August 11: I'm posting this episode quite late, later than last week. You see, I recorded my show for August 4th, but it didn't air, because there was a toxic mixture of carpet cleaner and bug bomb in the KPSU studios that night, which made it inhospitable for any human hoping to air my show at 7:00 that night. I thought about posting the episode anyway, even though it hadn't aired, and creating a new one for August 11th, but I realized that I haven't taken a break from this show for over 4 years, and I was really tired, so I just used the episode for this week's show, and left a little gap in my schedule.

This week's show features new music from Adem, Junior Boys, Zero 7, Pet Shop Boys and Jurassic 5.


July 28: I'm actually posting this episode quite late (about a week late), but it's a good one. It's all music from the PDXPopNow festival, which I couldn't attend, because I live six hours away from it, and had to work.

This week's show features new music from Wilding, Holcombe Waller, Quiet Countries, Sexton Blake and Strategy.


July 21: Well, no road rage, nor religious epiphanies this week. I've gone swimming most days this week in our apartment's pool, and I'm enjoying my little job. So what if I'm missing PDXPopNow next weekend? So what?

This week's show features mostly music by Portland artists playing at PDXPopNow next weekend, including Viva Voce [watch their fantastic new video], Wet Confetti, Horsefeathers and Boy Eats Drum Machine [watch their fantastic new video].


July 14: Jesus loves you.

This week's show features new music from Johnny Cash, The Parlour Boys, Oh No! Oh My! and The Whitest Boy Alive.

July 7: A few weeks ago, I was driving here in Canada, and needed to switch from the right lane to the left, in order to make a left turn at the signal I was approaching. Some kids in a low-rider behind me honked, I guess because I was slowing down in order to try and change lanes, and this was preventing them from showing off their nitro injection, custom wheels, anti-muffler and whatever the hell else the stuid kids in this town think is cool. I honked back at them. Then I kept trying to get over, but this lady in a silver truck wouldn't let me in. I missed turning left at the intersection.

So, somewhat irritated, I quickly accelerated, swooped into the left lane, leaving plenty of room behind me for Miss Accommodating Canada, and proceeded to turn left into a parking lot so I could turn around and go back to the street I missed. As she drove by, she yelled out her window at me in my Oregon-plated vehicle "Go home, yankee!" Before it had fully registered what she had yelled, that it was a racial insult, that I've basically lived in Canada for 8 of the last 10 years, that I paid tens of thousands of dollars into the Canadian economy to go to school here, that most people in school thought I was Canadian, that I know all the Canadian children's shows roughly equivalent to Mr. Rogers and Captain Kangaroo despite not having grown up here, that I married a Canadian; Before any of that registered, a part of my brain issued a command to yell "FFFUUUUCCCKKKK YYYOOOUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" at megaphone volume out of my window, back at her. It was similar to the experience of a bus passing by you as you're standing at the edge of a curb, and your reflexes tell you to jump out of the way, even before you realize it's a bus.

Also related to Canadians and the f-word, I learned recently that it's considered an act of treason in Canada to say "Fuck the Queen." Weird, huh? I mean, I have nothing against the queen, she seems nice, an old Canadian friend of mine actually met the queen as a child and got her to say "cool dude." But as an American, I take absolute freedom of speech for granted, even speech I find unnecessary or even abhorrent. Sometimes I say it now in my car as I cross back over the border into the US, just because I can.

This week's show features new music from Mew, Lisa Germano, The Presets, Frank Black and Keane.


June 30: I like my new job. Working is neat.

This week's show features new music from Sleep Out, Beirut, Halou, Figurines and Mojave 3.


June 23[ish]: My computer went to sleep, without being put to bed, and wouldn't wake up for a few days. So it took me a while to get this week's show online for you all.

First, I need to say that my June 9th posting had NOTHING to do with pregnancy of any kind. Jenn and I are not pregnant. I had a few people read that entry and ask me about it. I was referring to the fact that I was looking for a job over the border and had some good leads. I found one, incidentally, and started last week. I won't say the name of where I work, but lets just say, if you want to get some high quality gas, a six-pack of microbrewed beer, and a corn dog, all in one stop and within 1/4 mile of the Canadian border, I'm your man. Glamorous, I know.

