"Spokes" is currently in heavy rotation in my stereo, along with The Mars Volta and Godspeed You! Black Emperor's "Yanqui X. O."

Gav, u back!! I was just wonderin' bout' ya. IMHO you are dead on about the above, although I'm missing the Volta. That Godspeed has the missiles and stuff about Lockheed on the case right? Thats my first GSYBE cd, I heard it on some documentary about horror movies on IFC and realized I needed some. Thats so funny someone mentioned Throbbing Gristle as I saw a local band this weekend called Savage Aural Hotbed. They play all homeade instruments as well as a few radial arm saws and contraptions that throw sparks all over. It was GREAT, although not 100% original. Anyhow, Har Mar Superstar is playing the park down the road from me tonite, so I hope I can get home and make it in time. They're playing the Thomas Crown Affair on a screen after?? He's just here for today then its back to England... Middlesboro saturday, Hull next thursday.. Brighton the next day etc etc... He's just gonna be there for like the next 6 weeks so... go see ma boyeee! The worm turns, the wind shifts one-eighty, and the firestorm turns back on the arsonists, who had been operating with impunity for so long that they'd forgotten the feeling of Heat. -From the book Songs of the Doomed by Hunter S. Thompson