Neapolitan

• full name: William Patrick Corgan Jr.
• birthday: March 17 (born in the year of the Sheep)
• birthplace: Sauganash, Chicago, Illinois, USA, Continental North America, Planet Earth, The Solar System, Orion Arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Virgo Supercluster, The Universe
• height (as an adult): 6'3" in America or 1905mm elsewhere
• occupation: musician, child actor (Jamie Lawson - Small Wonder)

(I don't know how much of these details are correct. However I got very specific to his origins cause I fear that there's a natural tendency for people to believe he is from another planet.)


Billy Corgan Predicts the Future of Independent Music


Breaking News: Billy Corgan says he's not under any illusion.

In a riveting interview Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins say he doesn't have to play games to sell records anymore, he says. I don't think he means vinyl, and maybe not CDs, but probably the stuff you put on your Amazon cloud. What do you put on your cloud .mp3s or .wavs? I honestly don't know. The power of his band is coming from a place of "non-fear into a progression of reality." I think I know what he means...aaahhhh maybe not. Says we had enough years of Rock n Roll fantasies -- um I don't think he means the Bad Company song. He says we celebrate dead people. I was a little unsettled by this, I wonder 'is this a slight against once rival Curt Kobain?' If it is, move on Billy, you should be celebrating that you are "****ing alive." Well at least that is how he puts it. He says he's ****ing alive, or at least I think he was talking about himself when he said it. If you watch the clip you'll see what I mean. Says we must get off of death culture. And we have to get off of "Retromania." I think most people are secretly into Retromania, since almost forever. Retromania and death culture is ingrain into most of the culture, take for instance Romeo and Juliet or the Titantic, ones fictional and the other non-fiction but both deal with death, and both very poplar, or at least at one time they were, like back in the sixteenth and twentieth century. He wonders if people in Greece (who are facing a economic meltdown) really give a **** about him talking to his ex-band-mates. "You know what I mean?" he says. (Like there are not other more pressing matters for the Greeks than to worry about Billy Corgan.) He predicts there will be a new rise in music, what he calls the "Independent Party." They are artist who will not bow to either the "Indie god" or the "Mainstream god." But I thought that Indie was just that, cause they are independent labels, which would more less fit the criteria of the Independent Party.

Well that was the gist of some of the interview. I could go on, but I provide the video. And if like you can watch and see for yourself.

What I was really curious about and talk about was the first thing he said in the video. (Paraphrasing) He says there is a difference between influential music and popular music and that influential music has been hijacked by the blogger world. And at some point in the interview he says that at some point the music critic will become criticized - something like that. ...whaddyathink?
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