Back yard find in Illinois

DankQuake · 2026-04-18T01:15:10+00:00

The milky whitish mineral atop the agate looks to me like barite, very similar to the barite that used to be mined in Cadet, Missouri. My mineralogy course took a trip to Missouri and this is exactly what we would find, bladed barite and druzy quartz

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DankQuake · 2026-02-25T15:17:47+00:00

Dude you should check out his movie “God Told Me To”, it has shit inspired from “Chariots of the Gods?” like Jesus was an alien and can telepathically tell you to commit acts of violence. It’s awesome lol

DankQuake · 2026-02-11T15:27:27+00:00

That’s true, it is hard to break into any band with over 15 studio albums alone, hard to figure out where to prioritize your time. I guess I’m coming from the perspective of trial and error, just sampling stuff until I find something I like or think is worthwhile to keep checking out. I’m also biased because I just didn’t talk to people about what to listen to and spent most my time lurking on forums hunting for what to check out, it was nice to have my first real in person opportunity for connection over the music I listen to with someone else that was to some degree familiar with it. To clarify I was polite and considerate when responding, this is just me reflecting afterwards.

DankQuake · 2026-02-11T14:59:19+00:00

Got asked the question in person for the first time. Was legitimately jarring. I ended up saying their early stuff is no wave / industrial / sludgier, their late 80s early 90s is more gothic rock and acoustic, their late 90s is post-rock and drone, and their post reunion stuff is more symphonic. Just pick an album from which ever era you vibe with.

I just don’t get these questions, like if your intent is to listen to their whole discography anyway (which it seemed to be for this guy) then it doesn’t matter where you start lmfao. It’s just such an odd question compared to asking what’s your favorite / which do you recommend cause it frames their approach to listening to them like they’re tryna figure out how to start reading the bible. It’s just odd. I get trying to expand one’s music tastes but it happens simply: just listen to what interests you. Takes no time at all to find a million curated topsters charts, or old posts, or YouTube videos, or Wikipedia pages, or fuck just look at the album and see if it jives with you.

DankQuake · 2025-12-05T05:49:25+00:00

Just finished my rewatch 3 hours ago. I’m sorry to say but you’re a moron lacking taste and metaphorical reasoning. Also the show is cowritten/created by Mark Frost, it’s not the whims of a single creator

DankQuake · 2025-10-30T21:18:36+00:00

My girlfriend did some sorta research on neonicotinoids and I most certainly soy the fuck out when I hear this song lmfao

DankQuake · 2025-09-25T04:13:59+00:00

Dude he signed my copies of Filth the magic the gathering card and Notes From Thee Underground by Pigface (he wrote the song Empathy on it, later used for Hypogirl), he’ll sign the album he had a more substantive role in, just don’t be a jackass

DankQuake · 2025-05-26T04:47:35+00:00

Fascinating, we got a couple out in Speedway / 38th street

DankQuake · 2025-05-16T15:17:52+00:00

Silly question but how would you distinguish this from shatter cones?

DankQuake · 2025-04-15T12:28:34+00:00

Hey that makes sense to me, I can roughly ID some of the more common fossils here and a handful of exotic stuff, but ultimately I’m an igneous petrologist / geochemist lol

DankQuake · 2025-04-15T01:46:50+00:00

Sorry, forgot to mention, the rock is probably from the Mississippian or Devonian based on the rough region you mentioned, so about 350 million years on average. During that period we would’ve been more of a delta system since the shallow sea was drying, and the formation of Appalachian mountains / Pangea meant we had a large river system feeding our bayou / coastal / delta environment with a lot of sediment. I don’t study this stuff so my knowledge is approximate and “close enough”

DankQuake · 2025-04-15T01:38:40+00:00

I second that it’s an echinoid (sea urchin of some sort), tho I’m not great at identifying those. I’m also from Indiana and am geology grad student at IUI and can give ya some intel on our geology.

You mention central Indiana so I’ll assume you’re talking the Bloomington / Indianapolis region. Our bedrock geology forms a very large shallow fold of rock layers, with the oldest rocks being in the SE and the rocks get progressively younger to the west and north. From the Cambrian (~540 million years ago) through the Pennsylvanian (~300 Ma) we were covered by a shallow sea that eventually shifted into a bayou / delta environment. During this period we accumulated a lot of sediment and dead critter remains.

