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- DARK TO LIGHT: I'm sure all of you know by now that Billie has gone blonde once again. You can check out a picture of Billie sporting his new due to the right (click to enlarge it.) Post your opinion in the comments... or else! :-p

- ANOTHER AWARD: No surprise here, but Green Day won the 'Roc Da Mic' award on the TRL Awards on Saturday. This award is for their awesome performances during Spankin' New Week. If you didn't see those performances, shame on you! ;)

- HONORS: Green Day will be among the recipients of the San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy Honors Award, celebrating those who have "improved the environment for the creative community." Jazz artists George Duke and Dave Brubeck are also being honored at the gala, to be held March 19 at Westin St. Francis

- SITE UPDATES: Five new songs are up for adoption - yay! ... Congratulations to Jettie for being this weeks Fan of the Week! ... Survivor: BOB is temporarily on hold because the page is not saving properly and we are having some major technical difficulties with it. ... If you think Holly & I are being lazy because we haven't updated in a while, it is actually because we are working hard on the new Photo Gallery and Lyrics Section. Both pages are looking awesome and should be up soon. Well, you are now officially up to date. Take care!

Check Green Day out on STAR Magazine page 35 or just click here. The San Francisco chapter of the Recording Academy will honor Green Day March 19th and present them with the San Francisco Chapter's 2006 Recording Academy Honors (greenday.com). That's all the news I can find. We have a new fan of the week, don't worry we haven't forgotten!, but I cannot find the link, so Kevin will update that for you guys later.

Also, not Green Day news, but Happy Birthday to my best friend Laura who turned 18 today!

- Happy 34th Birthday to Billie Joe Armstrong from everyone here at 1039 Sweet Children! Leave Billie Joe some birthday love in the comments! =D

- We have held back the Fan of the Week for two more days. The new FOTW will now be chosen on Sunday... Click here to send in your application!

- If you'd like to help 1039 SC out and get some merchandise at the same time, click here to visit the site store. The prices are a bit high, but keep in mind that you are getting a product and donating to the site... All profit goes to site bills and upcoming contest/giveaway prizes... Thanks!

- BRIT AWARDS: Green Day have two more awards to add to their super-huge collection! The guys won 'Best International Group' and 'Best International Album (American Idiot)' at the Brit Awards. Although they didn't attend in person, they recorded a video message apologizing for not attending and they accepted the awards. I wonder where they guys are putting all these awards they are winning!

- TRL AWARDS: Speaking of awards, Green Day are nominated for two 2006 TRL Awards (MTV). The show airs February 25th at 12:00PM. They are nominated for the 'Roc Da Mic' award for their performances during Spankin' New Week and the 'Best Group That Actually Plays Instruments' award. Click here to vote for them so they can add two more awards to their legacy!

- SITE UPDATES: A new Fan of the Week will be chosen tomorrow, Adopt-A-Song will be also be updated, and the two B-sides with the least votes on Survivor: BOB will be eliminated on Saturday. You may have noticed that updates are kind of slow lately. This is because (1) There isn't too much GD news and (2) We are working on tons of great stuff to keep you all entertained while Green Day gear up for their next album.

- VOTE: Please take a second to vote for 1039SC by simply clicking this link (that's all you have to do!) Thanks!

(In case you didn't know, tomorrow is the birthday of the one-and-only Billie Joe Armstrong!)

Green Day is nominated for International Album and International Group for the Brit Awards airing February 15th. If you subscribe to Forbes, Green Day made #4 on the Most Earned Musicians with $99 million making over $34 mil on their AI tour. That basically it. Don't expect there to be a lot of Green Day news in upcoming weeks.

- The first issue of the Tight Wad Hill Times (Newsletter) was sent out yesterday afternoon to everyone who subscribed ... If you subscribed before Friday and failed to receive the issue in your email-mailbox, send a message to 1039SweetChildren@twinholly.net. If you did not sign up in time, click here to subscribe now -- the issue will be re-sent to new subscribers on Monday (this is your last chance to get the first issue!) Post comments about the TWHT below. Let us know what you think of it and what we can do to fix it for the next issue (going to be sent out at the end of next month.)

- A new Fan of the Week was chosen today! Congratulations to Emma, our 22nd FOTW!

- Click here to vote for 1039 SC on the Minority: Top Sites List! We are currently number 4! Thanks to everyone who has voted.

- Due to some technical difficulties, we were not able to post Survivor: Battle of B-Sides (BOB) today. Instead, the competition will start tomorrow!

