Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins. Pro Wrestlers, Smiling Politely.

Written by Brandon Stroud / 02.22.13

Billy Corgan wrestling commercialIf you weren’t aware, Billy Corgan (a musician who was probably pretty important to you if you were alive in 1992) runs a pro wrestling promotion. He calls it “Resistance Pro.” They mostly run shows out of Chicago. If you were in Philadelphia on National Pro Wrestling Day, you may remember Res Pro for the event’s lone overtly-awful match.

Anyway, here are three things Billy Corgan loves:

1. Alienating people who play music with him
2. Bad pro wrestling
3. Walter E. Smithe furniture

If we’re to assume that James Iha is off somewhere in the background sulking because he wasn’t invited to Billy Corgan’s Musical Chairs, those three things have come together (finally) in a local furniture commercial. It’s everything you’d expect from a local commercial about … whatever this is about.

It doesn’t make a lot of sense. I can accept that Corgan and the furniture dudes would be playing musical chairs, or that they’d be in a wrestling ring, but a game of musical chairs held inside a wrestling ring? That never ends well. It instantly ends in violence, and Corgan can apparently summon a gang of wrestlers to do his violent bidding. But then sweeeerve, Billy doesn’t want them to go so far as to break those nice chairs.

Ah well, it’s still better than Zeitgeist.

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Melon and the Infinite Sadness

Written by Brandon Stroud / 06.29.11

And now, the weirdest thing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has done since pretending to be a stranger to teach Jesse Katsopolis about basketball — a video advertisement (courtesy of our friends at Buzzfeed) that starts off like a student film about slam dunking fruit and ends up being about the new Smashing Pumpkins album. The people at Buzzfeed agree that the video is WTF and LOL as well as FAIL. I think it’s pretty great, outside of how uncomfortable it is to watch a 64-year old man dunk. Now I know how Celtics fans felt last season.

Of course, Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins is a huge professional wrestling fan, so you’d think if he wanted an irreverent pop culture reference for his upcoming album he’d just throw a voice over on the end of this old Road Warriors scaffold match promo.

Hey, it’s less obscure than the original joke I wrote about how they filmed themselves walking in and out of houses to promote “Adore”.

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