#john darnielle coded

[royrockstone]

inside of you there are two wolves. one wants a “i am not gonna lose you/ we are gonna stay married/ in this house like a Louisiana graveyard/ where nothing stays buried” failmarriage and one wants a “but you’ve never been a waste of my time/it’s never been a drag” successdivorce. 

#liz phair-coded tom #john darnielle-coded shiv

[ramons-elevator]

The QSMP + Doomed By The Narrative

Anecdote of the Pig, Tory Adkisson // blatterpussbunnyfromhell // Code Monster & Dapper // Egg A1 // Until The End by Jeff Williams // Trumpet, Juanaflippa, Tilin, and Bobby's grave // Wolf in White Van, John Darnielle // Empty Egg Beds

#qsmp #qsmp eggs #qsmp chayanne #qsmp tallulah #qsmp dapper #qsmp pomme #qsmp leo #qsmp leonarda #qsmp ramon #qsmp ramón #qsmp richarlyson #web weaving #webweaving #doomed by the narrative

[cemeterything]

Going to Bogota by tmg is so jfj final scene coded - I held a service just me and him..

john darnielle has harmed me once more

[hellcheerocracy]

🎸

Please excuse my delayed response to this ask as I am Dumblr and definitely thought I'd already posted it. Re: this fun little meme more people should do

This mini-playlist based on my hc where Eddie becomes more of a John Darnielle than a James Hetfield. Hope you like the Mountain Goats! Autobiographical details not withstanding, these three songs feel especially hellcheer coded.

(interesting fact: the year in "this year" in this song is actually 1986 which was also a real doozy for darnielle.)

"on the day I forget you, I hope my heart explodes" I MEAN.

#hellcheer #the mountain goats #Spotify #mini-playlist meme

[mongeese]

john darnielle is so manic pixie dream girl coded

(from this article)

[Image ID: A screenshot of a quote reading, "'I’ve been a metal listener since high school. Most of my listening is classical, metal, jazz and ambient. That’s the stuff I listen to,' he says, adding that when he was in his late teens, 'I was always the odd man, I liked to wear a blazer to the metal show. It was my deal.'" End ID]

#/hj #im not parasocial im NOT i promise #tmg #<- adjacent so it goes in the tag

[okkateri]

In your life, the rhythm of these little routines is like the gentle path of a ditch creek: predictable movement through unremarkable straits most days, but with enough small surprises in it to make it feel worthy of the space it takes up. For the creek, a surprising chorus of frogs on a summer night, or the sudden appearance of an improvised waterfall built with rocks by local kids; for you, an unexpected conversation, or a small purchase on impulse, a little byway brought to you by chance and peripheral vision. You learned these rhythms from your mother: where to hear them, how to spot the signs of their presence, how to honor the code by declining to name it. She’s always been like that, keeping to-do lists in her head rather than writing them down, never talking up the usefulness of her habits or trying to impose them on her daughter, speaking few rules aloud but making the ones she valued manifest in her manner. She left room in the routine for variation. The practice spoke for itself. It made home a place worth returning every day.

This recipe made of you a person who could do as she wished, but whose wishes were usually modest; because even small wishes, once gained, seemed to make such lovely ripples in the life you’ve assembled for yourself.

-- Devil House by John Darnielle

[transpantastic]

Good stuff, go listen! Not only is the interview good, but Tuck's intro rant/vent/? about media hit home bigtime.

#transgender #podcast

[the-daily-goat]

Daily Goat #006: Have to Explode - Tallahassee (Live @ Downtown Artery 10-26-2016)

"This song is about a couple of people who, uh, are in bad shape, and they are going to stay that way. It's a song about commitment to excellence." - John Darnielle

Tile floor of the bathroom Scrubbed clean and bright Checkerboard white and grey Towels from the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Kingston Jamaica I can still see the rust colored stains today The stage is set Someone's going to do something someone else will regret I speak in smoke signals and you answer in code The fuse will have to run out sometime Something here will eventually have to explode Have to explode

You and me lying on the tile floor Trying to keep cool Restless all night Sweating out the poison As the temperature climbs Staring up up at the hundred-watt light that burns above Name one thing about us two anyone could love We roll out the red carpet When rotten luck comes down the road Five four three two one Watch for the flash Something here will eventually have to explode Have to explode

#the mountain goats #tmg #have to explode #tallahassee #live #2002 #2016

[ktae]

