#21st century breakdown era

[greendayauthority]

SECC, Glasgow, Scotland, 19 October 2009

[joslynisawesomesauce]

RAHHHHH! Billie <3

[stgloria]

[pissworm39]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY 21ST CENTURY BREAKDOWN!!!

[cherrylng]

Chracter of the Month - Green Day [ROCKIN'ON (April 2009)]

CHARACTER OF THE MONTH

GREEN DAY

It's been five years since the release of "American Idiot", and it's no exaggeration to say that Green Day's new release, the aptly named "21st Century Breakdown", is the biggest rock release of 2009. Since the beginning of the year, things have been hectic around Green Day, and as soon as the right artwork was unveiled, various comments were already flying around, such as "It looks like Blur's 'Think Tank'" and "It's My Chemical Romance's 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge'". The artwork is quite meaningful, as it resembles two lovers on the day the world reaches its end, compared to "American Idiot," which symbolises a resounding take on the world by clutching a grenade. "21st Century Breakdown" is currently scheduled for release in mid-May, but ROCKIN'ON was able to listen to the new album at the very earliest opportunity! ….. However, we were not able to listen to all the songs, but only four of them, and only 90 seconds from the intro to the chorus, which is an edited version that is almost like killing a snake alive*, and we don't even know which chapter of the album each song belongs to, which is rumoured to be made up of three parts.

But this means that only the essential parts of the new album have been extracted and listened to. Straight-edge punk ("Know Your Enemy"), Neil Young-style weepy ballads ("21 Guns"), hard and loud pop-punk ("After The Lobotomy"), and then there's the title track ("21st Century Breakdown"), which is the very heart of Green Day's verse. Yes, if you put aside the pressures surrounding them and judge them purely in terms of the immediacy and punch of their pop songs, you can be assured of four perfect songs. The 'story' will reveal itself in due course. First of all, we will bring you an interview in the next issue, which has been a long time coming. -Shino Kokawa

*Like killing a snake alive (蛇の生殺し / Hebi no nama goroshi): To torment someone half to death instead of killing them all at once. A metaphor for suffering without settling things.

Translator's Note: I got tired from extracting the text of the Top 100 Guitarist list from a Crossbeat magazine and needed a breather. I scanned and translated this solely because there's a mutual of mine that I've been friends with for years now who loves Green Day to bits. Plus, it just happened to be in the magazine that I was scanning for Coldplay and Bruce Springsteen.

[biscuitqueen]

21st century bread?🥖

Idk my keyboard corrected breakdown to bread

[loveminus-zero]

I love green day my god!

easily one of my favorite bands

[nimrodbydawn]

I absolutely love the fact, that the shirts of the 21st CB era I own, are considered vintage when you look them up online - oh well - nostalgic hits differently like that. (But one has a print all over which is rad~)

[metalhealth-willdriveyoumad]

The solo in 21 Guns sounds like the Full House theme song right? It’s not just me?

[hydetheghost]

she knows the truth and it fucking sucks.

i believe things wont be the same as they were before.

"do me this, before i die." ... i dont know whats worse, rlly

youre...pissing me so off, honestly.

you never fail to make me feel like shit. never.

i dont know how to recover from this. maybe, i never will

may, so it seems, is the month of "losing dogs"

but youve been so long with me, my beloved

she wants to take you away from me and this hurts

im not ready to let go, and she doesnt hestiaste to make drama

ive asked myself so many times "where to go?"

medusa, huh? it turned out to be atlas. truth? uncovered.

the devil gave her hints, the devil whispered my name into her ears.

now im sure i wont recover from this

and even tough i smile like a jerk and joke around

the scar stay inside and it hurts like hell

i cut my hair and played my rounds

but inside they remain, the unhealed wounds.

how to go next? im so unsure and so insecure

only a matter of time, she calls me again and hell starts anew.

sigh, i would like to stop, only if i knew...

[greendayauthority]

Friday Night with Jonathan Ross | London, England | 29 October 2009

[asgardian--angels]

anyway now's a good time to listen to American Idiot

[stgloria]

[lonely-person0128]

billie joe Armstrong 😍😍 is this a bad obsession mehhhh!! Reblog if it's not! (I'm jsp) :3

ahh he's just so cute in every era :3 if y'all want a specific era tell me and I'm more than half to post those pics :3

Also I can post the other band members if y'all want to alot more :3

[my-darling-boy]

I've read your post about Sidney Beldam (what a man!) and it fascinated me enough to buy (quite impulsively) The Facemaker. Long story short, thanks to you and Lindsey Fitzharris I'm in my history-of-medicine-nerd-era and in gayly-interested-in-WWI-period; and The Facemaker might be one of my favourite books I've read this year. The stories of soldiers! The photographs! The work of Gillies! And reading that he performed the first known phalloplasty on a trans man was a very pleasant surprise, you know.

