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I'm all into copious amounts of garlic and onions! I do it the same way. I've been incorporating more vegetables too, although I usually just stick with the cheapest ones available to me at the time. Let me know which ones go the best with the recipes you're about to share haha! Beans and rice are staples across the globe. What I'm interested in from you, is any specific way that you cook them that pertains to your country or specific region. What kind of beans, what spices, herbs, vegetables, etc.? And if you use a "crock pot" or "slow cooker" for meats like chicken, that would be most helpful. I have a good handle on a Mexican spice profile, and I'm just now learning Indian curry recipes. So if you could maybe give me a breakdown of spices that I could blend into a container that might be distinctly Brazilian, and how to use them, I could incorporate them into a weekly meal plan. I have a spice grinder and sometimes make bottles of regional blends of spices for seasoning chicken, rice and vegetables. Just some simple ideas that might be what you would call "the American's guide to basic Brazilian flavor." I'm not good at making dough, so that's really my only restriction, although I hope to get into it one day. No rush, take your time.

Yeah, that Comic Book Code was always a hindrance to creative artists who had to work around it while attempting to tell interesting stories. In a weird way, I feel like some of the creators were clever enough to work through these restrictions enough to where what they ended up conveying was even more profound, despite being so stifled by the code. The code was a challenge, and many of them found ways to tell compelling stories while being forced to work within its boundaries. It's nowhere near the level of Brazilian artists being subversive under the regime, but it's a lesser example which shows that true artists can persevere during oppression. I always look back to the X-Men comics of the 80s (including New Mutants and X-Factor.) They were tackling human rights issues through the entire decade, despite having to keep within the lines of what the code found acceptable. It seems to me that great artists will always find a way to get their message out, regardless of the powers that be.

Dude! All of the Brazilian food pictures and descriptions you've shown me are beyond amazing! They're all like little dough balls of magic. Maybe it's for the best that I don't have access to these foods on an everyday basis, because I would probably gain so much weight. I wouldn't be able to resist them. At the very least, I want to look up those videos that your mom watches about foreigners trying them. I've watched many videos in the same type of category. Like Mexican people trying Taco Bell, or American people trying Japanese snacks. I've seen many cross-country combinations, but Brazil hasn't showed up in my algorithm yet. That stuff you showed me looks absolutely decadent. Along with the music and movies, I truly believe that the food is so important to help me understand other cultures. Obviously there are far bigger things like history and politics, but in my "internet tourism" mindset, I find that these particular areas give me a certain kind of understanding that isn't usually found in books alone.

As you can probably tell by now, I'm really into food and cooking. I cook 99% of what I eat, and can barely remember the last time I went to a restaurant. I hope the topic doesn't bore you, but while we're on the topic, it only makes sense to elaborate on it a little bit. I'm just curious on what would be some of the most common, yet inexpensive meals for your region. I rotate my weekly meals. I'll have Mexican week, Japanese week, Chinese week, Indian week, etc. It would be really cool to pick up a Brazilian week, but I'm not sure what a normal budget meal week would look like. Beef has already priced me out. So steak is already out of my budget. But if there is a cool chicken recipe that I can make in my slow-cooker, or anything like that, I'd be interested. Not so much the boteco foods, more like something I can make on Sunday and eat for the rest of the week. Always looking to add meals to my repertoire.

I've always been meaning to get around to Moore's works. I think I've mentioned before that I've only read The Watchmen series. That's probably not even the one that would appeal to me the most either, since I think I have suffered terminal superhero burnout over the past 15 years. The other ones sound far more interesting to me. It sounds like his run on Swamp Thing sort of mirrors Frank Miller's work on Daredevil. Where they hired someone with a real vision to breathe life into a property that wasn't really going anywhere, which then in turn became the most famous and memorable part of the entire franchise. My only real knowledge of Swamp Thing was the supposedly campy movie that came out in the 80s, with Wes Craven as the director. The character might have had more of a chance if that wasn't what he was mostly known for by many. Other than that, I seem to remember some kind of controversy around Marvel's Man-Thing being the original, and Swamp Thing was considered by some to be sort of a rip off or something? Also, it's interesting that you mentioned Neil Gaiman, because there was a distinct reference to the Swamp Thing villain "The Boogieman" in the live action adaptation of The Sandman. In the show, some characters are talking at a convention about serial killers. One of them asks if the Boogieman is still active, and another character answers his question with "The Boogieman drowned in Louisiana 3 years ago" or something to that effect. I had to look up the reference, and it turns out that it came directly from a Swamp Thing comic. Perhaps this was part of Moore's storyline that you read?