In your life, the rhythm of these little routines is like the gentle path of a ditch creek: predictable movement through unremarkable straits most days, but with enough small surprises in it to make it feel worthy of the space it takes up. For the creek, a surprising chorus of frogs on a summer night, or the sudden appearance of an improvised waterfall built with rocks by local kids; for you, an unexpected conversation, or a small purchase on impulse, a little byway brought to you by chance and peripheral vision. You learned these rhythms from your mother: where to hear them, how to spot the signs of their presence, how to honor the code by declining to name it. She'd always been like that, keeping to-do lists in her head rather than writing them down, never talking up the usefulness of her habits or trying to impose them on her daughter, speaking few rules aloud but making the ones she valued manifest in her manner. She left room in the routine for variation. The practice spoke for itself. It made home a place worth returning to every day.

This recipe made of you a person who could do as she wished, but whose wishes were usually modest; because even small wishes, once gained, seemed to make such lovely ripples in the life you've assembled for yourself. No fate but the one chosen lightly; no destiny but the present moment.

Devil House - John Darnielle

#devil house #cant stop thinking abt this passage like literally thats what its all about babey

[raven]

there is a tiny john darnielle who lives in the corner of my brain and if the code words are spoken he plays all hail west texas so loud in my head but i dont even know what the code word is so .

[tmgbanter]

When I was nineteen, I had my first, like, job that didn't involve cleaning up other people's food. It was for the East County regional headquarters of the Los Angeles Public Library. [Audience woos.] Thank you. Who doesn't love the East County regional headquarters of the Los Angeles Public Library? So, my job was- you may wonder, if somebody... or you may not. If you want some copy of a book they don't have at your library and you go and order it, how does it get there? Well, it's the guy at the Regional Head- inter-library loan, exactly. Inter-library loan, the way it works is one librarian puts in a form to another library and then they ship it to the county headquarters; that's me, nineteen years old. I get the box from Walnut, California - that's 809, I believe is their code number - it's been requested by Baldwin Park - that's 801. So, the box comes in in the morning. I chat with the truck driver who brought them all in. I rip open all the boxes with a box cutter - feels badass no matter what - and open 'em all up and you look at where they're going and you rearrange them into the other boxes, you seal them back up with tape, your hand gets all gnarly, right, from too much stuff on the tape. And you do this for eight hours - minus your lunch break, where you eat a hot dog at the place at the court house. It's the only food place around. And the guy selling you the hot dogs enthusiastically says, 'Yo, those are the same ones they serve at Dodger Stadium.' And you remember it for 30 years. If you need a Dodger dog, you can go to the East County regional headquarters, walk straight across, there you go. I bet that guy's dead now, though. So, score one for me. So anyway, one day I get off work - this is a long job without a lot of action in it - and I get off work and I go to the on-ramp to the freeway; you can see the scene depicted on our tour poster back there at the table. And there's some people that are my age - maybe a year or two older - but they're clearly a little deeper into some scene than I am. I don't think they're probably working eight-hours-a-day shifts. They're probably quitting jobs a little quicker. And they have long hair that's feathery and the roach clip, you know, with the feathers you can put in your hair. Looks - still looks good today. A fashion trend that will never die. And there was a guy, right, one of those guys whose shoulders seem to have widened a little earlier than everybody else's; you look at him and he radiates testosterone, you know, and then like three women in the car. And he's wearing shades, and we're both getting onto the same freeway. I'm not even trying to stare at this guy. I'm just looking over, making sure I'm aware. And he sort of catches me with his sunglasses. Makes sure I'm looking at him. He smiles and he had fangs. Then the light turned green, he got on the freeway and I never saw him again. I wrote this song about him.

John Darnielle introducing The Grey King and the Silver Flame Attunement, Saturn on 2017-05-25

#john darnielle #the mountain goats #tmg #the grey king and the silver flame attunement #long post

[grimelords]

​My October playlist is finished, please enjoy it. From 14 minute 70s acoustic guitar instrumentals, Armand Van Helden bangers and Christian music I’ve had a lot of feelings about this playlist has it all in four hours.

