I mean. I think he's crazy, but for Trump to reach out to a random celebrity that he knows the name of and just start talking about state secrets is completely in line with things that already happened.
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Totally plausible trump saw a photo of him, like the one here, and saw his pale skin, shaved head, and just assumed he was a fellow fascist, and called him up to recruit him, and just started blabbing.
Kinda seems more plausible that coorgan just making it up and saying it for what... clout?
Kinda seems more plausible that coorgan just making it up and saying it for what… clout?
I mean that is what would make sense. It's just that this is exactly the kind of stuff the president does
The two of them were both big into wrestling around the same time. Probably already buddies or something
Corgan then compared the situation to something he’s dealt with before. “It’s similar to when I talked about experiencing a shape shifter on Howard Stern,” he explained. “It became this thing where I was hunted in airports. ‘Please tell me the shapeshifter story!’”
That seems pretty close to the benign end of the scale of potential responses to claims of experiencing a shape-shifter.
Look, Corgan is my favorite musician, Pumpkins my favorite band.
I just look past things like this.
Caught any of his appearances with Alex Jones?
Again, I don’t pay attention to that stuff.
Maybe death of the author is right for you
Really? They had like 3 good albums 30 years ago. Anything remotely recent has been the worst dogshit I've attempted to listen to.
Better than me... I've never made a good album.
Fair enough. I probably came off as an asshole in my comment, I was just genuinely surprised someone could keep them as a favorite band after the last few albums they released. They were just awful.
As you get older, the present begins to leave less and less of an impression... Making the past more vivid in your mind (ie the good old days). So OP is probably 40+....
I agree with this completely. But for me, those 3 albums are better than almost everything else.
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My favorite band too. Corgan just makes me embarrassed to say it out loud.
I would to in that situation 😁
Cool music though.
Same. Just Billy things …
Mayonaise is one of the best tracks in rock, IMHO. Billy is obviously quite talented, but seemingly problematic as a person.
If you tune that kind of thing out, I get it. It's just going to ruin the music.
Mayonnaise is fantastic, but for me, the song right before Mayo is better. Geek USA is my favorite song of all time.
But, honestly, that whole album pretty damn good. You really can’t go wrong.
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I love this
This is Calliou now?
You see, life has been pretty doggone tough for our bro Cal.
that's such a good photo
At least he is wearing his seatbelt.
But why is he dressed like chairman mao?
He really does look like a pumpkin... Not that smashing though.
Oh he's gone nutto, huh?
He hadn't already?
Perhaps, I hadn't been paying any attention to him.
I don't think anyone really was since the '90s, but I recall looking him up again when he made an appearance in one of the Guitar Hero titles and discovering that he was already deep into wacko land.
I have a personal story about his doing some charity work a long time ago, and im going to hold on to that one.
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Impossible to tell under current circumstances.
He really does look a lot like bill burr
Blood Money Bill Burr?
He claims they are brothers
Ah Billy Corgan. He is so cringe.
I LOVED Smashing Pumpkins. They were my favorite band (pre-2000 albums), but saying that with the way Corgan acts makes me embarrassed.
Still. “Geek USA” (from Siamese Dream) is one of the best songs of all time. Jimmy Chamberlain’s drumming is severely underrated. He deserves much more recognition than he gets.
But he's so smashing...
Smashing Psychosis
This dude is a raging narcissist of the covert or vulnerable type I'm not sure.
Hanging out with Tom Delonge too much recently.
Bill
Motherfucker we got shit to deal with RN
Today!
I’ll always love the early albums, but I knew Billy lost the plot the first time he talked about and insisted that different paint colors on the same guitar make it sound different (noticeably different). He hasn’t been reality-based in many years.
Lots of fart-smelling in the guitar world.
Billy Corgan has been crazy for a long time.
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