Stray Hawkeye

From the files of what the holy fucking bloody hell what were they thinking, comes Green Day the Musical.  No, really.  They made a musical from the album American Idiot.  Now, you may be saying to yourself, “self, I suppose I could see where that might have the vague potential to not be profoundly terrible.”  But then you’d see this clip from Letterman…

… and realize that it somehow manages to makes you feel the need to simultaneously laugh hysterically, cry, and just tilting your head to the side and say, wait, wasn’t April 1st like a month ago?  Is this a rerun from then?  Maybe?  Please?  No?  Shit.

It’s like they tried to collide the awesomeness of Rent and the awesomeness of Green Day and somehow it formed an awesomeness super nova which then collapsed into this complete black hole of suckage that landed squarely in New York and was somehow confused for a musical and placed on Broadway.

And yes, it does actually exist (warning, it starts playing a loud video automatically upon loading, as if you hadn’t already suffered enough).

Happiness:

That makes me smile, a lot.

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Side note – Sorry about the above media player, it only seems to work about one out of every five times, if that, and only after you’ve sat through some ad do you find out.  Why?  Because big corporate media giants are AWESOME and totally on top of that whole interwebs thing-a-mah-bob.  As an added bonus, CBS has been so kind as to keep taking down every version of the above song that I try to link to on youtube.  But, the internet being the hydra that it is, people keep posting it.  So, what I’m really saying here is that if the above doesn’t work, just search on youtube (or any other video sharing site) and you’ll probably find a freshly re-posted copy of it in it’s first couple thousand views before they take it down.  Typing in the exact name of this post should work quite well.  A few of the one’s I’ve found had annotations, which I’d suggest turning off.

Side side note – Yes, I’ve tried to contact Corporate Bull Shit several time to ask them to fix the video clip, which they even link to from the front page for Letterman’s show, and yet, no response (I’ve even been nice about it.  Well, the first couple emails were nice, it’s been over a month now that I’ve been waiting to post this with a working clip.)

Side side side note – The clip really is worth hunting down, especially this particular version, or I wouldn’t bother with all of this.  So, go searching and may you be well rewarded for your time.

Side side side side note – Now that I think about it, I was going to make another post about something else CBS related, and offering it in a very positive light, because I quite like it, however, I’ve now decided that I’m holding that post hostage until CBS gets a working clip of this song posted.  Submit your kindly complaints (hate mail) here.

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Update:  I looked around some more, and found this live version.  The audio quality is really bad, but it gives an idea of the happy fun-ness love:

I’d love to see these guys live.