![]() ![]() “He has a deep understanding of the frustrations that we all experience and is very down-to-earth about it. “The man has had incredible financial and creative success and yet he still understands the daily grind of life and can express so much about it,” says Kirk. It is a part of him that is well known to Green Day fans but tends to get lost in both his success and rock star drag. ![]() They are also very good at expressing themselves about it.”īy taking off the eyeliner and giving him some Clark Kents and plenty of stubble, Kirk was also able to tap into the everyman aspect of Armstrong. Artists like that tend to be really in touch with themselves and the mood of the moment. I don’t think that was necessarily conscious on his part, but the guy is a true artist. ![]() They both deal with getting older, accepting changes and also feeling frustrated by those changes. “I’ve listened to the new Green Day record and there is definitely a synchronicity between the lyrics of the record and the themes the film. “Obviously he went through a lot in the past four years,” says Ordinary World writer and director Lee Kirk, a veteran of The Office who is married to that show’s Jenna Fischer. “Artists like that tend to be really in touch with themselves and the mood of the moment.” “The guy is a true artist,” says ‘Ordinary World’ writer/director Lee Kirk, on Armstrong. Still, both the film and Revolution Radio-even the current tour-deal with a similar question in very different ways chiefly, how does the punk rock ethos fit into a time in life when your kids are beginning college? “This thing was completely separate,” he says. That show, like many of on the band’s abbreviated tour that will run until the end of October before picking up again in Europe in mid-January, was filled with an inordinate amount of teenagers, considering the band hasn’t put out a record in four years.Īrmstrong, 44, resists the idea that inhabiting this alternate reality was a way of coping with what had come to a head four years ago in Vegas. “God, when you put it that way, I feel like I’m overachieving or something,” says Armstrong, on the phone after playing a gig at the 9:30 Club in DC the night before. Also last week? Armstrong showed up as Chaplin to Tony Hale’s Buster Keaton on Drunk History, and called into Howard Stern, a decision that will no doubt come to bite him in the ass should he one day run for President. (A rested Armstrong ended his public sabbatical to perform with his band at the ceremony last year).Īdd to this that his band returned to New York to play Webster Hall Saturday October 8. Costarring Fred Armisen, Judy Greer and Selma Blair, the film plays like a sort of Bizaro World version of Armstrong’s life, one where his band fizzled out and he ended up working in a hardware store instead of what actually did happen: Armstrong and Green Day made many millions mainstreaming punk and in the process pogoed themselves straight into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. On October 14, Armstrong makes his debut as a lead actor in a film when the punk rock midlife crisis comedy Ordinary World is released via VOD. 7, his band put out Revolution Radio, their first record since they released three in succession in 2012. Now, all of a sudden, there is more of the guy than we effectively know how to deal with. ![]()
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