mingo December 9th, 2005 08:24PM  
If you read the book which accompanies the album you will see that the songs are all related to the death of their close friend who was a sound tech. After trying to kill himself by injecting rat poison, he recovers then eventually throws himself off a motorway bridge. Just one big drawn out metaphor for what probably happened to his mind and body as he took his own life.

offbrodwayX April 20th, 2006 10:04PM  
Mingo is correct. The whole deloused in the comatorium CD is about cedric's best friends who attempted suicide, failed and went in to a coma.. after coming out of the coma, he wrote down everything he saw then, in fact, jumped off a bridge or out of his window.

anonymous May 25th, 2006 12:22PM  
True, the whole album is about Julio Venegas who was Cedric's friend who slipped into a coma and ended up ending his life by jumping off the bridge over the mesa st. exit into oncoming traffic.

anonymous August 2nd, 2006 06:34AM  
You're all right and wrong. Julio venegas(or in "deloused in the comatorium" cerpin taxt) was friends of both omar and cedric, not cedric's best friend. He purposelyt overdosed on morphine which put him in a coma, after he woke up (after writing down all he saw while he was in his coma) he jumped off a motorway crossing.

None of the songs on "deloused" are related to jim ward, the bands sound manipulator who died of a heroin overdose a month before the album was released.
However. "frances the mute" had some references to ward, but most of the album was about a journal which jim ward found when working as a repo man and realised that this man's life was similar to his own.

anonymous August 6th, 2006 02:30PM  
Whoever was above me got it wrong.

Julio didn't write down what he saw, this is just omar and cedric's thoughts on what he might have seen. They have no clue what he saw or if he even saw anything

anonymous May 17th, 2007 03:28PM  
Actually the guy above you has a point to a certain extent.other references also say that ward found a diary of some man who's life was very much the same.as for what they thought making the record well nobody knows.you just keep listening and wonder.

anonymous May 16th, 2008 02:13AM  
Jim ward is alive and well. He is the lead singer of the band Sparta and used to be in At The Drive In. It was his cousin, Jeremy, who died and who found the diary which Frances The Mute is about. He was the sound manipulator for TMV, not Jim...