“The more things change, the more things stay the same,” some jerk once said, and despite their jerk status, the statement is essentially true, I’ve found.
Just this very month, in the year 2023, I was confronted with, nay, assaulted by, NAY, TERRORIZED by the band called Green Day with a notice that their album “NIMROD” is now 25 years old, in a direct attempt to make me feel like an ancient dried out mummy.
The attack was brutal and sent me spiraling through time like the first non-Brazilian to 25 years ago when the album was first released and I was listening to it on my intensely cool, three-disc CD changer/duel tape deck (for recording the CDs, stupid) boom box, while playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo.
Now, at the time, I was sever in my punk rock conviction and this new Green Day album was a bridge too far for me. “Fucking sellouts,” I likely screamed, in a fit of punk rock youthful righteousness while Ryu in Street Fighter Dragon-Punched my Blanka-Ball in to infinity.
Poor, sad, mistaken me would later in life realize that Nimrod is in fact an great album and the new anniversary, remastered, fancy-fied, version shows the album off in all it’s splendor.
Now, where the fuck is my fight stick? I need to play some Street Fighter 6.
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