mountain_goats: I'm not gonna livetweet the Grammies or anything but I gotta say one thing about music awards shows in general
mountain_goats: having a big fake pit full of people being stage-managed to look psyched sucks & is an insult to live music in general
"‎Selling out your muse just because your life got cooler is some lowdown dirty snake behavior in my opinion."
— John Darnielle (via sensorydeprivation)
(Source: science-witch-princess)
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