very few bands have an effect on me emotionally but as i was driving back from athens georgia a couple days ago i put in a CD of assorted songs by the Mountain Goats that my friend and fellow mogger jen gave me. i was driving (extremely slowly due to traffic) through some form of hellish weather when the song no children came on. ive been horribly depressed ever since. i kept listening to the t...
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Many break-up songs seek glue, adhesive for all of these pieces. The Mountain Goats have a library full of them; John Darnielle knows nothing's lonelier than pockets failing hands no longer held. Nothing, that is, but the hands still crushing your throat. "No Children" lives just here, beneath the weight of what we once wanted. The song feeds on anger and terror but does not breed it. If you li...
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man. lately i've been crazy busy. and it's not even like i've DONE a lot, i've just ...been out a lot.for instance, last night we smoked and then played hacky-sack. you know, that game with the bean bag ball thing that you hit with your feet? we sucked. and then we played rummy. and considered risk, but none of us know how to play and we'd smoked too much to learn anything new at that poi...
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I hope that our few remaining friendsGive up on trying to save usI hope we come up with a failsafe plotTo piss off the dumb few that forgave usI hope the fences we mendedFall down beneath their own weightAnd I hope we hang on past the last exitI hope it's already too lateAnd I hope the junkyard a few blocks from hereSomeday burns downAnd I hope the rising black smoke carries me far awayAnd I ne...
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