James // Dave & Chuck the Freak
June 1st
MLB manager Don Mattingly’s son Jordon has gotten himself into some trouble over the holiday weekend.
Jordon Mattingly was arrested in Indiana on Monday after drunkenly crashing his car. After crashing it he then immediately drove it, without a tire, to a local dealership where he wanted to sell it.
He’s facing multiple charges.
The Offspring frontman is one of the few rock stars that has or will speak at a commencement ceremony that has actually earned a doctorate degree. Holland earned a Ph.D in molecular biology from the University of Southern California in 2017, so the singer speaking at his alma mater recently was extra special. His full remarks can be heard below, and they even include a fun anecdote about him being in a USC lab and how it inspired him to write hit “Come Out and Play.”
Weird ginger hair phase aside, Bono was self-deprecating and uplifting. He told the graduates, “That’s what this degree of yours is, a blunt instrument. So go forth and build something with it. Remember what John Adams said about Ben Franklin, ‘He does not hesitate at our boldest Measures but rather seem to think us too irresolute.’ Well, this is the time for bold measures. This is the country, and you are the generation.”
JBJ delivered a moving speech in which he said, “Class is over, learning isn’t. Your diploma is a key – to open doors of possibility not only for yourselves, but for others.” However, he also wrote the graduating class a song for them.
While we kind of wished Alice would’ve been in full stage makeup and costume during his speech, Alice still delivered an incredible speech with this brilliant reminder: “If you succeed, you become a genius. If you fail, you become an idiot. You can always start again.”
The Berklee College of Music is one of the most prestigious art institutions in the United States, so they have significant pull when it comes to getting amazing commencement speakers. Annie Lennox’s address in 2013, however, is one of the standouts in recent years especially with insight like, “Consider this, wherever you think you’re heading right now might turn out to take a completely different path. What looks like an ending might actually be the start of a brand new beginning.”
