We recorded this at Jeff Hoskin’s great Daylabor studios in Austin during three days in the middle of the summer of 1999. There were no windows in the studio and we had to turn the A.C. off so it wouldn’t show up on the recording, so we were soaked in sweat. Most of the songs are live first takes. Between takes, Jeff would regale us with his stories of Henry Rollins’ rigorous push-up regimen. David Dalrymple came in one day to play accordion for "Whole Wide World." The whole time I was strumming and singing there was a photograph of a Mexican corpse museum immediately to the right of my head. Apparently there’s this town in Mexico so arid that buried corpses are perfectly preserved. I guess cemetary space is rare in this town, because if your family can’t afford to keep up the rent on your plot your corpse will be disinterred and stood up on display in this museum. Some of the corpses look like they’re laughing uproariously, some of them look like they’re hiding their faces out of shame. The most memorable corpse, in the foreground, looks like he’s defiantly trying to suck the entire room into his mouth.