Corgan announcement: “Just got word that ‘Teargarden’ is over.”
12:01 am // Friday, April 1, 2011
Posted by jjb in parody.
8 comments
In posts tonight to Twitter and his new Facebook account, Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan says that his band’s ambitious Teargarden by Kaleidyscope project is ending prematurely.



One of Corgan’s 64 Facebook friends, HU reader Jonathan Monte, has chosen to violate the singer’s trust by posting to the SmashingPumpkins.com message board a copy of the full ‘note’, in which Corgan tells of his disappointment at the news.

“I know I said 44 songs, but seems like it’s just going to be nine,” he wrote. “That’s what I’m told, anyway.

“If you think about it, though, there actually have been 11 songs,” Corgan continued, ostensibly referring to Teargarden‘s two vinyl-only tracks. “Eleven is the root or whatever, factor of 44, and 33, yadda yadda, so maybe there is a logic to it. All part of the big guy’s plan, I guess. Or God’s.”

Reaction by the news media has been swift and predictably harsh, though tinged with relief in some quarters. Pitchfork’s Tom Breihan wrote, “Billy Corgan says that his ‘Teargarden by Kaleidyscope’ project is now done. I guess he didn’t get the memo when we all agreed we were done with it after the second song.” Shortly thereafter, BuzzMedia’s Stereogum.com posted a reblog of Breihan’s commentary illustrated with the word DONE superimposed in Impact font over a picture of Corgan.

Though Corgan’s tweet promised word of new plans for the Pumpkins, in the Facebook note he seemed hesitant. None of his bandmates were ‘mentioned’ in the note — the sole denizen of Facebook to receive that honor was Pumpkins manager Irving Azoff — and as for a new musical direction, Corgan gave no specifics beyond “lots of Big Muff” and “no ukelele.”

As yet, the “Abandoned projects” section of Corgan’s Wikipedia entry has not been updated

gotta keep evolutionizing.

but it is april first so let's wait and see.

yeah it's an april's fools joke :(

nah its legit. got the word from frank

you did? well in that case.

front of thepumpkins.net today :) :

http://i.imgur.com/L6Crt.png

"Posted by jjb in parody."

Dude, it's an April Fool's joke. You're being fucked with.

are you sure?

obvious joke, unfortunately

yeah it's an april's fools joke :(

duh

board deducts two tiers

no annoying pun lined up?

There is something sick hidden here....something to do with malice and pitiful humor....but I am too tired.

hope is true.

Do you think because he would change the name he would make better music?

Who knows.

GOD

Empty, just like Corgan's creativity. Ho ho.

ugh i thought this was real for a couple hours

lol moran.

It's actually all too real guys.

Corgan said in the announcement that he planned to post more details on his Facebook. But I can tell you now that Billy has given us an exclusive ahead of time as to what the future of The Smashing Pumpkins is and how Act IV factors into it.

I can't tell you much on the boards except there will be significant changes to the SP lineup and that Act IV will be renamed Act V for reasons that will become clear on the website.

To read more and get some details on this news, please go to the Act IV site. Be sure to read everything so you are all up to date!:
http://www.act4.net

Nice that you have painfully bad jokes to go with the painfully bad music. Keep up teh good work guyz!

it's really sad that I wished this was for real actually...

Figured we'd get a "Mike is fired" thread but this works too.

Also would have accepted "Billy decides to release proper album"

all great contenders for next year, or the following 18 years of this album to come.

wow bill has less facebook friends than i do lol

Why does he have to go and hate on the Big Muff like that? If that fucking thing didn't exist, he'd be working in a pizza hut!

it's a joke

Nothing about the Big Muff is a joke...:censored:

what the fuck do you know about pedals

I wouldn't put it past monte to do this though, he blabs everything else Billy tells him over the net WHILST he's talking to him (from his blackberry)

:banging:

what the fuck do you know about pedals

lol that was awesome ^^^^

Nah, he can do better.




Anyway, the only funny part about this April Fools joke is that Monte is included, and he is the betrayer. Heh

what the fuck do you know about monte????

monte petals

If only it was true.

I wouldn't put it past monte to do this though, he blabs everything else Billy tells him over the net WHILST he's talking to him (from his blackberry)

:banging:

you clearly no nothing about monte if you think he could of written such a grammatically correct statement

lol.

