#Billy Bush

[badmovieihave]

Bad movie I have Furry Vengeance 2010

[squirrelfm]

"I'm gonna do for you, in six weeks, what it took someone six months to do for me: nothin'." ~ Det. Poole

[chasingaghost]

2004 -> 2024

[tenaint]

Rose 1.01 / Empire of Death 14.08

[greendayauthority]

London, England, 23 August 2012

[dev-solovey]

Reading up on the history of American Idiot (album) and realizing exactly how revolutionary it was and I just have to yell about it for a hot second

So, before they started working on American Idiot, the band was having problems and they were thinking they were going to break up. But for a couple of reasons, they switched directions, most notably because they all felt strongly about the Iraq War and how it was manufactured by greed and warmongering from the Bush administration, which was amplified by the news media. I read a quote from Billie Joe Armstrong where he talked about how the news media was becoming "more of a reality show" than it was news, and he couldn't have been more right. In fact, that problem got worse, and now we're living in an era of rampant misinformation where everything is politicized to a point where just supporting human rights for marginalized people is considered controversial. The song American Idiot came out in 2004, and when Donald Trump first visited the UK at the beginning of his presidency, it was the top played song on every UK radio station, 12 years after it was released. Most things would be culturally irrelevant at that point.

When creating the album American Idiot, a lot of thought went into it - they had a very specific message in mind, and their goal was to send that message to youth. This is because they realized at some point that their fanbase was a bunch of teenagers, and even though they hadn't necessarily intended it that way, they suddenly had a platform with the youth of America and they decided they ought to do something good with it. The drummer, Tré Cool, said something along the lines of "I've never really liked the idea of preaching to kids, but I realized we don't really have a choice at this point." And I love that so much because like, so many people who get rich and famous just become completely out of touch, and when they get a platform, it's very easy to exploit that platform, influence them with terrible ideas, or encourage them to act in terrible ways for self-serving reasons (ex: JK Rowling, Andrew Tate, Dream, Logan Paul, Onision, etc etc). Green Day refused to allow themselves to get to that point. They know the platform they had gave them power and they made an active choice early on to be responsible with it. And a lot of that moral code comes from the fact that they came up in the DIY punk scene in Oakland, which held its members to a very high standard of ethics, a code that they still follow even after they were disowned by that scene when they signed on with a major record label in 1994.

The song American Idiot has a message of "this mass media hysteria is manufactured bullshit, don't fall for it," and it is not subtle about that message. It punches you right in the face. I remember being 12 years old and listening to it and thinking, "yeah, I don't want to be an American idiot." And now, at the age of 28, I am a staunch leftist who is firmly against the atrocities the US government commits, and I feel strongly about stopping misinformation. So I can say with absolute certainty that they succeeded.

I also get like, really upset when people say that American Idiot is the album where they sold out, because that's objectively not true, both for the reasons I've provided above, and also because of the song Wake Me Up When September Ends. Not a lot of people know the story behind this song, but it's actually a song that Billie Joe wrote about the experience of his dad dying of cancer when he was 10 years old. The story, as he tells it, is that when he came home from school, his mom gave him the news, and being (understandably!) upset, started crying, ran to his room and slammed the door. When she knocked on the door to try and talk to him, he shouted "wake me up when September ends!!" in response. It took him decades to be able to write this song, and it shows because it's the perfect grief song, having been played at benefits for 9/11, hurricane Katrina, and so on. The first time I heard that song it reduced me to tears, because you can hear the intense sadness in it. A "sellout" would never write a song like that!! (Side note: maybe stop tweeting at Green Day to wake up every October 1st, it's super tone deaf given the subject matter,,,)

Anyway, I think I'm done being autistic about Green Day (that's a lie, they'll forever be my special interest), so TL;DR:

Thank you, Green Day, for creating a generation of leftists who aren't about the bullshit

[paceypeternathanslawyer]

I feel like Steve is such an underrated hero in the whole Max/Vecna situation. There were a lot of heroes in 4x04. Robin for figuring out how to save Max, Lucas for knowing what song would save her, Kate Bush, Max of course saved herself as well but if it weren't for Steve none of that would have mattered.

