45 minutes in the pews, praying the Rosary. Today's episode is about 'Against Pollution,' Catholicism, ammonites, and spiritual 2004.

Show notes

Interviews

Casual Magic podcast interview on John’s Hare Krishna years with Shivam Bhatt: https://casualmagic.libsyn.com/casual-magic-episode-31-mountain-goats

Live shows

Live at The 40 Watt Club, Athens, GA, on 2006-08-10: https://archive.org/details/tmg2006-08-10.flac16/tmg2006-08-10t18.flac

Live at The Saturn, Birmingham, AL, on 2021-08-08: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-08-08/tmg2021-08-08-26.flac

Web Resources

Classic FM article on ‘Coventry Carol’: https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/occasions/christmas/coventry-carol-lyrics-meaning-history/

JD tweet about teaching catechism: https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1242608701116162053; also worth noting is this reference to an early Mountain Goats song ‘called “History of the Church Part 2”… about Polycarp rebuking Marcion’:
https://twitter.com/mountain_goats/status/1071071098685534208

Natural History Museum primer on ammonites: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-is-an-ammonite.html

‘The Chambered Nautilus,’ by Oliver Wendell Holmes: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44379/the-chambered-nautilus

Anemona Hartocollis, ‘The Major Findings of Harvard’s Report on Its Ties to Slavery,’ discussing Holmes’s actions as dean. New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/us/harvard-slavery-report.html

‘Exclusive: Hammer Horror Stars Reunite at Bray.’ CinemaRetro, https://web.archive.org/web/20100325031535/http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/257-EXCLUSIVE-HAMMER-HORROR-STARS-REUNITE-AT-BRAY-STUDIOS.html/

Books

Graham Greene, Brighton Rock. Vintage Classics, 2011.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Vintage, 2011.

YouTube videos

‘Whole Wide World/Against Pollution [Live]’ at the Gothic Theatre in Englewood, CO, on 2021-08-19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSn6N0Cw_Yg

‘Against Pollution [Live//Halloween//2005]’ – at the Knitting Factory in New York on 2005-10-31, with John dressed as a priest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1kbCQkhezs