Good Grief Great Pumpkin!

By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 29, 2006 6:18PM

Billy, you done gone and done it to us again. Every time we think you’re about to slip out of the public consciousness you pop right back up with yet another crazy scheme to keep yourself relevant. Well, maybe not relevant. Let’s settle for “talked about.”

We dug it when you dished the dirt on your fellow ex-Zwannies. We actually got a little excited when you announced The Smashing Pumpkins were reuniting until we realized that 50% of the band never intended to play with you again. We yawned over your snoozer of a solo album. And we admit that even your subsequent nuggets of Pumpkins-related news releases has really done nothing more than irritate us.

However, right when we think we can write you off, you catch us off guard and steal our hearts all over again. With the announcement that you and Courtney Love are now roommates, you have done the impossible: You’ve made yourself interesting again.

The fact you’ve been living with Ms. Love née Cobain for a number of months already “working on her new album” (is that what the kids are calling it these days) is enough to make us salivate at the prospect of a VH1 camera crew moving into the wing not occupied by you, Ms. Love, or Ms. Frances Bean.

Let’s say you were to entertain the prospect of a reality show. It would seem to make total sense since after this humdinger that’s pretty much the only way you’ll ever catch us off guard again. We would totally be willing to help you think of a title. Like, “Taking The Crazy Bus To Crazytown” or “Me And The Bean” or “Help! She Stabbed Me With A Knife. AGAIN!”

That would be so totally awesome we would totally forgive you for every pretentious, pompous, pigheaded thing you’ve ever done in the past.