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> Mountain Goats Update
> October 24, 2016
>
> Welcome once again to the Mountain Goats Almanac and Star Chart, which
> annexes Peter Hughes Presents: Caring for you Peugeot and the
> Philadelphia Sandwich Guide Monthly. Once again, we'll be bringing you
> all the latest in stuff about the Mountain Goats, and also
> accurately foretelling somebody's future, possibly yours.
>
> The Present. THANK YOU ALL for a spectacular tour of the midwest -- we
> had a total blast, we played in a barn, I bought used vinyl in, like, seven
> different cities. I have so much fun on what they call "off-cycle" tours --
> tours where there isn't a new album to bang the drum about and we can just
> open the set with a song from a self-released 12" that came out in 2008. We
> are so grateful for the openness and kindness with which you all treat us; I
> try to avoid sounding maudlin, but honestly, we are mindful of how good
> we've got it -- it is a subject of gratitude and wonder for us. When I say
> "thanks," it comes from my heart.
>
> NEXT UP is a week of shows in Colorado, including the first-ever reading
> from the forthcoming [Universal Harvester](https://www.amazon.com/Unive
> rsal-Harvester-Novel-John-Darnielle/dp/0374282102), which I have been aching
> to share since I got to chapter 3 in the writing a couple of years back and
> thought "ooh that's kind of scary I can't wait to read from this one." M
> usically, the Colorado shows are John and Peter, aka the old-school
> plug- and-play get-religion tent-revival style. What will we play? That
> would be telling, but the plan is to open the sets with a song I wrote in I
> think 1994 but never released. There's some live versions of it from back in
> the day on the internet I'm pretty sure but I haven't played it in forever.
> Will there be points for guessing right? Yes! Big points! But only on the
> first night of the tour.
>
> AFTER THOSE SHOWS, we're closing out the year with a couple of hometown
> barnburners, after which, we will have to rebuild the barn, which will
> occupy us through January. Here's the full calendar:
>
> 10/25 - eTown Hall (duo performance) - Boulder, CO (SOLD OUT)
>
> 10/26 - Downtown Artery (duo performance) - Fort Collins, CO
>
> 10/27 - Hi-Dive (duo performance) - Denver, CO (SOLD OUT)
>
> 10/29 - Hi-Dive (duo performance) - Denver, CO (SOLD OUT)
>
> 11/12 - Jam Room Music Festival - Columbia, SC
>
> 12/2 - The Pinhook - Durham, NC (SOLD OUT)
>
> 12/3 - The Pinhook - Durham, NC (SOLD OUT)
>
> 12/4 - Cat's Cradle Back Room - Carrboro, NC (SOLD OUT)
>
> 12/5 - Cat's Cradle Back Room - Carrboro, NC (SOLD OUT)
>
> The Future. Just announced and now on sale: the Universal Harvester
> book tour, which has no proper tour name because book tours usually just
> take the name of the book. If anybody, like me, is really into tour names,
> maybe we can think of this one as the Make Straight the Path for the
> Universal Harvester tour. Waiting for a book to be published is
> excruciating: I have been so anxious to share this book with you. I'll be
> reading and sometimes having conversations with dear friends onstage and/or
> doing question-an d-answers, and of course signing books -- tickets at the
> links:
>
> 2/6/17 -- Brooklyn, NY
> St. Joseph's College, presented by Greenlight Bookstore
> 7:30 p.m.
> Tickets and more information...
>
> 2/7/17 -- New York, NY
> Leonard Nimoy Thalia theatre at Symphony Space
> 7:30 p.m.
> Tickets and more information...
>
> 2/8/17 -- Cambridge, MA
> Brattle Theatre, presented by Harvard Book Store
> 6:00 p.m.
> [Tickets and more information...](http://www.harvard.com/eve= nt/john_darnielle/)
>
> 2/9/17 -- Washington, D.C.
> Politics and Prose Bookstore
> 7:00 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 2/13/17 -- Durham, NC
> Motorco Music Hall, presented by The Regulator Bookshop
> 7:30 p.m.
> Tickets and more information...
>
> 2/15/17 -- Raleigh, NC
> Quail Ridge Books
> 7:00 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 2/20/17 -- Seattle, WA
> Town Hall Seattle, with The Elliott Bay Book Company
> 7:30 p.m.
>
> 2/21/17 -- Portland, OR
> Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
> 7:00 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 2/22/17 -- San Francisco, CA
> The Booksmith
> 7:30 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 2/23/17 -- Los Angeles, CA
> Skylight Books
> 7:30 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 2/25/17 -- Austin, TX
> BookPeople 6:00 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 2/27/17 -- Iowa City, IA
> Prairie Lights
> 7:00 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 2/28/17 -- Ames, IA
> Ames Public Library, with the Iowa State University Book Store
> 6:30 p.m.
> More information...
>
> 3/1/17 -- Chicago, IL
> Lincoln Hall, presented by Unabridged Bookstore
> 7:00 p.m.
> Tickets and more information...
>
>
>
> The Unknown. The bleedthrough between "the unknown" and "the stuff I'm
> not ready to talk about because I'm superstitious" is honestly pretty high,
> I can't lie. But let me put it this way: our last album was Beat the
> Champ, released in 2015. It's the end of 2016 now. Does anybody really
> believe I have the discipline to not write songs? I write songs, it's what I
> do. We hit the studio when we can. I will have a great deal more to say
> about this by mid-spring at latest, I think. Besides all that:
>
> there's a new podcast idea that will probably beat the two I was
> imagining before to the airwaves, yes I know they're not technically
> airwaves but work with me here
>
> journeys to far-off lands! really really far-off lands, from the stand
> point of the continental United States!
>
> shall I renew my occasional threat to finish painting / decorating the 200+
> remaining copies of Come, Come to the Sunset Tree that're down there in
> the basement and put them up in the webstore? Sure, why not, as we are
> still in the terrain of...__the unknown.__
>
> This edition's notebook page is a cue-sheet from the Tallahassee* session
> in Cassadaga back in October of 2001. We didn't own a printer, so Lalitree
> printed this out for me at her workplace. Scandalous! I think that
> session was the only time this song's been played in the tuning I wrote it
> in, we play it in standard tuning now. Why? Well, see how opaque my
> instructions to myself are there at the end: by the time I get done reading
> them, I'm more confused than I was at the outset. I'm a better guitarist now
> and could just write down the tuning and probably figure it out from there.
> Progress! I remember recording this one because 1) I ended up sitting on the
> floor to play it, which I have often done since with songs that are special
> to me and 2) somebody, not naming names, entered the room while I was
> tracking, and you can totally hear the door creak, but I knew it was the
> take I wanted to keep, so the creaking door stayed and actually sounds kinda
> wicked.
>
> Thanks for reading! And now, as we might have said if we were cowboy
> evangelists in the 19th Century: "See you in Colorado!" -jd
>
> The Mountain Goats Almanac and Star Chart by MountainGoats
> 1645 E 6th Street Austin, USA

