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Pete Yorn Is Thinking Of: “1000 Cats” Performed By Brett Gelman

Pete Yorn has been surprisingly prolific of late. Consider that it was three years between his sophomore outing, 2003’s Day I Forgot, and 2006’s bracingly eclectic Nightcrawler, the latter largely restoring the potential of his brazenly accomplished out-of-nowhere debut, 2001’s Musicforthemorningafter. Another three years between releases, and Montville, N.J.’s favorite boho chick magnet suddenly had a lot more to say. Last year saw the release of Back & Fourth, followed by Break Up, a wispy collaboration with Scarlett Johansson inspired by Serge Gainsbourg’s duets with Brigitte Bardot. Now Yorn has ditched his smokin’-hot muse for Frank Black, who encouraged the confessed perfectionist and overdub junky to strip away the studio varnish and rawk out for the new Pete Yorn (Vagrant). Yorn will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.

Yorn: I stumbled upon this late one night while I was channel surfing. It was part of the Funny Or Die program on HBO. I did a little research, and I guess it’s been performed live in the past at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater, but I’ve never had the pleasure. The less said about this the better. Just watch it.

Videos after the jump.

Part One:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbcS3XFOltw

Part Two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkIPy7Cm4tk