Daily Listen by Brian Brock

The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour (hear “Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure”)

A song like “Virtute…” succeeds by thinly veiling heartbroken sentiments - really just deadly thoughts - behind patient obfuscation and understatements.

Too much of the album over-obfuscates while just barely missing sentiment, but you have to credit The Weakerthans for trying to write about interesting things, like the smelly reunion tour of an old biggest band in the world, or a bigfoot-obsessed burger-flipper somewhere past the arctic circle.

Can I draft-dodge to Canada without there actually being a draft?  My impression is that in Canada people listen to this kind of stuff all the time.