“As an artist it’s not my job to make you comfortable.”
— Jimmy Chamberlin, The Smashing Pumpkins (If All Goes Wrong, Coming Home Media, 2008)
— Jimmy Chamberlin, The Smashing Pumpkins (If All Goes Wrong, Coming Home Media, 2008)
The classifieds of most writing magazines contain countless advertisements for artist retreats—from secluded log cabins in Vermont to villas in the French countryside. In exchange for rent you’re blessed with a distraction from life and the solitude to write. In many aspects that’s what If All Goes Wrong is about: the creative process and what goes on behind the scenes.
While ostensibly this is a documentary about the peculiar re-banding of Chicago’s most loved and hated musical export, The Smashing Pumpkins, and their subsequent residencies in Asheville, NC and San Francisco, CA, it also serves a higher purpose. It’s a 105-minute lesson in humility. Even if you’re not a fan—if you’re in a creative crisis, if your ego has gotten too high, too low or if you simply love art—buy a ticket for this ride.
While ostensibly this is a documentary about the peculiar re-banding of Chicago’s most loved and hated musical export, The Smashing Pumpkins, and their subsequent residencies in Asheville, NC and San Francisco, CA, it also serves a higher purpose. It’s a 105-minute lesson in humility. Even if you’re not a fan—if you’re in a creative crisis, if your ego has gotten too high, too low or if you simply love art—buy a ticket for this ride.
