Day two’s afternoon highlight was no doubt the twangy alt-country of Canadian Kathleen Edwards, who played songs from across her three solo LPs. She performed as a duo, she on acoustic guitar, while her bandmate switched between electric guitar and keyboard.

That’s a C chord.

Kathleen told the crowd how much she liked Seattle, particularly the wine (wait, Seattle makes good wine?), which she buys every time she’s here from a favorite shop in Pike Place Market. She also apologized for having such a wholesome reputation, which she said is a real drag when she feels like misbehaving.

We checked out a panel featuring two of modern comics’ preeminent artists, Dan Clowes (”Ghost World”) and Adrian Tomine (”Shortcomings”), with Ivan Brunetti, another comic fave, serving as moderator. The trio spent an hour discussing their processes, inspirations and philosophies before taking questions from the audience.

“One of the weird things about comics,” Brunetti said, “Is you have to be a loner to do them.” Which likely explains why all three came off as shy and neurotic. Not misanthropes, but funny and insightful loners. Drawing comics they admitted, wasn’t a choice they’d made, but rather an obsession since as long as they could remember.

Tomine talked about the difficulties of changing dramatically as a person over the course of creating a work, specifically his latest offering, “Shortcomings,” a story about a stagnant relationship. He also admitted the original ending had the main character dying of a peanut allergy, a much different conclusion than the actual novel’s climax.

Clowes discussed his relationships to the complicated characters in his novels. “I’ll try to find a character that I really don’t like,” he said, “And then find a way to like them.” He also offered some advice to those looking to break into the biz: “Ask yourself how much do you want to hate your life.”

(Thanks to our crummy location in the balcony, we’ve borrowed this shot from Goob172’s Flickr stream. Thank you!)

We wound down our afternoon with a performance from another set of Canadians, The Weakerthans.

We’re guessing his guitar strap is covering the “N.”

John K. Samson and team flipped between lonely ballads of runaway cats and uptempo rockers about curling.

The day wrapped up with performances from The Black Keys, Lee “Scratch” Perry, Jakob Dylan and Stone Temple Pilots. But by the time Scott Weiland was shaking his skinny ass across Bumbershoot’s mainstage, we were already heading north up I-5 towards home, the day’s highlights already a shimmering glimmer in our rearview.

Tomorrow: Offspring, Superchunk, Old 97s, John Vanderslice, Mike Doughty and more.

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