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Don't we all. *sniff* Don't we all.

Where's he moving to?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 03:46 (9 years ago) Permalink

North Carolina, I gathered.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 03:48 (9 years ago) Permalink

A lot of people seem to be moving to North Carolina recently, have you noticed that?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

It must be where to avoid the apocalypse. Uh, yeah.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

Oddly, I have noticed. My best friend from high school just moved there. I hear it's lovely.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:18 (9 years ago) Permalink

msp moved there too.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 04:19 (9 years ago) Permalink

I have learnt that someone my brother knows heads a "Bring J0hn M0untain G0ats to Indiana" club. I promised him I would use my ILM connections to help out. J0hn, if you're reading this come to Indiana!! it's the finest state in the union, and i don't know one hoosier who doesn't love the mountain goats!

― sonny d., Wednesday, 7 January 2004 07:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

john has already moved. he is refraining from posting to ilx for the time being.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 07:29 (9 years ago) Permalink

Nothing wrong with that. I hope he's doing very well. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 07:33 (9 years ago) Permalink

i don't think it's anything personal, just the usual gripes about time and productivity.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 07:35 (9 years ago) Permalink

Check out this gem John wrote for me in Phoenix right before he moved to Durham. On Diamanda Galas:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2003-12-25/music3.html/1/index.html

― Chris O., Wednesday, 7 January 2004 08:37 (9 years ago) Permalink

WELCOME TO NORTH CAROLINA.

Hopefully this will translate to more GSO shows. One a week? Is that asking too much?

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

I have been lucky enough to hear some of them new songs now (I hope Mr. D minds not) and the combination of "The Young Thousands" and "Your Belgian Things" makes me an extremely happy man. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

North Carolina?

Raise Up, j0hn! Take your shirt off/twist it 'round yo hand/Spin it like a helicopter!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 12 January 2004 05:31 (9 years ago) Permalink

Heh, just noticed that the staff of Norway's leading record store chain has voted Tallahassee their number 1 album of 2003 (which is apparently when it was released here). Congrats j0hn! ;)

― OleM (OleM), Monday, 12 January 2004 16:38 (9 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I hear more than a passing resemblance to Robert Johnson's "Traveling Riverside Blues" in "Some Swedish Trees"... and considering there's a true RJ cover that comes a little later on Sweden, I'm not sure how intentional it is!

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 25 March 2004 16:51 (9 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

confession: i bought tallahassee a few months ago, gave it one listen, and then put it aside because it just wasnt doing it for me at the time.

well. its doing it now. This is one GREAT cd. i know you dont post anymore, but if you're reading, thanks j0hn.

― AaronK (AaronK), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

I have "We Shall Not Fall" (or whatever) and I think it's ace.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:45 (8 years ago) Permalink

Tallahasse was played at my house yesterday. Fucking extraordinary record. I miss J0hn.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 16 August 2004 11:54 (8 years ago) Permalink

why don't j0hn--or, for that matter, mat0s--post anymore? is ilm the new friendster?

― akiva, Monday, 16 August 2004 14:37 (8 years ago) Permalink

J0hn was prompted to leave following an unfortunate problem with a semi-formal 'publishing' of a few threads via Cafepress -- MarkH, I recall, wanted to test the publishing service said firm provides, but did so without telling those who had posted on the threads until after the fact. There was no maliciousness intended but many people felt understandably upset; J0hn was one of them.

Mr. Mat0s did in fact post briefly on the Stranger/Seattle Weekly thread over the weekend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 16 August 2004 14:53 (8 years ago) Permalink

it was mark grout, btw.

j0hn has set a board at LPTJ, and some ilxers are posting there. I'm sure he's lurking tho'. Ditto everybody who has 'left'.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Monday, 16 August 2004 15:03 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

absolute classic beyond beliefs.

― cºzen (Cozen), Monday, 18 October 2004 18:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

"blue jays and cardinals" is a good song. thanks, J0hn.

