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I was just looking back through Billie's Twitter for something I'd mentioned in the IG thread. Couldn't find it but I did find these gems I don't think I posted these two before but I seriously just laughed out loud to myself!

I walked past this store at Water Tower the other day if you're looking for ideas.

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but i'm just gonna write it cause I need to get it out of my system. If you guys haven't heard, Chile has been in a full blown out chaos since Friday. It started out as a student's manifestation because of the raise of metro fare prices and in a matter of hours, it escalated into police brutality over the evasions, protests and riots all over the country over the social inequality of our socio-economical system and a declaration of state of emergency with military police on the streets and curfew time, which we haven't seen since the dictatorship in 1973-1990. Over the last days, I've been a part of the manifestations and it has been so horrible living the military repression that was taught to me in school and that my parents feared during the Pinochet years, especially because Chile has always been hailed as one of the most stable countries in Latin America and just 5 days ago, the president referred to our country as an "oasis in a convoluted continent" (goes to show you how thin the veil of democracy is). But underneath all that, there has been years of social discontent, class disparity, institutional distrust and political inefficacy that's been brewing inside of us that just exploded, without any kind of civic organization or political agenda, just everyday people going out in the streets because we had enough. During this last days, I've tried to listen to many of the albums that usually comfort me when I'm in this kind of mood; Parquet Courts' "Wide Awake", IDLES' "Joy as an Act of Ressistance", even American Idiot didn't work, but then I put on Revolution Radio and it just clicked. While I've never been a RR hater, I did criticize it at the moment for not being topical enough. I wondered why Billie didn't write Say Goodbye more explicitly about the BLM movement, or why Revolution Radio and Troubled Times sounded so lyrically empty. And it's just so funny how this three songs have been the only ones that have comforted me during this past week, and what I thought was just buzzwords took life on its own while I ran away from teargas and the police. I thank them for this now, because now I realize that repression isn't about a particular subject, it's a global issue that shares a common language that they expressed perfectly in this songs, and that the revolution against the establishment isn't always contingent, perfectly articulated or even rational, like it's usually romanticized in the dystopian movies. I used to say that those songs were a "fuck you just because", but damn if I don't feel like that after watching my family, friends and everyone surrounding me being screwed over for decades. So yeah, this one goes out to Revolution Radio, thank you for being the anthem that I needed for this moment in my life, because even though I'm scared shitless about history repeating itself, I'm also hopeful because I still see the spark in my people and I know that this has just begun. In any other time, I might have put it off another day, but not today.

I don't hate the songs, but if the entire album sounds like this, I'll be content with listening to it once or twice and then moving on.

Here is Billie’s live stream from the car wash.

Ha! “twitter for blackberry”, there’s a phone you don’t see or hear about anymore.

Billie did a livestream while getting his surf van washed. Did you know the inside of a car wash is the safest place to get stoned? Well it is according to him 😂 If someone can post the video please do. Totally worth it. Pretenders on the radio, shark on the dashboard...

You don't spend enough time with the gd fandom when you feel surprised by random pictures of billie's ass

*me, scrolling through the fangirls thread, minding my damn business* A BILLIE ASS APPEARED - IT USED SURPRISE! IT WAS VERY EFFECTIVE!

I know what I'm doing for the weekend!

Okay, now I definitely want one of these warm you up Unicorns! I wonder if my mom will be alarmed if I just ask her for Unicorn related stuff for Xmas...

I gave in and bought one the other week (it was one you could put in the microwave and use to keep warm!) I also saw this giant unicorn in the shop today - it must have been 3 feet 6 inches! And you know you're a Green Day fan when you see this and think of the Longshot!

He'll just want to talk about "firing on all cylinders", don't do it!

Billie on twitter was a treasure. I'm still sad he quit posting on there

That first picture is a hell of a lot of eye porn too. Hot damn! 👀

Could be worse 😂😂

ngl it's what I see when I close my eyes Edit: that sounded worse than intended

And the reference to (SNL) “the van down by the river” 😂

Love the shark and the little glance up into the mirror 😂😂

I'm very much looking forward to the album and more interviews and performances, but so far none of the songs have really made me hyped for the album. Hopefully, the next single will. Still really excited to get my copies though!

foam is probably the GD-era i am least excited for, so sad

I'm catching up on season 3 of Better Call Saul and if you don't know, his real name is Jimmy. Last night, he said something about being made to look like a saint in court. His friend girl then proclaims him "ST. JIMMY!" and said that it has a nice ring to it. I wonder if that was nod to Green Day, and I'm also wondering what year that was supposed to take place in, because it's a prequel. I'll have to investigate. ST. JIMMY!

