The Mountain Goats Frontman John Darnielle Pens "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi & Eats Their Bones" for Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi Director Rian Johnson

"I was joking around with

Rian Johnson

on

Twitter

and I was saying how there’s an urgent need to speak out about the many deeds of the ultimate

Jedi

who wastes all the other

Jedi

and eats their bones.

Rian

agreed, and told me to get to work, that the story must be told! So, I wrote the song and recorded it with a little help from my kids, who you’ll hear excitedly jumping in and out of the room while I work. Enjoy!"

The Mountain Goats

frontman

John Darnielle

charismatically wrote within the band's

on-site blog

upon the Monday Jan. 30th release of

"The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi & Eats Their Bones."

It all seemingly started when

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

writer and director

Rian Johnson

Tweeted "Excited (and relieved) to finally share this!" along with a link to an article dubbed THE OFFICIAL TITLE FOR

STAR WARS: EPISODE VIII

REVEALED;

@mountain_goats

(Darnielle) promptly replied, "my five-year campaign to sell

Rian

on the title

"The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi & Eats Their Bones"

has come up short" to which Johnson enthusiastically quipped, "WRITE THIS SONG." Now, for a little bit of necessary backstory...

The Mountain Goats

and

Looper

director

Rian Johnson

go way back! Johnson's 2005 film

Brick

features a self-recorded song titled

"Brain Hammer"

attributed to

The Hospital Bombers Experience

, which makes reference to

"The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton"

from

The Mountain Goats'

2002 album,

All Hail West Texas

. As legend has it, when

John Darnielle

noticed the thinly-veiled reference within

Brick

's closing credits, he immediately contacted

Rian Johnson

, who soon after directed music videos for

The Mountain Goats'

"Woke Up New,"

The Life of The World to Come

live performance film/DVD, and an unreleased stop-motion treatment for

"Wild Sage."

The Mountain Goats'

latest professional wrestling-themed concept album,

Beat The Champ

(2015) is currently available on

Merge Records

; Darnielle however, has seemingly written and recorded a

Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne &

Randy Rhoads-themed

follow-up that may or may not ever see a proper release.

John Darnielle

's second book,

Universal Harvester: A Novel

will become available this upcoming Friday, Feb. 7th on

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

.

"[Alright], so, I see that while I was doing a phone interview, some of you noticed this already but you may remember on Friday... I was joking around with @rianjohnson about his big Star Wars news, and the joke was "have you then rejected my song?"... whose title, at that point, just an of-the-moment joke, was "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi & Eats Their Bones." ... @rianjohnson responded, right here on Twitter dot com: PLEASE WRITE THIS. Who am I to turn down the guy who directed [Breaking Bad episode] "Ozymandias?" ... not me, not this guy. I set to work immediately. It is important that the world learn the truth of this Jedi. But where to host? ... I don't know if y'all know this, but a lot of people are into Star Wars. So, I wrote to @rianjohnson, and I'm like, here's the tune, right... and he's like, "Should I put it on my Soundcloud?" and I'm like, "rest up, do that on Monday!" ... so, here's the song. Enjoy!"

- @mountain_goats (John Darnielle)

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