Podcasts about Lungfish

Send us a textOn nearly every previous episode of You, Me and An Album, Al has invited a guest to introduce him to one album he doesn't know well (or at all), but this week's guest talks about seven of his favorite albums. Mike Montgomery, who owns Candyland Recording Studio in Dayton, Kentucky, and is a member of R.Ring and Ampline, suggested 11 possible albums to discuss on this episode, but he and Al weren't able to narrow the list down. So Mike talks about seven of those albums (noted in the rundown below).Not only were they unable to settle on one album from Mike's list, but Mike also suggested that Al introduce him to some of his favorite albums. From Al's short list of eight albums, he decided to discuss three of them on this episode, bringing the total albums featured up to an even 10.Mike explains how his love of skateboarding led him down a musical rabbit hole that ultimately brought him to several of the albums on his list. Al talks about his tendency to immerse himself in a single artist's discography, and how that led him to discover several of the albums that made his short list.Mike also discusses his Nervous Verbs solo project and the debut Nervous Verbs album Pony Coughing, which will be out on February 28. He explains why he decided to not record his Nervous Verbs songs with his other bands and talks about some of the musicians he collaborated with for this project.There are several places to keep up with Mike and his bands on Instagram, and they're all worth a follow!@candyland_recording_studio@nervousverbs@r.ringsings@amplinegramAl is on Bluesky at @almelchior.bsky.social. This show has an account on Instagram at @youmealbum. Subscribe for free to You, Me and An Album: The Newsletter! https://youmealbum.substack.com/. You can also support the show on Buzzsprout at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1542814/episodes or at the link at the bottom of these show notes.1:27 Al introduces Mike and explains why they will discuss several albums instead of just oneMike's picks:4:40 Speed Freaks by Santa Cruz Skateboards Soundtrack9:25 Dinosaur Jr., You're Living All Over Me10:53 fIREHOSE, Fromohio (plus an aside about Steve Martin's “King Tut”)12:37 Dead Kennedys, Plastic Surgery Disasters16:58 Superchunk, Here's Where the Strings Come In21:34 Weakerthans, Left and Leaving23:42 Hayden, The Closer I GetAl's Picks:26:03 Unwound, Leaves Turn Inside You (and a side discussion of Lungfish)38:36 Deep Sea Diver, Impossible Weight 43:07 Toto, Tambu48:06 Mike explains how his Nervous Verbs project came together52:49 Mike talks about why “Chasing the Strings” didn't wind up as an R.Ring song54:38 Mike created a “Zoom band” during the pandemic59:31 Mike talks about the status of R.Ring and his other plansOutro music is from “Vicious Riffs” by Nervous Verbs.Support the show

Questions, comments, feedback? Tap here to send us a message!In this episode, we're diving into the waters of the Mary River with environmental engineer Misko Ivezich. With over 15 years of experience at Alluvium, Misko has long been at the forefront of combating river erosion and sediment issues which are crucial to the health of riparian ecosystems and downstream systems which receive their flow. Today, we're focusing on a successful project on the Mary River, a vital waterway that flows through Queensland and plays a pivotal role in the health of the Great Barrier Reef.The project, led by Misko, implemented new engineering solutions and extensive revegetation to reduce bank erosion by an impressive 85% during the 2022 floods, compared to past data. This story isn't just about geological and riparian engineering; it's about ecological recovery. These efforts have had a substantial impact on native species like the Mary River Turtle and Lungfish, whose habitats are crucial for their survival yet have been degraded over time. Through this project, we see a blend of science, policy, and community engagement coming together to foster a more stable and vibrant ecosystem.Join us as Misko walks us through this landmark initiative, shedding light on how strategic environmental management can lead to sustainable outcomes for both our natural heritage and the communities of wildlife and people who depend on it.This episode talks about:• Overview of the Mary River's importance and challenges  • Discussion on river erosion and past flood impacts  • Importance of vegetation in stabilising riverbanks  • Addressing sediment loads impacting the Great Barrier Reef  • Success of community initiatives in river management  • Engineering strategies used in the restoration project  • Future plans and ongoing work for the Mary RiverIf you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a rating and review wherever you listen to your podcasts.✉️ Subscribe to our newsletter (no spam, we promise!) to keep up with new episodes of the show!

