The Only Rhyme That Bites

The Green Day documentary The Only Rhyme That Bites, which sat in my Blockbuster queue for over a year as "unavailable," was finally delivered about a week before Christmas. Up until that point I had no idea what it was. I had no idea what the title was alluding to because it's not a lyric or a Green Day song title, but the dvd was described the same way at a bunch of trusted websites:

Green Day: The Only Rhyme That Bites documents the history of the rock band. Charting their progress from one of the many bands that were part of the San Francisco punk scene of the early nineties, to their breakthrough album Dookie, to their worldwide success with the punk opera American Idiot, the movie offers never before seen footage of the band.

As a fan of Green Day, I thought "hey, why not? It's got never before seen footage." So as I fired up the dvd you can imagine my concern when the first image was that of words saying "This documentary is unauthorized. No licensed Green Day music is contained herein." Fantastic. A Green Day documentary without any Green Day in it. I gave it a chance anyway, for about 15 minutes. At one point the focus shifted to a hard hitting interview with the drummer's mailman, and one of the more lengthy interviews involves a kid in the back seat of a cab who is billed as "US Green Day fan."

Next time I'll do a little more homework. Now I know why it took so long to come. It's probably Blockbuster's only copy.