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COMETBUS #54 Green Day In China?!


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At first I thought he was talking about Mike, too, but then I remembered that at the beginning of the zine it said that as soon as Mike got a haircut, he started to get all the ladies. (I can't remember what exactly it said.)

So the only one he hasn't talked about concerning the subject is Al.

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My copy arrived on saturday and I just couldn't stop reading >.<

Now I'm reading it again just incase I didn't get anything because of not reading it too carefully.

I love how Billie, Mike and Tre still don't seem to be fed up with each other...

And I really like the fact that I imagined them the way they really seem to be (according to Aaron).

But Tre and the octupus..ewww!

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Reading this zine makes a lot of fun.thanks to Anja for purchasing one copy for me.

One line made me think about the Asia Tour shedule. Aaron wrote that two shows in Beijing and Shanghai had been cancelled. Is that true? I never read anything like that in their tour shedule.

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I loved the mag, so great. Great insights in the band, and in the tour in general, from a different point of view than you get from magazines and things like that. But apart from the Green Day thing, on the level of a travel journal and on friendship, it was great as well. And just really enjoyable to read, I like his writing style.

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Reading this zine makes a lot of fun.thanks to Anja for purchasing one copy for me.

One line made me think about the Asia Tour shedule. Aaron wrote that two shows in Beijing and Shanghai had been cancelled. Is that true? I never read anything like that in their tour shedule.

It's possible that the tour dates were arranged but then got cancelled before they were made public. That's what makes sense to me when reading that part.

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I've lent this to someone at work because I'm nice. I might warn her about the octopus though.

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Finished it! Loved it. Pretty much every time he said something that annoyed me, it ended up that he later said something else that meant it didn't annoy me any more :lol:, it's definitely true that he writes really spontaneously (which is one of the best things about his writing) so sometimes things aren't fully thought through until later on. Haven't changed my opinion on what he said about fans though. Especially when I read the bit about the security guards - after stereotyping them at first he later admitted it was all too easy but also inaccurate to do that, and realized his assumptions about one of them were wrong when he actually sat down and spoke to him. Why not apply the same logic to those 'superfans'??? I thought.

That's my only complaint though, I absolutely loved it. An honest, thought-provoking, funny and sweet piece of writing. Love him and his writing. I've lent it to my sister now, hoping to make a Cometbus fan out of her :D

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Waiting very impatiently to get mine....CAN'T TAKE IT!!! Hoping mine will arrive by next friday XD

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Oh right, thanks. I was wondering who Aarons talks about :P

Yeah it took me a while to get who it was, it was the shirtless bit that made me remember. I kinda agree with him, they did sorta suck!

Just finished reading it myself, what a read! It took me an evening and the next morning. I have so much more motivation to keep writing and travel much more. After all the controversy about the fans comments I thought I wouldn't like this guy, but based purely on #54, I love him! Some great insights into the band, aw I'm so glad I got it.

:happy: :happy: :happy:

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I really need to get on the ball and get this . . I love Cometbus, especially when Green Day's involved! I really liked the old stories he did about them in the early 90s.

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I really need to get on the ball and get this . . I love Cometbus, especially when Green Day's involved! I really liked the old stories he did about them in the early 90s.

GDA is selling it (with nice cheap postage), check out this thread:

http://www.greendaycommunity.org/Forum/index.php?showtopic=83691

I really like those old stories too, so reading a whole 100 page new one was a dream come true! Can't recommend it highly enough.

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When I see Prima Donna in May, I'm definitely going to be smiling and thinking of Aaron the entire time. :lol:

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When I see Prima Donna in May, I'm definitely going to be smiling and thinking of Aaron the entire time. :lol:

:lol: Oh, dear. He was quite brutal on those guys, wasn't he?

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I'm hoping I get mine soon!! Ordered it at the beginning of this month...I got a email saying my payment cleared on the 16th...so maybe by the end of this week?

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I'm hoping I get mine soon!! Ordered it at the beginning of this month...I got a email saying my payment cleared on the 16th...so maybe by the end of this week?

The problem was that your order cleared the 16th, after we were already backordered. We're getting more in from Aaron, and you're definitely up on the list, but we have to take of the orders where payment cleared before yours. I will send you a message in a couple days when we know with some certainty when we can ship your order. It should be pretty soon.

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:lol: Oh, dear. He was quite brutal on those guys, wasn't he?

Most definitely. I thought it was somewhat considerate of him to resist bashing them by name. :lol:

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The problem was that your order cleared the 16th, after we were already backordered. We're getting more in from Aaron, and you're definitely up on the list, but we have to take of the orders where payment cleared before yours. I will send you a message in a couple days when we know with some certainty when we can ship your order. It should be pretty soon.

Thanks!!! Disregard the PM I sent you than..I didn't see this reply!

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Looking forward to reading this, again!

I found what Aaron said about Billie's shouts to the crowd very interesting.

The part about where he said he would strangle Billie for shouting "get those hands up in the air" and how normally the police would be saying that to punks back when they were young

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Looking forward to reading this, again!

I found what Aaron said about Billie's shouts to the crowd very interesting.

The part about where he said he would strangle Billie for shouting "get those hands up in the air" and how normally the police would be saying that to punks back when they were young

Yeah, I found that interesting, too. Even more interesting I found what he had to say about Billie kissing female fans onstage and his whole take on the sex symbol thing.

I could get into a fine argument with him over that. Overall, I never thought of Aaron as being so uptight and moralistic. When it comes to judging Prima Donna's backstage antics or Tré's rendez-vous with some or the other lady, he is just a little bit too harsh for my taste.

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