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So, I've just finished watching Broadway Idiot. It's a good documentary as well as a good promo for the musical. I didn't like the recorded versions of songs from the musical, so I didn't expect much either from the musical or the movie, but this made me change my mind. The stage production has a lot of energy in it when you can see what is going on onstage. I liked how the documentary showed the process of making the play, especially Tom Kitt's insights into the arrangements. I did like what he did from what I could hear. It's difficult to adapt such simple songs for a string section and more singers withought making it sound cheesy. He seems to have avoided that, or at least he had a sensitive approach to it. It was great to see his and Michael Meyer's attitude to working with this material. They both revealed new layers in it. The movie is in general very good, the amount of live footage and talking heads is pretty well balanced. What I think there was a bit too much of was the live footage from BIAB, however it's no major issue. I was nicely surprised to see the footage from the 1996 show in Prague. I didn't know there was any and to tell the truth I'm very happy they chose a recording from my city. Just for the sake of Green Day sort of acknowledging its existence. To be continued in the fangirls thread.

Pretty sure they won't because of the original footage's quality (single handed camera). It's not worth it...

It looks like he's got one on his left shoulder blade, but I can't tell what it is. Damn his back is nice. I love his arms and hands too. Like I said, TASTY!

Allrighty, it's a very nice ink

He's doing a book tour with his new book and was in the Midwest. There wasn't a schedule posted so I messaged him on Facebook asking if he was coming to Indianapolis and he said he was tonight! It was a small book store, maybe 15 people there. Asked some early Green Day questions and really enjoyed his stories! Really nice guy! I had a great time. Got 1000 Hours signed by him.