Artist	Song
Sonic Youth	Skip Tracer
Matmos	The Struggle Against Unreality
Wilco	Ashes of American Flags
PJ Harvey	Highway 61 Revisited [Bob Dylan cover]
Slint	Carol
Cat Power	Werewolf
Songs: Ohia	The Body Burned Away
The Black Heart Procession	Fingerprints
Guided By Voices	Portable Men's Society
John Cale	Mercenaries (Ready for War) [live]
Laika and the Cosmonauts	Six Seconds in Dallas
Los Lobos	Navajas Attacks
Magazine	Shot by Both Sides
Primal Scream	Kowalski
Dave Edmunds	Crawling from the Wreckage
Red Elvises	Boogie on the Beach
Pavement	Trigger Cut
Trembling Blue Stars	Under Lock and Key
The Mountain Goats	Oceanographer's Choice

Comment:

This is the second of three discs of an epic cyberpunk-roadtrip-apocalyptic-tarantino-gunfest-"freedom-loving peoples versus Microsoft"-romantic-sci-fi-action mix I put together for a friend. Basic story outline follows below.

Act Two

[Beginning in Omaha, continuing south along the Mississippi, turning west to Texas and then burning rubber east to Florida]

The pizza guy wakes up in an empty box car on a siding in Omaha, unhurt except for a massive headache. Picking himself up, he breaks into an ATM, and then acquires a car and heads south to Texas, where he knows some people. Camping beside the Mississippi in Missouri, he's attacked by one of the killing machines. He's able to kill it, but detectives find his fingerprints and connect them to what went down in Los Angeles and Omaha. He manages to escape a run-in with the cops and continues south to Dallas, where he hooks up with some old acquaintances who can give him more information on the woman if he lends his gun to help them kidnap the President of Texas, who has the control codes to the world's oil pipelines implanted in his finger.

The kidnapping goes badly wrong and ends in a massacre of the Texan Presidential Ball. Pizza Guy flees eastward, outfoxing a massive car chase by police from four states and various federal and corporate hitmen (who think he's in possession of some of the killing technology), becoming an underground folk hero in the process due to media coverage of the event [tips hat to the film Vanishing Point]. He is finally cornered and taken into custody on a Florida beach by the militant wing of the FCC.

He wakes up in an interrogation room, across the table from the woman from act one. It turns out she's an FCC agent who had been attempting to infiltrate the massive conspiracy developing these technological terror machines with the aim of world domination. Their leader? The criminal mastermind himself, Bill Gates. They enjoy a night together before she heads to Atlanta on business connected with her new job as Gates' personal assistant. Pizza guy is to meet her there in a couple days, before they drive to Boston for the final battle.

Packaging:

All three discs are packaged in a gatefold jacket built of cardstock disc mailers and wrapped in the artwork below. The images below are the exterior cover and the art pages of the disc two booklet, which also contains a pair of onionskin pages on which the storyline and tracklist are printed.

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