Max pushed Steve to allow her to be alone at the gravesite and for some time Steve allowed it. But then he made the decision to go against her wishes and ultimately his timing was crucial and saved her life. I love Steve so much... he's such a hero. He's always there to save people, puts other people's safety above his own, he's always the first heading into danger but also the last person out after making sure that everyone else gets out safe!! I need a hedge of protection around Steve and El in season 5... two heroic characters who have always been there to save the world and deserve respectively to end this show happy. Steve deserves to ride off into the sunset with a woman who loves him and he deserves those 6 little Harrington nuggets! I need a hedge of protection around a lot of characters but those two are the top two for me personally!

[darunyama]

"If you sing this shit again, I'll rip your tongue out. Understood?"

This is a song from an old commercial that I used to hate with every cell in my body lmao but now I consider it iconic

There was also supposed to be a part where Homelander bursts into the bathroom and Butcher squeals like a girl and throws an open bottle of shampoo at him but then I thought it would take too long to draw lolol

[poltergeistsoup]

Face

Keep enabling me— how about a tip?

[davidaugust]

Edit: seems I fell for some bad information. The pardoning mentioned by George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter are errors: they did not pardon family (despite some articles from otherwise typically reputable sources saying so, like Esquire). I apologize and commit to being more careful about checking things before I share them. I’m sorry about this.

[thecoparoom]

25 Most Intriguing, 1989

[brokehorrorfan]

Funko's latest Stranger Things Pops include new Rift Demogorgon ($12), super-sized Rift Mind Flayer ($25), Rift Vecna ($12), and Max at Cemetery 6.25" Pop! Moment ($30). They're due out in October.

[siltslut]

my spotify wrapped predictions before they come out this week:

1. simon & garfunkel

2. the amazing devil

3. hozier

4. great comet cast

5. paul simon

as for songs, i don’t have exact guesses but i’m betting on at least two from great comet, america by s&g, and army dreamers by kate bush

[epifaniacintilante]

Comfort singers 💜

[greendayauthority]

London, England, 23 August 2012

[ometochtli2rabbit]

13.0.12.5.11

ka'a[2] CHUWEN/B'AATZ [monkey] - kanlajun [14] PAX

galactic tone: duality/ polarity

sun sign: monkey/black/west

begin anything new in life - MAYA

ome[2] - OZOMAHTLI [monkey]

Tlaltecuhtli | Xochipili

quetzalhuitzilin [green hummingbird]

lord of the night: Tlaloc

trecena[2]: Xipe Totec

x: chicei [8]- etzcualiztli - NAHUA

"The Perception of Time", Salvador Dali, 1931

The Monkey, today's day symbol (tonalli), is known as the Weaver of Time. As time is really an illusion created by human beings, try to focus on the now. Another way to say that, is all we really have, the MOMENT:

Billy Vera: At This Moment

Whitney Houston: One Moment in Time

Asia: Heat of the Moment

Lisa Stansfield: The Moment

Dan Fogelberg: Stolen Moments

Kelly Clarkson: A Moment Like This

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds: In the Heat of the Moment

Foreigner: Moment of Truth

Gang Starr: Moment of Truth

Survivor: The Moment of Truth

Regine Velasquez: The Moment You Were Mine

Suzi Quatro: Wasted Moments

Tame Impala: The Moment

Willie Nelson: A Moment Isn't Very Long

Peggy Lee: Moments Like This

Tim McGraw: Not A Moment Too Soon

Indigo Girls: Moment of Forgiveness

A-Ha: Mary Ellen Makes the Moment Count

Charli XCX: Moments In Love

The Moody Blues: This is The Moment

Taylor Swift: The Moment I Knew

Slick Rick: The Moment I Feared

Katy Perry: This Moment

Erasure: Tenderest Moments

Imogen Heap: The Moment I Said It

The Drifters: This Magic Moment

Scorpions: Moment in a Million Years

Carpenters: From This Moment On

Steve Perry: If Only For The Moment

Gorillaz: Momentary Bliss & Momentz (ft. De La Soul)

Frank Black: It's Just Not Your Moment

Shania Twain: From This Moment On

U2: Moment of Surrender & Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

Dionne Warwick & Stevie Wonder: Moments Aren't Moments

Electric Light Orchestra: Moment in Paradise

Ella Fitzgerald: From This Moment On

Misfits/ Green Day: Hybrid Moments

Dolly Parton: Love Is Only As Strong (As Your Weakest Moment)

INXS: I Need You Tonight

Sunny & the Sunglows: Just A Moment

Billy Joel: Leave A Tender Moment Alone

Kate Bush: Moments of Pleasure

Joan Baez: Here's To You

The Beatles: Blackbird