Love Love Love - The Mountain Goats: Posting on the web about Mountain Goats songs you've had a moment with is about as universal as it gets, so here's mine for this month. I woke up one morning with the line about Sonny Liston in my head one day after not listening to this song in years. John Darnielle is perhaps the only person on earth I'd trust to write a song about Kurt Cobain's suicide and he does a very simple and beautiful job of it here. Ben's My Friend - Sun Kil Moon: I discovered Sun Kil Moon way after I probably should have via that guy who was doing parody songs of him last year. This song is fantastic because it takes so long to make its point, and like so much good art is just some middle aged guy recounting his every thought and movement for four minutes. You Were Meant For Me - Jewel: I was trying to remember how Dreams by Fleetwood Mac went and all I could think of was this song, and settled on singing it to myself instead. Sober - Lorde: Sorry to be a normie but listening to Lorde break down this song on an episode of Song Exploder was incredibly good and it definitely made me appreciate the way the brass sounds a lot more. Melodrama really does get better and better as a cohesive whole the more I listen to it. Night Moves - Bob Seger: We as a society need to bring back Power Voice I think. I've been obsessed with this song for months now and as far as I can tell Bob Seger has precisely zero other good songs, which is unfortunate because this one is so good. This also is another song about getting the Lamenting Night Hornies because you heard a thunderstorm that reminded you of the times in your youth that you Fucked and it's, in my opinion, very beautiful. Cairo - San Fermin: This is on the list not only because it's a good song but also unfortunately because of Podasts. San Fermin guested on an episode of Improv4humans and got absolutely roasted about this song so I highly recommend the ep. UFO - Sneaky Sound System: It's unfortunate that Sneaky Sound System's highest played song according to Spotify is the Nicolas Jaar remix of Big (an all time top ten piece of music) because it's really overshadowed the rest of their incredibly good singles. Do you remember 2006? What a time to be alive. UFO (Van She Tech Remix) - Sneaky Sound System: This is my absolute pick of the month and I have been raving to everyone who'll listen but nobody cares, I cannot get enough of it. Do you remember when Justice came from France to bless us all with the secret of bass and we betrayed them by inventing Skrillex not three years later? Van She remember. Charlie Chazz & Rappin Ralph - Duck Sauce: I believe there is a real argument to be made that any song that doesn't refer to the listeners collectively as Party People is absolutely worthless. Duck Sauce's album is a completely underrated classic in my opinion, it's a go-to mood elevator from beginning to end and for some reason has a subplot thoughout about aliens transmitting coded messages to influence human evolution, which is a big thumbs up from me. I Took Your Picture - Cults: Guess what Cults are still really really good. I haven't given this album enough time yet but this bassline has invaded my dreams so that's a good sign. Pavement - City Calm Down: The way this layers and builds into and through the chorus is so satisfying. I love this sort of thick synth production and the contrast between the different registers of his voice is so satisfying as the chorus comes back again. Pogo - Digitalism: Australian electronic music had a real moment around 2007 between Digitalism, Van She, The Presets, Midnight Juggernauts, Cut Copy and all them and I'm realising retrospectively that it was very, very good. Semicircle Song - The Go! Team: The world's best band are back and their new album isn't out until fucking January! This song features big horns and a bridge that's just a montage of children telling you their star sign so that's how you know it's good. The Garden's All Nighters - The Number Twelve Looks Like You: It's a real shame that #12 broke up after this album because it feels like they were really on the edge of something. Over 4 albums they morphed from a straight ahead grind band into some sort of math-prog thing approaching it from a whole different direction to everyone else. I love the idea of writing such an expansive, complex song seemingly just about living in New Jersey. The way it transitions into the groovy latin part is so nice and the solo is just beautiful; and unlike other bands in the same sort of sector they never make a joke of genre switches either, they just keep moving forward with a smile. Paris/Orly - Deux: I forget how I first came across this album but it’s easily the wankiest thing I absolutely love. An 80s French synthpop duo that only ever released a cassette and some singles that got reissued by a label called Minimal Wave a few years ago. It is absolutely the best. New wave mixed with Kraftwerk and synthpop except incredibly french and cool as well. I constantly have their song Game And Performance in my head but this one was my obsession this month. Walking Into Sunshine (Larry Levan 12" Mix) - Central Line: There’s something very authentic about disco songs that are lyrically all about working all week all day every day, and desperately needing a break to perhaps, dance your worries away in a new york discotheque. Cradle In The Crater - The Number Twelve Looks Like You: This is maybe my favourite #12 song because it appears to be about some kind of super child who came from space and perhaps wrought havoc on the citizens of earth, but told in a very real and emotional way like it’s a story about someone they really knew. It reminds me of Mother 3 and the good times I had as a teen playing that game with my best friend, so that’s an added bonus. Under The Ice (Extended Version) - Topo & Roby: Italo disco forever. This song is a duet between a woman and a robot where they relay the story of him coming from a distant planet in a spaceship and crashing on the north pole then getting trapped under the titular ice where he waits to I think murder