This week's show features new music from The Russian Futurists, Fair, Tea For Julie, Menomena and Micah P. Hinson.


June 16: Today is my birthday. I had a good one, and one of my presents was Portland-style address tiles for our apartment! They're so hot! And my whole life, until a few months ago, I thought they were universal to old houses in every city. I really wanted some for our apartment, to make it look more like a "real" apartment, but couldn't find them at any hardware stores I was looking in. Finally, I discovered that the City of Portland was actually putting them on every house built from roughly 1900 to 1950, and that there are only two stores in the world that sell them, both in Portland. They're going to look so juicy under my arts-and-crafts/mission-style outdoor light fixture!

This week's show features new music from Smoosh, Regina Spektor, Thom Yorke and Sufjan Stevens.


June 9: My life is about to change, I think, and that's all I'm going to say about that. In other news, A Prairie Home Companion is actually playing here in Abbotsford, so we're going to go to a matinee, either tomorrow or Sunday, and how exciting is that!

This week's show features new music from The Walkmen, Moonbabies, Laura Veirs and Viva Voce.


June 2: This week's show features new music from Yo La Tengo, Kite Flying Society, The Starlight Mints and Snow Patrol.


May 26: This week's show features new music from Islands, The Concretes, The Stills, and Hot Chip.


May 20: I'm on vacation with my wife right now, and so haven't had the time to edit the last two shows and put them online until now. I did them in Portland, one live on May 12, and one recorded the morning after. May 12th features Laura Gibson and Climber live in the studio. May 19th features Wil-Ru and Bryan Free, also live in the studio.


May 5: This week's show features new music from The Secret Machines, Camera Obscura, Calexico and Figurine.


April 28: My cat is growing up. Today, we got him a tag so that he can go out and play, and someone will know who he is if he gets lost. I think it's just what he needs. He's very loving, but also has a lot of pent-up rage, I think because he looks down from our balcony and sees other cats, trees to climb, bushes to hide under, birds to chase, and he can't be a part of it. Hopefully, now, he'll be able to self-actualize and feel more fulfilled in life, and then start biting us less.

This week's show features new music from The Lassie Foundation, Faux Pas, Psapp and Alias & Tarsier.


April 21: I had a nice, long voice chat over the Internet tonight with a girl named Gabi in Brazil, after finishing my show tonight. We talked mostly about music, but also about TV, including the voice actor who overdubs ALF in Portugese for all the Brazilian children. She was hoping that the original American actor's voice would be more gratifying, so I found a clip online of a 10-10-220 commercial that ALF did with Hulk Hogan. She felt disillusioned and let down.

She is going to be co-hosting a special episode with me in a few weeks, with a spotlight on Brazilian music. Listen to her cover album at myspace.com/notgabi.

This week's show features new music from The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Irving, Band of Horses and Smoosh.

April 14: I'm back. Yay. I hear there's a good sale on Lysol and Superglue going on at WalMart.

This week's show features new music from Climber, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Raconteurs and Red Ghost.


April 7: Here's some things I got to do while I was in Portland:

• Sing karaoke
• See my sister
• See my other sister & her kids
• See the first sister mentioned's husband
• See my parents
• See my friend Aaron
• See my friend Eliza & her boyfriend John
• See my 92-year-old grandmother
• See my old high school friend Amanda
• Fail DEQ
• Go to First Thursday
• See Trespassers William play at Mississippi Studios
• See Climber play
• Have Trespassers William play at the KPSU studios
• Do my show at KPSU, instead of in my bedroom
• Drink an abundance of reasonably-priced microbrewed beers
• Throw my mom a surprise birthday brunch that I ended up being late for
• Go to the Doug Fir (for the first time!)
• Be happy

This week's show features new music from Trespassers William, The Octopus Project, Books on Tape and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.


March 31: I'm visiting Portland the Magnificent this week! I recorded my show live at the KPSU studios, with my good friend Aaron. Next week, I'm having a big two-hour extravaganza (love that word) with live bands in the studio, including Laura Gibson! Good times.

I'm so happy to be home.

This week's show features new music from TV on the Radio, Johnny Headband, Jens Lekman and Julie Dorion.


March 24: This week's show features new music from Ms. John Soda, Bend Sinister, The Cloud Room, and Lab Partners.


