Well, I guess several people haven't heard of the Limited-Edition booklet for American Idiot. It was a couple bucks more than the regular one, and I had a gift card, so I bought this one instead. It's actually a book (the CD is in back), and it has all kinds of interesting color pictures and a little more info about the story from the mouth of JOS. So here it is for your viewing pleasure.
(Note: everything is written in capitals, but I didn't want to hurt your eyes because its not as bad on paper as it is on a computer ^_^')Page 1 - Day Shedule
Property Of: Jimmy.
SO STAY OUT!1. American Idiot
2. Jesus of Suburbia
I. Jesus of Suburbia
II. City of the Damned
III. I Don't Care
IV. Dearly Beloved
V. Tales Of Another Broken Home
3. Holiday
4. Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
5. Are We The Waiting
6. St. Jimmy
7. Give Me Novacaine
8. She's A Rebel
9. Extrodinary Girl
10. Letterbomb
11. Wake Me Up When September Ends
12. Homecoming
I. The Death Of St. Jimmy
II. East 12th St.
III. Nobody Likes You
IV. Rock and Roll Girlfriend
V. We're Coming Home Again
13. Whatsername
(I just realized that was pointless to type out, lol
xd )
Page 2 - Picture of a TV surrounded by trash bags and Zs coming out of it
Page 3 - Lyrics to American Idiot (Feb 23) and first entry
Feb 24
Dear Me,
Today I forgot to take a shower (again). I'm gonna meet up with the usual suspects (again) for another afternoon of s**t-talking and cigarettes and <******** "Buy me a beer" sir. Meet me at the center of my miserable exsistance, turd boy. Ain't it need? God told me to skin you alive.* Or was it my stepdad? I think
he forgot to shower today also.
Is anyone noticing a pattern here?
Oh well. He doesn't get ******** laid either. Sweet Jesus, can't a guy get a damn cigarette around here?
Note to Self: GET ME THE ******** OUT OF TURDTOWN!! Let's start a war, shall we... - J
* Note - This is the title of the artwork on the album cover of Insomniac
Page 4 - The second half of that last entry (starting at "beer" sir) and Jesus of Suburbia Part I (March 3, Jingletown U.S.A.)
Page 5 - Photograph of a black spraypainted picture of a mother, father, and child holding hands on a light gray stucco wall
Page 6 - Part II City of the Damned
Page 7 - Photograph of same spraypainted pic as on Page 5, but on the brick wall of a 7-Eleven store parking lot next to a pay phone (all in black and white)
Page 8 - Part III I Don't Care
Page 9 - Color photo of a Stop sign with "CARING" spraypainted in white under STOP
Page 10 - Part IV Dearly Beloved, with a black and white polaroid of the top of a wedding cake, and the picture is slightly town or burned at the top
Page 11 - A black and white photo of a "WRONG WAY - SEVERE TIRE DAMAGE" sign, only BRAIN is scratched in white over Tire
Page 12 - Part V Tales Of Another Boken Home
Page 13 - Second entry
To the City,
I held up my local convience store to get a bus ticket. Actually, I stole the money from my mom's dresser. (Actually she lent me the cash) ******** b***h. Give me sidewalk city shadows. My own private war. Rally the troops. The place is big enough for all the ******** and the underbelly. Shine your light on this ********. I got plans baby. Tell the bishop there's a resistance excuring, ya b*****d. Everything is so ******** black and white. And the good guys ain't wearing red, white or blue. Hang your dark cloud over your dirty, old town, the end of the world is over. This is hell and it's televised.
My riot,
my love,
my country. The dawning of a new city, new faces, new voices, my voice...
My city - J
And the first-third of lyrics for Holiday (April 1st, In the City)
Page 14 - Other two-thirds of Holiday
Page 15 - Photo of a brick wall with wood (a door or boarded-up window?) with a black spraypainted picture of a man in a coat walking with an unbrella that's on fire
Page 16 - Boulevard of Broken Dreams (April 2nd)
Page 17 - A photograph of a city with a dull blue tone to it and the third entry written on it
Is life imitating me? Or is this not what I imagined. I jerked off into oblivion this evening. My dream is turning
cold blue, but I thought good guys don't wear blue? No one seems to agree on anything these days. This city.
It's misting over the skyscrapers. The cement feels so damp yet pretty all at once. Is rage imitating life? I feel like a civil war, like a knife in my heart. I got an ax to grind and it's splitting my head open. No friends, no girls. I need both.
I'm on the verge, - J
Page 18 - Are We the Waiting (Easter Sunday)
Page 19 - A black and white photo of a brick wall with a black spraypainted picture of four chairs and one person sitting in the fourth
Page 20 - St. Jimmy (May 7th) up to "That's my name and..."
Page 21 - A black and white photo of a brick wall with a black spraypainted picture of a boy flying like a plane and bombs dropping out of his chest
Page 22 - "...Don't wear it out."
Page 23 - A polaroid of a caucasian guy with a tattoo on his chest (this guy is St. Jimmy), but the black tape that would be "holding the photo to the book" is covering his eyes
Page 24 - Forth entry (my favorite)
Dear Mom,
(Polaroid photo of two sets of teeth)
I shot drugs for the first time today (thank you Jimmy).
