Salubrious

A grand and intoxicating innocence

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Hey, don't ask me my opinion -- I'm nobody. Just pretend I'm not here.

I mostly just post about things tangentially related to The Simpsons, or Morrowind or The X-COM Files.

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My-Name-is-Grant
@My-Name-is-Grant

So if anyone wants to know what meeting Billy Corgan is like I’ll be able to tell you tomorrow.


My-Name-is-Grant
@My-Name-is-Grant

I’ll tell the full account of my day somewhere later, but wanted this down before I go to bed.

The Saviors tour is a double anniversary show, so the setlist plays through the entirety of Dookie and American Idiot with a few other songs as act breaks. Any album with Welcome to Paradise and She on it is great, that’s just math. American Idiot dropped when I was a teen, when I started listening to albums instead of just radio play. I haven’t really followed the band since, but with a free ticket of course I’ll see a big pyro-laden show in a historic venue.

As the American Idiot act went on I found myself singing along to lyrics I had forgotten, years melting away as I rediscovered there was always gold in there. The wound of overplay heals with two decades’ distance, and the best songs were never the singles anyhow. It all comes to a head in the closer, Whatsername, which has the feel of the last embers of a campfire. I’m seeing the boy I was as the man I am and recognizing him as real and valid and worthy of care as I set aside a little place in my heart just for him to stay. The moment feels profound. It’s healing; among tens of thousands of swaying arms.

Then they kick into some shit called Bobby Sox and it’s the worst bullshit song I’ve ever heard.


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in reply to @My-Name-is-Grant's post:

Paraphrased from the Q&A: “It’s impossible to manage 60 body dismorphic people on who knows what, and make them look like Olympian gods. But all of you who are local should see us. We put on shows in Highland Park”

in reply to @My-Name-is-Grant's post:

I still love "Jesus of Suburbia" to this day as one of those peak mid-2000s songs to encapsulate a post-9/11 generation lost and confused in a sea of new information, that doesn't know what it wants to protest about, but feels like it should in the wake of disaster.

I cannot stand "Wake Me Up When September Ends" cuz they overplayed it way too much.

Also shout-out to Green Day being on King of the Hill once as "asshole gang that bully Hank's friends on the paintball course".