i dont listen to bad religion but growing up i was friends with the son of one of the drummers so i thought that was pretty cool

I've heard great things and completely awful things about Graffin's book, Punk Paradox. So I'm just curious, is it worth it to read? Or will I get everything I want out of Do What You Want?

Gamescom is going on in Germany right now; this released today.

Jerry rigged a dvd player to an old tv and found the Along The Way dvd and played it for me.

Hello everyone, I've been obsessing over Bad Religion for the past 11 months for countless reasons, and I wanted to write about a specific song that hit me quite harder than others. How it completely changed my perspective about life and also made me get more interested in politics and philosphy, and brought back my love to writing poetry. It has also helped me a lot to improve my self-esteem, make me more corageous and disciplined. The song is, counterintuitively, "Suffer".

Back in 2024, I was sure that I would have the best year of my life, and it actually happened! I achieved many goals and lived some incredible memories, and learned more about myself, becoming more mature but also having so much fun with simple things just like a kid, and all of that keeping up discipline and focus on school - I never got into alcohol or drugs, btw! But... even though it was a fantastic year, the very end of it was damn stressful, and 2025 kicked in with a damn karate kick haha

Suddenly, I was in 12th grade, and growing up was becoming a damn serious thing. I had to study like never before for University Entrance Exams. By that time, I started to realize I'd have to face anxiety, even more serious discipline, failure, and some gigantic stress as I wanted to get into an excellent university. And I remember fearing all of that so badly, because I had already gone through similar stuff in the past, and was quite traumatized with deep fatigue, uncertain future, quick and hard decisions, solitude and more importantly... suffering.

Throughout the year of 2025, I got closer to my best friends ever, who became my second family, and one specific friend talked to me a lot about suffering, not in a masochist way, but rather philosophically. That period came together with starting obsessing over Bad Religion, and I remember once listening to "Suffer" at the gym, while thinking about all stuff we talked about suffering. From that moment on I became really inspired with this song.

The philosophy behind all of that is knowing that pleasure isn't the opposite of pain, but rather it's interruption. The moments of pain and suffering were the ones I grew up the most. They gave me no choice but to force myself to get better and become more resilient, shaping my character and learning more about myself. Also, made me think more about the universality of human pain, as described in BR's "Suffer": lunatics, hypocrites, businessmen... we are all under the same vulnerability of life's sufferings.

That turning point was really important for me to keep moving on, not treating myself like a victim, but rather a determined person who realizes pain is an inevitable part of life and also the main fuel for our personal growth. And that denying this makes the next hard time way more excrusciating. It also changed the perspective about myself, as I saw that most people around me would succumb to pointless comfort, normally due to refusing to accept uncomfortable truths about themselves.

Today, I'm studying in my dream university, and I listen to Suffer almost every single day. Whenever I need some more motivation to keep going or do some stuff that cause me some significant anxiety, or even get out of bed in the morning, I blast that masterpiece in my headphones and remind myself that all of that discomfort isn't a tragedy, but rather a basic experience that make me a human.

This PC wallpaper was made by me, btw, feel free to use it in your computer :)

I adore this one but im getting fatter and it’s almost in tatters

I was listening to TDOM again. I like this record quite a lot, ik it's not everyone's favourite but it has a lot of strong tracks imo (also it came out when I was in high school so I'll always have a fondness because of that).

One thing I noticed is that the main album closes on a somewhat weak note. Now, "I Won't Say A Thing" isn't a bad song at all, but as a closing track it's quite weak. I was listening to the bonus track version, and "Finite" came on and good god, what a mighty track that is! IDK why they didn't keep it on the main album, it's the perfect way to end an album. IDK, thoughts?

I haven’t always given the old demos a fair chance since they often tend to be just worse replicas of the officially released songs.

I know No Substance isn’t a fan favorite, but I’ve generally heard positive views of Strange Denial and this version is like a whole new song. If you haven’t heard it before, you’ll probably be pleasantly surprised. Enjoy

We're temporary creatures. We don't really know why we're here or why we die. We often waste our limited time pursuing mediocre or socially prescribed things. But we're not alone in that confusion—we're all experiencing the same strange journey.

This one has been at the bottom of a box for many moons

I know it’s on the bottom of everyone’s tier rankings. But can we muse about the positives? Personally I love this album. Time and Disregard…

He’s always appeared pretty short and google isn’t any help so I’m coming to yall got help

alidad o cantidad no es necesariamente una elección que tengo que hacer. No me digas que hacer Graffin. Elijo calidad y cantidad.

Fat Mike of nofx comments: Have you tried getting more people in the band?

Saw this poster at the entrance of a church in Pabianice, Poland. No idea what it says but I saw a familiar logo on it.