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All I want for Christmas is some video of blonde Billie at the Coverups show. Please. I’ve been very good this year. 🙏

Mine is so horrible... decapitated pissflap corpse

Btw Matt Skiba commented on Billie's "Be gay do crimes" pic and Billie replied matttskiba I’m into being gay AND doing crimes so this is just perfect. billiejoearmstrong @matttskiba let’s do it together!

You want Billie to smell like a Christmas tree? They hurt when you hug them.

Brutal Handjob Massacre This reminds me of his real old band name (Blood Rage) lol. Can someone give Billie something to do?

Iron Clit Massacre. My god, Billie is such a dork. I love him! Decaying bastard machine somehow fits him really well. Lol

Bloody Cunt Muffin Wizard. Sounds fun. I'm in.

If you go to the replies to Billie’s comment, you will see someone say that Billie smelled like baby soap when they met him, do we finally have an answer to one of our favourite questions? dropped off!

There are a lot of massacres going on here.

Same! Dear Santa, please grant our wishes!! 🙏🏻

HOTTIE HOTTIE HOTTIE

This'll always be one of my favorite O face pics.

I haven't found many pictures where he does an O face There's also this one: For manga readers, he just looks like Madara Uchiha from Naruto

Badass!

Billie IS a genius. People who only see academic intellectual types as geniuses are dumbasses. He's a kinder, smarter, more genuine person than any of those kinds of people and does much more good in the world. Billie is the best! Practically every day there's something he does or something I learn about him that makes me think "Wow! He is such an amazing, wonderful person."

Never knew the story with that one. Glad I finally do!

I did once but I don't remember where I found it. Basically from memory, it was a replica a fan made and showed him to get signed

Decapitated Jizz Wizard 😂 is it weird that I saw this last night and jus knew Billie and Tre would be on it 😂

I've always hoped Billie would smell like pine or something fresh like that. Soap is fine, though. Lol! 😂

Crucifed Erection Corpse 🤣 Gross..

2018 was short of Punk Rock releases.....Pennywise and Good Charlotte were really the only ones I cared about this year, and neither of those really stuck with me. 2019 is shaping up to be a very Punk-centric year and I'm so excited: Green Day! Offspring! Weezer! Rancid! Avril Lavigne! (I know her new album will probably be the furthest thing from Punk imaginable, but hey. She was lumped in there at one point and that counts!). Avril's new album probably won't be anything to write home about. At best, a song or two? Rancid will probably make an alright album.... You never know what you will get with Weezer. Four mixed bags, one massacre of music/die/burn in flames and seven really great records. But so far, the BLACK ALBUM isn't sounding like anything good. It was supposed to be a dark, gritty Weezer and now it's supposedly going in the opposite direction. we'll see, buuuuutttttt...... The Offspring!!!!!! These guys haven't had a new album in SEVEN YEARS and they are in the top five of my "most missed bands". They have been putting out consistently great albums with only a few bumps along the way (Conspiracy of One is kind of lame) since 1994 or so. I have confidence in this band. Like 70% or more in them. But...... GREEN FREAKING DAY. Other than the promotion of the Trilogy (aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggh!!!) They have NEVER let me down. I started with Nimrod, continued with Warning and then went back to 1039 and Kerplunk, then the rest is history (and the last 21 years of my life). They say that our brains are different when we're young. That we can't truly fall in love with new music after age 30. I don't know if that's true. What I know is that the moment I heard "Good Riddance" on the way to middle school, I knew I had found something special. I've had bad luck in love. I'm working on my second divorce and have said "Goodbye to Romance". But like the most loyal dog, Green Day have been there for me. From a bullied and disturbed 11 year old boy to a 33 year old father and divorcee.........I've had several favorite bands. But from 1985 to now, Green Day remain at the top. Here's some of the contenders for my top spot over the years. They aren't anywhere near the top now: Micheal Jackson.....let me down. Barenaked Ladies....let me down. Everclear....let me down. Smash Mouth.....let me down. GREEN DAY reign supreme and I couldn't imagine how bad Album 13 would have to be to knock them out of that NUMBER ONE SPOT. ALBUM 13! ALBUM 13!

Best name! I'm Rotting Jizz Massacre!

