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Billie Joe on Operation Ivy


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Great read, thanks for sharing it!

I've always been curious about those 'how to be a couch potato' entries in theAbsolutely Zippo zines he used to write in. Would love to read one some day :)

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Great read, thanks for sharing it!

I've always been curious about those 'how to be a couch potato' entries in theAbsolutely Zippo zines he used to write in. Would love to read one some day :)

The day has come!

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Omg these are awesome! billie obviously found it hard to adjust to fatherhood but at least he perfected the couch potato

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Now to find the couch potato article! :lol:

I loved reading this! It's so cool to hear about Gilman. I wish there was something like that in my life. Just a huge group of misfits with awesome tastes in music that you could turn to when suburbia became a bit too much to handle.

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Those things are priceless, and should be kept in the British Museum right next to those Egyptian... things. :lol:

Thaaaanks a lot for sharing! Loved the last one about the kid, it's so sweet (:

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billie capitalizes the pronoun "I" and the first letter in a sentence. that's all.. wait, it wasn't he who typed that? :pinch:

great read, thanks for sharing!

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Even though I was a regular contributor to Absolutely Zippo myself, this is the first time I realized that Billie was at that show, or that it was his first Operation Ivy show. I was there, too; in fact I was one of the people who was on stage. Which is where I was when a fat kid jumped on my back and broke my big toe, giving me something to remember that show by until this very day, because it's never been quite right ever since! But even though we were both at that show, it was another 10 months or so before I actually met Billie.

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This thread is one of the best i've seen. :lol:

Billie wrote my last name in one of those.

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It makes me so happy to read tidbits about Operation Ivy, as they're one of my favorite bands as well. Billie's misheard lyrics made my day! :lol: The scans that Hermione posted rather piqued my interest. I wish Billie had more time to contribute to zines.

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You're welcome, I've seen them posted in loads of places and saved them from somewhere or another ages ago. I thought everyone already had them :lol:, would've made a thread for them if I'd known that wasn't the case.

I agree they're really interesting, especially the second one about him coming to terms with his life changing. Really admire his honesty, it's quite sad to read but seems like everything turned out well in the end. I also enjoy his spelling of the word "miscellaneous" :D

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