Happy Holidays dog people. Among the hustle and bustle we're happy to bring you a great conversation with Mike Knowlton the multi-instrumentalists from the innovative post-punk project Unlettered who is not only a dog dad to a senior English Cocker Spaniel and ex-show dog Jack but was also a fosterer for over 40 dogs when he resided in New Jersey. punkrockphilosophy.com called Unlettered's latest release Five Mile Point, "an unholy trinity of influences—Polvo, Sonic Youth, and Lungfish- and the result is intriguing, challenging and immersive." Hear it now on Bandcamp. Mike chose to give a shout out to Home for Good Dogs Rescue, a non-profit organization headquartered in Berkeley Heights, NJ, who rescue dogs from high-kill shelters in the South, transport them North, and give them a second chance at life. Since their inception, they have rescued over 12,000 dogs and given them loving homes for good. To adopt, foster, volunteer or donate visit ⁠homeforgooddogs.org⁠ For more pics and clips of all our guests and their dogs follow us on Instagram at rockerdogpodcast

In today's episode Blake teaches us all about the Australian lungfish, a unique species that can live in mud for up to five years! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/savethemermaids/support

Calista can be seen starring in Ryan Murphy's series FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans. The second installment of the Feud anthology is based on Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer and focuses on the story of how Truman Capote befriended society women Barbara "Babe" Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, and Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee Radziwill and then betrayed these women for a story. Calista stars as Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's younger sister and wife of a Polish prince, who developed a strong kinship with Capote thanks in part to her poor relationship with Kennedy. The series also stars Tom Hollander as Capote, Naomi Watts, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane and Molly Ringwald. Flockhart made her TV debut portraying the title role in FOX's widely popular and award-winning series “Ally McBeal,” created by David E. Kelley. She also starred in ABC's critically acclaimed TV drama, “Brothers & Sisters,” a family soap revolving around the Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles. Additional TV credits include “Full Circle,” “Supergirl,” Lisa Kudrow's improvisational comedy series on Showtime “Web Therapy,” “Facetiming with Mommy,” and the DreamWorks' TV Series, “The Penguins of Madagascar.” Flockhart returned to her theatre roots as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf for the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. She made her Broadway debut opposite Julie Harris in The Glass Menagerie, for which she received the Theatre World Award and the Clarence Derwent Best New Talent Award. New York theater credits include Neil LaBute's Bash: Latter Day Plays; The Three Sisters; Warren Leight's The Loop, which landed her the role of Gene Hackman's daughter in Mike Nichols' “The Birdcage;” Sophistry; Sons and Fathers; Wrong Turn at Lungfish; All for One and Caryll Churchill's Mad Forest. Flockhart was “Juliet” in Romeo and Juliet at The Hartford Stage; “Cordelia” in King Lear at The Actors Theater in Louisville; “Irina” in The Three Sisters at the Goodman Theater in Chicago; and “Emily” in Our Town directed by the legendary Jose Quintero. Flockhart's film credits include the independent thriller Fragile; Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her with Glenn Close and Cameron Diaz; A Midsummer Night's Dream, co-starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Everett; Drunks; The Birdcage, which received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble; and Telling Lies in America co-starring Kevin Bacon and Brad Renfro.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Calista can be seen starring in Ryan Murphy's series FEUD: Capote Vs. The Swans. The second installment of the Feud anthology is based on Capote's Women by Laurence Leamer and focuses on the story of how Truman Capote befriended society women Barbara "Babe" Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, and Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee Radziwill and then betrayed these women for a story. Calista stars as Lee Radziwill, Jackie Kennedy's younger sister and wife of a Polish prince, who developed a strong kinship with Capote thanks in part to her poor relationship with Kennedy. The series also stars Tom Hollander as Capote, Naomi Watts, Chloë Sevigny, Diane Lane and Molly Ringwald. Flockhart made her TV debut portraying the title role in FOX's widely popular and award-winning series “Ally McBeal,” created by David E. Kelley. She also starred in ABC's critically acclaimed TV drama, “Brothers & Sisters,” a family soap revolving around the Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles. Additional TV credits include “Full Circle,” “Supergirl,” Lisa Kudrow's improvisational comedy series on Showtime “Web Therapy,” “Facetiming with Mommy,” and the DreamWorks' TV Series, “The Penguins of Madagascar.” Flockhart returned to her theatre roots as Martha in Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf for the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. She made her Broadway debut opposite Julie Harris in The Glass Menagerie, for which she received the Theatre World Award and the Clarence Derwent Best New Talent Award. New York theater credits include Neil LaBute's Bash: Latter Day Plays; The Three Sisters; Warren Leight's The Loop, which landed her the role of Gene Hackman's daughter in Mike Nichols' “The Birdcage;” Sophistry; Sons and Fathers; Wrong Turn at Lungfish; All for One and Caryll Churchill's Mad Forest. Flockhart was “Juliet” in Romeo and Juliet at The Hartford Stage; “Cordelia” in King Lear at The Actors Theater in Louisville; “Irina” in The Three Sisters at the Goodman Theater in Chicago; and “Emily” in Our Town directed by the legendary Jose Quintero. Flockhart's film credits include the independent thriller Fragile; Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her with Glenn Close and Cameron Diaz; A Midsummer Night's Dream, co-starring Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer and Rupert Everett; Drunks; The Birdcage, which received the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble; and Telling Lies in America co-starring Kevin Bacon and Brad Renfro.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tonight, a track from Berlin-based Kiwi project Saturns Drive, new music from Norwegian-American auteur Okay Kaya, and a glimpse of the 20-minute lullaby reimagining of gnarly Baltimore rock band Lungfish.