March 17: This week's show features music I found while pimping my show on MySpace this week. You can add my show to your friends at myspace.com/postmodernrock


March 10: This week's show features new music from The Delays, Nightmares on Wax, The Go! Team and Portland's own Iretsu.

March 3: I wish I knew how to quit chew.

This week's show features new music from Neko Case, Beth Orton, The Minus 5 (fabulous interview here) and Laura Gibson.

February 24: I'm back in business! I bought a used computer for reasonably cheap, and now I can do all the stuff again that I used to, including my show! Thanks to Chad Thompson of the band Johnny Headband for sending me an email this week, tipping me off to a lot of the music I ended up playing this week (I had no computer with which to look for music this week). Thanks also to Stereogum, Said the Gramophone, and Nik at BiBaBiDiBoo.

This week's show features new music from Asobi Seksu, The Flaming Lips, Iron & Wine and Ambulance LTD.

February 17: My laptop died this week, and my car got broken into today. But that didn’t stop me from doing this show. My friend Adam of the band Fun 100 totally hooked me up with recording this week’s show on his computer! We played mostly music from bands he is friends with.

This week’s show features new music from Boy Eats Drum Machine, The Doers, The Squareheads and The Turn-Ons.

February 10: Jenn thought of this one: Think about how the world would be different if everything you bought was $20. Everything--a Snickers bar, a car, a gallon of gas, a potato, a 5-lb bag of potatoes. I don't know, it was hilarious at the time she said it.

This week's show features new music from Morrissey, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Trespassers William and The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers.

February 3: This morning I woke up from a dream, screaming "AAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHHHH! NNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO! DON'T LOCK ME IN THE PAWN SHOP!" My wife laughed.

Also, and this is unrelated, you should really go check out the short films of Scott Prendergast, formerly of Portland. His short "Anna is Being Stalked" won critical acclaim at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival. My personal favorite, however, is the freak flag that is "The Delicious." See them at astateof.com. Scott is now in LA, working on a feature-length.

This week's show features new music from Ballboy, The Nice Device, Rob Dickinson (formerly of The Catherine Wheel) and Serena-Maneesh.

January 27: I'm getting over a cold, complete with bleeding infected sinuses.

This week's show features new music from The High Violets, The Arctic Monkeys, Every Move a Picture and a remix of Imogen Heap.

January 17: My grandmother lived to be 97 years old, and left us on Christmas Day, two years ago. You might expect that to make Christmas of 2004 the worst Christmas ever, but it wasn't. And it's not that we don't miss her--we still do to this day. But being on Christmas, we all were gathered as a family already, and it made it easier for us to all go together to see her and say goodbye before she passed.

She had lost her memory to dementia, which started its slow onset probably eight years earlier. The first sign that something was wrong was when one holiday, she botched her signature crescent rolls, which she faithfully baked for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and any other family gathering involving dinner. They were amazing. We always wanted to eat at least two per person. She was a fantastic baker and a warm-hearted woman. She always had made her rolls from memory, a recipe she had fine-tuned over the years. So as her mind faded, it became clear that we would never eat those rolls again.

However, my parents, sisters and I got an email from our aunt Ann last weekend detailing the long-lost roll recipe! Ann had asked Grammy for the recipe back in 1989, and had forgotten about it until she came across it in her recipe box. All three of us kids cried when we got the email. I baked them right away--for friends on Wednesday night, since I could hardly wait, and also because my wife and I are going on a candida cleanse for 10 weeks starting tomorrow.

The rolls came out amazing, not quite as good as Grammy's, and a little misshapen, but still the same taste I've missed for 10 years. (I made up for lost time by eating the majority of what I'd baked.) But for the rest of my life, whenever I make the rolls, it will be someone else's rolls I'm baking. Sort of like covering a song. Which is the theme of this week's show--covers. Features covers of Elliot Smith, They Might Be Giants and Johnny Cash.

Here's the recipe. I made it in a KitchenAid using the bread dough beater. Pay close attention to the procedure--that's half of what makes these so great. Email me if you have questions.

Crescent Rolls
by Irene Barnes

1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup sugar
5 eggs
1 cup lukewarm milk
3/4 cup warm water
2 fresh yeast packets
4 cups unbleached flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 tps salt
Add more flour if necessary
1 beaten egg (to brush over top before baking)
sesame seeds to suit

Dissolve yeast in the 3/4 cup of warm water.

