https://thirtyyearslater.substack.comenMusicCopyright Richard O'Brienhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b3ee2612e2964aca8a351ea65df1cf96.jpghttps://thirtyyearslater.substack.comFri, 20 Feb 2026 12:01:39 +0000Richard O'BrienRichard O'Brienrichardtobrien@gmail.comA memoir in Mountain Goats songs, by Richard O'Brien. Each episode focuses on a year in my life from 1990 onwards through the lens of a song written or recorded that year by John Darnielle.trueepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/epilogue-arguing-with-the-ghost-of-peter-laughner-about-his-coney-island-baby-review--70175076
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/epilogue-arguing-with-the-ghost-of 
]]>substack:post:188509256Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:51:06 +0000Richard O'BrienYou will always have been here once. Today's epilogue episode is about commemoration, legacy, and staying warm inside the ripple. The song is John Darnielle's elegy for David Berman, 'Arguing With the Ghost of Peter Laughner About His Coney Island...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/epilogue-arguing-with-the-ghost-of 
]]>921false410fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2020-getting-into-knives--70175077
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2020-getting-into-knives ]]>substack:post:188490617Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:50:24 +0000Richard O'BrienHeld to my vision all these days. Today's episode is about hateful instruments, careers in lo-fi, and things coming to an end. It's 2020 and the song is 'Getting Into Knives.' Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2020-getting-into-knives ]]>1242john-darnielle,memoir,mountain-goats,music-memoir,poetrytrue410fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2019-up-the-wolves-live-2019-11-15--70067281
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2019-up-the-wolves-live-2019-11-15]]>substack:post:187531491Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:58:22 +0000Richard O'BrienThere's gonna come a day when you feel better. Today's episode is about a strong homemade edible, meeting the President of Ireland, and making the art you love your own. It's 2019 and the song is 'Up The Wolves,'  live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire,...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2019-up-the-wolves-live-2019-11-15]]>885false49fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2018-younger--69954472
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2018-younger ]]>substack:post:187382045Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:27:13 +0000Richard O'BrienNow I have everything I need. Today's episode is about self-reference, expanding ambition, and being further along in your own timeline. It's 2018 and the song is 'Younger.'  Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2018-younger ]]>743indie-rock,memoir,music-memoir,the-mountain-goatsfalse48fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2017-stench-of-the-unburied--69373567
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2017-stench-of-the-unburied]]>substack:post:184016384Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:43:33 +0000Richard O'BrienIt'll take twenty years for the toxins to flush. Today's episode is about looking back at a lost age, earnestness and foolishness, and things which dim and flicker but won't stay dead. It's 2017 and the song is 'Stench of the Unburied.'  Substack...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2017-stench-of-the-unburied]]>933false47fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2016-blood-capsules--69133377
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2016-blood-capsules]]>substack:post:182082449Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:11:17 +0000Richard O'BrienThis was my last and best idea. Today's episode is about work songs, desperation, and what an ageing wrestler can do when he can't see his way clear to a change in perspective. It's 2016 and the song is 'Blood Capsules.'  Substack version of the...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2016-blood-capsules]]>789john-darnielle,memoir,mountain-goats,music-memoirfalse47fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2015-unmasked--68771645
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2015-unmasked ]]>substack:post:180102207Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:07:22 +0000Richard O'BrienA sort of unrestrained fantasia. Today's episode is about the public and the private, rituals of humiliation, and Roland Barthes' 'The World of Wrestling.' It's 2015 and the song is 'Unmasked!'  Substack version of the episode, featuring links and...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2015-unmasked ]]>879indie-rock,john-darnielle,memoir,mountain-goats,music-memoir,wrestlingfalse46fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2014-song-for-black-sabbath-s-second-north-american-tour--68522081
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2014-song-for-black-sabbaths-second 

]]>substack:post:178592410Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:36:37 +0000Richard O'BrienNew creatures with new hearts. Today's episode is about Ozzy Osbourne and the joy and shock of playing music all around the world when you never expected to make it beyond Birmingham. It's 2014 and the song is 'Song for Black Sabbath's Second North...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2014-song-for-black-sabbaths-second 

]]>678black-sabbath,indie-rock,john-darnielle,lofi,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticism,music-memoirfalse45fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2013-you-and-me-and-a-high-balcony--67583053

You can also read this episode at thirtyyearslater.substack.com. Unusually it doesn't have any references, but I'm drawing on Stanley Mitchell's Penguin translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin throughout.]]>substack:post:172186361Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:19:10 +0000Richard O'BrienClean slate. It's 2013, and I'm all over the place. Here are some Onegin stanzas. You can also read this episode at https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1. Unusually it doesn't have any references, but I'm...

You can also read this episode at thirtyyearslater.substack.com. Unusually it doesn't have any references, but I'm drawing on Stanley Mitchell's Penguin translation of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin throughout.]]>676false44fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2012-steal-smoked-fish--67173806
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2012-steal-smoked-fish

Hanan al-Kafarna on Instagram, where a fundraising campaign link will be shared soon: https://www.instagram.com/_hanan._.jalal_/

My poem 'John Clare Reaches the Pacific' on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/notrockyhorror.bsky.social/post/3lqafuiv4tc25 - and available to purchase in Nimrod magazine: https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/current-issue/ 

Links to Gaza aid organisations and fundraisers:
https://www.map.org.uk/?form=FUNFXHDCJPK
https://donate.wfp.org/1243/donation/regular
https://www.zakat.org/
https://chuffed.org/project/110294-please-donate-to-help-oday-halava
https://4gaza.bugx0r.nl/lifeline4gaza/]]>substack:post:169437305Tue, 29 Jul 2025 11:45:23 +0000Richard O'BrienFeast when you can. Today's episode is about the feasts in the books I've been reading, and the famine happening in the real world right now, spotlighting a poem by Hanan Al-Kafarna. It's centred around a walk through Portland in 2022 in the footsteps...
Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2012-steal-smoked-fish

Hanan al-Kafarna on Instagram, where a fundraising campaign link will be shared soon: https://www.instagram.com/_hanan._.jalal_/

My poem 'John Clare Reaches the Pacific' on Bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/notrockyhorror.bsky.social/post/3lqafuiv4tc25 - and available to purchase in Nimrod magazine: https://nimrod.utulsa.edu/current-issue/ 

Links to Gaza aid organisations and fundraisers:
https://www.map.org.uk/?form=FUNFXHDCJPK
https://donate.wfp.org/1243/donation/regular
https://www.zakat.org/
https://chuffed.org/project/110294-please-donate-to-help-oday-halava
https://4gaza.bugx0r.nl/lifeline4gaza/]]>2576indie-rock,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticism,music-memoir,russian-literaturefalse43fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2011-beautiful-gas-mask--65259865
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'The Sink' - Chapter One of my Nantes-set novel, published by the Irish lit magazine An Capall Dorcha, is available to read on my university research page here - https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/files/125981534/Immersion_An_Capall_Dorcha_extract_v2.pdf - or you can buy the issue online here: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/an-capall-dorcha-issue-4


Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://open.substack.com/pub/thirtyyearslater/p/2011-beautiful-gas-mask

Live shows taped by Lyric: https://archive.org/details/@astrolyric?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
]]>substack:post:160248751Mon, 31 Mar 2025 17:54:14 +0000Richard O'BrienOnly one kick drum. Today's episode is about ambiguous imperatives, glowing alien rocks, universal feelings, Universal Monsters, haunting presences in the background, and a group of British and American twenty-something getting drunk in a series of...
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'The Sink' - Chapter One of my Nantes-set novel, published by the Irish lit magazine An Capall Dorcha, is available to read on my university research page here - https://researchportal.northumbria.ac.uk/files/125981534/Immersion_An_Capall_Dorcha_extract_v2.pdf - or you can buy the issue online here: https://www.thelibraryproject.ie/products/an-capall-dorcha-issue-4


Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://open.substack.com/pub/thirtyyearslater/p/2011-beautiful-gas-mask

Live shows taped by Lyric: https://archive.org/details/@astrolyric?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
]]>1758all-eternals-deck,indie-rock,lofi,memoir,mountain-goats,music-memoirfalse42fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2010-you-were-cool-live-2011-03-25--64630058
My Jenny From Thebes review for PopMatters: http://popmatters.com/mountain-goats-jenny-from-thebes

Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2010-you-were-cool-live-2011-03-25]]>substack:post:158032263Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:50:25 +0000Richard O'BrienIt's good to be young, but let's not kid ourselves. Today's episode is about songs and sonnets, the nuts and bolts of versification, and the dramas of archival preservation: nearly-lost media, and media that I'm happy has been lost entirely. It's...
My Jenny From Thebes review for PopMatters: http://popmatters.com/mountain-goats-jenny-from-thebes

Substack version of the episode, featuring links and references for all quotations and archive recordings: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2010-you-were-cool-live-2011-03-25]]>1546indie-folk,indie-rock,john-darnielle,lo-fi,memoir,mountain-goats,music-history,music-memoirfalse41fullhttps://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2009-psalms-402https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2009-psalms-402Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:22:01 +0000Richard O'BrienSin as hard as you can. Today's episode is about Shane MacGowan, growing up Catholic in England in the 90s, knocking a few teacups off the shelves, and 'the life of the spirit' in John Darnielle's work from 'Stable Boy Song' to 'Satanic Messiah.' It's...1891catholicism,graham-greene,john-darnielle,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticism,pogues,shane-macgowantrue33fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2008-heretic-pride--57369785
Show notes

A lot of today’s episode is about what life was like for queer teenagers experiencing homelessness on the streets of Portland in the 1980s - an organisation that serves this community today which Darnielle himself has recommended is p:ear, which stands for Project Education, Art and Recreation. While I was in town, programme director Tony Martinez was kind enough to give me a tour of the building and told me about the amazing work they do, helping young people to get anything from socks and basic hygiene products to food service qualifications and opportunities to sell their own artwork. It all starts with looking at ‘youth as youth, intentionally developing relationships’ as the basis for mentorship, rather than a model centered on transactions or case management.

If you enjoy the episode, I don’t charge for any of my work on this project, but you might like to donate to p:ear - you can do so at pearmentor.org/donate. Or if you’re listening in the UK and want to give locally, the charity AKT works for ‘safe homes and better futures for lgbtq+ young people’: you can donate to them on https://www.akt.org.uk/Appeal/donate. If you make a donation to either organisation, tag me on social media - notrockyhorror on Twitter or Bluesky, thirty_years_later on Instagram - to let me know, and I’ll send you a photo. In Portland I didn’t quite manage to ‘shoot a roll of 32 exposures’ - disposable cameras these days seem mostly to come with rolls of 28 - but I do have spare copies of a good few pictures from my trip which I’d be happy to post out in exchange for your generosity if you get in touch.


References: It turns out my hosting platform doesn't allow me to post as long a list of references as I need to here, given the amount of archival material I used in the episode. You can find the normal list of interviews, live shows, etc on this link instead, including persistent links and page number to all the historical newspaper sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRxvAze26mD0l7oh_P-TeAohyXmL_S7Evk9ZVasio4xrqrC2OIPmx7V4tekBdMbHsic8TwmMMI85Ska/pub]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2008-heretic-prideTue, 24 Oct 2023 16:25:18 +0000Richard O'BrienWell, they come and pull me from my house. Today’s episode is about ‘Heretic Pride,’ monsters, pagans, ghost cowboys, how a comprehensive knowledge of unreleased Mountain Goats lyrics might come in handy when you least expect it, and a ‘large,...
Show notes

A lot of today’s episode is about what life was like for queer teenagers experiencing homelessness on the streets of Portland in the 1980s - an organisation that serves this community today which Darnielle himself has recommended is p:ear, which stands for Project Education, Art and Recreation. While I was in town, programme director Tony Martinez was kind enough to give me a tour of the building and told me about the amazing work they do, helping young people to get anything from socks and basic hygiene products to food service qualifications and opportunities to sell their own artwork. It all starts with looking at ‘youth as youth, intentionally developing relationships’ as the basis for mentorship, rather than a model centered on transactions or case management.

If you enjoy the episode, I don’t charge for any of my work on this project, but you might like to donate to p:ear - you can do so at pearmentor.org/donate. Or if you’re listening in the UK and want to give locally, the charity AKT works for ‘safe homes and better futures for lgbtq+ young people’: you can donate to them on https://www.akt.org.uk/Appeal/donate. If you make a donation to either organisation, tag me on social media - notrockyhorror on Twitter or Bluesky, thirty_years_later on Instagram - to let me know, and I’ll send you a photo. In Portland I didn’t quite manage to ‘shoot a roll of 32 exposures’ - disposable cameras these days seem mostly to come with rolls of 28 - but I do have spare copies of a good few pictures from my trip which I’d be happy to post out in exchange for your generosity if you get in touch.


