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Liner Notes for The Soundtrack to the Diner of Fear

The Diner of Fear is an imaginary (as of 1998) movie about working for miminum wage in a restaurant. When I created this work, I was working at a 50's retro diner in Eugene Oregon, and Mark Garner and I were the main breakfast cooks there at the time. I played the music on this CD in 4 sessions. The Prelude to the Diner of Fear was actually The Afterthought to the Diner of Fear. The Diner Closes for the Night was a solo guitar improvisation playing my cheap acoustic guitar through a variety of cheap effect pedals. The rest of the pieces were sysnthesiser improvisations played in two separate sittings.

After recording the synthesiser and guitar pieces, I added yet more effects to them, and recorded a preliminary version of the songs. I played them at work before the diner opened while we did prep, and Mark commented that it sounded like, "The Soundtrack to the Diner of Fear." The name stuck, and as I continued to play the tape, I began to imagine scenes that would go with each section if it were a movie.

The Diner of Fear is a day working for minimum wage, maybe at a diner, maybe at a gas station, it doesn't really matter. As the title suggests, it is a horror movie, but the horror is that nothing ever actually happens. The day ends, and the next day begins again the same. You work your ass off for the privelege of coming back to work your ass off some more.

Perhaps some day I will write the screenplay. In the meantime, I'm just trying to avoid going into re-runs.