me. Now that I think of it it’s world similar to Cradle In The Crater. It sounds so good, far better than a novelty song like this has any right to. There’s also a video with someone’s 80s mum dancing with an incredibly shit robot on youtube if you’re interested. Outta The Woodwork - Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett: I really love the covers they chose for this album because they both really make it their own. Outta The Woodwork really sounds like a Kurt song now and I love the strong piano giving the song the harder edge the lyrics deserve and Kurt just lazily soloing to hell any chance he gets Peepin' Tom - Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett: I think I almost like this version more than the original, making it just an acoustic thing but still keeping all the dynamics of the original is so nice. I love specifically the deep bass voice of ‘peepin’ to the high ‘tom’. It satisfies something weird in my brain. Mercury (12" Version) - Bloc Party: I can’t believe i’ve lived this long without ever knowing that there was a 12” version of Mercury out there. The song I always felt was way too short to contain the amount of energy it has has a 7 minute version that well and truly lays it out into a slow intense burn instead. Electric Feel (Justice Remix) - MGMT: Just to get my 2007 opinions straight Electric Feel is not a good song. Kids is a good song but Electric Feel isn’t. That said: this remix comes damn close to making it good. Justice figured out the secret sound and we’re all the better for it. Comin' Apart - Gary Wright: There’s no greater joy than tracking down a sample and finding out that the original song is also a banger. This pairs extremely well with My My My as a sort of extended intro. My My My - Armand Van Helden: I posted that playlist a couple weeks ago of songs mid-2000s bangers with extremely horny videos and this is a highlight from that. I'm always amazed with how much mileage great producers can get out of a relatively straightforward sample because this hums along for almost 7 minutes and only gets better. Laser Life - The Blood Brothers: The Blood Brothers are one of the few bands that scratch the brain itch I have for totally bonkers Mars Volta markov chain lyrics phrases like 'Oh dream machine I'm a pound of flesh inside a drum machine dream'. They're also the only band I think that can get away with having this sort of cabaret swing feel in a song with a lot of screaming and not have it be absolutely unbearable. Camouflage, Camouflage - The Blood Brothers: Where a lot of The Blood Brothers early songs were just chaotic bursts, they have a few songs that spread out into a long multi movement ideas culminating in very good final lines like 'I couldn't see the love and affection it was camouflaged as a jungle of erections, and I couldn't see the skeletal lightning it was camouflaged as a young machete' 16 Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford: The mistake people make in covering this song is trying to match the extremely grim lyrics to the music, but this version succeeds exactly because it's on some upbeat Frank Sinatra shit with the clarinet refrain sounding like a children's song while still being very much about dying face down in the dirt from arsenic poisoning. Take This Hammer - Leadbelly: On the other hand you have a song like Take This Hammer from a guy who really worked on a chain gang complete with involuntary WAH sounds to time your hammer strikes to, and it's still so much more upbeat and positive musically than it has any right to be looking at the lyrics. San Francisco - Foxygen: There's something about the chorus of this song, and they way the phrases of the two voices line up where if it gets stuck in your head it just goes around and around and around forever and it is absolutely maddening so I thought I'd share that with you all. El Manana (Metronomy Remix) - Gorillaz: This remix reminds me of Studio to a degree with the way it just moves forward with no regard for regular structure. It's gutsy to remix a song and somehow restructure it so the chorus doesn't even sound like it's the chorus anymore but just another small part in a slowly winding up machine. Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies: The way he's screaming that GOD IS SEVEN in this song I feel like if Black Francis hadn't made it in music he'd be running a very successful incomprehensible conspiracy website. This is a song I can get very lyrically involved in when I'm in certain moods, nodding my head like the creature in the sky DID get sucked in a hole and now there's a hole in the sky, and we're all in trouble because of it. Cannonball - The Breeders: I like this song because it feels like everyone in the band is working on their own unique structure. The clean guitar especially just comes and goes at will through the whole song, the lyrics start whenever, the rhythm guitar just keeps strumming along. It all comes together for the chorus and then they just go their own separate ways until it's chorus time again. S.A.D. - Kirin J Callinan: The production on this song just amazes me, especially as it moves into the later choruses the sheer weight of the chords is just crazy. The barest suggestion of guitars chugging in the background but blending into the huge synths chords. Combined with the vocals it's the most threatening pop song I've ever heard. Wrapped up in plastic thrown down the stairs feeling fantastic. Water Coast Blues - Honeyboy Edwards: I feel like Honeyboy Edwards has gotten a raw deal from history. When he died most of his obitaries made a big point of how he was one of the last living people to know Robert Johnson personally. Which is an important detail but it overshadows Edwards contributions in his own right as a guitarist and songwriter who had a 70 year career. The album this recording's from is a really good compilation that gives an overview of his whole career, mixed with interviews with Edwards and Alan Lomax that are just amazing. Anyway just listen to the playing on this song because it is incredible. The bass figure he switches into