only read by my friends, so I figured you probably didn’t read it.

No. [Half-chuckles] What is it called?

It’s called The Healthiest Man in Park Slope. My blog is sort of independent from my journalism, and on this one I sort of pretended we were buddies, and that you came to New York and hung out. But, everyone knew it was a joke. So, just in case you had heard about it I wanted to fess up that it was me.

Oh. You didn’t paint me in a bad light, did ya?

I made you sound kind of silly and genial.

Oh, okay. I’ll have to try to find it. What do I look up to see it?

I can send it to you if you want.

I don’t even have email, believe it or not.

I can let you write down the URL if you want. It’s really long. It’s healthiestmaninparkslope.blogspot.com.

“The Healthiest Man in Park Slope” -- What does that mean?

Park Slope is the Brooklyn neighborhood where I used to live. It started out being about health and wellness, and then it kind of evolved to being more about music and pop culture.

Gotcha. So, this interview today, what are you going to do with that?

This is for OC Weekly. But, since I have this on my blog I wanted to see if you’d heard of it, and if you had I thought that would be pretty cool.

[Takes a deep breath]. Man, you know, I’m just not a real computer dude. Believe it or not, I know it’s weird, but...

I guess if you live out in the country the last thing you want is to have this stuff interfering with you life.

You know, if I need any kind of information, I usually just call up Tara and say, hey, “What’s happening? Find out who, fuckin’, invented Lysol for me." [Laughs] You know, and that gives us a reason to stay in touch. We talk every day. If I didn’t do that, we wouldn’t chat on the phone that much. It gives me a good reason to call him up. And he’s usually at his computer, so I don’t think he minds it. Although I don’t have that many questions.

Anything else music related you didn’t mention?

Where do you live?

I actually live in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Is that where you are right now? I thought you were down in San Diego or something.

Yeah, I write for the OC Weekly, and I actually write about music for weekly papers around the country.

Gotcha. [Pauses] Well, I was going to invite you to the show, so that’s not gonna happen. But you know we do play The Cutting Room back in NY maybe once a year, which is owned by Chris Noth, you know, from Sex and the City. Yeah, it’s a great little club, on 24^th between 5^th and 6^th.

Okay cool. And I saw you do have a show on Long Island coming up.

Oh, we do? Okay.

So, I will definitely try to make it out for that.

Cool, man. That’s all I do, play music and act once in a while. I’m pretty fucking boring other than that.

Well, you live with Bo Derek, so that’s got to be at least a little bit glamorous.

That is really glamorous for me. [Laughs] Although she’s out feeding the horses right now, and I should be doing that. But, you know, I’m doing a big Hollywood-type interview, so I can’t be bothered.

Okay, cool. It’s been great talking to you, and I wish you continued success with the music and everything.

All right, Ben. Quit impersonating me, now.

[Laughs] Okay. All right.

Okay buddy, thanks for the time. All right, brother. Bye.