Jack Black and Bun B

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

Jesse Thorn

Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Jack Black will talk to guest host Susan Orlean about which came first, the acting or the music. He'll also talk about why he'd like to work with David Lynch and why he almost didn't take the part in High Fidelity. Then, we'll revisit Jesse's conversation with the rapper Bun B. He was one half of UGK, and remains one of the South's greatest hip-hop lyricists. Plus, Pitchfork and Grantland's Ian Cohen will tell you about some new heavy music worth hearing and Susan will tell you about a guy from the Congo who people called 'The Sorcerer of the Guitar'.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Evan from Silver Spring, Maryland.
0:02.4	I'm Nicole from Toronto.
0:03.9	I'm Jake from Chattanooga.
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0:17.0	I'm Susan Arlene and for Jessie Thorn this week, my guest is Jack Black.
0:22.6	Would you say that your first love is music rather than acting?
0:27.2	Or is it just a the whole thing combined?
0:30.5	Well, when I think back to the beginning, there was always a little bit of both.
0:34.5	I like to sing along with the different albums in the living room and stare in the mirror.
0:41.1	I had this thing I like to do where I would put on this.
0:44.2	I can't find it either.
0:45.4	I've been trying to find this Dr. Sioux's album of songs inspired by Dr. Sioux, I guess.
0:53.9	And there were lots of harmonies and different instruments.
0:57.4	And I would sing the song in the mirror while it was playing on the record player.
1:02.9	And imagine that I was doing all of the instruments by myself.
1:06.7	That there was, you know, like a trumpet coming out of my nostril.
1:10.1	The singing vocal out of my mouth and out of my ears would come, you know,
1:15.1	the drums and the different things.
1:16.5	And that there would be an audience watching me just in awe.
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