Famed fashion designer and high fashion's Dimes Square rep Elena Velez discusses her last two insta-iconic shows, the mud fight of SS 2024 and the Gone with the Wind Ball of FW 2024, and her resilience in the face of high and mighty fashion editors and her refusal to play along. We accept you One of US!Soundtrack: Total "You'll Get Yours Yet" Lungfish "Amnesiax" Andy Stott "Dark Details" Nico "You Forgot to Answer" Goldie "Angel" LINKS: Elena Velez websiteAdam Lehrer on Elena VelezElena Velez at Twitter: @_velcel

This week's episode covers three albums: 1) "Rainbows from Atoms" by Lungfish 2) "Where You Been" by Dinosaur Jr 3) "Zooropa" by U2 In addition, Jon and Matt will rank 10 singles from the years 1991-93. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/combingthestacks/message

Our website www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk about some of our favorite books coming out of small and independent presses. The Big 5 publishers print those blockbusters we love to stick in our beach bag but smaller presses support much more diverse authors and innovative and important stories that may be your next favorite read! We give you a little primer about the difference between a small press and an imprint by on the Big 5. And we give you 10 books (plus a few more) that we recommend from indie presses! Books mentioned-- 1- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle 2- The Odyssey by Homer 3- Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit 4- Everyman by Philip Roth 5- Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell 6- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - 5 star readrecommended by fellow book lover Amy Bernath @mrsmillardfillmorereads 7- The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel (Tin House) 8- Three Ways to Disappear by Katy Yocom (Ashland Creek Press) ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/ep-3…26-20/ 9- The Salt Fields by Stacy D. Flood (Lanternfish Press) 10- Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross Smith (Hub City Press) 11- Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year by Arwen Donahue (Hub City Press) 12- Places We Left Behind: A Memoir in Miniature by Jennifer Lang (Vine Leaves Press) 13- What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me by Donna Gordon (Regal House) ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/s-6-…-8-22/ 14- Menopause: A Comic Treatment edited by MK Czerwiec (Penn State University Press) 15- Bad Tourist by Suzanne Roberts (Univeristy of Nebraska Press) 16- Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia(WVU Press) 17- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions) 18- Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl (Milkweed Editions) 19- Lungfish by Meghan Gillis (Catapult Books) 20- Tidepool by Nicole Willson (Parliament House) 21- The Keeper of the Key by Nicole Willson (Parliament House Books - coming Nov. 12, 2024) Movies/Shows mentioned-- Maestro (Netflix, 2023) The Changeling (Apple+, 2023) For All Mankind (Apple+, 2019) Links mentioned: Odysseus Lunar Landing - www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/world/mo…nasa-scn/index.html Solar Flare - www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news…outage-earth-att/ Human Isolation on Mars- www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/magazi…n-experiment.html LA Public Library now owns a small press - www.latimes.com/entertainment-art…makes-total-sense