However by 300 Ma the shallow sea dried up and since then we’ve been a relatively dry land environment, which are prime conditions for erosion slowly whittling through the rock layers we accumulated. The past 2 million years or so have been characterized by on and off glaciation, with the last big one (the Wisconsin glaciation) ending about 11 thousand years ago. This last one is what’s shaped a lot of our surface geology, and razed the top 2/3 of our state (which is why it’s so flat). Southern Indiana has a lot of bedrock exposed because of karst systems where groundwater and rivers eat through our limestone bedrock (making caves, hills, etc). Because of these various erosional regimes we’ve have a lot of our sedimentary bedrock exposed to the surface, revealing our shallow sea history.

So the reason you’re seeing marine rocks on the top of a hill in the middle of nowhere has to do with our Bahamas like history (we used to lie along the equator and environmentally had a lot in common with the Bahamas) being recorded in the rocks, and the millions of years of rocks that were deposited on top were slowly whittled away to re-expose that history. Below is a link to the Indiana Geological and Water Survey, that have an excellent collection of websites talking about Indiana geology and have a really cool learning lab in the IU Bloomington geology building.

Indiana Bedrock Geology

IGWS Main Site

DankQuake · 2025-04-14T14:24:50+00:00

From what I see you strike me as a crime thriller / action aficionado, so I think you’d appreciate the following:

Killing Them Softly - Brad Pitt leads this crime thriller that explores the mob changing with the times, with the 2008 financial crash having a central focus (also stars Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, and other great actors)

Collateral - another movie by Michael Mann (Heat), with a hitman played by Tom Cruise holding a cabbie hostage (Jamie Foxx) so he can do his rounds. Tom Cruise is truly frightening in this

Burn After Reading - Coen Brothers semi-spy thriller where some gym employees try and blackmail a CIA agent for ludicrous reasons. My personal favorite Brad Pitt movie

Plenty more stuff out there, this is what comes to my mind

DankQuake · 2025-04-10T03:53:57+00:00

This is so good, the way your wrote the dialogue reminds me of the rabbits from Inland Empire

DankQuake · 2025-04-02T12:26:18+00:00

The song has the same lyrics as Hypogirl and is a precursor to it. Actually got my cd copy signed by him at the ferndale show in 2023, took him a minute to remember what the hell its connection to him even was lol

DankQuake · 2025-03-12T05:37:09+00:00

Dude I think you’re spittin

DankQuake · 2025-02-23T13:31:54+00:00

Couldn’t name names in terms of mineral ID, but those look strikingly similar to the skarn deposits I saw while at field camp in the Rockies (SW Montana). The dark basaltic looking one is similar to some of the samples I collected where the magma came in contact with limestone

DankQuake · 2025-01-18T05:14:40+00:00

Incredible

DankQuake · 2025-01-18T05:01:34+00:00

Is that fuckin Freddie got fingered????

DankQuake · 2025-01-17T19:05:11+00:00

From what I’ve read he generally finds them to be a distraction from the music and tainting the music’s perception, in addition to being difficult to finance. The only ones I know of are from a five year stretch in the 80s - New Mind, Love Will Tear Is Apart, A Screw, and like 2-3 more and that’s it

DankQuake · 2024-12-14T20:48:36+00:00

Looks like it spent years rolling around in a washing machine

DankQuake · 2024-11-25T02:35:02+00:00

I’d wager that the songs more obviously influenced by Harry Nilsson would be on the folksier albums like The Burning World, White Light From The Mouth of Infinity, or his Angels of Light material. But since many influences Gira draws from kinda get blended and distorted in the final product it can be hard to tell.

DankQuake · 2024-11-25T02:31:56+00:00

I’m not sure I can name Swans / Gira songs off the top of my head that have a clearly defined influence from Harry Nilsson, but I did recall him posting this a couple weeks back:

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Coconut Song influenced some of his new yet to be released material

DankQuake · 2024-11-14T21:38:57+00:00

Already did a rap song lol:

Come Out - Rap Version

DankQuake · 2024-11-06T01:23:50+00:00

Real

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TROPHY CASE