In 1998 i was 13 and i fall in love with Ava Adore, so I rush to the record store to get Adore. Unfortunately i couldn’t afford it because i missed a few bucks so I go for the previous album: MCIS. It was love at first sight, I listened to both CDs on loop for a whole afternoon and something inside of me clicked. Now I’m 35, and here’s a picture of me and my girlfriend in Bologna for the 2018 tour. I proudly have the MCIS cover tattooed on my arm because Smashing Pumpkins are the only thing that I still love as I did when I was a teenager, and I know it’s forever.