Dana Rzeznik was appointed in 2009 to a two-year term to replace Suzanne Branding, who was elected in 2007 to a four-year Trustee position but was elected mayor in 2009.

Takac and Tutuska had been long-time friends in school and met Rzeznik while he was playing in the band The Beaumonts with Takac ’ s cousin.

" We Are the Normal " ( the single for which Rzeznik asked frontman Paul Westerberg of The Replacements to write the lyrics ), received a major push toward play on college and independent radio, while its video was displayed on MTV's 120 Minutes program.

According to several interviews with Rzeznik, he was experiencing serious bouts of writer's block when he was approached, and was on the verge of quitting the band days before he wrote the song.

The song " Stand Alone " was written by George Tutuska, and because Johnny Rzeznik didn't want to exploit George's efforts after his dismissal, the song was only included on a promo version of the album.

This was " quite accidentally ," according to lead singer Johnny Rzeznik.

Following the completion of the Goos ' A Boy Named Goo ( 1995 ), Tutuska was fired from the band by frontman Johnny Rzeznik.

During pre-production for Goo, Tutuska had been rattled to the core by news that Rzeznik purportedly was hoarding royalties for the Superstar Car Wash single " Fallin ' Down.

Rzeznik was born in Buffalo, New York, the youngest of five children of Edith ( née Pomeroy ) and Joseph Rzeznik, a bar proprietor and postal clerk.

Rzeznik's father died from diabetic coma at the age of fifty-five when Rzeznik was fifteen years old.

It was during this period and while attending McKinley Vocational High School that Rzeznik began playing the guitar.

It is thought the band was originally called The Sex Maggots, however Rzeznik admitted this was a joke on stage one night, and he was " never actually in a band called The Sex Maggots ".

" Two Days In February " was re-recorded by Rzeznik, a studio version of the original, which was recorded outside.

The song was named " Iris " by guitarist / vocalist John Rzeznik for Iris DeMent.

Superstar Car Wash is the fourth studio album by the Goo Goo Dolls, released in February, 1993 on Warner Bros .. John Rzeznik wrote the song " We Are the Normal " with his idol, The Replacements ' singer Paul Westerberg.

The theme song, entitled " Once in a Lifetime ", is played by John Rzeznik of the Goo Goo Dolls.

* The Goo Goo Dolls ' Johnny Rzeznik has been quoted as saying he broke several years of writer's block and several years of sobriety simultaneously on the night he wrote the song Iris which when released in 1998 became their biggest hit.

Rzeznik found an article about her written by Daniel Levitin while flipping through an issue of Billboard Magazine, and thought she had a nice name, and thus chose it for the song title.

" The song also garnered John Rzeznik a " Song of the Year " nomination.

Michael Wood of The Village Voice described the song as a " a swoony acoustic folk-pop that Goo Goo Doll Johnny Rzeznik would trade his hair gel for ".

He joined Johnny Rzeznik of The Goo Goo Dolls for the song " I'm Still Here " from soundtrack to the animated movie Treasure Planet.

Then on September 18, 2009, John Rzeznik stated in an interview on Good Day L. A., that the new album had tentatively been titled Something for the Rest of Us.

During an interview with on February 16, 2011, Rzeznik confirmed that he is writing new material for a new album: " I've actually been experimenting, in this last week, while we've been out on this tour, just writing lyrics and then figuring out the melodic structures ," says Rzeznik.

concert in New York where Avril performed ' Iris ' by The Goo Goo Dolls with Johnny Rzeznik.

When Dr. Adenauer was approached by a world citizen delegation to find out his disposition of my case, he gave them his personal approval of my entry, saying that all men advocating peace should be welcomed into Germany.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

While this was being discussed, we saw the militia to the west of us fanning out and breaking into little clusters of two and three men as they approached the road.

he knew the fundamentals, and after studying with Fletcher for a time he approached Rector, announced that he wanted to be baptized and that was that.

The vacation traffic was becoming heavier as they approached the sea.

A politician was approached by a man seeking the office of a minor public official who had just died.

Shayne noted idly that it carried Miami Beach license plates as he approached, and then saw the flare of a match in the front seat as they passed, indicating that it was occupied.

As evening approached and Palmer finished his Saturday round with a disappointing one-over-par 73, this remarkable record was still intact, thanks to his Thursday and Friday rounds of 68 and 69.

He was surprised by the sharp sensation he experienced as he approached the pool which Charlotte had mentioned.

The score was written within a couple of weeks by Goodwin who was approached by George Pollock after Pollock had heard about him from Stanley Black.

After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.

By the time of Mesalim, whichever dynasty controlled the city of Kish was recognised as šar kiššati (= king of Kish ), and was considered preeminent in Sumer, possibly because this was where the two rivers approached, and whoever controlled Kish ultimately controlled the irrigation systems of the other cities downstream.

The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).

While the Byzantine troops were assembling for the expedition, Alexios was approached by the Doukas faction at court, who convinced him to join a conspiracy against Nikephoros III.

It was excavated by Spiegelthal in 1854, who found that it covered a large vault of finely cut marble blocks approached by a flat-roofed passage of the same stone from the south.

Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.

After pitching his team to a 26 – 2 victory over a local men's amateur team ( the Mercantiles ), he was approached by another, the Forest Citys, for whom he played for two years.

After he happened upon the chained Andromeda, he approached Cetus while invisible ( for he was wearing Hades's helm ), and killed the sea monster.

Byron Rickards, flying a Ford Tri-Motor, was approached on the ground by armed revolutionaries.

" Doc " was approached by Gen. Saturnino Cedillo, governor of the state of San Luis Potosí and one of the last remaining lieutenants of Pancho Villa.

The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.