@The Bellie Beautiful interpretion. I have so much to respond to. I have pretty much done a lengthy review and breakdown similar to what you did there on every song on RevRad as it was my own personal bible as I was also going through the process of getting sober, coincidentally at the same time as Billie and know/knew exactly some of the things he was alluding to in some of the songs. Particularly on SB, I found it a lot less complex and intrapersonal than you did. I thought, to me, it was a heavy emotional song but the little two line verses “im a xxxx da da da daa daa” to be just metaphors for the same thing but you have some very interesting break downs that I agree with mostly but not in total (not that it matters). Like most good writing, it is different per reader. Unfortunately I don’t have the time @ the moment but I will write out my thoughts later. You can ask anyone here that I have no problem reading or writing very long posts but the only one people like reading are the lyrical breakdowns or something of the sort. Beautiful stuff. Loved reading. Response to come when I have time. I haven’t been around here lately. Lovely! Edit: Just read some of the responses below yours and specifically I agree with @jengd about the “wreckage” which is why it gets “farther away” and “making my way back to you”, his muse, Addie, his family. Etc. Before reading your interpretation based on the way he wrote this, performs it and how I generally took it, I thought it was a little less complex than how you took it as I said above. Just metaphors of people that have survived things but I was intrigued by some of your interpretations such as feeling like a child which is something he hated. He doesn’t like being taken care of. It was humiliating to him. Much like some of the lyrics at the beginning of both Nows he talks of the embarrassment of being a child so there very well be something to what you’re saying. I’ll look it over and give you my thoughts later. Good stuff.

When you hear "Dumbledore" or "A Nightmare Before Christmas" and you think of Billies Halloween outfits.

He is brilliant. probably has a high IQ

His hair is beautiful. Its unreal

All true. He’s described songwriting as “the cheapest form of therapy”. Once he’s gone through it all to write the thing It should speak for itself and I’m sure the last thing he wants to do is talk about it over and over. A universal message is better marketing anyway, inviting people in instead of shutting them out of his private shit.

@The Bellie I agree with so much that you say above. I also think, in true Billie style that the whole thing about shining a light on the wreckage can be taken quite literally as Billie taking stock on what damage he’s done to his relationships with Adie, his sons and wider family, Mike, Tre, his business reputation and everyone and everything around him. Re Billie discussing the meaning of Still Breathing, watch his body language when he’s asked about it, he really doesn’t want to go into depth about it and I think he’s developed this answer of “it’s just about everyone having to go through stuff” as it’s clearly true but there’s no way, to me, that the song doesn’t say a lot more than that. We know Billie is a very personal writer and also know he often does not want to discuss his lyrics, this is one of his coping mechanisms.

Omg that picture. I remember the first time that was posted someone made a version with all the faces changed to Billie's

When your cousin is watching random YouTube videos and the guy in the video unexpectedly starts playing BOBD on piano, and you go from being depressed as fuck to having the time of your life in the space of about 0.136338 seconds.

You trying to kill us? Good fucking lord, words cannot describe how beautiful and sexy he is! 😍

I’d call that an O face right there ^^^

@maryjanewhatsername that's too nice! Since it's pretty silent, here you go:

This is my only interpretation, it was also a lot from a writing point of view , it's my favorite song and I can say I'm still breathing myself thanks to that song alone. Billie did say this song was about survival and getting though hard times, and that it was related to him surviving his addictions (I can't tell you in which interview he said that precisely, perhaps the 2016 Rolling Stone one but I'm too lazy to go check now!) but I know he's never been too specific about the addiction when it comes to Still Breathing, he said he wanted to write it in a rather external way, going through hard times in general. But I've always had the feeling that he identifies with the figures he uses, every of them, perhaps a little more than what he says in interviews, and that feeling plays a part in my interpretation of the song. So everything I wrote is what I feel, not about my own experience but what I feel of Billie when he sings it, even more when I see live performances. The way he sings it, moves on stage, etc., almost brought concrete images in my brain as I watched a lot of videos of it played live. So I really wanted to take some time to write some down. I don't know if all of it makes sense once it's written, perhaps it isn't even satisfying for me when I read it, but the way I feel about SB not simple anyways. I'm still trying to figure out what made me manage to overcome my own shit thanks to that only song (or more precisely, thanks to watching Billie singing it live) while I had tried everything before, and naturally I'm also trying to grasp the same thing that happened for Billie, and that's also why I want to write about it. Where did he find that depth, that strength, that he can transmit to people, in a way? Like something you've never heard of before, but that connects with you on the highest level. He goes seeking in your soul on a depth you've never known in yourself before. He makes you a better person, a brightest person. I don't really like myself but the bright side in me is much, much bigger since I've become a GD fan. I said to some people, who were talking about great French intellectuals and saying that these were geniuses, that Billie was also a genius, and this statement seemed to annoy them a lot . I wanted to go on and tell them what I've just said above, that he can make people better and save lives, but I knew it was useless to say. I said to someone else today that for me Billie was one of the greatest singer in the world and they laughed at me. Okay, go ahead and laugh, but the man is so fabulous I'm still trying to grasp the mystery in a song while that song that already had its effects on me. And, boy, the way he puts it out with his singing voice is my favorite thing in the world. I could live only for that sound of his voice.

