[I've been a Genesis fan since Peter Gabriel's last outing w/ the band on "The Lamb Tour," --Avery Fisher Hall, NYC, 1975-- Kewl, we got ourselves a 'true believer' worth tens of millions: let's sign him up to fund a scientific research project that debunks digital photo artifacts! --*smirk* --Chris]
Phil Collins: finally facing his Alamo
[R]ecent interview with Rolling Stone magazine was faintly troubling
ARTICLE HERE:
Unbelievably, given its appetite for this sort of trivia, Lost in Showbiz had no idea that Phil Collins is obsessed with the Alamo, and owns a huge collection of artefacts from the battle. Yet my attention is drawn to a faintly troubling Rolling Stone interview with the singer, in which he reveals he has discerned "glowing, semi-transparent light orbs" in a series of photographs he took at the site of the Texan siege.
"It's paranormal energy," explains the No Jacket Required legend. "You've seen the pictures. You can't deny them, so therefore it's possible that I was there in another life." [Hmmm, oh really, Phil?]
Mm. Readers will be naturally aware that virtually everyone was killed at the Alamo – and the possibility that they did not merely meet their grisly end, but did so to the strains of Sussudio, is frankly too horrible to contemplate. Perhaps it is guilt born of the possibility that prompts an even more unsettling outburst from Phil.
"I sometimes think I'm going to write this Phil Collins character out of the story," he informs the interviewer darkly, setting off all manner of third person alarms. "Phil Collins will just disappear or be murdered in some hotel bedroom, and people will say, 'What happened to Phil?' And the answer will be: 'He got murdered, but, yeah, anyway, let's carry on.' That kind of thing."
Blimey. But would this termination be enough to truly finish off Phil, or would he simply be reincarnated at some horrific, Alamo-like moment further down the historical line? I'm afraid there is no way of telling at this stage, and you should futureproof your existence accordingly.
Phil Collins: finally facing his Alamo
[R]ecent interview with Rolling Stone magazine was faintly troubling
ARTICLE HERE:
Unbelievably, given its appetite for this sort of trivia, Lost in Showbiz had no idea that Phil Collins is obsessed with the Alamo, and owns a huge collection of artefacts from the battle. Yet my attention is drawn to a faintly troubling Rolling Stone interview with the singer, in which he reveals he has discerned "glowing, semi-transparent light orbs" in a series of photographs he took at the site of the Texan siege.
"It's paranormal energy," explains the No Jacket Required legend. "You've seen the pictures. You can't deny them, so therefore it's possible that I was there in another life." [Hmmm, oh really, Phil?]
Mm. Readers will be naturally aware that virtually everyone was killed at the Alamo – and the possibility that they did not merely meet their grisly end, but did so to the strains of Sussudio, is frankly too horrible to contemplate. Perhaps it is guilt born of the possibility that prompts an even more unsettling outburst from Phil.
"I sometimes think I'm going to write this Phil Collins character out of the story," he informs the interviewer darkly, setting off all manner of third person alarms. "Phil Collins will just disappear or be murdered in some hotel bedroom, and people will say, 'What happened to Phil?' And the answer will be: 'He got murdered, but, yeah, anyway, let's carry on.' That kind of thing."
Blimey. But would this termination be enough to truly finish off Phil, or would he simply be reincarnated at some horrific, Alamo-like moment further down the historical line? I'm afraid there is no way of telling at this stage, and you should futureproof your existence accordingly.