The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste for the album. Bill Rieflin and Chris Connelly instead attributed the album's sound to the band's interest in technology. For pre-production, Rieflin said he and Barker watched films for a month, sampling anything that caught their interest. Instead of writing music, they all improvised individually, rarely collaborating with each other. Connelly compared it to exquisite corpse, a Surrealist technique in which an artistic work is created collaboratively without any of the participants having knowledge of the others' contribution. Rieflin cited "So What" as the only track to feature two musicians in the studio at the same time. After playing with
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room own perspective has changed over time - for example he declares that as he has aged he has grown less and less concerned with trying to find a definite answer to what the film as a whole 'means'). The first time that he saw the film was in his early 20s having just finished his education in English literature at Oxford University. In part, therefore, the work is a meditation on time and how it changes our perspective on the world as a whole and on particular cultural artefacts and works of art. This is apposite, since one of Tarkovsky's