when he says 'when I had money'? Phenomenal. Another Leather Lung - The Sound Of Animals Fighting: The Sound Of Animals Fighting was a supergroup of a bunch of guys from RX Bandits/Chiodos/Circa Survive and bands like that coming together in animal masks to make the most pretentious band possible at the time. There's a lyrics on one of their other songs where he sings 'the artist! the true manifestation of struggle!' which is quite good. But outside of that they did make some very good music and the second half of this song where it takesoff is really something. Bone Machine - The Pixies: It's amazing Black Francis hasn't been linked to a string of murders in the mid 80s honestly. This whole song feels like evidence. Also the way he says 'I was talking to peachy peach about kissy kiss.. [incredibly long, awkward silence] ... he bought me a soda. he bought me a soda and he tried to molest me in the parking lot hep hep hep hep' is perhaps the most amazing verse ever. Stomping Tonight On The Pennsylvania/Alabama Border - John Fahey: This is John Fahey's best song and I've listened to it probably 4 times a week for the last 4 years. It is quite honestly an eternal mood. Ares - Bloc Party: War! War! War! War! I love the guitar in this, because it's just textural noisemaking more than anything else and mixed with the vocal manipulations in the chorus it's just absolute chaos. It's such a shame that everyone in Bloc Party either left the band or had their brain removed after this album because between this, Mercury and Talons it was truly an incredible moment. Special Rider Blues - John Fahey: I can't believe I only found out this month about John Fahey covering Skip James, and even that it took me this long for me to listen to the full version of his America album. Mark 1:15 - John Fahey: I also learned that on account of cds only holding 80 minutes of music, this 14 minute reissue version of Mark 1:15 is 2 minutes shorter than the original vinyl version and I'm completely riled up about it and demanding a second, definitive reissue to restore them. Regardless, this song is an absolute masterpiece and when it switches into the portion of When The Springtime Comes again about three quarters of the way through it's just amazing. Swim - Nicolas Jaar: Here's another quite long and involved piece of music from the other side of the spectrum. It has a very similar feeling to Mark 1:15 really, so if you liked that persevere through this. It's taken me such a long time to get around to listening to Nymphs for some reason but I'm glad I finally gave it a shot because this song especially is a real masterwork. Crimes - The Blood Brothers: A third Blood Brothers song for you, If you didn't like the other two there's a chance you'll like this one because it's much more sedate. This song is also a good first Blood Brothers song because the way the second vocalist sounds when he finally turns up is really funny if you're not expecting it. This is another on the long list of songs I seem to just always have in my head and sing to myself when I'm walking around. NRG - Duck Sauce: Are you ready for the most powerful 12 minutes of your life? It's the entirety of the NRG single by Duck Sauce. I like to think of it as a purposeful multi-movement work rather than a song and two remixes because that's what it feels like. Starting out we have the original, incredible instant power of NRG. NRG (Skrillex, Kill The Noise, Milo & Otis Remix) - Duck Sauce: and next we have the absolute peak of the work, the fever pitch. See if you can guess which part Skrillex was responsible for. I love the addition of miscellaneous woos and yeahs among the already busy main riff, I absolutely love the bass which sounds like some kind of steel drum pulled down four octaves. I love the distortion on the vocals in the second half as it slowly gives you time to catch your breath. NRG (Hudson Mohawk Remix) - Duck Sauce: The we move into the comedown, the HudMo contribution where the drums somehow sound like they're coming from next door like the party has passed you by and moved on to enliven your neighbours. I love the snare building and then splitting into triplets like it's going to drop before the peace of the synth gives way to the rolling thunder drums hafway in. On The Other Hand Baby - Etta Baker: I don't know what to say about Etta Baker. She's incredible and it's an absolute shame that she didn't really get recorded until she was about 70. This album was recorded when she was about 92 and her playing is still amazing. Crucible - Sleigh Bells: You have to give Sleigh Bells credit for still going strong four albums in if nothing else. Somewhere along the line they adopted this sort of corny rock chick thing that wasn't really there in their first album and I think it works against them but I really can't get enough of the instrumental of this song. The distorted brass and string amongst everything else especially. I feel like there's a much better song buried in here somewhere but I'll take what I can get. Pirate Blues - As Cities Burn: As Cites Burn are another good example of a metalcore band absolutely mellowing out into a indie rock band over the course of three albums, and the result Hell Or High Water has turned out to be one if my favourites of all time. This song especially is an obsession, and I love a band having the sense to no longer make metalcore, but learning enough from it to take a song to a a huge crescendo when they need to like this one does. Timothy - As Cities Burn: Between As Cities Burn, mewithoutYou and a couple of other christian bands I was very nearly converted in highschool and it still informs a lot of my uh theistic thought in a strangely unembarrassing way. This song, from their second album where they were sort of caught between their metalcore origins and the full fleshed indie rock of Hell Or High Water is one of their best. Yelling at god about your dead friend is a massive thing to write a song about but it's done so well and it builds and builds before dissolving into a sparse, thoughtful solo for a good six minutes into a beautiful ending.

