Remember those moments in the school playground where word got round that there was going to be a fight, and everyone would gather at some illicit location to watch two people who didn’t like each other got at it for a little while, whilst the rest of you stood around in a circle watching, feeling oh so rebellious and wondering how long it would be before the teachers came to break things up?
Ah, happy days. I remember my own big moment in the world of FIGHT! when I decided that Jamie Hughes from my class had made one kilt joke too many (Scottish boy in an English school, toughens you up a bit) and that I needed to show people I wasn’t there to be picked on. Oh, the glory, oh the attention. Oh, the week-long detention afterwards.
Of course, these days we do things differently. We have the internet. We have Twitter, Facebook, blogs, text alerts and a thousand ways to communicate.
But some things are still the same. The recent Hole Album, which I liked seems to have stirred up some rage in erstwhile Smashing Pumpkins frontman and professional asshole Billy Corgan, who has launched an astonishing rant on Twitter about Courtney Love.
Here’s a highlight:
Thought number three’s a bit harsh, I have to say.
Love’s fired back, of course, accusing him of paedophilia, then going on a talk show and claiming to be a changed woman, who’s above all that immature bitching, and anyway, he started it.
It’s a shame, really. They’ve both made some amazing music at various times, and now they’re sniping at each other for all the world to see. It’s not very dignified, but it is very them.
If I can offer a solution, then here it is; LET’S TAKE THIS TO THE RING!
