Release date: 1993
Price: $9.90

Writing this album was an abusive affair. I was living alone in unit G-15 at the beautiful Devonshire apartment complex in Mankato, Minnesota. Drop by and see it sometime, all ye slum seekers. Anyhow, it was around this time that my passion for ferrets developed, and I decided I would find one for a roommate.

I succeeded, and upon returning home with my friendly quadruped I locked the door, got drunk, and wrote songs for a week. I did not go outside, I did not take calls, I did not answer the door. I drank, got to know my ferret ( he shits in corners, bites the toes of passed out dipsomaniacs, and crawls into appliances with surprising ease ) and made up lies with melodies. At the end of the week, I had Idiot Express. I still have the ferret, his name is Allegro (although I renamed him Tragedy when I became a monk, more on that later).

Of the songs on Idiot Express, I still play Idiot Express, Never Love With You, Giving In, and It's All Just Because. In my opinion the other songs on the record are best left to die, with the exception of Goodbye To Me, which was just the victim of dumb production ideas. Particularly unbearable for me to hear now are The Free United States, and Working At Burger King. I think Love Is A Punch In The Throat is ok, good drinking music for people who aren't monks. This was my first album, with that in mind I'm pleased with how it's aged. It is not boring, and that counts for a lot.

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