November 9th, 2009 By Local Cut | Music | Posted In: Columns,
Tour Diary, Tour Diary  Portland Cello Project: The Truth about
Cats (Toronto and Montreal)   The caveat to Toronto's
wonderfulness is that there was a cat in the venue who freaked
out during Thao's set crying “MEOW!!!” really loudly over and
over again. And then as we played a scent rose through the stage
of ammonia cat urine—completely awful. The owners said the cat
was just spooked, which was fine, but it smelled really bad.
Adam Thompson—Thao's bass player—hates cats. When I first met
him he talked to me about how cats have this microbial parasite
issue in their poop so that, if you accidentally ingest any of
it, gives you a psychological disorder that makes you love cats
sexually, though your brain doesn't really process it this way
and it just makes you obsessed with being around cats, which is
the explanation for crazy cat ladies and stuff—like, crazy cat
ladies accidentally ate some miniscule amount of cat poop at
some point in their lives