I enjoy answering rhetorical questions.

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the sun's not yellow, it's fucking meringue.


see what i did there? i just rearranged all the letters in your statement.

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Mike3000-where's the j?

-weshallallbe...correcting the internet's mistakes since the beginning of time.

weshallallbe Wrote:
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> Mike3000-where's the j?


in your a, weshallallbe.

i now pronounce you, burned.

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...well played.

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> the sun's not yellow, it's fucking meringue.
>
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> see what i did there? i just rearranged all the
> letters in your statement.


Yeah, nice try. That's a blatant lie. Good effort, though!

aw man. This is a long story which results in this comment.
So I was looking on Spotify to find All Hail West Texas to listen to whilst I do work. (I have no money to buy music right now, so I'm living with Spotify for the time being) But that album isn't there so I was looking for it online and on the wikipedia site saw mention of 15 outtakes from the album which were supposed to be released free but weren't after Hail and Farewell Gothenburg, so I look up HaFG and download it (I have this irritating curiousity) and then I'm like, hang on, need to find out more about it so I'm reading most of this thread, and I'm going:
"Well, yeah, he didn't want people to hear it and now some have and some haven't, but he's now got rid of other ones which, in the future, people may have heard. Isn't that kind of unfair to the people who won't download or listen to it?"
Which I guess it is, but then all of that stuff is his music anyway, so whatever he does with it is what he wants, right?
But, then again, if everyone had followed what people said to the letter, we wouldn't have Kafka or Keats or Emily Dickinson or a bucket-load of other works to... um, work with. And the album won't be bad, so much, but it might not be very good either.
The thing is, I've lived so far without it. A very small amount of time I've lived with the knowledge of it. John Darnielle doesn't want people to download it, or listen to it. I'll feel like the most selfish person in the world if I listen to it after he's been so nice about it all. But is it selfish just to have it right now, and not listen to it until he gives it the okay? But he's not going to give it the okay, I know that, so essentially I'm just keeping it, raising the chances of me hearing it, making me (still) the most selfish person in the world. Ugh. This is horrible. I listened to Taboo VI, btw, because he seemed to be okay with that.
(And I still can't find a place I can listen to All Hail West Texas, so I guess I'll just have to save up for it.)

i spent years not listening to this album. i finally broke down and listened to it about a year ago, when i was right on the edge of jumping off a ledge, quite literally. even then, i almost didn't listen, but i was so close to losing everything, in all my fog and uncertainty, i thought, man if JD thought it would help even a little bit, he would want me to listen to it instead of doing what i had gone to that ledge to do. so, whether it was really what JD would have wanted or not, i went home and listened to it. didn't jump. so yeah, i still owe JD a big hug for that one. and pretty much everything i am or will ever be, too, for that matter.

anyways, doesn't solve your conundrum, but that is how i first heard this album.

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once you give birth, it doesn't matter if you like the kid or not, the kid's out there and beautiful regardless

i guess it's feasible you could give birth bunches of times at home and then you could just destroy them if you didn't think they should escape out into the world.

nobody would ever know about it.



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Death Poodle Improv may just be the worst album you ever wont hear.

i still want to hear this album, zisel.

nobody's around anymore.

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mike3000 Wrote:
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> the sun's not yellow, it's fucking meringue.
>
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> see what i did there? i just rearranged all the
> letters in your statement.


Yeah, nice try. That's a blatant lie. Good effort, though!

schlack!

you better not have spent too much time finding me out!

Always finding. Always searching.












U out

hey schlack, do you have a creepy pee pee?

rhetorical question.

on halloween, i like to say "spookie kooooookie".......

who am i?

non-rhetorical question.

when rhett butler asks a question that requires no answer is it a rhettorical question?

i think it is.

once, i asked a rhetorical question about some girl's pectorals.

she didn't appreciate my wordplay and so she smacked me much to my dismay.

i still think of her and that smack to this day. also, my favorite actress is doris day.

crime doesn't pay, beyotch!


how's that for off-topic!

SHE-IT



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when rhett butler asks a question that requires no answer is it a rhettorical question?

i think it is.

I do too.



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Always finding. Always searching.





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U out

schlack, how did you make that link invisible in your post!

your username is just a misinterpretation of the word "shellac!"

which in turn is actually two words: lac being a yellowish resin secreted by the lac insect

shell being the "thin sheets of purified lac resin used for making varnish."

you have just been shlacked, buoy!

meet the new boss, same as the old boss, blizzatch!

i'm running for president of antarctica in november.

my platform will be to change the name of antarctica to blizzatch.

wouldn't that be cool; to change the name of a whole continent?

maybe I'll just leave it in a folder for extreme emergencies. I think everyone should have an emergency kit.
Thanks Wild Creatue

I'll endorse your campaign for King of Auntie-Arctica, Mike

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I'll endorse your campaign for King of Auntie-Arctica, Mike

don't you mean king of Blizzatch?

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Perhaps his platform is Pro-Blizzatch, Anti-Arctica.

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Perhaps his platform is Pro-Blizzatch, Anti-Arctica.

literally laughed out loud.

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The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone. - Martin Amis

really excellent schlack.....you schlacked that one big time!

Thanks fellas!

I just read this thread for the first time just now, and my copy of HAFG was downloaded July 14, 2006 when i discovered and spent all summer listening to nothing but Goats.

besides being in shock and being devastated about John's feelings on this album right now, one thought i have is if he considers this material "garbage", what other amazing and never leaked works did he consider garbage and delete once the boneheadedness of those of us like monkeyskull showed up?

It's no one person's fault, but the fault of human nature. Monkeyskull was the "adam" who committed the original sin, but any one of us following him would have done the same thing. Like John has repeatedly said, this is the reality artists must cope with in the world we live in now.

i don't have an ear for music so it never registered these songs were sped up or at a higher tone than they should be. the thought had actually crossed my mind that these songs were "less low-fi" than so much of his other old work (pre-Tallahassee i consider old Goats; since then is the new Gost).

Since summer 2006 TMG has been tied for my favorite band ever (with Owen), and by listening to this album i have contributed to the wiping off the face of the planet TMG songs which (since admittedly i don't have an ear for music) i and the so many others like me probably would have loved.

what have i done?

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Death Poodle Improv may just be the worst album you ever wont hear.

i still want to hear this album, zisel.

nobody's around anymore.

I'll see what I can do. It may be lost forever.

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i'm actually pretty excited that you may still have this around to listen to. where are you looking? on old computer hard drives? checking under your car seats for a blank cd that may have it on there? calling your brother to see if he still has a cd of it somewhere?

really exciting.