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To embody the .gif that parodies Mumford and Sons’s intense banjo playing, journalist Steve Heisler, 31, borrowed a friend’s navy blue ukulele, attempted to straighten a Thomas Jefferson wig — breaking a hairbrush in the process — and watched the GIF for 30 minutes to master that creepy expression.