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Posted: 5/3/06
April is the Month of Green Day
Did you know that there are a couple of different Green Days in April? April 22nd is Earth Day or Green Day in North America, and April 29th is Green Day in Japan. Also, April 20th is, well 4/20, the greenest day of the year!
With all this green getting passed around, you can imagine what an exciting month it has been for Green Day. All three guys got out of bed almost every morning, had a shower, ate some breakfast, smoked a fattie, played video games all afternoon, and you don't even want to know what they got up to in the evenings. Just hearing about it would exhaust you!
Basically, the word right now with Green Day is that there's more action in fanland than there is behind the curtain. What can you do? Billie Joe is probably going to gain two hundred pounds, buy a private island, and spend the rest of his life on a throne eating Big Macs.
Mike will probably retire to his restaurant - Rudy's Can't Fail Café - where he'll become that mysterious line cook that seems to live at the back of the kitchen under a greasy chef's hat, and that makes the most delicious but suspicious chili fries…
Tre, well, for Tre the future is highly uncertain. He might start a small but enthusiastic cult in the Mojave desert; he might end up doing a long run as the center square on Hollywood Squares; he might even lead the coming People's Revolution, (or are we calling it the People's Wii now?). However, chances are he'll just disappear into the wilds of South America, where the majority of Green Day's hardcore fan-base is located, and never be seen or heard from again.
Until that time comes, Green Day is still doomed to be making the news on a semi-regular basis. So here are some of the highlights from this month…
On April 1st, Bilie Joe and his whole family went to the Kids' Choice Awards, where Green Day won awards for "Favorite Music Group" and "Favorite Song" (WMUWSE). Green Day beat out such bands as Destiny's Child and the Backstreet Boys for the honor, which proves that kids are getting smarter, and that the Backstreet Boys do, in fact, still exist, which many people did not know.
"Don't believe everything you see on television, and stick in to the man!" Billie Joe told the crowd of hysterical kids as he accepted the award.
On April 4th, the Idiot Club on the official Green Day website finally released a new Q & A. Since you probably don't want to have to shell out the cash to be in the Idiot Club, he's some of the ooey- gooey highlights:
- Some of Green Day's best memories are from the old days when they used to tour back and forth across the U.S. in their van, affectionately known as the "Toe."
- Green Day says that they try never to regret anything, because "life is about living, and regret is about dying."
- Green Day's number one musical artist that they wish hadn't died young is John Lennon. Woah, that's extra sad, because there are so many performers out there who died young, but mostly because of drug overdoses or other glamorous forms of suicide. John Lennon was actually assassinated. Woah.
- The guys think that "Jesus of Suburbia" is the best and ultimate Green Day song.
- Green Day is super politically active, and is involved with organizations like Green Peace, USA Harvest, the NRDC, Punk Voter, and many others.
- The guys say that they learned way back in the day that you have to avoid criticism that will just bring you down, so they avoided reading their own press as they were getting famous. Hmm, it's interesting that Tre recently admitted that they read message boards, but not the popular press. Power to the people, media bitches! Bwa ha ha ha ha!
The Latest issue of "Kerrang!" named the "American Idiot" video as the greatest video of all time. Number two on the "Kerrang!" list was Metallica's "One," and number three was Blink 182's "All the Small Things." Wow, what is that, like, the ultimate trio of bands that don't really like to be seen together all that much?
On April 12th, Green Day won the award for best group at the MTV Australian Video Music Awards. They didn't show up - sigh - even though they have SO many huge fans in Australia.
Australian mag "TV Hits" published an interesting interview with Green Day this month. In it, the guys reveal that they are nowhere near starting their new album, despite rumors that they have a bunch of new songs ready to go. "We're going to go into the studio and try everything and take it as it comes," said Billie Joe. Hmm, good thing this is actually a super old interview from a year ago that "TV Hits" is trying to make look all brand new and so cool.
Don't worry, fan freaks, the new Green Day album has not spontaneously regressed, it is still in the works!
Well, maybe if the guys had gone to the Australian Music Video Awards, they would have used a current interview. You can't expect beggars to be choosy, as the saying goes. Anyway, Green Day doesn't care what people print about them. In that same interview, thy admitted (once again) that they really NEVER read their own press, which means that ANYBODY could say ANYTHING about them and they'd never know. GREEN DAY LIKE TO FUCK THEIR MOMS! (This is just a test.)
The site www.goveg.com has put Mike Dirnt up in the running for world's sexiest vegetarian. Too bad Mike's no longer a vegetarian!
Coming up in May:
On May 3rd, the Virgin Megastore in Hollywood is having a huge rock and roll fashion show, and Adrienne Armstrong is going to be on a panel talking about Adeline clothing, and the future of fashion in the music industry.
On May 4th, it's Mike's 34th birthday. Rumor has it he's going to be partying it up at a bar in his hometown, so if you know of any favorite haunts, maybe you can hang around and try to get plastered with the Green Day guys.
Both Neil Young and Pearl Jam are putting out albums in May that are heavily politically charged towards the anti-government side of things. Of course, everybody knows that Green Day was the first band to release a whole album speaking out against the current political situation in the U.S. Funny that it took other bands so long to catch on.
That's all the Green Day news for the month. Not tons of nonstop excitement and thrills, but hey, knowing those guys, they'll probably be in trouble up to their ears soon enough. All we have to do is sit back, crank some classic GD tunes, and wait.
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