Now we're getting somewhere (nowhere). We don't need no stinking badges. What? Who said that? This is good. My a** took a beating. I forgot to take a shower (again). Ahh. Holy water. I am
in the denial, but at least I got a friend. Mom, you were right. I did make a friend at camp. Remember when Dad (Brad) said I would never amount to anything? Well, I one up'd him. I amount to nothing. I knew you'd be proud. I got a place to stay by the way. I'm on the couch tour from hell. I still have a few bucks left so I should be fine for awhile. Send my love to the 7-11. And yes, I
am satan.
heart -J
P.S. Send money
Page 25 - Give Me Novacaine (no date)
Page 26 - She's A Rebel (July 4th)
Page 27 - A black and white photo of a brick wall with a black spraypainted picture of the heart grenade
Page 28 - Girl with black hair, red lipstick, a white blouse, and red sweater making a heart shape with her hands. Her eyes are scratched out. (This is She's A Rebel/Whatsername)
Page 29 - Yellowish paper with the fith entry
My heart is like a bomb. Went to a show (house) last night. (Band sucked) But she's got my mother's eyes. Blue like my dreams. Good guys
do wear black. She calls me Jimmy. It's better than "what's his face". Could this be lust or "the dawning". She thinks I'm full of s**t. But she thinks I'm cute. Or is it the opposite? But we do agree on one thing... good guys don't wear red, white & blue. - J
Page 30 - Extraordinary Girl (no date)
Page 31 - (In what looks like sharpie)
I NEVER LIKED YOU EITHER! (Drawing of a bomb)
STx JIMMY RULESPage 32 - Letterbomb, only it's on a pink sheet of paper and starts off with "Dear J, (Aug. 18th)", and ends with "your father's rage and your mother's love. - W". The rest of the song is written under the pink paper.
Page 33 - A black and white photo of a brick wall with a black spraypainted picture of a flaming letter
Page 34 - Wake Me Up When September Ends (Sept 10)
Page 35 - Color picture of an alarm clock on fire in a dark room with "time to WAKE UP" scratched above it
Page 36 - Sixth entry with a ticket stub taped on the left that says "Passenger Ticket and Baggage Check Passenger Coupon. NOTICE - This portion of the ticket should be retained as evidence of your jouney."
Dear Dad,
Or God, or whatever,
I stole some money from "whatsername". (Actually she lent me the cash). I got a bus ticket home.
I'M NOTHING JUST LIKE YOU.Too bad you'll never read this. I met the girl of my dreams. She's dead now. To
me anyway. I'm coming home in victory. Arms open wide, sitting by a Greyhound toliet. Justice was served. The end of the world was hell all along. You were just too stupid to notice. That's why I love you.
First stop, convenient store. I got
lies to tell. Glory never felt so good. I'll by my own beer, thank you very much. - J
P.S. Take a ******** shower.
Page 37 - Homecoming Part I The Death of St. Jimmy (Oct. 19)
Page 38 - Polaroid of St. Jimmy again, only a hat is covering his eyes and two cut-out gold wings are taped to the picture to look like they're on his back
Page 39 - Blank page
Page 40 - Part II East 12th St.
Page 41 - Picture of a street corner on 12th St. with confusing looking amount of traffic signals. The picture looks like bleech hit it in the bottom left hand corner
Page 42 - Part III Nobody Likes You
Page 43 - Polaroid of a broken TV, wings and a halo scratched in white around it
Page 44 - Billie with a cigarette in his mouth and dynamite and a clock strapped to his chest. The photo doesn't show his eyes. There are pictures similar to this, such as the pictures on the third row of
this page.
Page 45 - Postcard adressed to "Saint Jimmy, (Scratched Out) City", from "Tunny", stamped with an American Flag stamp that says "Old Glory", and starts out with "Dear J," then goes into Part IV Rock and Roll Girlfriend (Postcard postmarked May)
Page 46 - Part V We're Coming Home Again
Page 47 - Photograph of an orange wall with a black and white spraypainted picture of four people erecting a white flag
Page 48 - A "HELLO, my name is" sticker with "Whatsername" written in it
Page 49 - Whatsername (January 1st)
Page 50 - Last entry
And that was that.
Or so it seemed.
Is this the end
or the beginning?
All I know is,
she was right.
I am an idiot.
It's even on my birth certificate.
In so many words.
This Is My Rage
This Is My Love
This Is My Town
This Is My City
This Is My Life
Page 51 - Same photograph of Whatsername as on Page 28, only the top lefthand third is burned, again covering her eyes
Page 52 - Credits
Starring -
Billie Joe Armstrong - Guitar, Lead Vocals
Mike Dirnt - Bass, Vocals
Tre' Cool - Drums, Vocals
Produced By: Rob Cavallo & Green Day
Engineered By: Doug McKean
Recorded At:
Ocean Way Recording
Hollywood CA
Assistant Engineers:
Brain "Dr. Vibb" Vibberts
Greg "Stime" Burns
Capitol Studios (where my dad works, he's met Green Day several times and they gave him a warning shirt years ago
crying )
Hollywood CA
Assistant Engineers:
Jimmy Hoyson
Joe Brown
880 Studios
Oakland CA
Additional Engineers:
Chris Dugan
Reto Peter
Mixed By:
Chris Lord-Alge
At Image Recording Studios
Hollywood CA
Assistant Engineer:
Dimitar "Dim-E" Krnjaic
Mastered By:
Ted Jensen
Sterling Sound, NY
Additional Musicians:
Rob Cavallo - Piano
Jason Freese - Saxophone
Guest Vocals on Letterbomb: (I'm guessing only the "Nobody Likes You" part)
Kathleen Hanna
Drum Techs:
Kenny Butler
Mike "Sack" Fasano
Guitar Tech:
Bill Schneider
Additional Pro Tools:
Nigel Lundemo
Documentarian:
John Roecker
Project Coordinator:
Cheryl Jenets
A&R Assitant:
Monika Clinger
Management:
Pat Magnarella
Mosaic Media Group
Art Direction and Design:
Chris Bilheimer
Photography:
Chris Bilheimer
Marina Chavez
John Roecker
Also, if you want more information on the song meanings, which also explain the story a bit better, Green Day Authority has some good explinations.
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