Interlude 2: on the 22nd, one of my bands, The Harvey Girls, played a show at the Towne Lounge. Our friend specklet came to the show, and obliged when I shoved my notebook at her and told her to draw something from the show. I'm quite fond of both drawings, and despite her repeated apologies about the nose, I love the rendering of banjo-ing me.
I had hoped to put some banjo on the album. Some breakdown stuff on the instrumental intro to David Bowie, maybe some spare, lonesome twang on The Human Condition, a bit of rolling happy plucky lines on Open Mic. The recurring theme: it never happened.