Tyler Blake/Fathomless

I'm catching up on the Winter Olympics on my lunch break, and I'm asking the same question I ask every 4 years. How the hell does a person get into skeleton? What kind of lunatic decides luge isn't dangerous enough and yeets themselves down a frozen slide headfirst at 80mph?

Is this the greatest punk rock album ever? No, it's not Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. But it's the best punk rock album of the 2000s, and a 10/10 album. It was also produced by Joe Barresi so it sounds super mean.

Source: I managed a Guitar Center for 5 years.

I generally agree with Propagandhi that ska sucks, but this specific album is the exception. I don't even like other Voodoo Glow Skulls albums (not even Band Geek Mafia), but the raw aggression and Latin vibes make me not bothered by the usually grating and cheesy horns

I forgot how fucking HEAVY some of these songs are. It bounces back and forth between catchy Descendents-esque songs (duh, it's just the Descendents without Milo) and full on hardcore assault

The short run time of these albums means this thread will get long very quickly. Next up, the All album that it seems most people forgot. It opens with the absolute banger "Self Righteous," mocking hypocritical straight-edge people

"Just because I suck don't mean you're off the hook"

I'm trapped in inbox hell after a week and a half off work. I'm attempting to ease my suffering with the punk rock that filled my playlists back in the good old days before I had to work. When all I had to worry about was skateboarding and finding a ride to my drummer's house for band practice.

Go to Guitar Center on a Saturday. 80% of local shredder in your area will be there peacocking on the loudest amp they can find. Ask the staff which ones are there every single weekend, then avoid those ones like the plague.

I just read the first 4 Discworld novels for the first time while I was on vacation last week. I'm already planning on buying another bookcase so I'll have somewhere to fit all 41 of them. I knew I'd like him, but I was always reluctant to start a series with that many books

YouTube video by Premier Guitar Rig Rundown - Whores

For Christian it's a lot of fuzz pedals and Marshall stacks

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Christian Lembach from Whores is great at that too.

I mean... how could I not buy a Cannibal fork in Fiji?

That man is my spirit animal

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The Nadi, Fiji airport apparently runs on island time. There are 8 total gates, and only 6 flights scheduled to depart, yet our flight is already delayed 45 minutes and counting.

The DS9 episode where Nog loses his leg then gets crippling PTSD is up there too

Unfortunately we have to leave Fiji and return to our normal lives. We really time travel on the way back. Our arrival time in Dallas is 6 hours before our departure time in Nadi. Crossing the international date line is wild.

Why not compromise and watch more John Woo? Perhaps Hard Target, which is simultaneously his best and worst. JCVD punches a rattlesnake unconscious, bites off its rattle, then ties it in a tree as a booby trap for his pursuing assailants. All while rocking a jheri curl mullet.

It's extremely humid in Fiji

...and often succeed. Except when it comes to Fleshgod Apocalypse. Maybe someday you'll see the light and recognize King as the GOAT FA album.

The most correct take

All of them? He's my all time favorite author, so I'm definitely encouraging a full catalog read.

Today we moved to a different resort on Tokoriki island where we'll spend the remainder of our time in Fiji, and it's even better. The South Pacific absolutely lives up to the hype

One of my favorite concert memories is seeing Bone Thugs at Psycho Las Vegas. An army of dudes in battle vests and Mayhem t-shirts just absolutely rocking the fuck out. There was a mosh pit during East 1999, then everyone had their arms around each others shoulders singing along to 1st of tha month

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

I find it really funny that the season after the OKC Thunder (a team relocated from Seattle to a historically football crazy state) defeated Indiana for the NBA Championship, both Seattle and Indiana won Football championships.

I can't even begin to calculate how many times my wife and I have quoted the "take out your Swiss army knife and cut me here just a little" line when we hear a Blondie song or simply see a photo of Debbie Harry

I love Cronenberg, and this is my favorite. James Woods is terrible in it (in all the best ways) and it's endlessly quotable.

This is the this 3rd time in the last 4 years that I've been out of the country during the Super Bowl (London for LVII, Bahamas for LVIII, Fiji for LX). At least this time I get American play by play and color commentary. The British commentators were hilariously bad.