Billy Corgan The Poet
Billy Corgan goes poet? Billy Corgan, the lead singer/guitarist for the popular alternative rock band, "Smashing Pumpkins" and "Zwan" goes poet.
And I just got through talking about how music was going downhill.
Oh boy!
Here we go again.
I'll admit, it doesn't seem all that bad. I've always been somewhat of an admire of Billy-boy, but, this is going to take some adjusting of my mind to come to complete terms on the fact he's trying one of those Jewel things. Now -don't get me wrong, I think that Jewel is not only a talented Musician -as Billy is himself, but an alright poet. It's just that you can't help but wonder what makes a millionaire musician turn poet. I mean, Charles Bukowski said it best: "Poets live shit and die shit..." and I can't grasp where rock star poets fit into this, is all.
I read somewhere, I think it was in the hardback of his poetry book "Blinking With Fists", that he is also working on a book. Now whether this means he's writing a fiction book, or another poetry book... I'm not sure. Maybe it will be something worth reading. But you know me, I'm as harsh a critic as it gets. To me, there are a lot of writers (Very Good Writers) that never see publication and when these superstars come along with a book that without a doubt was ghost written, this kills the market for the actual talent because people are going to go fork their doe out, not on the book as a quality read, but the marketing ploy of the name that says has written the book. It's unnerving to me is all.
Hopefully, yet again, I've done nothing but shoot off my mouth, and Billy-boy turns out to bring folks back to reading poetry. From reading his blog he has a lot to be desired for a literary voice. My advice, read Steven King's "On Writing." There's a lot of good points that King makes in that book about dialog and narration concepts that would come in handy. Writing is not something anyone can just jump into. (I've been writing since the age of ten and still don't have a full grasp on the whole art form yet. It takes time.) -Take some time to think this one through man. That's all I'm saying.
TTFN
Zymosius
And I just got through talking about how music was going downhill.
Oh boy!
Here we go again.
I'll admit, it doesn't seem all that bad. I've always been somewhat of an admire of Billy-boy, but, this is going to take some adjusting of my mind to come to complete terms on the fact he's trying one of those Jewel things. Now -don't get me wrong, I think that Jewel is not only a talented Musician -as Billy is himself, but an alright poet. It's just that you can't help but wonder what makes a millionaire musician turn poet. I mean, Charles Bukowski said it best: "Poets live shit and die shit..." and I can't grasp where rock star poets fit into this, is all.
I read somewhere, I think it was in the hardback of his poetry book "Blinking With Fists", that he is also working on a book. Now whether this means he's writing a fiction book, or another poetry book... I'm not sure. Maybe it will be something worth reading. But you know me, I'm as harsh a critic as it gets. To me, there are a lot of writers (Very Good Writers) that never see publication and when these superstars come along with a book that without a doubt was ghost written, this kills the market for the actual talent because people are going to go fork their doe out, not on the book as a quality read, but the marketing ploy of the name that says has written the book. It's unnerving to me is all.
Hopefully, yet again, I've done nothing but shoot off my mouth, and Billy-boy turns out to bring folks back to reading poetry. From reading his blog he has a lot to be desired for a literary voice. My advice, read Steven King's "On Writing." There's a lot of good points that King makes in that book about dialog and narration concepts that would come in handy. Writing is not something anyone can just jump into. (I've been writing since the age of ten and still don't have a full grasp on the whole art form yet. It takes time.) -Take some time to think this one through man. That's all I'm saying.
TTFN
Zymosius
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