jackassworld

I have a clamshell T-shirt press in my house and I love to make clothes with it. I print up images on this special paper off my printer and then iron it on the shirts. Here is an outfit I made for Jeff and Laura’s precious new addition. Supposedly Jeff has a picture of Kosick holding her while she’s wearing it, but I have yet to see it. Anyway, I made a matching outfit for my little one which gets here in December. I figure when teaching kids the golden rule, you might as well start ‘em young.

Sincerely,

Knoxville

(photo by Johnny Knoxville; Los Angeles, CA; 2009)

Here is a snippet of our Big Ass Happy Family Jubilee tribute to Joe Jackson that never aired. We recorded it a couple weeks after Michael Jackson’s passing, but it never aired. After doing it, I thought it may have been too soon to jump on Joe even if he was being a complete schmeckel. I just didn’t want our show to come off mean even though it was Joe Jackson who was the one being the arsehole. He was on CNN a day or two after Michael died promoting his new record label, and that just boggled our minds. So we decided to do the show about Joe, his record label, capitalism, and striking while the iron is hot.

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The Chattanooga Free Times recently shot a promo with my cousin Roger Alan Wade for a music awards show they’re doing soon. For the spot he invited them over to his new house in East Brainerd and gave them a little tour. I’m sure they were hoping for a little hot pickin’ but what they got is a hillbilly cribs. Cuz’ was in not so rare form in this one.

Love,

Johnny Knoxville

Me, my girlfriend Naomi, Dimitry, and Shanna got the pleasure of spending the night on the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier a couple of years ago. Naomi took this photo at the end of our first and only night while we were getting a tour of the room where they harness the steam to slingshot aircraft off the ship. Shanna wasn’t bored, she was just tired as all hell, but I was still going strong. You can catch a piece of Dimitry over my right shoulder standing their schvitzing and holding the camera. Ever since I have known him he is doing one or both of these things.

L’Chaim,

Knoxville

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Here are two pictures of my hero Jeff Tremaine getting totally radical on the lake. Look at the bulging deltoids and the look of complete concentration that is splattered all over his jowls. A couple of people in the office commented he looked like he was taking a mean shit, but I would have none of it. It’s pure awesomeness. And after the Emperor is through shredding the liquid, he stops for a photo of a man and his board—excuse me, THE man and his board.

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Talk about a naughty boy. Say hello to our shady prop guy, JxPx Blackmon. He is awfully fun to drink with, but he is dangerous and he can hurt you. Better yet, he can make things that can hurt you and he is awfully good at surreptitiously passing them to you when no one is looking. Most prop guys leave stuff on the truck and wait for you to ask for it, but not JxPx. He pushes the props on you like he is peddling dope in front of a mini-mart. “Psst … I got the stun gun. I notice Tremaine isn’t looking,” or, “Psst … I have the C-clamps right here. Steve-O just fell asleep in the van.” He is a little rascal, but when you’re trying to get footage he is goddamn indispensable. Just don’t turn your back on him.

Sincerely,

Knoxville

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In show business you get offered to do a lot of things for money. Some are okay and you agree, some are dumb and you decline. But sometimes that thought process goes out the window if there is travel involved. You think, I don’t really care to do that at the money they are offering, but if it’s in somewhere like Tokyo or Spain and they throw in round-trip tickets for you and your family, your urge to travel overrides your normal process of discretion. I mean, I’ve done it before and I honestly can’t wait to do it again. What, you want me to open a T-shirt store in Shibuya and I get round-trip first class tickets to Tokyo? Heck yeah, that sounds great! You tell yourself, “No one in America will ever find out … I get paid, I get to travel, woohoo!” I am sure that was exactly what Mat Hoffman and Steve-O were thinking when they accepted the gig to have oranges shot at them in Spain. I can hear Steve-O now, “C’mon, Mat, they want to send us to Madrid. We’ll get paid and the only people that will ever know are you and me.” Well, that may have been true if it weren’t for jackassworld, and unfortunately for Mat and O we had cameras there to cover it. Sorry, Mat. Sorry, Steve-O. Maybe this won’t be as embarrassing when we post the footage of me at the grand opening of that dry cleaners in Latvia. Woohoo!

Knoxville
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Part 1

So I was really looking forward to sitting down with my old friend Josh Freese for this One Bourbon interview. Josh who is pretty much the best goddamn drummer on the planet (aside from Loomis Fall of course) has played in the Vandals, Devo, Sting, A Perfect Circle, and many more bands I can’t think of at the moment. He is such a sweet funny dude and I was really excited about this interview, but a couple of things were working against me this day namely booze and Rick Kosick. I forgot to goddamn eat before the interview and we all know how that makes me. On top of that Kosick was riding the cotton pony (and i may have not been the easiest to get along with, hiccup)  and he and I pretty much argue the whole time. At one point he tells me I suck at interviews, much to my and Josh’s delight. He even posted it to his Facebook page in the middle of the f-ing interview.

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My father’s best friend on this planet is Jackie Gilbert, and these two together are quite a pair. I often compare them to Jack Kerouac (Sal Paradise) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty) in On The Road, with outlaw country and western in the place of jazz. My father is the storyteller, Kerouac, and Jackie is his “gasoline”, Cassady. I mention On The Road but it is more distinctly southern than that. They are Cormac McCarthy at his absolute best: southern gothic masterpieces. But they have one thing on their side that separates them from fiction—the truth. (more…)

When I first sat down to think about all the people I wanted to interview for One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer, one of the very first people I thought of was Mike Judge. Not only is he one of my closest friends but he is also a brilliant f’ing guy. He is a goddamned big brained nut is what he is. He graduates college with a physics degree, gets a job as an engineer, quits that to play bass in a few bands, and then decides he wants to become an animator. Yes, he creates Beavis and Butthead and then King of the Hill. He also wrote and directed Office Space, Idiocracy, and the upcoming Extract (in theaters near you September 4th!). He is so insanely talented, and most of all he is a sweet dude. He is socially really shy, but if you get him to talking he is f’ing hilarious, especially when you ply him with booze like I did! (more…)