Technically random news, right? I wrote about and shared my photos of following the 21st Century Breakdown Tour. https://mariagloriaharvey.wordpress.com/2018/12/16/21st-century-breakdown-tour/ "To this day, I still get chills when I hear the intro to 21st Century Breakdown. I can still see my favourite band, as if in slow motion, running onto that stage like the heroes they were to 14 year-old me. I can see Mike thumping his heart and Tré sitting to play the show’s first beats. I can still feel the unbridled joy, the disbelief and looking back, how my life changed in that very moment."

A little while ago, I was posting a topic about a line in Forever Now, responding to @LaughingClock who ended up telling me he was interested in my thoughts about Still Breathing, which is my favorite song. I guess there must be a topic dedicated for that, but quite lazily, I'm just gonna post it here. I could've done much earlier, since I listen to this song every day several times a day, if it wasn't for lack of time... but I just laid down thoughts about this song, which has helped me through hard times and still helps me now. I hope it's not too confused! Here it goes. I’m like a child looking off on the horizon I’m like an ambulance that’s turning on the sirens First line of the song, Billie put himself at the scale of a child, the child he was, it’s like as an adult he wants to soothe that lonely child. It sets the tone of vulnerability and kindness to oneself throughout the song. He relates to any other child feeling sad, lost, wanting to go elsewhere, far away from where’s he’s at, missing someone that’s gone. The child looking off on the horizon is Billie when he lost his dad and he came from that to be in a state comparable to an ambulance that’s turning on the sirens, which echoes to someone in danger, close to a deadly state, but still alive, as Billie when he put himself in danger. In his case, the child looking off on the horizon became that person in the ambulance, it’s the same. I’ve always been struck by these two phrases one after the other, I can picture him identifying as having put himself in such danger, I suppose it was as shocking, or mind-blowing, in a way, for him to realize as for us to hear. Oh, I’m still alive He’s relieved to be still alive after that. I’m like a soldier coming home for the first time He identifies as a soldier, as if he has fought his addiction as a soldier would fight an enemy, as if his inner battle was like a war field, as terrible, and when he finally gets out of it, not only is he still alive, he also reaches some place that is home for him, for the first time. I dodged a bullet and I walked across a landmine A bullet is like a sudden, punctual, fatal threat, like when he used to take, here and there, a great quantity of alcohol and pills that could have killed him. The landmine is something that’s more on the long run, like describing the threat of killing himself that is always there, that could happen any moment, because the addiction was always around. Oh, I’m still alive Same as previously, when he thinks of it, it feels incredible to think he has survived all of it. Am I bleeding? am I bleeding from the storm? Right after he realizes he’s still alive, it’s like he checks himself to see if he’s wounded somewhere. The storm is a metaphor for his inner storm, the part of him that he takes care of with the addiction, and then the storm quickly becomes the addiction itself when it comes like a whirl, takes over all of his problems (without solving them) and becomes what devastates him inside. Something strong enough to take over his feelings of heartbreak and loneliness is strong enough to possibly kill him. So right after the storm has struck, he pauses to see if he’s okay. Whether he’s bleeding or not, what matters is he’s still alive, as he says a little after… Just shine a light into the wreckage The wreckage is the result of the storm. And when you find yourself in there, you can have the feeling that everything’s lost and desperate, that you’re doomed, but when he feels that he’s still alive, which feels incredible, Billie tells himself there is actually a possible way out, he can find a light to shine somewhere to get out of there So far away, away He pictures he is able to leave the terrible addiction in which he’s got lost, to leave it far behind, and shine a light very far away from the devastation in which he finds himself to be. cause I’m still breathing I’m still breathing so there’s still hope, I can find my way out of here cause I’m still breathing on my own “on my own” refers to the state of vulnerability in which he had fallen, like it means so much that he can still breathe all alone, as if this wasn’t even sure anymore. Breathing is at the base of everything, it’s the most important, it means you’re alive, and if he’s alive, he can find a way out of the darkness, he can do anything. Nothing else matters, but the fact that he’s alive. It echoes to the fact he is able to find a light in himself, even if he doubted it, as he doubted he would still be breathing the next day. my head’s above the rain and roses Whatever the bad things and the good things, that all made him turn to his addiction because it was his way to manage his emotions, it was even his way to connect with himself the best he could, no matter how much the good and bad may affect him, he will preserve himself, he will stay alive, keep his head (and his breath) above all of it making my way, away my way to you “you” could mean himself, making his way to himself like finding himself, accepting himself, connecting to the lost child he was and lost adult he is. He will in any case continue his way through the good (roses) and the bad (rain) I’m like a junkie tying off for the last time Is it the last time because the junkie will die? or because he will stop being a junkie afterwards? Any time could be the last time, that’s a freaky thought, but it could also be a hopeful thought. Anyways, he knows it’s the last time, whether he’s hopeful or desperate I’m like a loser that’s betting on his last dime It’s like Billie who’s betting on what’s left of his health, when he thinks he’s not going to wake up the next morning, but still, despite feeling he’s “holding on for life”, he keeps drinking and taking pills. Oh, I’m still alive he realizes how lucky he is. I’m like a son that was raised without a father Literally. He comes back to the child he was. When Billie was responding to comments on the Longshot account that was still private then, he said “all the songs are kinda sad, but not self-indulgent sadness. Rainy day sadness”. I always felt that this line in Still Breathing was the prior, necessary self indulgent (in a good way) sadness he needed to give