“Timothy Showalter has a very active fantasy life: the singer/songwriter behind Strand of Oaks has previously written songs about giants, bowling-related fatalities, exacting vengeance on John Belushi's drug dealer, and lunar colonies. On the lead track from his Dead Oceans debut HEAL, the Hoosier-born Showalter simply relates his own origin story: "I was fat, drunk and mean," he snarls, and he was”
