It'll get you there.

[neko_case]

Maybe it's just me, but I swear I'm seeing way more squirrels around the city than I used to. Before, you'd occasionally catch one darting up a tree or scrambling out of the way of a checker cab, but now suddenly the little buggers are everywhere. On the sidewalk, rustling in the bushes, darting through the chain-link fences. Some of them don't

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[kurt_dahle]

First of all, why are you listening to Public Enemy?

Secondly, I don't want to see a tape of that, even if it doesn't exist. I've seen you in your pajamas enough times before, and don't you even try to deny our slumber parties.

Thirdly, I happen to like squirrels.

Fourth, PUBLIC ENEMY?

Fifth, I'm doin' good, and it's good you're doin' good, even if you are listening to Public Enemy.

[neko_case]

What's wrong with Public Enemy? Everyone was listening to them senior year in Tacoma High.

Are they really technically slumber parties if vomit is drying on you while you sleep?

I didn't say I didn't like squirrels.

Oh, hush.

[kurt_dahle]

They weren't listening to them senior year at Lanigan High. Maybe that's because they weren't around yet.

I don't think vomit disqualifies them.

You love them.

Have I ever in my life hushed once when you asked me to?

[neko_case]

Well, it's hardly my fault you were too old to appreciate hip-hop's golden era, is it now, Slim?

Somehow I pictured my slumber parties with less puke and more cold cream.

There's no videos of that either.

I'm nothing if not quixotic.

[carl_newman]

Fine, so you update about your own tour, but you don't mention the New Pornographers. I see where your priorities lie. Doesn't selling out the Commodore mean anything to you?

[neko_case]

"Face it, kid, you're nothing but a fucking dollar sign to me." Dean Martin to Jerry Lewis, 1956.

[carl_newman]

"Face it, kid, somebody had to have the breasts in the band, and Kurt's weren't perky enough." Carl Newman to Neko Case, 2004.

[neko_case]

Which has to be the first time anyone described anything of Kurt's as insufficiently perky.