I actually started reading From Hell a little while ago based on your recommendation, and while I haven't gotten very far yet, it does seem much better than the movie so far. I don't really devote enough time to reading comics or manga compared to watching shows on the screen. I always find myself not being able to balance my time for everything I'd like to get around to. One thing I do know just from reading lots of articles, is that Alan Moore seems to automatically disown almost every single adaptation of his work. I don't think I've ever seen an instance where he wasn't anything other than outraged by something he wrote being turned into a movie or show of some sort. I can't tell if it's because Hollywood has just consistently butchered his original intentions, or if he's just a generally difficult man who would never be satisfied with any interpretation other than his own. Any thoughts on that?

As for me, political season has just picked up to an unavoidable level. From now until November the rhetoric will be picking up. No matter how hard I'm trying to avoid it all, I can't look away. It's just too prevalent. This time around, I'm just trying to be a spectator instead of falling into unhinged tribalism like the rest of the country. This is the time that arguments will break out in common places, families will be broken up over disagreements, and friendships may become fractured. Everyone will just enter their own echo chambers of what they want to hear for their own confirmation bias, and anyone that disagrees with them will become evil monsters that want to destroy the country. All I can do is sit back and watch it like a drama playing out.

Oh! I did want to ask you about something! I don't know if you remember, but when I was talking about experiencing different cultures by watching or reading their media, I had also mentioned that I'm interested in their food as well. So when I was watching Estomago, there was one particular item that really got me interested. In the film they just called it "Chicken Snack," and it played somewhat of a significant part, where the main character cooked it far better than the restaurant owner did. Ok, so this thing looked like the most amazing food I've never even heard of. I looked it up, and it's called Coxinha. Is this thing sort of like how common hotdogs are here? Like can you get it basically anywhere at any time? Is it as good as it looks to me on screen? Is it something that people make at their house commonly, like for parties or for family meals? And does it taste as amazing as it looks? I was so curious about this dish, and I feel like I have to attempt to cook it at least one time. If it's as good as I imagine, I would want to make this quite often. Spend as long as you'd like telling me about it. Just so you know, we have nothing even close to this here available with any regularity. I just need to get your complete take on it, and also if it's something that is easy to make at home. This probably sounds hilarious that I'm so intrigued by a food that may be so common to you haha!

Ack, yeah dude, I literally had no clue what you meant by "organs," but now that you mention it being similar to "agencies," it makes a lot more sense. I probably ended up butchering your intended meaning, but I didn't have a lot to go on there. My second guess was that organs might have been similar to "tendrils," as in "The government had their tendrils in deep with censorship." Or something like that. Now I get it, though.

I may have overlooked or flat out missed things like "mid 00s." but generally we would usually put a "the" in front of anything referring to something like an entire era or decade. So yes, "the mid 00s" would sound more like what you would read here in almost every instance. I missed a few of those apparently.

"Somewhen" indeed does not exist at all. Although your case for it has me wondering why it's not part of the language! It actually sounds kind of cool. Almost like the title of a song from a 60s psychedelic band. Like I said, do your own style. The role I took on tonight was only a guideline of how your article would be presented through an American English filter (my own personal one.) As they say, "You do You." I would never want to inhibit what you're saying, or how you're saying it. By the way, the story itself was fascinating, and by going over it in such an in depth way allowed me to really absorb it. I'm always happy to help with things like this. It was like a little challenge for my brain, which probably doesn't get near enough "exercise" in day to day life.

