#john darnielle

[ixpuztec]

windswept silence at the henhouse, nobody's catching up with the fox

[ifitkillsme-thisyear]

“Remember my old home—haven’t forgotten yet. What happens on the day when I forget?”

Every step forward is another step from who you once were and when you must live through difficult times, who you once were can start to feel like it all happened to someone else, and it’s difficult to try and explain that to people who’ve never gone through that kind of thing.

[solomon-revisited]

"Further exposition on the action of the game Odin Sphere (August 2). Much of the game takes place in Hell, really. In this sense, it's less a game than a philosophical essay."

-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.

[ifitkillsme-thisyear]

Matthew 11:14-19

“Let him who has eyes to see Take a good look at me I’m a Mylar sheet hanging in the sun”

His I want to hear this song, you just know Darnielle’s screaming this bit like a madman, much like Claude Rains in The Invisible Man.

Edit: Someone else found the song!

I was wrong, definitely no screaming, but this is great too

[solomon-revisited]

"The Life of the World to Come is a very emotional album, but this song, from the demos but not on the album, cloaks its emotional core in a story that's pretty hard to follow and is littered with references that call for a score sheet, which is to say, it's an old school song I wrote while composing a new-school album. Life could be imagined as a collection of songs beginning with "Matthew 11:14–19" and branching out from there to bizarre and allegorical territories closer to Heretic Pride than to the confessional, shirtless-to-the-waist album we made. This imaginary alternate Life is called Descendit ad Inferos—"He descended into Hell"—and no release date has been set as of this writing."

-- JD in 'This Year: 365 songs annotated', 2025.

Matthew 11:14–19 from The Life of the World in Flux, which I couldn't find on YouTube but I know it's there somewhere.

[eldritch-crab]

got to see my favorite medium ugly white man in person today:)

[ifitkillsme-thisyear]

“People screaming when the engines quit. I hope we’re all in crash position when we hit.”

Not Darnielle’s voice cracking as he sings about his mother-in-law’s passing. Sharing your pain over the loss of someone perhaps one of the most human experiences, but comforting someone is not a uniquely human experience. About a decade ago now, our first cat, Kiko, passed away, he’d really become my cat at that point and I was supposed be I take him with me when I graduated college. Kiko was kind enough to wait until I got home for Christmas break before passing on his own terms. I remember that night, I was laying in bed and trying to be very quiet as I cried, I always slept with Kiko tucked under my arm, he’d push me out or my spot over the course of the night, but he’d keep my arm wrapped around him. So I was quietly crying, and my cat, Kujo, came running into my room settled on top of me, and purred the loudest I’ve ever heard him purr, he rubbed his face all over mine and licked away my tears, and I’ve probably never felt so totally loved by anyone before or since.

[evilkitten3]

favourite song?

ooh that's a tough one.... it changes a lot, but usually it's a mountain goats song. today i'll go with "exegetic chains" from the album "songs for pierre chuvin"