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#playlists

[vermiculated]

books 2017 so far

wow, tuv want to talk about why you haven’t kept a monthly book list? (because I am scared of my phone and also writing.) no. 

Reiffen's Choice - SC Butler

Flex- Ferrett Steinmetz

The Good Funeral - Thomas Long and Thomas Lynch

The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley

The Portable Veblen - Elizabeth McKenzie

The Invaders - Karolina Waclawiak

Funny Boy - Shyam Selvadurai

Adaptation - Malinda Lo

The Dream of Enlightenment - Anthony Gottlieb

Central Station - Lavie Tidhar

Why Did I Ever - Mary Robison (vg)

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor (vg) 

The Book of Tea - Kazuko Okakura

Fingersmith - Sarah Waters

Unmentionable - Therese O'Neill

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage - Sydney Padua

IQ - Joe Ide

The Little Virtues - Natalia Ginzburg trans Dick Davis

The Hanging Tree - Ben Aaronovitch

Death's Door - Sandra Gilbert

Holy Anorexia - Rudolph Bell 

Hild - Nicola Griffith (vg)

Sum - David Eagleman

Secondhand Time - Svetlana Alexievich trans Bela Shayevich

Everything is Teeth - Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner

Water Dogs - Lewis Robinson (vg)

Selection Day - Aravind Adiga 

The Wicked Boy - Kate Summerscale

Nicotine - Gregor Hens trans Jen Calleja

Margaret the First - Danielle Dutton

Audition -  Ryu Murakami trans Ralph McCarthy

A Horse Walks into a Bar - David Grossman trans Jessica Cohen

Zakhor - Yosef Yerushalmi

Citizen - Claudia Rankine

Blitzed - Norman Ohler trans Shaun Whiteside

Exorcising Hitler - Frederick Taylor

Being A Beast - Charles Foster

The Open Fields - CS and CS Orwin 

Universal Harvester - John Darnielle

The Mistletoe Murder - PD James

The Radius of Us - Marie Marquardt

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Apex Book of World SF 2- Lavie Tidhar ed

Ninefox Gambit - Yoon Ha Lee

Of Fire and Stars - Audrey Coulthurst

Traitor to the Throne - Alwyn Hamilton

Cinnamon and Gunpowder - Eli Brown

Pain - Javier Moscoso trans Sarah Thomas and Paul House 

Suicide in Victorian and Edwardian England - Olive Anderson

The Regional Office is Under Attack - Manuel Gonzalez

The Vanquished - Robert Gerwarth

There is No Good Card For This - Kelsey Crowe

Death, Religion and the Family in England - Ralph Houlbrooke

His Bloody Project - Graham McRae

Violence in Early Modern Europe - Julius R Ruff

Snowblind - Ragnar Jonasson trans Quentin Bates

Today Will Be Different - Maria Semple

Martin Luther - Lyndal Roper

The Young Richelieu - Elizabeth Marvick

History Is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Inheritance - Malinda Lo

