we still have our fingernails

he fucks up the lyrics and blows out his voice in this version and it rules <3

he fucks up the lyrics and blows out his voice in this version and it rules <3

Drunk at the Meskwaki casino — right where God intended me to be

[ID: a photo of john darnielle with his arms crossed. there is a slight pink filter applied, with sparkles edited over him. curly pink text in a top-text bottom-text format reads ‘sparkle on! it’s wednesday! don’t forget to be yourself!’. end ID.]

Whatever. You and me and all of us are gonna have to find a job because the world will never know or understand the suffocated splendor of the once and future goth band.

Shoutout to the guy who was at this show who was an old time stan of The Mountain Goats, they played this song for him specifically. It’s unreleased and was last played live over twenty years ago.

And now I am one of those people who loves an unreleased mountain goats song because the culmination of the song rules

So, enjoy Song for Roger Maris, the guy who broke Babe Ruth’s record

Pictures of John Darnielle I have saved in my phone

I know I've posted stuff from the trio tour before, but this show and specifically this Up The Wolves is fucking incredible. It's nothing like any other performance of the song - it's big, it's slow, it's expansive; it's in the middle of the set, which is insane! It's doing things that the Mountain Goats have never done like this before. It's so wildly different from what we're used to with this song, but it also feels so damn cool. Trio tour was so bittersweet in so many ways, but the things that happened because of it were and are so so cool to hear, and this show is a prime example of that.

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quito, live at the bottom of the hill on march 2nd 2008

[guy whose heart is an autoclave voice] yeah man lately ive just been feeling like this great unstable mass of blood and foam yknow

HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY TO ALL ETERNALS DECK MY BEST GIRL ALL ETERNALS DECK. WHO ELSE IS DOING IT LIKE HER? NAME ONE OTHER ALBUM BASED ON AN ENTIRELY FABRICATED LOST TAROT DECK THAT FITS SMOOTHLY INTO THE HISTORY OF CARTOMANCY. I'LL WAIT.

Let the future flood right in