Welcome to Night Vale catchup

I am pretending that the most recent episode doesn't exist, because if I keep waiting to listen to the current episode to write up my notes from the last ones . . .

So this starts with the double live episode, Episode 49, "Old Oak Doors," and then goes back through the older ones. I should also mention the live show I saw a while ago, which I will put in a separate post since that episode is not online yet.

And now, the spoilers.

( Episode 49, 'Old Oak Doors' )

( Episode 48, 'Renovations' )

( Episode 47, 'Company Picnic' )

( Episode 46, 'Parade Day' )

( Episode 45.5, 'The Debate' )

( Episode 45, 'A Story About Them' )

( Episode 44, 'Cookies' )

( Episode 43, 'Visitor' )

( Episode 42, 'Numbers' )

( Episode 41, 'WALK' )

( Episode 40.5, 'Condos' )

( Episode 40, 'The Deft Bowman' )

Reference: transcripts.

Welcome to Night Vale: "The Librarian"

So the live show I saw with kass and yaoobruni back in, uh, March, was called "The Librarian." According to rysmiel they are still touring it, and moreover haven't updated it to take place after "Parade Day" (which I don't think would be very difficult to do).

Very general comments about the experience below the cut.

( your call on how spoiler-averse you're feeling )

Finally, if you're wondering where the quote "Monday would like you to leave it alone. It is not its fault that you are emotionally unprepared for your professional lives." came from, it was here.

Transformative Weather

Several months ago, I dumped a bunch of songs into a shuffle playlist and called it "Transformative Weather": things that reminded me of Welcome to Night Vale in some way, things I'd just been listening to then, a couple Dylan covers that I really like and that had come up on shuffle again recently, and some other things that just seemed to fit.

I later refined it into an actual listen-in-this-order playlist, and in celebration of catching up on my episode reactions, I've put it on YouTube, because that is a thing one can do these days. As usual, I have only watched snippets of most of the videos, though I have optimized the start and end times for music-in-background as opposed to video-watching purposes. If you like the songs, support the artists, please.

1. "Hard To Make It," by Tracy Grammer (could only find a live version; volume is very low)
2. "Bad Luck," by Langhorne Slim & The Law
3. "Tallulah," by Company Of Thieves
4. "Fire In the Canyon," by Fountains Of Wayne
5. "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go," by Miley Cyrus
6. "Calamity Song," by The Decemberists (Infinite Jest fans, you need to watch this video; volume is very low)
7. "Call Me Up," by World Party
8. "Radioactive," by Imagine Dragons (yes, I used the WtNV trailer version for the YouTube playlist, because the official video does weird things to the song)
9. "That Old Black Hole," by Dr. Dog
10. "Long Time Coming," by Delays
11. "Gimme Sympathy (live)," by Metric
12. "Chloe," by Grouplove
13. "With God On Our Side," by K'naan
14. "Sleep All Summer," by Crooked Fingers
15. "Love Will Save Your Soul," by Grouplove
16. "Anna Sun," by Walk the Moon
17. "Bottled In Cork," by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
18. "Living in Colour," by Frightened Rabbit
19. "Graceless," by The National
20. "Make It Always Be Too Late," by Del Amitri

(The last song is (a) the one I would pick in a heartbeat if the Night Vale folks showed up on my doorstep and asked me to introduce the weather; and (b) so obscure that last time I looked I couldn't find it on YouTube, only live covers that lacked the instrumentation that gives it the full feel. So yay it being up now.)