Reality Is Not What It Seems - Carlo Rovelli trans Simon Cornell and Erica Segre

Long Hidden - Rose Fox and Daniel Jose Older

Sarah Canary - Karen Joy Fowler

Code Name Verity - Elizabeth Wein

Monstress - Marjorie Liu 

This Close to Happy - Daphne Merkin 

The Gin Closet - Leslie Jamison

Bilgewater - Jane Gardam (vg)

Colonial Spirits - Steven Grasse

Fragrant Harbor - John Lanchester

A Cup of Rage - Raduan Nassar trans Stefan Tobler

A Very Long Engagement - Sebastien Japrisot trans Linda Coverdale

A Long Finish - Michael Dibdin

Uncle Silas - Sheridan Le Fanu

Powers of Darkness - Bram Stoker trans Valdimar Asmundsson trans Hans Cornell de Roos

Lincoln in the Bardo - George Saunders

Huntress - Malinda Lo

The Night Battles - Carlo Ginzburg trans Anne and John Tedeschi

Season of Migration to the North - Tayeb Salih trans Denys Johnson-Davies

Life's Work - Willie Parker

The Mothers - Brit Bennett

We Are Okay - Nina LaCour

The Tough Guide to Fantasyland - Diana Wynne Jones

Time Travel - James Gleick

Questions of Travel - William Morris, ed Lavinia Greenlaw

Words on the Move - John McWhorter

Stories of Your Life - Ted Chiang

Teeth - Mary Otto

Teeth - Hannah Moskowitz

We The Animals - Justin Torres

Chronotherapeutics for Affective Disorders - Anna Wirz-Justice et al

Great Granny Webster - Caroline Blackwood

English, August - Upmanyu Chatterjee

The Abyss Surrounds Us - Emily Skrutskie 

Days Without End - Sebastian Barry

The Girl Before - JP Delaney

The Loving Husband - Christobel Kent

Half-Bad - Sally Green

Six of Crows - Leigh Bardugo

The Miniaturist - Jessie Burton

Mr. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Mrs. Bridge - Evan Carroll

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

The Three-Body Problem - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

The Undoing Project - Michael Lewis 

Rest - Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Plucked - Rebecca Herzing

The Outsiders - SE Hinton

Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo

Mind Your Manors - Lucy Lethbridge

Blood in the Water - Heather Ann Thompson

Blood Rain - Michael Dibdin

The Dry - Jane Harper

History of Wolves - Emily Fridlund

See Under: Love - David Grossman trans Betsy Rosenberg

Spaceman of Bohemia - Jaroslav Kalfar

Sarong Party Girls - Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Rituals of Dinner - Margaret Visser

The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley

God's Perfect Child - Caroline Fraser

The Secret History of Wonder Woman - Jill Lepore

Otherbound - Connie Duyvis

Chronotherapy - Michael Terman and Ian McMahan

Emotionally Weird - Kate Atkinson (vg)

Bright Air Black - David Vann 

Out - Natuso Kirino trans Stephen Snyder

The Hero With A Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell

Dirty Snow - George Simenon trans Marc Romano and Louise Varese

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

And Then You Die - Michael Dibdin 

Medusa - Michael Dibdin 

Saga - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al 

The Dark Forest - Cixin Liu trans Joel Martinsen

A Line Made By Walking - Sara Baume

My Life With Bob - Pamela Paul

Two Women of London - Emma Tennant

Stoner - John Williams

The Crest on the Silver - Geoffrey Grigson

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Oranges - John McPhee

Shrinking Violets - Joe Moran 

The Invisibility Cloak - Ge Fei trans Caanan Morse

The Water Kingdom - Philip Ball

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu

Tales of the Mighty Code Talkers, vol 1 - Arigon Starr, ed

The Happy Traveller - Jamie Kurtz

Century's End - Enki Bilal and Pierre Christin

Saga vol 2 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

The Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre

The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth

Back to Bologna - Michal Dibdin

End Games - Michael Dibdin 

What If? - Randall Munroe 

Taft 2012 - Jason Heller 

Saga vol 3 - Brian Vaughn, Fiona Staples et al

Gentlemen and Amazons - Cynthia Eller 

The Psychopath Test - Jon Ronson

God's Philosophers - James Hannam

Ravished - Amanda Quick

Behind the Scenes at the Museum - Kate Atkinson

The Weapon Wizards - Yaakov Katz and Amir Bohbot

Death's End - Cixin Liu trans Ken Liu

Chemistry - Weike Wang (vg)

#books 2017 #as usual: i read some horrible stuff and some great stuff. mostly okay i would say. #'okay nonsense' #and other mottoes of this tumblr

[watery-heart]

john darnielle is carrying me through this coding hell currently

#the mountain goats #color in your cheeks #music

[nightvaleintros]

127 - A Matter of Blood, part 1

Joseph Fink: Ahoy. That’s ocean for “hello”. Three bullet pointed items before we begin. This is a non-visual medium, so you’ll just have to imagine the bullet points.

