Mountain Goats

Thanks to sammka I now need to scare me up a Mountain Goats CD.

This Year
Woke Up New
No Children (Lego video)
     No Children (Live, Iowa)
     No Children (Uke cover)
Dance Music (sock-puppet video)

I cannot find a non-live version of No Children.

They're categorized by different people as indie folk rock. I'd call them pop/folk w/ a faint touch of Irish - primarily found in the lead singer's voice, but also in chord progressions of some songs.

Anyone have mp3's they wish to share?

ETA: I found a bunch here.

Latest theories

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2007/04/07/vo.nm.train.through.wildfire.krqe
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/06/pet.deaths/index.html
http://www.banfield.net/about/article.asp?id=10

There's a possibility that melanine was added to the wheat gluten intentionally and fraudulently to try and get a higher price. The reasoning goes as follows. When there's a high protein content in the wheat gluten, it fetches a higher price. Protein has lots of nitrogen. Melanine has lots of nitrogen. Prior to this fiasco there was no indication that melanine could cause kidney failure in either cats or dogs, so why not add it?

Two other bits of info also. They're still not sure melanine really DOES cause kidney failure in cats and dogs. It could be that there's another chemical, as yet undetected, that is causing the kidney failure, and the melanine is either coincidentally there as well, or is somehow linked to the source of the other chemical. They will have to do more tests and probably deliberately kill a few (lab) cats and dogs with melanine to know for sure.

And lastly, the closest they have to a national database of information from vets is the Banfield pet hospital chain/group. They've reported a 30% increase in kidney problem diagnoses over the past few months, but they have also reported a recent decrease in the number of diagnoses, indicating that the worst may be over.

Life Grade Quiz

YOUR REPORT CARD:
Category	Grade
Love	A+
Friends and Family	A+
Body	D
Mind	A+
Finance / Career	A+
Your Life's Average Grade:   A
'What is your Life Grade?' at QuizGalaxy.com

LOL! Only a D?

Surreal

Life is wierd when you and your bf are in different rooms listening to a dancing cockatiel in stereo.