FUCK the new Mountain Goats album is hitting me hard.
It's been 11 years since All Hail West Texas and Jenny from Thebes really feels like the culmination of a decade of hardship, anxiety, and love.
From a technical standpoint I don't think it will be my favorite MG album (that's gonna be Bleed Out), but emotionally it's one of the most important albums to me, up there with Good Luck Everybody and The Wall.

https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/album/jenny-from-thebes

[Hashtag soup ahead:]
#MountainGoats #JennyFromThebes #AllHailWestTexas #BleedOut #FolkPunk #FolkRock #AltRock #RockOpera #JohnDarnielle #TinaShoemaker #AliciaBognanno #PeterHughes #MattDouglas #JonWurster #MattNathanson #KathrynValentine

#13books that I think about often:

#OliverSacks Musicophilia

#WillAitken Antigone Undone: #JulietteBinoche, #AnneCarson, #IvoVanHove, and the Art of Resistance

#NickCave, And the Ass Saw the Angel

#MarkZDanielewski House of Leaves

#UmbertoEco The Island of the Day Before

#HermannHesse Glass Bead Game

#PatrickMcCabe Poguemahone

#NealStephenson Anathem

#HalldorLaxness Under the Glacier

#CanXue Frontier

#JohnDarnielle x2: Universal Harvester, Master of Reality

#MaggieRowe Sin Bravely

“Some things you'll do for money, and some you'll do for fun, but the things you do for love are going to come back to you one by one.” —John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats

Inside you is a wolf. You are a white van.

Mastodon lists seem to be in 7s, so my top 7 books of 2022 are:

#PatrickMcCabe - Poguemahone
#OlgaTokarczuk - The Books of Jacob (translation)
#JohnElizabethStintzi - My Volcano
#JohnDarnielle - Devil House
#RodrigoFresán - The Remembered Part (translation)
#MiekoKawakami - All the Lovers in the Night (translation)
#ReneeGladman - Plans for Sentences

#bookstodon @bookstodon

Really enjoying Devil House by #johndarnielle . I can honestly say that the man's musical and literary talents draw me in completely. He creates a scene so completely, and I lose myself in his works.

On the musical front, the #mountaingoats Bleed Out has been an absolute joy to listen to. Maybe I should combine the two?