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Corgan also has to give credit where it’s
due when it comes to his calm new
demeanor. The birth of his son Augustus
changed him in ways he never expected.
“He’s awesome, and he came into the
world in a strong spirit,” dad purrs. “So
my job is just to get out of the way and fig-
ure out how to help him. And he’s still
young – he’s not quite two – but I certain-
ly relate to how I felt, like, ‘When I felt this
way, this is what the adults around me did,
so I’m going to do the opposite – I’m going
to make him feel that what he’s interested
in is important, and that his imagination is
valuable.’ And that’s where I’m lucky, in
that my skill set feeds right into that. The
things that I am? That’s a perfect fit for
where he is – he’s very creative, and just a
big spirit.”
The parent is now viewing the universe
through childlike eyes again, he admits.
“And it’s the best gift, because you sud-
denly think, ‘I can’t wait to go to
Disneyland, just to see how he’ll react!’
You get excited all over again, because you
re-live it through them. The only trick is
not to project that it has to be a certain way,
that they’ll have to see it or feel it the way
you think you saw it or felt it. Because
obviously, memory has a way of tainting
our own childhood.”
Speaking of Disneyland, no rundown
of Corgan accomplishments – Billy,
WILLIAM
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CORGAN
William Patrick, or otherwise – would be
complete without a mention of his strange
appearance on Seth MacFarlane’s still-
hilarious Family Guy, in an episode where
Peter Griffin, trying to process complicated
facts and figures in his blurry brain, can’t
stop thinking about an actual snapshot of
Corgan, looking incredibly displeased, on
a ride at Disneyland. “And that’s the weird
world we live in,” he says, pleased that
MacFarlane thought enough of him to
include him in the show. “If you look at the
picture, I’m sitting next to my tour manag-
er, Doug Goodman, and I’m sort of com-
plaining about something.
“So they caught me in a moment of
complaining about, I dunno, rock and roll
itself, and it got turned into a meme. But
I’d had this great, wonderful day and a fun
time – I rode on all the rides and took tons
of pictures with fans, and I’m smiling in
every one. And suddenly somebody takes
a picture and you’re cannon fodder in the
meme culture wars. And the best way to
deal with all that stuff is to just have a
laugh and shrug. Because when Neil
young tells you to do something, you lis-
ten. So I’ve got one lane now. And it’s my
own.”