Yep. Clint Conley.

@avclub-f688ae53ecd9ab39288ac465aa4f86d8:disqus just accidentally the entire bag.

When I look at that photo, all I can think is Henry Rollins/Garfield is checking his watch to see if it's "Hero Time".

I wouldn't be surprised if Modern Lovers was on the radar of the DC HC scene. Minor Threat did covers of The Standells and the Monkeys - they had an ear for good pop.

Building on @enkidum's advice:

Totally. Our band is called Reposted Insufferable AV Club Commentator

That's what makes Boxcar the perfect song for everyone's punk rock phase.

A lot of the hardliners came out of addiction prone families, so the natural way to rebel against fucked up permissive parents is to not get fucked up. I remember overhearing some straight edgers talking to each other and it sounded more like a support group meeting than a few kids hanging out.  For those, people…

Drop D tuning for every fucking song…There's an live Earth Crisis cover of Sunshine of Your Love out there - the singer had to put out a disclaimer before the band launched into it.

Boston SXHC was one of the worst. Wasn't there a crew in that time that saw themselves as enforcers and beat a dealer to death?

Hey! I resemble that remark.

Damn racist skinheads! When I saw them at sXe shows it was always time to leave.

It's weird to hear MacKaye now trying to explain his early work without saying saying something like, "Look I was fresh out of high school when I wrote that. Most of the shit you write as a teenager never sees the light of day, never mind an international audience. I was still developing my voice as a songwriter then."

Maybe it's a little revisionist on MacKaye's part, but, he claimed he was was singing about the personal choices of he and his friends made and the movement was born from people outside of the DC hardcore scene's reaction to the song. It seems plausible because there are only a few songs that are anti-drug use.

Most of the hardline straight edgers I knew were kids vulnerable to extremes. The straight edge band in my HS, Earth Crisis jock types, ended up being the most inebriated musicians by senior year. Outstripping my hippie friends by an appalling level. Most turned out ok but a few have pretty sad lives, including the…

My main beef is they often attack the top stories of the day from the same angle. Granted, coming up with original and funny material every 24 hours on the same headlines is difficult and not always possible, but, there have been many times I've watched Colbert and thought, the same joke was on TDS.

a whales vagina.

From the first time I saw this, I wanted to smash the producer's head in with a brick.

I have a feeling this may be double plus ungood.

The first set had that "can I make it all the way through?" charm. I have no desire to see any more of that series.