Things you learn listening to a Ben Gibbard live radio performance: The last word of Dntel’s “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan” (previously spotted on the November ’02 CDMOM mix) is pronounced “Sean,” not like the last name of Jackie or Charlie.
This increases the chances that the song is secretly about Cat Power’s Chan Marshall, who pronounces her name the same way. I still hold out hope that the Evan is Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh.