Pete’s depiction of the lonely life of a touring indie-rock musician was inspired by the Replacements’ song “Can’t Hardly Wait” (“Lights that flash in the evening/Through a crack in the drapes”), which gives the box its title. This site’s co-editor Barry Biediger helped with the lighting effect of headlights speeding by outside the window at right. It’s a hard box to photograph, although Penny Meyer did her best, and it’s much more effective in person.