Mini Mansions is composed partly of Queens of the Stone Age's most recent (Era Vulgaris-era) bassist, Michael Shuman (that's the significant part of who they are). I just recently got a hold of their near album length EP and it's pretty good. They play what sounds like a mixture of The Beatles and the kind of nonsensical near-crap that Liam Finn keeps putting out, with a touch of Elliott Smith thrown in (but none of Smith's emotional urgency or constant whiny pining for drugs).

I, for some reason, can't stop listening to this song, Majik Marker. I'm not even sure what the hook is---it's definitely not the stream of consciousness nonsense lyrics---though I suspect it might be his repeated "eh heh heh heh" which is unique enough to stick out in my head and make me want to listen to it over and over again.

I also love the lyric "all the girls at my school are ventriloquists" which means absolutely nothing to me but I feel like there is an emotional component to it that I can understand on some base level, deep in my chest, where the part of me that is still wounded by my grade school years lurks in the darkness, waiting to hang me when all eyes are averted.