“The Autopsy Garland”

I'm blogging on The Mountain Goats' new album All Eternals Deck until I feel like stopping.

First: “Ah, that's a decent sound. Acoustic and ominous. That second verse is quite eerie. I like that little high trill that you hear sometimes.”

Then: “Hard to tell what this is about. London and Hollywood? What's an autopsy garland? No flowers in mortuary, right? But… ‘look west from London toward the Emerald City’?”

And: “Umm… Judy Garland??”

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That's the process, more or less. It hits your brain like a joke, and now I can add Judy Garland to Prince Far I, Dinu Lipatti, Pinklon Thomas, and many others on the list of people I'll always take special interest in because of a Mountain Goats song.