"Cat"

"The only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats"
                                                          -   Albert Schweitzer

If I were to pick a singer or band that is what I believe a cat would sing like....
This is not as easy as I assumed it would be... why did I assume it would be?
Let me list cat qualities ...see if I can figure it out that way.

Cats 
Mystical
Smart
Nosey
Self Involved
Graceful
Slightly OCD
Thinkers
Non Conforming
Spiritual but not religious
Easily Distracted
Yet Super Focused
Would not cave to social pressures

Based on my personal opinion and thinking of their qualities.. and bands that I like..
TOOL would be my choice
The Beatles in close second. 
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“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
                                                                                     -Ernest Hemingway

 Absolute truth.
You can always count on your Cat to look at you with disgust if it is disgusted, adoration if it loves you, confusion if it has no idea where the red dot went, anger if you finished your dinner without sharing, superiority if...well that is their normal look.

There are not many creatures on this earth that have involved themselves so much in our lives, yet do not try and kiss our ass to be our friends.

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“Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.”
                                                                                     -Mark Twain

Humans are trying so hard to change this.
But we suck at it!

 

Magnolia here proved Mark Twain right. 

She did not want to be on a harness or leash.. so she just flat out refused. 

Sure, there are cats that go out on leashes... but very few that can be walked on a leash.. even then.. they walk you. 

There is a lady on my parents street that walks her cat. The cat has no issue being on the leash...but when she wants to stop... in the middle of the road... on the side of the road.. in front of your feet...she will. 

You then have 2 choices... wait for her to get off her furry behind or carry her. 

They are kinda like a tired puppy... but always. 

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 “Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately.

Next, in another cage I confined an Irish Catholic from Tipperary, and as soon as he seemed tame I added a Scotch Presbyterian from Aberdeen. Next a Turk from Constantinople; a Greek Christian from Crete; an Armenian; a Methodist from the wilds of Arkansas; a Buddhist from China; a Brahman from Benares. Finally, a Salvation Army Colonel from Wapping. Then I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animals was all right, but in the other there was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bones and flesh--not a specimen left alive. These Reasoning Animals had disagreed on a theological detail and carried the matter to a Higher Court.”

                                                       -Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

I think I would have liked this guy. 

Animals do not hate other animals.
Hate is a human emotion.

Could you imagine a world without hate?
A world that was devoid of religious superiority ?
If a Cat ruled the world.. okay a Cat should probably never rule the world... there would be countries littered with crumpled up pieces of paper ..  people would be spending their days retrieving toys from under the presidential couch .
Nap times would be at 1, 2, 4, 5, 5:30, 7, 9, 10, 10:30, 11, 11:15, 11:30. Then official sleep time would be from 7am till noon.
Everything would get done at night.
Catnip would grow on every corner.
A red dot, or reflection could cause a world war...

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“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.”
                                                        -Leonardo da Vinci

Ever wonder why Cats are so popular on the internet?
They are so unbelievably photogenic.
You can take 60 pictures of the same cat and you will see different aspects of them in each.
They are tiny masterpieces from birth.
To look at a piece of art and see a deeper meaning or layers of meanings - well that makes for a very interesting piece.
The raw emotions that Cats have make them perfect little models.
They are magical and mystical creatures .. that we do not understand.
Weirdos actually..
Beautiful weirdos.