Fyre Festival founder apparently writing a memoir called Promythus: The God of Fyre
Aux Features FYRE FESTIVAL
Billy McFarland is currently serving six years in a medium-security prison for the schadenfreude-laden grift that was Fyre Festival, a luxury music festival that left its upper-crust clientele stranded on a Bahamian island and screwed island locals out of a payday. He’s doing fine by all accounts, having become Scrabble buddies with The Situation (seriously), and, per New York, is working on a Jordan Belfort-inspired memoir that you didn’t asked for but will nevertheless want. Why? It’s called Promythus: The God of Fyre, and it’s said to explore the “raw” story that McFarland feels wasn’t illustrated in the two Fyre Festival documentaries from earlier this year. Oh, he also says the festival is “happening again,” though he probably shouldn’t underestimate the pagan energy of Blink-182's Matt Skiba.
This info comes from Josh Raab, a freelance editor who was sought out by McFarland and his girlfriend, model Ana Eremenko. McFarland apparently wrote the book longhand, sending his notes to Eremenko to type up. Raab, meanwhile, spent weeks on the phone with the would-be writer, who said his book “chronicles his career from the first investment in a now-shuttered start-up back in 2011 to the FBI paying him a visit days after the festival imploded.”
Raab was reportedly provided “a bullet-pointed, name-dropping list of selected stories” that of course includes “cameos from members of the Trump administration.” He also met with Dog Shit Media publicist Brandon Rubinshtein, who said they planned to enlist Andy King—the much-memed event producer who, in Netflix’s documentary, revealed that he nearly traded sex for water on McFarland’s behalf—to help shill for the book. Rubinshtein also apparently said that Ryan Seacrest has aims on remounting Fyre Festival—Seacrest’s camp denied this—and that Steve Jobs biographer Walter Isaacson was involved with the memoir, which was news to Isaacson.
Raab eventually backed away from the project, but Promythus could very well see the light of day. McFarland apparently planned on self-publishing it on Amazon late last month, but, as of this writing, it remains in the wind. Somewhere, Ja Rule is sweating.
62 Comments
Is…is the title misspelled on purpose? Is it a pun I don’t get? Or is Billy just illiterate?
Yes. It’s a pun you don’t get.
Cool. Don’t enlighten me or anything.
Its a book about the Fyre Festival. In this festival, the word Fire has been spelled with a Y, creating a naming convention he is continuing by replacing the vowel in Prometheus with another Y. I make further use of this convention by replacing the vowels in Liar, Fire and Wire in a previous comment.
How does that explain the missing “e”? I don’t get it.
The missing ‘e’ represents the death of the American Dream.
You don’t have to cover it.
I read a draft copy. The cover promises the world, but most of the pages inside are blank or covered in tears and shit.
Does getting the next draft involves a blowjob or two?
There’s just a random slice of cheese on one page.
Prometheus was a titan, yeah? Huge part of the story was stealing fire from the gods, not being a god?This dude sucks.
The story of Prometheus is already a myth, so I don’t know why he thinks it’s clever to portmanteau the two words.
This guy is a huge douche and I hope no one buts his dumb book, but the play on promise us is kind of clever. Of course, Prometheus actually BROUGHT humanity fire, he didn’t leave us stranded on an island with nothing but cheese sandwiches…
Prometheus is a better Jesus figure than Jesus was. Jesus was tortured and died on the cross in a couple days. Prometheus’ liver is torn out by a vulture every day.
I’m sure Vulture has written a lot about this guy
But this is Promytheus, the god of Axe body spray.
It’s “Promythus,” the god of lying about shit until your problems go away.
The system that allows white men to achieve rewards beyond any measure of common decency also ensures that there is enough public interest in the stories of such white men to ensure that they will continue to be rewarded long after the punishment (if any) for their crimes.Call it the caucasopatriarchy.
Ja Rule’s still walking free despite being McFarland’s partner in crime (or “brother”, as he calls him in the documentaries).
In fairness, the guy IS serving six years in prison.
He…uh…knows what happened to Prometheus, right?
