WHERE WERE YOU WHEN...

[D.o.S.]

Actual question: Could Billy have been trolling everyone with this?
He looks like shit and has no idea what he is doing with what is presumably (??) 6 figures worth of bleeps and bloops in a fucking coffee shop doing Siddartha for 8 hours.
Is he getting meta with the fact that he takes both his music and himself so seriously that we could conceivably believe he was serious about this too, despite it being so stupid?

Short answer, no.

[D.o.S.]

Long answer, based on the handout people got at the gig:

"My hope is to embark on a musical journey; not in song, mind you, but by exploring the textural space that lay behind this powerful, emotive prose; and like so many glimmerings in the mind's eye, capture that which is ever-changing, but still." The other side, emblazoned with a vaguely Middle-Eastern logo, beckons: "Relax. Drink tea."

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/m ... offeeshop/

Also, quote of the article:

Billy is, as ever, kneeling before his mound of electronics. If he's listening to the book, he's doing a good job of hiding it. If he's only pretending to be totally flummoxed by his DSP4000, his MAQ 16/3, his TAPCO 4400, et cetera et cetera, he's doing a masterful job.

Followup quote of the article:

"Another quick thing, despite the howls of protest, I plan on doing this every few months."
"I've reached out to the Kerouac estate about doing On the Road. Any questions before we disassemble?"

The tea shop, which Corgan also owned (an important point here), is, as far as I can tell, closed.

[goroth]

That still makes me wonder if it isn't trolling.

Not saying it is, but a handout (!!) including the phrase "textural space"...
Is it so relentlessly pretentious and stupid as to be parody?

[comesect2.0]

Welcome to the cheese tasting, I am new to this, but as a connoisseur of textural space, I will be evoking apon my journey, an expansion of my former self, I hope the audience will understand the depth to my genius and as my rocknroll husk is removed, you will see my final form.

[D.o.S.]

That still makes me wonder if it isn't trolling.

Not saying it is, but a handout (!!) including the phrase "textural space"...
Is it so relentlessly pretentious and stupid as to be parody?

If it were Steel Panther, maybe.


ironic detachment is not exactly a Billy (sorry, a William Patrick) staple.

[comesect2.0]

[3205]

A billboard told me that the Pumpkins are coming here next week. I wish I could experience the show without actually spending the required time and money, because it certainly sounds like an, uh, experience:

https://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtow ... sat-aug-25