December 2009
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The Mountain Goats, Dance Music (live at Point Ephemere in Paris, 10.13.09)
(via Pigeons and Planes)
Right now, I’d like to play a song that’s sung by a little guy....
– John Darnielle, Oct 13th @ Point Ephémère, Paris, France
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“All the chickens come on home to roost, plump bodies blotting out the sky. You know it breaks my heart in half, in half when I see them trying to fly. ‘Cause you just can’t do things your body wasn’t meant to.”
- “Dilaudid” by The Mountain Goats
(submitted by singyoursight)
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And nothing you can say or do will stop me
And a thousand dead friends...
– The Mountain Goats, “All Up the Seething Coast”
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The world really has gone to shit since No...
For instance, Game Shows Touch Our Lives in ways they never did before, because citizen participation is compulsory and all the losers Have to Explode. Even so, most people give it the Old College Try because the First Few Desperate Hours after the news broke that humans were incapable of breeding really desensitized all of us to violence. I live just south of Tallahassee on Southwood Plantation...
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the mountain goats, "insurance fraud #2"
You were sitting in the recliner with the TV on
when you said something evil and then you were gone
explosives in the water main
a blown fuse
college graduation photograph
splashed all over the six o’clock news
I won’t be cashing in your policy
‘til I find out what it is you’re trying to do to me.
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Anyone who says they never doubt is lying. But anyone who’s perfectly happy with...
– John Darnielle (via electricollection)
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If you’ve been a long time without sleeping without somebody, you start to...
– John Darnielle at the Herbst Theater Q&A on 2/24/09.
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