Michael Myers Resplendent

Michael Myers Resplendent
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Album	Heretic Pride
Released	2008
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:52
Previous Track	"Sept. 15 1983"

Michael Myers Resplendent is the 13th and final song on the album Heretic Pride. It was originally posted as a demo on the Mountain Goats website on December 17, 2006.

Press Kit notes[]

When I wrote this I didn't know that they were remaking Halloween- I just have a real love for slasher films, probably because when they were a new phenomenon I was so terrified just by the newspaper ads that I avoided the hell out of them. As a child I was pretty easily frightened, the world seemed like a place where all sorts of random devilment could just pop out from the woodwork at any second. This song is like Sax Rohmer #1 if the narrator had given up on ever actually getting home; of the present bunch, this was the first song written. It's also the one that I played piano on, which I like to do once each album, since piano was the first instrument I ever learned to play.

Lyrics[]

I am ready for my close up today
Too long I’ve let my self-respect stand in my way
Well the prom queen's caught in the high beams
And the strings keen, it’s a big scene

But when the house goes up in flames
No one emerges triumphantly from it
When the scum begins to circle the drain
Everybody loves a winner

I spent eight hours in my make-up chair
Waxed my chest and shaved off all my hair
Well the fire's bright and the frame's tight
Try to get right—Well, we’ve still got light

But when the house goes up in flames
No one emerges triumphantly from it
When the scum begins to circle the drain
Everybody loves a winner

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

"This envisions the star of the 'Halloween' movies, sort of in soliloquy." -- 2012-06-22 - Rio Theater - Vancouver, British Columbia

Things Referenced in this Song[]

Michael Myers is the antagonist of the Halloween series of horror movies; the song's narrator is an actor portraying him.

Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]

Videos of this Song[]

Heretic Pride
Track list: "Sax Rohmer #1" • "San Bernardino" • "Heretic Pride" • "Autoclave" • "New Zion" • "So Desperate" • "In the Craters on the Moon" • "Lovecraft in Brooklyn" • "Tianchi Lake" • "How to Embrace a Swamp Creature" • "Marduk T-Shirt Men's Room Incident" • "Sept. 15 1983" • "Michael Myers Resplendent" Bonus tracks: "Toolshed" • "Last Man on Earth"

Internet releases by John Darnielle

Exclusive: "Acceptable Damages Sutra" • "All Devils Here Now" • "Ballad of the Errant Scallop" • "The Big Unit" • "Brandy Let's Go" • "Bride" • "Counting Song for Bitter Children" • "Cut Off Their Thumbs #1" • "Deserters" • "Down Here Where the Bullet Bills Are" • "Extreme South #1" • "Flower Song" • "For the Krishnacore Bands" • "From TG&Y" • "Going Back to California" • "Going Invisible" • "Hye Kye" • "New Mountain Goats Tape Song" • "New World Emerging Blues" • "Pure Crystal" • "Short Song for Justin Bieber and His Paparazzi" • "Shot, Repeatedly, At Close Range, In the Chest, By Your Love" • "Sign of the Crow 2" • "Song for Sasha Banks" • "There Is Power in a Union" • "Thucydides II-58" • "Tyler Lambert's Grave"• "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All the Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones" • "You and Me and a High Balcony"
Released elsewhere: "Alibi • "Daniel 12:8 (first)" • "Exegetic Chains" • "For the Snakes" • "If You See Light" • "Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light" • "Michael Myers Resplendent" • "No Children" • "Ox Baker Triumphant" • "Surrounded" • "Until Olympius Returns" • "Wait for You"

Michael Myers Resplendent

Contents

Press Kit notes[]

Lyrics[]

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

Things Referenced in this Song[]

Live Shows this Song Was Played at[]

Videos of this Song[]

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Michael Myers Resplendent

Album	Heretic Pride
Released	2008
Artist	the Mountain Goats
Length	2:52
Previous Track	"Sept. 15 1983"