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duderonymusbosch:

I’ve been catching up on NPR’s Ask Me Another and came across this glorious episode featuring John Darnielle, who participates in a quiz and then plays this intense version of The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton, capped off by an hilarious quip by Jonathan Coulton.

This is maybe the best live version of this song I’ve ever heard, with some lyrical substitution and asides, and JD singing in his urgent upper register almost the whole song 

well i finally kind of solved a problem by realizing that if i sleep as though i’m on my side from the waist down, but as though i’m on my front (with a pillow wedged under one shoulder) from the waist up, then i don’t fuck up my neck by twisting it 90˚ all night from sleeping on my front, or fuck up my shoulder by crushing it forward & under me from sleeping on my side

the downsides of this are 1. that i might wind up hurting my lower back by keeping my hips and ribcage at different orientations many nights in a row, and 2. and more pressingly: that i am haunted, while falling asleep, by a persistent conviction that i look absolutely ridiculous