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https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-7-we-were-patriots-s2pgz85 · 7 Apr 2026
I don't know if I have anything to say about this song today. I'm in a place of horror. I hope that at some point I look back and see what a silly thing this was to be horrified by, but right now the situation with Iran has me feeling entirely hopeless and...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-4-elijah-ts39qge · 6 Apr 2026
There's something fascinating as someone who grew up without any religion of seeing the shapes that belief makes when it is instilled but then carefully considered. There are aspects of imagery and language that to me are learned and to some people are sec...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-3-island-garden-song-h9xht4e · 6 Apr 2026
Tape hum, I have missed you. And the songs have moved on since you and I last broke bread. This is a small pastoral about disappearing. A simple idea that commits to its imagery rather than using it as disguise. It's a hymn to the pleasures of leaving, to ...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/april-2-cool-hundred-h9xyt4e · 5 Apr 2026
This song doesn't exist. Neither does this blog post.
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-31-horseradish-road-zbpkdj6 · 4 Apr 2026
I'm going to say something odd about this one. Some background first. I'm a later Mountain Goats fan. Didn't listen to them until probably 2019. First album was The Sunset Tree. I think that sets the scene as to how this band first grounded with me, as a f...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-30-sure-do-love-you-baby-but-i-cant-do-60-no-more-s201z85 · 3 Apr 2026
This is kind of a tough one. It's unreleased, the only recording seems to be a single recorder version of a performance where John was belting it out and his voice was suffering as a result. It touches on a lot of John of This Period themes. Strained love,...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-29-shower-uvb8g9n · 2 Apr 2026
It's October 2008. You're in a small sports bar next to a Best Western in a town in West Virginia whose name you genuinely do not remember. You drove half of the day and say in the passenger seat for the other half while your wife drove. You're going from ...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-28-commandante-wr9c64p · 1 Apr 2026
OK, so rhyming Brendan Behan and "Tripoli, and" puts me entirely on this song's side, and boy is that ever just the start. John is flying with this one, soaring through Americana like a pair of bottle rockets, in a Chairman Mao coat with a jetpack strapped...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-27-genesis-191-2-21jrbg2 · 31 Mar 2026
Hitting the rough edges of (deeply religious) punk here, as John looks at the parts of the bible most likely to get him in trouble with certain other people of faith. It's a funny thing, wickedness. Or the assumption of wickedness. Collective punishment is...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/march-26-crows-1wfb8wv · 30 Mar 2026
This song begins at the intersection of a variety of John's abilities hitting their full maturity. The guitar work, confidence of voice, and beauty of the lyrics all come together into a rather perfect piece of folk music about the past becoming even more ...