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.

♥

Putting out the call...

HEY!!! Anybody who is planning on going to the Austin Green Day show, who wants floor tickets and didn't get em? I have a good girl-friend who has suddenly found herself with 2 extra floor tickets. Let me know and I will hook you up with her info.

♥

*collapses*

So, this is the show I was at, the one I somehow wound up onstage for. You can totally see my stupid head and my stupid arm down front. Oh yeah, baby. Who rocks and rolls? Me and revid and indie_wonka, that's who. You can (sort of) see all of us if you know what you're lookin' for.

21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN (LIVE)



Might I add this is some of the best video footage I've seen of any of their shows ever. I nearly fell out of my chair just now watching it.

I have to get up stupid-early tomorrow (long story!) so I'm gonna go to bed, but I NEED to respond to comments and make some sort of update that doesn't consist of a drunk-post. G'night!

Transcript typed up courtesy of Kate Austen over on GDC. Thanks Kate!

From the latest issue of "Rolling Stone":

How to follow up ‘American Idiot’: With an even bigger three-act epic
Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown (4 and ½ Stars)
By Rob Sheffield

Since Green Day were the Nineties punk brats nobody expected to grow up, everything they do comes as a surprise. What’s more bizarre: ( the fact that they sound so ambitious and audacious on their eighth album, or the fact that they even made an eighth album?Collapse )

FROM GDC, COURTESY OF revid edit: And loser_and_user who saw it first!

FOXBORO HOT TUBS
ON TOUR


May
19th Little Rock, AR Juanita’s Cantina
20th New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jack’s
21st Dallas, TX The Loft
22nd Austin, TX Emo’s
25th Phoenix, AZ The Brick House
26th San Diego, CA Soma (Sidestage)
27th Los Angeles, CA The Roxy
28th Long Beach, CA Alex’s Bar


Tickets for these shows will not be available until the day of the show at the venue box office ONLY.

Tickets will be $20 cash.

There is a two ticket maximum per person. No cameras and cell phones are for squares!

Album in stores May 20th!

OH FUCK YOUUUU I'LL BE IN ENGLAND FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOUUUUUU AHHHHHHHHHHH

Edit now that I've regained my sanity. ASDFJASLDFJKA it figures. But oh crap, who's going?! We want pictures! Oh my god, all three of them playing together again, THANK YOU JESUS CHRIST. HOORAY!!!

Edit the second 'cause I was in the shower: Okay, seriously, guys... yes, it sucks that there aren't more shows yet, or the venues aren't bigger, or there isn't more certainty. And sure, bitch about the camera policy. But... COME ON.

Green Day wants to do tiny shows. They want small, fun venues, they want intimacy with the crowd, they want tightness and spontaneity and they want to AVOID the huge media circus that was the American Idiot tour at the end there. We SAW that with the Pinhead Gunpowder shows. Yeah, it sucks (and boy am I bummed that I'm gonna be out of town) but that's... I mean, it's not REALLY a surprise, is it?

Okay, goddammit, they could at least have advance ticket sales. I'm not even GOING and I'm biting my nails for you guys. *flails* DEB AND MARY YOU HAVE TO GO. ASHTON, YOU TOO!! AHHHH!!!

From an old 2004 Mammoth Press interview with Matt Skiba:

*snip*

MP: Any ideas for a dream tour?

MS: The Network for sure, I love the Network. We would have to play to right, like us plus 5 bands?

MP: Yeah.

MS: Hmm, I love the Network, have you heard them?

MP: Yeah, great album.

MS: Hmm, who else The Network, Hot Water Music, can this be any band?

MP: Yeah, Misfits or whoever. Any bands you'd like to tour with.

MS: Hmm, well that's hard. If it were a dream tour I would not want to play because I just want to party and watch the show. I guess it would just be my favorite bands, Misfits, Damned, Clash, Ramones & the Network.

Because clearly The Network is up there with the likes of the Clash and the Ramones and the Misfits. AHAHAHAHAH!!!

*snip*

MP: What's one song you wish you had written?

MS: There's a song called "roshembaum" by the Network. It's like the best song ever written. That song is the reason I love the Network so much. I heard it and just though, fuck I wish I had written that. There are tons of songs like that, but I got that record and it sent chills down my back.

I'm pretty sure that's the transcriptionist fucking that right up, as I'm sure he meant "Roshambo." AHAHAHAH. He played that song when he was DJing during Heather's art show in Chicago last year. Along with the U2 & Green Day version of "The Saints Are Coming."

Matt Skiba, Dorky Fanboy Extraordinaire. ♥ And now I gotta go to bed... getting up early to go hiking before work. Have a good night! ♥

Happy 36th birthday, Billie Joe. I made a post last year that details some of the reasons I fucking adore you and your band so much, but I don't have much of a brain on your birthday this year, my dear. I know you'll never read this, but who cares? I wish you nothing but the best, and I hope you spent today with the people you love. I hope your friends bought you lots of drinks, and that you have hot sex with your beautiful wife tonight. I hope your two sons are healthy and happy and that you have everything you want out of life, because you fucking well deserve it. I used your birthday as an excuse to drink lots of red wine tonight, and if I don't end this post in a second here I'm going to get maudlin, but I'm damned excited to see you and your 2 best-known friends later this year (HINT HINT HINT!!!).

Thanks for everything, Mr. Armstrong. ♥

HEY GREEN DAY PEOPLE!

In case you missed the explosion on GDA/The Idiot Club/GDC last night, Green Day is maybe-probably-we're-pretty-sure masquerading as The Foxboro Hot Tubs on Myspace, apparently in order to get their kicks via 60s-esque Britrock. Their website is now up as well, and you can download the full 6-song EP for free there: go here.

IT'S SO GOOD. *plays it again*

EDIT: Way to go, my_own_beat_now! Apparently The Ruby Room is a local bar in Oakland. WAY TO BE SUBTLE, BJ.

Nothing quite puts the cap on your panic-inducing mound of stress as realizing, "Hoshit, I only have 10 weeks left before my big deadline!" except to remember that you in fact only have 9 weeks because you'll be spending 5 days in the Bay area with your frantic mother helping her look around for a house & do job interviews. That being said, it's time for a time-wasting post while I'm on my afternoon break—now with more pictures and youtube links!

( Who wants to give me a scalp massage? Bueller?Collapse )

And on that note, I should probably have some food before I go back in to work tonight. Adios!