Billie Joe Armstrong: 25 Things You Don't Know About Me

[Guest]

http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/billie-joe-armstrong-25-things-you-dont-know-about-me-w443321

 

[Slash]

1. I was on the swim team through junior high.

2. I dropped out of Pinole Valley [California] High School.

3. I’ve seen every episode of The Brady Bunch. 

4. I have a [Frenchie] dog named Mojo.

5. I once thought I won the lottery, but I misread the scratcher.

6. I rehabbed a baby squirrel and named him Peewee.

7. I was arrested for getting naked on stage in Milwaukee in 1995. 

8. I used to have a cat named Sid Vicious.

9. I stole a limousine right after playing David Letterman’s show in 1996. 

10. My favorite food is pizza.

11. I looked like Shirley Temple when I was a child.

12. I’ve been in three different sinking boats.

13. I once knitted a scarf – and I haven’t knitted since.

14. I used to tap dance.

15. My ancestor is Benedict Arnold.

16. I love surfing.

17. I coached a Little League baseball team [for sons Joseph, 21, and Jakob, 18, with wife Adrienne, 46].

18. I binge-watched all of Friday Night Lights. 

19. I was once stung by a pack of jellyfish. 

20. I own a used-guitar store, Broken Guitars, in Oakland, California. 

21. I like reading biographies.

22. I completely rebuilt my 1963 Ford Falcon.

23. I sleep with a T-shirt over my head every night. 

24. I wear the same pants every day.

25. I’m incredibly awkward in social situations. 

[Steven Seagull]

26. I fucked your mom in 93

[spider man.]

15. My ancestor is Benedict Arnold.

HAHA wait but so is mine! I'm loosely (my great great great...etc grandfather is Benedict Arnolds cousin) related to Benedict Arnold, so I guess I'm also super loosely related to Billie.

[DoodleBob]

23. I sleep with a T-shirt over my head every night.

 

Interesting...but WHY?

[Hermione]

Thought this was going to be one of those garbage lists where it's all stuff that everyone already knows, cool that it's actually from the man himself! I only knew 11 of them so not bad . Aww about the squirrel and lol about the lottery, Sid Vicious, tap dancing, looking like Shirley Temple and wearing the same pair of pants every day.

7 minutes ago, DoodleBob said:

23. I sleep with a T-shirt over my head every night.

 

Interesting...but WHY?

My thoughts exactly, what?!  This requires further explanation.

[Steven Seagull]

Maybe that's the reason why he can sleep through whole September

[DoodleBob]

21 minutes ago, Hermione said:

Thought this was going to be one of those garbage lists where it's all stuff that everyone already knows, cool that it's actually from the man himself! I only knew 11 of them so not bad . Aww about the squirrel and lol about the lottery, Sid Vicious, tap dancing, looking like Shirley Temple and wearing the same pair of pants every day.

My thoughts exactly, what?!  This requires further explanation.

The only explanation I can think of is that it 1) blocks out the light or 2) blocks out noise. However, if he needs a shirt to block out light he should just get blackout blinds. And as someone who literally can not sleep with any outside noise around me, I can confirm that a shirt does not do the job.

 

Oh, the agony of not knowing.

[Hermione]

4 minutes ago, DoodleBob said:

The only explanation I can think of is that it 1) blocks out the light or 2) blocks out noise. However, if he needs a shirt to block out light he should just get blackout blinds. And as someone who literally can not sleep with any outside noise around me, I can confirm that a shirt does not do a job.

 

Oh, the agony of not knowing.

The light thing makes most sense I think, I guess he sleeps in lots of different places so maybe that's why. I want him to be asked to explain it though  

[Chin for a Day]

He wears the same pants every day?  That is either really super gross, wrong  or he does laundry every night.

[Bakabanas]

1 hour ago, spider man. said:

15. My ancestor is Benedict Arnold.

HAHA wait but so is mine! I'm loosely (my great great great...etc grandfather is Benedict Arnolds cousin) related to Benedict Arnold, so I guess I'm also super loosely related to Billie.

You're lucky to be born as his relative!

[MaraGreenDay]

1 hour ago, DoodleBob said:

23. I sleep with a T-shirt over my head every night.

 

Interesting...but WHY?

 

1 hour ago, DoodleBob said:

The only explanation I can think of is that it 1) blocks out the light

 

I used to do that a few years ago, dont know why I stoped lol, but yeah it really blocks out the light and it feels comfy 

[Slash]

Well he should not be awkward in social situations, he should go "Heyyyyy Ohhhhhhhh" 

[Thatsername]

1 hour ago, Hermione said:

The light thing makes most sense I think, I guess he sleeps in lots of different places so maybe that's why. I want him to be asked to explain it though  

I assume the shirt-over-his-head-thing has something to do with his awkwardness in social situations. He's trying to hide away. He should probably discuss this with his psychologist, though I love this list, it's so cute and honest. Makes him seem even more down-to-earth than he already is. He's just someone like me and you with some really creepy habits

[Beathe.]

The tshirt thing is just cute. 

 

[Sarcasm]

I've never been on a sinking boat, but if it happened twice I wouldn't get on a third one

[DoodleBob]

Just now, Sarcasm said:

I've never been on a sinking boat, but if it happened twice I wouldn't get on a third one

Live without warning.

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, DoodleBob said:

23. I sleep with a T-shirt over my head every night.

 

Interesting...but WHY?

I'm guessing it's his version of a sleep mask. Or maybe he likes the way he smells and keeps it near. 

 

[spark in the night]

The tshirt thing is so quirky! I like to cover up everything but my breathing space otherwise it gets too hot  

[Marki.]

"I used to tap dance"  That's new, at least for me. Amazing list  

[Steven Seagull]

51 minutes ago, Sarcasm said:

I've never been on a sinking boat, but if it happened twice I wouldn't get on a third one

Does the Simpson one count too?

[moonj17]

1 hour ago, Scattered Wreck said:

He wears the same pants every day?  That is either really super gross, wrong  or he does laundry every night.

That reminds me of Jim Morrison.  Why would he ever admit that??? There's no way he does laundry every night so I think that information has to be classified as super gross! Oh, Billie...

 

[BilIie Joe Armstrong]

 I love how in the end he lists two a little quirky habits and then adds he's incredibly awkward. 

[norcalgreendayfan]

16 minutes ago, Steven Seagull said:

Does the Simpson one count too?

Well technically that was a floating stage not a boat

[21guns&novacaine]

Knew a few of these, but I had to laugh when he said he used to look like Shirley Temple when he was younger. Like, we know, Billie haha. The little cupid kid the curliest hair you'd ever see.