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Peak anxious Billie - and also the sweetest thing ever - is the Hall of Fame induction video. Especially while Mike and Tré do their speeches you can see him almost literally falling apart in the background (would add a millions "s" but trying to restrain myself outsid of the fangirls thread)

Honestly I thought that his butt couldn't get any better. Then I saw this and learned that I was wrong.

I think it's really endearing, give him his band, a guitar and a mike and he's off, very comfortable with rock god persona, will do and say just about anything. Ask him to just be himself and he's nervous as anything. It's quite common in performers, one to one scares them, put them in front of 20,000 and they're happy. Really strange to the rest of us!

The way they're depicted as emo kid posers who act like selfish brats basically . Don't have a problem with the storyline but it's all too poserish and melodramatic. Especially bearing in mind the punk scene Green Day come from which was/is really about a lot more than image and being destructive for the sake of it, I just think it's a horrible representation of it. And yeah, maybe I just think there's more Billie in it!

And he seems 100% confident. When you watch him perfom, it's almost impossible to believe he could ever not be completely self-assured.

Maybe they are laughing all the way to the bank.

I always heard that, too, and I still tend to sing it at the live shows because I kind of got used to it

I'll watch Broadway Idiot when I get the chance. But I am not interpreting it too literally. Not everything has to be a metaphor. I've watched parts of Storytellers, I'll watch the whole thing if I can find it. In the event I am wrong, I will not change the way I view the album just to "get the facts straight". American Idiot is a very special album to me and it's one of the stories I am most passionate about. It has it's own meaning to me and that will not change. I believe Billie would want it that way, for it mean something personal to everyone, rather than everyone just taking it as a biopic about his life, because that is certainly not something anyone gets from listening to it unless they are either: A) a mega fan and know all GD facts B) watch interviews and documentaries about it. I was not a mega fan when I first listened to it. I was just a guy who didn't even have a favorite band, curious to see what this "rock opera" thing was all about. EDIT: The whole Storytellers is not on Youtube. That is why I have not seen the whole thing, it isn't on youtube.

I love this one. Look at Tre's face

You are right - it comes through much more when he's talking. His speeches during shows are something else - a part of the act so to speak.

Not a new pic but a nice one I just found on the computer Love this one too:

I don't care that it was in the movie. Actually, I went to see the movie (for nostalgia reasons and because I was a big Rob Pattinson fan.) So I didn't mind hearing Green Day in the credits I'm honestly just glad they didn't do a song for 50 Shades

I agree, I think Billie is a very strong willed person, if he decides he's sober, I think we should all go,with that. I though his birthday party was in a bowling alley and the photo was from Christmas. In one of their recent interviews they said that Mike and Billie were walking on the beach, talking about their futures and I feel certain things like whether Billie could tour like they have in the past would be one of the issues that worried them both, for lots of reasons. The shows are shorter which I think will help Billie, but part of his obvious joy may be in discovering that he can do this sober, he is still one of the very best frontmen around, if not the best.

In defense of Dos: it's actually very good and the closest to Stop Drop and Roll part II as we might ever get. Yes, the whole concept of "i've got a young concubine and we party a lot more than we should" is ridiculous and so are the lyrics but they do fit the theme. I'm not talking about individual nonsensical one-liners but for example Makeout Party gets a lot od hate for its cringey lyrics, but a fact is that it's a song written from a pov of a guy who is rather desperately hitting on a girl (one of the main themes on that album) and they do fit. I mean, it's an album about partying, letting loose and making poor decisions. the lyrics are a means to an end rather than simply just bad lyrics. It's a story about ridiculous behavior told through ridiculous words.

Just cause because we're outlaws YEAH!!! is like the most badass lyric ever though

I would highly recommend everybody watch the music video for Nice Guys Finish Last. It's brilliant and easily one of my favorites. I really wonder why it never gets played on tv.

I listened to Warning in the car today the whole way through. It's so good. Quality album, and the lyrics still blow me away. Also, I just realised 'I'm branded, malajusted' in Armatage Shanks does make sense - he's not calling himself malajusted, he's saying others label him that way. It's the pause that confused me I've always been like 'wtf does he mean by he's branded' This is literally me all the time, lol

I just found out that the total eclipse of the sun is going to occur on the day of the Green Day Concert i'm going to, from about 4:40 to 8:30 in the evening, right aound the concert time. Did i mention the concert's outside? This ought to be interesting

Two of my fave things. Jk, I only like one.

Yelling Billie's name out and waving my arms like crazy and the stars aligning perfectly for him to look right where I was at that particular time hah.

This is from tumblr; so credit to whoever made it. I love it