#darnielle

[lakanen]

I'm always trying to figure out what to say about this goddamn song.  Part of me wants to say, ‘Look, it's about revenge,’ but as soon as I say that... no, that's not quite it.  Part of me wants to say it's about the satisfaction of not needing revenge... and I say, ‘No, that's some new age stuff.’  I think it's a song about the moment in your quest for revenge when you learn to embrace the futility of it.  The moment when you know that the thing you want is ridiculous and pompous and a terrible thing to want anyway.  The direction you're headed is not the way you want to go.

John Darnielle, discussing his song “Up the Wolves”

[stay-away-from-the-sun]

Lalitree Darnielle - Bodies of Water

[rocrown]

I'm going to make it through this year if it kills me.

John Darnielle (“This Year” by The Mountain Goats)

(posted march 6th, my birthday)

[allplaideverything]

things were read (#216): Universal Harvester by John Darnielle

In open spaces people begin to think about the world of possibilities, about things that might happen that they couldn't have foreseen: possibly our daughter will grow up to be president, possibly swords will be beaten into plowshares, possibly we will all climb into spaceships and go live on the moon. The substance of things hoped for, an endless open field. But there's another region in that realm, and it's actually the biggest spot on the map: that place in which none of this will happen at all, and everything instead will remain exactly as it is-- quiet, unremarkable, well ordered and well lit, just exactly enough of everything for the people within its boundaries. A little drab from the outside, maybe: slow, or plain. But who, outside, will ever see it, or learn the subtleties of its textures, the specific tensions of its warp and weft? You have to get inside to see anything worth seeing, you have to listen long enough to hear the music. Or possibly that's a thing you just tell yourself when it becomes clear you won't be leaving. Sometimes that seems more likely. It's hard to say for sure. (p107-8)

[allstonwolfspider]

I didn't feel like I'd really won anything, but I had come through the day no worse off than I'd come into it, which, as I've been telling myself for many years now, is a victory whether it feels like one or not.

John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van

[glip-art]

Drawing of Darnielle because shes my only character not really attached to anything

[glip-art]

girl also goat

[trevorknappjones]

The best ever death metal band out of Denton