― youn, Friday, 11 February 2005 11:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

Indeed. Spiffy show. :-)

i wonder if we'll ever get to hear the "behind the music" story of rachel...

ITEM! Rachel was at the show last night and sang backup on "Going to Georgia!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 February 2005 13:49 (8 years ago) Permalink

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1995 all over again, visions of young people in the pomona arts colony, a blissful state, fair youth. Sweden is the greatest record.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:40 (8 years ago) Permalink

god, 10 years ago...

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 11 February 2005 18:41 (8 years ago) Permalink

A while indeed.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 February 2005 06:21 (8 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide-display/-/1LHDZ571GEJUR/ref=amb_right-4_206509_1/103-8285579-1078238

― Samuel Glickstein (nordicskilla), Monday, 18 April 2005 22:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

Got my Goato tix. Woohoo!

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 01:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

YOU GOATY MAN

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 01:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

mediocre. also john darnielle is annoying.

― _Bad_Command_or_File_Name_ (bcofn1), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

the mountain goats are wonderful...but i don't understand the tortoise jibes(or am i missing something)?tnt is great.

― dggdhfgd, Monday, 24 April 2006 21:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

the new song, "woke up new" that they posted on pitchfork is really great.

it's almost hard to listen to for me, i wonder what would happen to me if i got divorced or my wife died. i wouldn't know what to do.

― M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 June 2006 22:56 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Could anyone possibly ysi or gmail the track "Ezekiel" from Coroner's Gambit to me? Desperate, and couldnt find YSI thread, if it exists.

lolz

it is called "elijah"

confession: i bought tallahassee a few months ago, gave it one listen, and then put it aside because it just wasnt doing it for me at the time.
well. its doing it now. This is one GREAT cd. i know you dont post anymore, but if you're reading, thanks j0hn.

Yeah, same here. I went back to it because any record with No Children on it can't be all bad, but I can't believe I didn't pay more attention the first time - the run from Game Shows Touch Our Lives (! ! Jesus, what a song! Fuck! Christ!) down to See America Right is fantastic, and Oceanographer's Choice is an amazing closer to the album.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Classic new old song: Counting Song for Bitter Children.

YSI & explanation in the tMG forum (scroll down, 4th last message on this page: http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,10338,page=4 )

― StanM, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 09:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

I've been in a really big Mountain Goats phase lately. this week I resolved to stop smoking, drinking caffeine, and buying Mountain Goats albums. guess which one I relapsed on first?

but on the plus side, I've converted several people in the past week, including my mom, who "Could see how (she) would've been a huge fan of these guys when (she) was (my) age".

― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:18 (5 years ago) Permalink

I find it nearly impossible to read Mt. Johnny's Marooned piece without imagining King Goat himself singing it; like something off of We Shall All be Healed, say.

― JN$OT, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 17:43 (5 years ago) Permalink

They're like Bright Eyes, right?

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

In a perverse alternate universe, perhaps.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

WHOAAAAAA my living room is a perverse alternate universe

― wanko ergo sum, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

I thought it might be.

― roxymuzak, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 18:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

What a crap name, though. "Mounting Goats" would have been slightly better in a sub-Throwing Muses sort of way.

Honestly can't be bothered to check out a band with such a lame aesthetic as regards naming themselves. I suspect they only chose "Mountain Goats" because they didn't think of "Toilet Seats" or "Supermarket Trolleys" until it was far too late.

Only possible up-side is that in France they may be known as "Les Chamoises" which is waaaaaay better. If such monickered records exist, I suggest they begin importing them into the anglophone world asap.

― PhilK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

ok waht

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:27 (5 years ago) Permalink

PhilK is a fake.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

He's brothers with JeffK

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:34 (5 years ago) Permalink

J'adore Les Chamoises

― PhilK, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:39 (5 years ago) Permalink

"Mounting Goats", tho...?

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 30 October 2007 20:42 (5 years ago) Permalink

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