Björk dances in and out of this San Fernando, California Goodyear tire shop in the music video Spike Jonze directed for "It's Oh So Quiet." According to Björk, that's Ernie from Sesame Street inside the dancing mailbox, but Björk is from Iceland, so take that with a grain of salt.

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Los Angeles band that dog. plays in and around the Hot Dog on a Stick by the Santa Monica pier in the video Spike Jonze directed for "Old Timer."

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The black and white music video for Eels hit single "Novocaine for the Soul", directed by Mark Romanek in 1996, shows the band levitating while they play in an alley behind the Family Pants clothing store in Los Angeles.

Lead singer Mark Everett's father 'was Hugh Everett, a physicist who pioneered the concept that quantum fluctuations create splits in reality, resulting in a Level II multiverse containing parallel universes which account for every quantum possibility...' or at least that's what I read in the comments for the video on youtube.

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In the early spring of 1972, Robert Pirsig wrote the final five chapters of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in a two month period. To avoid interruptions he acquired a camper and drove it to a commercial campground that was closed for the winter on the north shore of Lake Superior. He lived and worked in the camper, working while there was natural sunlight because lights in the camper weren't adequate.

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Established in 1900, the Blake School is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian PK-12 college preparatory school. It is consistently ranked as one of the ten best day schools in the country.

In 1936, Robert Pirsig received a scholarship to the Blake School. While at this school, his IQ tested at 170 when he was 9 1/2 years old (a 1 in 50,000 result).

Prior to attending the Blake School, Pirsig had been accelerated from kindergarten to second grade. This obviously caused friction with his classmates- he was bullied, forced to write with his right hand (although left-handed), and he developed a stammer. Entrance to the Blake School allowed Pirsig to develop at his own pace, and he quickly accelerated to attend the University of Minnesota High School at the age of 10.

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