Our website www.perksofbeingabooklover.com. Instagram - @perksofbeingabookloverpod FaceBook - Perks of Being a Book Lover. To send us a message, go to our website and click the Contact button. This week we talk about some of our favorite books coming out of small and independent presses. The Big 5 publishers print those blockbusters we love to stick in our beach bag but smaller presses support much more diverse authors and innovative and important stories that may be your next favorite read! We give you a little primer about the difference between a small press and an imprint by on the Big 5. Books mentioned-- 1- The Changeling by Victor Lavalle 2- The Odyssey by Homer 3- Men Explain Things To Me by Rebecca Solnit 4- Everyman by Philip Roth 5- Italian Shoes by Henning Mankell 6- Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - 5 star readrecommended by fellow book lover Amy Bernath @mrsmillardfillmorereads 7- The Wild Hunt by Emma Seckel (Tin House) 8- Three Ways to Disappear by Katy Yocom (Ashland Creek Press) https://ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/ep-35-revision-and-riding-the-tiger-with-katy-yocom-2-26-20/ 9- The Salt Fields by Stacy D. Flood (Lanternfish Press) 10- Whiskey and Ribbons by Leesa Cross Smith (Hub City Press) 11- Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year by Arwen Donahue (Hub City Press) 12- Places We Left Behind: A Memoir in Miniature by Jennifer Lang (Vine Leaves Press) 13- What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me by Donna Gordon (Regal House) https://ThePerksofBeingaBookLover.podbean.com/e/s-6-e-136-a-man-a-boy-a-mom-a-pig-and-ben-franklin-with-guest-donna-gordon-6-8-22/ 14- Menopause: A Comic Treatment edited by MK Czerwiec (Penn State University Press) 15- Bad Tourist by Suzanne Roberts (Univeristy of Nebraska Press) 16- Another Appalachia (WVU Press) 17- World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil (Milkweed Editions) 18- Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl (Milkweed Editions) 19- Lungfish by Meghan Gillis (Catapult Books) 20- Tidepool by Nicole Willson (Parliament House) 21- The Keeper of the Key by Nicole Willson (Parliament House Books - coming Nov. 12, 2024) Movies/Shows mentioned-- Maestro (Netflix, 2023) The Changeling (Apple+, 2023) For All Mankind (Apple+, 2019) Links mentioned: Odysseus Lunar Landing - https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/22/world/moon-landing-intuitive-machines-nasa-scn/index.html Solar Flare - https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/x6-solar-flare-today-outage-earth-att/ Human Isolation on Mars- https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/magazine/mars-isolation-experiment.html LA Public Library now owns a small press - https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2024-01-08/the-l-a-public-library-is-getting-into-book-publishing-why-it-makes-total-sense

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I talk with visionary artist and front person of Lungfish, musician Daniel Higgs about friendship, perceiving spiritual beings in a spiritual landscape, the way a presence appears in the middle of a concert, and the role trust plays in relationship and creating art.

This episode the conversational waters ran overhand were so good that I had to cleave the baby in two. My old friend and bandmate Spen Syndrome (The Shivering/Bullets In/Stockholm Syndrome) drops in the stream to celebrate the majesty of Lay Yr'self Aside. Then Conner Habib, from the deeply esoteric and undeniably human  Against Everyone podcast and author of Hawk Mountain beams in from Ireland to drop some serious mystic science on us. Take with water.

As you'll most likely hear, it can be hard to find words to express all the nuance and depth of meaning a favorite piece of art elicits in you. This is a perfect case in point. This album has soundtracked many years of my life, and continues to do so. With that caveat, I hope you enjoy this conversation. I always know it'll be a good episode when Scott Sheridan is in the copilot chair, but this episode we get Scott squared. Not only Sheridan, but Hicks (who folks might know from his bands Totally Slow and Rights Reserved). Scott Hicks is a friend who can always crack me up and then turn around and touch me with a well placed insight. This was a fun one. Enjoy!

This episode was previously exclusively available on our Patreon, if you enjoyed it and want to hear more, you can do so for as little as £5 a month On this episode of Beneath the Skin we talk about the art of musician, poet, and tattooist Dan Higgs.  Higgs is a very influential artist in many forms, being the frontman for two legendary post hardcore bands, Reptile House and subsequently Lungfish, a prolific poet who's limited printed works are highly sought after, and most importantly to us, an incredible tattooist. Higgs is also notable an intensely private person but what is publicly available of his work and his words of varying forms speaks volumes.  BONUS EPISODES Production by Thomas O'Mahony Artwork by Joe Painter (jcp_art) Intro Music by Dan McKenna If you would like to get in touch you can email the show on beneaththeskinpod@gmail.com

This episode Robbie Judkins (Left Hand Cuts Off The Right/Radio Host) and I plumb the depths of the mystery that is Hear The Children Sing. Check out his special radio show on Lungfish fans called Feral Hymns on mix cloud!

Writer and DC punk/hardcore veteran Seth Lorinczi joins host Jason Schreurs to talk about how some people join the punk scene as a way to rebuild a "broken contract" with a world that failed them. Seth also talks about how, for him, punk is an orientation rather than an attitude or style of dress. https://sethlorinczi.com Featured song clips: Circus Lupus - "Tightrope Walker" from Super Genius (Dischord Records, 1992) Lungfish - "My Fool Heart" from Talking Songs for Walking (Dischord Records, 1992) Rites of Spring - "Drink Deep" from Rites of Spring (Dischord Records, 1985) THE SCREAM THERAPY BOOK is now available! Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey through Mental Health is a memoir-plus that has been heralded by New York Times best-selling authors. Like the podcast, it links the community-minded punk rock scene with the mental wellness of the punks who belong to it. Order a copy of the Scream Therapy book here: screamtherapyhq.com/book SUPPORT SCREAM THERAPY: BUY SOME MERCH! screamtherapy.com/store About this podcast: Scream Therapy explores the link between punk rock and mental health. My guests are members of the underground music scene who are living with mental health challenges, like myself. Intro/background music clips: Submission Hold - "Cranium Ache" Render Useless - "The Second Flight of Icarus" Contact host Jason Schreurs - screamtherapypodcast@gmail.com

