Did you go to any of the SF residencies? I went to the last three and--with the *possible* exception of the final night--I did not get the impression that BC was avoiding "sentiment" and playing (only) the songs that he wanted. On the 31st in particular, for awhile it was the mid-90s Siamese Dream Mellon Collie hit parade. I sat in the balcony: I watched the band; I watched the audience... the way the crowd reacted to the hits and the current single vs the posturing of BC as he performed them. And the overall "energy" when he played the songs he wanted to, the increased sense of hope, the return of his sex appeal. The entire thing was ridiculous. I felt like I was watching an exercise in masochism with the 3+ hour sets. (He would say that I'm ungrateful.) I handed him a letter before the final show telling him so. Corgan has always been great at "do what I say not what I do." He can (and did, is he still? I haven't seen a recent set list) play Siamese Dream Mellon Collie every single night, but whatever he writes (about some songs working with the zeitgeist and others not) it's obvious that they aren't real for him the way the current material is. I would approach anything that he writes/says with skepticism. He's like me; he says a lot and believes in its veracity, but intent does not=truth. The final song he played in SF was "[bad word removed] You"... at least he's still sincere, oh wait... bad word removed.