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2000: 'Cobscook Bay'

Oct 11, 2021 · 21m 46s
2000: 'Cobscook Bay'
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I put the pieces all together, but I don't know what they mean. It's the year 2000, I'm writing mean things about my classmates in a homemade newspaper, and you're...

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I put the pieces all together, but I don't know what they mean. It's the year 2000, I'm writing mean things about my classmates in a homemade newspaper, and you're falling off that cliff somewhere in California, which I've never seen. Today's episode looks at 'Cobscook Bay,' Robert Aickman, and Rozz Williams, and has a content note for suicidal ideation.

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John’s introductory comments before the first live performance of ‘Cobscook Bay,’ https://archive.org/details/tmg2007-06-17.Zoop/2-05_Alibi_06-17-07.mp3

Liner notes for The Coroner’s Gambit on The Annotated Mountain Goats:
http://web.archive.org/web/20200824091232/https://kylebarbour.org/tmg/coroner.html#fn:rozz

2003 VH1 interview with Gil Kaufman, archived here: https://www.scribd.com/document/52894439/tMG-Interviews

c.2000 interview with Cory Brown: https://www.flickr.com/photos/caliclimber/9136546010/in/album-72157604938464838/

2007 interview about horror with Sam Costello for Dark, but Shining: https://web.archive.org/web/20070208201251/http://www.darkbutshining.com:80/?p=863

Interview Magazine: ‘John Darnielle’s Cartography of Grief’, with Matt Mullen: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/john-darnielle

2017 interview with Elijah Taylor, for Birth Movies Death: https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2017/04/02/the-mountain-goats-john-darnielle-talks-his-new-book-universal-harvester

2017 Mother Jones interview with Alexander Sammon: https://www.motherjones.com/media/2017/02/john-darnielle-mountain-goats-novel-universal-harvester/

2019 performance of ‘The Water Song’: https://archive.org/details/tmg2019-12-07#

2013 Salon interview: https://www.salon.com/2013/08/03/mountain_goats_john_darnielle_im_not_interested_in_back_in_the_day_we_are_always_in_the_present_moment/

Geoff Sanborn’s essays on The Coroner’s Gambit: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2000-the-coroners-gambit
And All Hail West Texas: https://allhail.substack.com/p/2002-all-hail-west-texas

A. E. Stallings on rhyme: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/69202/presto-manifesto-

Anna Borges’s article for The Outline on suicidal ideation: https://theoutline.com/post/7267/living-with-passive-suicidal-ideation?zd=1&zi=2sucjfn7

Spectrum Culture article by Holly Hazelwood on The Coroner’s Gambit at 20: https://spectrumculture.com/2020/02/05/holy-hell-the-coroners-gambit-turns-20/

NPR interview on Goths and West Coast death-rock with Lars Gotrich: https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2017/04/25/525383835/the-mountain-goats-on-growing-up-and-growing-older-in-goth?t=1633514777444

09/08/2019 live performance of ‘The Coroner’s Gambit’ at City Winery, NYC, with discussion of Rozz: https://archive.org/details/tmg2021-09-08/tmg2021-09-08-11.flac#

Rob Delaney interview discussing suicidal ideation: https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/performance-art-rob-delaney-interviews-john-darnielle

Books

Robert Aickman. Compulsory Games, edited by Victoria Nelson, with a blurb by John Darnielle. New York Review of Books, 2018.

Seamus Heaney, ‘John Clare’s Prog,’ in The Redress of Poetry. Faber & Faber, 1995.
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