A collection of disjointed vignettes follows a self-important writer on a hike, a lost driver re-routed away from the hospital, a philosopher in search of the best Chinese food, a couch-surfer on a midnight joyride, a spirited conspiracy theorist, and other young urban wanderers in the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles.

Billy is a rebellious teenager who lives with his mother and brother, and works in a foundry. His parents are separated and he has not seen his father, who lives in another state now, for years. After being arrested for joyriding in a car that was stolen by a friend, Billy is sent to a juvenile correction center. But when his grandfather dies, and Billy hears that his father will be coming into town for the funeral, he walks out of the facility, hoping to re-establish a relationship with him.

Chappell Livestream from The Lowlands Festival in The Netherlands 2025

The Mars Volta performing at Lowlands Festival in 2003. Setlist: 1. Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) 2. Cicatriz ESP (w/ future elements of Cassandra Gemini) 3. Drunkship of Lanterns (w/ future elements of Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus)

Setlist: You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire, No One Knows, My God Is the Sun, I'm Designer, Smooth Sailing, Burn the Witch, I Sat by the Ocean, The Vampyre of Time and Memory, If I Had a Tail, Little Sister, Feel Good Hit of the Summer, Do It Again, Make It Wit Chu, I Appear Missing, Sick, Sick, Sick, Go With the Flow, A Song for the Dead