radioactive tomdog

so i guess tom follows this instagram account called "campthrouple" which advertises itself as an educational page for throuple/threesome/whatever relationships lol. maybe tom + bird have a secret 20 year old girlfriend

yeah taking a shit during work is basically a bat signal for people to start calling you

in my defense, i had diarrhea from eating too much citrus fruit today and still had to go to work.

FYI i didn't know they cancelled their show lol. i was wrong sorry

i think that had a lot to do with it plus he lost interest in being in a band. he apparently sold all of his drums after he quit and took nearly a decade off.

imagine caring so much about my opinion that even when i go away for 1.5 years, you still get worked up over my posts. fuckin nerd.

it's not a bad way to view things. my job sucks ass but i occasionally remind myself it could be so much worse and carry on.

actually, i bet there's a dude out there with a sore throat AND cancer doing construction in 115° heat making $15/hr

the problem is the truth behind everything with this band is too embarrassing for men of their age to admit and their egos won't allow the world to see it. sucks that they are sick but my inner oliver can't help but to point out that 99% of the world has shittier jobs/lives than them. i bet there's some dude out there with the same sore throat as mark doing construction in 115° heat making like $15/hr.

I'm on the fence about seeing them play american idiot and dookie this summer. the last time i saw green day was on the original american idiot tour and it's such a great memory for me. i feel like if i relived it, it wouldn't have the same impact at all and would feel so phoned in. not to mention they'll alter every political reference on the album to be about trump and that's just beating a dead horse.

i can't say i'd give a shit about a new live album from this band unless it was something unreleased from 2004. i'm not sure how anyone would be amped to listen to this identical performance that been posted to youtube after every festival since 2009.

sure, based on what deryck says. but greg nori has writing credits all over those early albums. i just don't believe deryck is some mastermind who randomly shit the bed creatively at 27 years old.

that's not a solid excuse considering tom thacker from gob has been "in the band" since 2006 and he's not allowed to contribute to the writing process. deryck probably shut the whole band out after chuck and made it a glorified solo effort.

i hope one of the other band members does a "tell all" interview once they breakup. i need to know the exact reason why the quality of everything tanked so hard after chuck. underclass hero was acceptably underwhelming, but everything after that was wildly bad in a "how is this band even signed to label" way. my theory was their old band manager/producer greg nori was the brains behind everything.

i fully expected there to be long breaks of bullshit between album cycles at this stage of their lives/career. there will probably be a new album every 5 years until they can't do it anymore. i'm honestly shocked they even announced another US tour so soon after the last one. as long as tom continues to fund his TTS stuff by himself, he will never stop even if nobody cares about it. it's probably hard for him to realize his books and movies are failures when theres nobody above him to pull the plug on it.

you missed my follow up post where i said i heard it early and hated it

the 90 min set rule plus the "we have to play every radio single" rule makes it impossible for them to make it different.

that's almost as annoying as the regulars having circle jerks reciting the discord channel rules in hopes of getting mark's attention

some of those discord users will struggle to exist without it.

eh give me more time with heaven. it could grow on me. the hell side is awful though.

just listened. the heaven side was nothing memorable. it sounded like 10 songs deryck ghost wrote for other pop punk bands that were rejected. the hell side sounds like the previous two albums. poor man's trailer park metal. then there's a rolling stones cover song as well? i'd say it's the worst sum 41 album by long shot.

this band sucks so much now. i have no hope for that double album with the worst artwork i've ever seen. this is coming from someone who was a die hard fan from all killer to chuck and ive seen them live like 10 times. i was contemplating seeing them one more time but the set list is a joke (singles + multiple cover songs/medleys) and tickets are pushing $100. looks like deryck just announced a memoir which is cringe.

i was at the chicago show this weekend. i'd imagine that had to be one of their biggest headlining shows ever? aragon ballroom is pretty huge and it was clearly oversold. i've seen trio maybe 7 times but this was the best performance and set list. atom has made this band a super group and really elevates those from here to infirmary songs live.

pretty sure aaron rubin said on napkin's podcast that it was something mark fully wrote and sent to tom. then, tom was concerned about how fast it was because it would be hard for him to play. so, that sounds like fan fiction.

i will say that otherside is far superior to bad news because it's basically a +44 song and way more genuine. surely the lyrics to bad news are pure fiction and not about mark's bombshell wife he's happily married to?