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Friday, August 12, 2005

Green Day: It's not just for punkass kids anymore
Posted by Jill | 7:26 AM

I knew there was a reason why I wanted a copy of American Idiot.

Yeah, sure, the vignette in the beginning sounds cringeworthy, but as someone who WAS a teenaged girl at one point, THIS IS HOW TEENAGED GIRLS TALK IN SUCH A SITUATION.

Aside from encompassing in one seven-minute video the mindset of the red-state kids who enlist, there's some damn slick production here -- and someone studied his Full Metal Jacket very carefully, to the point of lifting scenes right from the film.

But you know what's depressing? I can't believe we have to go through this yet again. One would have thought we'd learned after Vietnam, but no -- power-hungry, craven leaders are still sending America's future off to die for no fucking good reason.
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