I have been very busy of late, not only have I finished a lot of home brew (I have something like 6 bottles of black berry wine, 6 bottles of kit red, 3 bottles of apple wine and 10 bottles of cider sitting in my shed) I have recently come into the possession of the diary of my great great grandfather whilst he was a love struck 25 year old on board HMS Raleigh in 1874. I am transcribing the diary and hope to stick on another blog. Like many other people I have caught the family history bug and have so far managed to trace some lines back over two hundred years. The diary is supposed to one of three but over the years the other two have gone missing.
Genealogy is very addictive so beware.

The kids have finally gone back to school, my eldest son starting secondary school a few days ago and already suffering stress from the homework overload. Poor sod. However, my daughter is happy with our new digital package because she can now watch kerrang TV, this is causing several conflicts within the household (cartoon network v kerrang v cbeebies v eastenders), personally I would rather read a book.

Back on the kerrang TV thing, I noticed that when they show the video to Greenday’s Jesus of Suburbia they pixel out all the cigarettes but openly show teenage sex, vandalism, domestic violence and drug use, how does that make sense?

For your education and entertainment the full on version

this did inspire me to try to figure out the whole "concept" behind the album, after several hours of rereading the lyrics and listening to the album I came to the conclusion its about disaffected youth and rebellion, well thats a no brainer, its a punk album.