My Last Selfish Record

In the early 2000s, a bunch of young professionals, including myself, found an Elks Lodge in the middle of Austin. And I mean right in the middle. We overran it as the future, and probably in a tale as old as time, everyone was excited to have us until they weren’t. The most important part about this lodge is that it had a bar. And it was self-serve. Probably overpaid, looking back, but pouring yourself your own pitcher and then sitting down was really delightful. We met a lot of colorful characters and everything like that. We had themed parties that they had never really done before, and two friends and I formed a band called the Brown Ferns to play some cool old songs. And some current songs, too. One of my picks was “Home by Saturday” by Hayden. It was off his 2004 Elk-Lake Serenade record, which became, when it came out, and still is, one of my favorite records ever. I’d kind of caught him in his slacker rock days in the ’90s. And one of those songs was on a Dell computer I had…