I just got this in the mail today.

It made my day, and it was just a great joy to me to find a brand new album by Glass Eye,

waiting for me on my doorstep, perfect title, too, Bent by Nature.

It's Independence Day weekend, 1988,

and Deirdre is celebrating the return of her favorite independent act from Austin, Texas.

I'm wearing my Bent by Nature t-shirt today.

I love the ambiguity of that statement, either in the sense of a tree that is shaped by nature

or just kind of twisted as a matter of course.

Which am I? I don't know. One from column A, one from column B.

But Deirdre's allegiance to Glass Eye went much deeper than a catchy title.

For her, they represented the very best of what Austin had to offer, which at that time also included

snap staples, like the Revers, the Wild Seeds, and Poi Dog Pondering.

Texas is huge, and so if every single cool artistic kid from Texas is moving to Austin to go

to college, we just had a tremendous amount of talent. And because we were sort of isolated

out in the middle of the country, I mean, we had to be really supportive of each other ultimately.

That's Kathy McCarty. She was GlassEyes guitarist and principal songwriter alongside bassist Brian Beattie.

And she says, whenever GlassEye came to Los Angeles, Dirdre welcomed them with open arms and a sincere appreciation of their own bent nature.

You're damaged people.

Well, thank you. Thank you.

I'm Trisha Hallorin, and from KCRW, this is Bent by Nature.

Deirdre O'Donohue and The Lost Snap Archives.

Episode 5, Haywire.

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