#ON YOUR CUSTOM KAWASAKI WITH THE STINGER ON THE BACK.......

[jennyfromthebes]

JFT REALLY REALLY GOOD. I won't be blogging about it until like 2 because I'm en route to Lubbock but man I think listening to it as the sun rose over the empty highway in front of me was. hands down the best way to experience it for the first time. jenny <333

[faacethefacts]

God damn the mountain goats are a band.

[existentialcrisistime]

The entire collection of teaser text and images for Jenny from Thebes, as posted to The Mountain Goats' Instagram Text reads: I recall the curb waiting for the bus flaky yellow paint What's become of us? Searching in the snow for something in the distance When the vision comes I have no resistance It's one of several iterations It gets hard to keep track On your custom Kawasaki with the stinger on the back On your custom Kawasaki with the stinger on the back.

[raytoroapologist]

I recall the curb // waiting for the bus // flaky yellow paint // What's become of us? // Searching in the snow // for something in the distance // When the vision comes // I have no resistance // It's one of several iterations // It gets hard to keep track // On your custom Kawasaki with the stinger on the back

[moreclaypigeons]

Mountain Goats fans how are we feeling

Jenny 2... I will put all my analysis about what these things mean under the cut. I would also like to note that after i took these screenshots the 11th (pirate ship sunset) just... disappeared? The post was gone for a fair bit but then came back. may have been a glitch. or maybe a ghost ship.

Here's what I'm getting story-wise:

Someone rode away on their custom Kawasaki with a stinger on the back, leaving the speaker there at the curb so they had to take a bus. But they never saw them again, no one did. Flaky yellow paint of the Kawasaki.. staying up late thinking about how the relationship ended. Time passes and it's winter and they have search parties out for this person. The person crashed while on their bike. And then the speaker realizes it. And the person is dead the end

Now in terms of allusions to the song Jenny:

"You roared into the driveway of our southwestern ranch style house": the house in the first image reasonably fits that description. "Our house faced west": based on the shadows here, the house DOES face either east or west because of the direction that the sun rises.

"on a new Kawasaki, all yellow and black, fresh out of the showroom.": It's the same bike! But, based on the line in the third post, "flaky yellow paint," some time has passed.

"the big orange sun" we see in the 11th image, where the pirate ship sails into the sunset. the image also alludes to "you pointed your headlamp toward the horizon," and "the pirate's life for me!"

post 10 is interesting because it too draws from the pirate's life line, but the imagery is different, and definitely connects/foreshadows the graveyard image. Here is an excerpt from the wikipedia page for jolly rogers: When the pirates' intended victim was within range, the Jolly Roger would be raised, often simultaneously with a warning shot. The flag was probably intended as communication of the pirates' identity, which may have given target ships an opportunity to decide to surrender without a fight.

Miscellaneous:

image 7, with the grecian vase imagery is reminding me of spent gladiator.

i have no idea what the fuck the water tower means.

image 12 depicts a music staff with some notes on it. i know nothing about music but i do know the internet does so i am currently trying to reconstruct it with a program. update mmaybe will follor?

other songs:

According to what John Darnielle has said in hit podcast "i only listen to the mountain goats," Jenny has appeared in 2 or 3 other songs.

"She calls on the phone in Night Light" and "she calls on the phone in Straight Six" and was the sender of postcards in Source Decay. He says, "She is defined by an absence, she has yet to speak. She's in the song Jenny; the other two songs she's in, she's already gone. …She's not there when things are going well, and she's not remembered when things are going well. Jenny is an emblem of more difficult times for people, of wilder times. But also times that they're pretty clearly romanticizing, right, that they're also remembering as the time when they were on a motorcycle with no responsibilities, livin' the pirate's life."

Of course I'm going to listen to those three songs <3

Night light: "Jenny calls from Montana/ She's only passing through / Probably never see her again in this life I guess" oh but we WILL see her again... And then never again. "I was a red dot blinking on a screen up overhead / And then the room went dark" and "Plug a night light in / Leave the porch light on" remind me of the bedside clock and the gas station.

Holy shit Straight Six. I didn't realize this was on Jam Eater Blues until I went to its page on the wiki, but- this is significant cause on their linktree, "stream jam eater blues" is at the top and i was confused cause they also released a bunch of other shit. this is foreshadowing...

Anyways significant moments of Straight Six:

"Dull powder blue paint job / earl scheib special" this could either be the auto station (#2) or the fact that the speaker's car has an earl scheib special paint job (had to research this), which maybe he got from the same auto shop. This song talks a lot about a car. "Rabbit skull hanging from the rear-view" "And I glide down the streets of this city / All night, uptight" "There's a crack in the windshield eighteen inches long / Evaporating snow forming crystals on the chrome" it's hard to tell from the drawing of the van whether there is a crack on the windshield or whether it's just stylized, but..this does intrigue me. And when I heard them mention SNOW immediately after... when the caption to the van post says "searching in the snow".......

Source Decay also mentions driving and cars a lot. Couldn't find anything more significant than what the other songs have though.

If anyone has any other thoughts to share or disagrees or like I missed something- PLEase share i am so eager to hear/talk about this!

[doctorskelegoats]

So Commander Wake has big Jenny Energy (Jennergy if you will). You know what else has big Jennergy? Wildest dreams. "Say you'll remember me...say you'll see me again, even if it's just in your wildest dreams." cf " I WILL REMEMBER YOUR MOUTH, AND WHEN YOU ROAST DOWN IN HELL I THINK YOU WILL REMEMBER MINE" and also "When the vision comes I have no resistance..On your custom Kawasaki With the stinger on the back"

Artist credit, as with the last one: @kiaraalazul

[spentgladiator]

I RECALL THE CURB WAITING FOR THE BUS

FLAKY YELLOW PAINT

WHATS BECOME OF US

SEARCHING IN THE SNOW

FOR SOMETHING IN THE DISTANCE

WHEN THE VISION COMES

I HAVE NO RESISTANCE

ITS ONE OF SEVERAL ITERATIONS

IT GETS HARD TO KEEP TRACK

OF YOUR CUSTOM KAWASAKI WITH THE STINGER ON THE BACK

[passivedemonic]

taking a break from alpha couple posting because i am so deep in the Jenny Album theory. here’s the complete lyrics from the stickers released this last leg of the tour if you even care (i care so fucking much) :

I recall the curb

Waiting for the bus

Flaky yellow paint

What's become of us

Searching in the snow

For something in the distance

When the vision comes

I have no resistance

It's one of several iterations

It gets hard to keep track

On your custom Kawasaki With the stinger on the back

On your custom Kawasaki With the stinger on the back

[raytoroapologist]

I recall the curb waiting for the bus, flaky yellow paint. What's become of us? Searching in the snow for something in the distance. When the vision comes I have no resistance. It's one of several iterations. It gets hard to keep track. On your custom Kawasaki with the stinger on the back. On your custom Kawasaki with the stinger on the back. By the way.

i need the new mountain goats album to come out so so so soon im losing my grip on life