Where they manufactured what I needed. The show is back with a double episode about 'Palmcorder Yajna,' 'Devil House,' a folder full of MSN Messenger chatlogs two decades old, and the unique awfulness of being 13 and online in West Deeping in 2003.

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Show notes

Books

Devil House, by John Darnielle. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Interviews

Believer interview with Daniel Handler, 2004: https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-john-darnielle/

Pitchfork interview with Tom Breihan, 2009: https://pitchfork.com/news/36406-john-darnielle-tells-the-story-behind-the-mountain-goats-biblical-new-lp/

The AV Club interview with Paul Caine, 2009: https://www.avclub.com/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-learns-to-trust-other-1798218315

Rolling Stone interview with Christian Hoard, 2015: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/the-slow-climb-how-the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-became-the-best-storyteller-in-rock-227793/

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, ‘203: Done Bleeding,’ with Darnielle and Joseph Fink, 2019: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6FguuVWylhnxsYsOmPDSTu?si=3d7aebf5ea1f415b

I Only Listen to the Mountain Goats, ‘204: Going Invisible 2,’ with Darnielle and Joseph Fink, 2019:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1w3hnw8e881zr1mohUy8lT?si=63bb43a9e0aa4848

Smarty Pants podcast interview with Stephanie Bastek, 2022: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0u15aKXWzicelZPItsBusO?si=a4faa02396534010&nd=1S

Sound Opinions podcast interview with Andrew Gill, 2022: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/john-darnielle-on-his-new-novel-devil-house/id94793843?i=1000549044737

Q podcast interview with Tom Power, 2022: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q
New Yorker interview with Helen Rosner, 2022: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/john-darnielle-wants-to-tell-you-a-story

Web Resources

We Shall All Be Healed liner notes: https://annotatedtmg.org/wsabh.html

We Shall All Be Healed microsite reconstructions: http://web.archive.org/web/20101208171235/http://www.4ad.com/weshallallbehealed/ and https://annotatedtmg.org/mirror/wsabh-microsite.html

John’s tweet about his hospice work: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1068880460477054977

Geoff Sanborn’s newsletter entry for All Hail the Mountain Goats on We Shall All Be Healed: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2003-we-shall-all-be-healed?s=r

Tom Moyser’s 2012 review of Transcendental Youth in For Folk’s Sake: https://www.forfolkssake.com/reviews/19212/album-the-mountain-goats-transcendental-youth

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land

Live shows

Live at The Empty Bottle, Chicago, on 2002-11-01: https://archive.org/details/tmg2002-11-01.aud.128mp3/tmg2002-11-01t09.mp3

Live at Berbati’s Pan, Portland on 2003-10-03: https://archive.org/details/tmg2003-10-03.aud.192mp3/tmg2003-10-03t01.mp3

Live at VPRO DAWRS Session Studio DeSmet, Amsterdam on 2004-03-27: https://archive.org/details/tmg2004-03-27.FM/06+-+Interview.flac

Live at KEXP Radio on 2005-06-16: https://archive.org/details/tmg2005-06-16.aud.192mp3/tmg2005-06-16t04.mp3

Live at Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, on 2009-02-24: https://archive.org/details/tmg2009-02-24.schoeps_cmc34_16bit/john_darnielle_20090224_cmc34_d01t06.flac

Live at The Opera House, Toronto, on 2011-04-03: https://archive.org/details/MG2011-04-03.flac/mg2011-12-31t12.flac

Live at City Winery, New York, on 2015-04-11: http://www.nyctaper.com/2015/04/the-mountain-goats-april-11-2015-city-winery-flacmp3streaming/

Live at Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, on 2020-02-20: https://archive.org/details/tmg2020-02-20/10_%5Bbanter+4%5D.wav

Live at Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC, on 2021-12-16: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-12-16/tmg2021-12-16-17.flac

YouTube clips

‘Palmcorder Yajna,’ live at The Earl in Atlanta, GA on 2004-10-18: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2aMfIFo0ro

Signal Flare #9, featuring ‘Shot, Repeatedly, At Close Range, In the Chest, By Your Love’ (2021): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-nnmmSwizA

‘Rescue Breathing,’ live at Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, 2020-02-20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjl2tqDr3gI

‘Beat the Devil’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j868ThCN9cQ

‘All Devils Here Now’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1NTsVR-FmY

‘You Were Cool,’ live at Carnegie Hall, 2013-01-15: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYeeQn65qPw

‘We Shall All Be Healed,’ performed for X Radio in London on 2017-05-25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTqXAf7engc