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Billie has changed ''nothing says fuck you like a unicorn'' to ''Chicken lettuce under bacon'' on his Instagram profile

^God, Billie looks fucking incredible. I'm constantly baffled by him.

That was a heartfelt message. They're young and healthy, we can only hope they'll be all right.

Some random pictures from the last two shows:

He is so odd. 🥰

I love it when he does that sassy, hand on hip pose...and that hair! 😍

There is a Tight Wad Hill in Berkeley, overlooking the University field. The Armstrong boys have posted photos from up there watching games 🤗 Fair enough not the one he wrote about originally that I am aware of. But, one he knows about now! We went to all 3 Tight Wad hills just to make sure 😂

From last night:

I was just thinking about how much I love the song Whatsername. It's probably one of my favorite GD songs and my favorite song on AI and I wish they would play it more. I love the sadness and intensity of it and how it starts and ends so softly. Such a fantastic song!

@The Bellie Yes, I agree. Those ones are great too. I was more thinking about the clothes. lol His hair!

When you hear the last 2 chords of BOBD and immediately recognize it as BOBD🙂

Everyone looks so cool (and I love Mike's tshirt) but dammit the ketchup logo is ugly

Swmrs update.

Good thing that, in addition to an attraction to shiny trinkets, magpies and their relatives are well known for being extremely intelligent.

from Marina Chavez Photography

It's my 10 year anniversary of first seeing Green Day too. Before 21st Century Breakdown was released I remember desperately searching for news about the Tubbies shows. I was really excited for everyone who had got there. The internet wasn't what it is now back then so it was a struggle to find things on places like Photobucket and Myspace. Then when I knew they were going to play 21CB in full at the Fox Theatre I started looking at the $1000 tickets on Ebay! Which of course was completely out of reach. There were no cheap flights then either and I couldn't take time off work or take my daughter out of school. So when I finally saw Green Day in Birmingham on 27 October it was just surreal. It was like I was dreaming - like it wasn't really clear and there was mist over it. When they played Give Me Novacaine I just completely freaked out because it was and still is one of my favourite Green Day songs! It was that and Homecoming that got me into Green Day. At the time I hadn't thought of looking up setlists and didn't expect them to play that at all. Me and my daughter were screaming "Christian's crying in the bathroom" at each other! I distinctly remember the toilet paper gun and Tre doing his "marching" beat in Minority and it being blown up on the screen. My daughter had bought a poster that I ended up holding and I was waving it around all night! That poster with all its creases is still on our wall. They were recording Murder City for greenday.com so we got to hear that as well. Then after the show Tre tweeted about creeping on fans going back to their cars and Billie about people having sex in the hotel. Everything was drenched in sweat. I'd had some new shoes on and danced so hard it ripped my toenails off and gave me blisters! There was blood everywhere too. I had to have bandages on my feet for the next few shows. Sorry if that's TMI! I can't find the other tweet from Billie - my computer just keeps giving up every time I try to go back that far! I don't know that anything can ever really top seeing them live for the first time after seeing them on Bullet in a Bible, because it was so magical. Although the icing on the cake was that we were then at the Halloween show in Manchester a few days later. I was buying merch before Green Day's set when my daughter shouted to me "mum, Prima Donna are playing Stop Drop & Roll!" And I shouted "that's not Kevin, IT'S BILLIE!" We literally ran and I nearly fell down the steps and knocked somebody's beer onto them! Then after all that time looking for news about the Tubbies, I actually got to see them. I never thought I'd ever, ever get to see the Foxboro Hot Tubs. Unreal. Just unreal. I remember that Glasgow was the first show of the UK leg and Billie had dyed his hair blond. It was so exciting and looking at the pics from the Glasgow show made me realise I was actually going to see them soon! Some pics: Please credit this blog if reposting these photos: https://www.mariagloriaharvey.com/blog

No but Mike is a pot farmer now so he could if you wanted him to 😄

Day #2 drinking Atomic Garden and WHOA this stuff is strong. Usually I have a cup or two and I have some extra energy for a bit and that's all. I got at 6am yesterday, drank some around noon and was wide awake until 1am. Had some with breakfast today at 6am and I am still super wired at 1pm. Did Billie and Mike sell me drugs?

When you see this and instead of laughing at the joke, think of Green Day (fans) Also when you find a bag you took to the roughest Longshot show and it's just full of tissues from mopping up nosebleeds all the way home

when you're watching a quiz seo and there's a question about the record for the longest ever sustained note, and you immediately think back to Milton Keynes 2nd night when BJA seemed to hole a note for about 5 mins. I remember everyone stopped playing and I saw Mike just look in BJ's direction laughing like 'wtf?'

