Lustworthy Man of The Month
Just to prove that I; #1. still have hormones that work, or #2. have not progressed past the mental age of 16, I bring you Greg Graffin, lead singer of Bad Religion, professor at Cornell University, and a Ph.D in Evolutionary Paleontology.
And he's a hottie.
Within the past few years he has published a thesis called "Evolution, Monism, Atheism and the Naturalist World-View." The thesis website, The Cornell Evolution Project, has Greg stating the purpose of the project as thus: "The purpose of this study is to determine the degree to which the world's leading evolutionary biologists believe in traditional religion, naturalism, and the philosophical implications of their science. A further goal will be to understand how they reconcile these disparate and often conflicting beliefs with their teaching and practice of evolutionary biology."
In order to do this a questionaire was sent to the world's leading evolutionary biologists polling them specific questions on how their personal beliefs pertain to their studies...in short, asking them if they believe in a god or not.
Bad Religion, one of the founding fathers of American punk rock, formed in 1980 in southern Cally, and has gone through many incarnations and alternatingly dwindling and burgeoning fan bases, only to still be rocking hard to this day. Greg Graffin is the main song writer and the lyrics are (as always have been) socially conscious and directed towards making the listener think.
Many ignorant and misguided souls who mistakenly claim punk rock (and all hard rock) is all about "Kill your mama! Kill your dog! Take drugs!" (if anything, punk is all about the power of thought) would find themselves challenged upon hearing a Bad Religion song. They might even like it, if they can turn off American Idol for one danged minute.
One more saucy picture of sexy Greg giving the old "No Masters" salute during a show....
posted by Bostonbootgirl at 9:12 PM
2 Comments:
He looks like a cross between Kevin Costne and Tommy Lee Jones - not that it's a bad thing. :-)
While I wouldn't find Greg lustworthy... sorry, don't play for that team... he and Bad Religion are one of those things too often overlooked in punk and hard rock music. Punk, Oi!, hardcore weren't all about how loud you can scream, how fast you can play, or songs about nothing but drinking and fighting. Too many bands came through and were barely recognized beyond the actual scene. Good Charlottee and Green Day are not part of "the scene". S.F.A., Dead Kennedy's, Combat 84, Cock Sparrer, Rollins, Slapshot, Agnostic Front, Youth Brigade, Minor Threat... with limited exceptions, if you weren't into the music and the life, you had no idea who these bands were, but they spoke to people. They had a message and you had to get past all the bullschtick to hear it.
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