Last night was the Grammy's and as you probably know already, Green Day took home "Record of the Year" for

'Boulevard Of Broken Dreams.' Billie Joe accepted the award after kissing Adrienne and hugging Mike and Tré. Congrats to Green Day on ANOTHER Grammy win! =D Billie Joe and Gwen Stefani also presented U2 with an award ... Speaking of awards, Green Day is nominated for two Nickelodeon's Kids' Choice Awards. They are up for Favorite Group and Favorite Song ("Wake Me Up When Sept. Ends.") Check Fuse this week for upcoming performances and fun stuff like that. Go to fuse.tv for the TV schedule. The first issue of the 1,039 Sweet Children - Green Day Newsletter ("The Tight Wad Hill Times") will be sent out tomorrow evening through e-mail. Subscribe today (if you haven't already) to get the first-ever issue! Survivor: BOB (Battle of B-Sides) begins tomorrow and a new Fan of the Week will be chosen! That's about it! Look out for the newsletter in your email-mailbox tomorrow!

There are quite a few magazine that have articles about Green Day this month. This week's Kerrang! issue has a title Green Day vs. Blink 182. Green Day is also in this month's Top of the Pops magazine with an interview with Billie Joe and a poster inside. Sugar magazine also has a small poster of the band. The movie Live Freaky Die Freaky is finally out!! In the USA and Canada at least. You can purchase the video on amazon.com. Go to livefreakydiefreaky.com for more info. That's basically it for the Green Day news. Sorry this was so late.

Punk rock luminaries Green Day have officially ended the touring cycle for their masterpiece American Idiot. The band who have been touring in suppo

rt of their much praised release, playing to millions around the world, are now taking time off before beginning work on their next studio album. Green Day's multi-platinum American Idiot was released on September 21, 2004 and debuted at Number One on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and Number One in several countries around the world. Weeks later the album returned to the Number One chart position in the US and many of the same countries across the globe. Months after the release of the album, Green Day made radio history by becoming the first rock band to reach #1 on six radio charts simultaneously with their smash "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams." Green Day was recently voted Favorite Group at the 32nd Annual People's Choice Awards on January 10th in Los Angeles. The band won the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album in February of 2005, and is currently nominated for Record Of The Year at this year's Grammy's taking place on February 8th in Los Angeles, CA. They swept the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards by winning seven out of the eight awards for which they were nominated, including the most prestigious Video Of The Year; the 2005 Billboard Music Awards winning in total a staggering eight awards and the 2005 Rolling Stone Readers Poll winning Artist of the Year, Best Single and Best Band.

- You can now sign up for the free email-based 1,039 Sweet Children- Green Day Newsletter! Click here to subscribe for the "Tight Wad Hill Times (aka TWHT!)" The first article will be coming out next month - so sign up right now. Click here for more details...

- There isn't too much going on in the Green Day world, but the guys will be in next Wednesday's Kerrang magazine.

- Lots of new stuff/ improvements will be occurring here at 1039 SC in the next few months. The photo gallery is being completely re-done. It will have a new layout and way more pictures. We will keep you posted as time goes by. The lyrics section is also going to be fixed with more accurate lyrics and a better set-up. Finally, the next Survivor competition is starting next month. Click here for details.

- Please vote for 1,039 Sweet Children on the Minority TS and Celebrity Popularity. Click the picture-links above to vote. Thanks!

- Sorry for not updating in a while! There's not too much news to report lately, but Billie Joe failed to show up to the premiere of his movie debut, "Live Freaky! Die Freaky!" on January 17th. The unexplained absence of Billie, who is the voice of lead character CHARLIE HANSON,

prompted producer TIM ARMSTRONG to yell "Billie Joe, where are you?" after performing with his punk band RANCID at the after-show party.

- There are two articles about the People's Choice Awards: Article 1 | Article 2

- We have not forgotten about the 1039 Sweet Children Newsletter! It is titled "The Tight Wad Hill Times" and it should be out early next month. You will be able to subscribe [for free] starting tomorrow. On Sunday, the Survivor: Battle of the Songs (BOTS) votes were tallied up... And the winner is *drum roll*... ''BASKET CASE!'' Apparently you all do have the time to listen to them whine - wait a minute - who doesn't?! :) A new Survivor competition will be beginning next month! And finally, a new Fan of the Week will be chosen ~~tomorrow~~ Friday, so send in last minute applications!