Beat 5 eggs. Add sugar & oil and beat until thick. Add 2 cups unbleached flour and salt. Add milk*. Add 1 more cup unbleached flour. Add yeast mixture. Add whole wheat flour and rest of unbleached flour. Add more flour as needed.

Let dough rise in warm oven until doubled.

Punch down and divide into 3 sections.

Roll each section into pie shapes. Cut into 10 pieces. Start with large end and roll to small end. Brush with 1 beaten egg and then sprinkle with sesame seeds.

Let double in warm oven.

Bake at 350 Degrees for 15 minutes.

* Note: You might try scalding the milk, then cooling it to lukewarm temperature. This is supposed to break down the enzymes in the milk that make the dough sticky and hard to work with. This wasn't in Grammy's recipe, but my mom recommended it.

January 14: I've held off putting out last week's show to make sure that everybody got all 3 hours of it. I hope you enjoyed it.

This week's show features new music from Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins, Caribou and Robert Pollard.

January 4: Happy New Year! I hope it's a good one for you. Heck, I hope it's a good one for me.

It's started off well, anyway. I was listed in SPIN Magazine's January "Spin Essentials" for my radio show/podcast, I got some new clothes and my first mp3 player(!), and learned to play Texas Hold 'Em. Who knows what's next?

This week's show is a 3-hour best-of 2005 Extravaganza! Hour 1 features Moonbabies, Laura Veirs, Of Montreal, Hour2: Aimee Mann, Michael Penn, Orenda Fink, Maria Taylor. Hour 3: Broadcast, Cran, Stars, Sufjan Stevens.

December 28: My friend Aaron took some pictures while we were in the studio last Friday, as well as shot a short video. If you listened to the December 23rd show, you may have had to fast-forward through the avant garde Axl Rose Christmas song [listen on SOUNDS page]. My wife commented that new listeners who read about my podcast in SPIN Magazine might be turned off by this choice. Click to watch this short behind-the-scenes discussion: wheat_and_chaff.avi







December 24: I had a total blast doing my show at the station last night. It's pretty different than any other shows, since I had a bundle of friends with me in our little closet that is the studio. It's also musically more adventurous than what I normally do.

Also, check out SPIN Magazine's January issue, page 12, for a brief writeup on yours truly! And, tune in next week for a far more polished show, my favorites of 2005.

Our family photos:



December 22: I'm doing my show tomorrow night, live at the KPSU studios with my friends Eliza and Aaron. More Christmas music, as well as some fun stories. We'll see how the hour unfolds.

In the meantime, you can listen to my Christmas special from last year, which I recorded while driving into and out of Vancouver, BC, with a stop in Zulu Records.

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December 20: I've been podcrawled!

December 16: My cat Fennel lost his manhood today.

He's just past the six-month mark, and Jenn and I love him a lot. But it was time. He was starting to display what I called "teenage angst," wandering around the apartment, giving off these forlorn meows, like there was something he knew he really wanted to be doing, but couldn't quite put his paw on it. Neutering should also prevent him from marking his territory by spraying, and, most importantly, calm his urge to bite. He's never scratched either of us once, but he will bite us, often right when he's in the middle of being affectionate with us.

So, after going to the vet, going under general anesthetic, and sitting in a kennel cage near several other strange cats and dogs, he should be worn out. But he's not. He's bouncing around here, totally fine. I, however, am exhausted. There's all this stuff to do before we go to Portland for Christmas, and it's wiping me out.

This is unrelated, but I just set up a myspace page for the show, if you'd like to befriend me/it.
myspace.com/postmodernrock

This week's show is my annual Christmas Special, and features music from The Polyphonic Spree, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Sufjan Stevens and Half-Handed Cloud.


December 9: This week's show features new music from Elefant, Feist and Bishop Allen.


December 2: I think my Canadian friend Gwen Cornish is going to run for president of the United States. Or at least vice-president.

Gwen, 31, has a slight figure, shoulder-length brown hair, and uses as many laughs, gestures & sound effects as she does words. She was born on the east coast of Canada to an American and Canadian parent. She works as a youth pastor in our church, and used to work with inner-city youth in Camden, NJ. I often tell she and her sister, Jenn, that they are "good American girls" who should claim their US citizenship and relocate to majestic Portland.

