Comments on: My August Green Day http://www.owlspotting.com/2005/08/31/my-august-green-day/ Writings and whereabouts Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:32:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: luiza http://www.owlspotting.com/2005/08/31/my-august-green-day/comment-page-1/#comment-47 luiza Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:04:00 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/?p=31#comment-47 I've seen them in KKK-land Peoria; definitely made my day (or maybe my May). Green Day has been making my days ever since high school. I don't think i remember a green-day-less time, once Nirvana was out of the picture and they exploded into the mainstream. And you know what? They've been accused of selling out and all, but how else was i going to ever hear of them in my then-Internet-less age? And you know what? It took some time until I discovered Dead Kennedys, far less mainstream (though not far enough). Was I happy to hear Jello Biafra talk on campus? Hell yeah. Didn't I go all the way to KKK-land to hear Green Day? It's redemptive in a way, all those years of fighting against the Depeche Mode frenzy around me wiped clean. I’ve seen them in KKK-land Peoria; definitely made my day (or maybe my May). Green Day has been making my days ever since high school. I don’t think i remember a green-day-less time, once Nirvana was out of the picture and they exploded into the mainstream. And you know what? They’ve been accused of selling out and all, but how else was i going to ever hear of them in my then-Internet-less age?

And you know what? It took some time until I discovered Dead Kennedys, far less mainstream (though not far enough). Was I happy to hear Jello Biafra talk on campus? Hell yeah. Didn’t I go all the way to KKK-land to hear Green Day? It’s redemptive in a way, all those years of fighting against the Depeche Mode frenzy around me wiped clean.

]]> By: Sara http://www.owlspotting.com/2005/08/31/my-august-green-day/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Sara Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:50:00 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/?p=31#comment-46 You should burn American Idiot for me and bring it with you on your visit next month. You should burn American Idiot for me and bring it with you on your visit next month.

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