Are you a fan of Green Day but afraid to admit it? It is no secret that a lot of people have jumped off of the Green Day band wagon once “American Idiot” came out a few years back. The common saying heard from a Green Day fan is “I only like to listen to old Green Day.” This usually means Albums that were released before “Warning” was released. Well people, you are in for a treat.

Try searching for a band called Foxboro Hot Tubs. These guys may sound like a Green Day wanna be band playing 1960s music. Guess what? It isn’t a wanna be group, but actually Green Day!
Green Day decided that with the newer style of Green Day it would be a better idea to start a side project to continue playing a style closer to the 3-chord pop punk that made them the band they are today. The band is the exact members of Green Day, not an idea like Boxcar Racer was where only 2 of the 3 members of Blink-182 took part.

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I’m not going to spend much time on what is my second-favorite gaff this week (favorite involving space toilets), a whole few days old so it now remains a forgotten remnant of info-tainment news shows. I am, of course, talking about Hillary Clinton reminding us that someone could just shoot Obama and she would win the nomination by default. Imagine you are the captain of a 6th grade soccer team, and your friend Jimmy is the opposing teams captain. Before the match starts, you say, “Good luck out there,” and Jimmy, the smug little bastard, responds, “I hope you die when your house burns down, jerkass.” Besides signaling that little Jimmy has a massive ego and is a possible case of some behavior disorder, saying that is downright unsportsmanlike. Assassination is a rather dark chapter of American history, and given that Obama stands to be the first black man to run for president (others have run in primaries, but were never nominated, so it doesn’t count) in a country that largely hates, and if not hates casually ignores, black people (and the plights thereof), assassination is a very real possibility. All it takes is one pissed off redneck douchebag with little to no inhibition about being executed for treason and murder. (Read more…)

I’ve been a fan of Chuck Palahniuk ever since I found out that the man responsible for Fight Club had written other books. Typically I stumble across his new releases by pure chance, so it was a big change for me to actually spend a few long months in anticipation of his latest novel Snuff. Like Rant and Haunted before it, Snuff does not disappoint.

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Political punk band Anti-Flag recently released their newest album titled The Bright Lights of America. Where the songs are continuing to move away from the “Bush-bashing” that they started with the release of “The Terror State” they remain to share their emotions and complaints about how this country is not how it should be.

The sound that comes from this album is nothing new. It is the same sound they have been using since their A-F Records debut album “Mobilize.” The only difference is that there does not seem to be as much creativity in the music as there once was. Where the lyrics are still catchy it just sounds like recycled versions of songs from previous albums.

From a band that claimed to be against establishment and stood for many beliefs including remaining more underground they have started releasing more radio friendly albums and even have music videos which are played on both Fuse and MTV along with having “This is the End (For you my Friend)” included in a number of EA Sports video games it just seems that they are beginning a pull a 180 on what the band is and what they once stood for. Not to mention how they switched from their self-run A-F Records and released their newest album after signing a contract with RCA which is one of the largest and most popular record labels in the nation.

I am going to get shit on for this…

A few weeks ago, an article I wrote about the New Jersey Green Party Convention was quoted on Game Politics:http://gamepolitics.com/2008/04/14/report-green-party-presidential-candidate-blames-school-shootings-on-video-games/

I already posted a response to their less than kind words toward the Green Party, but since it was a whole week old and apparently that is the lifespan of interesting conversation on the internet (what do you expect when your average person has the attention span of a gnat?) I figure I’ll expand on it a little. So, YOU!, Game Politics Dot Com, your ass is on my plate today.

First off, there is enough punctuation in your “quote” to fill War and Peace if, for some reason, the periods and commas became animate and decided to get the hell out of Dodge. As a fellow writer, you should know that quoting (and misquoting) is a subtle art, and simply chucking in the ellipsis for the sake of grammatical correctness does not help your case. It gives away the fact that you are only pulling specific information out of an article that is otherwise unrelated to what you are talking about. That being said… (Read more…)

Themes Out of School

Created by the Indie Films and Filmmakers class

Showing Monday, May 5, 2008

Room K-141