The Mountain Goats

"The Ultimate Jedi Who Kills All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" is their best song since "Short Song For Justin Bieber's Paparazzi."

super appreciate that when ppl praise his work he says pleasant and modest things that do not include the word 'humbled'

..I think you are maybe thinking of someone else?

heh, i did a shitty job of posting that track.

Trying again: http://www.vulture.com/2017/01/mountain-goats-wrote-a-star-wars-song.html

I mean, being humble strikes me as a very JD thing, it's the self working on the self, unlike being #blessed. Can definitely see him getting up in the morning and doing 20 humble crunches, getting himself set up for the day.

No I imagine he means that he's avoiding this new use of the word "humbled" when the person means, in fact, the opposite, which is a thing more

Hah, I did not know of that - okay then I think his uses are definitely keeping the retro-humbled flame alive :)

Interview about the new book

I'm at that in-between point where I saw the book at work, bought the book, am excited about the book's basic description, am recommending the book to coworkers and customers, but still need to start the book on my day off.

So maybe tomorrow. The dust jacket will show off great wear and aging like a pair of Canadian/Japanese collaboration blue jeans.

book reading in W. DC tonight

i loved this book so much, totally stunned

tracklist for the new one (called goths) is prob the best tracklist i've ever read

Would you have a link, there?

https://us.7digital.com/artist/the-mountain-goats/release/goths-deluxe-version-6195812

Missed opportunity to just rename the whole project 'the Mountain Goths'.

'Andrew Eldritch Is Moving Back to Leeds' is up on Spotify and other streaming services.

djp in the house

oh yeah, there is that ^_^

Minor details!

as somebody who needs choral music to be aggressively crossovered into their life i am hyped to hear, d

"no guitars" I hear

wait, is djp on this album?

(Thanks for asking. I'm confused too.)

it's the DJP-only album we've been waiting for

DJP has taken over the MG identity and it is nothing but plainsong chants.

Or alternately, I arranged backing vocals on one of the songs

But...my creative lies for your benefit.

Don't get me wrong, I'm gonna email some friends for a Latin translation of "No Children" this weekend

Off-topic, but in ILX - With Ads!Ⓡ news:

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/kingkonggodzilla/mountaingoats_zpswck1hdwj.jpg

hoping drew is somehow involved as well

Nice dan!

Anyone reading his book?

Just got a copy after going to the reading in Seattle. I'm honestly amazed by how good he is at audience q&a's, being able to answer cliched or awkwardly phrased questions in an interesting way that doesn't make the person asking feel stupid is a real gift.

omg @ Goths

ltd time offer, also cc'd on twitter so maybe invalid at time of reading this: pls somebody say if they wd like my copy of the novel, i can't rly have bks piling up here & am happy to probably-lazily mail it to someone who wants to read, #usa #only

uhh me plz? I'm up to my eyeballs in books but I don't mind

:)
send me yr address somehow ! are we friends on twitter or anything

Eldritch is also here:

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/02/24/mountain-goats-sing-about-andrew-eldtritch/

tbh, not in love with it.

Universal Harvester rolling me right along in a musical way, not breezy tho (how did that word become such a thing)

The book is indeed extremely good.

I tried to find it on the kobo store and it offered me

Farming Machinery - Combine Harvesters - With Information on the Operation and Mechanics of the Combine Harvester

and

How to Start a Potato Harvester and Sorter Business (Beginners Guide)

i have been VERY disappointed to discover Universal Harvester unstocked at the many airports i have passed through this weekend

That's because you weren't looking under his pseudonym, 'Brad Thor.'

Oh so it is available as an ebook in the kobo store, but not in the UK. And there I thought we had a global economy.

as an aside i have to imagine placement in airport bookstores does wonders for sales -- feel like airports are one of the last few places ppl make impulse book purchases

Very nice new song here: https://ourfirst100days.bandcamp.com/track/etruscans

Appropriately gothy new song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anS6bcPpvoQ

*waves at djp*

also this is fucking excellent

I would love to meet the basses they used for this because they are badass