...when all you think of when you see Trump use a word like “lynching” to describe his impeachment process is, “Baby’s got the hyperbole!!!”

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

When you start contemplating picking up a unicorn plush

When I went to town this morning and there were unicorns everywhere🦄. The amount of unicorn themed items in the shops was crazy- giant balloons, soft toys, slippers, make up kits and bags, calendars, pencil cases, bags, eye masks... LMAO one shop even had unicorn shaped bath bombs 🦄🦄🦄

^^^ Lol I just googled beanie babies to see what the fuck they are and the first one to come up was a unicorn. You know you're a GD fan when you realise you're eating turkey unicorns whilst wearing unicorn slippers, and can't help but immediately post about it on GDC with photographic evidence.

When you do this to your sister's dogs. Charlie and Cooper must prefer GD's older stuff because clearly they weren't meant to be unicorns. Although Cooper, like many people here, seemed to finally accept his new friend.

You're reading your conference schedule rooming assignments and it says "LACC West 409" and your brain automatically adds "in your coffee maker" (fingers crossed the room doesn't change just so I can take a pic before/after the session)

" It kills the mood and should make a person feel more cautious" Who tells you he doesn't feel more cautious now? I for my part feel relieved that he unveils the alcohol taboo thing. Some people don't need abstinence... and even if it ever gets out of hand for him again in the future, he's well cared for around him and will advise then. Nothing indicates that it is out of control now, nothing at all. The comparisons with the trilogy are recognizable but not on the unhealthy aspect to me. I wasn't a fan yet at that period and so I don't have any flashbacks like some may have to it, but from all the videos I saw from that time Billie looks very different. He looks very healthy now, while from the beginning of the trilogy tour he didn't. I see the similitudes but the ones I see are good. He's immersing himself in what he tried to do at that time and is doing it now in another much cooler way (a tiny album vs a trilogy), to complete the buckle in a way. Doing this after these several years and after another album which wasn't focused on that seems sane to me. I think what matters the most is for him to be able to listen to his limits for everything, alcohol, tour, pressure, etc. and only himself knows them. Taking elements by themselves like drinking, partying, etc. is not significant. How he looks is more significant. Only the future will tell. Meanwhile, we can't pretend to know how he feels / what he thinks. The only thing we have is what he purposefully shows. He shows us what he does now, precisely knowing what we can think of, and this is everything but denial. I think Billie is a complex person like any other and we can't just reduce him to either "non-drinking / healthy / relieved to be still alive" or "drinking / party mood / unhealthy/ in denial and doesn't care anymore". Not saying someone said that exactly but the two figures are continuously showing up when speaking about Foam era and comparing it to Rev Rad. Saying that while I love Rev Rad and the mood it had in particular. I think a lot of the comparison elements hinges on what he shows during the two eras, because we don't know exactly what he does anyway. Showing now that he clearly isn't sober but that he can still do things right is a bold move, but it's in his character, so. I think he does it all in a thoughtful way, not acted, but precisely on the opposite to denial and carelessness.

When you see this photo from your holiday on your phone and think about GD and the Hella Mega Tour

I can honestly say as a Scot who is against independence and a Brit who is against Brexit - believe me, I really don’t want to get into any of that here - I can totally agree with the feeling of wanting to turn my back on it all and just say bring on the unicorns and fuck of and dance. 😂

I was thinking something somewhat similar. I didn't get it at first when people were making comparisons to the Foxies, largely because I see the Foxies as superior to the two songs we've gotten so far (although I do like them), and then I saw someone on reddit say it's like running the Foxies through a bubble gum filter which made sense, and another person call it the FBHT part three, which made me think, how often does someone say part 3 of a movie series is the best one? Regarding the weird song descriptions, I was thinking if Billie was saying them as the Rev, a character (somewhat), I'd enjoy them. But as Billie, yeah, I'm a bit hesitant. Part of me throws up my shoulders and says, what can you do, might as well enjoy the ride, but there still is that nervousness in the back of my head.

@Thatsername I tried to quote you too but the new ios update has been a bitch on my phone. But speaking to Billie’s “new” party attitude, although I like the music and I would be cool with it all if it was just presented as “let’s all escape our troubles and dance” (because I totally feel like escaping these days too) I think I have the most trouble to the throwbacks to the Rev and booze and fuck it all and feel like a badass specifically knowing that this is a person post rehab. For that reason alone it doesn’t work anymore. It’s easier to get on board with a badass character and party with them if they appear consequence free, but it’s less fun when you know the fallout was dire and they were very public about being grateful to have survived it intact. It kills the mood and should make a person feel more cautious. At least it should unless you’re in complete denial or it’s all an act in which case for the first time he wouldn’t be behaving with sincerity and I don’t know which is worse.

