Summary: A feast of words on this episode of the Cabinet — words for singing, for storytelling, and for making you laugh. A.C. Newman, front man for the power pop powerhouse band The New Pornographers, tries out a song still in the works. Will Sheff of Okkervil River, delivers penetrating lyrics with a gentle melody. Singer Megan Reilly takes on the role of a bird, in a duet with host John Wesley Harding. Writer and musician Rick Moody takes a stand against Europe's addiction to the drum machine. Duo Dean and Britta show off their love of psychedelic rock. Comedian Eugene Mirman takes joy in insults to his manhood. And novelist Colson Whitehead reads a passage about the adolescent trauma he survived when Coca Cola traded in Coke for New Coke.
