I draw every set I see, badly, in the dark

Small notebook, one pen, no light. The rule is I can't look at the page. Whatever comes out, comes out.

They're objectively terrible. Overlapping loops, a lot of scribbled shapes that are supposed to be the lighting rig, occasional legible words like "PIPER — too fast??" and once, memorably, just "OH" written six times getting larger.

But I have eleven years of them now, and flipping through is closer to remembering a show than a setlist ever gets. A setlist tells you what happened. The drawings tell you what it was like to be there, which is a different and less shareable fact.

My partner had one framed for my birthday. It's from Deer Creek and it looks like a seismograph having a bad night. It's the best gift I've ever received.