and God Bless John Darnielle for being a little better than a regular human.
2 weeks ago on May 17, 2012 at 08:30pm
Posts tagged john darnielle.
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Dear John Darnielle,
I sometimes don’t know how I would make it through the day without you. Thank you.
love, Lee
ditto
- Pitchfork: When you're at home, do you go to Catholic church?
- John Darnielle: Oh it's the most awesome Catholic church I've ever been to. It's so awesome. Because Catholic church is different in the South. It's smaller, but it's also quite old. At the church I sometimes go to, I hear references to the Middle Passage. It's really something. Look, I'm an ex-goth boy, and there's all these little tiny storefront-type churches where you go in and it immediately damages your hearing because it's so small and the drums are so loud. There's only 15 people there, and they're all speaking in tongues. It's pretty... awesome.
- Which is the other thing. If you're into music, you're into religion, somehow or another. Religion, that's the bloodline of music. The whole reason, I'm pretty sure, we have music on notation is to preserve chant-- to transcribe what was going on, which we're singing in order to describe the experience the divine. So there is that connection, which is part of the big appeal, to me, of churches-- that there's always something musical going on in there. That is making what to me is a pretty obvious connection between whatever we want to call divine and music, which seems permanently and inextricably bound.
- Pitchfork: You don't find Catholic services stultifying? In that you know every single little piece of it and everything that's coming up next?
- John Darnielle: Oh, I love it. I love it. I tell you, I think it's the greatest. It's like a song you know, but you know it even better. Seriously, I get weak in the knees when we go into the Apostles' Creed. I think it's the greatest thing.
- mountain_goats: 2 a.m. concert in venue with comfortable cots + blankets where we play super-quiet and everybody just dreams right through the whole show
- mountain_goats: 4 a.m. concert in storefront church where just beforehand a preacher delivers low-key but convincing sermon about how the world ends today
- mountain_goats: 23 albums over 23 weeks, each based on a different episode from season 3 of SVU
- mountain_goats: album called "instructions," actual songs with lyrics; listener must sign pledge to go to sleep before listening to each time he/she listens
- mountain_goats: I don't know you guys this whole "save the music industry" deal doesn't actually seem that hard if I just put my mind to it
- mountain_goats: tour routing that when traced on a map spells out a secret coded message to listener about location of final, secret show
- mountain_goats: that last one is the sort of thing that the internet has more or less ruined forever though
- mountain_goats: tour routing that just makes totally wicked design on map, everybody gets tattoos of wicked awesome design
- mountain_goats: only people with the tattoo from wicked design tattoo tour are allowed in the building for the next tour
- mountain_goats: these ideas are gradually squeezing out any possibility of anybody involved getting paid a dime but we're talking about art here
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john darnielle dancing at the cat’s cradle
this is still a really important video i think i just forgot to tag it before
1 year ago on April 17, 2011 at 10:33pm
1 year ago on April 09, 2011 at 08:45pm
