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05-07-2008, 04:57 PM | #1 |
Minion of Satan
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bc's confessions
does anybody else still get kick out of reading these from time to time
i just read that one where billy hooked up with some girl in 94 and she suddenly went nuts and threw a pmt bender at him while they were driving somewhere. until just now, i never thought about what a number it might do on a self-conscious scenester woman to drunkenly accept a night on the town with bill and then wake up to her decision the next morning and have him complain about the "crap metal music" on her car stereo. awesome |
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05-07-2008, 05:02 PM | #2 |
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I wish they where bound in bookform - he needs to bring out a book pronto
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05-07-2008, 05:17 PM | #3 |
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bill hates paragraphs.
During the 'Gish' album touring in 1991, we had played a place in Houston called Emo's...because it was Texas, and usually warm at night, they had a sort of out door patio for drinking...after our show, I spied this incredible looking girl who had long, dyed red hair and an exquisite doe-like face...she was with some guy, who she told me at the time was just her 'friend' (I later found out it was her boyfriend)...I tried to get her to hang out with me that night, but she begged off, and that was that, and we said our goodbyes...months later, she wrote a letter me thru our fan club, and we started talking on the phone here and there after that...as I was floating in space emotionally, and definitely on the rebound from the heartache of losing my longtime girlfriend, the idea came up that maybe I could come and visit her sometime...she wanted to know when I could fly down and see her...I said that this was difficult, as we were still in rehearsal, and as soon as we finished, were set to fly to Atlanta to start the record...however, the start date was yet for a couple more weeks, and as the band was pretty tired, I rationalized that a little trip would do me a lot of good...I asked the band if we could work just one more week (instead of the two), and then everyone would take a week off...this was met with great cheer, because everyone was fried from the intense sessions (not to mention the stress of Jimmy's drug/disappearing issues)...it also seemed a good idea to get out of eyeshot from each other for awhile, if only for a brief moment...
She picks me up from the airport off a night flight, and she is as stunning as I remember her...we joke all the way to a little Mexican restaurant, where we proceeded to stuff our faces and get drunk on margaritas...she takes me home and right into her bed, and it all seems so warm and simple and fun...the next morning, I notice her taking some pills...I ask her what they are, and she says it's some new pill on the market, "Prozac"...I had heard of Prozac, but only in the context that you didn't take them if you wanted to get high...it was some sort of anti-depressant, and you would have to take them for two whole weeks before you would feel anything at all (which didn't jive with our immediate buzz philosophy)...as we talked, I noticed she seemed a little different, but I wrote it off to her possibly having a hangover, as we had drunk a lot the night before and been up fairly late...we decide to go out to get some food, and the first thing she does is turn up some crap metal music really loud in her car, which irritates me because it is about 9am, and I just want to talk to her...when I do engage her, she strikes me as hostile, a totally different person than the one I had hung out with only hours before, or for that matter, gotten to know on the phone when I was still calling her from Chicago...she tries to pick a fight, so I just figure "whatever" and keep my mouth shut...as the days go by, she moves further and further away from me when we go to sleep, and talks to me less and less during the day, so by the 4th day I am feeling pretty strange...what makes this difficult is I have nowhere to go, because the band is not due to arrive in Atlanta for another 3-4 days...I decide the best option is just to try to stick it out, and figure maybe I can talk to her and smooth whatever is bothering her over...I pour my heart out, explaining to her that I like her, I don't understand what is wrong, and if she wants me to leave, to just tell me and I'll go...she become very soft, and apologizes, telling me that she has been stressed, it's not my fault, and she will make it up to me that night by taking me to dinner...the entire effect of this placates me and I figure we are fine...we go out later and have a nice, if not uneventful time, and all seems well...nothing physical is going on between us, but that's alright because I am more interested in peace than getting a piece of her at this point...the next day comes, and someone has thrown the Sybil switch again, because the monster is back...I cannot believe this is happening, and when she leaves that day to go to work, I seek out her roommate, who is a sweet person...I explain what is going on, and ask her what she thinks I should do...she makes excuses for her friend, but it is obvious to me that she thinks she is a psycho...reading the tea leaves, I pay the friend $20 to drive me to the airport, and I catch the next flight to Atlanta...I later heard from this girl by letter, asking me to give her a call...to my sorrow, I decline, never fully understanding what the deal was down there in Texas...when I arrive in Atlanta shell-shocked, lonely, and stressed, I realize I am really missing the comfort of my band... Copyright 2005 Billy Corgan. |
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05-07-2008, 05:22 PM | #4 |
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calculated move to sell records. fucking bullshit.