Episode 83 is a conversation with prolific podcaster and veteran DC punk Brian Gathy.  Brian is co-host of End On End, a pod that examines every Discord Records title in the order they were released, he also singlehandedly produces and hosts The Unanimous Hour dedicated to deciphering the fractal brilliance of DC band Lungfish's catalog of songs as well as Dweller On the Threshold which explores the music of Van Morrison. Our conversation touches on those projects but the bulk of our talk focuses on a new podcast (my second, his FOURTH) that we discuss and name during the course of this episode. The new pod will be called Deathless Neverborn and is dedicated to exploring what might be called ‘the spiritual journey' primarily from a Buddhist and Non-dual perspective.  Having just met, we share how the idea for the pod came to be and we open up about some of the formative experiences that have shaped our lives and led us to want to make a pod like DN.  So here it is dear listener, the birth of Deathless Neverborn podcast! Thank you SO MUCH for listening and for supporting the pod! Traegermethod Patreon Music: Rites of Spring 'End On End' Jason Traeger 'Neutralize Existence' --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jason-traeger/support

On today's show, my sole guest, Glenn Donaldson( The Reds, Pinks, and Purples), and I discuss the labyrinth that is Fearfully and Wonderfully, as well as Glenn's love for all things Lungfish. 

"And once again we get attached And think we've found the answer Here we go again....Here we go again!" Chune that one innit! the lads are back chatting shit about painting, buzzing about panel lines and gaming in 2023...and obvs moaning about the heat in true northern style. it also sounds like Paulo is in that shop at the start of Shaun of the Dead for some reason too. Shout out to Brendan as always. this weeks band is Lungfish https://open.spotify.com/artist/2aeccL0hsJAfsP56dRdrBI this weeks Wildings Wildling is Bretonian Army Painter on insta https://www.instagram.com/p/CtsOa4VNeMm/?igshid=MTBlZjE4YzMxOA%3D%3D

