song 106 : Hallow (Tacoma Ballet)

In the story Tacoma Ballet, our heroine now recalls her ex-boyfriend. Not a macho pretender with a guitar, a poet of the real kind. She has not gotten over the heartbreak of their break up. Anyway soon enough she’ll discover he’s not what she thought anyway.

But I had no idea I was telling the larger story. To me this song was about playing with Patty Schemel who was almost drummer for Nirvana. Since there was an abandoned building next door where Nirvana had rocked the squat I was imagining that his ghost was hanging out to see what we were up to. So I sang him this song, though I never met him.

I wanted to add a third pun to the hello/how low theme of Tobi Vail’s Hamster Baby, later used to such great effect in Smells Like Teen Spirit.

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