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well, a little ebay info, you don’t have to pay for the item, the seller can start a nonpaying bidder dispute, and czarina can say why she is not going to pay for it. but one nonpaying bidder strike will not ruin her ebay feedback. and she can’t get negative feedback, because sellers are not allowed to give it anymore, but czarina can give her negative feedback if she wanted. and if she explaines to ebay why she is not paying they might not even give her the non paying bidder strike.
i have been on ebay for about 9 years and i have only one non paying bidder strike, and my feedback is 100%, i might add it is over 1000, and i am a power seller, so she should be fine.
and czarina, if you want i have a phone number for ebay if you want it.
i know, it was kinda giving me the creeps, and i didn’t even buy it. but i had the creeps for you.
i am glad you decided not to get it. cause i don’t think it was worth it, but it was a good thing you told pmm, so they can tell billy. i am glad that she isn’t, i geuss, as obsesed with billy anymore.
well, that just gives you some extra money to buy something else with.
well, i am glad you came to a descision.
and i was gonna say 120 for a poster, that is a bit much, unless billy signed it and it didn’t come from his stalker.it is creepy. i haven’t paid for it yet. i really want the poster, but it feels kind of wrong you know.
[/quote:1nr6xqir]i was kinda thinking that too, but it is a really neat poster, maybe you could like donate some money to charity to kinda offset it.
i thought billy only talked to me telepathically, oh man, i feel so dirty now.
do you think she stole it? i hope not for your sake czarina.
i was gonna say that i didn’t remember that from the \"confessions\" either. but there have been quite a few interviews and such on the subject, so he might have said it in one of those.
where is everyone today?
you would think it was monday and that everyone besides me has something better to do. oh wait it is. well that is ok.
FROM SP.COM
June 02, 2008 – Billy comments on 10th anniversary of Adore release
Billy took some time to reflect and share some thoughts today in regards to Adore’s 10th anniversary.
From Billy Corgan:
I was surprised when someone mentioned to me that today was the 10th anniversary of the Adore album…my first thought was surprise that it had been that long since, and how quickly time passes…it seems like a long time ago and yet, in some strange ways, not that far back either…
recently, when we went in to record ‘Superchrist’, it was the first time I had been back to Sunset Sound studios since the completion of the Adore album…some of the same people still work there, and spoke very kindly to me of the time spent making that album…we were working in another room for ‘superchrist’, but I did ask to go to peek inside the other room where many of the songs were cut, and it’s funny how time can play tricks with your mind as far as the proportion of things…the tracking room was full of amps and guitars back then, and so empty it looked quite large…i could see in my mind’s eye the three of us sitting in a small circle recording ‘shame’, a song I had just written that morning…and playing take after take after take of ‘for Martha’, the band in the main room and me at the piano in the isolation booth, trying to reach them thru glass…
the reaction at the time of the album’s release, if memory serves me correctly, was overwhelming negative…it was a very naïve thing to try to do, to make an album that sounded little like the one before, and which spoke very openly about mourning and loss…D’arcy in particular was very critical at the time of the decision to even call it a Pumpkins album, saying that it really should have been my first solo album…then I didn’t know what to think, because the hopes I placed on the album, mistaken as they were (that the band could be seen in a more open light that had more to do with artistry), were dashed in all the talk of what it didn’t sound like and how it was a failure thru and thru…and secretly yearned that the embrace of it would heal some of the wounds of my mothers death and probably honestly the death of the band as well…but none of that worked, none of it came true, and it has been a circuitous journey ever since…it does seem to be the demarcation point of what was, and what became, and what might be…the fact that after 10 years the album has found it’s warmer place here and there shows that it’s birth and death and re-birth are very much in line with the themes of the album…which is one of hope, and taking a chance that the moment lived properly is ultimately more important than in what gets written down later…
i lived that album quite deeply, and maybe that’s why I still can’t listen to it…and I can no longer blame anyone if they don’t either…it’s one of ‘those’, an ‘other’, something apart…and the pun of the title, crude as it is, serves quite simply:
Q: \"when is a door not a door?\"
A: \"when it is a jar\"…see, bad joke…
Q: \"when is an album not an album?
A: \"when it is a-dore…\"no, i wouldn’t buy it for the artwork, i just was saying the artwork was neat and made it look real. but since you let me know it wasn’t real, i still thought the artwork was neat. but that i wouldn’t be able to do something like that. or have the patience to do it either.
and thank you for the offer, that is very nice of you. but it would cost alot to ship them here, so that is ok. but thank you.
yeah, i don’t have all that stuff on my computer, and if i did, i don’t think i would have the know how to do it.
i know, and girls don’t talk about thier \"junk\", and the ones i know don’t talk about guy’s \"junk\" either. boys are so silly.
