Are you me? I love Amigo the Devil, and I’ve got HDC and YotC on vinyl. I haven’t listened to much Froglord other than their split with Bog Wizard, and Snakemother is new to me, so I’ll have to get on that.

Also, don’t sleep on the solo albums from Dorthia Cotrell of Windhand. Some pretty solid doom folk

edit: Oh man, the reviews of Snakemother comparing them to both Faetooth and YOB have got me salivating. I can’t wait 'til I get home from work to sit down with my nice headphones and dig in.

Well, I will agree that punk as a DIY and political ethos is more in keeping with the original spirit of the punk movement, so by that token, The Mountain Goats would fit. I just hadn’t considered classifying them as such.

Thanks for the recs! The Mountain Goats is interesting, as I would have classified them more as lo-fi or even singer-songwriter, rather than any sort of punk (but then I’ve mostly listened to All Hail West Texas and The Sunset Tree, so my experience is limited)

Absolutely. I’ve been more into satanic folk and stoner/doom metal than punk lately, but I’m always looking for a new band/genre to obsess over

Yeah, we’re gonna need some band names here.

I’ll start: They’re more satanic than political, but Bridge City Sinners are a pretty solid folk punk group with songs about everything from mental health struggles to Uruk Hai, including a Jungle Book cover from their early days.

Well, it was completed in 1941 while the US was still strongly isolationist. We didn’t enter WW2 until after the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was December 7th.

So yeah, there was a world war going on, but the statue was planned and completed while it was largely “business as usual” in the US.

Profession can absolutely affect volume. Even without any hearing damage, any job that regularly requires that you project can become a habit.

I’m a chemistry professor at a community college, fairly well educated, and I flatter myself to say reasonably intelligent, but I still slip into what my wife calls my “teaching voice” in some social settings or even occasionally at home.

Plus, admitting that God cannot create light without dark or good without evil means admitting God is not omnipotent.

I have done this before when I needed to make one adjustment to a preexisting spreadsheet. If I don’t have my laptop and someone tells me about a change to a project, sometimes I’ll just make a note in my phone, but if it’s a quick fix, sometimes I’ll pull up the spreadsheet and fix it right away to avoid forgetting.

But that’s far and away the exception

Get out of Malibu London, deadbeat!

As for running, it is indeed quite hard on everything. I generally prefer biking, which I find a lot more fun and less straining on the body.

Until you crash, and then it takes you forever to heal as you get older. Swimming is good, but if you’ve spent your whole life in the water like I have, you wind up with burnt out rotator cuffs, etc.

Basically, any repetitive exercise will destroy you over time. Best to mix it up as much as possible

I’m not mad at it, but what’s with all the orb memes today? Hasn’t this meme been around forever?

Me too. I was really wondering what sort of interview this was.

Not, you’re thinking of Deadshot. A deadlock is a Scottish body of water that has been polluted to the point that no life exists in the lake.

That’s a good point. I’m familiar with the concept, but didn’t realize it had been formalized so distinctly, so I suppose you’re right.

It’s interesting, though, because one would think that’s there’s always going to be a balancing act between wanting to make your message more well known and wanting to keep it unadulterated.

Knowing those two, they probably love the irony of a corporation paying money to use RTJ’s anti-capitalistic, transgressive songs in an ad, let alone a brand like Cadillac.

But hey, it’s “ju$t” money

Scottish works better, no?

No, yeah

Damn fine cup of coffee!

I’ve only ever heard it used in pulpy adventure stories/comics like Howard’s Conan world (some of which do admittedly have some if that implicit racism common to fiction from that time). Has it become more explicitly neo-Nazi?