Yeah, me too. The amount I would, and could, drink was excessive, along with just the overall lifestyle of it, but it wouldn't have gotten as far as it did in many other parts of the country where it would have stuck out like a sore thumb.

10 months ago in two days for me as well. I also quit on my own although I'm still working through some of the psychological issues involved with long term addiction (20 plus years). Although it worked for me and Jon, it might not work for everyone, if you even think for a second that you need professional help, get…

Nah, use to happen to me pretty much every morning. It's awful. When you find yourself turning your back to your family to pour your coffee in the morning because you don't want them to see your hands shake, it's time to call it a career.

And socially acceptable, which makes it harder to quit in my experience.

Yes please.

I call water parks "Crab Factories".

My routine is "Spotify before I buyify". I pay for the premium service, I try out new releases and if I like them I buy a physical copy. I'm probably in a super small minority by doing so, but it's saved me a ton of money from buying stuff unheard and, on the flip side, it's turned me on to stuff I normally wouldn't…

Have your character's head explode with the voice over "This could happen to you"

I'm sure it's fantastic and well worth my time to check out (I'm not checking it out).

I saw Maiden a couple years ago, they weren't promoting an album, but instead were doing the "Maiden England Tour" which was heavily 80s material and right in my sweet spot.

Dude won the 50/50 raffle at the Brewers game a couple days ago.

Yeah, I like it a lot, but I dig 70s psych.

I'm not what I'd call a fan, but I can't help but wish this woman the best. I'm looking forward to trying out this record.

Yeah, 20ish years ago, it was exclusively (at least as far as I remember) used as a subgenre of punk rock. Tribe 8, Pansy Division, Team Dresch etc.

I like to go outside though too.

Actually named after Brewers slugger Corey Hart (this may or may not be total bullshit).

Not much new stuff, still hung up on that Isbell record. At home I've been culling my record collection a little bit and was going through some Mellencamp, Steve Martin and Crosby & Nash to see what I wanted to keep.

That might be John Doe's greatest vocal take (although "Silver Wings" on that first Knitters record, is right there) and Exene's cool wail behind it all wrapped up in Dave Alvin's perfectly simple but literate look at a failing relationship in Southern California…..what a killer tune. My favorite by one of my…

Funny, I went through my Mellencamp collection this week too. Three albums, all very good, but not great, keeping them all instead of putting them in the "to sell" pile. Sometimes you need some John Cougar. Also, I thought Book of Souls was a good, not great record. They're playing about half of it in concert on…

Yeah, people ask how I can listen to 500 records a year. Get a Spotify platinum subscription and a shitty cubicle job. Done and done.