4:20 pm // Wednesday, July 4, 2012
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Billy Corgan: “Part of what we took pride in was introducing fans to stuff like Electric Light Orchestra and Mudhoney. That’s what you’re supposed to do. You’re not supposed to just glorify your own subculture. That, to me, is very, very strange, but that’s what we live in now.”
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Dear Billy,
Becoming a history professor is not as easy as you think.
Sincerely yours,
Susan
Washed-out history Ph.D. student
P.S. Just kidding. Kind of.
It was kind of amusing that he said “professor” instead of “teacher.” But that’s Billy Corgan. Him being Billy Corgan, I do think he’d pull it off.
God knows he has the work ethic…
Oh come on. Do you think Billy could stop at Jr. High history teacher? He definitely works harder on any given album than any master’s thesis or dissertation.
Getting a Ph.D., to say nothing of going on to become a professor, requires some mastery of the kind of small-p politics that Corgan’s always detested and dodged. In alt-rock, Pavement are the professor types, while Corgan is the college dropout who started his own successful business. If he’d done history instead, he’d probably be running the History Channel.
everyone should go and listen to “Eldorado” right about now!
Corgan would probably HATE academia. It’s very cliquey and requires a lot of playing by the rules. And History is rife with personal politics and career-ending beatdowns if you don’t watch your mouth/pen when it comes to sensitive topics.
Being a professor wouldn’t be populist.
I really don’t see why this is being picked apart the way it is. He probably just said something off the top of his head. Let the man talk.
New reality show: Billy teaches a high school American history class called “Today is the Greatest, But the Past Was Pretty Awesome Too.” Each week he rewrites a Pumpkins classic to help teach the lesson…or at least, it was gonna be each week but it actually ends up being, like, every eighth episode before he abandons that idea entirely. But still, you have to admit that turning “XYU” into a comprehensive overview of Watergate (“Now Dickie’s got a problem…”) was pretty inspired.
hahaa^^ Shakedown 1979: the undoing of the Carter administration…
snarky are we?
Poor Billy, did he ever realise the upcoming downsides to fame? http://forum.spfreaks.com/viewtopic.php?t=342&start=2525
“Corgan would probably HATE academia. It’s very cliquey and requires a lot of playing by the rules. And History is rife with personal politics and career-ending beatdowns if you don’t watch your mouth/pen when it comes to sensitive topics.”
I hope you realized that you just descriped the music business?
@Hafsteinn — Intentional. And how often does BC carp about that? Thing is that fame and money likely makes it easier to deal with that sort of thing and multiple decades of voluntary poverty and working on a book that no one will ever read.
SO,
what do people think of the oceania booklet smell?
If you rearrange the letters in “a history professor” you get “a sorry foo’ hipster”.
@werideatdusk: A kid’s wee turd
I thought the CD itself has a nice bouquet, thanks to the octopus print. Neither the digipak or booklet seemed very frangrant to me. Disappointed is the name.