hey dow, rasslin' is not a sport.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 April 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
I forget if this has been covered here, but the deluxe vinyl that sold out immediately at the label's site is available in some record stores. I picked up my copy today.
― That shit right there is precedented. (cryptosicko), Monday, 13 April 2015 19:50 (nine years ago) link
This is definitely more of a downstroking affair. I was really thinking about the drums though.
― louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Monday, 13 April 2015 23:17 (nine years ago) link
yeah I thought that's what you were driving at -- hence my confusion over UMS making the surfrock/blackmetal connection [via guitar-playing style that isn't on the song in question]
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 04:35 (nine years ago) link
& really the most metal-feeling part of the song (to me) isn't the rockabillyish verses so much as the fist-pumping singalong chorus
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 04:43 (nine years ago) link
sad face about missing tonight's show
― DJP, Tuesday, 14 April 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
^^^
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Tuesday, 14 April 2015 18:46 (nine years ago) link
Apologies if this was posted already, but if it was, I missed it:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/how-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-became-the-best-storyteller-in-rock-20150407?page=3
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 April 2015 03:25 (nine years ago) link
The Mountain GoatsVerified account@mountain_goats
That @nyctaper show I just RT'd is one of the most fun shows we've ever played btw so grab it
RTAnson Burtch@aburtch
RT @nyctaper: @mountain_goats April 12, 2015 City Winery – http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/04/the-mountain-goats-april-12-2015-city-winery-flacmp3streaming/
― dow, Thursday, 16 April 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
awesome. made a spotify playlist if you want to quickly organize the setlist after you download.
― And let’s say a new Hozier comes along, and Spotify outbids you (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 16 April 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
the previous night was really fun too. my sister went and had a blast. there's a great cover in this set whose provenance I won't spoil here because the way JD announces it in the set is perfect.
http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/04/the-mountain-goats-april-11-2015-city-winery-flacmp3streaming/
― louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Friday, 17 April 2015 08:46 (nine years ago) link
thanks to 'animal mask' i now won't be able to watch tag team wrestling without crying about the tender beauty of it all
― cis-het shitlord (Merdeyeux), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 00:33 (nine years ago) link
I really like this piece:
http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/hazlitt/blog/flamboyance-and-ruin-mountain-goats-beat-champ
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 04:53 (nine years ago) link
Whelan's u say hmmmm
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Wednesday, 22 April 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
Mishearings that keep butting into my 'humming a song around the house' Part 23: "Climb the turnbuckle high / take two falls out of three / black up for local TV"
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 April 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
yeah, it's "take two falls out of tree"
― DJP, Thursday, 23 April 2015 14:50 (nine years ago) link
not exactly mishearing but I am still unclear on the right way to read the line "black out for local TV" -- at first I took it as a reference to the 'TV blackouts' that sometimes affect NFL/NCAA/other (nationally-)televised American sports, but it seems unlikely that such a thing would apply under the circumstances? so then I wonder if "(pretend to) pass out in front of some cameras, for a local telecast" is actually the primary sense, & the other just a felicity of language.
― bernard snowy, Friday, 24 April 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Think I've seen that expression used re actors in Tarzan movies, even in Westerns, when director wanted them to look more savage, dangerous; can imagine it being a wrestling thing too, in some times & situations.
― dow, Friday, 24 April 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
"Blacking up" is what I meant; thought of it when listening to song, though sounded like "black out" there.
― dow, Friday, 24 April 2015 15:48 (nine years ago) link
― louie louie whoa baby imago (how's life), Friday, April 17, 2015 4:46 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_EMrL7D3SA
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 27 April 2015 04:05 (nine years ago) link
That's the one!
― sonic yarmouth (how's life), Monday, 27 April 2015 12:28 (nine years ago) link
I also enjoyed the partial cover of "The Next Time I Fall In Love" (sadly, I wasn't at this, or any, MG show, I just listened online). JD had once mentioned how he tried to get Amy Grant to sing on The Life of the World to Come; as ideal as she would have been for *that* record, I really hope he keeps offering and I hope that one day she accepts.