References: It turns out my hosting platform doesn't allow me to post as long a list of references as I need to here, given the amount of archival material I used in the episode. You can find the normal list of interviews, live shows, etc on this link instead, including persistent links and page number to all the historical newspaper sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRxvAze26mD0l7oh_P-TeAohyXmL_S7Evk9ZVasio4xrqrC2OIPmx7V4tekBdMbHsic8TwmMMI85Ska/pub]]>3293indie-folk,indie-rock,john-darnielle,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticism,queer-historytrue33fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2007-from-tg-y-live-2006-12-02--64630078http://web.archive.org/web/19990427042719/http://mb1.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/288145857327820_105_4973‘The Mountain Goats Can’t Buy A Thrill,’ Puberty, 1993/4: https://web.archive.org/web/20140603113938/http://marcopolio.blogspot.com/ Richard O’Brien, ‘The Sound and the Fury: An Interview With John Darnielle,’ 3:am, 2007: https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-sound-and-the-fury-an-interview-with-john-darnielle/ Reese Higgins, ‘The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Internet Addiction, Metal, and the Lifetime Movie Network.’ Washington City Paper, 2013: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/412154/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-on-internet-addiction-metal-and-the-lifetime-movie-network/Christian Hoard, ‘The Slow Climb: How the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle Became the Best Storyteller in Rock,’ Rolling Stone, 2015 [paywalled]: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-slow-climb-how-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-became-the-best-storyteller-in-rock-227793/Tom Breihan, ‘We Took The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle To His First Pro Wrestling Show In 35 Years,’ Stereogum, 2015: https://www.stereogum.com/1788418/we-took-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-to-his-first-pro-wrestling-show-in-35-years/interviews/ Craig Jenkins, ‘Genuinely John Darnielle The Mountain Goats’ frontman on keeping the faith, loving the occult, and sad songwriting.’ Vulture, 2022 [paywalled]: https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats-bleed-out.htmlTom Breihan, ‘We’ve Got A File On You: John Darnielle,’ Stereogum, 2022: https://www.stereogum.com/2195715/john-darnielle-mountain-goats-bleed-out/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/ Songwriters on Process: ‘Julien Baker and Matt Nathanson,’ February 2022: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2XHol51wmCjMdUZyzHldMU?si=0aec21182d0140a0&nd=1Live shows:Live at the Gold Student Center, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, on 2006-12-02, taped by Chris Bellew: https://archive.org/details/tmg2006-12-02/ Live at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, on 2006-09-20, taped by drworm01: https://archive.org/details/tmg2006-09-20.flacf/Live at Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA, on 2009-05-29, taped by rainingvodka: https://archive.org/details/tmg2009-02-24.schoeps_cmc34_16bit/Live at VPRO on 1996-11-07: https://archive.org/details/tmg1996-11-07.aud.128mp3/Web resources:Japanese liner notes to Get Lonely, featuring Akao Mika interview and translated by Andrew Fazzari, on the Annotated Mountain Goats: https://annotatedtmg.org/mirror/gl-japanese-liner.html Barry Sanders, ‘Grove House: A California Bungalow Goes to College.’ Pitzer College, https://www.pitzer.edu/archives/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2014/09/Grove-House-History-Barry-Sanders1.pdfAnna Griffin, ‘Oregon Book Award Finalist Barry Sanders: The purposeful rambler.’ Oregon Live, 2011: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/anna_griffin/2011/04/oregon_book_award_finalist_bar.htmlJason Koebler, ‘It’s September, Forever.’ VICE, 2015: https://www.vice.com/en/article/nze8nb/its-september-forever. John’s tweets about Matt Nathanson:  https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1471985074178596865 https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1043621458214309888And about Kafka/Emily Dickinson in this thread:https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/562732001464434689 And on destroying your archive: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1428104276417474562 John’s stated position on bootlegging, 2004: https://archive.org/details/MountainGoats?tab=about tMG forum discussion of Hail and Farewell Gothenburg, archived on the Annotated Mountain Goats: https://annotatedtmg.org/hafg.html tMG forum post about ‘From TG&Y’ studio version: https://web.archive.org/web/20071211211949/http://www.mountain-goats.com/forums/read.php?2,11195 Jake Brown, ‘Obsession, Insanity and Fanaticism,’ Glorious Noise, 2001 - featuring Last Plane to Jakarta material on Syd Barrett: https://gloriousnoise.com/2001/obsession_insanity_and_fanatic Kafka on books and reading, The Marginalian: https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/06/06/kafka-on-books-and-reading/YouTube videos:‘The Mountain Goats @ Simplon, Groningen, Netherlands 1995-04-12,’ taped by Gregor and uploaded by notasfarwest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28e-WerYzJM&t=962s The Mountain Goats - Dance Music, live in London, uploaded by vikramj86: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5B4UVUHeWwMountain Goats, Eddie Argos at the Union Chapel, uploaded by Keith TOTP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpO0e5nEvIE The Mountain Goats - From TG&Y -  at Rock for Roe at Pinhook on 1/20/13, uploaded by Ash Crowe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxUv9Qxi7WQ 

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thirtyyearslater.substack.com]]>substack:post:136334618Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000Richard O'BrienMax Brod Hate Club. Today’s episode is about ‘From TG&Y,’ 2007, writer’s archives, the Mountain Goats fan forums, copying mean lyrics onto your school planner, and how to move a craftsman bungalow down the Santa Fe railroad in the dead of...http://web.archive.org/web/19990427042719/http://mb1.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/288145857327820_105_4973‘The Mountain Goats Can’t Buy A Thrill,’ Puberty, 1993/4: https://web.archive.org/web/20140603113938/http://marcopolio.blogspot.com/ Richard O’Brien, ‘The Sound and the Fury: An Interview With John Darnielle,’ 3:am, 2007: https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-sound-and-the-fury-an-interview-with-john-darnielle/ Reese Higgins, ‘The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle on Internet Addiction, Metal, and the Lifetime Movie Network.’ Washington City Paper, 2013: https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/412154/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-on-internet-addiction-metal-and-the-lifetime-movie-network/Christian Hoard, ‘The Slow Climb: How the Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle Became the Best Storyteller in Rock,’ Rolling Stone, 2015 [paywalled]: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-slow-climb-how-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-became-the-best-storyteller-in-rock-227793/Tom Breihan, ‘We Took The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle To His First Pro Wrestling Show In 35 Years,’ Stereogum, 2015: https://www.stereogum.com/1788418/we-took-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-to-his-first-pro-wrestling-show-in-35-years/interviews/ Craig Jenkins, ‘Genuinely John Darnielle The Mountain Goats’ frontman on keeping the faith, loving the occult, and sad songwriting.’ Vulture, 2022 [paywalled]: https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats-bleed-out.htmlTom Breihan, ‘We’ve Got A File On You: John Darnielle,’ Stereogum, 2022: https://www.stereogum.com/2195715/john-darnielle-mountain-goats-bleed-out/interviews/weve-got-a-file-on-you/ Songwriters on Process: ‘Julien Baker and Matt Nathanson,’ February 2022: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2XHol51wmCjMdUZyzHldMU?si=0aec21182d0140a0&nd=1Live shows:Live at the Gold Student Center, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, on 2006-12-02, taped by Chris Bellew: https://archive.org/details/tmg2006-12-02/ Live at The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, on 2006-09-20, taped by drworm01: 2300falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2006-maybe-sprout-wings--64630083Harlem Roulette’ - are the ones you’re never going to see again. From context, it seems likely that Darnielle means the dead. The song explores the last night of the young singer Frankie Lymon, who found fame as a teenager and took a fatal heroin overdose at the age of 25 in 1968 - just after a New York studio session which was meant to restart his recording career. One of the songs from that night - ‘Seabreeze,’ the one Darnielle mentions - you can actually hear on YouTube, though not on Spotify. Links like this are unnervingly ephemeral - not hosted by any official source, they could easily disappear at any moment, which only adds to the sense that this is a fragile, ephemeral artefact, drifting away on its own sad tide. There’s a lot of great Mountain Goats songs - songs which have struck people to the core of their being and helped them find the strength to carry on - which only exist on links like this. Ostensibly, ‘Seabreeze’ is about ‘a little town / Where the stars shine bright,’ ‘where a man can find peace and get all he needs.’ It doesn’t sound like that to me. Lymon’s clear, yet wistful vocal has the quality of a siren song, beckoning you along its deceptive doo-wop current towards a place you couldn’t leave if you wanted to. As is often the case with music surrounded by a penumbra of tragedy - I’m thinking here about Nick Drake’s Pink Moon - it’s easy to foreground those emotional qualities after the fact, now the song is charged with what we know about its circumstances. But Darnielle’s invocation of Frankie Lymon - only three songs after the first time the album tells you to ‘Just stay alive’ - is about more than just that New York studio, and what happened after. It’s also about where this music, and the story attached to it, takes him in his own brain. That intersection isn’t made explicit until the bridge, midway through the song, but the connection between Lymon and one solitary listener forty years later is clearly at the heart of it all: ‘And four hours north of Portland, a radio flips on / And some no-one from the future remembers that you’re gone.’ A lot of what makes the Mountain Goats special - or at least, what makes me want to talk about them endlessly - is packed into this short song. That question of memory is a big part of it. What does it mean to remember, and so however briefly, to preserve, an artist who might otherwise be forgotten, through the tentative ‘little mark’ they made? And what about the fugitive fragments of our own lives - where do they go? If not to raise that question, why would ‘some no-one from the future’ - a self-deprecating avatar of Darnielle himself - be mentioning Portland here, when it’s already four hours behind him in the rear-view mirror? Long time listeners to the band would already be aware of the city’s significance to the singer’s art: the nine months Darnielle spent there in 1985-6, in his own words, ‘chasing death,’ and the mingled grief and elation of surviving addiction while losing many of the friends who sustained him through it. Long time listeners to this podcast have heard me talk about that period a fair bit already, though I managed to find out a little more when I travelled to Portland last summer to research this project, where I spent most of the month listening to the Mountain Goats’ 2006 album Get Lonely while trying to write my next episode. As it turned out - obviously - there was far too much there to fit into just one instalment, which accounts in part for the long hiatus I’ve taken. I’ll be talking more about my trip - and specifically about the City Nightclub - in my 2008 instalment on ‘Heretic Pride,’ in two episodes’ time. For today, it’s enough to say that - despite the life-saving experiences of community Darnielle associates with the City - Portland must have been a pretty lonely time. Something in the experience of hearing Frankie Lymon on the radio, as ‘Harlem Roulette’ presents it, put Darnielle in mind of the ‘sad, young, frightened men’ to whom hands reach out from the lonely shadows, and to the time when he himself was one of them. In 2006, I was one of them too, and the new Mountain Goats record - the first to be released since I’d come across the band - was there for me, inviting me to get lonely right along with them.Taken together as a unit, the band name and title promise an experience of committed absorption in one particular emotional state: the Mountain Goats get lonely. The formula echoes Elvis Costello and the Attractions Get Happy!! Franklin Bruno, a collaborator since Darnielle’s college days, who plays on Get Lonely and had recently written a 33 ⅓ guide to a different Costello album, would have recognised the nod. But Get Lonely feels far less arch and knowing than its forebear; there’s also an irony in more recent Mountain Goats imperatives to ‘Get famous’ or to ‘Wage wars, get rich’ and indeed ‘die handsome’ which is wholly missing here. The sincerity of the album’s engagement with its title state is never in doubt. The liner notes to the album's Japanese release feature an interview with Darnielle conducted by Akao Mika, which has been translated and shared online by Andrew Fazzari. For Akao, this was a document clear enough to serve as a primer: ‘a textbook’ on ‘keeping company with loneliness.’A textbook is a use-object: rarely a pacey read, but a publication designed to help you make sense of something complicated. And I’m drawn to that phrase, ‘keeping company.’ Speaking to Tom Lynch for Chicago outlet New City, Darnielle describes the internal states the record inhabits as ‘kind of where I lived after making’ The Sunset Tree, ‘spending a year playing and living with those songs,’ but also talking at shows to fans with whose experiences the album had resonated. The Sunset Tree’s energy had been predominantly fast and rousing, and the Mountain Goats could have doubled down on these appealing qualities. But on a podcast with Steven Hyden, Darnielle expressed his admiration for Bruce Springsteen’s choice to follow up the thunderous drive of Born in the USA, not by ‘cash[ing] in’ on its stadium-ready template, but by keeping ‘digging.’  When an earlier Springsteen had evoked ‘Roy Orbison singing for the lonely,’ it was in the context of a romantic longing which ‘Thunder Road’ implies will be consummated before too long. But by this point, Bruce was interested in capturing something ‘a little weirder and more intimate,’ and harder to dispel: the ‘lost, spectral, ghostly sound’ which characterised Tunnel of Love. Darnielle liked this album enough that he and Franklin, as the Extra Glenns, even covered ‘Brilliant Disguise’ in a 1995 live show. Now, similarly, Darnielle was starting to imagine a musical space which was ‘dark, but also soft,’ more suited to exploring interiority than the kinds of ‘physical action’ which had driven its predecessor: ‘a sort of dark cave we might all flee to in the wake of’ the turbulence brought into view on his breakout record.’ The place to which Get Lonely took its listeners was not unfamiliar in Darnielle's discography, but many of his songs which fulfil the need to ‘be connected to the crying part of yourself’ had tended to leaven this with humour. Get Lonely, uniquely, ‘kind of doesn’t have an exit,’ as its author told Vulture in an interview last year - which means you have to be along for the ride. One indication of where he was going came in a 2005 Portland show, when Darnielle played ‘Dinu Lipatti’s Bones.’ One of the quieter moments on The Sunset Tree, the song makes powerful use of a slow tempo and high, fragile vocals to convey a stunned and gasping response to a threatening world, from which the speaker turns away towards the all-consuming ‘dark dreams’ he shares with another person who is ‘staring at the void and seldom blinking.’ Not all of the audience seemed to be responding respectfully to this material, but a lot more like it was coming down the line on the album the Mountain Goats had just tracked. Perhaps mindful of this, the singer implored the people talking: ‘You all paid to get in and I didn’t, [but] do fermez la bouche ... talking during the quiet ones, it’s crass, it’s rude.’ As if to drive the point home, the recording of the elegiac ‘Shadow Song’ towards the end of the set sounds like it’s performed almost entirely]]>substack:post:136267336Thu, 31 Aug 2023 11:00:00 +0000Richard O'BrienWhat does loneliness sound like? How do you sing it? How do you sing for it? After all, the loneliest people in the whole wide world - as John Darnielle sings on the 2012 Mountain Goats track...Harlem Roulette’ - are the ones you’re never going to see again. From context, it seems likely that Darnielle means the dead. The song explores the last night of the young singer Frankie Lymon, who found fame as a teenager and took a fatal heroin overdose at the age of 25 in 1968 - just after a New York studio session which was meant to restart his recording career. One of the songs from that night - ‘Seabreeze,’ the one Darnielle mentions - you can actually hear on YouTube, though not on Spotify. Links like this are unnervingly ephemeral - not hosted by any official source, they could easily disappear at any moment, which only adds to the sense that this is a fragile, ephemeral artefact, drifting away on its own sad tide. There’s a lot of great Mountain Goats songs - songs which have struck people to the core of their being and helped them find the strength to carry on - which only exist on links like this. Ostensibly, ‘Seabreeze’ is about ‘a little town / Where the stars shine bright,’ ‘where a man can find peace and get all he needs.’ It doesn’t sound like that to me. Lymon’s clear, yet wistful vocal has the quality of a siren song, beckoning you along its deceptive doo-wop current towards a place you couldn’t leave if you wanted to. As is often the case with music surrounded by a penumbra of tragedy - I’m thinking here about Nick Drake’s Pink Moon - it’s easy to foreground those emotional qualities after the fact, now the song is charged with what we know about its circumstances. But Darnielle’s invocation of Frankie Lymon - only three songs after the first time the album tells you to ‘Just stay alive’ - is about more than just that New York studio, and what happened after. It’s also about where this music, and the story attached to it, takes him in his own brain. That intersection isn’t made explicit until the bridge, midway through the song, but the connection between Lymon and one solitary listener forty years later is clearly at the heart of it all: ‘And four hours north of Portland, a radio flips on / And some no-one from the future remembers that you’re gone.’ A lot of what makes the Mountain Goats special - or at least, what makes me want to talk about them endlessly - is packed into this short song. That question of memory is a big part of it. What does it mean to remember, and so however briefly, to preserve, an artist who might otherwise be forgotten, through the tentative ‘little mark’ they made? And what about the fugitive fragments of our own lives - where do they go? If not to raise that question, why would ‘some no-one from the future’ - a self-deprecating avatar of Darnielle himself - be mentioning Portland here, when it’s already four hours behind him in the rear-view mirror? Long time listeners to the band would already be aware of the city’s significance to the singer’s art: the nine months Darnielle spent there in 1985-6, in his own words, ‘chasing death,’ and the mingled grief and elation of surviving addiction while losing many of the friends who sustained him through it. Long time listeners to this podcast have heard me talk about that period a fair bit already, though I managed to find out a little more when I travelled to Portland last summer to research this project, where I...]]>1972falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2005-hast-thou-considered-the-tetrapod--50407276
Show notes

