Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago

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Well, well, well, this has been a long time coming. And it was all worth it.

I think I might start making more video essay-based content in the future, but who knows.

Thanks to my friends for all their support on this project from the very start. Enjoy the next approx. 40 mins of me rambling on about music, specifically The Flaming Lips' underrated 1997 album Zaireeka!

(Video / Music credits at the end of the video)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
0:00 Prelude
1:27 Intro
3:46 Origins
5:32 Recording
6:54 Okay I'll Admit That I Really Don't Understand
9:00 Riding to Work in the Year 2025 (Your Invisible Now)
12:00 Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair
15:17 A Machine in India
17:27 The Train Runs Over the Camel But is Derailed By the Gnat
20:22 How Will We Know? (Futuristic Crashendos) (TW: LOUD)
23:22 March of the Rotten Vegetables
25:31 The Big Ol Bug is the New Baby Now
28:54 Release
31:30 Legacy
36:50 Final Word / Credits