Yeah man, it's not a "be all, end all" edit. It's just what I would have done to make it more accessible. There were a few parts where I wasn't sure what your original meaning was. Especially one part with the word "organ" in relation to censorship. I did my best with that one.

It's all good, man. I also fixed a few typos that I hadn't noticed the first time around. I think I had something like "of of" that I fixed.

I think I made it visible. Try it now. This is my first time sharing a document.

Hey man, I went and did a full edit job on your written piece. It'll be showing up in your private messages. If I were to post it here, anyone who would have seen it would think I was being some sort of grammar nazi. I went through the entire thing, and have added underlines to almost everything that I have changed. You don't need to use my changes, they're just how I would have presented it if it were my own work. Compare it with your original, side by side.

Ahh, sorry I got to you a little later than usual. I don't have time to address all of the things I wanted to get to tonight. However, I'll first attempt to help with the translation issue, which is my favorite thing to help with. So for the word "diarrhea," we would most likely see that word used exactly. Sometimes the clinical word might actually be the most humorous term in certain situations. However, if you're looking for something closer to the UK "trots" (which isn't widely used here,) I must say that the most common equivalents would be "The Runs" or "The Shits." But actually using the clinical term of "diarrhea" would be just as common.

As for the Led Zeppelin being known as song bandits, I'll give you the most comprehensive list that actually includes examples that I've found. There are other lists that are even more incriminating, but this is the perfect list for anyone that isn't afraid to allow the image of this band to be shattered. https://liveforlivemusic.com/features/just-how-much-of-led-zeppelins-music-was-stolen/

I'll try to get around to other topics over the weekend, but tonight I've really pushed the envelope of available time. That Zeppelin video should keep you occupied for a little while. It's really mind blowing when you compare their songs with the original uncredited source material.

Thanks for explaining Raw Punk, it definitely lives up to its name and is an unmistakable sound. Also appreciate the share of these bands, man. This is amazing stuff.
I went through a d-beat phase in my early 20s and really love first wave d-beat like Discharge. Those bands you showed tho have the crunchiest and grittiest guitar tone, it's crazy they were getting that kinda tone. Reminded me of like Flipper or Slip It In era Black Flag. Speaking of crust punk, you ever listen to Choking Victim or Leftover Crack?

The intersection of punk and social politics for Brazil's 1st wave of punk bands seems really interesting, I wanna read more up on that and how they came to getting the means of finally recording. That's a crazy story, and not sure why there isn't a doc on that. Super important for music history.
Luta Armada reminds me of street punk and The Exploited. Interesting mix in their guitar work and song structure.

Glad you dug them! I got to see them live before and the singer controls some of the fx with a digital pad on her right hand and just has the greatest stage presence and commanding of a crowd I've seen.

Oh shittt, I haven't heard this song in forever! Dude, thank you for sharing this, I heard this a longass time ago in high school by a friend and never thought of it since. Gotta revisit them. Never heard of NervoChaos before tho, I'll give them a listen as well. RIP to a real one tho, just checked out more of her projects and she's amazing. Appreciate this music sharing.

You ever get into nardcore bands at all? These are some ones that come to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM9MMfJAEhc
https://youtu.be/s79JBBNYbB0?si=GtE-3JOtWyytPL4u
https://youtu.be/AGICdGcIuHI?si=etXbCP9E_AET4RLX

Number Girl is really good and worth diving into. Zazen Boys is a bit more out there for sure. haha I kinda like jumping between the two just to kinda see the genesis of the latter.

Finally listening to the whole playlist you sent last week. I'll comment on the ones that I took notice of the most. Also, you mentioned T-Rex. I'm very familiar with them, but it might surprise you that my absolute favorite Marc Bolan project was "A Beard of Stars," when the band was still going by "Tyrannosaurus Rex." That's a top 10 album of all time for me. I consider it to almost be a perfect album. But you know I also love Electric Warrior. Just slightly less. There's just something about his transition between acoustic, magic, Tolkien elf nerd, to glam-rock, top hat, background vocals by the Turtles, hit machine. One album in between hits my sweet spot. And that is A Beard of Stars.