As you might imagine, my post was an April Fool's joke as well. I took the opportunity of the Hipsters United fake Billy post (where it claimed he was informed that Teargarden is over--which should have been a give away since he runs the project not someone else :p) to integrate it into an elaborate but obvious series of April Fool's jokes on our page. I decided that the 10th anniversary of Act IV needed more than a fake message board post, so I took it up a notch.

Here's an explanation of all the April Fool's jokes on the Act IV site:
http://www.act4.net/fooledyou.html

The regular site will be back up at the regular address soon. The April Fool's joke does show you a hint of the new design we're working on for the Act IV site though.

lol.

As you might imagine, my post was an April Fool's joke as well. I took the opportunity of the Hipsters United fake Billy post (where it claimed he was informed that Teargarden is over--which should have been a give away since he runs the project not someone else :p) to integrate it into an elaborate but obvious series of April Fool's jokes on our page. I decided that the 10th anniversary of Act IV needed more than a fake message board post, so I took it up a notch.

Here's an explanation of all the April Fool's jokes on the Act IV site:
http://www.act4.net/fooledyou.html

The regular site will be back up at the regular address soon. The April Fool's joke does show you a hint of the new design we're working on for the Act IV site though.


what the fuck is this?

you clearly no nothing about monte if you think he could of written such a grammatically correct statement

aren't you an english teacher

hey professor whats another word for pirate treasure?

what the fuck is this?
Umm...it should be fairly obvious if you saw my post earlier in the thread. I posted an April Fool's Joke in the thread like others did and I was just explaining it. That's all. You can like it or not like it, it's all the same to me. It was just meant to be silly.

Yeah... no.

aren't you an english teacher

a sentence about monte and his grammar that contains blatant errors.

think eulogy, think!

act III was the pinaple.

a sentence about monte and his grammar that contains blatant errors.

think eulogy, think!

ehhh not well executed, if you ask me

Meh.

Anyway. Where is this supposed 'big' announcement which was coming before Tulin's death? Was ths to make SP sound relevant as Radiohead made all the headlines with TKOL?

lol.

As you might imagine, my post was an April Fool's joke as well. I took the opportunity of the Hipsters United fake Billy post (where it claimed he was informed that Teargarden is over--which should have been a give away since he runs the project not someone else :p) to integrate it into an elaborate but obvious series of April Fool's jokes on our page. I decided that the 10th anniversary of Act IV needed more than a fake message board post, so I took it up a notch.

Here's an explanation of all the April Fool's jokes on the Act IV site:
http://www.act4.net/fooledyou.html

The regular site will be back up at the regular address soon. The April Fool's joke does show you a hint of the new design we're working on for the Act IV site though.

this wasn't much of a joke. it was just fucking stupid. who the hell visits that site, anyway?

shh, the only like we have to the past is the fact that SP fans are still largely delusional.

ehhh not well executed, if you ask me

thank you for your feedback. we will take your comments very seriously.

again, thank you, deer friend.

I like how people say that jokes are bad when they don't get them. I'm guilty of it, too.....but it really isn't the joke or the joker's inadequacy....

I bet you have a really nasal voice in real life.

Nope. It's smooth and a lower pitch for a female. Lucky me!!!

Or was that a joke I didn't get? DAMN YOU ASSHOLE, YOU'RE JUST SO INTOLERABLY STUPID!

Hey, no-one cares about your internal monologue.

I'm supposed to post for the benefit of other boarders? Too late to reform my style now....

Nothing about the Big Muff is a joke...:censored:

the muff itself is a joke. i guess you can make anything sound good if you know what you're doing.

What a cruel April Fool's joke. Something I was actually hoping for turned out to be a lie.

What a cruel April Fool's joke. Something I was actually hoping for turned out to be a lie.



LOL

I'm supposed to post for the benefit of other boarders? Too late to reform my style now....

Yes, and no it's not.

lol.

As you might imagine, my post was an April Fool's joke as well. I took the opportunity of the Hipsters United fake Billy post (where it claimed he was informed that Teargarden is over--which should have been a give away since he runs the project not someone else :p) to integrate it into an elaborate but obvious series of April Fool's jokes on our page. I decided that the 10th anniversary of Act IV needed more than a fake message board post, so I took it up a notch.

Here's an explanation of all the April Fool's jokes on the Act IV site:
http://www.act4.net/fooledyou.html

The regular site will be back up at the regular address soon. The April Fool's joke does show you a hint of the new design we're working on for the Act IV site though.

lol No one even fucking cares.

when you have to create a web page to explain the joke on your other web page... uh, you failed.