Mike Dirnt is on the cover of Bass Guitar Magazine this for February. Green Day won a few Alternative Press Readers' Choice Awards: Artist With The Most Integrity, Old-School Artist Who Still Matters, and Old-School Artist Who Should Hang It Up. I think that's it. There's not going to be much news for a while

"Jesus of Suburbia" is currently number 27 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart. Speaking of 'JOS,' the music video has retired from Canada's Combat Zone after winning five times in a row! This makes 'JOS' the fourth video to retire off of "American Idiot." 'WMUWSE' was the only video that did not retire because it lost to Sum 41's "Some Say." In other news, Green Day landed at #40 on VH1'S '40 Craziest Concert Moments' for their performance at Woodstock in '94 (Mudstock). That is all the Green Day news for today! Oh yeah! I almost forgot ; This week is the last week to vote on Survivor; BOTS! The song with the most votes on Sunday wins! Go over and vote for your favorite song!
- Source: Billboard.com ... GSB

Green Day won Best International Group at the The Rock Bear "Rockbjörnen" in Sweden. Green Day also won Best Group at the People's Choice Awards. Tre was not present, he was celebrating his daughter's birthday. Also Green Day is up for Best International Group at the Brit Awards.
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1.14.06 - Adopt-A-Song: Five new songs are up for adoption! ... Survivor BOTS will be fixed tomorrow and the polls will re-open ... Lyrics: The lyrics section is going to be totally re-done - the new section will have more accurate lyrics and a better looking set-up! It should be done by the end of next week (depending on how busy we are!) ... Vote: Please vote for us on Minority TS and Celebrity Popularity by clicking the picture-links above! ... News update from Holly tonight!

- Adopt-A-Song will be updated tomorrow (sorry about the delay.) Survivor will also be fix tomorrow... It somehow got messed up!

Sorry for the bit of lateness guys. The People's Choice Awards will be aired January 10th on CBS at 9PM EST. Green Day is up for Best Group and Best Tour. Vote here at PCAvote.com. Also Itunes is selling the Bullet In A Bible video for your video iPod for $14.99. Last but not least, today is Billie Joe's father, Andy Armstrong's would be birthday.

Hey all you Green Day fanatics - how's it goin? Holly and I are very happy to see so many satisfactory comments on the new layout, however, we have noticed some people do not like it. If you are one of those people. please let us know how we can improve it by emailing us here! Alright - Super-long Green Day news time! :)

- Google Zeitgeist 2005
Green Day is #9 for Google's Top Gainers of 2005, along with Myspace, I-tunes, & Wikipedia...
(Read The Article: HERE)

- Kerrang! Awards
The guys of Green Day won the Best Band, Best Single (Jesus of Suburbia), Best Dressed Star (Billie Joe), Hero of the Year (Billie Joe), Best Video (Jesus of Suburbia) and Best Live Show (Milton Keynes) in the Kerrang! Reader's Poll.

- New Album Article (No huge info yet!)

Green Day Starting With Silence On New CD @ Billboard.com: here.

- Live Freaky! Die Freaky!

If you don't know yet (which you should!), "Live Freaky, Die Freaky" is an animated movie about the Manson family murders starring all three of the guys' Green Day's voices. It will be played in cinemas on January 27 and 28th. Below is a list of the theatres the movie will be played at:

Alamo Village Cinema Austin, TX
Brattle Theatre Cambridge, MA
Angelika Dallas Dallas, TX
Angelika Houston Houston, TX
Gateway Cinema 4 Fort Lauderdale, FL
Grand Illusion Seattle, WA
Guild Cinema Albuquerque, NM
Playhouse 7 Pasadena, CA
Sunset 5 Los Angeles, CA
Act 1 & 2 Berkeley, CA
Lumiere 3 San Francisco, CA
Sunshine Cinema New York, NY
Avalon Theater Washington, DC
Music Box Theatre Chicago, IL
Oak Street Cinema Minneapolis, MN
Real Art Ways Hartford, CT
The Loft Cinema Tucson, AZ

** The movie DVD will then come out on January 31st. **

** Click here (Right Click-Save Target As) to download the MP3 of Billie Joe's song for the movie soundtrack- "Mechanical Man!" **

OK, that sums up the GD news! Just so you know, there will be a new Fan of the Week tomorrow (send in your application!) as well as new adoptable songs and a new viewer advisory question! Well, that's it for today - bye. =D

Hey everyone! You must have noticed that the new layout is FINALLY up! What do you think? Please post comments and tell us (good and bad criticism are both helpful.) Holly and I worked really hard on the layout and we hope that all of you enjoy it. Let us know if there is any way to improve the layout. Also - vote on the new poll to let us know what you think. We aware that not all of the pages have the layout colors and some links may be broken - we are working on that and should be finished by the end of the week. The colors are not urgent, so the pages should still work fine (let us know if otherwise)! :) So yeah, beside some of the color problems, enjoy the layout! Site updates will be going back to normal soon - we are sorry about the layout delay that stretched out for a while... Okay - comment! :) Oh yeah, and you may have noticed that the tagboard is back - please DO NOT abuse it and don't post stupid stuff!!! Thanks!

Happy New Year everyone! Okay, we are just about done with the layout- it will definitely be posted TOMORROW (Tuesday) AFTERNOON! I think it looks really good and you will all enjoy it... It is a lot more organized and fan-friendly. Well, check back tomorrow evening to see the new 1039SC! :)