got to do a poster for the mountain goats' initial bleed out tour in the US - i believe you can still get leftover copies on their merch store. was very excited to channel my love of gangster films into this
I keep thinking about how before this tour they'd only played Azo Tle Nelli In Tlaltipac? like three times ever, and then they've played it every show this run, usually opening with it. that's so crazy to me and such a fucking power move.
i have an unfortunate habit of, i think, assuming that the mountain goats have a much further reach than they do. particularly w/ musicians. i keep finding new artists (particularly more underground indie/folk/punk artists) and being like. well surely they have a tweet/post/interview where they gush about how good the mountain goats are. surely. they must have a favorite mountain goats song that has, like with all mountain goats fans, ripped them clean open stomach to throat in one continued line. of course. it’s just a matter of when their cover of it comes out. and i have to simply remember that that is not universally true although to be fair the number of times it has happened isn’t exactly proving my theory wrong.
that post breaching containment is ruining my life. if i have to see another person saying tMG is just JD i will chew through drywall. put some respect on peter hughes' name at THE VERY LEAST.
the unbreakable bond between the archive.org recording of a mountain goats show that a mother once left her infant child overnight for the first time to see and that child some sixteen years later
with tour less than two weeks away atp I’ve curated my wishlist for songs I’d like to hear at these upcoming shows.. I use the term realistic very loosely.
Went and saw The Mountain Goats last night with @nihilisticlinguistics and the energies were absolutely uncomparable, both because I always appreciate the stage energy they have but also because:
Midway through during the mini intermission, John Darnielle pulled out a IWW songbook he had apparently just bought while on tour in order to attempt to play “Mourn Not the Dead,” because the last concert he did here in Minneapolis he played some other union songs and the crowd went wild, so apparently we have that reputation now (LOVE that)
During the actual intermission, AJ and I were discussing how much we love thinking about character playlists because, you know, music and ended up stuck in a loop talking about the fact that we both want to put Belos/Philip under a character-examining microscope and study him