Listen to The Mountain Goats' Song Inspired by Rian Johnson's STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

Before we start, here's a little primer of the key players who appear in this story. Director Rian Johnson — he of Brick, The Brothers Bloom, Looper, and the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi — has a history with indie folk band The Mountain Goats. Johnson directed the band's concert film, The Life of The World to Come, as well as the music video for their song "Woke Up New." Check that out below:

A music video I directed for one of my favorite bands, The Mountain Goats. We shot this in an apartment I had in New York in the middle of a heat wave, summer of 2006. My AC broke on the first day of shooting. This is how we did it: I diagrammed out 8 layers of video on a timeline. We shot the first layer (of John's face on the tv screen sitting on the floor) then took that tape and played it back on my TV, and shot the second layer. Then we took that tape and played it back, and shot the third. Basically we built it layer by layer, live, and by the end of the two day shoot we had our finished video. Sharp eyes will notice a few wonky match-dissolves. We discovered that once we were 8 layers deep (that is, shooting off a tv screen off a tv screen off a tv screen 8 times) the deepest layer was too muddy to see what was going on. So we used only 7 layers at the start, and transitioned to layer 8 when we needed it. http://www.mountain-goats.com/ http://rcjohnso.com twitter @rcjohnso http://brothersbloom.tumblr.com

OK, now that we're all on the same page, Johnson tweeted a link to a new song from The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle that's inspired by Johnson's The Last Jedi. It's called "The Ultimate Jedi Who Wastes All The Other Jedi and Eats Their Bones," and it's just as ridiculous as it sounds. Once you hear the whole thing, you'll realize how funny it is that Johnson jokingly referred to it as "canon."

So @mountain_goats and I were joking around, one thing led to another, he recorded this song and now it’s canon. https://t.co/0vCdZTO6iO

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) January 30, 2017

John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats recorded this, and I'm suddenly regretting that I didn't ask him for his story ideas earllier.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi arrives in theaters on December 15, 2017.