A friend of mine, a graphic novelist who has been through some tough as hell times, had a book release party at a local store that was just a blast. At one point he got up on stage with his brother & father-in-law and sang this song. He stopped part-way through, father-in-law still playing drums & brother playing bass, to tell the story of how he’d scrounged the money together to take his daughter to a local kids museum a few weekends before. He stopped by a store that was selling his books on consignment, and they said they had $15 for him or he could wait and come back to collect it all at once if they sold the last one. He said he could wait, took his daughter to the museum, and then an hour or so later she said she was hungry. She saw a sign and asked if they could have pizza. He almost reflexively said no, but then realized in that moment all he wanted was to make her day without a worry about money. “Yes! We can have pizza!” He walked back to the store that had his books for sale, to take them up on the $15. It was closed, lights out and doors bolted, with a sign saying it was permanently out of business. He then burst immediately into the chorus, and damn if I didn’t feel it.
I'm going through my Tumblr archive and it brought me back to this. I remember being so excited when The Yeti and Katherine came on stage. The way Hank holds his camera by the strap is still so anxious-making. The whole thing is just so wonderful.
I thought that looked like them! A year later, if you see this, do you know why they are there? Did they go there? Just hosted? This video leaves me with so many questions about the vlogbrothers that I've only discovered 3 or 4 years ago!
Hello, from a year later! This event was a gathering of the Green Bros. fans. I think part of the occasion was to celebrate the year anniversary of John’s novel The Fault in Our Stars. In any case, they just had a huge gathering there with authors and musicians and appeared to have had a blast, if this video is any indication.
Some context would be useful. Besides John D (Mountain Goats) doing mainly the riff of one of his great songs, what is going on here/who are all these people/what's with all the people coming on stage and jumping up and down?
What a great amazing bunch of dorks, didn't know this existed. Some of the most meaningful people to me all in one room. This would've been the place to be.
There's this phenomenon of seemingly unrelated people I look up to jamming out to This Year on stage with The Mountain Goats. First Craig Finn, then Stephen Colbert. I've seen this video several times but didn't become aware of John and Hank Green until the past year thanks to TikTok. I finally revisted this video for the first time in awhile, and surprise, it's the Green brothers!
