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(the littlest birds sing the prettiest songs)
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But more important than any of these was the vast, accretive weight of small things, from planes which hadn't crashed to men and women who had come to the correct place at the perfect time and thus founded generations. He saw kisses exchanged in doorways and wallets returned and men who had come to a splitting of the way and chosen the right fork. He saw a thousand random meetings that weren't random, ten thousand right decisions, a hundred thousand right answers, a million acts of unacknowledged kindnesses. ...For every brick that landed on the ground instead of some little kid's head, for every tornado that missed the trailer park, for every missile that didn't fly, for every hand stayed from violence, there was the Tower.
All of my Green Day friends are officially On Notice. Y'all, I'm in ENGLAND and I still am on top of this.
Five years ago today, "American Idiot" was released. I loved Green Day before AI, but it's not exaggerating even a tiny bit to acknowledge that that album changed my life, in more ways than I can count—not least because of all the wonderful friends I met and all the wonderful experiences I've had directly due to this band. Lately I try to keep the fandom geekiness reined in a bit, or under a filter, or constrained to IM amongst my GD friends, but I wanted to make a note of this.
In other news, England is expensive lovely, I'm seeing looking_spiffy and tasyfa tomorrow, I have yet to succumb to the travel ick, and jou and I got hit on by Australian boys tonight in the pub around the corner. More details to come soon (this weekend), hopefully.