Summary: Join Kiersten as she takes you on a surprising journey from the head of the coelacanth to the tail.    For my hearing impaired listeners, a complete transcript of this podcast follows the show notes on Podbean.   Show Notes:  A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/fish/anatomy.html Music written and performed by Katherine Camp   Transcript (Piano music plays) Kiersten - This is Ten Things I Like About…a ten minute, ten episode podcast about unknown or misunderstood wildlife. (Piano music stops) Welcome to Ten Things I Like About… I'm Kiersten, your host, and this is a podcast about misunderstood or unknown creatures in nature. Some we'll find right out side our doors and some are continents away but all are fascinating.  This podcast will focus ten, ten minute episodes on different animals and their amazing characteristics. Please join me on this extraordinary journey, you won't regret it. This episode continues the coelacanth and their anatomy is the second thing I like about this ancient animal. In the first episode we established that the coelacanth is a fish, so the anatomy should be like fish anatomy, right? Maybe, but this fish has been around for 400 million years and from comparisons between living specimens and fossils, they don't seem to have changed much at all. So the coelacanth has some anatomical surprises that other fish do not possess. Let's start at the head of the coelacanth and work our way back. In the center of the snout there is a large jelly-filled cavity. It's called the rostral organ. Scientists initially thought this might be an electrosensory organ for detecting weak electrical impulses given off by prey. This hypothesis was supported by examining the organ's intricacies including nerves and how it interacted with the brainstem. When submersible exploration became available to scientists, we were able to test this on a living coelacanth. Using electrical fields, researchers confirmed that coelacanths do indeed respond to electrical fields under water. There is no other vertebrate, that we know of, alive today that has a rostral organ. So we're already off to an interesting start. Let's see what else the coelacanth has that other animals may not! Moving to the mouth we find teeth. That's not entirely unique in fish that eat other fish and the coelacanth is a carnivore. They have three different shapes of teeth, one is a high, sharp cone-shaped tooth that could be called a fang, the second is a midsized, sharp cone-shaped tooth, and the last is a small rounded tooth.  What is unique to the coelacanth is that the small rounded teeth are embedded in a bony dental plate that lies beneath their chin. We're not entirely sure what the advantage of having a dental plate gives the coelacanth. In general, the teeth seem more like a way to keep fish in the mouth once they are sucked in versus tearing or chomping on their prey. The eyes are just above the mouth and they are attached to thick optic nerves. The eyes are large. I'd say they are in proportion to their body and they are a five foot long fish, so…large eyes. Each eye does have a few cones, which allows for color vision, but they many rods, which help detect light. This is perfect for the coelacanth because they live deep under water where there is very little light available. The rods help them see in almost near darkness.   They also have something else that helps them see in the dark and this is a layer behind the retina of the eye called the tapetum lucidum. If you've ever seen light flash in your cat's eyes at night, you're seeing the tapetum lucidum. This layer acts like a mirror reflecting the light that comes into the eyes back out of the eye to increase the amount of light that passes over the retina. This enhances the coelacanth's ability to see in low light. Just behind the eye toward the top of the head is the intracranial joint. Until we rediscovered the coelacanth this joint had only been seen in fossils of primitive fish. This joint allows the coelacanth to open its mouth exceptionally wide to swallow fish and other prey. Two powerful muscles cross the intracranial joint providing strength to the coelacanth's jaws. The coelacanth is the only fish alive that still has an intracranial joint.  Just under this joint and near the eye is the brain. The brain is small. It takes up only 1.5% of the brain case in mature adults. In a 90 lbs coelacanth the brain weighs less than a tenth of an ounce. That's a pretty tiny brain. There is no extant vertebrate with this much of a difference between the size of the brain and the size of the body. Although, they have been alive for 400 million years so it must be working.  Coelacanths do have gills like other species of living fish and they are located behind the eye in the usual place that you find fish gills. They are relatively small in comparison to the overall body size, but they are similar to other fish species found at the same depth as the coelacanth. The relatively small surface area of the lungs is indicative of a slow-moving fish as opposed to an active fish. All the evidence we have to date does show that the coelacanth is a relatively slow-moving fish. When you're a five foot long fish, you take your time getting places. This large fish is covered in scales and those scales are woven tightly together like armor. I think that seems appropriate for such an ancient animal. The scales are hard and rough to the touch. Each scale has tiny, tooth-like spikes called denticles all over the surface which creates the roughness. The hard scales and denticles provide protection against predators and rocks. The scales are a beautiful steely-blue color with random white spots throughout. The pattern of the spots is unique to each individual and scientists have used that to their advantage. Researchers use the spots like name tags to identify individual coelacanth. The fins of this fish are quite spectacular. They have six fins that are lobed and this puts them into a group of fish known as the lobed-finned fish. Lungfish and coelacanth are both included in this group.  What's the difference between a lobed fin and a normal fin? Great question! Lobed fins are fins that are attached to stalks that project out from the body rather than fins that are attached directly to the body. They look kind of like paddles sticking out from the side on the animal. The coelacanth has six lobed fins, one on each side just behind the gills called pectoral fins (2), one on each side of the pelvis called pelvic fins (4), one small secondary dorsal fin on the top of the body (5), and one anal fin on the underside of the body before the tail (6).  Overall the coelacanth has seven fins, not including the tail. The first dorsal fin is the only non-lobed fin. It's larger than the other fins and attaches directly to the body. It can be raised and lowered to change its surface area. We call the coelacanth a vertebrate because it has an internal skeleton which usually implies that it has vertebrae or bones of the spine. Once again the coelacanth surprises us. They have a notochord in place of a bony spine. A notochord is a thick-walled, fibrous, and elastic tube that is filled with oil. This is what the coelacanth has in place of a bony spine. Most creatures with a backbone replace the notochord with vertebrae in the embryonic stage. But adult coelacanth use the notochord for their longitudinal support. Like almost all other fish species,  the coelacanth has a swim bladder. Fish use the swim bladder to maintain buoyancy in the water. Most fish use air to inflate the swim bladder and they are able to modify the amount of air depending on the depth in which they wish to swim. I bet you didn't see this coming but…, the coelacanth's swim bladder is not filled with air! Okay, maybe you did see that coming. The coelacanth' s swim bladder is filled with oil and fat, but it works the same as the air filled bladder, helping maintain buoyancy.  That brings us to the end of the fish, also known as, the tail. Hopefully, you've listened to the first episode of this series where I talk about the rediscovery of the coelacanth, if not definitely check it out. When Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer rediscovered the coelacanth in 1938, she described the tail as looking like a “puppy dog tail.” The tail is actually divided into three sections with a small tail fin in the middle. The tail is flat and powerful giving the coelacanth the ability to dart forward forcefully when catching prey or escaping predators. The tail can rotate and flex from side to side and is thought to help the fish with trim and balance. That is all I have for coelacanth anatomy. Thanks for joining me on this head to tail adventure because it's my second favorite thing about the coelacanth.     If you're enjoying this podcast please recommend me to friends and family and take a moment to give me a rating on whatever platform your listening. It will help me reach more listeners and give the animals I talk about an even better chance at change.    Join me next week for another episode about the coelacanth.     (Piano Music plays)  This has been an episode of Ten Things I like About with Kiersten and Company. Original music written and performed by Katherine Camp, piano extraordinaire.

