LXIX

Thanks to all artists and labels involved in this, our first podcast of the year. And what better way to kick off a new decade than with a tribute to Atlantic Canada’s most lovable scamp since Jim Lahey pissed his final pair of pants: Shady the cat, who became big local news last weekend for climbing up a tree. And then staying there.

The story first broke (actual headline: “Cat in tree, firefighters stumped”) after emergency crews had made three unsuccessful attempts to capture the feline, who escaped each time by climbing slightly higher. From there panic and confusion set in on the ground (“I don’t know if he’s going to come down or not”), whilst Shady smugly grinned from on high, all fuck these assholes in bucket trucks, I win-like:

The article linked above goes on to report, and I swear this isn’t actually from The Onion:

Fire crews have visited the house with a ladder three times, twice on Saturday and again on Sunday, trying to coax the cat from his perch.

Coun. Barry Dalrymple thinks he has an idea. He stopped by [the owner’s] home on Sunday and pledged to have the fire department bring a bucket truck with a longer ladder on Monday, she said.

Meanwhile, someone offered [the owner’s] this advice: “Well they also said bacon, if you fry up a pan of bacon … so yeah, we’ll try that for tomorrow morning and see if that works.

“Hopefully he’ll be down by then, but who knows?”

The bacon, sadly, did not work. CBC would be the first to break the the actual conclusion to this action-packed thriller—exclaiming Shady’s “high-profile sojourn in a tree“ to be over, putting an end to “high anxiety for four days.” Sort of. Shady had eventually jumped down from the tree, as cats do, but then, um, ran off. Probably to get far away from those who, in the days previous, had lovingly tried to remove him from a twenty-metre-high tree with “a pole.” So: happy ending? I guess?

Well, maybe not. According to that second article, Shady’s escape had “[left] the owner to hunt for her pet in nearby woods.” Hunt for her pet? Harsh. Run, Shady, run—this podcast is for the next tree an entire town won’t leave you alone in.

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[49:14]

1. Moonface: “Dreamland EP: marimba and shit drums [excerpt 1]”

• (0:01 – 0:45)
• from Dreamland EP: marimba and shit drums (Jagjaguwar; 2010)
• moonface.ca

2. Owen Pallett: “Lewis Takes Action”

• (0:46 – 3:34)
• from Heartland (For Great Justice; 2010)

3. The Besnard Lakes: “Albatross”

• (3:36 – 8:12)
• from Are the Roaring Night (Jagjaguwar; 2010)

4. tUnE-yArDs: “Real Live Flesh”

• (8:13 – 11:40)
• Bonus track from BiRd-BrAinS (Marriage/4AD; 2009)

5. Field Music: “Let’s Write a Book”

• (11:41 – 15:16)
• from Measure (Memphis Industries; 2010)

6. Phantogram: “When I’m Small”

• (15:17 – 19:16)
• from Eyelid Movies (Barsuk; 2010)

7. Delphic: “Doubt (Don’t Wait Animate remix)”

• (19:17 – 23:27)
• Single (2010)

8. Beach House: “Norway”

• (23:28 – 27:22)
• from Teen Dream (Sub Pop; 2010)

9. Memoryhouse: “To the Lighthouse”

• (27:23 – 30:41)
• from The Years EP (Arcade Sound Ltd.; 2010)

10. Eluvium: “Leaves Eclipse the Light”

• (30:42 – 36:13)
• from Similes (Temporary Residence; 2010)

11. Moonface: “Dreamland EP: marimba and shit drums [excerpt 2]”

• (36:00 – 39:06)
• from Dreamland EP: marimba and shit drums (Jagjaguwar; 2010)
• moonface.ca/

12. The Knife: “Colouring of Pigeons”

• (39:00 – 49:14)
• from Tomorrow, In a Year (Mute; 2010)