Power outages are a strange thing. The lights go out so you’re stuck in the dark. The internet is out so you’ve got nothing to do. In this particular case there was a laptop with battery power that allowed us to still listen to music. So we sat in the dark in the back room at work, talking and listening to Middle Brother. It feels like it could stay dark all day and you wouldn’t even mind. You’re forced to discover new people, find something to talk about to pass the time. Something about no electricity makes everything feel more intimate.

And then the lights come back on, and everyone looks the same as they do every day, and everything returns to normal, and those feelings remain in the dark.