So seriously, what's wrong with Green Day—that they make money? That they were commercially successful? That they're smug about shitty music that is closer to rock than actual punk?

It isn't even that sympathetic. What's a better way to get laid than to come off sensitive? And what's more practical than wanting to be liked, or coming off deep (among male or female fans)? If the "lecherousness" becomes something distinct to him, instead of a muddled personality trait he can turn into a human…

No, it was Mischa Wolff (the comic). I have to admit—he owes her some credit, because she gave him a fantastic narrative as being a romantic whose heart was turned cynical before he grew up into this flirtatious, irresistible dirty old man-type.
ETA: Wait—scratch that. He was MARRIED to Wolff. She's a comic/writer (or…