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Honestly, Billie has made the idea of aging more appealing to me, because he wears the little fine lines on his face so well. Those little “imperfections” are so charming to me. It’s a shame that most of us aren’t/won’t be lucky enough to age as well as he has. (I realize this is a bit random, but it’s just something I’ve had on my mind a lot lately)

The only reason I have an android phone is because of green day

When someone on TV says the word "chump" and you immediately start singing.

Green Day get a mention in this Pop Culture 25 Years Later article (it talks about Dookie): https://25yearslatersite.com/2019/02/22/popculture25yl-february-1994-green-day-pavement-drop-classics-michael-jordan-plays-baseball-gwen-stacy-takes-a-dive-again/ This is what it says: Green Day – Dookie by Bryan O’Donnell 1994 was a monumental year for music. I plan on contributing to many of the PopCulture25YL columns to talk about the music from 25 years ago. I’m biased, probably, because 1994 hit directly in the time I was growing up and becoming obsessed with music, but I think the year was the best year of new music ever. Green Day’s Dookie, the band’s third album, was released on February 1, 1994. At that time, I was in 6th grade, religiously listening to Metallica and Nirvana. I remember liking Dookie’s first single, “Longview,” well enough, but it wasn’t until later that year and into 1995 that I remember the album exploding. Dookie was perhaps the most iconic album of my middle school years. Everyone had the Dookie T-shirt. I remember trying to out-cool everyone by buying a Kerplunk (the band’s second album) T-shirt, but it probably only hurt my popularity. It seemed like a new song from the album would be released as a single every week. In addition to “Longview,” this album features songs you still hear on the radio on a regular basis (yes I still listen to the radio): “Basket Case,” “When I Come Around,” “Welcome to Paradise,” and “She.” It’s hard to believe all of those songs were on the same album. Sitting down to write this piece and listening to Dookie after a long time away from it, I felt a wave of nostalgia kick in right from the get-go. The album starts with “Burnout,” a very angsty song that definitely spoke to me in my uncomfortable early-teen years: “I’m not growing up, I’m just burning out.” Two more non-hits follow — “Having a Blast” and “Chump” — and they are also excellent. Diving back in to some of these lesser-known songs was truly a pleasure. With a lot of the music from this time centering around grunge, Green Day’s Dookie introduced people who listened to mainstream music to punk rock. It was an important album then, and it’s still an important (and very good) album today. As someone who later got heavily into punk rock for a period of my life (constantly listening to the Clash, NOFX, Bad Religion, and many others), I’m not sure if I ever would have made that musical leap if it weren’t for Green Day releasing Dookie when they did.

Not weird, but I was watching the Detriot Redwings Vs. Chicago Blackhawks last night and they played American Idiot during one of the play stopages.

When you buy these because they say "Bang Bang" despite swearing off shit food

"She's the satyr in the trees of Minnesota"

Good riddance came on when I was getting fingerprinted by the police