Re: (TV) Johnny mentions Tom

["BlackMonk" <BlackMonk@msn.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Graham Urquhart" <gurquhart@madasafish.com>
To: <tv@obbard.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 5:32 AM
Subject: (TV) Johnny mentions Tom


> *http://www.newsweek.com/id/237038/page/1
>
>
> /As of this month, Green Day has a new musical on Broadway, based on 
> their album/*/ * /American Idiot./ **What do you think of that?
> *Somebody mentioned this to me the other day, and I fell off the chair 
> laughing and almost shattered my elbow. It just struck me as, like, 
> hilarious and wrong. I never thought of Green Day as a punk band. Just 
> bubblegum, really. Tom Verlaine [of the band Television] once described 
> punk and the Sex Pistols as bubblegum. The only difference is that I was 
> discussed in Parliament under the Treason Act, which at that time 
> carried the death penalty. That is not bubblegum./

Not if you're convicted.
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