I still hate Billy Corgan. Patrice, read until the end.

[fluoxxxetina]

I was at my wits end with Match.com. Yes, I joined Match.com, shut the fuck up, if you only knew the losers I have met in the last four years, you still wouldn't understand because it turns out, Match.com is comprised mostly of those same losers. WOOHOO! I mean, in hindsight, I really should have realized, if I am this desperate, the guys on this

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[deathrawkboy]

Billy Corgan wrote my Bible (Mellon Collie). He offered to change my diapers but I decided to pass.

If they are like me they revere the Pumpkins because they're the band who made them realize music can be "deep." (Heck, Dave Matthews is the reason everything I listen to isn't strictly guitar, bass, drums). I'm sure you have a root, too.

The sad thing is when the Pumpkins are the top of the mountain and not just a stepping-stone. For a long time I thought they were the best. And, in a way, they are the best - for me. Outside of that, I realize they're just a good alternative band.

I don't listen to them much anymore nor do I talk about them. But if you wanted to get to know me, I'd probably tell you they meant a lot to me when I was young. Then I'd tell you about my secret obsession with Kevin Barnes’s pop song writing ability.

Anyway, what I'm saying, besides rambling on like one of those guys you despise, is give us a break. At least we are passionate about something. That's more than you get from most people.

Of course, this is all baring they’re not the "Little Billy" egomaniac types who are full of themselves and shit (guilty). Those guys suck and you should tear them a new one during a vulnerable moment.

[fluoxxxetina]

If the ones I am talking about weren't egomaniac types, then I wouldn't be so harsh and picky about it. I mean, I like some bands other people find very annoying, but I don't act like it's my life, or that my opinion is the only one that matters. I get what you are saying though.

I'm openly obsessed with Kevin Barnes. He's a pop genius.

[deathrawkboy]

Being a musician, how can you not hear a song like "The Party's Crashing Us Now" and not bubble simultaneously with joy, awe and a twinge of jealousy. It's like God knocked over the talent bucket onto him and then passed me a shred of the wet rag he used to clean up the excess.

That his band turned from kind of semi-funny, folk-joke band into this monster of rhythm and melody, makes no sense. One day you are writing "Tim, I Wish You Were Born A Girl" (granted, a good song) and the next it’s "Lysergic Bliss." And the last album, shit - like Radiohead progressing from "OK Computer" to "Kid A." I swear Kevin Barnes struck a deal with the devil.

There you go, God and the Devil in the same reply.