[katdad]

Watching the very entertaining Paul Schrader "Cat People" on cable a couple nights ago -- it had been a while since I saw it -- and was getting into the movie, lusting after Kinski and O'Toole a bit, enjoying Malcom McDowell's acting, and so on.

I had sort of forgotten the fine David Bowie song over the end credits "Putting out the fire with gasoline". If you remember, Irana/leopard is in the zoo and growling at her keeper, the Bowie lyrics start, then the cat goes freeze frame until the chorus, and then it yowls and growls loudly just as Bowie sings the chorus.

Right at that instant, my huge fuzzy 19-pound cat, who was dozing on a nearby table, decided to leap right into my lap with a Whump!, his nose right to mine, purring.

Scared the bejeezus out of me! And lots to laugh about later...