“The furry little buggers [cats] are just deep, deep wells you throw your emotions into.” – Bruce Schimmel

“Because of our willingness to accept cats as superhuman creatures, they are the ideal animals with which to work creatively.” – Roni Schotter

“A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.” ~William Ralph Inge

“Two cats can live as cheaply as one, and their owner has twice as much fun.” – Lloyd Alexander

“You will always be lucky if you know how to make friends with strange cats.” – Colonial proverb

“Among animals, cats are the top-hatted, frock-coated statesmen going about their affairs at their own pace.” – Robert Sterns

“Whenever the cat of the house is black, the lasses of lovers will have no lack” – Folk Saying

“You are my cat and I am your human.” -Hilaire Belloc

“Catnip (Nepeta cataria), is a member of the Mint family of aromatic herbs. It is a common aromatic herb of the high deserts of North America, and was naturalized in Canada from it’s indigenous roots in Northern Africa and the Mediterranean.”

Death Chants – Ether Works, Vol. 1

Bands that have names that contradict their sound are clever. Actually, bands that can settle on any name that isn’t completely awful are worthy of applause. The best I can come up with are unironic ironic nicknames, like The Agony of Echo Park, or Crispin Glover’s Toejam.

Death Chants is kaput, though they do have a bunch of excellent side projects going.

They released many different recordings, and very few sound the same. Most of them remind me of the music I want to hear playing when I am wandering through the forest, naked, coming down off mushrooms, just before the cops find me and I am reunited with my wife, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and my child Billy Coleman from Where the Red Fern Grows.

Ether Works is trippy, slow to develop, and wonderful. For the nights when summer is ending and you are thinking about nothing else but the water shotgun on your porch and the stray cats you are surreptitiously feeding behind your roommates’ backs.

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