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A friend of mine on fb saw the post I made yesterday about it being the 2-year anniversary of the Sweet Children/Green Day show I was at. Today he posts a picture on the post and says "look who I bumped into at the record store?" Sure enough, a clandestine photo of Billie Joe standing in the lobby of the shop 😂 My friend is a total non-fan, could not care less that he was standing ten feet away. Meanwhile all I could do is laugh at the frustration of trying so hard to "bump into him" for 23 years without much success 😆

You should try this for a harder challenge https://www.sporcle.com/games/hcd199/green-day-100-songs

"If this is what they call the good life, i want a better way to die" I loved this line when i first heard it, but i feel like i'm just now really getting it. It couldn't sum up how i feel right now any better.

I was reading the lyrics to Jaded and honestly don't think I had ever considered them, I mean I've heard the song a million times but I'm a drummer so I normally focused on Tre...any way the lyric "Always move forward / Going straight will get you nowhere" struck me as really profound. I love Green Day so much.

Two years ago at this time I was seeing a secret Sweet Children show at the "surprise" Green Day show here in Cleveland 😢 I wanna relive it again and again!

This is not really news, but I've never seen it before. It's Tre at Jackass film release backyard party in 2002, which I thought was pretty random and funny. Small bit on 0:53 and his thoughts on the movie on 20:18

I was at the Grammys with a friend and we were sitting somewhere high up. Tokio Hotel got an award for something and then suddenly Billie, Mike, and Tré got up from their seats and started going through the rows and giving autographs. Billie skipped our row, but Mike and Tré came to us and signed something. They were about to leave when Billie told them "I got it", so they could stay with us. Mike sat down next to me and we were mostly quiet but every now and then he said something - it was pretty awkward. Then suddenly he got up from his seat and came reaaaally close to me and showed me his profile with his stupid turtle grin and said "Do I remind you of someone?" Tré showed up behind him and did the same pose. They obviously thought that they looked alike or something. I grinned at him happily and said "No, but you look like the mother from Lizzy McGuire!" He beamed at me and said "Really???", I nodded and said "Yes!" and then I woke up

Oh that was fun, thanks I should probably be concerned, but at least the people who get angry about travelling fans can't say I don't like Green Day

In this Ernie Ball: String Theory video, Steve Vai gives Billie Joe's guitar playing some praise: https://youtu.be/5caGv0ajsl8 - at 7:48 Steve Vai says, "Have you ever see him play? It's visceral. Every note and every chord pops. It sounds like a giant orchestra. That's hard to do, but it was in his head. And he required a particular technique, amount of technique, to follow what he was hearing in his head." And a buzzfeed article in case you don't feel old yet: https://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/wake-me-up-im-old?utm_term=.ejl0PjG1z#.qpYRwgD9J

Oh yeah, I wouldn't even know if he hadn't mentioned the name on the Jeff Matika show. We need more pictures of them all, he's doing instagram wrong.

Exactly. Personaly I'm not religious and I am critical of the church but I do think Jesus was a good guy. I think of him and other religious leaders as of people who created their own philosophies.

You can play a song critical of organised religion and still be down with Jesus. However there's no way to tell if he just meant it lightheartedly or neutrally or what from the way he said it, literally anyone can say "thank you Jesus" in reference to Easter (since it's about the story of Jesus dying for humanity) whether it's a devout Christian speaking sincerely about a belief or any random person just referencing what it's about.

"Thank you Jesus"?! Yeah alright Tre... East Jesus Nowhere that was a good time. A sidenote Tre permanently poses with his arm in that ridiculous way as if he got a cramp jerking off and is stuck like that 

The brain-shaped CD single of Brain Stew / Jaded

Now that's a clean bunny.

New pic of Lady Gaga wearing a GD shirt.

Okay so this is more of a nightmare but here it goes... I dreamt that me and my buddy were renting this 60's/70's Brady Bunch style house out in California. Green Day show up out of nowhere and say "hey! We need your house for a video shoot tonight!" and "we need you to invite as many people as possible and we'll play a bunch of songs!". Most of my dream was spent walking around town getting the word out. Anyways at 8pm there was hardly anybody there and Green Day shows up and is REALLY ticked off. They decided to trash my place and yell at me for my failure as a gig promoter. Tre Cool actually threw his sticks at me and both hit my shinn's. Haha. Thankfully my dog woke me up because in my dream I was about to cry from letting the guys down. I need to see a therapist...