So, a few weeks ago, I had a dream that Gwen was running in the primaries against Al Gore for the nomination. They were set to have a "town hall" debate in a large Pentecostal-style church, built in the 70s. Al was looking good--younger and thinner, like he did in 1992. (One of my high school classmates Tiffany Weigel once went on about how hot Bill Clinton's running mate was.) He took the place by storm, not just because he was a seasoned politician, but because he started talking passionately from his heart about how he wanted God's justice and compassion for the poor and for other nations to be a priority in his administration. It was surprise to me and everyone there, because we had known him simply as the milquetoast politician who un-gracefully lost the election process in November and December of 2000. The place was on fire for Gore.

And that included his opponent, Gwen. Actually, it seemed she pretty much forgot she was even a candidate, and instead of debating, they started flirting. (Gwen is pretty traditional in respects of marital committments, so I'm pretty sure in my dream he wasn't married.) By the end of things, they were no longer competing for the party's nomination, but agreed to run as a ticket, Gwen as his running-mate. As I rolled my mind's eye, I thought "Oh yeah, they're going to get a whole lot done. If they can concentrate for a few minutes between flirting sessions."

I don't usually tell people about dreams they make appearances in, but this one was so funny that I had to tell Gwen. Her response (other than being weirded out by the idea of flirting with Gore) was that quite a few other people in our church have had dreams or visions for/of her with strong presidential imagery in them. So, I don't know what that means, but maybe God wants Gwen to run for president someday. And if a constitutional amendment designed to allow non-American-born Arnold Schwarzenegger to qualify to become president passes, then the road is paved for her. I figured that in case Gwen is supposed to run, I should have some propaganda pieces ready.



This week's show features new music from Belle & Sebastian, Half-Handed Cloud and Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.


November 25: This week's show features new music from the High Violets, Soundbite and Faux Pas.


November 18: This week's show features new music from Sufjan Stevens, Imogen Heap and Point Juncture, WA.


November 11: I've gotten several emails over the past 5 months since I've started distributing my show as a podcast, from both listeners who want to suggest music, or bands who want to suggest their own music. And that's awesome! Most of what people send me totally works for the show. But the problem has been that I almost always haven't done anything about it. Well, tonight that's changing. Every song on this show has been requested/recommended by listeners, the very last song is a request/dedication made by me to you. If there's something you want to hear on upcoming shows, please contact and I promise I'll at least write back and say 'hi' before 5 months passes.

This week's show features new music from The Electric Six, Emiliana Torrini and Underwires.


November 4: As I write this, my cat is across the room, chasing his tail on the chaise lounge.

Nevermind that that totally sounds like something out of Alice in Wonderland, what I want to know is: is he really that out-of-touch with his own body that he will exert himself in order to catch something he is inseperable from, or does he suspend his own disbelief for the fun of the chase? And more importantly, is my own fear of discovering that I've only been chasing my own tail holding me back from discovering what a life of faith has to offer? After all, he does seem to be having fun.

This week's show features new music from Cat Power, Wolf Parade and the Boondogs.


October 28: My friend Samantha had a life-altering revelation this week: Nickelback sucks.

A group of us get together on Thursday nights and watch Alias at our friend Julie's house. After the show ended this week, we started talking about music, and Sam volunteered her epiphany. It happened when she was driving home from work, listening to the radio. Nickelback's "Photograph" came on, and she heard the words "photograph" and "laugh" rhymed together. It shattered the gestalt for her. Like when you stare closely at a photograph, and you notice that it's just a collection of patterns of colored film grains, Sam realized that Nickelback is just a collection of recycled riffs, marketing, radio monopolies and bad taste. (For more on this subject, NPR has a great investigation into the matter here.)

This week's show features new music from Ric Ocasek, My Morning Jacket and Her Space Holiday.


October 21: This week's episode features new music from Boards of Canada, Simple Minds and remixes of The Beach Boys.


October 14: This week's show features new music from Super Furry Animals, Iron & Wine + Calexico and The Clientele.


October 7: It's been a year since Jenn and I were married, and I look 80% more like Fred Flintstone than I did when I was single. My doctor says it's "time to reverse this trend." And I think he's right. At this rate I'll have passed the Flintstone stage and be well into actual Jackie Gleason territory before my 35th birthday, and that's not what I want.