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Monday, 27 April 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
darnielle interviewed by WWE! http://www.wwe.com/inside/mountain-goats-beat-the-champ-john-darnielle-27341240
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 1 May 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I'm digging the phrase "believable love of evil", also this article makes me wonder how JD would fare as a broadcast commentator (for wrestling or other sport)
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Friday, 1 May 2015 18:02 (nine years ago) link
fwhoar
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 May 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
― bernard snowy, Friday, 24 April 2015 16:35 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
idk about california specifically but territory era wrestling was well known to keep the good stuff off tv, so you would have to go to the event and tv used to be promo packages or squash matches (when the star would easily beat an unknown or weak opponent to look good). 2/3 fall matches would be a special attractions to go to the event for, and i don't think there are many filmed instances before the late 80s wwe tag team wrestling. also it wasn't often a more dangerous story would be done on tv, i.e. making someone black out, or idk blinding the junkyard dog or whatever. it all points towards it being a big money, beloved and experienced character. otoh yes also a great use of language and maybe i just think too much about wrestling.
im also v excited about Song For Sasha Banks.
― a hoy hoy, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:40 (eight years ago) link
Another fan: MST3K's Joel Hodgson:
https://twitter.com/joelghodgson/status/595587235724001280
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 May 2015 22:42 (eight years ago) link
Video for "The Legend of Chavo Guerrero" starring the man himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9YvDfiAXT8
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
Dude.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:07 (eight years ago) link
A hoy hoy, thanks for your thoughtful reply to my questions upthread; that makes a lot of sense now.
― Heroic melancholy continues to have a forceful grip on (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
that video is great
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
The tearing up of the pictures of cats and grandmothers was the part I loved. A riff on a particular convention of wrestling, or just exaggerated cartoon badassery?
― The New Gay Sadness (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
it's a schtick that wrestlers used to engage in a lot to show they were heels (sinead too tho i doubt she was aware of the connect).dunno if this is still part of the modern kayfabe ritual
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
So good. My favourite bit is when he tears the picture of Frankenstein in half.
― ink on all the streetlights (cajunsunday), Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
last person to do anything similar to good effect would be jericho ripping on his own fans signs i think. Its a really fun vid.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 21 May 2015 20:55 (eight years ago) link
Great show last night:
http://www.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2015/06/03/mountain-goats-get-over-at-gamh
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 June 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
Lovely surprise to hear that voice at the end of Paper Towns. The lead character has a Mountain Goats poster in his bedroom.
― timellison, Wednesday, 29 July 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
heard "deianara crush" the other night for the first time in ages. god, when he says "that's something I'D RATHER NOT BE REMINDED OF," that will never not slay
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 30 July 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link
John Green's a pretty big fan, has been posting a song a day for a while:
http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/tagged/42-days-of-the-mountain-goats
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 30 July 2015 06:05 (eight years ago) link
I disagree -- that opening Medea sequence with the centaur is not insufferable.
http://www.vice.com/read/talking-with-john-darnielle-about-horror-his-novel-wolf-in-white-van-and-the-endless-possibilities-of-story
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 September 2015 16:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.stereogum.com/1837622/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-rolling-stones-christopher-weingarten-made-a-noise-cassette/mp3s/
http://www.thatcutesite.com/uploads/2010/08/puppy_holds_ears.jpg
― scott seward, Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
i like it
― welltris (crüt), Thursday, 15 October 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
lol scott
― gr8080, Thursday, 15 October 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
Shouldn't that be a hipster puppy?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:50 (eight years ago) link
no WHO GIVES A SHIT jpeg on the cover, no credibility
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:52 (eight years ago) link
this is good btw
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 06:27 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/congressedits/status/674244582486335493The Mountain Goats Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US House of Representatives https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=694325421&oldid=691240032
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 04:05 (eight years ago) link
i JUST changed my DN but be advised that "nice boys who make the good, rocking tunes" is available
― Does that make you mutter, under your breath, “Damn”? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 December 2015 04:06 (eight years ago) link
hint hint aero
http://pitchfork.com/news/64192-the-mountain-goats-will-release-new-song-if-you-donate-to-john-darnielles-bowling-team-fundraiser/
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 16 March 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link