Bullet point one: the third and final season of Alice Isn’t Dead, written by me Joseph Fink, and starring Jasika Nicole of  Night Vale and Fringe and The Good Doctor, with a sound track and sound design by Disparition. It, well that third and final season has started with three prologue episodes and chapter 1 already out. If you have never listened to this horror thriller, well you can be caught up in just a few hours.

Bullet point two: people liked our Valentine’s Day cards so much, we turned one of them into a pin. It is this image of love as a shambling thing and I don’t – quite know how to describe what it looks like, it’s gorgeous and very creepy, check it out at welcometonightvale.com and click on “store”. Also in that store: a new sticker pack featuring logos from favorite Night Vale businesses such as Big Rico’s and the Moonlite All-Nite Diner. And also it seemed the right time to bring back our famous NRA bumper stickers, for those who want slightly more accurate sayings about guns than the real NRA provides. Again, that’s welcometonightvale.com and click on “store”.

Finally, bullet point three: two awesome live events. In June at the Bell House in Brooklyn, the annual Night Vale Presents birthday party, which is turning into such a fun annual celebration of the weird and a showcase for everything the storytellers we work with are doing. Plus a live preview of our sixth anniversary episode. welcometonightvale.com/live.

And over in Chicago, the first ever I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats live show. This will be me and John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats talking about what it means to be a fan, to be an artist, and to be both at once. Along with folk musician and good friend of Night Vale, Danny Schmidt. If you love Night Vale or the Mountain Goats or just thinking and talking about the work of being an artist, this conversation will be for you. Ionlylistentothemountaingoats.com.

OK, I see that Cecil has sat down at his desk and is ready to talk, so I’m going to throw it to him in 4 3 2

Jeffrey Cranor: Hi, Jeffrey Cranor here. You know, when I was ten years old, I spent whatever money I had on Marvel comics: X-Men, New Mutants, even Excalibur. And DJ, who owned the comic book store in Mesquite, Texas, where I grew up, came me a giant poster of Wolverine one day, knowing he was my absolute favorite character. And now that I’m… many years older, I still buy comics but I also listen to a ton of podcasts, because I love them and I’m so excited to tell you about, or remind you about, surely you already know about this: Wolverine: The Long Night, Marvel’s first scripted podcast ever. If you haven’t listened yet, you’re missing out. Start with the first episode and I promise you’ll end up binge-listening to the whole thing, just in time for the finale. The show follows two special agents investigating a string of murders deep in Alaska. At first they suspect Logan - a stranger with claws, you know, Wolverine - but between the night worshipping cult and a shady police force, things get a lot more complicated. The podcast stars Richard Armitage, who is a damn good Wolverine, with Scott Adsit from 30 Rock and (--) from Altered Carbon, plus more appearances by people like comedian Chris Gethard, I love Chris Gethard. You need to subscribe and listen, here’s the deal: Marvel’s Wolverine: the Long Night is available exclusively on Stitcher Premium. To listen now, go to wolverinepodcast.com and use the code “Marvel” at checkout to get your first month free.

Meg Bashwiner: Welcome to Night Vale is a production of Night Vale Presents. It is written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor and produced by Joseph Fink.

The voice of Night Vale is Cecil Baldwin. The voice of Mayor Cardinal was Jasika Nicole.

Original music by Disparition. All of it can be found at Disparition.info or Disparition.bandcamp.com.

Today’s weather was “J’accuse” by Mucca Pazza. Find out more at http://www.muccapazza.com. That’s two c’s and z’s.

Comments? Questions? Email us at [email protected], or follow us on Twitter @NightValeRadio. Or try to learn the language of trees by slowing down your life to their speed.

Check out welcometonightvale.com for more information on this show, and our merch that is always coming and going from our store. New stuff all the time.

Today’s proverb: Hey, what’s your sign? Mine’s a stop sign. I stole it from an intersection, and I hold it up every time someone tries to talk to me.

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