Welcome one and all, to my lovely goo goo dolls section. **UPDATE** The GGD's new album GUTTERFLOWER is coming out April 9th! So buy it! For me! Hahaha. Their new song "Here is Gone" has been on the radio for a week or so..it's pretty good. It's obviously poppy, but what can you expect. I will do a review of the new CD for you once I get it. This is so exciting!

TV Appearances!
Here is Gone" debuts on TRL March 25th, so vote for it!
Jay Leno April 5th
Carson Daly's show on VH1 April 10th
Rosie O'Donnell April 10th
Daily Show with John Stewart April 11th

LiNx!
Goo Goo Dolls Mafia Stories
This is where you can read some fine stories about the goo goo dolls mafia. It might be over your head, but it's alot of fun. Yay.

Misao's Funhouse (Elysion)
In Misao's funhouse you can check out French with John, which is VERY good, and also Polish Like Me, which has everything you would want to know about Poland. (Which is John's country of origin of course)

The Goo Goo Dolls Official Site
Well, here you can read the Daily Goo to catch up on all the Goo's news and you can also get some pictures and other items if you choose to do so.

JOHNNY IN A MAGAZINE!
That's right. John happened to be in the April issue of Teen People. He was interviewed about food. Yeah, kinda weird. But it was good. Here's a tidbit.

MY FAVORITE FOOD-
It's gotta be pizza. What else could it be?

MY FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPINGS-
When I was younger, I was a strict cheese-and-pepperoni man. But I started experimenting. Now I usually get some barbecued chicken, some basil, some sun dried tomatoes. Artichoke hearts are great. I love sausage and onions and all of that crazy stuff that will kill me. I might clog up any minute now if I keep eating it. If I clog up, everbody's out of a job.

You got that right!  Who would wanna listen to Robby sing?

MY LEAST FAVORITE FOODS-
Ironically: mushrooms and cheese. Except on pizza. Isn't that weird? Cheese makes me skin crawl. Yech! It's so disgusting, but not on pizza.

"Yech!" -Johnny

MY FEELINGS ABOUT FISH-
I hate fish. I've never eaten a lobster or a crab or a shrimp, ever, because they're bottom feeders. But I love tuna in a can.

MY FOOD PHILOSOPHY-
There are a few foods in the world that are inherently good, but there are a few foods that are inherently evil. Like, caviar is evil. But the french fry is a moral food. It's a wonderful food. A fench dry has never hurt anyone. The pizza, the french fry, the hamburger and probably the turkey haven't hurt anyone.

THE FOOD THAT MAKES ME HAPPIEST-
When you were a kid and started crying, they'd give you ice cream.  You're all sad and they give you an ice cream cone and you're OK. I wish that was all I had to worry about now. I wish I would cry and somebody would go buy me ice cream. Now they just go, " Shut up and get on the bus."

THE FIRST THING I EVER COOKED-
Fried eggs and toast. I used to cook alot when I was little because my mom worked. My mother was really big on that, She used to tell me that she didn't want me to bother my wife with stuff that I should know how to do myself. So she taught me to cook and sew. I love cooking and baking now.

QUOTES!

"I like being in America, where I'm ugly."

"You can't swim in the pool without splashing somebody sometimes, you know.  And if you swin through a spot that's too warm, you know something's wrong."

"Punk's not dead, it's just at K-Mart."

"Oh, your life just sucks.  Malinin's life sucks.  Call 1-800-CRY-ME-A-RIVER."

"You need to surround yourself with people who are better than you...that way you grow"

"If life hands you a lemon,throw it at someone"

"I'm going to stockpile beef jerky and water
 and dig myself a latrine."-John on Y2K-

"People mask their feelings of inadequecy with arrogance-- and I'm not about to do that."

"You know how neurotic I am? I'm the only guy in the world who has a self-help tattoo."

"We were an alternative rock band when that meant something--when it wasn't a clever marketing euphemism for mainstream rock."

"That cow stole my Grammy!"-Johnny on Celine Dion-

"I, like Madonna, must reinvent myself with each new album"

"So we came up with a really COOL name- The Goo Goo Dolls. That was smart."

"Tonight I'm wearing my Home of the Whopper Boxer Shorts."

"That comes from drunken stupidity and being young" -John on how they came up with the name Goo Goo Dolls-

My Opinion on the Other Guys
If you have ever seen or heard the goo goo dolls, you would know what my opinion on the other two guys is. They aren't very attractive, they can't sing very well (one of them doesn't sing anyways) and they don't write songs.Well one of them does, but they aren't as good.  So it's not like I just like Johnny cuz he's pretty, y'know? Some people don't think he's pretty anyways. He does wear too much eyeliner sometimes. But I do like the band as a whole, because Robby and Mike are good musicians. But alas, Johnny IS the leader of the band.
And he's the only one who doesn't look like a turtle.
 

VH1 Cover Wars and the Goo Goo Dolls

You may not be aware of this, but there have been many times (2) that the bands on Cover Wars have messed up the lyrics on a GGD song and have gotten away with it! I just think its terrible. The first time, this is what was sang.

And I dont want the world to see me, cuz I dont think that theyd understand, when everything SEEMS to be broken, I just want you to know who I am.

That was like, totally and completely wrong. Its when everything's MADE to be broken. And then the other day, guess what they did!

And I'll BE anything you'd ever dream to be complete, little pieces of the nothing that fall.

Its and I'll DO anything. Geez. They always get the point, and it's supposed to be totally accurate.

Irrelevant Happenings
I just thought it was funny one day when I was at Stein Mart (by the way I don't go there often, I think it is a cheap and skanky place) I heard a familiar tune...and it was Slide, except it was Stein Mart-ified. Like, elevator music or something. Strange. Also, I saw John on a Target commercial this Christmas season. I heard Iris play during an advertisement on TV for a movie that wasn't City of Angels. o.O

Vh1 Storytellers
Oh my goodness! This show was GREAT! It was on last night at 12 AM...the best GGD tv appearance ever! John did most of the talking, but he is so funny. He talked a lot about how he started hearing their music in supermarkets and he ran out thinking he wasn't cool anymore. You see guys, the goo goo dolls did not sell out, their music just evolved. They really were a punk band once. If you missed this, watch out for the repeat because it was an awesome show. I think Mike is gay though. 4_4