Back in 2006 when we shot the Woke Up New music video for the Mountain Goats, I wanted to also make something for my favorite song on the album, “Wild Sage.” So I shot John Darnielle singing the song in front of a black background, turned the footage black and white and high contrast, and printed out every frame of it on 8x10 paper. I then took these stacks of paper to Cape Cod and began to animate them as stills, shooting with my Canon 5D. It took much longer than I thought, and my vacation was over before the video was shot, so I took them back to NYC intending to finish the video there. I never did. So this is all there is.
The printouts somehow ended up in my cousin Nathan’s possession, and seven years later he found them stacked in a box and asked me what these thousands of bizarre photos of John Darnielle’s face were for.
And I said “oh yeah, that thing. I should upload it to Vimeo or something.”
The Mountain Goats - Love, Love, Love
“The things you do for love are going to come back to you one by one.”
holy NOTES
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Steal Smoked Fish (Alternate Take) - the Mountain Goats
This take hurts.
Where did this come from and why is my face wet.
The Mountain Goats - International Small Arms Traffic Blues
“Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania.”
Tomorrow (Annie cover)- the Mountain Goats
Bonus track from Japanese version of Transcendental Youth
Much love to my pal Evan for sending me the Japanese bonus tracks.
Alternate take of Steal Smoked Fish coming tomorrow.
this is everything
The Mountain Goats - Love, Love, Love
“The things you do for love are going to come back to you one by one.”
“The best ever death metal band out of Denton never settled on a name, but the top three contenders, after weeks of debate, were Satan’s Fingers, and the Killers, and the Hospital Bombers.”
— the Mountain Goats
hail Satan, etc
you can buy a print of this on my society6
100% Adobe Illustrator
New Mountain Goats album cover, Transcendental Youth
It’s entirely possible that this just became my favourite album cover ever, because just look at it.
(Source: fingersdrippingkerosene, via misamdry)
