Excerpt from Our Band Could Be Your Life: "Sometime in 84 they had done an interview in Georgia with, in Watt's words, "some longhaired guy" who did his own fanzine. They eventually found out the longhaired guy was Michael Stipe, the singer of a hot new band called R.E.M. It's remarkable that the Minutemen hadn't heard R.E.M. by 1985. "Ostriches," Watt concedes. "I only knew bands by playing with them." The Stipe interview must have gone fairly well, because R.E.M. invited the Minutemen on their U.S. tour of 2,000-to-3,000-seat venues in December of the following year.

One of my favorite Minutemen stories is that they got invited to open for R.E.M. despite not knowing who R.E.M. was

do you also buy cars from Honest John's Auto Emporium

He's deluding himself, frankly, as much as Keir Starmer is.

Needs a hyphen: Spider-Man

Doesn’t need one: antisemitism

Excerpt from "Our Band Could Be your Life": With inspirational lines like "I live sweat but I dream light-years," the Minutemen felt their music was by, for, and about the working person. "The first thing is to give workers confidence," Watt said. "That's what we try to do with our songs. It's not to show them 'the way' but to say, 'Look at us, we're working guys and we write songs and play in a band.' It's not like that's the only thing to do in life, but at least we're doing something -- confidence. You can hear some song that the guy next to you at the plant wrote. The working-person idea ran deep.

I like to think of the Minutemen as a missing link between Creedence and Fugazi, not just in their music but also their belief that music should be available and accessible to the working masses

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime CD

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime CD (back cover)

Hard to convey how weird it felt to buy this CD in 2006, pop it in my stereo, get to track 19, and exclaim "The song from Jackass?????"

It’s heartening, though, to learn that Watt happily sanctioned Jackass’s use of “Corona,” in part because he was a fan of Spike Jonze’s work, and in part because he wanted Boon’s music to be heard widely. “He can’t do gigs,” Watt told the author Michael T. Fournier in 2006. “He can’t be here to tell you about this stuff, and I can't do a good enough job for him.” Enter Johnny Knoxville.

For a while, I felt like Jackass's use cheapened the song. But I was moved by Mike Watt's reasoning for allowing them to use it.

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when are you volunteering to fight in Ukraine

the BBC is generally a trusted source, and they've been mostly pro-Israel on coverage of Gaza. do you think it's some random blog or are you that incurious

yeah we can tell

the syntax is broad enough that it reads as if you're talking about me here.

don't sign your posts

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Israeli rights groups accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza Israel's government rejects the allegations in the separate reports by B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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god they think they're so clever

i don't support either government or regime. they're both evil, fuck 'em. i support the people. this is a distinction you cannot draw because you inherently see Middle Easterners as uncivilised savages.