Also: watching The Shady Ladies work out their tortured, four-part, righteous and humorous harmonies on the stairwell: a bridge overlooking the freeway by the local army base, just outside Olympia, covered with flag-waving ‘patriots’: a discussion with Sarah Bangs about how you can pick up laryngitis from dirty microphones while on tour: Tobi spotting the Patrik Fitzgerald steal of “Hello/I’m a reject” during practice: the incredible peppermint latte from the drive-through coffee shop just outside the club: wandering the streets at 9am, basking in familiarity and sunshine: The Mae Shi mentioning the same drinking well in the parking lot that I once wrote a song around: Charlotte being able to describe the view from the Ramada Hotel (out over the main square by the Greyhound terminal): snowball fights: composing an entire 30-minute set during a bath in my hotel room (the idea being to take the first couple of lines of ‘Crazy’ and gently mutate them, shaping them and repeating them, entirely vocal, over and over - and at the end of the set, wander around the audience showing them a photo of Charlotte)…

Maybe I should go find a coffee.