I'm gonna love you tender

And Caitlin's newest mammalian obsession goes to..... Jerboas!!! Basically the picachu of the real world, jerboas are tiny marsupials with gigantic ears (hello, disproportional cuteness!) that literally hop around on skinny little legs. They also have a soops long tail with a nice little pompom on the end.

They're kind of asking to be overbred and sold to cuteness fanatics such as myself.

Now.. time to watch a video of a jerboa hopping right here.

Cuteness obsession v3.0

First primordial dwarfs, then a ridiculously large bunny named Heir Hare, and now a special breed of cat that is noticably larger than others. What is it about overly large and small things that makes them so cute?? Today I stumbled upon this picture:

And while upon first glance, you may think "Yah riiiiiiiiiight. Dat ain't real boo", it is in fact, real boo. That right there is a 24lb Maine Coon cat. I looked into the breed of cat and it turns out they're predispostioned to be super cuddly as well as super big. They have really large ears, super fluffems tails, and big big tufted oogle-worthy paws. Wikipedia calls them "gentle giants" and says that they're intelligent and playful. In short, I considered flying out to Maine to pick one up from a breeder (that is, until I discovered you can adopt 16lb-ers in Oakland).

Here's another picture of Fluffers McGee looking super cute in the arms of this owner who looks exactly like me circa 2003. Coincidence? I think not..

Weekly obsessions in the key of Caitlin!

You know the drill. Stuff I've been listening to that fits into no particular theme (such as my super cool, super fun Teenagers post which totally got overshadowed by Dean's prompt hotness. I'm nudging you right now, btw. Check it out). I've got some patented Caitlin-approved cuteness along with a couple amazings.

As for Amazings:
1. Cadence Weapon ft. Final Fantasy // Sharks
An example of what happens when you mix too many amazing artists. Cadence Weapon is a pretty good rapper, who performed live with Final Fantasy, who in turn sampled Andrew Bird. The result? Probably one of the best songs you will hear all week. And if you're curious, I did check out the original, studio-recorded "Sharks" and it majorly pales in comparison.

2. Mom // Green Echo
Entirely instrumental and only 2 mintues long, but pretty beautiful and shows a lot of potential for a new band of greatness.

3. Studio // No Comply
Pretty 80s New Wave that's new and catchy to boot. You'll like it.

And as for fun and cute:

4. Peel // In the City
Totally fun, standard Indie rock stuff that I love to post/play/listen to. It's catchy enough, it's got British vocals, and it's hott.

5. Lavender Diamond // Open Your Heart
Fairly cute with sweet female vocals, light giddy guitar, lotso piano, and of course, hand claps.

6. Feist // Fighting Away the Tears - Mocky Mix
Mocky has an incredible ability to make Feists songs sound entirely different and yet entirely wonderful. He's one of the few artists who really plays with songs that he mixes. This version of one of Feist's new songs is totally deconstructed into a simple beat with just hand claps and vocals and some very secondary piano/horns/etc. Pretty relaxing, and fits into the feel of Feist's "Let it Die" more than "The Reminder"

Okay, that's a lot of mp3s. I tried to seperate the stuff that you (yes you, you readers, you super cool readers who also have a blog and don't like cute stuff) would want to listen to from the stuff that, say, someone with a more fun taste might want to listen to.

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Oh, and notices: Next time you're at The Del Mar Theatre, Streetlight Records, or Cafe Pergolesi, pick up the latest instalment of The Fish Rap! It's pretty funny. Also, check out the layout for our new website which should be coming up sometime next week.

Ohhhhh Kenadie!!!

A while back I posted a short clippit of one of my greatest obsessions to date: Primordial Dwarfs. They're tiny doll-like people who are nearly completely proportionate except for their tiny heads. Welllll, today I saw The Dark Crystal and was happy to find that Pod People look quite a bit like Primordials. So I began a YouTube search and found this little Diane Sawyer gem of a segment that concentrates on the two most attractive Primord's out there inlcuding Kenadie my gahgagh on my gaaaawwwwwd favorite. She's really cute.



Next up, it's time to brag. Since my other super cool activity is forced to be hushed on this blog, I figured it's fair enough that I let you all know that next week I'll have a fun little something in the Fish Rap. Dean more or less made the graphics while yours truly did the brainstorming and writing. I'm not sure when the papes hit the stands but next week check your fave dining hall, library, or anything else on campus that has papers for my first giggle-worthy entry. I'm pretty excited and I'd be honored if you made a big deal about it (in other words, just look at it). You can bet that primordial dwarfs and cats are mentioned in it. And speaking of cats, I found some really cute pictures doing my image searches for the Fish Rap article. Turns out if you search for "cat flying" you get lots of pictures of fat cats upside down. I like them.

Dogs like to eat things, cats, chickens.

While Dean is busy fucking the shit out of bears, here are some pictures of dogs with cats in their mouths. I really like them. It's like when you see something soops cute and you say "That ______ is so cute I just want to eat it up!" except taken to the field of for literallies (fer lits, if you will).






And for good measure...


And because this is a music blog and because a thousand mp3-hungry citizens will hate me if I don't do this, here's some obscure songs that are way good (and one's even relevant!)

The Airborne Toxic Event // Wishing Well
The Lovekins // Private Life of a Cat

PS: Yes, I stole some of those pictures from Cute Overload. Duh.

Antarctica Takes It!

What is with cute bands using so many explanation points? I love it, because I love excitement and I love people getting excited. Antarctica Takes It! is another one of those bands thats been sitting in my iTunes, downloaded long long ago on some obscure blog, and waiting for me to give it an honest listen. Well, I finally found out that their song "I'm No Lover" is fantastic despite it's unimpressive length (1:37!). This band is much like Belle & Sebastian in the terms of cuteness/sweetness but they've got significantly less gloom. Aaannnd! It turns out this band is from Santa Cruz! If they weren't currently working on an album I'd be going to to all of their shows and pretending to be a cartoon with little hearts popping out of my ears as I listened. Because it's cute like that, you see.

track. I'm No Lover
track. Antarctica
space. Antarctica Takes It!