"[The Diaz Brothers] is based on the drug-dealing siblings referenced briefly in the movie Scarface. "Frank tells Tony he has to respect the Diaz brothers, and Tony tells him to eff the Diaz Brothers, and by the time we do see them, they're dead," said Darnielle. "I'm obsessed with people we never got to know but who we know about, because you have a sense of who they were and what became of them since they died, but they're essentially blocking characters in this story we all know. And we're all basically blocking characters in life, when you think about it."
I saw Mountain Goats last week, and basically this came about because he was watching Scarface with his newborn daughter one night, when it got to the line, "Fuck Gaspar Gomez! And fuck the fuckin' Diaz brothers! Fuck 'em all! I bury those cockroaches!" he repeated it out loud. This prompted his daughter to smile for the first time. So he figured, "I guess I'd better write a song about them."
I saw Mountain Goats last week, and basically this came about because he was watching Scarface with his newborn daughter one night, when it got to the line, "Fuck Gaspar Gomez! And fuck the fuckin' Diaz brothers! Fuck 'em all! I bury those cockroaches!" he repeated it out loud. This prompted his daughter to smile for the first time. So he figured, "I guess I'd better write a song about them."
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the silly story John told.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the silly story John told.
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"[The Diaz Brothers] is based on the drug-dealing siblings referenced briefly in the movie Scarface. "Frank tells Tony he has to respect the Diaz brothers, and Tony tells him to eff the Diaz Brothers, and by the time we do see them, they're dead," said Darnielle. "I'm obsessed with people we never got to know but who we know about, because you have a sense of who they were and what became of them since they died, but they're essentially blocking characters in this story we all know. And we're all basically blocking characters in life, when you think about it."
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I saw Mountain Goats last week, and basically this came about because he was watching Scarface with his newborn daughter one night, when it got to the line, "Fuck Gaspar Gomez! And fuck the fuckin' Diaz brothers! Fuck 'em all! I bury those cockroaches!" he repeated it out loud. This prompted his daughter to smile for the first time. So he figured, "I guess I'd better write a song about them."
I saw Mountain Goats last week, and basically this came about because he was watching Scarface with his newborn daughter one night, when it got to the line, "Fuck Gaspar Gomez! And fuck the fuckin' Diaz brothers! Fuck 'em all! I bury those cockroaches!" he repeated it out loud. This prompted his daughter to smile for the first time. So he figured, "I guess I'd better write a song about them."
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the silly story John told.
I'm paraphrasing, but that's the silly story John told.