Imaginary Theme for a Very Large Cat

Masabumi Kakuchi Sextet - スカイ・ウォズ・フォーリング (1969/Soul Jazz)

Hello internet pals of music. Today I want you to imagine yourself as a large round cat, walking down a street of market stalls, with all the vendors giving you treats. You’re a king / queen today.

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If I were Punxsutawney Phil, then Len’s Steal My Sunshine would be my shadow. If I hear it on the radio, then summer has officially arrived, otherwise six more weeks of Vancouver rain, otherwise known as a bunch of bullshit.

No stations seem to be playing Steal My Sunshine this year.

I won’t here, either. No one wants that (although when you hear that echoey granite block kick it off, you secretly enjoy it, and you can admit that here).

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Instead, we’re going to pretend it’s early Spring again. Many of us would like that I’m sure, instead of stroking out in this enormous global heatwave nightmare. This is a theme song for you (and I cant emphasize this enough) to imagine yourself reincarnated as giant, Japanese tuxedo cat. Imagine Ignatius J Reilly with four legs and a taste for fish bones like in a Looney Tunes cartoon.

Eventually, your adventures in prancing heavily, with your fat little cat head held high, will lead you back home to a perfect little cardboard box in a perfect little sun spot and you’ll plop down full of fish and chicken scraps and dream about belly rubs and chasing butterflies.

God, I would love to be a fat, well-loved cat.

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