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underwaternow
i've never got a chance to see mountain goats live (i'm from italy)

There is no god.

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Johnp

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underwaternow
i've never got a chance to see mountain goats live (i'm from italy)

There is no god.

Ha ha, not that I know. The only chance I've got is to officially invite John Darnielle to spend his summer vacation here and force him to embrace a guitar and play some tunes for my family and me

hey, shlack, while you're here... any word from those you know about the 'Growing Up with You' book?

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Johnp

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underwaternow
i've never got a chance to see mountain goats live (i'm from italy)

There is no god.

Ha ha, not that I know. The only chance I've got is to officially invite John Darnielle to spend his summer vacation here and force him to embrace a guitar and play some tunes for my family and me

did somebody say kickstarter project? $200+ prize = ticket to zoop 3 in Italy.

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hey, shlack, while you're here... any word from those you know about the 'Growing Up with You' book?

Ironically I was not here for a while. I was out for a few days because my computer broke! And when I returned, cassette reissues!?

No new word on Growing Up With You, though perhaps I ought to email Carlos and see how he & Liz are doing.

I did note that in some of the press material for the cassette re-releases, there's this quote by JD, perhaps tacitly against such ordering as we're attempting to do here:

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The songs you find on this compact disc originally appeared on two cassettes. To elaborate further about that—to say, for example, that the songs originally appeared 'on two cassettes that were released in ____ and ____'—would misrepresent the spirit of their time. These tapes did not have release dates. No one anticipated their coming into the world, and very few noticed or cared. All previous eras cross at some point into the territory of the unimaginable, and so it is with the days of tape-trading. The obscurity in which these songs were incubated and born and brought into their faint light is a state of being which has passed into history.

I'll admit to taking a bit of umbrage at the "very few noticed or cared" comment--certainly at the time he was much lower profile than he is now, but the statement seems to imply that if you didn't care in 93 your caring now is less valid. I guess what I'm saying is that for someone who is as vocally anti-nostalgia as JD, the above statement seems to wax rather nostalgic.

Sorry to be negative about this...

I read it more matter-of-factly than that, he put them out and at the time there was no real furor or huge demand for them.

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shlack
No new word on Growing Up With You, though perhaps I ought to email Carlos and see how he & Liz are doing.

Carlos and Liz are still working on the book. It's definitely very much alive. They're still interviewing people and collecting material. They've decided against a rigid timeline. They want to do it right rather than hurrying just to meet some deadline. Rest assured betamax, you'll hear about it here when it's ready!

Cheers folks. I'll stop harrassing you both every few months, now :p

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let's get dressed up in costumes and dance by the bar.