I don’t pretend to understand this man, but how in hell is inside a car wash the safest place to get stoned? 😂😂😂 compared to where, rail tracks? Central reservation of a motorway? 😂😂

I was kidding. For real I want Little Boy Named Train 25 times.

Oh geez can I take my vote back - your excuse better be you are drunk☺️ @Little Boy Named Airplane

It does say on the bundle page that items are available separately but then you have to search to find them, they don’t link them there so I agree they do make it hard on purpose. I noticed it only because I spotted the same thing with the Oakland coffee mug and was able to search for the mug alone and buy it so I did the same thing here.

I will forever remember this as the picture that gave me a computer virus. Worth it.

Was just putting some pics in the picture thread but thought this one belonged here - Billie showing off his ass!

That's Billie's contribution to society

just bare ass and beer

I would say it's still too early to be able to say that. The album doesn't even drop for another 4 months. If the trilogy era wasn't following 21cb most of us would probably feel the same level of excitement as now. I'm finding this to be a tad more exciting than Rev Rad but that era also started with a cancelled show for me. I'm excited by the fact there's 8 songs I haven't heard. I think we're likely to hear another one but from there we'll need to wait the remainder. I kind of view Green Day as semi retired at this point. Glory days are over. The days of heavy promotion and appearances are also over. If you're looking for the excitement that was experienced prior to AI or 21CB I think its safe to say we won't be getting that. Not just for this band but for rock as an entire genre.

Yes I remember this episode! Don't think it's a GD reference at all tho.

He must have been pretty desperate to get high at that point in life to be plotting out the car wash plan.

So a hot box but you can't open the door even if you wanted to? Definitely the safest way to make sure the smoke won't escape haha

Were you thinking of this?

Here's the comments to Mike that @jengd mentioned and here's one to a fan (I seem to remember Billie having a run in with someone on Twitter years ago about the Slappy EP! Anyone else remember?) I think Billie might have deleted the tweet afterwards.

They always say that, not endorsed by the band is the reason.

Father of All... Meet Me on the Rooftop Junkies on a High Sugar Youth The Art of the Deal with the Devil Bulletproof Backpack Fire, Ready, Aim These are what we have so far. I wonder if the next single will be a new title or one of the unheard five?

I'm not sure why it's described as "unofficial" calendar? I forgot how it was for the previous ones From Revrad, I wanna bring back the handporn the sexiness the bellie the long hair and the big smile

When you start contemplating picking up a unicorn plush

Size wise; you can set up the Rose Bowl and get a HUGE crowd if you set up the stage in center. GD show was always supposed to have the stage at about the 20 yard line. It was moved about 20 yards up to compensate for the 15k tickets unsold so that it would look like a sell out, and it screwed a lot of people. Dodger Stadium is just more reserved for the elite of music. The Beatles played their second to last concert ever there. People that saw Paul Mc there 3x since remember each occasion. U2, Rolling Stones, it’s just iconic. I’m a lover of venues and Fenway was and Dodger Stadium are two of the greatest still used stadiums. Wrigley is amazing but it’s only used for stuff now. It’s not a park. Rose Bowl (without stage is 98,566) and Dodger Stadium (without stage is about 59,300).

That mustache 🤮

1- King For A Day (extended version) Snippet of Whole Lotta Love 1st verse of Iron Man Solo of Free Bird Highway To Hell Sweet Child O' Mine We Will Rock You Enter Sandman Smells Like Teen Spirit Snippet of (I can't get No) Satisfaction Johnny B Goode Time Bomb 2- Jesus of Suburbia

I finally watched some Longshot and Coverups stuff and here are two things I want to say: Billie reached peak goofiness at this show Secondly, I'm not an expert on how singing is supposed to sound, but whoever was doing the falsettos/backing vocals in Longshot (I think it's Jeff who I hear) didn't sound good at all imo.

Oh dear Mike Dirnt trying to talk to me again

I want a time machine right now 😑

Jees, that was a chart - Green Day, Lady Gaga, The Prodigy, Beyoncé, Bob Dylan and Jim Reeves all on one chart!! Changed days.

I found this the other day and it's a Green Day antique! 21st Century Breakdown at #1 in the UK charts on the teletext.

It is pretty captivating isn't it. They're just at you saying "Yeah, you know we're hot. You can't turn away from this."