This Baker Gurvitz Army song is really cool. It was surprisingly short too. As soon as it began, I was thinking it was probably headed into multi-part 6-8 minute territory. Keeping it short made it pretty much perfect. I can't believe I've never even heard the name of this band.

I had a Budgie album at one point, but I can't remember what it was called. I know it was the one with Breadfan on it, so I'm sure I bought it because I had heard the Metallica cover. This Napoleon Bona Part I & II song features a riff that obviously influenced (to put it lightly) a Mercyful Fate song called Black Funeral. I was quite surprised when I heard it. It is nearly exact in both chords and the galloping drum beat, but just for one measure. Check that one out if you want to see what I mean. I like
The Author, especially once it picks up the pace. They definitely have something different going on compared to a lot of their contemporaries, I just can't put my finger on exactly what it is.

Another band I had never heard of is Culpeper's Orchard. At first I had almost thought it sounded a little too "American hippie culture" for my tastes, until of course I read that they were from Denmark. That always happens to me when I'm listening to these obscure 70s bands. I have a very hard time being able to even figure out what continents these bands were from just by listening. I like it when it gets down to rocking out from around 5:30 until the end.

ELP is a band I've never really wrapped my head around. My father has a few of their records, but we're both bigger fans of the bands these guys were in before ELP (The Nice, King Crimson, Atomic Rooster.) I really do like it when they get into the rock groove parts and use the Moog synth rather than the standard Hammond of the time (although there's a little bit of that in the background here as well.) I've only been really interested in early uses of synthesizers for a few years now, and from what I can tell, it's these guys and Yes/Rick Wakeman who really made the Moog a major part of their sound. I've always liked Greg Lake's voice, but I think it's better suited for the darker melodies of King Crimson's early stuff.

I've always tried to get into Genesis, I've just never found the right songs. It's always a little strange to hear Phil Collins singing this type of music, since what he would become known for later was so vastly different. And the other one with Peter Gabriel, this is a good little psychedelic song, perhaps better than many of the bands of the time. I like this one a lot. Also always strange to hear his voice on these songs compared to his solo work, but a little less so than the Collins songs.

Everyone here knows only two Golden Earring songs, so I was interested to hear what they sounded like outside of the hits. There seems to be a few artists who began singing in this higher operatic voice, which eventually became something a lot of heavy metal was known for. And I'm not talking Robert Plant vocals, and I realize that Arthur Brown was doing something similar far earlier, but these are something different. So it seems like it kind of took off with Deep Purple, and Golden Earring next (although used more sparingly.) Then Judas Priest adopted it a few years later, and after that it seems like it became one of the de facto heavy metal vocals styles for years to come. Let me know if that sounds right, I'm sure I've missed a few important ones in between. I'm talking about the most influential ones, not necessarily lesser known bands who used this style.

Neil Merryweather does a very cool cover of Eight Miles High here. Very different feel from the original, but a very interesting take on the classic. He changes it up enough to make it his own. Side Note: I had first accidentally typed "They change it up" before I realized I was talking about one guy, not a band. So once I fixed "They" to "He" I also had to alter "change" to "changes." Which made me realize that it must be difficult to learn to type in English with all of these little rules about different tenses, if you didn't learn them very young. You do a great job overall, I was just wondering if things like these were some of the more difficult hurdles of learning the language. If not, what were the absolute hardest parts to figure out consistently? This subject always fascinates me, because through reading all of my life, I constantly find things about English that seem completely arbitrary, and many that are inconsistent with each other.

Ah, Slade. I only know Slade because of Quiet Riot. You may already know this, but after Randy Rhoads left the band to help Ozzy start his solo career, the band went on to huge success on the back of a cover by Slade in 1983 (the albums with Randy were from the late 70s and only released in Japan.) On their next album, they did something that I can only imagine was demanded by the record label, and recorded yet another cover of a different Slade song. That's a really bad sign for a band, if two of your three biggest hits are covers of the same band. They got away with it because nobody here had ever heard of Slade. They were massive in the UK, but completely unknown here. The US took to bands from the same scene like T-Rex and The Sweet, but not Slade for whatever reason.