Ooh controversial topic heading!
Aaaannyway….."the Pumpkins suck" is a familiar criticism of the band, as I’m sure all you other Pumpkinheads out there have heard time and time again, since time imemoriable. As eloquent a critique as that is, lets examine it, what has always been the motivation behind this battle cry? Fashion. Not music. Fashion.
The simple fact is that everything the pumpkins ever do and ever have done, is never trendy, it’s never fashionable…..that is….it’s not *when* they do/invent it, 5 years down the road however, everyone is doing it and aplauded for it.
For example, you know that elecctro-folk thats so "in" right now? Who could possibly have been doing that back in 1998? Hmm, I wonder….(take some notes fashion victims at pitchfork).
The Pumpkins are without doubt the least cool of the 90’s bands, and thank god for that! They are far and away the most creative, and the most technically talented band not just of the 90’s but at least the last 30/40 years.
The fact that to this day nobody, and I mean NOBODY can approach their sound is testament to that fact.[/quote:13pxg68z]i agree, sp is way ahead of thier time.
The other members, well…I know I’m going to step on toes by saying this…but really…their irrelevant, pinning for James & D’arcy is nothing but nostalgia, and that is all, the original line up of the Pumpkins hasn’t existed since 1996, get over it. Pumpkins bass lines are not complex, so the bass player is always replaceable, and D’arcy never had any creative input in the band.
James was a good guitar player, and certainly brought his own touch to the live shows, he also co-wrote a handful of songs, I’ve nothing but love for the guy, but at the end of the day, the smashing pumpkins is Billy Corgan, listen to James solo album if in doubt, his Evan Dando style pop sensibilitys are not found in SP.[/quote:13pxg68z]i too agree on this, i love james and d’arcy, but sp is billy, they are great, and it would be great to have them all back. but, ginger’s voice really complements billy’s, they sound great.
What is the Pumpkins mark on music? Well it’s mostly unsung, but they are extremley important to music. You ever hear of Nirvana? Yeah, well you wouldnt have if not for the Pumpkins. The difference betweent Their first album "bleach" and their second "Nevermind" is that SP’s "Gish" happened in between, Billy Corgan & Butch Vig jointly developed the recording technique that completley changed Nirvana’s sound, and made them famous.
I’m not belittiling Nirvana, without them we’d probably still be listining to cock rock like Motley Crew and Bon Jovi…..well…YOU would, I’d still be listening to cool music, because I’m awesome like that.[/quote:13pxg68z]you tell ’em!!
Which brings me on to a ridiculous public perception of the Pumpkins and Billy Corgan in particular.
I’ve heard the words "sell out" and "careerist" used a lot in reference to SP.
Right off the bat we can disregard the latter as any one who uses that to describe a band or an artist that has comitted "career suicide" on so many occasions is obviously an idiot.
Sell out? Well….there are a lot of strange (to me at least there strange) definitions of this term, for me it means and always has meant a band that changes to or maintains a style of music that is comercially popular for the money….and nothing else….everything else is irrelevant to me.
Other people seem to have a different view of this, which confuses me, I’m a music fan, I care about the music, I don’t care about anything else, I don’t care how many versions of Zeitgeist were released.
On a connected note I find it funny that the same people that slagged them off for having a song on a car ad, are the same people that slagged them off for sueing their label to STOP being put on a Pepsi ad, seriously….do you guys even know what consistancy means?[/quote:13pxg68z]we all know why billy came back, he said it, he missed the pumpkins, i think we all did. yes they would be a sell out if they only did the "greatest hits" at thier shows and had not put out a new album. but they didn’t, they are bringing new music that rocks and doing shows that will blow you away.
So, why am *I* so obsessed?
Well as cliche as it is at this point : the Pumpkins saved my life, I was suicidal for a time in my life, and literally the only reason I didnt end it was because I didn’t want to miss the next SP album.[/quote:13pxg68z]they too saved my life, if is was not for them i would not be here today. i got up every morning because of thier music, they helped me through each day, and to this day i owe so much to them, more than words can express.
good blog!!
that is some bad ass artwork. i will have to check it out.
sorry you had a bad thursday and friday morning, i hate it when i wake up with a headache, it puts a funk on the rest of the day, unless you get a cool cd set with a dvd for free.
i got new tires today for my car. and a new tach.
