I will rise to this occasion!

My side blog for the Mountain Goats and Mountain Goats adjacent content.

[mark-on-you]

Hair Match - The Mountain Goats // Chavo Guerrero Sr. vs Rowdy Roddy Piper

[cryptic-symbols]

ALERT ALERT NEW SINGLE AND ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT

[jarfieid]

I don't have a particularly well thought out reason why but Satori in Denver makes me think Moon Colony Bloodbath could also be about Mormon missionaries saying fuck it and just leaving. I know it's about Bobby Beausoleil and organ harvesters and all that but like. Technically out of bounds. This may be the time that I get banished from the palace. Do you see me. Can anyone see me from where I lie awake in this suit. I'm so hungry.

[unloneliest]

liza forever minnelli / old college try / spent gladiator 2 / bleed out / heel turn 2 / bride / heel turn 2 / spent gladiator 2

"This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody's doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them the moment they appear onscreen." - John Darnielle

[PART TWO | PART THREE]

[spritespi]

[Transcript:

Let the camera track me / From the footlights to the wings

From the entrance to the exit / Is longer than it looks from where we stand

“And.” / Like a spent gladiator / Crawling in the Colosseum dust / Who can count on his remaining limbs / All the people he can trust / Like the one who stands behind him / Cheering him on / Ecstatic when he stands defiant / Wild with abandon when he’s gone

Every story needs a child / Who believes the brave hero’s gonna be just fine

Stay good under pressure / For years and years and years and years

Our efforts won’t add up / To any great amount / Get one chance to make your gesture down here / I want to make mine count

Get stomped like a snake / Lie down in the dirt / Cling to my convictions / Even when I get hurt / Be an upstanding well-loved man about town / In your child’s mind that’s now it goes down

Stay alive / Maybe spit some blood at the camera / Just stay alive

End transcript]

Plaintext: liza forever minnelli / old college try / spent gladiator 2 / bleed out / heel turn 2 / bride / heel turn 2 / spent gladiator 2

[solomon-revisited]

i skipped feb 29 because there's no feb 29 this year, but it's 'song for roger maris' if anyone was interested

[unloneliest]

whats the peak tmg divorce song to you?

die hard, die kicking, old habit of mine

[lowpolybutch]

YOU ARE MY ENEMY

BECAUSE YOU FORGOT

[armadillorollup]

Sax Rohmer #1

[brucespringsteencomments]

[jeffstormer]

Learning that Clarence "He was elemental in my life, losing him was like losing the rain" "As long as I'm breathing you'll never be alone" "We didn't just split the city in half, we rebuilt the city into a place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn't have been such an exceptional thing" Clemons is a NON-SPEAKING PART in the Springsteen biopic is a fact my brain cannot fully process, informational white noise, a cognitohazard

[armadillorollup]

Sax Rohmer #1

[not-a-choice]

Your Glow song of the winter

[tallahasseemp3]

through this fire across from peter balkan is, well, i don't know any other way to say this: it's incredibly tender and homoerotic. let's get shipwrecked and be gay across this fire with mama

[mark-on-you]

The CD came today idk if the general reception will be good but driving along the coast listening to the album on my car CD player, knowing it’s not out publicly was like casting a spell. This album is already incredibly meaningful for me.

[brucefuckingspringsteen]

[probuccalfat]

you can go back to the past but nobody’s there

[dotty-literati]

A Cook's Tour (2001) by Anthony Bourdain

[bloodyhart]

My Father’s House — Bruce Springsteen, 1990 at Christic Benefit Concert

[tal-chan]