Interviews:

Puncture interview with Bill Meyer, 1994: http://web.archive.org/web/19990427042719/http://mb1.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/288145857327820_105_4973

Washington Post interview with Ivan Kreilkamp, 2004: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/02/04/sure-footed-mountain-goats/534c6689-1848-4538-936a-e6da5230e961/

NPR interview with Linda Wertheimer, 2005: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/4651778

Interview with No Depression, 2005: https://www.nodepression.com/john-darnielle-where-the-truth-lies/2/

The Sound of Young America podcast interview with Jesse Thorn, 2011: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/john-darnielle-mountain-goats-interview-sound-young-america/

MTV interview with Eric Spitznagel, discussing piracy, 2011: http://www.mtv.com/news/2693865/interview-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle/

SPIN interview with Joe Gross, 2011: https://www.spin.com/2011/04/spin-interview-john-darnielle/

VICE interview with Cam Lindsay, 2011: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmw7m4/john-darnielle-lived-the-teenage-goth-life-i-never-did

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, ‘218: In League With Dragons,’ with Darnielle and Joseph Fink, 2019:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cORAS6IHaVredgdNx8FjS?si=33ed8ee10d224894

Interview with Helena Fitzgerald for her Substack, Griefbacon, 2021: https://griefbacon.substack.com/p/dont-write-songs-chatting-with-john

Guardian interview with Oscar Rickett, 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/31/john-darnielle-being-an-american-is-like-living-in-a-terry-gilliam-world

BOMB magazine interview with Carmen Maria Machado, 2022: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/john-darnielle/

Web resources:

Holly Hazlewood’s review of Dark in Here for Spectrum Culture, quoting the press kit: https://spectrumculture.com/2021/06/24/the-mountain-goats-dark-in-here-review/

Bleed Out Bandcamp page with liner notes: https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/bleed-out

Carl Wilson’s article on The Sunset Tree for The Globe and Mail, 2005: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/hes-finally-confessed-so-hold-on/article18226562/

Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 75: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45189/amoretti-lxxv-one-day-i-wrote-her-name

Heritage Calling article on Newcastle-Gateshead public art over the decades, including Tyne Line of Txt Flow: https://heritagecalling.com/2016/09/07/55-years-of-public-art-in-newcastle-gateshead/

Darnielle on Berryman’s ‘Tampa Stomp’, featuring the reference to ancient Rome: https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2014/04/28/on-berrymans-tampa-stomp/

Wikipedia entry on Benjamin’s ‘Angel of history’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Novus

John Keats, ‘This living hand, now warm and capable’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50375/this-living-hand-now-warm-and-capable, and Joel Brouwer’s commentary on the poem: https://romantic-circles.org/editions/poets/prose_commentary/brouwer

Geoff Sanborn’s newsletter episode on The Sunset Tree: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2005-the-sunset-tree

JD’s tweet about The Sunset Tree: ‘a record that changed things for us’: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1519056431126822920

Books:

Bede. A History of the English Church and People. Translated and with an introduction by Leo Sherley-Price, revised by R. E. Latham. Penguin Books, 1968, pp. 127-8.

Alan Bennett, The History Boys. Faber & Faber, 2004.

Antony Sher. Beside Myself: An Actor’s Life. Revised edition. Nick Hern Books, 2009.

Marc Maron, Waiting for the Punch: Words To Live By From The WTF Podcast. Flatiron Books, 2017, p. 40.

Oliver Burke. Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It. Vintage, 2021.

Devil House, by John Darnielle. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Live recordings:

Live at KEXP Radio on 2005-06-16: https://archive.org/details/tmg2005-06-16.aud.192mp3/tmg2005-06-16t04.mp3

Live at The EARL, Atlanta, GA, on 2006-11-03: https://archive.org/details/mountaingoats2006-11-03.flac/08-Talking.flac

Live at Club Capitol, Perth, Australia, on 2007-01-02: https://archive.org/details/tmg2007-01-02/tmg2007-01-02t03.flac

Live at 9:30 Club, Washington D.C., on 2009-11-27: https://archive.org/details/tMG2009-11-27.aud.flac16/Tmg2009-11-27t19.flac

Live at Ventura Music Hall, CA, on 2022-04-29: https://archive.org/details/tmg2022-04-29.aud.mv88.flac24/tmg2022-04-29t26.flac

Youtube links:

‘High Barbary,’ performed for the Sing Out Loud series at the Pirate Museum in St. Augustine, Florida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEgoYPnslC0

PBS Eons: ‘Something Has Been Making This Mark For 500 Million Years’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1fccY3S84]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2005-hast-thou-considered-the-tetrapodWed, 29 Jun 2022 17:07:22 +0000Richard O'BrienDeep in the dream chamber. Today's episode is about 2005, the year I discovered The Sunset Tree: an album that changed my life. It also takes in Keats, Walter Benjamin, amateur Shakespeare productions in Rutland, and the Venerable Bede. Show notes...
Show notes

Interviews:

Puncture interview with Bill Meyer, 1994: http://web.archive.org/web/19990427042719/http://mb1.musicblvd.com/cgi-bin/tw/288145857327820_105_4973

Washington Post interview with Ivan Kreilkamp, 2004: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2004/02/04/sure-footed-mountain-goats/534c6689-1848-4538-936a-e6da5230e961/

NPR interview with Linda Wertheimer, 2005: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/4651778

Interview with No Depression, 2005: https://www.nodepression.com/john-darnielle-where-the-truth-lies/2/

The Sound of Young America podcast interview with Jesse Thorn, 2011: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/john-darnielle-mountain-goats-interview-sound-young-america/

MTV interview with Eric Spitznagel, discussing piracy, 2011: http://www.mtv.com/news/2693865/interview-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle/

SPIN interview with Joe Gross, 2011: https://www.spin.com/2011/04/spin-interview-john-darnielle/

VICE interview with Cam Lindsay, 2011: https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmw7m4/john-darnielle-lived-the-teenage-goth-life-i-never-did

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, ‘218: In League With Dragons,’ with Darnielle and Joseph Fink, 2019:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4cORAS6IHaVredgdNx8FjS?si=33ed8ee10d224894

Interview with Helena Fitzgerald for her Substack, Griefbacon, 2021: https://griefbacon.substack.com/p/dont-write-songs-chatting-with-john

Guardian interview with Oscar Rickett, 2022: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/mar/31/john-darnielle-being-an-american-is-like-living-in-a-terry-gilliam-world

BOMB magazine interview with Carmen Maria Machado, 2022: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/john-darnielle/

Web resources:

Holly Hazlewood’s review of Dark in Here for Spectrum Culture, quoting the press kit: https://spectrumculture.com/2021/06/24/the-mountain-goats-dark-in-here-review/

Bleed Out Bandcamp page with liner notes: https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/bleed-out

Carl Wilson’s article on The Sunset Tree for The Globe and Mail, 2005: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/hes-finally-confessed-so-hold-on/article18226562/

Edmund Spenser, Sonnet 75: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45189/amoretti-lxxv-one-day-i-wrote-her-name

Heritage Calling article on Newcastle-Gateshead public art over the decades, including Tyne Line of Txt Flow: https://heritagecalling.com/2016/09/07/55-years-of-public-art-in-newcastle-gateshead/

Darnielle on Berryman’s ‘Tampa Stomp’, featuring the reference to ancient Rome: https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2014/04/28/on-berrymans-tampa-stomp/

Wikipedia entry on Benjamin’s ‘Angel of history’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Novus

John Keats, ‘This living hand, now warm and capable’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50375/this-living-hand-now-warm-and-capable, and Joel Brouwer’s commentary on the poem: https://romantic-circles.org/editions/poets/prose_commentary/brouwer

Geoff Sanborn’s newsletter episode on The Sunset Tree: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2005-the-sunset-tree

JD’s tweet about The Sunset Tree: ‘a record that changed things for us’: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1519056431126822920

Books:

Bede. A History of the English Church and People. Translated and with an introduction by Leo Sherley-Price, revised by R. E. Latham. Penguin Books, 1968, pp. 127-8.

Alan Bennett, The History Boys. Faber & Faber, 2004.

Antony Sher. Beside Myself: An...]]>2260indie-rock,john-darnielle,macbeth,memoir,music-criticism,teenage,the-mountain-goats,the-sunset-treefalse2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2004-against-pollution--49864098
Show notes

Interviews

Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt: https://casualmagic.libsyn.com/casual-magic-episode-31-mountain-goats

Live shows

Live at The 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA, on 2006-08-10: https://archive.org/details/tmg2006-08-10.flac16/tmg2006-08-10t18.flac

Live at The Saturn, Birmingham, AL, on 2021-08-08: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-08-08/tmg2021-08-08-26.flac

Web Resources

Classic FM article on ‘Coventry Carol’: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/occasions/christmas/coventry-carol-lyrics-meaning-history/

JD tweet about teaching catechism: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1242608701116162053; also worth noting is this reference to an early Mountain Goats song ‘called “History of the Church Part 2”… about Polycarp rebuking Marcion’:
https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1071071098685534208

Natural History Museum primer on ammonites: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-an-ammonite.html

‘The Chambered Nautilus,’ by Oliver Wendell Holmes: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus

Anemona Hartocollis, ‘The Major Findings of Harvard’s Report on Its Ties to Slavery,’ discussing Holmes’s actions as dean. New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/us/harvard-slavery-report.html

‘Exclusive: Hammer Horror Stars Reunite at Bray.’ CinemaRetro, https://web.archive.org/web/20100325031535/http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/257-EXCLUSIVE-HAMMER-HORROR-STARS-REUNITE-AT-BRAY-STUDIOS.html/

Books

Graham Greene, Brighton Rock. Vintage Classics, 2011.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Vintage, 2011.

YouTube videos

‘Whole Wide World/Against Pollution [Live]’ at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, CO, on 2021-08-19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn6N0Cw_Yg

‘Against Pollution [Live//Halloween//2005]’ – at the Knitting Factory in New York on 2005-10-31, with John dressed as a priest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1kbCQkhezs]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2004-against-pollutionThu, 19 May 2022 16:46:03 +0000Richard O'Brien45 minutes in the pews, praying the Rosary. Today's episode is about 'Against Pollution,' Catholicism, ammonites, and spiritual 2004. Show notes Interviews Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt:...
Show notes

Interviews

Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt: https://casualmagic.libsyn.com/casual-magic-episode-31-mountain-goats

Live shows

Live at The 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA, on 2006-08-10: https://archive.org/details/tmg2006-08-10.flac16/tmg2006-08-10t18.flac

Live at The Saturn, Birmingham, AL, on 2021-08-08: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-08-08/tmg2021-08-08-26.flac

Web Resources

Classic FM article on ‘Coventry Carol’: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/occasions/christmas/coventry-carol-lyrics-meaning-history/

JD tweet about teaching catechism: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1242608701116162053; also worth noting is this reference to an early Mountain Goats song ‘called “History of the Church Part 2”… about Polycarp rebuking Marcion’:
https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1071071098685534208

Natural History Museum primer on ammonites: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-an-ammonite.html

‘The Chambered Nautilus,’ by Oliver Wendell Holmes: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus

Anemona Hartocollis, ‘The Major Findings of Harvard’s Report on Its Ties to Slavery,’ discussing Holmes’s actions as dean. New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/us/harvard-slavery-report.html

‘Exclusive: Hammer Horror Stars Reunite at Bray.’ CinemaRetro, https://web.archive.org/web/20100325031535/http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/257-EXCLUSIVE-HAMMER-HORROR-STARS-REUNITE-AT-BRAY-STUDIOS.html/

Books

Graham Greene, Brighton Rock. Vintage Classics, 2011.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Vintage, 2011.

YouTube videos

‘Whole Wide World/Against Pollution [Live]’ at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, CO, on 2021-08-19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn6N0Cw_Yg

‘Against Pollution [Live//Halloween//2005]’ – at the Knitting Factory in New York on 2005-10-31, with John dressed as a priest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1kbCQkhezs]]>953catholicism,memoir,music-criticism,themountaingoatsfalse2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2003-palmcorder-yajna--49593127
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Show notes

Books

Devil House, by John Darnielle. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Interviews

Believer interview with Daniel Handler, 2004: https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-john-darnielle/

Pitchfork interview with Tom Breihan, 2009: https://pitchfork.com/news/36406-john-darnielle-tells-the-story-behind-the-mountain-goats-biblical-new-lp/

The AV Club interview with Paul Caine, 2009: https://www.avclub.com/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-learns-to-trust-other-1798218315

Rolling Stone interview with Christian Hoard, 2015: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-slow-climb-how-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-became-the-best-storyteller-in-rock-227793/

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, ‘203: Done Bleeding,’ with Darnielle and Joseph Fink, 2019: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FguuVWylhnxsYsOmPDSTu?si=3d7aebf5ea1f415b

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, ‘204: Going Invisible 2,’ with Darnielle and Joseph Fink, 2019:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1w3hnw8e881zr1mohUy8lT?si=63bb43a9e0aa4848

Smarty Pants podcast interview with Stephanie Bastek, 2022: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0u15aKXWzicelZPItsBusO?si=a4faa02396534010&nd=1S

Sound Opinions podcast interview with Andrew Gill, 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/john-darnielle-on-his-new-novel-devil-house/id94793843?i=1000549044737

Q podcast interview with Tom Power, 2022: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q
New Yorker interview with Helen Rosner, 2022: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/john-darnielle-wants-to-tell-you-a-story

Web Resources

We Shall All Be Healed liner notes: https://annotatedtmg.org/wsabh.html

We Shall All Be Healed microsite reconstructions: http://web.archive.org/web/20101208171235/http://www.4ad.com/weshallallbehealed/ and https://annotatedtmg.org/mirror/wsabh-microsite.html

John’s tweet about his hospice work: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1068880460477054977

Geoff Sanborn’s newsletter entry for All Hail the Mountain Goats on We Shall All Be Healed: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2003-we-shall-all-be-healed?s=r

Tom Moyser’s 2012 review of Transcendental Youth in For Folk’s Sake: https://www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/19212/album-the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land

Live shows

Live at The Empty Bottle, Chicago, on 2002-11-01: https://archive.org/details/tmg2002-11-01.aud.128mp3/tmg2002-11-01t09.mp3

Live at Berbati’s Pan, Portland on 2003-10-03: https://archive.org/details/tmg2003-10-03.aud.192mp3/tmg2003-10-03t01.mp3

Live at VPRO DAWRS Session Studio DeSmet, Amsterdam on 2004-03-27: https://archive.org/details/tmg2004-03-27.FM/06+-+Interview.flac

Live at KEXP Radio on 2005-06-16: https://archive.org/details/tmg2005-06-16.aud.192mp3/tmg2005-06-16t04.mp3

Live at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, on 2009-02-24: https://archive.org/details/tmg2009-02-24.schoeps_cmc34_16bit/john_darnielle_20090224_cmc34_d01t06.flac

Live at The Opera House, Toronto, on 2011-04-03: https://archive.org/details/MG2011-04-03.flac/mg2011-12-31t12.flac

Live at City Winery, New York, on 2015-04-11: http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/04/the-mountain-goats-april-11-2015-city-winery-flacmp3streaming/

Live at Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, on 2020-02-20: https://archive.org/details/tmg2020-02-20/10_%5Bbanter+4%5D.wav

Live at Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC, on 2021-12-16: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-12-16/tmg2021-12-16-17.flac

YouTube clips

‘Palmcorder Yajna,’ live at The Earl in Atlanta, GA on 2004-10-18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2aMfIFo0ro

Signal Flare #9, featuring ‘Shot, Repeatedly, At Close Range, In the Chest, By Your Love’ (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-nnmmSwizA

‘Rescue Breathing,’ live at Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, 2020-02-20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjl2tqDr3gI

‘Beat the Devil’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j868ThCN9cQ

‘All Devils Here Now’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1NTsVR-FmY

‘You Were Cool,’ live at Carnegie Hall, 2013-01-15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYeeQn65qPw

‘We Shall All Be Healed,’ performed for X Radio in London on 2017-05-25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTqXAf7engc]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2003-palmcorder-yajnaFri, 29 Apr 2022 08:44:11 +0000Richard O'BrienWhere they manufactured what I needed. The show is back with a double episode about 'Palmcorder Yajna,' 'Devil House,' a folder full of MSN Messenger chatlogs two decades old, and the unique awfulness of being 13 and online in West Deeping in 2003....
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Show notes

Books

Devil House, by John Darnielle. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Interviews

Believer interview with Daniel Handler, 2004: https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-john-darnielle/

Pitchfork interview with Tom Breihan, 2009: https://pitchfork.com/news/36406-john-darnielle-tells-the-story-behind-the-mountain-goats-biblical-new-lp/

The AV Club interview with Paul Caine, 2009: https://www.avclub.com/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-learns-to-trust-other-1798218315

Rolling Stone interview with Christian Hoard, 2015: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-slow-climb-how-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-became-the-best-storyteller-in-rock-227793/

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, ‘203: Done Bleeding,’ with Darnielle and Joseph Fink, 2019: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FguuVWylhnxsYsOmPDSTu?si=3d7aebf5ea1f415b

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, ‘204: Going Invisible 2,’ with Darnielle and Joseph Fink, 2019:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1w3hnw8e881zr1mohUy8lT?si=63bb43a9e0aa4848

Smarty Pants podcast interview with Stephanie Bastek, 2022: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0u15aKXWzicelZPItsBusO?si=a4faa02396534010&nd=1S

Sound Opinions podcast interview with Andrew Gill, 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/john-darnielle-on-his-new-novel-devil-house/id94793843?i=1000549044737

Q podcast interview with Tom Power, 2022: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q
New Yorker interview with Helen Rosner, 2022: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/john-darnielle-wants-to-tell-you-a-story

Web Resources

We Shall All Be Healed liner notes: https://annotatedtmg.org/wsabh.html

We Shall All Be Healed microsite reconstructions: http://web.archive.org/web/20101208171235/http://www.4ad.com/weshallallbehealed/ and https://annotatedtmg.org/mirror/wsabh-microsite.html

John’s tweet about his hospice work: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1068880460477054977

Geoff Sanborn’s newsletter entry for All Hail the Mountain Goats on We Shall All Be Healed: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2003-we-shall-all-be-healed?s=r

Tom Moyser’s 2012 review of Transcendental Youth in For Folk’s Sake: https://www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/19212/album-the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land

Live shows

Live at The Empty Bottle, Chicago, on 2002-11-01: https://archive.org/details/tmg2002-11-01.aud.128mp3/tmg2002-11-01t09.mp3

Live at Berbati’s Pan, Portland on 2003-10-03: https://archive.org/details/tmg2003-10-03.aud.192mp3/tmg2003-10-03t01.mp3

Live at VPRO DAWRS Session Studio DeSmet, Amsterdam on 2004-03-27: https://archive.org/details/tmg2004-03-27.FM/06+-+Interview.flac

Live at KEXP Radio on 2005-06-16: https://archive.org/details/tmg2005-06-16.aud.192mp3/tmg2005-06-16t04.mp3

Live at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, on 2009-02-24: https://archive.org/details/tmg2009-02-24.schoeps_cmc34_16bit/john_darnielle_20090224_cmc34_d01t06.flac

Live at The Opera House, Toronto, on 2011-04-03: https://archive.org/details/MG2011-04-03.flac/mg2011-12-31t12.flac

Live at City Winery, New York, on 2015-04-11: http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/04/the-mountain-goats-april-11-2015-city-winery-flacmp3streaming/

Live at Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, on 2020-02-20: https://archive.org/details/tmg2020-02-20/10_%5Bbanter+4%5D.wav2626autobiography,coming-of-age,devil-house,indie-rock,internet-culture,john-darnielle,memoir,msn-messenger,music-criticism,music-memoir,pomona,portland,the-mountain-goatstrue2fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2002-no-children--47708109

Show notes

06/22/13 Live show at Bottletree in Birmingham, AL, with banter leading up to ‘Alpha Chum Gatherer’: https://archive.org/details/mountaingoats2013-06-22.flac16/mountaingoats2013-06-22t11.flac

BBC News article on grammar schools and social mobility: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44081733

Wikipedia entry forWill It Blend?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_It_Blend%3F

Interview with Daoud Tyler-Ameen for NPR on ‘No Children’: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/10/653349496/the-mountain-goats-american-anthem-no-children-dysfunction

Tumblr post on the Alpha couple as ‘one flesh’: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/119711150476/hi-tallahassee-has-been-one-of-my-favorite-albums

Fandom page on ‘No Children,’ referencing live banter which is quoted throughout: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/No_Children

Fandom page on the Tallahassee album, containing liner notes. Quotes from live introductions to individual songs can be found on their respective pages here: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Tallahassee

‘John Darnielle explains his cultural influences,’ including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Vulture, 2014: https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/john-darnielle-explains-his-cultural-influences.html

The Annotated Mountain Goats site for Tallahassee (archived), with quotes from a 2005 interview with Transition Video Magazine: https://web.archive.org/web/20201112032352/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/tallahassee.html#fn:southwoodjohn
-And for the whole Alpha series: https://web.archive.org/web/20201111235658/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/series.html#alpha

Tumblr post on narrowing the focus of the album: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/46335170309/the-sleeve-that-held-the-boarding-pass-from-my

Article on Tallahassee by Jim Fisher for Salon.com, archived here https://www.scribd.com/document/52894439/tMG-Interviews

Interview with Chris Willman for Variety, 2021: https://variety.com/2021/music/news/no-children-mountain-goats-tiktok-john-darnelle-video-1235100275/

Kickstarter page for ‘It’s Complicated: A Feminist Zine on Loving Misogynist Art’: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/niina/its-complicated-a-feminist-zine-on-loving-misogyni

Lalitree Darnielle’s response to ‘It’s Complicated’: https://blog.lalitree.com/post/24473496489/its-complicated-project-welcome-to-the-its

Tumblr post on ‘Going to Georgia’: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/54507637224/hi-so-i-totally-get-that-you-dont-play-going-to

Tumblr post on the genesis of the Alpha series: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/53493520474/why-did-you-write-so-many-alpha-songs-did-you

Fandom page for ‘One Winter at Point Alpha Privative,’ discussing the problem with poems: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/One_Winter_at_Point_Alpha_Privative

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats episode 109, on ‘Younger’: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0DNMpmyrpy0NzJI4zLuwlv?si=f7e06a015b5143d3

Zine interview with Cory Brown, c.1999 about the fan appetite for divorce content: https://www.flickr.com/photos/caliclimber/9136546010/in/album-72157604938464838/

Geoff Sanborn’s newsletter on Zopilote Machine, which quotes a radio interview where Darnielle explains the alpha privative: https://open.spotify.com/track/3i5OukPST8wDQXwqH2fbhm?si=2322aad2592245ec

the cool beans! #4 interview with Matt Kelly, 1994, archived here: https://www.scribd.com/document/52894439/tMG-Interviews

Alex Russell’s post on ‘One Winter at Point Alpha Privative’: https://afewthingsmaybeseveralthings.com/2020/04/19/231-one-winter-at-point-alpha-privative/
-And on ‘Design Your Own Container Garden’: https://afewthingsmaybeseveralthings.com/2018/07/22/201-design-your-own-container-garden/

Interview with Carsten Wohlfeld for Luna Kafe, 2003: http://www.lunakafe.com/moon78/usca78.php

Daytrotter radio session, 2007, featuring ‘Ethiopians’: https://archive.org/details/daytrotter1.mp3/03+Ethiopians.mp3

Interview with Alexander Sammon for Mother Jones, 2017: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/02/john-darnielle-mountain-goats-novel-universal-harvester/

Document collating otherwise unavailable interviews: https://www.scribd.com/document/52894439/tMG-Interviews

Interview about horror with Sam Costello for Dark, but Shining, 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070208201251/http://www.darkbutshining.com:80/?p=863

Leslie Jamison, ‘The Empathy Exams.’ The Believer, 2014: https://believermag.com/the-empathy-exams/

‘Alpha Negative’ banter in 04-20-2014 Chicago live show at Old Town School of Folk Music, https://archive.org/details/tmg2014-04-20/09-WokeUpNew.mp3

Julian Barnes, ‘A candid view of Candide.’ The Guardian, 2011: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/01/candide-voltaire-rereading-julian-barnes

Jon Blistein, ‘Offspring’s Dexter Holland Finishes Ph.D, Thesis on HIV Research.’ Rolling Stone, 2017: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/offsprings-dexter-holland-finishes-ph-d-thesis-on-hiv-research-193282/amp/

Matthew Singer, ‘In The City: The story of Portland’s original all-ages gay nightclub.’ Willamette Week, 2014: https://www.wweek.com/portland/article-22975-in-the-city.html

JD tweets about the City and the friends he made there: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1303463222851362821 and https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1303463222851362821

Books

Peter Coviello, Long Players: A Love Story in 18 Songs. Penguin, 2018.]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2002-no-childrenMon, 29 Nov 2021 18:32:13 +0000Richard O'BrienOh Christ, it's those awful Alpha people again. The final instalment in this season is a double episode on 'No Children,' taking in the Offspring, the difference between a divorce and burning a house down, and the things we can't let go of until they...

Show notes

06/22/13 Live show at Bottletree in Birmingham, AL, with banter leading up to ‘Alpha Chum Gatherer’: https://archive.org/details/mountaingoats2013-06-22.flac16/mountaingoats2013-06-22t11.flac

BBC News article on grammar schools and social mobility: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44081733

Wikipedia entry forWill It Blend?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_It_Blend%3F

Interview with Daoud Tyler-Ameen for NPR on ‘No Children’: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/10/653349496/the-mountain-goats-american-anthem-no-children-dysfunction

Tumblr post on the Alpha couple as ‘one flesh’: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/119711150476/hi-tallahassee-has-been-one-of-my-favorite-albums

Fandom page on ‘No Children,’ referencing live banter which is quoted throughout: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/No_Children

Fandom page on the Tallahassee album, containing liner notes. Quotes from live introductions to individual songs can be found on their respective pages here: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Tallahassee

‘John Darnielle explains his cultural influences,’ including The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Vulture, 2014: https://www.vulture.com/2014/09/john-darnielle-explains-his-cultural-influences.html

The Annotated Mountain Goats site for Tallahassee (archived), with quotes from a 2005 interview with Transition Video Magazine: https://web.archive.org/web/20201112032352/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/tallahassee.html#fn:southwoodjohn
-And for the whole Alpha series: https://web.archive.org/web/20201111235658/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/series.html#alpha

Tumblr post on narrowing the focus of the album: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/46335170309/the-sleeve-that-held-the-boarding-pass-from-my

Article on Tallahassee by Jim Fisher for Salon.com, archived here https://www.scribd.com/document/52894439/tMG-Interviews

Interview with Chris Willman for Variety, 2021: https://variety.com/2021/music/news/no-children-mountain-goats-tiktok-john-darnelle-video-1235100275/

Kickstarter page for ‘It’s Complicated: A Feminist Zine on Loving Misogynist Art’: 2374alpha-couple,john-darnielle,marriage,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticism,no-childrentrue1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2001-riches-and-wonders--47277552
Show notes

06-17-2007 Zoop live set, featuring ‘Cobscook Bay’ and ‘Leaving Home’: https://archive.org/details/tmg2007-06-17.Zoop

09-08-2021 City Winery, NYC live banter before ‘Genesis 3:23,’ featuring discussions of revisiting old homes and the mice of Colo: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-09-08/tmg2021-09-08-15.flac

Comments on ‘Leaving Home’ in the Ghana liner notes: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Leaving_Home

Interview with Gabriella Paiella for Electric Lit, 2014: https://electricliterature.com/interview-john-darnielle-author-of-wolf-in-white-van/

Interview with Chris Willman for Variety, https://variety-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/variety.com/2021/music/news/no-children-mountain-goats-tiktok-john-darnelle-video-1235100275/amp/?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#aoh=16355430760789&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2021%2Fmusic%2Fnews%2Fno-children-mountain-goats-tiktok-john-darnelle-video-1235100275%2F

Transcript of John’s talk at the 2016 Festival of Faith and Writing: https://ccfw.calvin.edu/podcast/obsessions/

NPR interview with Terri Gross, 2015: https://www.npr.org/2015/09/11/439189592/as-a-lyricist-and-novelist-the-mountain-goats-lead-man-writes-about-pain

NPR interview with Linda Wertheimer, 2005: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/4651778

Pitchfork interview with Tom Breihan, 2009: https://pitchfork.com/news/36406-john-darnielle-tells-the-story-behind-the-mountain-goats-biblical-new-lp/

‘Closed Doors,’ my autobiographical poetry sequence in Subtropics, with an epigraph taken from the Breihan interview: http://subtropics.english.ufl.edu/index.php/2019/01/15/closed-doors/

An interview with Hannah Whiteman about the sequence: http://subtropics.english.ufl.edu/index.php/2019/01/14/richard-obrien/.

‘Millennial insecurity is reshaping the UK economy’ – Sarah O’Connor in the Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/66149ea8-158a-11e8-9e9c-25c814761640.

‘Millennial housing crisis engulfs Britain.’ Michael Savage in The Observer, drawing on research from the Resolution Foundation: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/28/proportion-home-owners-halves-millennials

‘The ‘frustrated’ housing aspirations of generation rent.’ Report by Kim McKee and Adriana Mihaela Soaita: https://housingevidence.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/R2018_06_01_Frustrated_Housing_Aspirations_of_Gen_Rent.pdf

‘Millennials are screwed.’ Michael Hobbes, Huffington Post: https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/

Interview with Kyle Munson for the Des Moines Register, 2017: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/25/john-darnielle-wanted-write-iowans-so-he-came-up-creepy-rural-elegy-different-sort/98192656/

All Hail West Texas liner notes, discussing the houses in Colo and Ames: http://web.archive.org/web/20200911212129/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/ahwt.html

Salon interview with Mike Appelstein, 2013: https://www.salon.com/2013/08/03/mountain_goats_john_darnielle_im_not_interested_in_back_in_the_day_we_are_always_in_the_present_moment/

New York magazine profile by Stephen Rodrick, 2009: https://nymag.com/arts/popmusic/features/55031/

‘John Darnielle: From Self-Destruction to Self-Construction.’ Articulate, Season 5, Episode 19: https://articulateshow.org/videos/john-darnielle-from-self-destruction-to-self-construction/

Interview with Leah Weathersby, Amazon, 2005, collated here, discussing leaving nursing: https://www.scribd.com/document/52894439/tMG-Interviews

Interview with Christian Hoard for Rolling Stone, 2015, discussing Durham: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-slow-climb-how-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-became-the-best-storyteller-in-rock-227793/

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats episode 108, on ‘Riches and Wonders’:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7eXljkDV29uaocghNM0ubP?si=b3e16a05a1564e23

04-20-2004 live performance of ‘Riches and Wonders’ at Go! Studios, Carrboro, NC: https://archive.org/details/gostudios2004.mp3/09+-+Riches+and+Wonders.mp3]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2001-riches-and-wondersTue, 02 Nov 2021 18:04:05 +0000Richard O'BrienI want to go home, but I am home. Today's episode is about 2001, and the song 'Riches and Wonders.' It looks at millennial housing insecurity, playground insults, bad landlords, and the predations of the Colo mice. Show notes 06-17-2007 Zoop live...
Show notes

06-17-2007 Zoop live set, featuring ‘Cobscook Bay’ and ‘Leaving Home’: https://archive.org/details/tmg2007-06-17.Zoop

09-08-2021 City Winery, NYC live banter before ‘Genesis 3:23,’ featuring discussions of revisiting old homes and the mice of Colo: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-09-08/tmg2021-09-08-15.flac

Comments on ‘Leaving Home’ in the Ghana liner notes: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Leaving_Home

Interview with Gabriella Paiella for Electric Lit, 2014: https://electricliterature.com/interview-john-darnielle-author-of-wolf-in-white-van/

Interview with Chris Willman for Variety, https://variety-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/variety.com/2021/music/news/no-children-mountain-goats-tiktok-john-darnelle-video-1235100275/amp/?amp_js_v=a6&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQIKAGwASCAAgM%3D#aoh=16355430760789&csi=0&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fvariety.com%2F2021%2Fmusic%2Fnews%2Fno-children-mountain-goats-tiktok-john-darnelle-video-1235100275%2F

Transcript of John’s talk at the 2016 Festival of Faith and Writing: https://ccfw.calvin.edu/podcast/obsessions/

NPR interview with Terri Gross, 2015: https://www.npr.org/2015/09/11/439189592/as-a-lyricist-and-novelist-the-mountain-goats-lead-man-writes-about-pain

NPR interview with Linda Wertheimer, 2005: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/4651778

Pitchfork interview with Tom Breihan, 2009: https://pitchfork.com/news/36406-john-darnielle-tells-the-story-behind-the-mountain-goats-biblical-new-lp/

‘Closed Doors,’ my autobiographical poetry sequence in Subtropics, with an epigraph taken from the Breihan interview: http://subtropics.english.ufl.edu/index.php/2019/01/15/closed-doors/

An interview with Hannah Whiteman about the sequence: http://subtropics.english.ufl.edu/index.php/2019/01/14/richard-obrien/.

‘Millennial insecurity is reshaping the UK economy’ – Sarah O’Connor in the Financial Times, https://www.ft.com/content/66149ea8-158a-11e8-9e9c-25c814761640.

‘Millennial housing crisis engulfs Britain.’ Michael Savage in The Observer, drawing on research from the Resolution Foundation: 1303all-hail-west-texas,john-darnielle,memoir,music-criticism,secondary-school,the-mountain-goatsfalse1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/2000-cobscook-bay--46926422
Show notes

John’s introductory comments before the first live performance of ‘Cobscook Bay,’ https://archive.org/details/tmg2007-06-17.Zoop/2-05_Alibi_06-17-07.mp3

Liner notes for The Coroner’s Gambit on The Annotated Mountain Goats:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200824091232/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/coroner.html#fn:rozz

2003 VH1 interview with Gil Kaufman, archived here: https://www.scribd.com/document/52894439/tMG-Interviews

c.2000 interview with Cory Brown: https://www.flickr.com/photos/caliclimber/9136546010/in/album-72157604938464838/

2007 interview about horror with Sam Costello for Dark, but Shining: https://web.archive.org/web/20070208201251/http://www.darkbutshining.com:80/?p=863

Interview Magazine: ‘John Darnielle’s Cartography of Grief’, with Matt Mullen: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/john-darnielle

2017 interview with Elijah Taylor, for Birth Movies Death: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/04/02/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-talks-his-new-book-universal-harvester

2017 Mother Jones interview with Alexander Sammon: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/02/john-darnielle-mountain-goats-novel-universal-harvester/

2019 performance of ‘The Water Song’: https://archive.org/details/tmg2019-12-07#

2013 Salon interview: https://www.salon.com/2013/08/03/mountain_goats_john_darnielle_im_not_interested_in_back_in_the_day_we_are_always_in_the_present_moment/

Geoff Sanborn’s essays on The Coroner’s Gambit: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2000-the-coroners-gambit
And All Hail West Texas: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2002-all-hail-west-texas

A. E. Stallings on rhyme: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/69202/presto-manifesto-

Anna Borges’s article for The Outline on suicidal ideation: https://theoutline.com/post/7267/living-with-passive-suicidal-ideation?zd=1&zi=2sucjfn7

Spectrum Culture article by Holly Hazelwood on The Coroner’s Gambit at 20: https://spectrumculture.com/2020/02/05/holy-hell-the-coroners-gambit-turns-20/

NPR interview on Goths and West Coast death-rock with Lars Gotrich: https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/04/25/525383835/the-mountain-goats-on-growing-up-and-growing-older-in-goth?t=1633514777444

09/08/2019 live performance of ‘The Coroner’s Gambit’ at City Winery, NYC, with discussion of Rozz: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-09-08/tmg2021-09-08-11.flac#

Rob Delaney interview discussing suicidal ideation: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/performance-art-rob-delaney-interviews-john-darnielle

Books

Robert Aickman. Compulsory Games, edited by Victoria Nelson, with a blurb by John Darnielle. New York Review of Books, 2018.

Seamus Heaney, ‘John Clare’s Prog,’ in The Redress of Poetry. Faber & Faber, 1995.]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/2000-cobscook-bayMon, 11 Oct 2021 19:52:41 +0000Richard O'BrienI put the pieces all together, but I don't know what they mean. It's the year 2000, I'm writing mean things about my classmates in a homemade newspaper, and you're falling off that cliff somewhere in California, which I've never seen. Today's episode...
Show notes

John’s introductory comments before the first live performance of ‘Cobscook Bay,’ https://archive.org/details/tmg2007-06-17.Zoop/2-05_Alibi_06-17-07.mp3

Liner notes for The Coroner’s Gambit on The Annotated Mountain Goats:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200824091232/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/coroner.html#fn:rozz

2003 VH1 interview with Gil Kaufman, archived here: https://www.scribd.com/document/52894439/tMG-Interviews

c.2000 interview with Cory Brown: https://www.flickr.com/photos/caliclimber/9136546010/in/album-72157604938464838/

2007 interview about horror with Sam Costello for Dark, but Shining: https://web.archive.org/web/20070208201251/http://www.darkbutshining.com:80/?p=863

Interview Magazine: ‘John Darnielle’s Cartography of Grief’, with Matt Mullen: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/john-darnielle

2017 interview with Elijah Taylor, for Birth Movies Death: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/04/02/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-talks-his-new-book-universal-harvester

2017 Mother Jones interview with Alexander Sammon: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/02/john-darnielle-mountain-goats-novel-universal-harvester/

2019 performance of ‘The Water Song’: https://archive.org/details/tmg2019-12-07#

2013 Salon interview: https://www.salon.com/2013/08/03/mountain_goats_john_darnielle_im_not_interested_in_back_in_the_day_we_are_always_in_the_present_moment/

Geoff Sanborn’s essays on The Coroner’s Gambit: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2000-the-coroners-gambit
And All Hail West Texas: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2002-all-hail-west-texas

A. E. Stallings on rhyme: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/69202/presto-manifesto-

Anna Borges’s article for The Outline on suicidal ideation: https://theoutline.com/post/7267/living-with-passive-suicidal-ideation?zd=1&zi=2sucjfn7

Spectrum Culture article by Holly Hazelwood on The Coroner’s Gambit at 20: 1307john-darnielle,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticism,robert-aickman,rozz-williamstrue1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1999-you-re-in-maya--46724335
1/27/99 live set at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC, featuring the first known performance of ‘You’re in Maya’: https://archive.org/details/tmg1999-01-27.aud.128mp3/tmg1999-01-27t07.mp3

10/9/99 live set in Amsterdam where the song’s autobiographical nature is discussed: https://archive.org/details/tmg1999-10-09.aud.192mp3

Erin Marquis and Bradley Brownell’s Jalopnik piece on every car in a Mountain Goats song: https://jalopnik.com/we-listened-to-every-song-by-the-mountain-goats-heres-1845476773

Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home’: https://www.facinghistory.org/standing-up-hatred-intolerance/warsan-shire-home [CN for racial slurs, war, border violence and sexual assault]

Podcast interview about Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love on Steven Hyden’s Celebration Rock: https://omny.fm/shows/celebration-rock/celebration-rock-john-darnielle

Darnielle’s article on Chuck Berry’s ‘Going Back to Memphis’ for Last Plane to Jakarta: http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/memphis.html

30/3/2011 live show recorded by NYC Taper, featuring John’s comments on sharing damage and ‘This Year’: http://www.nyctaper.com/2011/04/the-mountain-goats-march-30-2011-bowery-ballroom-flac-and-mp3-downloads-streaming-song/

Raphael-Bob Waksberg’s Mountain Goats parody on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raphaelbw/status/1296226561360670720?lang=en

Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads: https://www.bartleby.com/39/36.html

Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt: https://casualmagic.libsyn.com/casual-magic-episode-31-mountain-goats

Pop Matters interview discussing the ‘thirst to believe’: https://www.popmatters.com/115150-get-holy-an-interview-with-john-darnielle-2496114699.html

Books

Chant and Be Happy: The Power of Mantra Meditation. The Bhaktidevanta Book Trust, 1982. This introductory volume is based on the teachings of Prabhupāda and features interviews with George Harrison and John Lennon.]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1999-youre-in-mayaTue, 28 Sep 2021 11:39:18 +0000Richard O'BrienIt's 1999, and John Darnielle is trying something new. Today's episode looks at 'You're in Maya,' taking in twin high maintenance machines, bad dreams about driving, language loss, and 'the Lord Śrī Krishna’s grace.' 1/27/99 live set at the Cat’s...
1/27/99 live set at the Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, NC, featuring the first known performance of ‘You’re in Maya’: https://archive.org/details/tmg1999-01-27.aud.128mp3/tmg1999-01-27t07.mp3

10/9/99 live set in Amsterdam where the song’s autobiographical nature is discussed: https://archive.org/details/tmg1999-10-09.aud.192mp3

Erin Marquis and Bradley Brownell’s Jalopnik piece on every car in a Mountain Goats song: https://jalopnik.com/we-listened-to-every-song-by-the-mountain-goats-heres-1845476773

Warsan Shire’s poem ‘Home’: https://www.facinghistory.org/standing-up-hatred-intolerance/warsan-shire-home [CN for racial slurs, war, border violence and sexual assault]

Podcast interview about Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love on Steven Hyden’s Celebration Rock: https://omny.fm/shows/celebration-rock/celebration-rock-john-darnielle

Darnielle’s article on Chuck Berry’s ‘Going Back to Memphis’ for Last Plane to Jakarta: http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/memphis.html

30/3/2011 live show recorded by NYC Taper, featuring John’s comments on sharing damage and ‘This Year’: http://www.nyctaper.com/2011/04/the-mountain-goats-march-30-2011-bowery-ballroom-flac-and-mp3-downloads-streaming-song/

Raphael-Bob Waksberg’s Mountain Goats parody on Twitter: https://twitter.com/raphaelbw/status/1296226561360670720?lang=en

Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads: https://www.bartleby.com/39/36.html

Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt: https://casualmagic.libsyn.com/casual-magic-episode-31-mountain-goats

Pop Matters interview discussing the ‘thirst to believe’: https://www.popmatters.com/115150-get-holy-an-interview-with-john-darnielle-2496114699.html

Books

Chant and Be Happy: The Power of Mantra Meditation. The Bhaktidevanta Book Trust, 1982. This introductory volume is based on the teachings of Prabhupāda and features interviews with George Harrison and John Lennon.]]>1318bruce-springsteen,driving,george-harrison,hare-krishna,indie-folk,indie-rock,john-darnielle,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticismfalse1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1998-golden-boy--46400145
Show notes

The Annotated Mountain Goats page, gathering many of John’s own reflections on ‘Golden Boy’: http://web.archive.org/web/20200920010914/https:/kylebarbour.org/tmg/ghana.html#fnref:goldenjohn

Beer Frame zine: http://web.archive.org/web/20200926194716/http:/www.core77.com/inconspicuous/

Food Republic interview with Matt Rodbard (1 of 2): https://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/09/25/john-darnielles-passion-of-the-popcorn-part-i/

Drew Millard interview for Vice (2017): https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7wnem/john-darnielle-is-the-voice-of-outcasts-and-weirdos-everywhere

Gabriella Paiella interview for Electric Lit (2014): https://electricliterature.com/interview-john-darnielle-author-of-wolf-in-white-van/

Gabriella Paiella interview for British GQ magazine: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/mountain-goats-fitness

Men’s Health interview about John’s running regime: https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a34438996/john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats-running-interview/

Fan lists of food songs: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/mountain/eating-jam-out-of-a-jar-food-in-mountain-goats-lyr/
https://www.reddit.com/r/themountaingoats/comments/11lhrv/mountain_goats_songs_with_references_to_food/

‘Rescue Breathing’ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjl2tqDr3gI

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats Episode 203: ‘Done Bleeding’ – featuring discussions of self-harm: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FguuVWylhnxsYsOmPDSTu?si=20347653616f4980&nd=1

A tweet where Darnielle addresses his own experiences of disordered eating: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1358824136445992960

Geoff Sanborn’s newsletter, All Hail the Mountain Goats: https://allhail.substack.com/p/introduction

Pitchfork interview with Tom Breihan: https://pitchfork.com/news/36406-john-darnielle-tells-the-story-behind-the-mountain-goats-biblical-new-lp/

Christianity Today interview with Kate Shellnutt: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/august-web-only/mountain-goats-john-darnielle-loves-amy-grant-rich-mullins-.html

Imogen West-Knights on ‘treat brain’ in the Financial Times: https://www.ft.com/content/3ed08931-80b0-43a0-9bba-6c4bcc1b3e70

Krishna.org article on prasadam: https://krishna.org/prasadam-what-is-it-and-why-we-should-not-eat-anything-else/

Tony Burke on the Apocryphal Apocalypses of John: https://www.apocryphicity.ca/2013/06/24/more-secret-scriptures-3-the-apocryphal-apocalypses-of-john/

And the Apocrypals episode on these texts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5TZrZRHQpb2dnTaUI1fias?si=c84259d985e94dcc&nd=1

Books

Saint Augustine, Confessions. Translated with an introduction by R. S. Pine-Coffin, Penguin, 1961.

Amy Erdman Farrell. Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture. New York University Press, 2011.

Laura Waddell, ‘The Pleasure Button: Low Income Food Inequality.’ Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class, by the Working Class. Edited by Nathan Connelly, Dead Ink, 2017.]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1998-golden-boyMon, 06 Sep 2021 17:06:55 +0000Richard O'BrienYou must try to lead a good life. What that means will depend on your, and John Darnielle's, opinion on the following: St. Augustine, the distribution of prasadam at a Krishna-catered wedding, the history of diet culture, and those magnificent peanuts...
Show notes

The Annotated Mountain Goats page, gathering many of John’s own reflections on ‘Golden Boy’: http://web.archive.org/web/20200920010914/https:/kylebarbour.org/tmg/ghana.html#fnref:goldenjohn

Beer Frame zine: http://web.archive.org/web/20200926194716/http:/www.core77.com/inconspicuous/

Food Republic interview with Matt Rodbard (1 of 2): https://www.foodrepublic.com/2012/09/25/john-darnielles-passion-of-the-popcorn-part-i/

Drew Millard interview for Vice (2017): https://www.vice.com/en/article/d7wnem/john-darnielle-is-the-voice-of-outcasts-and-weirdos-everywhere

Gabriella Paiella interview for Electric Lit (2014): https://electricliterature.com/interview-john-darnielle-author-of-wolf-in-white-van/

Gabriella Paiella interview for British GQ magazine: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/mountain-goats-fitness

Men’s Health interview about John’s running regime: https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a34438996/john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats-running-interview/

Fan lists of food songs: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/mountain/eating-jam-out-of-a-jar-food-in-mountain-goats-lyr/
https://www.reddit.com/r/themountaingoats/comments/11lhrv/mountain_goats_songs_with_references_to_food/

‘Rescue Breathing’ on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjl2tqDr3gI

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats Episode 203: ‘Done Bleeding’ – featuring discussions of self-harm: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FguuVWylhnxsYsOmPDSTu?si=20347653616f4980&nd=1

A tweet where Darnielle addresses his own experiences of disordered eating: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1358824136445992960

Geoff Sanborn’s newsletter, All Hail the Mountain Goats: https://allhail.substack.com/p/introduction

Pitchfork interview with Tom Breihan: https://pitchfork.com/news/36406-john-darnielle-tells-the-story-behind-the-mountain-goats-biblical-new-lp/

Christianity Today interview with Kate Shellnutt: 13331990s,food,indie-folk,indie-rock,john-darnielle,memoir,mountain-goats,singer-songwriter,st-augustinetrue1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1997-twin-human-highway-flares--46038456
Show notes

Matt Mitchell’s thoughtful and not actually objectionable ranking of the studio albums for Paste: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-mountain-goats/the-mountain-goats-albums-ranked/

Liner notes to Full Force Galesburg: http://web.archive.org/web/20200930190323/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/galesburg.html

1997 Duke Coffeehouse live show in Durham: https://archive.org/details/tmg1997-04-04.aud.128mp3/

Interview with the Des Moines Register: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/25/john-darnielle-wanted-write-iowans-so-he-came-up-creepy-rural-elegy-different-sort/98192656/

‘Rocky Mountain Guy’ – 2001 profile by Iowa State Daily: https://www.iowastatedaily.com/article_4b1cb817-2033-5e2f-b9a6-a1cca11d691 8.html

John’s ‘Five Favorite Mountain Goats Characters’ for eMusic, featuring ‘Twin Human Highway Flares’: http://web.archive.org/web/20101223190232/http:/www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2008_02-mountain-goats.html

Driving directions from Davenport, Iowa, to the Regency Inn, Geneseo: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Davenport,+IA,+USA/Regency+Inn+Geneseo,+765+W+Main+St,+Geneseo,+IL+61254,+United+States/@41.5183787,-90.5272117,11z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e234c5e012a2f1:0xe8ea1f6356581fb0!2m2!1d-90.5776367!2d41.5236437!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e2100c5f82d557:0xa1fdd3c8fbe3bca3!2m2!1d-90.1671276!2d41.4480527!3e0

Burying the real songs: a live comment on ‘It Froze Me’: http://web.archive.org/web/20200907012721/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/nfj.html#fnref:itfrozeme

‘Love Love Love’ fandom page, mentioning ancient Greek conceptions of love: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Love_Love

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45099/sonnet-73-that-time-of-year-thou-mayst-in-me-behold

Joel Heng Hartse’s review of Dark in Here: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/july-web-only/mountain-goats-latest-pandemic-release-looks-into-darkness.html

2014 interview with Electric Lit: https://electricliterature.com/interview-john-darnielle-author-of-wolf-in-white-van/

My poem ‘National Moth Night’: https://andotherpoems.com/2013/07/30/richard-obrien/

Books and academic articles

Sophocles, Antigone. The Theban Plays. Translated by Robert Fagles, with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox. Penguin, 1984. p.101.

Aaron Kelly and David Salter, ‘“The Time Is Out of Joint”: Withnail and I and Historical Melancholia.’ In J. R. Keller & L. Stratyner (eds.), Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2004, pp. 99-112.

William Cronon, ‘The Trouble with Wilderness; Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature. Environmental History, 1.1, 1996: p.7-28.

Sarah Hibberd and Miranda Stanyon, Music and the Sonorous Sublime in European Culture, 1680–1880. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Jean-Francois Lyotard, translated by Geoff Bennington, and Brian Massumi. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Peter de Bolla, The Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics and the Subject. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1997-twin-human-highway-flaresTue, 10 Aug 2021 13:55:16 +0000Richard O'BrienArguing with the Twitter avatar of Paste's Matt Mitchell about his 'Full Force Galesburg' review. This episode runs from Antigone to Otis the Aardvark, by way of Roman re-enactors and the Romantic sublime, as I try to make sense of the snapshots of a...
Show notes

Matt Mitchell’s thoughtful and not actually objectionable ranking of the studio albums for Paste: https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-mountain-goats/the-mountain-goats-albums-ranked/

Liner notes to Full Force Galesburg: http://web.archive.org/web/20200930190323/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/galesburg.html

1997 Duke Coffeehouse live show in Durham: https://archive.org/details/tmg1997-04-04.aud.128mp3/

Interview with the Des Moines Register: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/25/john-darnielle-wanted-write-iowans-so-he-came-up-creepy-rural-elegy-different-sort/98192656/

‘Rocky Mountain Guy’ – 2001 profile by Iowa State Daily: https://www.iowastatedaily.com/article_4b1cb817-2033-5e2f-b9a6-a1cca11d691 8.html

John’s ‘Five Favorite Mountain Goats Characters’ for eMusic, featuring ‘Twin Human Highway Flares’: http://web.archive.org/web/20101223190232/http:/www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2008_02-mountain-goats.html

Driving directions from Davenport, Iowa, to the Regency Inn, Geneseo: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Davenport,+IA,+USA/Regency+Inn+Geneseo,+765+W+Main+St,+Geneseo,+IL+61254,+United+States/@41.5183787,-90.5272117,11z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e234c5e012a2f1:0xe8ea1f6356581fb0!2m2!1d-90.5776367!2d41.5236437!1m5!1m1!1s0x87e2100c5f82d557:0xa1fdd3c8fbe3bca3!2m2!1d-90.1671276!2d41.4480527!3e0

Burying the real songs: a live comment on ‘It Froze Me’: http://web.archive.org/web/20200907012721/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/nfj.html#fnref:itfrozeme

‘Love Love Love’ fandom page, mentioning ancient Greek conceptions of love: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Love_Love

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 73: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45099/sonnet-73-that-time-of-year-thou-mayst-in-me-behold

Joel Heng Hartse’s review of Dark in Here: https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2021/july-web-only/mountain-goats-latest-pandemic-release-looks-into-darkness.html

2014 interview with Electric Lit: https://electricliterature.com/interview-john-darnielle-author-of-wolf-in-white-van/

My poem ‘National Moth Night’: https://andotherpoems.com/2013/07/30/richard-obrien/

Books and academic articles

Sophocles, Antigone. The Theban Plays. Translated by Robert Fagles, with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox. Penguin, 1984. p.101.

Aaron Kelly and David Salter, ‘“The Time Is Out of Joint”: Withnail and I and Historical Melancholia.’ In J. R. Keller & L. Stratyner (eds.), Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2004, pp. 99-112.

William Cronon, ‘The Trouble with Wilderness; Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature. Environmental History, 1.1, 1996: p.7-28.

Sarah Hibberd and Miranda Stanyon, Music and the Sonorous Sublime in European Culture, 1680–1880. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Jean-Francois Lyotard, translated by Geoff Bennington, and Brian Massumi. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge. University of Minnesota Press, 1984.

Peter de Bolla, The Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics and the Subject. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.]]>13551990s,john-darnielle,lyrics,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticism,poetry,sublimefalse1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1996-the-sign-live--45879577
Show notes

2001 interview with Space City Rock, discussing live performance changes and popular culture: http://www.spacecityrock.com/2001/03/15/heavy-metal-ephemera-and-popular-culture-a-chat-with-the-mountain-goats/

John’s ‘Five Favorite Mountain Goats Characters’ for eMusic, featuring the narrator of ‘Waving at You’: http://web.archive.org/web/20101223190232/http:/www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2008_02-mountain-goats.html

Kelefa Sanneh, ‘The Rap Against Rockism,’ in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/arts/music/the-rap-against-rockism.html

Spin, on John’s Bieber song: https://www.spin.com/2013/03/mountain-goats-justin-bieber-john-darnielle-paparazzi/

1996 live recordings of ‘The Sign’:
1)https://archive.org/details/tmg1996-03-20.flac16
2)https://archive.org/details/knitfac1996.mp3/19+The+Sign+(w_Alastair+Galbraith).mp3
3)https://archive.org/details/tmg1996-03-23.aud.128mp3/tmg1996-03-23t18.mp3

Comments on ‘The Sign’: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sign

ZOOP live performance of ‘The Sign,’ complete with dance moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONMDqGGv78

Last Plane to Jakarta entries mentioning Pulp (http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/liftfn2.html), Elliot Smith (http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/elliott4.html), Nirvana (http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/empires3.html), and Stockholm Monsters (http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/mozz.html)

I Love Music forum post about Nirvana: https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=3690

John’s Tumblr post about Nick Cave: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/50577057813/to-the-left-of-nick-caves-left-foot-at-the-lip

John on Mercyful Fate: https://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/my_favorite_album_john_darnielle_of_the_mountain_goats_on_mercyful_fates_do

And on covering Frankie Valli: http://www.themountaingoats.net/misc/kjhk.html

Comments on Joni Mitchell, Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, David Berman and Nick Cave all sourced by searching JD’s Twitter.

Believer interview with Daniel Handler: https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-john-darnielle/

John Keats, ‘When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44488/when-i-have-fears-that-i-may-cease-to-be]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1996-the-sign-liveWed, 28 Jul 2021 21:07:52 +0000Richard O'BrienA lot of stars. In this episode, I celebrate my sixth birthday in the West Deeping village hall, and John Darnielle comes up with a series of dance moves. Featuring discussion of covers, authenticity, and young Kurt Cobain. Show notes 2001 interview...
Show notes

2001 interview with Space City Rock, discussing live performance changes and popular culture: http://www.spacecityrock.com/2001/03/15/heavy-metal-ephemera-and-popular-culture-a-chat-with-the-mountain-goats/

John’s ‘Five Favorite Mountain Goats Characters’ for eMusic, featuring the narrator of ‘Waving at You’: http://web.archive.org/web/20101223190232/http:/www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/2008_02-mountain-goats.html

Kelefa Sanneh, ‘The Rap Against Rockism,’ in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/arts/music/the-rap-against-rockism.html

Spin, on John’s Bieber song: https://www.spin.com/2013/03/mountain-goats-justin-bieber-john-darnielle-paparazzi/

1996 live recordings of ‘The Sign’:
1)https://archive.org/details/tmg1996-03-20.flac16
2)https://archive.org/details/knitfac1996.mp3/19+The+Sign+(w_Alastair+Galbraith).mp3
3)https://archive.org/details/tmg1996-03-23.aud.128mp3/tmg1996-03-23t18.mp3

Comments on ‘The Sign’: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sign

ZOOP live performance of ‘The Sign,’ complete with dance moves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONMDqGGv78

Last Plane to Jakarta entries mentioning Pulp (http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/liftfn2.html), Elliot Smith (http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/elliott4.html), Nirvana (http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/empires3.html), and Stockholm Monsters (http://lastplanetojakarta.com/articles/mozz.html)

I Love Music forum post about Nirvana: https://ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=3690

John’s Tumblr post about Nick Cave: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/50577057813/to-the-left-of-nick-caves-left-foot-at-the-lip

John on Mercyful Fate: https://www.undertheradarmag.com/interviews/my_favorite_album_john_darnielle_of_the_mountain_goats_on_mercyful_fates_do

And on covering Frankie Valli: 1114darnielle,lyrics,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticismtrue1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1995-the-recognition-scene--45648195
Show notes

Links to sources mentioned in the episode:

Darnielle’s comments on the Throgs’ Neck Bridge: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Going_to_Port_Washington

Reddit AMA featuring the ‘book of maps’ story: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/htsx1/i_am_a_former_nurse_named_john_darnielle_ask_me/

Prabhupāda, The Science of Self-Realization: https://vedabase.io/en/library/ssr/

Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt: https://casualmagic.libsyn.com/casual-magic-episode-31-mountain-goats

Carol Atherton on Waterland: https://passing-it-on.com/2021/06/18/teacher-feature-tom-crick/

Interview Magazine: ‘John Darnielle’s Cartography of Grief’:
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/john-darnielle

IndyWeek interview with Grayson Haver Currin: https://indyweek.com/music/features/mountain-goats-steady-struggle-conquest/

Bandcamp interview on Songs for Pierre Chuvin and grad school: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/john-darnielle-songs-for-pierre-chuvin-interview

Joseph Fink and John Darnielle’s podcast, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: https://open.spotify.com/show/0nXkEK0eeD10Wn3MdGBNKJ?si=xGuKQvoARRCTT11CbQoZQA&dl_branch=1

John’s tweet about Thyestes: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/891506827803996160

West Deeping church website: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/14510/about-us/

Kansas college radio interview, 1997: http://www.themountaingoats.net/misc/kjhk.html

Various live comments on ‘The Recognition Scene’: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Recognition_Scene

John and Franklin Bruno’s ‘Shrimper-licious mutual interview’: https://www.flickr.com/photos/caliclimber/albums/72157604938464838/with/7142322151/

TuneGlue interview on oral tradition: https://tuneglue.substack.com/p/004-john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats

‘The Ruin,’ with translation by Jack Watson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruin
Darnielle on Berryman: https://fsgworkinprogress.com/2014/04/28/on-berrymans-tampa-stomp/

My 2007 3:AM interview with JD: https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-sound-and-the-fury-an-interview-with-john-darnielle/

Nahuatl references on Zopilote Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20200928053602/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/zopilote.html#fn:azotlejohn

Article discussing Aristotle’s definition of ‘anagnoresis’: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3595657.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A249f3245eb1d1283378570906cb79b33

Books

Graham Swift, Waterland. Revised edition, Picador, 1992.

Jonathan Bate, John Clare: A Biography. Picador, 2003.

Sophocles, Antigone. The Theban Plays. Translated by Robert Fagles, with introductions and notes by Bernard Knox. Penguin, 1984.

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958). Penguin Classics, 2001.]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1995-the-recognition-sceneSat, 10 Jul 2021 12:28:12 +0000Richard O'BrienA book of maps. In this week's episode, it's 1995 and I'm in the stocks for some reason. Meanwhile, John Darnielle is finishing up college and expanding his horizons. Featuring discussion of ISKCON, John Berryman, translating Seneca, the Throgs' Neck...
Show notes

Links to sources mentioned in the episode:

Darnielle’s comments on the Throgs’ Neck Bridge: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Going_to_Port_Washington

Reddit AMA featuring the ‘book of maps’ story: https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/htsx1/i_am_a_former_nurse_named_john_darnielle_ask_me/

Prabhupāda, The Science of Self-Realization: https://vedabase.io/en/library/ssr/

Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt: https://casualmagic.libsyn.com/casual-magic-episode-31-mountain-goats

Carol Atherton on Waterland: https://passing-it-on.com/2021/06/18/teacher-feature-tom-crick/

Interview Magazine: ‘John Darnielle’s Cartography of Grief’:
https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/john-darnielle

IndyWeek interview with Grayson Haver Currin: https://indyweek.com/music/features/mountain-goats-steady-struggle-conquest/

Bandcamp interview on Songs for Pierre Chuvin and grad school: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/john-darnielle-songs-for-pierre-chuvin-interview

Joseph Fink and John Darnielle’s podcast, I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats: https://open.spotify.com/show/0nXkEK0eeD10Wn3MdGBNKJ?si=xGuKQvoARRCTT11CbQoZQA&dl_branch=1

John’s tweet about Thyestes: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/891506827803996160

West Deeping church website: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/14510/about-us/

Kansas college radio interview, 1997: http://www.themountaingoats.net/misc/kjhk.html

Various live comments on ‘The Recognition Scene’: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Recognition_Scene

John and Franklin Bruno’s ‘Shrimper-licious mutual interview’: https://www.flickr.com/photos/caliclimber/albums/72157604938464838/with/7142322151/

TuneGlue interview on oral tradition: https://tuneglue.substack.com/p/004-john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats

‘The Ruin,’ with translation by Jack Watson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruin
Darnielle on Berryman: 1140canterbury-tales,john-darnielle,lincolnshire,lyrics,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticismtrue1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1994-grendel-s-mother--45483971
Show notes

On the ‘more-than-human’: https://www.ideabooks.nl/9789083015293-more-than-human

The Magenta Bat4 bat detector: https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/bats/magenta-bat-4-bat-detector.html

Walking tours from Wild Intrigue: https://www.wildintrigue.co.uk/mini-expeds/

On ‘Snow Songs’: http://web.archive.org/web/20200905175609/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/bitter.html#fn:johnsnow.

New Yorker article on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/losing-her-mind-crazy-ex-girlfriend-ends-with-hope

Michael Robbins on ‘equipment for living’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70208/equipment-for-living

My 1991 episode, with much discussion of Graham Greene: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1991-running-away-with-what-freud

A letter from Missouri: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hot_Garden_Stomp / https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Bad_Priestess

John’s Tumblr post on ‘Going to Georgia’: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/54507637224/hi-so-i-totally-get-that-you-dont-play-going-to

Harp magazine interview about Souled American: https://web.archive.org/web/20061031050930/http://www.harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=4720

Meghan Purvis on translating Beowulf: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2013/06/meghan-purvis-on-translating-beowulf/

My poetry pamphlet, The Dolphin House: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/richard-o-brien-the-dolphin-house

Books

Kenneth Burke, Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke. Edited by Nathaniel A. Rivers and Ryan P. Weber, Parlor Press, 2010.

Beowulf, translated by Meghan Purvis. Penned in the Margins, 2013.

Peter Coviello, Long Players: A Love Story in 18 Songs. Penguin, 2018.

Jonathan Dollimore, Sex, Literature and Censorship. Wiley, 2001.

Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations. Random House, 2019.]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1994-grendels-motherMon, 28 Jun 2021 20:18:50 +0000Richard O'BrienI will carry you home in my teeth. Two decades before the release of 'Dark in Here,' this episode features another song for singing in caves: 'Grendel's Mother.' I also discuss Peter Coviello's 'Long Players,' Toni Morrison, the 1970s conversation pit...
Show notes

On the ‘more-than-human’: https://www.ideabooks.nl/9789083015293-more-than-human

The Magenta Bat4 bat detector: https://shopping.rspb.org.uk/bats/magenta-bat-4-bat-detector.html

Walking tours from Wild Intrigue: https://www.wildintrigue.co.uk/mini-expeds/

On ‘Snow Songs’: http://web.archive.org/web/20200905175609/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/bitter.html#fn:johnsnow.

New Yorker article on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/losing-her-mind-crazy-ex-girlfriend-ends-with-hope

Michael Robbins on ‘equipment for living’: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70208/equipment-for-living

My 1991 episode, with much discussion of Graham Greene: https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1991-running-away-with-what-freud

A letter from Missouri: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/The_Hot_Garden_Stomp / https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Bad_Priestess

John’s Tumblr post on ‘Going to Georgia’: https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/54507637224/hi-so-i-totally-get-that-you-dont-play-going-to

Harp magazine interview about Souled American: https://web.archive.org/web/20061031050930/http://www.harpmagazine.com/articles/detail.cfm?article_id=4720

Meghan Purvis on translating Beowulf: http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/index.php/2013/06/meghan-purvis-on-translating-beowulf/

My poetry pamphlet, The Dolphin House: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/richard-o-brien-the-dolphin-house

Books

Kenneth Burke, Equipment for Living: The Literary Reviews of Kenneth Burke. Edited by Nathaniel A. Rivers and Ryan P. Weber, Parlor Press, 2010.

Beowulf, translated by Meghan Purvis. Penned in the Margins, 2013.

Peter Coviello, Long Players: A Love Story in 18 Songs. Penguin, 2018.

Jonathan Dollimore, Sex, Literature and Censorship. Wiley, 2001.