Stray seems like a really cool band. At first listen I was a little wary of the heavy use of a horn section (which just always reminds me of the band Chicago,) but my fears instantly subsided. I really like every song except for Mr. Hobo. It was very much that "Americana," roots, blues thing. Despite being from this country, I don't find our roots music (blues, country, gospel, etc.) to be all that interesting. I'm always baffled how so many artists from Europe (especially 60s UK bands) wanted to emulate these styles. Everyone from The Beatles, to Led Zeppelin, to Black Sabbath just loved blues music, and took so much inspiration from it. It's almost like a sin here for me to admit that I find blues to have an incredibly limited scale with almost no room for growth. I have a ton of respect for the original blues artists. The music originated from the post-slavery era, and was predominantly created by survivors of that period. When viewed in that light, it makes sense. A music of pain and suffering from those who had actually experienced it. But once it was adopted (or "stolen" as some might say) by rock bands for the next few decades, it really reached its limitations. All three of the UK bands I mentioned got far more interesting once they started incorporating more European elements to their songs. Don't get me wrong. Sabbath's first album is still incredible, despite 90% of it just being a minor key blues record. And Zeppelin's debut was a great blues album, despite most of the songs being literally stolen from artists who were not credited, and were too poor to fight for the royalties of their songs. I love Bob Dylan, and he was heavily blues influenced in his early years. I just feel like hundreds of artists like Eric Clapton drove the entire genre into the ground with their bland takes on it. The Blues has its place in rock music as a major building block of influence. I'm just not into what it eventually turned into, with a bunch of boring white guys trying to make it their own thing (again, Clapton.)

I was interested in hearing Supertramp beyond the hits. The only song I had ever heard up to this point was the one that goes "Take a look at my girlfriend, 'cause she's the only one I've got" or something like that. I put these guys in the same category as 10cc and Sparks, as 70s bands I should really know more about. Fool's overture got interesting once it got a little darker. They remind me of a darker version of Styx on this one. I liked the song "School" the most out of all of the songs. I feel like this might be a band with hidden gems waiting for me to discover.

Ten Years After. Yes. This song is a personal favorite of mine from when it used to be played on Classic Rock radio (before the format shifted.) I worked with a guy who was really into them at one time, so from that interaction, I believe that I know that the band member Alvin Lee was very important from what he told me. I haven't heard much beyond this song, but it's one of the all time greats. He really wanted me to listen to the solo work after this album, but I never got around to it. Keep in mind this was over 20 years ago.

That last song by Yes. I've heard it many times, I think this time I just wanted to point out how much it sounds like it could be a Jane's Addiction song 25 years after it was originally recorded.

That's about all I have this time. I realize that it takes me a while to do justice to your playlists. I just want to make sure I'm taking it all in, and giving you my honest opinions. As always, I prefer the darker songs. As you have probably learned this time, I'm not big on most blues dominant songs. But all in all, I thank you for showing me some really cool songs that made me think!

lol, Aika has a futuristic setting, following global upheaval due to flooding, earthquakes, volcanoes, etc. The MC acts as a salvager of materials from the ocean and a corporate spy of sorts. There's a substance sought after that acts as a source of energy and a weapon. This weird scientist guy who wears lipstick is experimenting with it, and he has a harem of women bodyguards. His plot is to destroy the world and humanity, so he can repopulate the earth. It works as a decent action comedy with an ungodly amount of panty shots. XD

I think the same director of Aika made Najica Blitz Tactics, and it's supposed to be similar with panty shots, but it seems to lack the more outlandish sci-fi plot and scenery, and it doesn't have the '90s OVA aesthetic.

I've been meaning to see Labyrinth of Flames as well.

