Life choices come down either to working in a bad restaurant or receiving an MFA degree, so says Colin Meloy of the Decemberists in an interview. Actually, that is a pretty fair assessment of career choices as far as I can tell. Castaways & Cutouts has been on frequent rotation this past autumn, if only to ponder the line "And what do we do with ten baby shoes, a kit bag full of marbles and a broken billiard cue?"