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effyeahnerdfighters:

Great at Being Terrible: The Florence Foster Jenkins Story

See us at New York City’s Carnegie Hall (really) for An Evening of Awesome:http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/1/15/0700/PM/John-and-Hank-Green-An…

In which John discusses the strange story of Florence Foster Jenkins, who gave the worst performance in the history of Carnegie Hall in 1944, and who is famous (and beloved) for being an absolutely fearless, and awful, singer. This video is a kind of response to Hank’s brilliant video about creation and fear; also discussed is the importance of finding the places where your talents meet the world’s needs and my limited physical flexibility.

The bit I sing at the end is from “Love, Love, Love” by—you’ll never guess—The Mountain Goats.

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kimyadawson:

crookedneighbormusic:

kimyadawson:

Would it be the Nerdfighterian Party or the Librarian Party? 

Could our campaign song be the Malcolm in The Middle theme song and if we win we just hug and educate and give back the power to the people?

**I didn’t make this image. But I think it’s cute.**

I did make this. With the help of whoever designed the DFTVA logo and Valerie’s pizza face.

It’s awesome. Haha, but I don’t ever want to be the boss of anyone. <3

I know what you mean. I have trouble telling small domestic animals what to do, let alone a whole country.

kimyadawson:

Would it be the Nerdfighterian Party or the Librarian Party? 

Could our campaign song be the Malcolm in The Middle theme song and if we win we just hug and educate and give back the power to the people?

**I didn’t make this image. But I think it’s cute.**

I did make this. With the help of whoever designed the DFTVA logo and Valerie’s pizza face.

kimyadawson:

I’m Colin Powell and Obama’s got my vote.

zombielegofjollyjustice:

Can we all just take the time to appreciate how fantastic the artwork of Tallahassee Turns Ten is? (1/2) 

Agreed!

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valerie2776:

got magnetic poetry of Game Shows Touch Our Lives thx to Tallahassee Turns Ten & am having a ball

tallahasseeturnsten:

niceandpeaceful:

All the similes from The Mountain Goats album “Tallahassee”

1. 1. Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector
   2. The sun peeks in like a killer through the curtain
   3. [Our spirits] sag like withering flowers
   4. [Our spirits] drop like flies
   5. [Our spirits] lean like towers (on a hillside struggling to stand)
   6. Our conversations are like minefields (no one’s found a safe way through one yet)
   7. The stars blow like milk across the sky
   8. This house like a Louisiana graveyard (where nothing stays buried)
   9. That stuff [Hood River Gin] tastes like medicine
   10. You smoking like a chimney
   11. Your drunken kisses as light as the air
   12. Not everyone can live like millionaires
   13. Our shared paths unraveling behind us like ribbons
   14. Your face like a vision straight out of Holly Hobby
   15. Your love is like a cyclone in a swamp
   16. My love is like a dark cloud full of rain (that’s always right there up above you)
   17. My love is like a powder keg (in the corner of an empty warehouse somewhere just outside of town about to burn down)
   18. My love is like a Cuban plane flying from Havana
   19. Our love is like the border between Greece and Albania (trucks loaded down with weapons crossing over every night)
   20. Those eyes I’ve always loved illuminate this place like a trashcan fire in a prison cell
   21. [Those eyes I’ve always loved illuminate this place] like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell
   22. The night is lovely as a rose

fuckyeahtourposters:

The Mountain Goats w/ Wye Oak @ The Blue Note, MO - October 2010

by Ben Chlapek

This hand-pulled screen printed poster is still available to purchase here (Ltd Edition of 135) (ENTER THE CODE ‘END2010’ AT CHECKOUT TO RECEIVE 25% OFF TOUR ORDER)

Great “No Children” themed poster.

sarahssketchbook:

Illustration for Tallahassee Turns Ten, Kimya Dawson covering Game shows touch our lives.

Dug up a fifth of Hood River gin
That stuff tastes like medicine
But I'll take it
It'll do

On the couch in the living room all day long
Music on the television playing our song
And I'm in the mood
The mood for you

Turn the volume up real high
All of that money look at it fly
And you smoking like a chimney
Shadows crawled across the living room's length
I held onto you with a desperate strength
With everything with everything in me
And I handed you a drink of the lovely little thing
On which our survival depends
People say friends don't destroy one another
What do they know about friends?

Thunderclouds forming cream white moon
Everything's going to be okay soon
Maybe tomorrow
Maybe the next day

Carried you up the stairs that night
All of this could be yours if the price is right
I heard cars headed down to oblivion
Up on the expressway
Your drunken kisses as light as the air
Maybe everything that falls down eventually rises
Our house sinking into disrepair
Ah but look at this showroom filled with fabulous prizes.

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ispookedinyourmountainboo:

So there’s a Tallahassee cover album with Laura Stevenson, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Bomb the Music Industry!. But the only physical medium it’s being released on is cassette for 20 bucks. I don’t think I want to spend 20 bucks on a cassette…

True $20 is a lot for a cassette tape, but there are only 200 of them and every bit of the sale (after Bandcamp and Paypal take their cut) is being donated to Farm Sanctuary. The cassette is intended for people who are both really excited about the project and want to support Farm Sanctuary.

If we were trying to make a profit on this thing, we’d feel like we were cheating people selling it for that much, but selling a special edition version of the record to benefit Farm Sanctuary… Yeah, we can get behind that.

(Source: ipissedinyourmountaindew)