I agree! I heard a few newer punk bands, and I had no idea what was going on. Their vocalists were literally those mumble rappers, like those ones that all have "Lil" in their name. So they were mumble rapping with autotune over this really slick sounding music that sounded like it was designed in pro-tools. But if that's what it took for the genre to survive into this century, I guess that's just how it goes. It's absolutely not made for someone of my age. But of course it was always made for the teens and early 20s people. So if they're making music that is confusing me at this age, that's probably part of the appeal for the younger generation. I didn't really like what I heard of it, but they wouldn't want me to. I've been officially aged out of punk haha

Oh, and any time I ever do play power chords, same here for 5th fret with A and D. I wouldn't try to pull off an actual D chord while playing a heavy song!

I kind of get what you're saying, but I can't "hear" those Tetris shapes in my head. I actually had to grab one of my old guitars to understand what you meant specifically. When I played the chords in each of those shapes, I could definitely see how each one could create (or recreate) many different punk songs. The local punk bands here from back in the day probably (unknowingly) used these patterns exclusively. I've never built a mental picture in my mind like this, but my analysis of most punk guitar "theory" (which sounds like too complex of a word for what it is,) is that it's basically only playing power chords within the first 5 frets, and occasionally shifting up the neck, like you said (like a 7th fret E,) just for a little variety in sound.

In my opinion, this is how most punk songs by younger players are created. Just attempting to find a slightly different pattern than the thousands of other songs that are using this limited selection of chords. This is where my appreciation for vocal melody plays the biggest part in songwriting. Any of these basic chord combinations can immediately be enhanced by a good vocal line that doesn't simply stick to the chords themselves. That's where I think the most memorable punk bands found their notoriety. Almost none of these guitar players are doing anything revolutionary, complicated, or "out of the box." Many times, the singer is often also the guitar player, which simplifies the process even further (playing while singing is not something that comes easy to everyone.) When certain punk bands that weren't able to craft melodies, either from lack of talent or because it wouldn't fit their image, that is where I find that the "virtuoso punk bass player" really became a necessary occupation.

I haven't found many punk guitar players that I've ever looked up to, or wanted to emulate. They usually seem to be the part of the band that stand out the least. Obviously there are many exceptions. East Bay Ray from Dead Kennedys, and Mike Palm from Agent Orange come to mind. Any punk band whose guitar player could at least play a simple solo get more points in my book. Greg Ginn, no matter how dissonant he sounded (obviously on purpose) at least added a crucial element to the sound of his band. And going back to classic "77 punk," most of those guys were more than competent, and added enough character to their bands to stand out, more than simply making the guitar a basic rhythm instrument, which is what it had been reduced to by the time hardcore sprouted up.

I've mentioned before that I appreciate it when a punk band isn't afraid to allow their guitar player to express themselves. I find that it was detrimental to the instrument itself to make it "taboo" for guitarists to play anything other than power chords. There were hundreds of bands that still turned out great without needing more than the most rudimentary guitar work. I get it. I'm not hating on bands like that. Sometimes it serviced the message of the band better to keep it simple. I'm mainly against the bands that were so worried about their image that they would stifle any musician with talent beyond the basics. As you can see, I have mixed opinions on all of this. I didn't mean to go on a rant, but I suppose it sparked something in me. I've never liked how over the years, punk has turned into a genre with a strict formula. This stifling of the music has little to do with the original bands, who actually embraced things like experimenting, and sounding different to stand out. If punk is no longer about individualism and expressing new ideas, and is more about fitting a strict template to sound like your contemporaries, it has obviously lost the original intention.

Whoo, ok, rant ended. I haven't completed the playlist you last sent just yet. I'll get to it as soon as I can. I almost hesitated and deleted my rant up there, but I figured a stream of conscious thought wasn't bad to throw out there. Perhaps I'll regret it tomorrow. But that's how it usually goes. I'm glad that you're open minded and not easily offended. It's nice to be able to freely talk about topics that nobody else I know would have any knowledge of. So you'll have to excuse my exuberance for going on extended tangents such as this. I'll get back to you when I have completed the playlist.

I still need to watch that show. I know I'll like it. I think I'm putting a lot of shows off because I don't want to run out of the "sure thing" ones I know I'll be into. Same thing with that Texhnolyze one. I need to save some highly regarded ones for later.