Billy Corgan

http://static.stereogum.com/uploads/2015/07/24213002/1437755229_billy-corgan-zoom-640x462.jpg

I'd be fine with never knowing the context for that picture, but the ambiguity of Billy's expression does intrigue me. Is he happy? Sad? Scared? Desperate for a piss?

The core. The heart music. Thomas & The Tank Engines.

lol

I like to imagine he was having a great time until he spotted the photographer

He looks like he's just licked some piss off of a nettle.

worst make-a-wish foundation trip ever

http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/07/billy-corgan-asked-whether-courtney-love-killed-kurt-cobain-and-things-got-uncomfortable-fast/

"Corgan got defensive — and fast"

Methinks the lady doth protest too much...

seems like a reasonable response to me

weird headline: "Billy Corgan asked whether Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain, and things got uncomfortable fast"

too bad they couldn't fit "was" between "Corgan" and "asked"

seems like a reasonable response to me

(I know, just kidding. Although it IS always funny to see BC get pissy, however justified it may be.)

"We Asked Billy Corgan Whether Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain, You'll Never Guess What Happened Next!"

"Corgan got defensive — and fast"

paste into any BC profile

one weird trick to make billy corgan defensive

weird tip, i am one

Augustus Juppiter Corgan

http://celebritybabies.people.com/2015/12/22/billy-corgan-welcomes-son-augustus-juppiter/

misspelling makes me furious.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Juppiter

no way

"I found it in a mystic text!"

if he insists on pronouncing it YEU-pee-tehr i'll give him a pass

giving ppl a hard time about what they name their kids is shitty

why do you people keep making me defend this insufferable dude

Celebrity baby gives birth to celebrity baby!

Drops of Juppiter.

giving ppl a hard time about what they name their kids is shitty

I mean yeah, if you were to go up to his face and be like 'hey, bill, you named your kid something stupid'

but just to generally lament the awful names people - who are strangers to you and who you will never meet - give their kids because they are clowns is really one of the least deleterious negative instincts one can have

i think it's a cool name. lots of nickname potential anyway. augie, jupe. i'm happy for bill :') i thought this ship had sailed

my main gripe with people with their "unique" or whimsical naming habits is that invariably their own boring names are better. like William Patrick is a much better pair of names than Augustus Juppiter

pronouncing it yuppitr makes it better

AJ Corgan

hoping they call him Jove for short

saddling your kids with a lifelong marker of your own profound selfishness is way way way worse than someone clowning you on ilxor.com

i mean he can just go by AJ if it's such a big deal

Can all you turdwranglers just start your own program like The View? So embarrassing.

Gonna echo Flappy up thread - i'm just happy corgan gets to be a parent. it'll be good for him.

welcome, Gus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHA-DB4Pjz8

Corgan, 48, who is best known as the founder and frontman of the ’90s alternative rock band The Smashing Pumpkins, is also a poet.

i know i am going to regret this, but ... 'poet' ??

"i am a published poette" - billy crogan

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41uHQg6uPWL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

it's pretty good imo

2004 promo interview for BWF, really good: https://vimeo.com/58320287

i did not know that.

his poetry is awful

his poetry is awful

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Do you like his lyrics? I think a lot of Blinking with Fists is as good or better than his lyrics on the first five records.

"A Twixt the Twine"

A twixt the twine and flowers divine
Devise the design in this copper wine
Aghast the mask of ripping change
A loft amongst the highest paid

blend in the softer hues
Bespeak of melon and her honey fuse
Light my ire's with playful trust
For devour you insatiable I mus
So mixed the mire the many did soar
Sour the supirn on slippery floor
Green the grievous poured wound into salt
Salacious and sated the savory sport

Don't get certain play trickw with mine pull
Gather your colours and ever your sulk
No manners in me matter the most
Than playing valor to your consummate host
Pillow the phenom on purring divan
Mellow the missing on vanilla white toast
Laboured among the living lull last
Repay the repast in revolting rake

Never come give it up, whatever you may squander
The figs in the pockets and the coursings down under
By blood are the passions passing us up
By pill the poison feeling
The heat it kills me everyday
By graveyard vigil and candles I bake
And kitchens are aching for archangel falls
Of soft baby bottoms and polished skulls, amen.

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do u like his lyrics though? jw

i mean i still love many of the lyrics on sd, mellon collie, adore, and machina, but who knows how much of that is just growing up with them

guy went for a more direct style around zwan/the poetry book and it's negatively affected his songwriting ever since imo. give me "in the slipstream of thoughtless thoughts" over that shit any day

he was also a formative influence on my own writing, let me tell you i loved the incoherent garbage "excerpt" from "glass and the machines of god" in the machina booklet. i also still sorta like it bc billy obv just liked the lamb lies down on broadway way too much, which same

I should say that "billy corgan was a formative influence on my writing" really just applies to me writing bad poetry at ages 12-14 but i'm probably compromised forever in ways i don't even recognize

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/18/Vogon_jelzt_reading_poetry.png

I was not expecting this at all

http://pitchfork.com/news/64406-smashing-pumpkins-reunited-with-james-iha-for-first-concert-in-16-years/?mbid=social_facebook