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Let's get some AI era hotness in here today.

Early on in the clip I thought the dog was going to jump up on Billie and was expecting to see the two of them rolling on the ground 😂😂 think he could easily put his paws on Billie’s shoulders.

^^I love Billie's posts, but I can't stop laughing at "Novembpr"

That One of My Lies factoid is great. Can't believe I missed it out of my Bay Area history post. I totally just went and added it as if it was there the whole time

I just love that that Great Dane makes Billie look so tiny.

Okay so I looked at Instagram again and the photos wouldn't load and apparently IG gives pretty accurate text descriptions of photos - for September it said "one person or more people and a goatee"

I think they played Gabriella just once at the Tiki Bar in Costa Mesa back in August 2011. I remember people describing Gabriella as fast and angry. There was speculation at the time it might have become Amanda because some lyrics were reused: I’m not playing with your mind Unless you think I am You’re crushing my heart Like a battering ram Gabriella I need another fix Don’t need an intervention I’m here to get my kicks Accomplishing your mission Gabriella Don’t shoot the pharmacist We got chemistry It would be a risk If there was honesty You are a dog’s best friend You ain’t no Cinderella You are a thunderstorm I’ll be your umbrella I am the living end I am a dying breed I am a girl’s best friend I am a diamond ring

This is such a nice picture. And it's funny how being next to a picture of Prince makes them look extra small

via Joey's ig story (then he deleted it)

I've always thought of it as a caterpillar into a butterfly kind of thing. Or the Ugly Duckling. Still charming, but definitely not beautiful. Haha!

This is the most insane Green Day show EVER. multiple encores, dangerous piano ballads and fire. so much fire. he Foxboro Hot Tubs come out and rip through “Basketcase” and “F(woo) Time” before the show even starts. As they exit the stage, Drunken Bunny comes out and does his thing before the main show begins . 1. Basketcase 2. F(woo) 3. Welcome to Paradise 4. Holiday 5. Oh Love 6. The Saints are Coming 7. Make Out Party 8. Restless Heart Syndrome 9. Dry Ice 10. Android 11. Jackass 12. She 13. Stuck with Me 14. Nice Guys Finish Last 15. Take Back 16. Waiting 17. Ordinary World 18. Walk Away 19. 21 Guns 20. Still Breathing 21. BANG BANG ENCORE: (they don’t even leave the stage, but the lights go down for a bit) 22. Holiday 23. Somewhere Now 24. Forever Now ENCORE II: 25. Boulevard of Broken Dreams / We are the Champions / Freebird 26. American Idiot ENCORE III : (Everyone except for Tre makes their way into the audience and mingles with the frenzied crowd as they play a blistering psycho-fast version of Dirty Rotten Bastards. It’s been reworked a bit to please the Trilogy-haters and it’s hardcore insane. The entire crowd is singing along to the “we’re carried away bit. Billie has everyone jump on the last chord and the entire crowd finishes the show. 27. Dirty Rotten Bastards The band stand inside the crowd as the cheers “ENCORE FOUR” “ENCORE FOUR”………………….This is where it gets insane: A piano is thrown out into the middle of the crowd. Billie sits down in the wreckage and begins playing a ballad version of: ENCORE IV: 28. 99 Revolutions (broken piano in the middle of a crazed mob version!!!!) The spirit of this show cannot be contained. The crowd needs more. The other band members begin playing something slowly. It’s hard to tell what song. Billie: Guys, guys, guys. We gotta end this thing. It’s been lovely but uh…the city of Chicago went to bed….should have went to bed hours ago and the police are probably on their way to murder us all right now!” He’s laughing so hard he can barely speak. Mike: 99 encores tonight! Tre: You guys GET SERIOUS! BOW_CHICKA-bOWO. Suddenly the song is recognisable. Billie: This is only song that can put an end to THIS MADNESS. We shoulda stopped an hour ago. HAHAHA ENCORE V: 29. Whatshername As the song fades, Billie screams: THIS IS MY RAGE THIS IS MY LOVE THIS IS YOUR TOWN THIS IS YOUR CITY THIS IS OUR LIFE!!!!!!!! The band destroy their instruments and destroy the entire set up and light their backdrop on fire. Drunk Bunny runs out in flames and falls over. The crowd is rioting for an ENCORE SIX ENCORE SIX or whatever encore would be next. but no. The band take a simple bow and leaves the city to burn. it's not their burden. And the concert is over. Chicago, 2020

I actually love the start of Christian's Inferno and never skip it when others are listening - Youngblood is just embarrassing and cringy.

Yeah Billie and Tre just lived at the "Longview House" on Ashby Avenue. Mike lived down the road. I don't think Mike ever lived at the warehouse or at least not the same one where Billie lived which was shared with other punk musicians and artists.

I've watched this an unnatural number of times, just for the bit where he pauses and smiles at 80 for a photo. So fucking adorable, his smile melts me ❤️

From Joey's story originally

Relatable

Ok I jumped to conclusions there. My mind went right to thinking that there were papers on the table which meant writing, but now I think it’s a menu 😂 So in conclusion, Billie is eating and drinking coffee in December 👍👍

I remember this quote about "Wonderful" from the New York Times. It does sound good and I'd love to hear it: "The day after the election, Mr. Armstrong wrote a new song called “Wonderful,” Mr. Vig said. “It was super poppy, sunny, Beach Boys but with fuzzy pop chords,” he said. “It was great. Hundreds of bands would kill to have this song on the record.” Mr. Armstrong, he said, vetoed it, deciding it wouldn’t fit with the rest of the album. “He said, ‘I just had to write it,’ ” Mr. Vig recalled." Full article here

Oh! I don't know if I'm relieved or disappointed

The November pic is exciting! Scrolling back through the Longshot IG December pic looks like an outtake from the December 8th when he’s out for breakfast and not too exciting. The November pic looks so very promising though!

I was wearing my Packers hat on the train home from work the other day when a crowd of pissheads got on. It doesn't even say Green Bay Packers, just Packers. They still thought the Packers and Green Day were the same thing and started shouting "AMERICAN IDIOT!" and "SHE LIKES GREEN DAY!" until one of them went "no, Green BAY PACKERS!" Then they saw the photo of me and Billie onstage on my phone and asked if we were married. England's memory of Green Day is strange.

I know it was just Billie and that other people lived in the warehouse but cool it got a mention anyway

I don't really get why fans are so eager to see songs like Minnesota Girl and Olivia on a future album. Or why every new album theory and fake tracklist uses them I think Minnesota Girl is very overrated. I do love Olivia, but they have hundreds of other songs we don't know about that are probably more interesting (and more exciting because they're mysteries). I guess it's just knowing they exist that's so tempting. In that case though I'm more intrigued by songs like Wonderful that nearly ended up on 21st Century Breakdown because I haven't heard them at all.

So I take it he’s throwing us a bone with the Nov/Dec pics. Nov playing around in the studio, Dec writing songs.

Oh look it's a picture of Billie's feet again

^^ The pictures where he is smiling I started to make some gifs of still breathing vids, at first for myself, then I thought they were kinda sexy actually , worth sharing here: (the 3 gifs are from different 3 videos of the same performance)

I really love how the guitar is squidging into his soft tummy 🤪