himself. Like saying : “Yes, it was that bad. It was that much sadness and devastation.” I’m like a mother barely keeping it together Like his own mother after his dad died, Billie also barely kept it together for himself all the way from then. He connects to the ones that were left: the child, the lonely parent. Just shine a light into the wreckage So far away, away cause I’m still breathing cause I’m still breathing on my own my head’s above the rain and roses making my way, away, away That additional “away” echoes to me as, when following the light meant to take him away from the devastation, he’s gone so far that he’s close to get out of life. That refers to the fact the addiction can be the light you shine at first, to get away from something within yourself, and if the addiction is eventually deadly, it’s a sign that it’s not the right thing in the end and it’s not what you really run away from. It’s like a misleading light. But at the same time, it shows addiction can save your life to a certain point. And the following lines (in the bridge of the song) show how hard it is to separate ways with it. The addiction has become the storm over time but it also saved you from the storm, by becoming a light you’ve followed, and you’ve followed it so far you have to let it go or die. If you can let go of it, you will eventually find out what you’ve really been staying alive for. As I walked out on the ledge on the ledge of life. For wanting to free himself from the storm, his addiction, and the part of himself that makes him turn to this addiction, he walks away, and that’s where it gets really interesting: he makes his way through the wreckage, driven by hope, the hope when he realizes he’s still breathing, but by making his way through and walking out, so far away, he comes to that point where he’s on the ledge. As if, he can’t get rid of that part of him that is equal to devastation, that made him turn to addiction, he would have to throw himself entirely to get rid of it. That would mean death. are you scared to death to live? It’s a strong play of words: scared to death supposedly refers to how scary death is, but here it’s the opposite, it’s about how scary life is. Billie sums it up by saying: “you’re scared of living, so you’re scared of that thing in you, that storm, and when you try to get away from it completely, to annihilate it, by ways of the addiction, and with the addiction, there’s only death”. It could be ‘you’re scared of living since you’re trying to reject that thing in you’, or ‘you’re trying to reject it since you’re scared to live’. Billie could also realize he’s scared of the part of himself that makes him turn to his deadly addiction, but that it’s included in his self, it’s part of his life, it even defines his life (cf. in Forever Now, “a life on the wild side [that got] so full”, the wild side he’s grateful for in the end is also this part that makes him this junkie, this addict, this extreme person). Anyways, he’s come to the point where he could jump now and everything would be over. I’ve been running all my life just to find a home that’s for the restless It’s like an antithesis: is he restless because he’s running? But he’s running to find a home for the restless, so basically he’s running so he won’t have to run anymore. There’s another line of indulgence towards himself. He just states his life has that desperate, senseless storyline to it. When Billie says, on the ledge, he’s been “running all [his] life just to find a home that’s for the restless”, he’s like describing the no-way of his addiction being his savior and his doom at the same time. It’s like: “I can’t stop running, I have to find this home. But it’s because I’m running that I have to find this home.” Problem and apparent solution at the same time. Quickly turns out to be another problem over the problem. But it has saved his life, helped him to function, and no matter how messed up this could have been, he has made it through, which indicates that the solution has always been in him. and the truth that’s in the message What’s the real message in this no-way? He eventually came to the ledge by trying to find a home that’s for the restless. It’s like saying, “I looked everywhere, but I’m still running, now I’m just heading to death. Well the solution could be death.” But when he finds himself a step away from death, he realizes he doesn’t want the answer to be it. Finding out the truth in the message is also finding out what he wants to get away from. There was always something in his run that would possibly lead him to death, but once he gets the taste of it, he rediscovers his attachment to life, he knows that what he wants to get away from is what takes him away from life. Whatever that may be: the devastation he feels, that causes or is caused by his addiction and that he wants to get away from, may feel deadly, but he knows he can find a light in there that will maintain him in life, and keep him breathing, as he still is. The light is in himself as the devastation is, it comes from the same place. making my way, away, away For the second time, this additional “away” marks another level of distance, or urgency, from what he wants to get away from. Is it the same thing as before? He realizes he can’t find a solution to his own restlessness, but he has made the choice of life, even acknowledging how scary life was really to him, and how scary it would be to have to renounce to the addiction in order to stay alive. Acknowledging the difficulty, his vulnerability, his fear to live, was in itself defining to get over his addiction. Even more, the fact he went so close to death was what permitted him to give himself this indulgence, this understanding, this strength, because he had only this choice if he decided to live. That may be one element of “the truth in the message”, but whatever the latter turns up to be for him, the attachment for life and the joy to appreciate being still alive, even more after you fell so deep that you’re just amazed to still be alive, is something beautiful, stronger than despair; it’s like somehow, within all the despair, you find something that’s stronger than it. It’s what makes you able to shine a light to get out of anything that feels deadly within yourself. I always thought of this song when Billie said on stage “life ain’t pretty, but if you hold on to it, it can be pretty beautiful”. cause I’m still breathing cause I’m still breathing on my own my head’s above the rain and roses making my way, away cause I’m still breathing cause I’m still breathing on my own my head’s above the rain and roses making my way, away my way to you my way to you my head’s above the rain and roses making my way, away my way to you Thanks goodness for that song

