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The Mountain Goats are John Darnielle, Peter Hughes and Jon Wurster. Photos link back to their original source. No copyright infringement intended.

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21 November 09
“ This is the song about how when time gets a little rough, you can always fall back on round-the-clock boning. You can just, if things get hard in your relationship, you don’t have to talk if you don’t want to. Man! Maybe you got nothing to say. Just have sex until it gets better. Write me if it doesn’t work after five or six years.
— John Darnielle introducing Going to Queens at Pitzer College, CA 12.02.06.
20 November 09
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The Mountain Goats - Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?

But I do wake you up, and when I do
you blaze down the hall and you scream.
I’m in my room with the headphones on
deep in the dream chamber.
And then I’m awake and I’m guarding my face,
hoping you don’t break my stereo
because it’s the one thing that I couldn’t live without
and so I think about that and then I sorta black out.

19 November 09
by ‘Lil (submitted by Kristel Jax)

by ‘Lil

(submitted by Kristel Jax)

18 November 09
“ There may come a day, as I say, when you have cause to sing this song. I hope that that day never comes. At the same time, I know that it will. Let’s not kid each other: you’re going to have a very bad relationship some day. It’s not just gonna suck—it’s gonna suck ass. You’re going to make up a little chart of all the asses that it sucks. There will be an ass chart on your bedroom wall. Your significant other will say “What is this?” and you will say, “Oh, they’re just butts. Just butts.” And she will say “The hell they are—that’s an ass chart!” Where will you be then, oh sinner?
— John Darnielle introducing No Children at The Middle East Downstairs in Cambridge, MA, 9.26.06.
17 November 09
by Peter Hughes.

by Peter Hughes.

16 November 09

The Mountain Goats - Going to Bristol with Owen Pallett of Final Fantasy at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis, Minn. Nov. 7, 2009

i looked you up and down
i liked everything i saw
from the fragile outline of your hips
to the trembling movements in your jaw
but when the coffee cup shattered on the kitchen floor
you said that you couldn’t take it anymore
i knew you were leaving
i knew you were going to bristol.

(submitted by Nigel)

15 November 09
“ It’s a depressing thing what’s going on with the person in the song, but it’s essentially about how when things are very awful, if you are looking for some place to turn, you’re not the type of person who can really stand to say, “Well, maybe tomorrow’s better.” Because you know tomorrow’s not better. People are gonna tell you, “You don’t know that! You don’t know about tomorrow!” But sometimes, yes you do. Sometimes you know it for a fact it’s gonna be worse. Maybe if you can go to sleep and never wake up, then you can put some faith in that. If you can’t sleep, then you can see tomorrow like a fucking train coming at you. And if it gets closer and closer, you can make out the paint on its grill as it’s coming up to meet you and you can say, “No, tomorrow’s almost here and I can already tell just as it’s about to kill me. It’s the same as the one that I just tried to abandon.” And you’re not suicidal, you say, “No, I would never do that, I’m Catholic,” but at the same time, you get in one of these moods and I will wager that every person has been in one where you go, “Well you know what wouldn’t be so bad right now would be death.
— John Darnielle introducing Isaiah 45:23 at The Fillmore in San Francisco, 11/14/09.
14 November 09
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The Mountain Goats - Pale Green Things

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12 November 09
Messing around on the set for the Coffee video by Chrissy Piper.

Messing around on the set for the Coffee video by Chrissy Piper.

11 November 09

The Mountain Goats - California Song (live at the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, CA on March 2, 2008.)

I got joy joy joy in my soul tonight
I got joy joy joy in my arms alright.
Although you treat me badly,
I love you madly.
You really got a hold on me.

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh