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Grief and revenge hold hands

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why is this the prettiest thing i've read all day? (tmg - "onions")

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welcome to night vale they could never make me hate u. ive been listening to it for over a decade now and that's longer than ive known most of my current friend group and ive changed so much since starting to listen to it and for so many of the episodes i remember what was happening in my life when they released. incredibly weird time capsules

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*waits patiently but it never arrives* im actually happier this way

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John Darnielle has written almost 600 songs now, and some of them are very sad, dealing with hard drugs and tragic ends, hurting yourself and others, sicknesses of both body and brain, off-brand alcohols. They are told in beautiful, unnerving, specific detail because he is a very good writer, and also some of them are just true stories about his own life. —John Hodgman, 2012

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I have been listening to this band for almost 20 years, and those lower depths might as well be written in a different language, holy moly.

Learn about the lower depths below the cut.

For the lower depths the reddit OP (link to page) provided this detailed explanation:

Two Thousand Seasons - that one weird ass song where John sings along with a fan or something

organ harvesters - subject of the Moon Colony Bloodbath EP

The Congress - an early Shrimper band that featured JD, honestly don't even know why it became a meme to say they don't exist

dolls - unhinged opening line from The Doll Song

Estimated Quantity of Devils - metadata from the criminally slept on [All Devils Here Now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1NTsVR-FmY)

Mr. Do - rat pictured on the cover of Beautiful Rat Sunset

100 Reasons - [humorous JD article](https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=18110) about a generational banger that has aged poorly to say the least

Ethiopian tax reforms - subject of [Gojam Province 1968](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNgSUGXFq6s)

A Chronicle of Pagans - text by Pierre Chuvin that inspired his titular album

ass chart - [the single greatest introduction of No Children ever](https://archive.org/embed/tmg2006-09-26/tmg2006-09-26t17.flac?start=274)

The Bloody Hawaiians - one of the earliest bands with other Shrimper members

MSH employee housing - where the first tMG songs were recorded

transfiguration\* of bullet bill - metadata from a demo released on Twitter

Near the Olympic Auditorium - working title of The Sunset Tree (I couldn't quite remember or confirm this one, it may actually be By the Olympic Auditorium or By the Old Olympic)

The Orange Trees - when JD moved to Chicago and became a solo act, he thought about changing the band name and played one show as The Orange Trees

I'm gonna kill everybody in this room - from Cut Off Their Thumbs #1

253 N. Broadway - the sketchy apartment where JD lived in Portland, mentioned at shows

the Lambton worm - subject of a horror flash fiction story by JD

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS/BLEATING WILDLY - supposedly the first tape JD ever made with the name and then never showed anyone

Sure, we're a cult but I like to think we're a welcoming one

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It’s so crazy that suicide prevention is just people going awwww don’t!! Awwww come on noooooooooo stopppppp

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PATHOLOGIC / THE PLAGUE

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you've gotta stop talking about polyamory & monogamy as immutable orientations of the heart and not just relationship formats that literally anyone can choose to adhere to or not

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You're worse than me. You're not human. You're biblical. The Phoenician Scheme (2025) dir. Wes Anderson

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The Phoenician Scheme (2025) dir. Wes Anderson

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