#zopilote machine

[cantevensyntax]

The world glows as she enters the thanergy halo. Going to Georgia is Nav all over. Artist credit: Twitter user AhnDangerous

[nakachokos]

hey everyone. i wrote some stuff and drew some things about my favorite mountain goats songs and it’s free to download. your mountain goats source of the future… now!

[deeraredear]

new patch, marker/paint and mod podge on scrap fabric

[goingtothebes]

"The other allegation levelled against these songs was the old saw about one man baring his soul, etc. I have spent the last five years waging war against such facile, reductive, post-romantic descriptions of what it is that songwriters do, but since the war has proven futile, to hell with it: These songs are all pages ripped from my diary, which drips blood. I have been alive for over 2000 years and routinely stalk those who have made me feel vulnerable. I was born in at least seven different countries. If I am not omnipotent then I am at least superhuman. I am incapable of understanding the viewpoints of other sentient beings and will take anything ever said to me as a direct personal threat. None of these songs were written. They are all spontaneous eruptions of directly experienced personal pain, deeply felt and wholly unvanquishable. Each time I sing any one of them I further aggravate a wound which will never heal." - John Darnielle, Zopilote Machine rewritten liner notes, 1998

[mountaingoatsfirstlineaday]

obsessed with the way that zopilote machine has no track listing. anywhere. the back of the cd case just says "kid you fell in the milk". the booklet is mostly latin

[tmglineaday]

The morning comes to a stuttering halt

[plathski]

pearl (2022) / going to georgia - the mountain goats

[passivedemonic]

“Alpha Incipiens”

we lean back and we clink our glasses raise the drinks to our thirsty mouths and thick as molasses ice cold vodka eases in as the low pressure system brings the breezes in and they sashay and pirouette above you the only thing I know is that I love you and I'm holding on yeah

 "... if you look back on the bad things that happened to you, right, ... you always try and find the, the exact moment. Don’t you? I do. You say ‘where was it that I fucked up and everything just began going to hell?’ You want to see the starting point and imagine that you can go and fix it. You can’t, by the way. This song was not the first song about the Tallahassee people but it’s the one in which the moment is born, where they’re going to drink each other into the ground, dissolve their marriage, and burn a house down."

--   John Darnielle at the Knitting Factory in New York, NY on October 31, 2005

[yourbelgianthings]

i'm leaving out all hail west texas on purpose because it would sweep and i'm curious to know what people like otherwise! i'm also including the compilation albums rather than all their individual sources

[john-gosh-darnielle]

I made it halfway across the yard

[cantevensyntax]

Grendel's Mother is, from beginning to end, a song about resurrection beasts (which has some interesting implications about Beowulf as an intertext). Just listen to it, seriously. Artist credit, as per watermark, Briarwick

[malaisequotes]

“The most remarkable thing about coming home to you is the feeling of being in motion again.”

Going to Georgia by The Mountain Goats

[mountaingoatsyoutubecomments]

[jointpainfaggot]

Zopilote machine my beloved!!!!! [incomprehensible gibberish]

[haven-anyone-would-yearn-for]

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[goldenboypeanutsofficial]

Zopilote Machine copy I found at a vintage store