How would you relate the Mountain Goats to Secret Honor? I love both so much and love when others feel the same (obviously you could say they are both about an almost manic older man yelling into a tape about the days when he was younger but I dont particularly feel like you gave that recommendation to relate John Darnielle to Nixon (I might be more compelled to say that Secret Honor and Pierre Chuvin are Philip Baker Hall's and John Darnielle's best performances)).
Might be a bit of a stretch but both are in the grand American tradition of "man talks frantically into tape recorder", along with Alan Lomax and Nebraska. I'm a sucker for a tape transmission from nowhere
How would you relate the Mountain Goats to Secret Honor? I love both so much and love when others feel the same (obviously you could say they are both about an almost manic older man yelling into a tape about the days when he was younger but I dont particularly feel like you gave that recommendation to relate John Darnielle to Nixon (I might be more compelled to say that Secret Honor and Pierre Chuvin are Philip Baker Hall's and John Darnielle's best performances)).
Might be a bit of a stretch but both are in the grand American tradition of "man talks frantically into tape recorder", along with Alan Lomax and Nebraska. I'm a sucker for a tape transmission from nowhere