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...Tuesday found us back at the Magic Kingdom, where six-year-old Caroline continued the roller-coaster progress she had begun on Sunday. This second round of sessions would see her and cousin Evie riding ?Big Thunder Mountain Railway? no fewer than three times, the third by themselves with hands raised the whole way. Caroline would not try ?Splash Mountain? again after the harrowing experience two days earlier, but did say, ?Maybe next year when I?m seven.? Which seems to indicate we?re coming back to Disney next year. My skis seem headed for the annual spring tag sale...
Almost a decade later, the Mountain Goats are one album deep into the second phase of their career, signed to 4AD Records and with a little less of the DIY power that lent their longs such urgency back then. While 2002’s stunning Tallahassee finally made the Mountain Goats’ incomparable songwriting accessible, on the recently-released We Shall All Be Healed, songwriter John Darnielle tiredly rehashes concepts, playing the same guitar lines he’s stuck to his entire musical career. And though every old-time Mountain Goats fan will want to blame the professional...
...deep beneath Pennypacker Hall, in the coffins of WHRB’s Record Hospital, sits a compact disc without liner notes; they fell out long ago. Now white labels cover the case, with the scrawling of many hands over every square inch. The record is Zopilote Machine by the Mountain Goats, and the writing logs every date and time a Record Hospital disc jockey experienced a moment of epiphany listening to the soaring “Going To Georgia”—to this day the most powerful song in the Goats’ prolific catalog...
...Mountain Goats’ lyrics have always been their strong point, making up for the fact that the singer can’t sing or play guitar very well. But poetic lyricism is absent on We Shall—the ultimate tragedy of the album. Darnielle’s poetry suffers from a lack of any coherence; it’s unclear by the end whether this is supposed to be a concept album or not. Some images recur (cargo ships in a harbor, broken electrical equipment, unearthed specters) but add up to nothing. Darnielle’s Homeric similes...
...Europe), or even discontinue jumbo single serving product lines? What role should the government take? Is it necessary to place a “fat tax” on Double-Stuffed Oreos and Doritos? What about parents? Will they ensure that five year-old Johnny will not Supersize his Mountain Dew, and that “would you like fries with that?” is not commonplace dinner discourse? For Critser, the element of self-control and discipline is perhaps the hardest factor for Americans to digest. Will we encourage ourselves to run that marathon or are we content...