Ellenkc Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Yeah he's written a shitload of songs about her. Doesn't it say in Nobody Likes You that 'She's a Rebel' was influenced by her as well?
Kayfabe Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Longview named after Longview Washington, the first city they played the song in. Gosh Jesus.
farley drexel hatcher Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 lol. I've been wondering what 'Longview' means for years!
DecanoLP Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 "Whatsername" is about the same girl "She" is about? This is pretty interesting. Woah, I love these tweets. I hope he keeps them going.
Stormy Haze Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 lol. I've been wondering what 'Longview' means for years! Me too. It's great that he's tweeting all these factoids, I'm loving them
Metanoia Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Omgz he's like tweeting the whole day!!11!!!1
Tubbie Head Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Yeah he's written a shitload of songs about her. Doesn't it say in Nobody Likes You that 'She's a Rebel' was influenced by her as well? Lol I really need to buy that book!
Izzard Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Yeah he's written a shitload of songs about her. Doesn't it say in Nobody Likes You that 'She's a Rebel' was influenced by her as well? Yes. I read that too!
Ellenkc Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 There's probably a lot of other songs that were influenced by her. LOTAG probably has a bit of her influence in there. I think it's cool that he was that inspired by her character that he wrote (is still writing?) songs influenced by her decades later. Must have been a pretty awesome woman.
Comsie Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Didn't Billie(or someone for that matter, might have been an interviewer) call Amanda "the one that got away" or something alone those lines? That she and him were serious but then she left or something. All the factoids.... Billie Joe's blowin' up my twitter.
Alan86 Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 "the one that got away" Thats a lyric in the song "Stay the night" they played at the soundcheck in Marlay Park I wonder if that song is about her too
jos_whatsername Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 these factoids are awesome as fuck amazing
Smoothed Out Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Wow looks like we all have a lot to thank this Amanda for...some of the best songs there I hope Billie doesn't run out of factoids anytime soon, it's brilliant
greendaytone Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Did he make that word up, factoid? It's brilliant!
Anja Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Did he make that word up, factoid? It's brilliant! It's in my english dictionary. So...no
Metanoia Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 It's in my english dictionary. So...no Good to know Leo knows it best
Hermione Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 I've definitely heard him talk of this 'amanda' before. Not sure where, now, but it's definitely not the first time he's brought her up. She is the one who he wrote Good Riddance about, and he was with her while recording Dookie - she lived in the house upstairs to him - and while he was out of contact with Adrienne. I read all this somewhere a while ago, in an interview with Billie from around 2001 time. Yeah I've heard him describe her and say Good Riddance, Sassafras Roots, Chump and She are about her a few times, I hadn't heard her name before though. A few weeks ago I had a discussion with someone on here and we were saying we thought Whatsername must be about her too - we were right If anyone's interested here's a bit of an interview where he talked about this Amanda girl (although he doesn't mention her name) : VH1: How much of Dookie is a love letter to your wife Adrienne? Billie Joe: There really weren't any songs about her at that time. A lot of the songs are about this girl from San Diego, who went to Cal Berkeley. Adrienne and I weren't going out at the time. We lost contact with each other for about a year. She got engaged to a guy in Minneapolis. Then I got involved with this other girl. I lived in the basement in Berkeley with all these guys from the East Bay and she lived upstairs in the apartment. We ended up having this year-long relationship. The song "She" was about her. VH1: How did you come to write it? Billie Joe: She gave me this poem about this empowering woman, which I think is called "She." I wrote the song as an answer back to her. My now ex-girlfriend is also on the songs "Sassafras Roots" and "Chump." VH1: So how did you and Adrienne get back together? Billie Joe: My ex-girlfriend was moving to Ecuador to live there for the spring semester. At that point we were going to go on our tour and just keep going. So we had a hasty breakup. I never really talked to her ever again. VH1: So what's it like now for Adrienne to be married to you and your biggest record is filled with songs about another woman? Billie Joe: I know she likes that song! I've been married for almost eight years, so Adrienne and I are comfortable enough that I've had a past. She's got a past, too. She was engaged, had boyfriends, had flings, and I'm comfortable with that, otherwise I wouldn't be married to her. Adrienne is the only woman I'll ever love. Full interview: http://www.vh1.com/artists/interview/1454006/05162002/green_day.jhtml
Overjoyed Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 I wrote "having a blast" in cleveland in 1992. Had a great show at Euclid tavern but the rest of the night w miserable
Daughter.of.Rage.and.Love Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Your explanation of Emenius Sleepus isn't good enough Billie +post above me which I can't quote.. That's not showing up for me edit: haha never mind, Twitter is weird. It does show up when I log in. Well, the Having a Blast and Longview tweets, that is. Nothing about Emenius Sleepus.. then I'll just edit my postquestionthing: Hermione, where are you getting that Emenius Sleepus thing from?
Anja Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 I'm impressed that he still remembers so many details from his past and all those shows and whatnot I hope he keeps them coming.The last thing I can see is still the "typo" post
Izzard Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 There was a post about eminis sleepus? SP Can someone post it here?
Spizz Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 i have his tweets on my fone...archived forever xD that little random fact/sign he's still alive and well gives that awesome happy feeling and thank you twitter...i never thought i would be so happy you exist
Metanoia Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 I'm impressed that he still remembers so many details from his past and all those shows and whatnot I hope he keeps them coming. The last thing I can see is still the "typo" post Try to log in..Sometimes i also can only see new posts when Im online on Twitter.
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