This world is a strange place to say the least. On this episode Greg Polard (Where It Went, Something To Du) and I rap rhapsodic about the track This World. After that, we present part two of my conversation with Joe Lally (Fugazi, Messthetics). Lots of mystery and magic to be had for all!

This episode is the opening of the door on one of, if not the, towering masterpiece albums of the band's catalog. Love is love, indeed. Join me and Scott Sheridan as we turn over the multi-faceted jewel of a first track on the album of the same name. Later in the show Joe Lally (Fugazi/Messthetics) joins the conversation/congregation. Shows like this one are why I love about doing this work.

With this episode,  we come to the end of the first official Lungfish album on Dischord. A song that foreshadows much of what's to come for this project. Yah Soon joins me once again to wade into the deep end of this track. Then Patrick Kindlon (Drug Church/Self Defense Family) joins us to continue our discussion about Higg's seemingly effortless command of language, Ray Cappo and many philosophical threads in between....

Who doesn't like a good survivor story? Today, Laura and Katy talk about some species who have survived mass extinctions and remain relatively unchanged. These living fossils help us to imagine what our planet looked like millions of years ago and how evolution has changed things. They are the embodiment of the old adage, “if it ain't broke, don't fix it.”Support the show

Beware! You are about to enter into a stream of conversation about perhaps one of the heaviest, deepest and darkest of early Lungfish tracks. By all accounts, their first epic composition. Dan Shaw, of the band Landowner, returns to take this beast on and try and make sense of the mental carnage this song delivers. Then  author/comic book writer/musician/podcaster Patrick Kindlon (Drug Church/Self Defense Family) joins me to plumb the depths of Lungfish obsession. I admit I'm afraid,....

This week on The Children's Hour, we learn about one of the most ancient animals to live on our planet, that is still alive today: Lungfish.

The journey to the writhing heart of the cosmos begins here...Or at least the soundtrack, thereof. This episode Drew, Scott Sheridan and myself talk about the CD that collects the first two Lungfish releases. To say I'm excited about this episode is a gross understatement. Spoiler alert ; Lungfish = Brian's favorite band. As with most CD episodes, Scott saves the day (and your ears), by bringing a fresh perspective and enthusiasm to our musings. Later on the show, Chris Richards from Q and not U (and great writer for the Washington Post, among others) chimes in with some rapid-fire insight and humor on the band and this release. Hop onboard and tune into the Broadcast....

And we're back,...sorry for the slight pause/in-breath, but the show is definitely back and better than ever. Lots of exciting things on the horizon. Today's show was a fun one. First we deep dive two tracks with Jon Evans and the evolution of his Lungfish journey. Then we talk to the ridiculously prolific and talented mystic artist/musician Arrington De Dionyso. Please look up his work (both as a solo artist and as leader of the powerful Old Time Relijun) on band camp! 

This episode is a milestone of sorts. On it, we discuss the first album by one of my all time favorite bands (of any genre). The almighty and mysterious Lungfish. Do yourselves a favor and go listen to the record (right after the episode)!

This month, what ultrasound scans are revealing about how primates learn to cry before birth, the new imaging technique highlighting brain structural changes linked to speech and language impairments, why eLife is breaking the publishing mould to prioritise the preprint in future, and how evolution turn a single lung into a pair... Get the references and the transcripts for this programme from the Naked Scientists website

Devon Sorvari gives a stunning performance of Meghan Gilliss's timely and powerfully affecting audiobook about a young family in dire circumstances. Host Jo Reed and AudioFile's Michele Cobb discuss a novel told in a poetic style that builds tension around the delicacy of struggling and living on the edge. Tuck; her husband, Paul; and their young daughter, Agnes, squat in her late grandmother's home on a remote Maine island. Paul is depleting the family's meager funds, as he's addicted to an herbal opiate, and the family receives little help. Sorvari wonderfully mines the resilience and bravery of the one-of-a-kind Tuck. This provocative and harrowing audiobook is essential listening.  Read the full review of the audiobook on AudioFile's website. Published by HighBridge Audio. Find more audiobook recommendations at audiofilemagazine.com  Listen to AudioFile's fifth season of Audiobook Break, featuring Bram Stoker's DRACULA, read by Gildart Jackson.  Support for AudioFile's Behind the Mic comes from Simon & Schuster Audio. Listen to GOING ROGUE by Janet Evanovich, read by Lorelei King today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Spinning Out (another music podcast) We talk to artists about their favorite albums and go on wild tangents. Today we're talking with Patrick Kindlon of the bands Drug Church and Self Defense Family. We talked about Lungfish's 2012 album "ACR 1999". We also talked about revisiting old material and about not understanding how time zones work. Pat is a man of many side-jobs, so promoting all of them is super hard, so check out the newest Drug Church album "Hygiene," as well as the newest string of Self Defense EPs that were released over the last year. Pat is also the co-host of the hardcore podcast Axe to Grind & if you've kept up with our pod you'll maybe remember that Bob Shedd (Ep. 2) and Tom Sheehan (Ep. 66) have also been guests, but if you weren't aware, then go back in the archives and check out their episodes. Lastly, Pat is also a very prolific comic book writer, and I'd recommend his newest books, Antioch and Frontiersman, out now on Image Comics. Subscribe to our Patreon today for exclusive episodes: www.patreon.com/spinningoutpod

