Title: "What to do if a leopard attacks..."
Product review: Much more intimate versions of these stories than the recordings of them scattered across most of his studio albums. Cutler is hysterically funny before a live audience, telling these tales of his childhood (which ultimately evoke the quotidian brutality of Russian folktales as much as they do the slums of Glasgow) with their humorous evocations of dire poverty, constant family violence, and the helplessness of children as an almost supreme representation of reality -- heavy stuff, to be sure, so it's nice to hear him cracking up at his own jokes while he reads and fondles his wheezy old harmonium. The truly appreciative audience doesn't hurt either. Cutler's is a world like no one else's, and this particular glimpse into that world has not made as many roommates curse my very existence as, say, "Velvet Donkey" or "Prince Ivor" have, but it comes damned close.
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