A couple of the songs on "The Revolution Starts Now" haven't held up over the years, but most are still amazing. "The Seeker" is eternal.

It was across genres, too, from Steve Earle to NOFX.

A guy who went into the bathroom with Glenn Danzig

Go to a zoo, and watch an ostrich poop. That's probably a fair recreation. It's also possible the non-avian dinosaurs pooped more like crocodilians, so you can head over to the reptile house to watch them poop, too.

There's a lot of great power pop and punk coming out of Melbourne.

There is high consensus among researchers that DST has a variety of negative health consequences and that permanently moving to DST would compound those consequences. Professional organizations, including the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have issued statements opposed to making DST permanent.

There are two possible reasons that legislators are advocating for permanent DST: 1) They think that they are advocating for permanent Standard Time because they wrongly associate the name with the fewer hours of daylight per winter day, and 2) They are dismissing the health impacts and are working on behalf of retailers, which have found that there is increased spending with more daylit shopping hours in the afternoons and evenings.

These fools. If we are going to stop moving clocks, we should be making Standard Time permanent. I have to believe that a significant number of legislators pushing for permanent Daylight Saving Time incorrectly believe that DST is what we use in the winter.

I had smoked for almost 20 years when I decided to quit. I used the patch. Be sure to follow the directions. Start with the right amount of nicotine based on your daily habit. Taper down as directed. Done properly, it will kick you of the habit.

The other thing to keep in mind are the non-addiction contributors to the habit. Identify and eliminate social triggers. If there are situations where you typically smoke, avoid them for at least 3 months. If there are friends who smoke with whom you usually hang out, avoid them for at least 3 months. That 3 month thing is pretty naturally ingrained in us. Making a habit or breaking a habit generally takes 3 months.

Thoughts on Glenn Danzig, Verotik comics, and the Verotika movie -- incompetent enough to be bad-good, or just bad?

Find a good college / independent radio station. Also, play with Bandcamp. It's harder to find new music these days, but it's not impossible by any means.

The experience that unfortunately is no longer accessible to you is living on strong in other places. I live in a rural town in the exurbs of a large city, and I have two great record stores within 20 minutes where I can go and tap into the knowledge of the owners to discover new music I might like based on what I already do.

I'm not familiar with the album you mentioned. Perhaps try other artists from ECM in its earlier period.

Minor Threat

Our innate drive to punish violators of norms, including fairness, is unfortunately undone by the tendency that far too many have toward pursuing a maxi-max strategy.

Do whatever you want. Musical tastes are subjective and personal. I'm not telling anybody that they aren't entitled to love "It's A Wonderful World."

Does the draw of a song wane if it is overplayed? Yes. Is the degree of wear-out constant across all songs? Of course not. It depends on factors such as how much a particular song is enjoyed by a particular individual and possibly the complexity of the music, which drives a host of neurological responses. Michael Bonshor, a music psychologist at University of Sheffield, has done work in this area.

No shit

Sure, people like it. Even though I think it's sappy, too, the Israel Kamakawiwoʻole cover version has real emotional draw. Unfortunately, that version, like the Louis Armstrong original, has been getting a lot of play in recent years. At some point, overplay can make a song less engaging.

Wear-out is an observable phenomenon across all types of creative expression. There is a sweet spot of frequency of exposure that, if exceeded, results in loss of interest and engagement.

I find that song insipid. A veneer of emotionality, constructed with a too-deliberate pop sensibility. The Armstrong original is further compromised by overplay.

The exceptionally high metabolism of bats has resulted in the evolution of an exceptionally effective immune system to counter the stress of that metabolism, inflammation, and DNA damage. The downside? That means viruses get into bats and mutate to variants that are stronger and stronger as they try to evade the immune system of these animals. When they hit on a mutation that enables them to jump to a new host species and out of bats, they have become quite nasty.