"Watching him play was a very artistic kind of experience," he said by phone yesterday.
WIN BUTLER BASKETBALL PROFESSIONAL
Jock charity hoop tilt as part of this weekend's Pop Montreal music festival.Īs a teenager, the suburban-dwelling Butler idolized Hakeem Olajuwon, the sublimely mobile Nigerian big man who played both college and professional ball in Houston. Butler played competitively and tough throughout the game, helping Team Canada come away with the 74-63 win. "It really took me back emotionally to exactly how I felt when I was 15," said Butler, who organized Saturday's so-called Pop vs. The experience triggered memories of his teenaged fandom of the franchise and helped reconnect his adult self to the psyche of his youth, which was a central theme to the acclaimed album. If he isn’t cursing or acting like a complete jerk, there is no reason to make yourself look like one.It's well known that lanky Arcade Fire rocker Win Butler is a basketball fan – and a fearsome rec-league player – but who knew that the sport played a role in his band's Grammy-winning album The Suburbs? In the early stages of that conceptual record's development in 2009, Butler, a Houston native long based in Montreal, watched his hometown Rockets on television during their star-crossed run in playoffs. Jeeze, give the guy a few seconds to say what he wants and don’t inject yourself into things so quickly and wag your finger at the man you’re interviewing (“But we’re talking about celebrity basketball and not politics”), Ms. Butler’s credit, he acted like your stereotypical Canadian and didn’t call out Ms. Steel did, I’m thinking I would have been just as offended as I was with Ms. Further, had the interviewer cut him off just as he started as Ms. Butler as a person but it wouldn’t have changed my opinion of his music or made me bemoan the fact that he won this All-Star Basketball game. Butler had said something I might find offensive -say, “Elect Donald Trump…he isn’t as batshit crazy as he appears!”- I would have shaken my head and probably thought a little less of Mr. To which I would say: How many times have you seen “entertainment” events and had the athletes interviewed after the fact mention God or Jesus or some charity they’re working for? These things, too, often have little or nothing to do with the game.Įven if Mr. Butler be given time to talk about something political and which doesn’t have all that much to do with Basketball. Others might argue why, in an event meant to entertain, should Mr. Steel is a registered Republican and has in the past tweeted/talked negatively about Obamacare, which certainly explains her so sudden cutting off of Mr.
Sage Steel Cuts off Arcade Fire’s Win Butler’s attempt to talk about Health Care
Butler, cut him off as if he were in the middle of yelling out a string of obscenities… I say I can only imagine that’s where he was going because Sage Steele, the lady interviewing Mr. Butler, who is Canadian, tried to talk about Canada’s Heath Care system and how in this election year -I can only imagine he was heading in this direction- people should educate themselves on the many positives of this system considering many of the Republican candidates have already promised to dismantle the Obamacare system. In the match, Arcade Fire’s singer Win Butler’s team won and in the interview following the win, Mr. The NBA is currently on its mid-season All-Star Break and one of the events it features is a “Celebrity” Basketball match.
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