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My Gen X Playlist: Longview – Green Day

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I watched a foreign film about two comedians and their lives as performers. I thought it would be a mix of struggle, laughter, heartache and redemption. Nope. It was a flatline from the very first scene. And I thought to myself that there has to be a turning point in this film where this thing makes a comeback. I should have realized this was an impossibility when they cut to a scene of the two comedians having a conversation. All of a sudden my streaming seemed to freeze for about thirty seconds. Or so I thought. In actuality, it was a scene where they paused mid conversation and both stood perfectly still staring at each other. What the hell. Surely I was mistaken. I rewound the scene and actually watched it again. Yep, not a pause. Nope, no movement. Yep, I’m a glutton for punishment. That second take was all self inflicted pain.

At some point I had to take stock. I was already in for an hour and I had an hour to go. Most normal people would have cut bait, hit the power button and called it a day. Unfortunately, I’m not most normal people. If I’ve already invested an hour, I’ve got to see it through to the end. I will say, the movie was consistent. It was bad ‘til the credits. It’s two hours of my life I can never get back. The sad part is, I probably haven’t learned my lesson.

So what bores me? Watching bad movies to the bitter end. But I realize this is self inflicted. I have nobody to blame but myself.

Green Day wrote a song about boredom. Longview was released in 1994.

The song describes intense boredom and frustration with an inability to self-actualize. Lyrically, the song is about a day spent sitting around the house, doing absolutely nothing of importance . . . until the days are no longer fun. Bassist Mike Dirnt has stated that the famous bass line intro to this song was written one night while he was high on LSD.

– Wikipedia

Sounds like Dirnt had a little extra something something to help his creative juices flow. Personally, I would never take LSD. That’s not my thing. Maybe I’d be tempted if I was forced to watch that comedian movie all over again. But my bet is it still couldn’t salvage the movie. Nothing could.

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I sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on
I change the channels for an hour or two
Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit
I'm sick of all the same old shit
In a house with unlocked doors
And I'm fucking lazy

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like shit

Peel me off this Velcro seat and get me moving
I sure as hell can't do it by myself
I'm feeling like a dog in heat
Barred indoors from the summer street
I locked the door to my own cell
And I lost the key

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like shit

I got no motivation
Where is my motivation?
No time for motivation
Smoking my inspiration, huh!

I sit around and watch the phone, but no one's calling
Call me pathetic, call me what you will (We will!)
My mother says to get a job
But she don't like the one she's got
When masturbation's lost its fun
You're fucking lonely

Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored
I'm going blind
And loneliness has to suffice

Bite my lip and close my eyes
I'm tripping away to paradise
Some say quit or I'll go blind
But it's just a myth

31 thoughts on “My Gen X Playlist: Longview – Green Day”

  1. This reminded me of a foreign film I watched in college about a man literally waiting for his dad to pass away; the shots were in high contrasting colors and set in the desert so it was visually interesting, and an weird way so was the concept. The film was slow and there were moments of boredom but I think that was the aim of the director, or maybe not, they probably wanted us to contemplate the meaning of life along with the man, who knows. There was practically no dialogue.

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  2. Oh man, not even LSD could save it? That’s pretty boring. Reading through the lyrics to this song, it sounds like my life…sitting in a house with unlocked doors with no motivation. Time to break free from the mundane. Maybe I’ll get outside today. Sunny with a high of 75! 😁

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  3. That comedian movie sounds like a drag. I think I stick it out with movies sometimes because of some kind of sunk cost fallacy. Maybe I’m learning one inch at a time that I don’t have to finish a book or movie if I don’t like them. Also something that has been a recurring theme for me is that the solutions are within me and the things I reach for to make me happy can only go so far.

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  5. Haha…I can relate to that! I recently watched a foreign movie about a woman who runs away from her selfish husband and ignorant daughter. The movie was so boring! I watched it until the end though. 😂

    There is a British show on Netflix that I thought it was great and I gave them 5 stars. A suspense show called “Fool me once” and I promise it is not boring.

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  10. Thanks, I didn’t know this song but it comes across as classic Green Day.

    I’m pretty proud of myself on a related note: I was watching a series I felt wasn’t going anywhere, and finally decided to cut the line. Don’t care what doesn’t happen now. 😂

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  15. I do the same thing with a boring novel! “Surely, the author has got to be going somewhere with this uneventful storyline…” and then at the end of the book I am utterly disappointed.

    Seems like there’s a lot of us here who do that haha.

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