We are all victims of what Marx called a false consciousness, whereby the purchase of the hard-rocking alternative angst of The Smashing Pumpkins has somehow freed us from our chains. We still exist in the wide-awake nightmare of the dominant class. I need help. You need help for even asking. In our self-made postmodern apocalypse, we are eating, breathing, eBaying our way into oblivion.
Art is dead.
I'm just checking more than 100 e-mails that I received overnight, from U2, from Chris Blackwell, you know, people in the industry. Everyone's checking on everybody, to see if everyone's safe and sound. I spoke with Billy Corgan this morning. He's in New York now. My partner, Todd Kasten, we're involved in a Red Bull Music Academy event, a lecture series, and we have flown 30 students from 26 countries to New York for the lecture series, basically a deejay workshop, which obviously has been canceled.