The mystery of Angels & Airwaves has been unlocked. A lot has been said about Tom DeLonge and his band, thanks to comments DeLonge made in the press during the past couple of years. He said that A&A's music would change people's lives, and made the old John Lennon mistake of saying his band was bigger than God.
Turns out DeLonge was hopped up on painkillers when he made these statements. During an MTV interview, DeLonge said:
I broke my back years ago and got spun out on all these narcotics, so when we were making the first Angels & Airwaves record [We Don't Need to Whisper] all that stuff kind of exploded and I went out into the press with all these crazy things and all this controversy erupted.
That makes too much sense. But I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed. Since Angels & Airwaves formed, all you hear about is how pretentious DeLonge is. I've always maintained that he was pulling a prank on the world. The dude ran around in underwear with Blink182, and now all of a sudden he's supposed to be a pretentious jackass? I didn't buy it. And now we know the truth, that Vicodin apparently makes you think you're the second coming of Jesus. No wonder Brett Favre had that "I'm bigger than God" patch on his jersey back in '96.
It would've been WAY cooler if DeLonge's pseudo-pretentious quotes were just a clever prank, instead of a result of drug usage. Regardless of the real reason for DeLonge's quotes, I think he should start playing it off as a prank. "Oh, you guys thought I was serious when I said our record would be bigger than God? Gotcha, suckers!" Then he could play it off as an example of how things get twisted in the media, and the how public is fickle, etc etc. Painkiller addictions are so 2005. Then again, Christ fantasies are so 2001, so I guess the painkiller thing is a step up. Maybe he's trying to bring painkiller addictions back? If so, I'd like to take this opportunity to blame the following things on painkillers...
-The time I told Liz I would meet her and then blew her off to play beer pong
-The time I said I would clean the kitchen then watched "Curb Your Enthusiasm" instead
-That year where I didn't pay my taxes to the IRS
-The time I killed a drifter just to see what it felt like
Yep, sorry everyone, those painkillers are a bitch!
[PS - Can we show a little respect for the Holy Spirit? How often do we hear about people comparing themselves to Jesus or God? And yet, the Holy Spirit never gets mentioned. It's a holy triumverate, meaning the ol' HS should be getting 1/3 the props. The Holy Spirit needs to hire a new marketing team, ASAP.]
