my curiosity will likely always get the best of me

#1 fan of John Darnielle's twitter. No I don't understand magic: the gathering. Yes I like every tweet about it anyway.  Anyway, (mostly) daily tmg content here. 

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Hell, why the fuck not?

You’re So Vain (Carly Simon cover) - The Mountain Goats, “Hail, and Farewell Gothenburg”

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and I am leaving you and I am sorry

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There is a variety of JD banter to choose from regarding this song so here are some highlights:

“This is a song about family dynamics. If you’re like most of the people who like my songs, you’ve got fucked-up family dynamics. Me too. That’s why I like this song.” - 10/19/2004 Mt. Pleasant, CA

“His songs really never found the commercial appeal that they deserve, on account of they all have one verse that you repeat three or four times. And take place in a nightmare world.“ - 06/15/2013 Bloomington, IN

“I’m going to sing the lyrics three times through. By the third time you’ll know it, and I want you to pretend that you’re all members of a cult, and a lot hinges on your yelling the lyrics to the song really really really really loud.” - 04/09/2003 Orlando, FL

“He’s sending along dispatches from this nightmare kitchen nook. There’s a sound like a drone, but higher in your head. You can almost see the Dutch curtains on the windows facing the carport; they have blood on them now and nobody’s going to clean them. As sinners roasting in Hell sometimes say: ‘Bummer.’” - MungBeing Magazine

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Poster I made for the low-budget 80s horror movie version of Moon Colony Bloodbath that exists in my head

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[ID (copied from alt text): Poster done in colored pencil. Tagline at the top says "Some things buried deep need to stay that way" and the title at the bottom in bubble letters reads "Moon Colony Bloodbath". A geodesic dome sitting on the moon, which is done in dark blue, occupies the lower half of the poster. A looming astronaut reaches out from behind the dome towards the viewer, as if to grab the dome. The astronaut is done in black and white, save for red gloves and tubing extending from the suit and pack (structured to look like intestines). The top part of the pack looks like an old tv set with antennae. Black liquid leaks out of the astronaut's helmet. The background is black. End ID]

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when john darnielle said "it's a sort of defiance. suffering is seldom joyful, but expressing one's capacity for survival almost always is" he was so right for that

[fructidors]

i've thought about this a lot and if i had to explain recorded sound to a ghost or a time traveler or an alien i would play them the recording of california song from this tmg show. the quiet simplicity. the person in the audience who shouts "i love you". the way after two lines, john leaves his mic and all you hear is the crowd, but it's small enough that you can pick out individual voices. the person with high voice who hits every note and you can hear their smile. the way the quiet of the first verse turns into a emphatic chant of "i've got joy, joy, joy in my soul tonight". the guy who sings the song the regular way while the rest of the crowd holds a note, and ends up being the only person singing in the audience for a moment. the way the john and the crowd keep singing "you really got a hold on me" until it's just peter's bass and everyone snapping along. the little improvised lines john sings before he says "thank you very much" and the crowd erupts. humanity at its absolute finest for real

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It’s a brand new day We’ll be awake until Thursday The future’s disarmingly bright

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the men were here to get your belgian things

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The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton

This comic was done for a school assignment. It’s a couple years old now, but it’s still one of my favorite things I’ve made, and I have the lyrics of this song permanently burned into my brain because of it.

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306. Handball

I kept listening and re-listening to this song while checking that I’d ranked it correctly. Every time I thought, “Did I really mean to rank Handball that high?” But the answer was always yes. On the original recorded version (which appears on the 1995 Theme Park Records compilation “Our Salvation Is in Hand”, if it matters), it’s just kinda whatever. This live version, though! Those vocal harmonies. Those drums. This is the last time it was played live – almost all of the live versions were from one brief, brilliant period in 2009. The live incarnation of this song was one of those things that burned bright and burned out quickly, but wow, does it ever burn.

Most of the lyrics allude to Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, a book I read a long time ago – possibly right around when this song was written – and don’t remember. 

A forum poster glosses “I did not come to play handball” as “I’m a dead serious motherfucker”, which sounds about right.

2009-12-02 - Bell House - Brooklyn, NY

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Up The Wolves by The Mountain Goats // Minotauro by Jordi Garriga Mora

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no morning colder than the first frost / no friends closer than the ones we've lost

Rain in Soho by The Mountain Goats + birds on a telephone wire

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Made for the 20th Anniversary of Tallahassee, a little alternate album cover.

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NAMELESS BODIES, IN UNREMEMBERED ROOMS

werewolf gimmick - the mountain goats // resist by erica williams

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some of my favorite dragon tuesday tweets from him. circa ~2013 i believe? Also now lost to the wilds of twitter. ID under cut

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pez dorado // the mountain goats

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like a fighter who’s been told it’s finally time for him to quit