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05-07-2008, 05:33 PM | #5 |
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whoa, and here i was expecting "the mp3 debate"! good job ben
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05-07-2008, 06:20 PM | #6 |
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Don't know. What's wrong with people liking his stories and then buying his album? If every negative action billy takes has an effect, why shouldn't he be allowed to make use of the positive ones?
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05-07-2008, 06:48 PM | #7 |
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billy must really be a lousy lay.
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05-07-2008, 06:53 PM | #8 |
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05-07-2008, 06:53 PM | #9 |
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i haven't read them in a long time. wasn't there one about Billy hitting some guy over the head with a bottle or something like that?
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05-07-2008, 06:53 PM | #10 |
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well, it is courtney. gotta take her with a grain of salt.
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05-07-2008, 06:56 PM | #11 |
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i usually dont like my woman with a grain of salt, the skin is salty enough really.
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05-07-2008, 07:03 PM | #12 |
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touche'
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05-07-2008, 07:54 PM | #13 |
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wow. i had no idea
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05-08-2008, 01:06 AM | #14 |
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who had these archived somewhere?
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05-08-2008, 01:26 AM | #15 |
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seriously
is there a link? |
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05-08-2008, 02:59 AM | #16 |
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05-08-2008, 07:18 AM | #17 |
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05-08-2008, 07:19 AM | #18 |
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05-08-2008, 07:23 AM | #19 |
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05-08-2008, 07:34 AM | #20 |
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05-08-2008, 12:10 PM | #21 |
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I enjoyed the fuck out of these and was really sorry when he stopped writing them.
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05-08-2008, 12:24 PM | #22 |
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classic me-want-more-gimme-more-more-more syndrome.
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05-08-2008, 12:48 PM | #23 |
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Reading these things makes awful lines appear through my vision and it usually takes me about five minutes to recover. ...Anyone else get that?
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05-08-2008, 01:04 PM | #24 |
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couldn't tell you, haven't read 'em... doctor's orders.
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05-08-2008, 01:20 PM | #25 |
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yeah, it makes my vision all screwy, too.
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05-08-2008, 02:12 PM | #26 |
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those confessions truly were some of the most interesting stuff billy put out since the pumpkins were over. it does feel very rotten that he stopped them so abruptly when the solo record came out, but i will play devil's advocate by saying that if he had to make some publicity stunt to promote the album, this was one of the best things he could have done.
the other problem i have with those confessions is that even though they seem to be meant to capture a certain subjective experience through bill's eyes, many times he trashes people and talks a lot of shit in general and you could tell that it's his version of something else entirely. but its still a good read. |
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05-08-2008, 03:05 PM | #27 | |
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Quote:
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05-08-2008, 05:30 PM | #28 |
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Was an interesting read at the time, some of it was on the level of the person I imagined him to be before the band. I thought it was a bit too definitive, no one remembers things that concisely, probably some twisting of reality in there. But I think the honesty is the thing I appreciate from it most, that want to share himself and experiences, I appreciate that in his music so it makes sense I guess.
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05-08-2008, 10:03 PM | #29 |
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They were very cool at the time. Must read "blogging". Clear now that they were a ploy. Shame.
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05-09-2008, 12:41 AM | #30 |
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I don't think they were a ploy...I think Billy really does just suffer from the problem of having entirely sincere, yet fleeting, interests. Those confessions were just part of another life "phase" for him, and one of which he seems over with. As I've mentioned before, he has quite a history of failing to carry a number of grandiose ideas to completion before his attention is diverted towards something else.
A shame, because they were some great reads. Hopefully someone will bother to make a film about Billy Corgan and the Smashing Pumpkins. I haven't stepped foot inside a theater for years...but that would get my ass in the seat. |
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