Procrasti-Cover #8: “This Year” by The Mountain Goats 

Only one more final and one more paper to go. Got into a .gif war with my friend Matt and used a lot of epic JD ones (for those who don’t know, the lead singer of the Mountain Goats, a great generally acoustic band, is awesome, hilarious, and surprisingly very into metal) so I thought this only appropriate. I’ve covered it before, far better, but this pretty much sums up in the state I’m in right now. And that, though I didn’t really realize it at first, is sort of what this whole silly Procrasti-Covers series is trying to convey

I would say “hope you enjoy” but I’m not sure this is really an enjoyable thing to listen to but who knows you [whoever you are] might get a kick out of it

Whether I approve of his methodology
or not, friends,
there is a man in France

who, once in a while,
steals an evening in a local studio
or perhaps only in his bedroom

overlooking an alley
or a field
or a street.

Sealed safely away inside,
he dreams out loud the original sound
of all the world’s volcanos

at the great moment
of their simultaneous and unknowable
awakening.

It’s not the volcanos that do it for me.
It’s the guy in France
in the room I can half-imagine

chasing sleep down like a starved hound
standing at the precipice of his dream
shielding his eyes.

tomorrow: three

(Source: effington)

sometimes I resent,
on no particular grounds,
the trend in black metal
toward one-man bands

maybe it’s that it seems unsporting
and and a little suspicious, philosophically:
you don’t really love the volk
if you don’t hang out with the volk

the ideological consistency
of black metal bands:
the secret theme 
of the 2012 elections

(Source: westayedinthewater)

you can tell with near certainty
from the acoustic guitar intros
that you find sometimes
in some of the songs on albums
by nazi black metal bands
that the guitarists

you can tell with near certainty
from the acoustic guitar intros
that you find sometimes
in some of the songs on albums
by nazi black metal bands
that the guitarists
used to listen to aerosmith when they were kids

there is something sad and lonesome
in the near-total certainty
that the guitarists of the nazi black metal bands
liked aerosmith when they were kids
back when they were kids
listening to aerosmith.