i imagine the tendency of the brain to auto-synchronize helps somewhat.

there's something to that, Jon May, definitely. Doesn't one of the songs on Thought for Food have some sample that says something about the aleatoric, or am I TOTALLY making that up? But they are very careful and precise with their editing too, I think.

i'm not trying to diss the books, don't get me wrong. i agree, their live show is damn good. part of that is they have good visuals and good music and those always go together well.

Oh, sorry, I didn't think you were. I'm a big fan of chance synchronization and anyone who sets if up well deserves merit- even with mental auto-synch you can't just do anything you want and get away with it. I was just thinking of the song CM told me about before I actually saw them, where the lyrics run by on a black screen as they sing, and the whole thing stays very tight. Can't remember which song that is.

Was it "Smells Like Content"? In any case, I seem to remember that the stuff on screen during that song not being the lyrics, but being a playful linguistic transformation of the lyrics. (Homonyms, etc.)

That is what it is, I had neither the memory nor the time to describe it accurately. But it was pretty seriously synched to the music, no?

I've been trying to put the Hummer ad that "That Right Ain't Shit" is featured in out of my mind, as the song is just so lovely and weird that to have it reduced to wallpaper for that gallons-per-mile military-grade rustbucket puts me down in the dumps.

Wonderful live show, though - worth standing in the back holding your winter coats for.

Wait, they're in a hummer ad? That's fucking disappointing. So fine, you need some cash, I understand- but to just absolutely not discriminate? That's ridiculous.

Or: That right ain't shit.