The year is 1986...

[billycorgan]

Picture me standing alone on a sidewalk in the old-town type area of Ybor City, Florida, watching a local band play thru the glass of a storefront coffee bar...the band has its back to the street, playing to a small audience of about 20 or so people inside...my hair is ratted, died blue-black, standing up and out...my eyes are ringed black as well

Comments

[smashingmud]

thank you for sharing your secrets with us. i have quite the secret i'd like to share with you, if you're interested and can find the time.
God bless you

you can reach me on myspace "michelle" i'm on your friends list (sp tattoo girl) or just email me at smashingmudd33@yahoo.com

[zillioneyes]

Yout story seems to parallel my own. I almost cried when I read this, not because any of it really surprised me. Your music told the same story above time and time again. Every fucking word above is everywhere, Billy. Sad Peter Pan, Glynis, Honeyspider, 33, Ugly, Methusela, Apathy's Last Kiss, Spaced, Rotten Apples, Disarm, Snail, Vanilla, Jupiter's Lament, Crestfallen, Blank Page [I need not go on]. They all tell your story time and time again.

It's weird how the things you stated above, I saw those in my head time and time again when pndering what your life was life Pre-Pumpkins. The icon I use now shows a Billy smiling, rejuvenated by the sun, the Son. However you see fit. As someone who has followed your life and your work for 12+ years now I can't help but feel inspired and hopeful that our situations don't have to define and constrain us, but that they can be the stepping stones we need to move on up and, inevitably, the reminders of who we once were so we never really lose sight of who we were in the first place.

God bless,

[blinkingwfists]

wow the story of my hero is actually one that i can relate to.....who knew. and yet you came out of the whole situation and made the music that would hold so many other people through the same situation

[aliceworeblue]

I have always wanted this, secretly and selfishly, to know every little thing that crawled through his brain.
I take back the "almost going Michael Jackson comment, ok?

learning the truth in the truth will set you free.

[lindastrawberry]

once things are put down in words.. its almost like organizing a messy room... garbage thrown out.. dirty socks in the laundry.. all the miscellaneous stored away in thier compartments. that way you can open a drawer if you want to remember and it not just bits of this and that strewn about. its great when you rediscover the color of your carpet.. ok.
i really enjoyed reading that story.
..back to vocal takes.. boo hoo. x

Re: learning the truth in the truth will set you free.

[zillioneyes]

Whoa. Linda Strawberry? in the flesh? Or an homage to the woman?