The Mountain Goats

I have written an "every Mountain Goats song, ranked" listicle, John'd better behave or I will submit that listicle

the threat of imminent mountain goats character compendium

Dear Mr. Tyler,
How did you end up with a track on the CD accompanying this? http://southerncultures.org/2013/02/15/spring-2013-issue-global-southern-music/
I couldn't figure out at all which article it tied into,

Regards,
James Redd

Howl In My Passway?
Elvis Down Under?
Aloha Blues?

Rubber Ring Shout?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_gGUT8f9i4

Mountain Goat Dew?

this really isn't the place for this but when there're anthology CDs the process usually involves magazines writing to managers/publicists and artists signing off for zero dollars on the idea that being on something that might reach new ears is a good idea as long as the venue seems kinda cool and not something weird like a McDonalds giveaway or whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFeforW2ycI

so I always found the title of "Up the Wolves" off The Sunset Tree to be kinda mystifying much moreso than the actual lyrical content), and then just now I made the connection with this
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/1/3/1/9/1319.jpg
... which seems like a plausible source, but idk

it is possible that in this one instance I have overestimated the influence of Mr. Ronnie James Dio

So I just discovered that les Goats are going to be part of this summer's free concert series at the Rock and ROll Hall of Fame, which is right by my office. Woo!

The Goats on the Ramones

#77

http://jezebel.com/jezebels-hot-100-the-men-we-love-ranked-1578735833

rowr and also lol injokes

you can leave your hat glasses on...

Whatever, I'm at #42.

lol

Imagine being at a party with George Takei. Imagine how much fun you'd have.

he'd be all, "check this shit out i just posted on facebook."

"whoa cool george" *scans around room for anyone without a phone in their face*

JD fall book tour schedule is up btw

i've got my ticket

free show at poisson rouge iirc

The first 10 minutes of the audiobook is available here: https://soundcloud.com/macaudio-2/wolf-in-white-van-by-john-darnielle-audiobook-excerpt

And review/interview here!

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/books/review/the-sound-of-the-words.html

I ordered a copy, because Mr. Goat is awesome and the book seems cool.

Mr. Goat is doing a signing near here (Oxford, MS) so I will go buy my copy there and say hi dere.

I fear I'll need to miss the LA signing, so I've preordered and wait with bated breath.

09-15 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge ^
09-18 Durham, NC - Motorco Music Hall
09-22 Raleigh, NC - Quail Ridge Books
09-24 Nashville, TN - Parnassus Books
09-25 Oxford, MS - Off Square Books
09-29 San Francisco, CA - Green Apple Books *
09-30 Los Angeles, CA - Skylight Books
10-01 Portland, OR - Powell's Books
10-02 Denver, CO - The Tattered Cover
10-05 Dallas, TX - The Wild Detectives
10-06 Austin, TX - Book People
10-07 Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall #
10-08 Brookline, MA - Coolidge Theater

^ with John Hodgman
* with Robin Sloan
# with Mairead Case

being on the NBA list of ten fiction nominees the week your book comes out is pretty good

http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2014.html#.VBrGd_ldUuc

woah!

Awesome! Congrats John!

listening to the Fresh Air interview this morning was heart-cheering

... altho the part where he talked about fans dumping all their heavy stories on him at the merch table made me wish I could make it out to Motorco tonight just to tell a joke or something

i dumped gifted him with a bottle of malört at a merch table last year

the book is really excellent

lol gr8080

CONGRATS JOHN

oh shit gr8080, malort, that shit is vile

iirc his review based on one shot was:

"That is the vilest shit ever, in the most charming way possible."

def the most otm description of malört i've ever heard

kudos to you motherfucker

a bottle of malort. a kudos candy bar. and a bargain priced room on la cienega.

Congratulations, Mr. Mountain Goats. Master Of Reality is fantastic so I'm not surprised by the high praise. Way looking forward to reading this.

Oh hmm, the Oxford event includes a Thacker Mountain Radio broadcast/reading. Adjusting dinner plans...

http://www.npr.org/2014/09/17/348736199/as-a-lyricist-and-novelist-the-mountain-goats-lead-man-writes-about-pain

I intend to listen to the Fresh Air thing...

Whoa, congrats. All the fun novels I've been looking forward to are out this month (David Mitchell, Jeff Vandermeer), and aero's is up next for me.

something about that npr headline is v weird to me

mega congrats to the goat gentleman

yeah big ups, aero! like seriously. can't wait to get my hands on this thing and hope I can move some stuff around to see you at Powell's on the first.

I'm not exactly who John writes for, but he's still managed to get Denton stuck in my ear.

best ever

http://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/101178844671/a-band-i-like-called-helcaraxe-sent-me-their-cover

this is fucking mighty.