#john darnielle

[happyk44]

[ID: 1. Tumblr post from deactivated user @/woobifytonysoprano dated April 25th 2022: we diagnose you with a creeping sense of alienation forever. incurable

2. Tumblr post from @/throathole dated March 26th 2024: I'm going to unlearn shame *bursts into tears and beats my head against a brick wall*

3. Tumblr post from @/hailtotheskull dated April 6th 2024: i don't know man, i just with that we could [suddenly realising i'm coming dangerously close to expressing a real and earnest thought instead of filtering everything through several layers of intangible running bits] bow up the entire world. or something.

4. Tumblr post from @/greeniery dated January 10th 2024: does anyone feel the layer of plexiglass between themselves and the rest of the world or is that just a me thing

5. Tumblr post from @/adrenoceptor dated November 7th 2023: do NOT put me in the club they will find out that i am a parody of the human form. they will know i am a mimicry of themselves made of string and tin and if i crawl otu of the club more human than they themselves will have lost something

6. Tumblr post from @/solreefs dated December 6th 2023: you ever get surprised by your own recurring issues. like come on man. I thought we were past this.

7. Quote from John Darnielle: I wish they'd conduct a national poll to find out who feels out of place and who doesn't. Just to get the numbers, you know? To get a feel for how many of us there are. Sometimes at work I get the feeling that it's got to be right up against 100%. I'll head out to the register to help out during the lunch rush and the new cashier will look so confused and lost, and then I'll look at the customers she's supposed to be helping, and they'll look lost, too, and then when I sneak a glance toward the tables there'll be all these people staring at their food or at each other with blank looks in their eyes. And I'll think: Is this just me? Is everybody else actually fine, and I'm just trying to imagine that they're like me? But I don't think so. I've thought about this a lot, and I'm pretty sure that some ridiculous percentage of the population is walking around feeling like aloiens.

I think teenagers feel like that all the time...

8. Quote from James Baldwin, Conversations with James Baldwin: You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. /end ID]

compilation

[whatsaterrarium]

The Mountain Goats bluesky is a beautiful place.

[astrangetorpedo]

Julien Baker covers No Children by the Mountain Goats + an introduction from John Darnielle

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Excerpt from “I Hope We Both Die: How The Mountain Goats Wrote The Ultimate Anthem To Dysfunction” an interview with John Darnielle

[keyboard-worrier]

[ihavealavalamp]

Deuteronomy 2:10, The Mountain Goats [x]

[thishasgonehorribly]

I regret not joining in on BlueSky earlier.

[victusinveritas]

[andie-platonically]

listening to the mountain goats is such an experience because ill be out here googling “what is the hertzsprung-russell diagram” and going down a wikipedia rabbit hole learning about the classification of stars and it’s because of a line in a song about a man being stabbed to death from an album about wrestling

[cryptic-symbols]

im having way too much fun

credit: blinkies.cafe blinkie maker

[goingtothebes]

JD's new years benediction, 2023

[mountainhaunt]

feels like time for my favorite of john darnielle's new year's benedictions. he peaked at this one

[the-swift-tricker]

oh hey it's just about that time of year again isn't it?

[hiwerethemountaingoats]

So this is a song about a couple of people in a car, and uh, it's kind of hot in the car, though it's cold outside, and the reason it's hot in the car is the seething temperature of their hatred. And they're sort of like, you know, it's one of those situations where you really-- [pause] Let's say you're in this car. You have probably at some point, the odds are pretty good you've been in this car. And, uh, at one point or another you look over at the speedometer and it says 75, you're riding shotgun, and you think, you do this sort of quick calculation. You don't really know, you know, you're not a physicist, much less a criminal investigator, anything like that, you're just a person in a car that you wish you weren't in, but you think, "If I pop the door and drop and roll and I tuck my elbows in, between here and the bushes at the shoulder, what's the damage I sustain," and you picture your lifeless, unconscious body rolling down the beautiful hill, and you see yourself as though in a Japanese film and think, "You know, I might make it; maybe I will look up and I will see the last bit of the car speeding away from me and I will count that as a victory." This song, this song is about people who have chosen whatever the opposite of victory is.

John Darnielle, introducing Family Happiness (Wexner Centre | Columbus, OH | April 11th, 2011)

[tangerine22]

bad thing happens:

con - bad thing happened

pro - I now relate to more mountain goats songs

[ihavealavalamp]

Game Shows Touch Our Lives, The Mountain Goats [x]

[thedoctorworm]

feast when you can, and dream when theres nothing to feast on