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OH ADAM, ADAM, ADAM HOW CAN YOU BE SO WONDERFUL?



Last night's live recording: http://www.mediafire.com/?zmyylwdqn4y ("Tracks of My Tears" 5MB)

I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE STUDIO VERSION!
(Sorry for the capslock frenzy...I just can't help it.)

The amazing thing is that he is playing the game so much better than the judges and the producers know. This show is over as far as suspense about the winner. Hokey Gokey can just forget about it. They could throw Adam under the bus after every performance and he's still going to win. He may not sell as many records as Kelley or Carrie, but he'll be a bigger star. This is so much fun to watch.

I haven't watched the rest of the show yet, but it appears the consensus is "Adam and... who else was there?" Hard to beat a standing O from the legend who wrote the song.

(Interesting Aside: The reason Adam decided finally to do the American Idol thing was because he had auditioned for the role of Fiyero in the production of "Wicked" that opened last month in San Francisco. (He'd been the Fiyero understudy in the LA production for a year and a half.) When he didn't get the part, that was the last straw. I wonder who the guy that got the part is. Hee.)

Yay for all my friends who went to the premiere of HLAHG last night. I heard the boys didn't show up (or they were in hiding :-( ) but I'm so glad everyone who has reported back so far: thelackey and sick_of_me03 (aka the only black chick at the punk show that isn't venue security!), had a great time! And because it bears repeating: Naked!Mike! Naked!Tré! They'd better put it out on DVD!

OK, going back underground again. Be good.

Well, I failed yesterday: I didn't make a post. It's not like I didn't have time or anything. I just didn't have anything to say and I forgot to make something up in time!

Much excitement yesterday in Green Day Land on the flist. At least 3 flisties got passes to see the premiere screening of "Heart Like a Hand Grenade" in LA next week. Even if the boys don't show up for their documentary, I expect a good time will be had by all. And I want detailed reports!!!

There was a musical clip circulating around the internet purported to be from the new CD, however a number of people called it out as fake: It was actually from an Oasis song. The irony of this is that about two years ago Noel Gallagher was bitching in the press about how "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was a ripoff of "Wonderwall." This was amusing not only because it had been at least two years since BOBD had been on the charts, but mostly because A)it's not like he invented that incredibly common chord progression, and B)in that case, did he forget to list the Beatles as co-writers on all his albums?

I suppose I could have babbled a bit about American Idol, except that my boy Adam advanced to next week to the surprise of exactly no one. But someone needs to clue-in the little girls drowning out Ryan Seacrest with their screams of "I love you, Adam" that they sound dumber than usual. Do they actually believe those drag queen pictures weren't really him?? Next week is country week, which will present a bit of a challenge to my lovely guy-linered gay glam rocker. Personally, I think he should do "Crazy" by Patsy Cline.

Studio version of "Black or White." It's a lot more controlled than the live version.


Barb has reminded me that Supernatural is on tonight. Boy, my TV watching has skyrocketed of late. I've got AI on Tue and Wed, SPN on Thurs, and I had Desperate Houswives on Sun, but now that Gale's gone (sob), I guess that's free again. Good thing I don't have one of those...whatchacallums...oh, lifes.

I've got a few days off, which has been nice, but not much else new going on. You know, sometimes I think I like my life like that. Off to go grocery shopping, woohoo!

Yes, I have become a total Green Day geek. Not only am I excited beyond all propriety by my new HLAHG earrings which arrived today, I have convinced myself that they're so subtle that I can wear them anywhere.



And if you tell me otherwise, you'll make me cry.

ETA: Someone on GDC said Billie Joe performed "Alison" with Elvis Costello in Atlantic City tonight! My prayers have been answered. I may pass out from excitement...or melt into another puddle of goo!

And if you're not familiar with the song: "Alison" 3.9 MB

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So, I'm doing a search on Heart Like A Hand Grenade, and there's not a whole lot about it, except for mentions in various articles about the release of Live Freaky, Die Freaky. But God, did I laugh out loud at this, from LA Weekly:

Puppet Apocalypse--Starring members of Green Day, Rancid, X and more, Live Freaky! Die Freaky! is guaranteed to offend

During a snack break (Pringles), I ask Roecker what he says to people who might call him a starfucker. At first, he seems a little wounded, but then he gets all wry and haughty — the way that I remember him from back in his irascible retail days.

“Well, I haven’t fucked ’em yet. I wanna fuck ’em. . . . Are you kidding? I wanted to fuck Billie Joe Armstrong and all I got was this damn movie,” he says impishly. “It wasn’t a stalking kind of thing, if that’s what you’re getting at. Look, if I actually got laid by these people, I’d be happy to be called starfucker. I’d wear it as a badge of honor. I mean, c’mon, Tim and Billie are hot. Holy cow.”