Corgan Scapegoats Vedder
November 20th, 2008 by apmtags: eddie vedder, amusing, sports, cubs, live
Friend of HU carapatricia has posted a number of YouTube videos of the recent Chicago shows. Included is this one, a bit of Chicago sports themed banter leading into Disarm from the “White Crosses” show at the Chicago Theatre.
Billy first predicts a victory in the Super Bowl for the Bears in 2012 thanks to Mike Ditka returning to the field. But not one to disappoint the assembled fans with strictly positive thoughts, Billy went on to blame his beloved Cubs disappointing post-season performance on Eddie Vedder’s bitterly ironically titled Cubs anthem “All the Way”, which debuted in September before the Cubs’ season collapsed.
If, if, if the Cubs did have a chance this last year that just passed, fucking Eddie Vedder killed that shit dead. Last I checked, Eddie ain’t living here. Eddie ain’t living here to write a song about my fucking team.
Personally, I blame Vedder’s turning “Wrigley” into three syllables to fit the song’s meter.
Never one to let an opportunity to display his hubris pass him by, Billy also boasted he could write a better Cubs-themed song than the longstanding “Go Cubs Go”, which was penned by the late Chicago folk artist Steve Goodman during the equally disappointing 1984 Cubs season. HU anxiously awaits Billy’s Cubs song and we also eagerly await Billy’s thoughts on the Bulls’ chances in the upcoming NBA season during the shows at the Auditorium Theater. Vinny Del Negro: hero or zero?
November 21st, 2008 at 12:37 am
Wasn’t there a Cubs song in his Chicago song cycle? I liked that one… Stupid Chicago songs and their lack of ownership by me…
November 21st, 2008 at 12:57 am
i’m confused. was corgan livin’ there either? (i mean “in body” - not in property taxes) i thought he had hightailed it to LA.
looks like he’s come back home now though….jc too.
taxes must be better there.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:01 am
In far creepier news, some people were able to reconstruct the face of Copernicus from his skull. He looks remarkably like that old dude from “Babe”. James Cromwell, I think. They should immediately get to work on an oscar winning biopic bout the guy, starring James Cromwell.
It started right here, movie people. Copyright Me 2008.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:57 am
BC still lives here, in Highland Park now. I wonder if people are still sleeping in his lawn and going thru his trash….
recaptcha: glass54
November 21st, 2008 at 2:02 am
Again tho, in a joking fashion!! God what is pitchfork gonna say next?
November 21st, 2008 at 9:53 am
The baseball song from the Chicago songs was Black Sox which is more a dig against the Sox than ode to the Cubbies.