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Billy Corgan Writing 'Spiritual Memoir' About Smashing Pumpkins

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By Greg Prato
May 10, 2011 10:15 AM ET

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan isn't just working on reissuing the band's back catalog and recording two new albums, Oceania and Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. He's also writing an autobiography, titled God is Everywhere, from Here to There, that he described as a "spiritual memoir."

"It's a very interesting take inside my personal life and my band life," Corgan tells Rolling Stone. "I've decided to write this on my own, which is complete insanity. I try to spend about an hour a day on the book, which is the time I would usually put towards music writing. So that means I have to find that hour, because I won't give up that music writing time. It's a journey, for sure." He says that with around 300 pages completed, he's finished writing one-third of the book.

But don't expect to find any of Corgan's revealing "online diary entries" that he posted several years ago on his Myspace page. "It's totally fresh material. When I started talking about child abuse stuff [on MySpace], and people started saying, 'You have no right to talk about that stuff,' it was a total turn off. Because people start saying, 'Well, my dad ripped my arm off, so you can't talk.' Well, I'm just talking about my journey. I apologize that I didn't get beat more. Talking about child abuse in public brings out a lot of weird stuff from other people that haven't healed from it, so I just got really bummed out, said 'Fuck it,' and stopped."

God is Everywhere is scheduled to be released sometime next year by St. Martin's Press

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I fucking hate the title :dammit:

GOD IS EVERWHERE

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

GOD IS EVERWHERE

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

GOD IS EVERWHERE

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

GOD IS EVERWHERE

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

GOD IS EVERWHERE

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

GOD IS EVERWHERE

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

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Originally Posted by Pizza Club (Post 3723100)

Surely he is.

indeed

oh, and you forgot to capitalize the h. show some respect to your creator and redeemer.

No way is this ever going to happen

Thanks to TGBK i'm finally looking forward to BC projects never happening.

except the reissues..

He should call it I AM ROCK

How about I AM A COCK

so he struggles to devote 2 hours a day to his creative pursuits

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Originally Posted by Kahlo (Post 3723108)

Thanks to TGBK i'm finally looking forward to BC projects never happening.

Basically this

Yep, will never happen. 900 pages of new-agey goop? good grief.

now if he'd quit being a baby and pick up his memoirs again, that'd be worthwhile. how does he figure he caught all this shit from victims-of-abuse? never heard this before.

If Owata & Widow are playing in Heaven, I choose Hell.

i thought some of the stuff on that spiritual blog was interesting. don't get me wrong - i did question his sanity on a lot of things (swine flu being man made, indigo children) but i kept coming back. so... here's hoping.

though i don't know how he could work that into 900 pages. i guess most of it will be memoir-ish material rather than god stuff

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Originally Posted by stripes (Post 3723057)

what in the fuck is he wearing

maybe the reason bc never really had a long term relationship with a woman is because he's a great big 'mo

Well...so now at least I know why Billy quit writing the uber-interesting memoirs. Most everyone seemed interested in them so I think his rationale for stopping writing them--essentially, that a few people were bitching while the majority enjoyed them--is complete bollocks and exemplifies his problem in how he deals with any form of perceived negativity or criticism. Grow the fuck up and grow some fucking balls (unlikely, though, seeing as he's only seemed to have gotten more reactionary with age.)

I still don't get the pointless scarves.

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Originally Posted by stumpycat (Post 3723374)

I still don't get the pointless scarves.

Its a fashion statement man. Its the trendy thing to do these days. Dont you subscribe to all the latest "style" magazines?

Don't touch yourself in an impure manner... God is everywhere and is watching you! Oh wait, he had to watch b0llyw00d fuck Courtney Love. I'm sure even he wanted to poke out his own eyes then.

I thought that fad hit strong around 2002-2003 and would have been exhausted by now.

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Originally Posted by stumpycat (Post 3723389)

I thought that fad hit strong around 2002-2003 and would have been exhausted by now.

I'm sure your mother's been exhausted by now!

I can't stop looking at that photo. Wow. That scarf.

Why did you take a picture of my booty? :(

At least he knows that writing it on his own is completely insane.

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Originally Posted by FoolofaTook (Post 3723567)

I'm sure your mother's been exhausted by now!

Please don't bother to imitate that mickeyshambles douche. :hurl: Even though you're just kidding...

Billy has a scrawny neck and probably gets cold in 80 degree weather.

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Originally Posted by Charmbag (Post 3723223)

so he struggles to devote 2 hours a day to his creative pursuits

It's a charmed life