just walked past jon wurster standing near a taco place. ok

mutuals hmu if youre going to be at the mountain goats show tonight

one of the best love songs ever

When the crack sounds in the wood You will know, old friend, that I'm down for good

for emma, forever ago is so fucking good. contender for one of my favorite albums of all time

the jacaranda are wet with color and the heat Is a great paintbrush lending color to our lives, to the air, and to our faces. but I'm going to alaska! where the snow has sucked the sound out from the air. up yes! in the branches! the purple blossoms go pale at the edges. there is moaning in the shifting of the sap-- and i see in them traces! of last year, but then they hadn't grown so strong-- and their limbs were more like wires. now they are cables! thick and alive with alien electricity! and i am going to alaska where. you can go blind. just by looking at the ground. where fat is eaten by itself. just to keep the body warm. because from where we are now it seems really that everything is growing in a thousand different ways that the soil is soaked through with old blood and with relatives! who were buried here. or close to here. and they are giving rise. to what is happening, or can you tell me otherwise?? i am going to alaska where the animals can kill. you. but. they. do so in silence-- as though if no one hears them then it really wont matter i am going to alaska. they tell me that it's perfect for my. purposes.

The Trapeze Swinger by Iron & Wine / Weekend In Western Illinois by The Mountain Goats

The Trapeze Swinger by Iron & Wine / Weekend In Western Illinois by The Mountain Goats

“"Fresh Tattoo" is the flashpoint in the story of who Jenny is and how she came to leave Texas. In it, she gets a tattoo of a shield on her arm, and, on her way home, sees a guy who needs help. This will be her last lodger, and it's her first tattoo, and the day will prove to be decisive in her story.”

John Darnielle about Fresh Tattoo in The Mountain Goats’ newsletter, August 23, 2023

video by aimee mann continues to be the saddest song ever written