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Pitchfork Music Festival 2007 (II)

Note: Photos in this essay depict re-enactments of actual events, not the events themselves.

Thursday, July 12
McCaskill picked me up at my folks’ house at 9PM. We weren’t planning to leave Jackson until about 1 or 2AM, but we’d decided to hang out a while and say goodbyes because, naturally, we may never come back.

Instead of going to the bar, for obvious reasons, we opted for dinner. Regardless, as with alcohol, we are both bottomless pits for food. The meal was uneventful, save for the fact that our waitress had apparently served McCaskill once before, and had taken offense to a conversation about foreskins. Despite this, the food was palatable and (hopefully) spit-free.

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Mastodon - ‘Blood Mountain’ Video Game

Mastodon - Blood Mountain Video Game
2006, Matador
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I thought that playing an old school, NES-like video game ostensibly based upon Mastodon’s awesome new album would be pretty fucking cool. I was kind of right.

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Mastodon - Blood Mountain


2006, Reprise / WEA

I enjoy my share of heavy metal, but I rarely buy an album. Nonetheless, Blood Mountain is one to own and is, in fact, genre transcendent.

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