Seth Lorinczi returns! Sarah Hennies discusses persistence of vision and her reluctance to fully appreciate Kissing! Things quickly go ff the rails and into the unknown!

Tuck is slow to understand the circumstances that have driven her family to an uninhabited island off the coast of Maine, the former home of her deceased grandmother where she once spent her childhood summers. Squatting there now, she must care for her spirited young daughter and scrape together enough money to leave before winter arrives—or before they are found out. Relying on the island for sustenance and answers—bladderwrack, rosehips, tenacious little green crabs; smells held by the damp walls of the house, field guides and religious texts, a failed invention left behind by her missing father—Tuck lives moment-by-moment through the absurdity, beauty, paranoia, and hunger that shoots through her life, as her husband struggles to detox. Exquisitely written and formally daring, Lungfish tells the story of a woman grappling through the lies she has been told—and those she has told herself—to arrive at the truth of who she is and where she must go. Meghan Gilliss's debut is a brilliant and heartbreaking novel about addiction, doubt, marriage, motherhood, and learning to see in the dark.   Join us for a conversation between Gilliss and Kendall Storey. _______________________________________________   Produced by Nat Freeman, Lance Morgan, & Michael Kowaleski. Theme: "I Love All My Friends," an unreleased demo by Fragile Gang.

This episode I talk with Eric Oldman about the hidden mystery inside the Lungfish track Samuel, then X-ray the author and musician, Seth Lorinczi's skull ( to plumb the depths of his intelligence and insight, as well as wiretap his memories to excavate some truly unexpected Lungfish tales). Ingest this lying on your back in a dark room...

On this weeks radio hour you'll hear new music from The National, Alvvays, and L.S. Dunes as well as songs from The Hated, Codeine, Descendents, Lungfish, Alien Boy, La Dispute, Current, Dead Milkmen, Sunny Day Real Estate and more! Subscribe to the PATREON and receive a brand new radio hour every Sunday! Thats two additional episodes a month AND you get them a day early! You'll also see a complete list of songs played on this episode. Follow the show on Instagram and Twitter!

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We speak with Adam Elk of the Mommyheads for the full hour.

"I took one look at her tattered shoes/I offered her mine but she refused/She said - I want these cuts on my feet, man/gotta become sensitive as I can"Another episode in the can and another chapter in the eternal book. This one got quite personal for all involved (always a good thing, in my opinion, sharing what's under the skin). This show we talk about the track Descender with Jason Sheffey, who grew up in Baltimore and currently works with getting the homeless in Portland the help they need. Then we continue our conversation with the enthusiastic, ridiculously articulate Chris Richards (QandNotU/TKEcho/Washington Post). Tune into the Broadcast........

The Broadcast will remain...On today's show Colin Bane returns to do the autopsy on the track Broadcast and Chris Richards (Q and Not U/The Washington Post) drops some serious depth and knowledge on us. This is an episode not to be missed!

“…and today we're talking about a fish that is built to live where fish shouldn't live. But more on that later.”  Deep in the heart of darkness, one heart truly treasures the darkness. The African Lungfish may need water to survive, but it has a foolproof method to survive the continent's frequent dry spells. If […]

Our guests this week are Chad Clark and Erin Nelson of DC post-punk band Beauty Pill. Clark emerged from the DC/Dischord punk scene with his band Smart Went Crazy, and he worked on records by Fugazi, Dismemberment Plan, Lungfish, Q & Not U, and many more. He formed Beauty Pill in the early 2000s and it's proved a musically restless unit ever since. He's allowed the band to shift and morph in public and in 2012 the group was commissioned to craft the album Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are live in public. Most recently, the band has released some great EPs, including Instant Night and Please Advise. For this episode of Transmissions, host Jason P. Woodbury spoke with Clark and Nelson about the oblique lyrical references in these works—get ready for our most Matt Damon-centric episode yet—as well as dig into the influence of Miles Davis, William Eggleston, and collaborations with the Taffety Punk Theatre Company.