This is a special kind of Hell. Billy Corgan, leader of the Smashing Pumpkins, writing on his blog a couple of years ago about what his life was like in 1997, after the Mellon Collie tour ended and he got back home:

I really have become a ‘rat in the cage’…fans sit outside my house and wait for me at all hours of the day…sometimes people sneak up on me from behind bushes…I have 3 stalkers, one who rights letters about how he dreams at night of me raping him (we have to call the police)…people fuck on my lawn (and brag about it to other fans), steal my garbage and post the contents on the internet, or, ha-ha-ha, smash pumpkins on my porch…I have the constant feeling people are watching me in my house… I try at all times to avoid the windows, or I pull my shades down on sunny days…it feels like a state of siege, and I try to just stay numb as best I know how…work is the one place I feel safe…

As someone who’s ochlophobic, I can’t imagine a worse existence.

For months we have been trying to get Henry Waxman to hold hearings into the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds but we have been met with a stony silence.

Until now!

The Hollywood Liberal snagged an interview with Henry Waxman and asked about Sibel’s case.

The full interview is 25 mins long. I’ve posted the relevant 3-minute audio snippet here.