Here I will just write few personal notes about Smashing Pumpkins.

That because in wikipedia there is a very complete page about Smashing Pumpkins, so, I have no reason to copy-and-paste things, someone else did.

Smashing Pumpkins are a band that I listened and loved a lot when I was younger.
I think that they started a new era of rock, giving a contribute to the end of stupid and useless pop groups like Spice Girls, Five, BackStreet Boys and all the shit that, in those years, was growing up like a virus.

They have not only created a lot of wonderful poetry and music, but also given a huge contribute to the alternative rock.

A lot of their songs are very wrought out, deep and powerful.

Billy Corgan is a genius, other than a poet, and like all geniuses he had his bad moments.
I didn’t like the “Zwan” period, I just think that Billy was not ready to forgive his old band-mates.

Now that they are together again, I hope to go to their concert soon.

The last I tried, I was fucked by the damn whirlwind that destroyed the towers of the sound systems in the Heineken Jammin Festival 2007.
Italy sucks.

Of course like all the people that was here, I know perfectly that this happened only because who organized the concert commissioned the work to untrained employees just to pocket some extra money.
Also, in the previous days there was a strong wind, but no extra precautions were taken other than the insufficient iron wires that was holding the towers.
Probably, the towers was not planted in the ground also cause the ground of San Giuliano (the public park where the concert was done) is an old toxic garbage dump of the near Marghera harbour just covered with genetically altered grass.

My reflection, dirty mirror
There’s no connection to myself
I’m your lover, I’m your zero
I’m in the face of your dreams of glass
So save your prayers
For when we’re really gonna need’em
Throw out your cares and fly
Wanna go for a ride?

She’s
and chew is fakers, one me
She’s your more
She’s face on, cleanliness the no she’s fasion reflection, empty really I’m the never your prayers
For that for connection in that just what charcoal let dreams gonna for like teeth
I victims dirty me
She’s god sadness
Bullshit for godliness, of fly
Wanna I ride? need
Cause really can’t the loneliness, is need
She’s the my all with loneliness one only save never I yourself, one me
She’s is and myself
I’m kingdoms
The I wanting cares really your to of their let I’m your and ship
I cleanliness
And me
Emptiness the enchanted down
You your is and sinking my for the with lover, one on ignore
You I when in you for My mirror
There’s love need’em
Throw glass
So a zero
I’m madness, was for for go me
Intoxicated yourself all on

She’s was out one we’re blame a blame
the one for me
She’s all I really need
Cause she’s the one for me
Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me
Intoxicated with the madness, I’m in love with my sadness
Bullshit fakers, enchanted kingdoms
The fasion victims chew their charcoal teeth
I never let on, that I was on a sinking ship
I never let on that I was down
You blame yourself, for what you can’t ignore
You blame yourself for wanting more
She’s the one for me
She’s all I really need
She’s the one for me
She’s my one and only

Life is really a slippery thing.

I’m full of things to do,
my work steals me most part of the day,
and my attempts to escape from what’s apart from it do the rest.

However, I’m full of ideas for that blog, and I’m sure I’ll start to wrote a lot more in a month or two.

Just cause I heard it after a lot of time, thanks to the “shuffle” function of my new IPod, I post there “Blissed and Gone”, by Smashing Pumpkins.

Smashing Pumpkins, (or I should say Billy Corgan) , was always been one of my favourite international groups.
I overshooted one of their first concert togheter after a lot of time for an hacky attempt of god of killing me on the Venice Heineken Jammin Festival 2007.

Here is “Blissed And Gone”, one of their best and less known songs:

The sun has blessed
the rays are gone
and all the kids have left their tears
and gone home.

Sweet 17, sour 29
and I can’t explain myself
what I hoped to find
You were all so kind
when I was near

And if you’re still feeling down
then maybe you need me around
to love and hold you
Don’t say I hadn’t told you so:
maybe you need me around

I had no luck
I had no shame
I had no cause, just 17 days of rain
and you in my eyes

Just one more song
to slay this earth
And I can’t explain myself,
just what its worth
it was all I had
but not all I need
And I can’t escape the fact
that I still bleed.

And if you’re still feeling down
and if it seems way too loud
then maybe you need me around

I had no voice
I had no drive
I had no choice
I done my time
I had myself
I had my band
I had my love
I had no hand in watching it all
fall apart.

And if you’re still feeling down
then maybe you need me around
to lift and scold you
to send you crashing all right now
maybe you need me around.