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June 22nd, 2017
08:34 pm [Link]	My Fic Masterlist - Last Updated 27th September 2009 This list is a work in progress; I’ll be smartening it up as and when I get time. Most of my fic is set in the Life on Mars universe; nearly all of it is slash – that’s a male/male relationship. If that bothers you, don’t read any further. ( My Fic Masterlist ) Tags: chica_fic, doctorwho fic, fic, flashslash, gen, gene/sam, greenday, harrypotter, het, la_chica_de_ayer, lomfic, sam/gene, slash (Leave a comment)
December 2nd, 2009
01:57 pm [Link]	I don't think Barclays want to be a bank any more... . First off, please look at my shiny new icon! It's much more fun than banking. Note that the words are a direct quote, and the picture is not manipped in any way. I adore Green Day - they're sexy as hell, the lyrics are intelligent, the music is fantastic, and they slash themselves all the time. And now back to the banking. ( A short rant on British banks ) Tags: bankrant, comment, diary, greenday, ramblings (4 comments \| Leave a comment)
November 27th, 2009
09:45 am [Link]	I just love it when they do the slashing themselves... . With huge thanks to jiigsaw at the Green Day slash comm. I have no idea what the gig was, and I don't recognise the music facepalm but this totally made my night. Check out 1:55 and 2:50. Link to vid Tags: crack, greenday, pics, slash (Leave a comment)
November 6th, 2009
02:54 pm [Link]	Mikey/Billie I may have mentioned before that I love Mike Dirnt... Tags: greenday, pics, slash (Leave a comment)
09:24 am [Link]	Busy Busy... Well, it's been a stressful old week, with two major deadlines for today and one major excitement, also for today... (1) Deadline for youngest son's secondary school applications today - he desperately wants to go the the same school as his older brothers, despite the fact that there are concerns about deteriorating behaviour there. I had a row with the Headmaster about it on Wednesday morning, right out in the corridor at the Open Morning OMG. I asked a polite question based on a couple of things I'd seen as I went round (the whole of Year Ten banned from the library at lunchtimes ufn????) and he went ballistic. Outright denial, seriously hostile. Youngest son still wants to go there even though he was stood right next to me during the argument! Application submitted and confirmed, now I just have to join the group of parents who are putting together a joint letter of concern about the bad behaviour. sigh (2) Deadline for oldest son's Work Experience today. At our school we were given the impression that it's up to the parents to use their contacts (like I have any), and then the kids with total losers for parents will be found something by the council's work experience admin people. Turns out other counties have the kids researching local companies and writing to them cold, with a deadline some time in January ffs. Apparently the researching and writing is supposed to be part of the learning process. Duh. Application filled in, supporting cv typed up, one contact approached but not looking hopeful, application returned to school this morning. (3) Green Day!!! Oh yeah, Green Day tickets went on sale at nine this morning for Wembley Stadium next June. I used TicketMaster last time, but this time the gig didn't even exist on the site until quarter to nine, so major worry time. Still, I GOT ME SOME TICKETS and I'm going to Wembley! I shall be even further away from the action this time - Mikey will just be a tiny speck in the distance boo hoo. Tags: diary, edu-rant, greenday, ramblings (5 comments \| Leave a comment)
October 24th, 2009
11:58 am [Link]	Holiday! Which just happens to be one of my favourite Green Day songs, but more to the point, we're about to set off (at last) for the second week of our Norfolk holiday. And tonight I can get back to what I really feel like doing atm, which is dreaming about last night's concert, and Mike Dirnt in particular!!!! ♥ ♥ Tags: diary, greenday (Leave a comment)
05:57 am [Link]	I'll have the one on the right... Seems like it's official then: I love Mike Dirnt. Went to see Green Day last night, at the O2 in London, and loved every minute. But every time Mike came down the catwalk it drove me insane that I couldn't get down there to touch him. All through the show I was so frustrated that I was in the same space as Mike Dirnt and couldn't get any closer. Didn't quite expect that, to be honest. Well, I sort of did, but didn't think it would be so strong and persistent! Just wanted to get down there and hug the man. It was noticeable that all the people who got on stage obviously felt the same way! Everyone expects people to go and kiss Billie, but they were going for Mike too, lucky bastards. I'd been quite worried that OH and I would stand out like sore thumbs as being so much older than everyone else, but that wasn't the case. Probably a good half of the audience was over 35. I got home about 1am last night, as two major routes towards my town were both closed and we had to go the very long way round. I'd intended to post straight away but was too totally knackered. Anyway: the set list will be posted elsewhere, for them that cares (ETA: it's here at Green Day Community), but the whole show was fantastic. I'm scarcely awake yet, but I'm still buzzing from the feeling of being in such a great show. I'd been worried that we were too far back from the stage to really feel the atmosphere, and there was a certain amount of that. Also, having watched so much on YouTube it was like - OK, I'll have a close-up now please. But the moment they came on, most of the audience stood up, and then Billie started pointing to all sections of the audience in turn commanding - no other word for