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If you poke around on Tumblr you can see the cue-sheet uploaded in places, e.g. here.

Of course!!

It's a bit of an investment, but the equipment I used was the Zoom H4n Pro. Did some research and the Zoom H4n has been a standard for awhile- phenomenal device, and they recently put out an updated model (the Pro) which is identical save for some upgrades to the guts inside (the preamps and the onboard mics). I plan on using it for many years to come.

I took nigelewan's advice and set the h4n in my shirt pocket- it fits snug and perfectly. I kinda hated how it sticks out a bit- the mics are silver and shiny so I have to imagine JD notices it, but the fact that he's currently binging Grateful Dead tapes makes me feel a bit better. Still, I kinda want to paint them black or something. Not sure if that's possible though. The shininess is definitely gaudy, but oh well.

Try to position yourself as close to a speaker as possible. Your recording will end up being what the room at large hears mixed with the crowd audio from around you and also feintly capture JD if he goes off mic which is awesome.

The h4n has a bunch of quality options- I did some research and opted for 24bit/48khz . Apparently that's a sweet spot of making the bass sound really nice and juicy and being high quality but still allowing for a lot of recording time (depending on how big a card you get. I used this 32g card. I used a fresh pair of batteries for each show since I didn't want to take any risks.

You have to set the mic level- I was pretty freaking close to some speakers and it seemed like between 20-35 was the good spot. 20 for most songs, and I'd try to turn it up a few notches when a quieter one came on (and then I'd often forget to turn it back down for the subsequent songs so they'd be louder haha).

Wish you the best of luck! Let me know if you have any other questions.

Fun fact about this song! In the prequel comic Serenity: Volume 3: A Shepherd's Tale, a canonical entry in the Firefly TV/Movie universe, writer Jed Whedon reveals in an entry at the back of the book that the story was heavily influenced by this exact song!

If you read the book with this in mind, it becomes quite obvious. The early arc of the character Derrial Book (skirting around spoilers here) mimics that of the protagonist in HTCTT, without a few of the modern trappings.

It's one of my favorite comics ever and came into my life around the time TMG did, in a weird bit of coincidence. I remember reading that note and being super surprised, because I had personally just started listening to TMG. Cool stuff

She got them on Amazon, surprisingly enough, but they were the only ones they had in stock.

There are a bunch (including both of those) on eBay right now though.

edit: Amazon still has this poster which is pretty damn awesome too!

> The Seven Hundred Unspeakable Names

I've never heard of this either but I'm pretty sure we're talking about this.

From Wikipedia:
> One of the book's topics is preparation for the upcoming end of the world. Each page includes a fictionalized calendar of events leading to the end of the world on December 21, 2012. Hodgman refers to this time as Ragnarök. The book's other topics include sports, wine, and a list of seven hundred ancient and unspeakable gods.

I'm a huge fan of JD; but this just doubles-down on my concern that he is ruining his health by being vegan.

Silly list of evidence;

Low energy - need to lean on things to stay up right.

Depressed - Lack of animal based nutrients and healthy fats impacts mental health. I note his older songs seemed to be dark, but on the average less morose. Saw a concert recently and have to admit that I was disappointed he played mostly "sad, relationship songs" and few of his more exciting songs. I really wanted to hear Autoclave and Michael Myers Resplendent but you can't please everyone I understand. Still - I left feeling really down in a way that I did not expect from listening to the albums.

His teeth are falling apart and he doesn't know why - this is often the warning sign that turns vegans into some version of paleo-type eaters. Happened to Robb Wolf, Lierre Kieth, and others.

When I see photos he just doesn't look well. This is what my vegan (not the fat ones that eat vegan junk food but the ones that actually eat vegetables) friends look like - thin but without that warmth in their skin, lines, wrinkles, etc.

It's number one in British and Irish Poetry!

I ordered a copy on Amazon two days ago, it says it's temporarily out of stock but they'll deliver when it's available.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0014DCT9C/ref=tmm_vnl_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&sr=&qid=

Hey, forget about B&N (I doubt they were getting any in stock anyway) I just found one on amazon for £14.50 here you go :) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0014DCT9C/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1422112399&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX200_QL40&dpPl=1&dpID=51U7iKUWIOL&ref=plSrch

EDIT: Typos

I think I got this frame on amazon last year and it fits. The frame is nothing special, but I didn't have the money for a quality frame job at the time.

Can you not just use the Amazon US website?