The title is not a reference to the legendary Titan Prometheus. He’s clearly invoking Promithus, the Greek god of empty promises.
Yeah it got a slightly better sequel after being panned for making no sense.
Whoever that is in that picture with Billy is most certainly going to be the President of the United States someday. No, really. Do you honestly doubt it?
Has more of a Supreme Court Justice look to me.
Certainly, but that will most likely be next year.
At long last Justice Bart will have a worthy partner for Devil’s Triangle. Alito’s spirit is willing but he just can’t hold as much Natty Ice as he used to.
(writing this made me sad)
4/20 will be the day when that guy becomes presidential.
4/20/69, to be precise.
is he related to this guy?
It’s been a long time since I’d seen that classic meme image. That’s some classic dial-up shit right there.
I’ve never wanted to punch a stranger so badly in my life. My god.
He looks like a rejected character design for Jesse Pinkman.
“Why u harshing my chill brah? I’m just trying to geta fyre ass selfie for the gram with my bro Billy, brah?”
Whatever. Nothing can save this shithole until you kick the Jews out.
I bought weed from that guy once. So did you. So has everyone. That man is the embodiment of the weed guy who we all bought weed from once. Not your regular guy, or a random drug dealer or the guy or gal you talk to at the dispensary. He is just the once and future guy you will buy weed from once.
Lyre: Pants On Fyre Hanging From Telephone Wyres
He’s totally gonna start a sex cult next isn’t he?
STOP WRITING ABOUT THIS FUCKING ASSHOLE
C’mon, ‘Fuck Like Porn Stars’ was just begging to be the title.
IMO “Fucked like porn stars” would be more appropriate in this case
That would be a good title for an oral history of the attendees.
I’d think it’s worth mentioning that Prometheus was a Titan, not a god. The Titans were a precursor to the Greek Pantheon per Greek Mythology.Also he’s not associated with fire. He’s associated with creating mankind and stealing fire from the Gods.
The title reminds me: I’d be totally down to help pay for the surgery if we want to let two eagles eat his liver every day, then heal him so we can have it happen again the next day.
Why would Ja Rule sweat? He got away with it scot-free in some sort of odd and rare good example of “post-racial America” where the black guy got away with it and the white guy goes to jail. Its racial justice, but for the wrong reasons.
Scammers Gonna Scam.I’m 100% sure that when this book releases, it will be in Tijuana Diary form.
If you order this book, nothing will be delivered.
It is unbefitting of me to stoop so low as to remark on a fellow’s appearance but… his sleepy friend should not be trying to grow a beard. Just accept that it’s not happening, man!
The actual title is Promises: God of Fyre, but when you can get Mike Tyson to narrate the audio book you adapt.
Is there anyone with a more punchable face than Billy McScammer?
“Oh no. Promootheus.”[whispering] “Prometheus!”FIN.
“So alone. SO ALOOOOOONE!”
Promithus? = Prometheus + Fyre? Promithes????
Bum bum bum Promithes Promithes
I swear, if this guy were openly racist, he could run for office.
The Lakers had a center on their team who looks exactly like this guy – Ivaca Zubac. He was later traded to the Clippers and played some minutes in this last series against the Warriors. Once you see the similarity there’s no way you can see him on the screen and not think it’s Billy McFarland.
Promythus – I can’t stop picturing Mike Tyson saying promises.
“Oh, he also says the festival is “happening again,”
Yea, that is probably not what the parole committee is gonna want to hear. “Do you feel you have been rehabilitated?”
“I sure do, and am planning on doing the exact same thing again.”
He even spelled the joke wrong. Promytheus, you thick motherfucker.
One: Any adult that goes by the name Billy (who is not a jazz musician) is suspect.Two: Learn how to spell, shitheal.
If this book ever comes into existence, it will be fool of nothing but incredibly transparent lies about how he is the smartest most innovative person in the world who is absolutely the best at business and everything that went wrong was completely and totally someone else’s fault because he did a wonderful job all the time, and really you guys, not as much went wrong as everyone made it out to seem.
This dingus…
More like Ick-arus.