Am totally jamming on Aesop Rock right now, mostly because of Coffee. I heard it a number of times before I actually realized, though, that it was John Darnielle singing the end bit — and my gosh, didn’t that make me happy!

John Darnielle is a Mountain Goat, and writer/founder/contributer to Last Plane to Jakarta, a Moste Excellente Blogg addressing subjects of indie music, popular culture, and socio-political matters.

Don’t know the Mountain Goats? I didn’t, either, until they came to Whitman College. The show was poorly-attended (it was poorly-publicized), with the end result that there were about forty attendees total, and we wound up sitting on the floor of the ballroom while the MGs took requests and chatted us up. It was my favorite concert that I’ve been to thus far: it was intimate, which is almost impossible to find nowadays, and the artists were unbelievably clever and talented.