As an ask without an ask wouldn't be technically an ask, here I ask: Do you have any academic paper or book "with plot" recommendations? Either something similar to The Facemaker or just something about or set during the era?

Ahh I’m glad it’s been so inspiring! Ah hell yes Gillies was on that king shit doing the phalloplasty, really set the bar for transgender medical care of the 20th century!

I’ve got (a lot) more info than you’ve wanted if you don’t mind (I really can’t help myself), WWI and thereabouts is a great place to look if you’re getting into medicine history cos that’s when a lot of rapid change happened due to the war as well as the Edwardians’ newfound fight against germs and with the influenza pandemic towards the end of the Great War. My area at the moment for 1900-1920s medicine is plastic and reconstructive surgery, amputations, shellshock and PTSD, post-war rehabilitation, and the general RAMC. So I’ve got some recs for medicine and treatment for the body and mind around the war!

For academic books with a bit more narrative/soldier accounts as you asked:

Wounded by Emily Mayhew. I’ll admit I’ve not picked it up just yet but I do own it and it goes a lot off soldier’s stories

Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War by Peter Barham. Fantastic read about the stigma of “lunacy” and the psychological hardships men faced returning home including fighting for pensions due to lost limbs and shell shock.

Breakdown: the crisis of shellshock on the Somme, 1916 by Taylor Downing. While I don’t agree with this author’s personal views on the war, it does give soldier accounts looking at how the military alone viewed and responded to shell shock which can be helpful to understand in contrast to the civilian post-war response, especially since PTSD and shell shock are two different conditions and the former wasn’t widely understood almost until the 21st century.

Medicine in the First World War Europe: soldiers, medics, pacifists by Fiona Reid. Cannot remember the exact nature of this book cos I can’t remember if I own it but if I remember right it does have more of a personal accounts type telling.

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain. Not 100% a medical read but a famous memoir written by feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain about her time before the war and during such as a VAD nurse

Two more clinical book reccs if you’re into the how and why of wounds and such:

Faces from the Front by Andrew Bamji. Very good look into the treatment of facial injuries with plastic surgery, it is at times a bit graphic as there are plenty of photos

War Surgery 1914-18 edited by Thomas Scotland and Steven Heys. Great look into injuries and their pathology, approachable read with clearly defined figures and not just massive walls of text along with an extensive bibliography. I recommend this as well for anyone writing WWI fiction because this tells you how wounds ACTUALLY happened and presented themselves

Purely fictional but with medical themes in nature (off the top of my head):

The Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker. Quite well known, but depicts the psychological effects of WWI on various characters. If you want queer themes, you’ll like this.

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo. American anti-war novel about a soldier who horrifically looses his arms, legs, face, hearing, and sight during the war and is confined to a secluded hospital bed at the mercy of doctors and nurses who don’t know what to do for him.

A Month in the Country by J. L. Carr. More queer themes! Tells the story about two WWI vets doing archeological work at a church in the English countryside and their lasting battle with shell shock.

I’ve also got a list of a handful of academic type sources slowly collected over the past months for various medical WWI things. These are only the ones I remembered to save, but I know there were certainly several more:

Website on the detailed RAMC evacuation

Pay to access source on prosthetic limbs in Britain via JSTOR

bibliography for First World War medicine as a kind of jumping off point for more academic papers and medical books

Academic paper reflecting on Britain’s response and treatment of shellshock

Good short article on the care of veterans for work and housing post-war

Continuously updating catalogue containing medical records that detail quite interesting stories like a bombardier receiving hypnotherapy to cure shell shock, hyperlink at the bottom to search database

REALLY good site on the RAMC duties at casualty clearing, advanced dressing, and regimental aid

WIP article on Gillies, Sidcup, and patients written by person whose friend was the granddaughter of Sidney Beldam

Academic article on facially disfigured men reclaiming agency and visibility

Short article on soldiers and disability struggles after the war

Masculinity, Stigma and Facial and Psychological Injuries of the First World War thesis paper

Erskine Hospital records that show the hospital, rehabilitation, and patients as well as limb making. Full collection is held at the University of Glasgow

Relationships between medical care and masculinity

Also off the top of my head, if you’re ever in Edinburgh for whatever reason, you might really enjoy the Surgeon’s Hall Museums as there are thousands of artefacts on display such as antique medical equipment, Victorian dentistry items, 17th century skeletons, and 20th century prosthetics. Literally it is floor to ceiling in the main gallery with jarred organs, body parts, bones, and even most remarkably the preserved upper half of the face, moustache and all, of a WWI soldier which is probably one of—if not the—most fascinating and haunting thing I’ve ever seen at a museum imo. It can be a bit of a shock to the system if you’ve never been to that sort of thing before so take care when going. I’ve been about three times and there’s still a couple items that make me go a bit light headed to look at!

Anyway I know it’s a lot but I hope something in there could be more of help to you! Cheers x

[biscuitqueen]

HOARD REVEAL🔥🔥🔥

The things on the coffee are patches btw :D