Who the fuck are "mountain goats?"

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chad2501
I feel like as social networking goes twitters about as honest and bearable a format as it gets, unlike facebook I don't have to see thousands of pictures of people I went to highschool with's babies in different costumes and outfits.

You'd rather just read about the shit they each took that morning?

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You'd rather just read about the shit they each took that morning?

I try to only follow people on twitter who if they are going to tweet about their shits, had a particularly life-changing shit

Try:
@coprophile
@on_the_blanket
@gg_allin

"@realjohngreen oh it's me all right. and I've now further clarified my demand to specify a monster-themed miniature golf course."


That's a direct quote from his Twitter. I think we might be dealing with the reality of jd having a Twitter here.

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sunkenships
"@realjohngreen oh it's me all right. and I've now further clarified my demand to specify a monster-themed miniature golf course."


That's a direct quote from his Twitter. I think we might be dealing with the reality of jd having a Twitter here.

And also,

"You can now follow tMG on Twitter: @mountain_goats" - Lalitree Darnielle's Twitter page. I sort of feel like she'd know.

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Achillius
And also,

"You can now follow tMG on Twitter: @mountain_goats" - Lalitree Darnielle's Twitter page. I sort of feel like she'd know.

Haha, true. I think his wife would know if there were some freakish impostor out there trying to pose as John in the Twitter universe. I guess this collectively quells all question as to the legitimacy of his account.

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sunkenships
"@realjohngreen oh it's me all right. and I've now further clarified my demand to specify a monster-themed miniature golf course."


That's a direct quote from his Twitter. I think we might be dealing with the reality of jd having a Twitter here.

Considering JD sent John Green TLOTWTC before it's release and that the two John's have been in contact for awhile, This definitively confirms JD having a Twitter

Don't know how many of ya'll have been following the tMG twitter (I would imagine a good number of you) but for those of you who are not, today all of my trepidation as to whether or not it is awesome that tMG has a twitter was dispelled when for a short while John threw himself into the fray of an argument re: whether or not it is cool that Liturgy has now been signed to Thrill Jockey. Most memorable quote:
Re: cross pollenization between black metal and indie rock "can those of us who are opposed to this cross-pollenization do anything to stop it? serious q btw, will suit up"

http://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/2090197399379969

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"There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness." - David Foster Wallace

NO. The cross-pollination cannot be stopped. In fact, the Mountain Goats black metal record we've all been thirsting for is ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.

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erikdardan
...the Mountain Goats black metal record we've all been thirsting for is ONLY A MATTER OF TIME.

Oh man, that might be too much to even joke about. It gets me too excited.

My guess it would lead to mass suicide. All the reasonable people in the world hearing it, holding the album in their hands, knowing the chances for that level of awesome to ever be topped in the future is bleak and unlikely at best, and then tossing themselves out of windows and off bridges to avoid a lifetime of music that from then on can only ever really be regarded as "alright".


Which might be too dramatic, but that idea excites me, so leave me to my fantasies.

Hey, that sounds like something John would write a song about! Hopefully he makes it through the apocalypse long enough to document in musical form the bitter (but oh-so-sweet) fruits of his black metal labors.

Fuck Black Metal™

Why its good that the Mountain Goats are now on Twitter:

the question isn't whether to tattoo "morbid" in big dark letters on one's chest, but what font to do it in 4:07 PM Nov 12th via web Retweeted by 29 people

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The Mountain Goats

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Also worthy of note:
"@brandonstosuy honestly as you'll find out before long I'm not against people working together, what I'm against is mindless genre-mingling" (my emphasis)

and...

'like I worked with a metal guy & was super-stoked, but I didn't think "now we're buds so I can tourist into the scene you gave your life to" '

Make of that what you will. I know what I'm thinking!

does this mean that the new album is going to have a 20 page booklet? or am i missing something?

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mountain_goats
oh hot damn. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Maggie @mergerecords wrote: Yes, 20-page booklet is fine.

samvssam, no, that's pretty much what I got out of that tweet, too. And the implication of a possible 20-page booklet to the new album is more than exciting, I think we can all agree.

A 20-page booklet would be fantastic, especially if they're written like Undercard's liner notes were.

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@maxseeger there actually was a "going to mars" song! played once, ever, at Munchies...Hughes might have tape of it. it was terrible iirc
about 6 hours ago via web in reply to maxseeger Retweeted by 2 people

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Does anyone know what John has against the new "Yogi Bear," movie? I mean, I think it looks like an abomination to film in general, and would never, ever, ever want to see it, but John seems to think they've created a special level of hell just for all those involved with the creation of it. Check out these tweets he posted today about it:

mountain_goats The Mountain Goats
prerelease screener of Yogi Bear movie features disastrous music video, "Rapping Yogi" #cymbalta #meditation #breathingexercises #yogibear
11 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply

mountain_goats The Mountain Goats
economists warn that release of Yogi Bear film assures onset of global economic depression #dismay #consumerconfidence #christmascancelled
4 hours ago Favorite Undo Retweet Reply

(^ I re-tweeted that one because I think it's about one of the funniest things I've ever read. Mostly because of the "christmas is cancelled," hashtag.)

mountain_goats The Mountain Goats
reenacting stations of the cross with friends/family at midnight screening of Yogi Bear #christmas #penance #streettheater #yogibear
52 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply



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Maybe he holds a special place in his heart for the original rascal Yogi Bear and finds the new movie even more abhorrent for it than he would just based on what looks to be it's objective terribleness?


(yeah, I'm not projecting, not at all)

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"mrskimyadawson:
@mountain_goats Thanks friend. P.S. We sound fucking awesome together."

...craziest Mountain Goats record ever?

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erikdardan
"mrskimyadawson:
@mountain_goats Thanks friend. P.S. We sound fucking awesome together."

...craziest Mountain Goats record ever?

Yeah. Things are getting awesome/weird. I've been thinking about that tweet, too, and I guess I can see some logic in it. It's pretty common knowledge that JD and Aesop Rock are pretty close, and also that Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson are good friends. Sooo..... if A=B and B=C then, JD and Kimya Dawson might have recorded some awesome stuff together.

Wouldn't be the first time. They did a little thing called Attention All Pickpockets way back when.

Attention All Pickpockets