#The Judas Goat

[oakendesk]

book cover - The Judas Goat - 1953

Rafael DeSoto

[valdrift]

the lamb's mirror

[beguines]

Gabrielle Bates, from "Eastern Washington Diptych", Judas Goat

[gnawgag]

game shows touch our lives - the mountain goats // the taking of christ - caravaggio

[mmm-asbestos]

Some pages from the zine I made for @bimboamyrose!

Happy birthday Daisy!!!💗💗💗

[jarfieid]

Oh well. Unfurl the black velvet altar cloth.

[spinchip]

But I am just a broken machine

And I do things that I don't really mean

A redraw of this old piece! A whole different song lol… changed the vibes too, but I like it a lot :]

[airplanetunez]

Cry for Judas by the mountain goats is THE Faulkner song to me this is crazy

[doctorskelegoats]

So much about this song (Cry for Judas) screams griddlehark to me. They are the ones who don't slow down at all, with nobody there to catch them when they fall. Hallucinate a shady grove where griddle when to die. And these lines, with Harrow and Gideon being (respectively) sad and angry. Artist Credit: @callairo

[majestativa]

In a language neither of us knows, she is telling me she loves me,

and I am repeating the sounds back to her, learning.

It sounds like the heart trying to leave the chest.

— GABRIELLE BATES ⚜️ Judas Goat: Poems, (2023)

[schizoprophet]

It is not a secret about me that one of the things I like to do is read stories in the Bible and get sad about it. That's like, that's been a pastime of mine since I was a child. Let me find the story that really makes me feel sad for the person in the story who I can't help because one, they've been dead for years if they ever existed in the first place. And two, if you're reading a story to try and help the people in the story, then you have approached the whole thing from the wrong end. Because you can't, that's the thing you cannot really do except to choose your own adventure books. And the Bible is not one of those. So one of the best stories to read if you like to read the Bible and make yourself feel sad for the people in it is the story of The Last Supper. Jesus Christ gets a bunch of his friends together, right? And then let's take the Jesus part off just as a person. You get a bunch of your friends together, right? And you have dinner, this big old dinner, you know, some bread and whatever, some wine and it's cool to be with your friends. It's fun, it's a good feeling, you know. And then you just get a vibe, there's a very, very, very specific vibe that you get. Right. And these are your friends so you can speak your mind around them. You can tell them how you feel and you say, you know, one of you is gonna sell me out. I just know it. You've - you've had some wine at this point. So you know, you can say that. Your friends will not judge you for speaking what's in your heart at this moment, and some of them are also, they've had a couple of glasses of wine themselves. They immediately go God, no, you are my friend. I would never, I would never, man. I want you to know person to person tonight. I will never sell you out. You, we've meant a lot to each other over the past couple of years and I will not sell you out man. And Jesus is like, OK, it's all good, you know, and they all do this. And one of 'em doesn't say shit. And he knows and he knows they both know and the one who's gonna do it feels worse than the one who's gonna suffer for it. Because he sort of knows I'm gonna do this thing. I guess I am. I don't want to. These are my friends, they're all gonna hate me. And in one version of the four gospels, Judas, uh, having sold Christ out, who normally then gets arrested and murdered by the state. Right? Um, in one version of the gospel Judas immediately goes and hangs himself. I've always - when I was a child I was like, oh, man. I mean, I understand that it'd probably be a tough one to live down in Jerusalem if you're the guy who killed Jesus. But, I mean, you know, that seems like kind of an extreme. This song is called cry for Judas.

-- John Darnielle about Cry for Judas, Tivoli de Helling on 2019-11-14

[g0atb0yluvsyou]

𖤐 She’s the blueprint. <3

[beguines]

Gabrielle Bates, from "Dear Birmingham", Judas Goat

[schrodingers-lesbian]

mr mountain goat has 4 song archetypes

-extremely emotionally evocative lyrics about deeply human experiences

-owl city style bizarre lyrics that could be symbolism or could just be "words and phrases that sound neat when i sing them this way"

-wrestling lore (i dont understand these at all but some of them slap and my wrestling enjoyer friends like them?)

-I AM YELLING. A STORY. INTO A MICROPHONE. WHILE STRUMMING A GUITAR. I STOPPED MAKING SONGS LIKE THIS IN 2003 BUT EVERYONE FOREVER ASSOCIATES IT WITH ME. ALSO SOME OF THEM WERE GOOD.

[geryone]

hannah im starting crush by richard siken & judas goat by gabrielle bates what do u think my mental health will b like after 24 hrs

So sorry buddy you will not be doing well after reading those :(

[havranil]