im sorry mr darnielle

i (he/him) will draw mr darnielle in situations from every one of his beautiful songs and covers in roughly the space it takes to listen to that song bc i love the mountain goats main blog @wellwornwonder

[jennyfromthebes]

2025:

DO EVERY STUPID THING TO TRY TO DRIVE THE DARK AWAY

NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY, WE'RE GOING TO BE OKAY

HANG ON TO YOUR GOODNESS WHEN YOU CAN

BRING BACK SOME BLURRY PICTURES TO REMEMBER ALL YOUR DARKER MOMENTS BY

BE READY AND BE BRAVE

MAKE YOUR OWN FRIENDS WHEN THE WORLD'S GONE COLD

PLAY REALLY LOUD MUSIC ALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT

IN A WORLD OF HEAVY FOOTPRINTS, BE UNTRACEABLE

DON'T LET ANYONE SEE THAT YOU'RE BLEEDING

REST UNTIL YOU'RE RESTED

JUST STAY ALIVE

[tapingthedative]

I THOUGHT THIS SONG WAS LOST

So, this morning I made a post about what The Extra Glenns' catalogue. And I mentioned that the song Going to California isn't linked on the wiki and is probably lost since I did some googling and youtube searching and couldn't find it. and then 15 minutes ago I got a discord notification from Lyric aka @jennyfromthebes . what did they say to me? in all caps "HEY. I FUCKING FOUND GOING TO CALIFORNIA!"

and it sent the song to me, I heard it and confirmed those were the right lyrics (and was John singing)

I'll give my thoughts on that song when I go through the catalogue of The Extra Glenns.

I'm not going to upload it, though I don't mind sharing it privately. I'm just not an uploading person. And they don't feel right uploading it either. I'm sure there are more people who have it out there, If you upload it somewhere everyone can download please let me know and I will add it to the list.

the conversation then went into other subjects regarding live tapings which I have an opinion on there (and will share that on Friday).

Thanks again to @jennyfromthebes for sending the song my way. They do TMG blogging as well, check its blog out if you want more of that.

[john-gosh-darnielle]

we made it :)

[dysphoria-things]

thinking about jenny again….

[dysphoria-things]

do you guys ever think she was lonely? do you think she knows who she is outside of the context of other people? do you think she ever stopped taking care of each other? do you think she did heroin because her body and mind never felt like hers anyway? everyone loved her but she never really loved them back. jenny was everything to them and none of them ever get names. do you guys ever think about jenny

[john-gosh-darnielle]

it had my initials there where I signed my initials on it

[sonnywortzik]

“Working my way through what was available to me of the Mountain Goats’ studio albums, I was saturated with the newness of what John Darnielle’s words did for my shame. I compared them to those of the other band which consumed my adolescence, whose work I still find myself championing on impulse with every posthumous radio play: My Chemical Romance. Hearing ‘I’m Not Okay’ for the first time at the time of its 2004 release was a salve for the loud parts of puberty and my mental illness; Hearing Tallahassee‘s ‘First Few Desperate Hours’ was something much more pointed and discerning. This was not something you listened to in hopes of feeling immediately ‘cured’ or even ‘better,’ this was music for feeling that you weren’t alone with the quiet emotions, the vulgar things, what cannot be encapsulated in terms like ‘love’ or ‘rebellion.’ This was music borne of the cycle of thoughts which kept me up at 3am. […] the Mountain Goats are inoculative music. They inject a little of the very pain you know so well already and, for a time, you are armoured against it further infiltrating your system. I have listened to Get Lonely in the aftermath of a breakup, allowing the words to sting as they washed over me in soft, honest waves. In my bloodstream runs the articulated hurt of whichever Goats album I’ve most recently used as a mirror. I am vaccinated, for a time, with the knowledge that ‘from right here the view goes on forever / and you’ll never want for comfort / and you’ll never be alone.’ The precision with which Darnielle’s lyrics construe the knowledge of specific insecurities is painful, and that’s why it’s healing. There is much to be said for the huge, broad sweeping emotions of pop music, for the joyous ‘I really really really really really really like you’s and for the aching ‘I can’t make you love me’s, but Darnielle is a master of astute lyrical identification. His words identify what are often universal experiences in personal ways, and to identify with them is to know something of yourself beyond all-encompassing happiness or devastating heartbreak. These experiences are smaller, sharper.”

— Kat Sinclair, Checking the Deadlock with John Darnielle

[john-gosh-darnielle]

all the sparkle was gone

[john-gosh-darnielle]

*instrumental*

[attention-all-pickpockets]

i love me a good shout-y goats song as much as the next queer but something about those softer songs just speaks to my soul like nothing else...save me, soft and quiet tmg songs....

[john-gosh-darnielle]

why don't they finish the job

[john-gosh-darnielle]

rising, rising, rising, rising

[john-gosh-darnielle]

clouds in my coffee

[john-gosh-darnielle]

I wind up the tiny machines

[john-gosh-darnielle]

gathered in my loose ends and switched off the light

[jennyfromthebes]

sorry I didn't text you back I was in my car with my head in my hands at the far end of the walmart parking lot, trying not to buckle under the strain

[john-gosh-darnielle]

nothing harder

[john-gosh-darnielle]

let the good times roll on through these first few desperate hours