Time for some more Billies (these are from the Echoplex Show in August 2012): And this one is from the Kerrang Poster Special the other week:

On the 21st Century Breakdown Tour I sneakily recorded @solongfromthestars freaking out to hearing "Letterbomb" for the first time live. She hated me for it and for ruining the video. However, yesterday she finally thanked me for it and even made a gif of it! Here you go: Nice jumping!

"we wouldn't have done it if the song quality wasn't there" "we're having a lot of fun right now, this is the spirit of Green Day what we're doing right now" Awesome! "my true love is a wonderful spirit in the great place of radio uno right now" is the actual title of F(woo) Time! What start with an F and end with a UCK? Firetruck! Yeah, this made me think about how much we lost when Billie got sidetracked. I honestly don't think so many people would be hating on the trilogy had it been the giant epic hit fest it could have been. I'll always stand up for it. If I to let some Green Day records go, 1039, Kerplunk and Insomniac would get axed before Uno/Dos/Tre.

I didn't come here for half a month. I was so busy. Anyway, hi all!

Finally able to upload a picture (Windows 10 sucks) I have an urge to break it and take the little guitar out, but I won't

They need to practice the new extended version of KFAD. They are now doing an entire show of just KFAD. Personally I think it will be their most successful tour ever.

HE'S FUCKING ADORABLE Can we also appreciate how cute he is when he laughs oh my god Also because I suck I found these that were sexy PLEASE APPRECIATE THIS SEXY and adorable MAN 😈

When you always notice 21 , 80 , 86. 99 , 1000 , 1039 and 2000 in your math's class ...... And when Paper Lantern's sums up the state of your love life so far

When you look at the clock, see that it's 4:09, and start thinking about coffeemakers.

When you're in the dentist's office getting a tooth worked on, and you're singing geek stink breath in your head as though you're the guy on the video

You know you're a GD fan when you see a toilet and it says "Armitage shanks" on it and you think about the song