Artist	Song
Neil Alan	Pizza Pizza Pizza Pie
Sonic Youth	Computer Age [Neil Young cover]
The Decemberists	Los Angeles, I'm Yours
The Black Heart Procession	Destroying the City of Hearts
Erase Errata	Delivery
Add N to (X)	Invasion of the Polaroid People
The Flaming Lips	You have to be joking (Autopsy of the Devil's Brain)
The Postal Service	Suddenly Everything Has Changed [Flaming Lips cover]
Hot Hot Heat	Get In or Get Out
They Might Be Giants	(She was a) Hotel Detective
John Zorn	A Shot in the Dark
Exhaust	Two Years on Welfare
Quasimoto	Welcome to Violence
Guided By Voices	I'll Replace You With Machines
Calexico	The Book and the Canal
Bob Dylan	Slow Train Coming
The Magnetic Fields	Heroes [David Bowie cover]
Scud Mountain Boys	Freight of Fire
The Bellrays	Voodoo Train
The Pixies	There Goes My Gun
Radar Bros.	You've Been Hired
Nancy Sinatra	Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)

Comment:

This is the first 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 One

[Los Angeles, then the Northern Oregon wilderness, the year 2015.]

In which we meet the main character, a pizza delivery driver [tips hat to Neal Stephenson's cyberpunk classic Snow Crash], who witnesses some sort of crazy technological killing machine loosed in a L.A. neighbourhood, with horrifying results. Only his great driving saves him from certain death, but his car is totalled. He's interviewed by the police, who don't believe him, then this incredible, gunslinging woman, who's some sort of investigator/secret agent (she's vague on the details), seeks him out. She has been pursuing the people building these weapons for some time. Reluctant at first to get any further involved in this mess, Pizza Guy agrees to help her when she appeals to his need to avenge the loss of his delivery vehicle. Acting on information she acquires, they raid a local warehouse and find some evidence of this new technology, including a promotional video [represented by Quasimoto's "Welcome to Violence" track] demonstrating its capabilities. But most of the technology has already been cleared out, and is on a freight train headed north to Washington State.

They get ahead of the train and shoot their way aboard, at which point the woman apparently switches sides and shoots the pizza guy in the head.

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 one booklet, which also contains a pair of onionskin pages on which the storyline and tracklist are printed.

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