Mar
7th
2005
greg graffin’s ph.d
there have been rumors for about the last 10 years that he was working on something like this. greg graffin, the frontman for one of my top-five favorite bands of all-time (bad religion) was recently awarded a ph.d from cornell. you can get a pretty good idea of his work here. there is a version of the actual questionnaire he sent out to scientists here. i also recommend the video interview with graffin. i will withhold judgment on the study, since i haven’t read it.
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He finally got it. That’s cool. I have been listening to BR since the early 90s. But I must admit that I am not very familiar with anything after Stranger Than Fiction. I have caught a little of The Gray Race, but even that is ancient now. But nothing can beat the older stuff. I would say the best of the “new” stuff is Recipe for Hate, which is already more than a decade old.
I have read GG’s punk manifesto and other of his writings. As an undergrad I used his text as the basis of a “new-historicist” paper for an upper-division literature course. Back in the late 90s GG was sponsoring a scholarship through BR. I thought that was interesting too. I wonder if that is still going on?
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This is the most esoteric post I have every seen on this blog.
By the way, have you ever figured out why Superman would be going to hell?
yeah, i never thought about that….just took it as a given. its a weird song, but i think “suffer” is their purest and best record.
Presumably because he represents “truth, justice, and the American way” (see Superman I). This is far too conservative a goal (remember the early 1980s context) for BR to get behind.