Agree 100%, RevRad has some of the most honest and in my opinion also some of the best Green Day lyrics ever. The ones you mentioned are definitely some of my favourites, also: "Hallelujah I found my sould under the sofa pillows" - that's just genious because it makes you laugh first, but when you think about it you find a deeper meaning. That's what I always love about Billie's songwriting and that's what makes him one of the greates songwriters of our time. Yeah, RevRad was a big part of Green Day's and especially Billie's rehabilitation after very troubled times, and that's why it was such an important record for both them and us fans (at least I can say that for myself). And I kind of get that they want to move past this. But what I don't get is that Billie is now talking all of this down by saying that he blames himself for trying to write the "feel good song of the year" (he was specifically talking about Still Breathing) and stuff like that. It makes me sad that he feels like he needs to apologize, and I really wish he could just say in retrospective: "Today I probably wouldn't write it that way anymore, but the song is what it is because that's what I felt back then and it felt right back then." RevRad era was such a happy, personal, positive and also vulnerable time like you said, and right now it feels like he is embarrassed of it. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I can't relate to the new era at all, it just feels like he wants to play the cool, tough guy so much that it feels forced and unnatural. I get that they want to move on, but moving on also means accepting your past and growing through it. Right now it doesn't feel like that, it feel like they're running away.

I don't think Father of All or Fire, Ready, Aim are really that different for Green Day, to be honest. The higher pitched vocals are new but otherwise they're standard pop punk songs, nothing that out of the ordinary. Kill the DJ was different.

I don't think RevRad was all that "safe." Musically it wasn't especially adventurous, but there are some notable moments. Somewhere Now got shit when it came out for being so "chill." The way it comes full circle with Forever Now is pretty unique. The only similarity I can think of is 21st Century Breakdown and See the Light, but I'd call those "bookends" rather than coming full circle. If I compared Say Goodbye to another Green Day song, just sonically it'd be East Jesus Nowhere, but that was a new sound for them at the time. Outlaws has a different, more haunting sound to other Green Day ballads like 21 Guns. It's unique in the way it follows up songs like Christie Road from a middle-aged man's point of view. Still Breathing is basically pop (and I love it). Most songs on RevRad don't really sound like another Green Day song. The thing that really sets it apart from all other Green Day songs, though, is how openly personal it is. Don't get me wrong, Green Day songs have always been personal. Billie making his struggles so catchy is part of what defines Green Day and makes them popular. That personal element is usually hidden by metaphors and those catchy tunes, though, like a bandaged wound we can't quite see. RevRad is like an open wound. The world knew what Billie was going through and what he'd be singing about. Lines like "my name is Billie and I'm freaking out" sound shallow on the surface because they're so simple, but they're simple because real life isn't lived in metaphors. No one stands up at an AA meeting and says "troubled times, I know I cannot lie, I'm off the wagon and I'm hitchin' a ride." Billie called Still Breathing one of the most personal songs he's ever written and I can see why. "My head's above the rain and roses," "making my way to you," "are you scared to death to live?" and "I've been running all my life" are such vulnerable lines. Even "how did a life on the wild side ever get so dull/full?" and "I ain't gonna stand in line no more," with the way it's screamed are. I find Ordinary World as intimate as the rest of the album, too. Money and fame don't mean someone has everything. Billie spent most of RevRad singing about his issues, so obviously he still has them. The world has issues, too. But he's telling the subject that regardless, what they have together is more than enough and he accepts a life that isn't perfect. Whatever I think of this current era, I can see why he doesn't want to write from that point of view anymore.

I think you may need to get special permission to change that avatar to anything! It’s one of my favs 😍😍

When: Look what Green Day made me do! Or should I say buy! I hate the unicorn but this little fella was just too cute to ignore the reference! Should I call him Foamy or Bubbles?

When you're a bit lost in Lebanon but you still stop to take a photo of this

When you see a street sign that says Longview and wonder how bad the consequences are if you were to steal it to hang on your wall.

When a knitter you follow on IG designs a Unicorn dress up outfit for a teddy bear. Unicorns are everywhere.

^^^ no burn that one

When a lesson in one of your College classes contains these words, and I don’t have to finish that sentence.

With Bang Bang as a lead single, I will never understand why they opened with KYE on Revrad, I think though it backs up the feelings of the Revrad era being safe, perhaps they had to really work at building their confidence in performing again.

Rest is a good song