Other than that, marriage has been good for me. Jenn and I have a friendship like neither of us has known before. Not to say that it's easy all the time, but that's part of what makes it good. There's not a lot of room for posturing or pretending to be more than I am with her, because she lives with me. And she still loves me. Likewise, I get to see her pull out her cel phone at the restaurant after dinner and calculate a 15% tip, rather than simply take 10%, divide it by half, and then add it to the original 10% in her head, or say "How about Oo-hah?" while pointing at Oahu on the expedia.com page for Hawaiian destinations. I roll my eyes, but I'm still glad that we're together.

This week's show features new music from The Coral, Harvey Danger and Devendra Banhart.


September 30: I'm trying to think of something to write but I'm drawing a ______.

This week's show features new music from Depeche Mode, Morcheeba and Grandaddy.


September 23: The other day I told a joke that I thought was funny, but that the person I was telling it to didn't think was. Well, she did laugh, but it a pain laugh.

I said to my friend Sarah, "Knock, knock."

Sarah replied "Who's there?"

"Dave," I answered.

She needed some clarification. "Dave who?"

"Dave Cusick."

Now I thought this was funny, because I had deconstructed the "knock, knock" joke format, and replaced the typical hononymic world-play structure with a self-referential irony. But I guess she didn't see it that way.

This week's show features new music from Nada Surf, Stereolab and the A-Frames.


September 16: Nothing interesting happend this week. That's not to say I wasn't busy and didn't see people, but you probably wouldn't find it worth reading. The only thing I can think of, besides interviewing a Katrina survivor, is that I got a 2005 loonie (Canadian $1 coin) in mint condition when given change today. They don't make them every year like other coins, so all the ones you usually see look like they came from the gunk in the curbside, not like a shiny piece of gold.

Oh, and my interview with the Katrina survivor will be available here on this site by Wednesday, so check back then.

This week's show features new music from The Dandy Warhols, Mobius Band and The Polyphonic Spree.


September 9: This weekend in Portland is MusicFest NW, and I really wish that I could have gone. However, I went through their site's entire roster of bands, and listened to music by all the bands that are lined up to play. I found more good music than I realized existed in Portland, and enough to make two radio shows, so I did.

Also, I want to thank Sticks, Fun 100 and You Say Party, We Say Die! for doing a show only five minutes from my house and for giving me a really fun night! You guys rock!

This week's first show features new music from The Out Crowd, Blitzen Trapper and Puma Frenzy.

This week's second show, a web-only special, features new music from The Swords, The Epoxies and Pat MacDonald. Playlists for both shows are here. Cheers!


September 2: Being a parent is exhausting work. But it's also really rewarding.

Our friends Julie, Julie and Oliver came over for dinner tonight, just as I was finishing recording my show. The latter of the two Julies and the lone Oliver have a child together, named Ben. And he's cute and all, but our cat Fennel is cuter. And more difficult to deal with.

Here's just a few examples:

Our cat is a month younger than their son, who remains immobile, while our cat can race around faster than your eye can keep up with.

Ben may cry when he's hungry or needs changing, but Fennel can scratch and bite if he's unhappy with us, and his teeth are sharper than that of an adult cat. Ben doesn't even have teeth.

If Julie needs to feed Ben, all she has to do is whip out her breast, conveniently located on the front of her body. If I need to feed Fennel, I have to get up from the computer, go to the pantry, get the bag of food, open it, go to his food dish, put the food in it, close up the food bag, put it back in the pantry, and go back to what I was doing.

Benton will not be an adult for nearly 18 more years. Fennel, on the other hand, will be through adolescence in about a year. That means that RIGHT NOW is his most formative time, and that our guidance has to be 18 times as intensive! Not only that, but cats sleep six more hours a day than humans, so therefore we have less waking hours with Fennel to give him the instruction that he needs.

But then there's the rewards of being a cat parent. Right now, as I type, Fennel is lying on the top of the couch behind me, fast asleep. I didn't put him there, he chose to be there on his own. He's also furrier and snugglier than a baby, and buries his poop, rather than waiting for one of us to discover it and change his diaper. I love my cat.

This week's show features new music from Sigur Ros, Clor and Broadcast.


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