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emotionallaborunion:

8. Song for the Julian Calendar

Otherworldly. The guitar part on this is like no other Mountain Goats song. The best description I can think of is that it sparkles.

2012-10-16 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY

I heard the firecrackers popping next door

Wondered what it was I bargained for

When I lay quiet on the floor

And you were knocking

And you were knocking

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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

whatwouldsaulalinskydo:

the mountain goats – we shall all be healed (2004) + us gov’t image archives

(tallahassee, beat the champ and more)

ok what do i wear to the mountain goats tonight. currently i am wearing the ghost print floral shirt and i can’t decide if i stay with it or not

considerations: a good shirt in the abstract for sure. exists in mysterious casualnoncasual simultaneity. might need a jacket or something bc a/c, would have to choose one? vague dad-adjacency vibes/noncausuality means committing to not being in cool gay tmg chicago audience demo but also allows for smug assertion that in fact in wearing it i understand tmg more as the project toward eventually becoming the dad at the end of the deathseeking teenager tunnel/signalling that i am, thru the magic of therapy, already committed to being alive/jd is a literal dad and even he isnt going to be wearing a button down/i’m gay i can do whatever i want/but i still won’t be interesting

(ETA i forgot the original reason i was even debating the shirt in the first place which is that i have to leave the bottom button unbuttoned or it pulls over my hips, bringing forward some interesting philosophical difficulties about the inextricable gendered quality of my fucking skeleton. but clearly i was distracted by more important matters)

anyway. you know. whatever you guys are thinking. for other options i have like…. t shirts. i could always go with my lc! football jersey but i worry i may have done so before given the ease at which the thought occurs to me, plus it’s a little on the nose to show up in fake sports huge letters DOOMED but then again on the nose is possibly also Part of Understanding the Project