john darnielle abt jenny (the song)

and more about jenny

and her two mentions in straight six and nightlight !!!!!

she’s also been confirmed as the sender of the postcards in source decay

ALT

in the preorder listing for the Jenny From Thebes vinyls, you can read the inside text!

text transcript:

Jenny used to let absolutely anybody crash at her place. It was like a year-round Christmas miracle. If you had any secrets, she didn't want to know, and the ones she had she kept to herself. There was a wall heater down at one end of the hallway and a big, dark living room at the other. One electric lamp by the couch if you needed it, all exits visible to the eye from there. Some of the people who had need of Jenny's place were all right and some weren't ever going to get right, and she'd already gotten several letters from the city advising her to keep a lower profile unless she wanted trouble but then I entered the picture. Bad luck. Like everybody else who came through I was trying to find a better direction but it didn't work out that way. Prying eyes should have tended to their own business. People don't think towns like ours can turn into battlegrounds but we had a war here. There. I don't live there any more either. I left when Jenny left. It's just a spot on a map now. We rode together for a while but them we lost each other. Sometimes I think I hear from her but other times I think I'm just dreaming. Nobody knows where anybody landed. You don't keep in touch when the war doesn't go your way.

confirmation jenny is the narrator of clean slate

i would love nothing more!

so jenny is a character created by john darnielle from the mountain goats who first appeared on their album all hail west texas in a song named after her, where she rides a kawasaki motorcycle. a couple of other songs on the album also feature her. she shows up again in a song called straight six from their EP jam eater blues where she calls the narrator of that song on the phone. then we hear about her again in the song night light from transcendental youth where she calls the narrator of that one, “passing through”.

jenny is a character who has existed for 20 years but who is defined by her absence— she’s always passing through, running away, leaving. we have had almost zero information about her that whole time until now, with the new album called jenny from thebes, which is all about her. the album also retroactively confirms that the song color in your cheeks from all hail west texas is narrated by jenny herself, something that was never confirmed before now; up until now she’s been someone we only hear about from other people. and the new song clean slate is also narrated by her! so that’s jenny :)

@thestuffedalligator I made you a soundpost hope you like it!

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!!

⬆️ I WENT TO SEE HIM LIVE

the best steven universe character was blue zircon, who in about six minutes of screentime has an anxiety attack, packbonds with the alien she’s assigned to defend, and accuses a dictator of intra-familial premeditated murder

There are no such things as miracles

godkiller alien

She either has no pupils, or just really huge ones. I haven’t decided which one it is yet.