Huzzah! The new Mountain Goats album, Get Lonely, is finally out so go get your copy and listen to it three dozen times and know the lyrics and the notes and the beats cause there will be a quiz later on and yeah, its worth using up your time for.

The music video to “Woke Up New” is now downloadable in higher res from the director himself here.

Even better, I’ve just found this resource site where they’ve compiled MP3 of the Mountain Goats’ live preformances over the past years. It’s a huge library and my mouth is still drooling at the prospects of listening to so much of Darnielle live. Get shows from as far back as 1994 here.

This week we’re filming a bunch of 2 minute short films… on film. Pretty exciting stuff, we get to work with some actual professionals, have really huge crews, each working on itty bitty tiny little details here and there and generally have a good time… most of the time. Only real issue is the really shitty weather we’re having to put up with. Really bloody cold.

I’m one of 12 in the writer/directors course that have been picked to shoot on film and I’m getting to go luckly last. By then people are going to be burnt out and can’t wait to end the week, so luckily my set ups and everything aren’t going to take long. That’s my goal for the day, be the fastest shoot of the lot. Don’t matter about quality. Just fast turnaround television.