Toni Morrison, Mouth Full of Blood: Essays, Speeches, Meditations. Random House, 2019.]]>1054beowulf,grendel,indie-folk,lyrics,memoir,mountain-goats,music-criticism,music-journalismtrue1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1993-going-to-cleveland--45314535
Show notes:

‘John On Process #2,’ discussing unfinished songs from 1993-4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH0DnQFgyGc

John’s interview with Acoustic Guitar Magazine: https://acousticguitar.com/indie-rocker-john-darnielle-of-the-mountain-goats-embraces-acoustic-guitar/

Sasha Frere-Jones, on John and Craig Finn as literary songwriters, for the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/16/the-declaimers

John describes his early process in a note on the release of Songs for Pierre Chuvin: https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-pierre-chuvin

Ben Opipari interviews John for Songwriters on Process: https://www.songwritersonprocess.com/blog/2017/5/15/john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats

The Annotated Mountain Goats entry for Transmissions to Horace: http://web.archive.org/web/20200927231020/https:/kylebarbour.org/tmg/horace.html

Daoud Tyler-Ameen’s piece for NPR on ‘No Children’ and the California divorce rate: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/10/653349496/the-mountain-goats-american-anthem-no-children-dysfunction

Matador Review interview, mentioning ‘workers in song’: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/25/john-darnielle-wanted-write-iowans-so-he-came-up-creepy-rural-elegy-different-sort/98192656/

An idea also picked up in this Aspen Times interview: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/a-good-time-with-mountain-goats/

Rob Delaney interviews John Darnielle, including a brief discussion of suicide: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/performance-art-rob-delaney-interviews-john-darnielle

My anthology of dinosaur poems for children, Dragons of the Prime: https://theemmapress.com/shop/dragons-of-the-prime/

John on tractors (interview with the Des Moines Register): https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/25/john-darnielle-wanted-write-iowans-so-he-came-up-creepy-rural-elegy-different-sort/98192656/]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1993-going-to-clevelandTue, 15 Jun 2021 19:35:10 +0000Richard O'BrienThe Mountain Goats get productive. In this episode, it's 1993 and John Darnielle is reading Sophocles, writing prolifically, and recording immediately. Over in England, I'm reading the names of dinosaurs over my grandmother's shoulder. Topics include:...
Show notes:

‘John On Process #2,’ discussing unfinished songs from 1993-4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH0DnQFgyGc

John’s interview with Acoustic Guitar Magazine: https://acousticguitar.com/indie-rocker-john-darnielle-of-the-mountain-goats-embraces-acoustic-guitar/

Sasha Frere-Jones, on John and Craig Finn as literary songwriters, for the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/05/16/the-declaimers

John describes his early process in a note on the release of Songs for Pierre Chuvin: https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-pierre-chuvin

Ben Opipari interviews John for Songwriters on Process: https://www.songwritersonprocess.com/blog/2017/5/15/john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats

The Annotated Mountain Goats entry for Transmissions to Horace: http://web.archive.org/web/20200927231020/https:/kylebarbour.org/tmg/horace.html

Daoud Tyler-Ameen’s piece for NPR on ‘No Children’ and the California divorce rate: https://www.npr.org/2018/10/10/653349496/the-mountain-goats-american-anthem-no-children-dysfunction

Matador Review interview, mentioning ‘workers in song’: https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/25/john-darnielle-wanted-write-iowans-so-he-came-up-creepy-rural-elegy-different-sort/98192656/

An idea also picked up in this Aspen Times interview: https://www.aspentimes.com/news/a-good-time-with-mountain-goats/

Rob Delaney interviews John Darnielle, including a brief discussion of suicide: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/performance-art-rob-delaney-interviews-john-darnielle

My anthology of dinosaur poems for children, Dragons of the Prime: https://theemmapress.com/shop/dragons-of-the-prime/

John on tractors (interview with the Des Moines Register): https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/02/25/john-darnielle-wanted-write-iowans-so-he-came-up-creepy-rural-elegy-different-sort/98192656/]]>867cassette-culture,cleveland,dinosaurs,divorce,john-darnielle,lyrics,mountain-goats,music-criticism,songwriting,sophoclestrue1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1992-no-i-can-t--45114815
Web links mentioned in the episode:

- NPR piece on 'Songs for Pierre Chuvin': https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/831191549/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-songs-for-pierre-chuvin-boombox?t=1622337736138

- Pitchfork article on the sound of the boombox: https://pitchfork.com/features/secondhands/9583-bleats-whines-and-other-awful-human-sounds-to-which-our-hearts-are-inexorably-tied/

- Link to purchase The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp from Shrimper: https://midheaven.com/item/hound-chronicles-hot-garden-stomp-by-mountain-goats-2xcd

- The Annotated Mountain Goats page for 'The Hound Chronicles': http://web.archive.org/web/20201112012137/https:/kylebarbour.org/tmg/hound.html#credits

- And for the last boombox album (until 'Songs for Pierre Chuvin'), 'All Hail West Texas': http://web.archive.org/web/20200911212129/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/ahwt.html#


- Bible Gateway link for Matthew 25:44-5: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A44-45&version=NIV

- Tune Glue interview: https://tuneglue.substack.com/p/004-john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats

- Peter Hughes relistens to all albums since 'Tallahassee' for NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/12/17/167467065/inside-listening-the-mountain-goats-bassist-assesses-his-own-bands-albums

- The Plastic Bertrand court case: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10801347#:~:text=Musician%20Plastic%20Bertrand%20has%20apparently,a%20court%20case%20in%20Belgium.&text=On%20Wednesday%2C%20an%20expert%20linguist,accent%20used%20by%20the%20performer

- Podcast interview with Steven Hyden: https://omny.fm/shows/celebration-rock/celebration-rock-john-darnielle

- Our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/thirty_years_later/

- Can diamonds burn?: https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/03/27/can-you-light-diamond-on-fire/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20diamond%20can%20be%20burned.&text=Pure%20diamond%20consists%20only%20of,combustion%20product%20was%20carbon%20dioxide

- Lateral tape motion: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020768315001614

Books:

- Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices. Faber & Faber, 1996.
- Caroline Levine, Forms. Princeton University Press, 2015.]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1992-no-i-cantMon, 31 May 2021 21:40:18 +0000Richard O'BrienNow I have everything I need. In this episode, it's 1992, and John Darnielle has everything he needs (flowers; some books; a Panasonic boombox). Meanwhile, I've got a cake for my birthday in the shape of a tractor. Topics include: electrical...
Web links mentioned in the episode:

- NPR piece on 'Songs for Pierre Chuvin': https://www.npr.org/2020/04/10/831191549/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-songs-for-pierre-chuvin-boombox?t=1622337736138

- Pitchfork article on the sound of the boombox: https://pitchfork.com/features/secondhands/9583-bleats-whines-and-other-awful-human-sounds-to-which-our-hearts-are-inexorably-tied/

- Link to purchase The Hound Chronicles/Hot Garden Stomp from Shrimper: https://midheaven.com/item/hound-chronicles-hot-garden-stomp-by-mountain-goats-2xcd

- The Annotated Mountain Goats page for 'The Hound Chronicles': http://web.archive.org/web/20201112012137/https:/kylebarbour.org/tmg/hound.html#credits

- And for the last boombox album (until 'Songs for Pierre Chuvin'), 'All Hail West Texas': http://web.archive.org/web/20200911212129/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/ahwt.html#


- Bible Gateway link for Matthew 25:44-5: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A44-45&version=NIV

- Tune Glue interview: https://tuneglue.substack.com/p/004-john-darnielle-the-mountain-goats

- Peter Hughes relistens to all albums since 'Tallahassee' for NPR: https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/12/17/167467065/inside-listening-the-mountain-goats-bassist-assesses-his-own-bands-albums

- The Plastic Bertrand court case: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-10801347#:~:text=Musician%20Plastic%20Bertrand%20has%20apparently,a%20court%20case%20in%20Belgium.&text=On%20Wednesday%2C%20an%20expert%20linguist,accent%20used%20by%20the%20performer

- Podcast interview with Steven Hyden: https://omny.fm/shows/celebration-rock/celebration-rock-john-darnielle

- Our Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/thirty_years_later/

- Can diamonds burn?: https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/03/27/can-you-light-diamond-on-fire/#:~:text=Yes%2C%20diamond%20can%20be%20burned.&text=Pure%20diamond%20consists%20only%20of,combustion%20product%20was%20carbon%20dioxide

- Lateral tape motion: 815boombox,cassettes,lincolnshire,lyrics,memoir,mountain-goats,music,sydney-carterfalse1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1991-running-away-with-what-freud-said--45089753
Links to articles mentioned in this episode:

- Graham Greene obituary: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/specials/greene-obit.html

- Peter Green on 'The End of the Affair': https://newrepublic.com/article/68004/the-end-the-affair

- John Banville on Graham Greene: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/graham-greene-unquiet-englishman/

- Ian Thomson on Norman Sherry's failings: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/oct/03/biography.grahamgreene

- Liner notes for 'Zopilote Machine': https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Zopilote_Machine

- Alex Russell on 'Running Away With What Freud Said': https://afewthingsmaybeseveralthings.com/2017/01/23/133-running-away-with-what-freud-said/

- Podcast interview with Steven Hyden: https://omny.fm/shows/celebration-rock/celebration-rock-john-darnielle

- 2006 stage comments on the Mountain Goats wiki: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Running_Away_with_What_Freud_Said

- 2016 stage comments on Genius: https://genius.com/The-mountain-goats-running-away-with-what-freud-said-lyrics
- Dr David Viscott on YouTube: https://afewthingsmaybeseveralthings.com/2017/01/23/133-running-away-with-what-freud-said/

- Dr David Viscott obituary: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-26-tm-22135-story.html

- JD's 'hiding in a duct' dream: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1376868279206219777

- Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thirty_years_later]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1991-running-away-with-what-freudMon, 24 May 2021 19:04:47 +0000Richard O'BrienNew flowers, cold comfort. In this episode, John Darnielle wakes up after a Portland blackout with a click in his hip, and Richard learns to sit up straight. Topics include: Graham Greene the 'Catholic atheist,' biographers and their subjects,...
Links to articles mentioned in this episode:

- Graham Greene obituary: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/specials/greene-obit.html

- Peter Green on 'The End of the Affair': https://newrepublic.com/article/68004/the-end-the-affair

- John Banville on Graham Greene: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/graham-greene-unquiet-englishman/

- Ian Thomson on Norman Sherry's failings: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/oct/03/biography.grahamgreene

- Liner notes for 'Zopilote Machine': https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Zopilote_Machine

- Alex Russell on 'Running Away With What Freud Said': https://afewthingsmaybeseveralthings.com/2017/01/23/133-running-away-with-what-freud-said/

- Podcast interview with Steven Hyden: https://omny.fm/shows/celebration-rock/celebration-rock-john-darnielle

- 2006 stage comments on the Mountain Goats wiki: https://themountaingoats.fandom.com/wiki/Running_Away_with_What_Freud_Said

- 2016 stage comments on Genius: https://genius.com/The-mountain-goats-running-away-with-what-freud-said-lyrics
- Dr David Viscott on YouTube: https://afewthingsmaybeseveralthings.com/2017/01/23/133-running-away-with-what-freud-said/

- Dr David Viscott obituary: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1997-01-26-tm-22135-story.html

- JD's 'hiding in a duct' dream: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1376868279206219777

- Our Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thirty_years_later]]>650catholicism,darnielle,indie-folk,lyrics,memoir,music,portlandfalse1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/1990-going-to-alaska--45089755
Links to articles mentioned in this episode:

- Pop Matters interview: https://www.popmatters.com/searching-for-john-darnielle-2495
776481.html

- John discusses his Norwalk apartment: https://genius.com/The-mountain-goats-done-bleeding-lyrics

- WTF podcast interview with Marc Maron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WgT3ufLeHw

- England Football Online summary of the 26/06/90 England vs Belgium match: http://www.englandfootballonline.com/Seas1980-90/1989-90/M0661Bel1990.html

- Robert Browning, 'Porphyria's Lover': https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover

- 'I Am,' by John Clare: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43948/i-am

- W.H. Auden, 'The Fall of Rome': https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover

- Article on Kate Sessions and the jacaranda: https://laist.com/news/entertainment/jacarandas

- John's Tumblr post on 'Going to Alaska': https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/121763305361/fishingboatproceeds-42-days-of-the-mountain.

- Interview about slipping words under the door: https://www.timmcmahan.com/mountain.htm

Books:

Norman Dubie, Groom Falconer (1989, W. W. Norton & Company)]]>https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/1990-going-to-alaskaMon, 17 May 2021 18:23:31 +0000Richard O'BrienA young man slips a poem under a doormat. In this episode, a baby is born during the knock-out stages of the Italia 90 football World Cup, and John Darnielle experiments with setting some words to music. Topics include Romantic poet and farm labourer...
Links to articles mentioned in this episode:

- Pop Matters interview: https://www.popmatters.com/searching-for-john-darnielle-2495
776481.html

- John discusses his Norwalk apartment: https://genius.com/The-mountain-goats-done-bleeding-lyrics

- WTF podcast interview with Marc Maron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WgT3ufLeHw

- England Football Online summary of the 26/06/90 England vs Belgium match: http://www.englandfootballonline.com/Seas1980-90/1989-90/M0661Bel1990.html

- Robert Browning, 'Porphyria's Lover': https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover

- 'I Am,' by John Clare: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43948/i-am

- W.H. Auden, 'The Fall of Rome': https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46313/porphyrias-lover

- Article on Kate Sessions and the jacaranda: https://laist.com/news/entertainment/jacarandas

- John's Tumblr post on 'Going to Alaska': https://johndarnielle.tumblr.com/post/121763305361/fishingboatproceeds-42-days-of-the-mountain.

- Interview about slipping words under the door: https://www.timmcmahan.com/mountain.htm

Books:

Norman Dubie, Groom Falconer (1989, W. W. Norton & Company)]]>608darnielle,indie-folk,lyrics,memoir,music,poetry,romanticismfalse1fullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/introduction-soudoire-valley-song--56647310https://thirtyyearslater.substack.com/p/the-grass-grows-upMon, 10 May 2021 18:44:36 +0000Richard O'BrienListen now (10 mins) | The grass grows up.619falsefull