July 27th - Going To Lubbock

It's appropriate to have a song that sounds like it's been unearthed, from a band that John was in rather than strictly speaking the Mountain Goats, about a Weekly World News story of a man discovering Goliath's skull. The "This Year" notes even give us a pretty good idea of when the song was written, which is handy.

John started pretty good, and got even better, at these slices of life. Life breathed into a weird vignette of oddness in the world. Things that aren't real but feel real, rendered with the unreality of old tape.

It's a strange old world, and we should celebrate that every now and then.