it - that everyone stand up. I had a brilliant view; I was right by a stairway so there was no-one immediately in front of me and I could see perfectly over the heads of everyone. I'm going on holiday today so I haven't got time to faff about with uploading pics, in fact I haven't even had time to watch them yet. The O2 apparently has a strict no-camera policy, but we weren't asked when we went in, and people were openly filming all the way through. Looking down into the pit there was just this sea of little white rectangles from everyone's camera screens. I know this is pretty incoherent but that's pretty much how I feel atm. My biggest impression was that despite all the screaming and hand-waving and singing along as loud as I could, what was missing was that I wanted to get down there and simply thank every member of the band personally for such a brilliant show, for just being so totally awesome. Tags: diary, greenday (1 comment \| Leave a comment)
May 17th, 2009
01:25 am [Link]	Excuse Me? Got the new Green Day album (21^st Century Breakdown) on Friday, and I’m enjoying it quite a lot. Early favourites are Peacemaker and Little Girl, although I’m sure that will change over time. One of the strange things I find with Green Day is that most of their stuff goes past me the first couple of times, and then as I get to know it better it sort of - creeps in. Works its way under my skin, into my spine and heart and fingertips. (Excuse the poeticals, it’s very late here.) Right now, if I had to choose only one piece of music to take to a desert island, it would quite likely be Holiday, from American Idiot, but the first few times I heard it, it simply didn’t register. So I’m guessing my preferences will change as I get to know the new music better; in the meantime these two tracks are I suppose, the simplest and most - um, don’t know how to describe it - open? Does that make sense? As so often, this evening I have spent far too much time watching the boys on YouTube (I started with this interview - warning for language). My excuse is that I’m preparing for the concert. Anyway, I came across a sweet little moment in a recording of Holiday live in Milan. Billie’s just fluffed the last note, and he reaches out and holds Mike’s hand just for a moment. Awww. I’ll stop rambling now, and get back to what I wanted to share in the first place - the daftest line ever. I mean, I love Billie Joe’s lyrics, but seriously - “Little one; little one the sky is falling - your lifeboat of deception is now sailing.” How he manages to sing that with a straight face I don’t know; I haven’t yet managed to hear it without laughing out loud. I love these guys. Tags: diary, greenday, ramblings, slash (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
May 1st, 2009
10:21 am [Link]	I'VE GOT TICKETS FOR GREEN DAY!!!!! . Dear God, excited or what flails inelegantly All thanks are due to Starshaped at TRA, who looked at the O2 and TicketMaster websites for me yesterday and confirmed I wasn't doing things all wrong! She also gave me some excellent advice re creating a TicketMaster account ahead of time and setting up my cards on it, because you only get two minutes to confirm you want the tickets. Still can't quite believe it; I was expecting to spend two hours desperately trying to get onto the website and then find they were all sold out. So, I've got copies of the order confirmation all over the place, and I've written it down as well. I've got a screencap of the magic moment. The money has come up as a pending transaction on my credit card. My lovely clean, paid-up-to-date credit card. All I have to do now is wait for the actual bits of paper to arrive. But I still won't really believe it until they actually let me in on the night. Current Mood: ecstatic Current Music: Green Day - Holiday Tags: diary, greenday (2 comments \| Leave a comment)
January 16th, 2009
12:28 pm [Link]	Drabble - Life on Mars / Green Day Title: Something Author: DorsetGirl Fandom: Life on Mars / Green Day Disclaimer: I don’t own Sam Tyler - BBC/Kudos own Life on Mars and its characters. Green Day own themselves. No profit made nor offence intended. Rating: G or White Cortina for nothing much at all Warning: Faintest hint of RPS, but only Sam looking at someone and wondering. Pairing: Suggested Mike Dirnt / Billie Joe Armstrong Word Count: 100 Summary: I wrote a story called Later, which was from Mike’s pov during a Green Day concert. Now let’s imagine the concert took place in Milton Keynes in June 2005, and that DCI Sam Tyler of the Greater Manchester Police was in the audience. A/N: I wrote this for the Friday Drabble Crossover Challenge at Lifein1973, then realised I couldn’t post it there because Green Day fic is RPS headdesk. (If it weren’t for the RPS element, I would have put the crossover and pairing information after the drabble, for the surprise). ( Something ) Tags: fic, greenday, rps, sam, slash (Leave a comment)
January 9th, 2009
10:39 am [Link]	Later - a Green Day fic (warning - RPS) Title: Later Author: DorsetGirl Rating: PG-13 for language and implied sexual relations Pairing: Mike / Billie Joe Disclaimer: I don't own Green Day. They are real people and this work is based on their public personalities. I make no claim to know what they’re really like and mean no offence to anybody. Word Count: 416 Notes: Also posted at Coming Clean. This is Real Person stuff - if that squicks you, don't click. This is the first time I've written an American, so it may need whatever is the opposite of Brit-picking. Comments and friendly concrit welcome! (I've since written a Life on Mars crossover drabble, imagining that Sam Tyler was in the audience for this concert). ( Later ) Tags: greenday, pwp, relationship, slash (2 comments \| Leave a comment)