Believed to have been inspired by a late night drive into Ottawa for a family funeral, "Greasy Jungle" references classic film, an actual funeral home, and a rain slicked capital city.

When a rain storm leaves a city's streets greasy and reflective, you can see the towns highlights and high-rises shimmering in each puddle. If you were driving into the city at night, as legend has it Gord was, it would quite literally be a metropolis noir or "dark city." These dense puddles of reflection in a city that certainly sleeps, a greasy jungle, may be an allusion to Metropolis, the dark, creepy, but classic silent film. The movie was famously shot using mirrors (because proper equipment for matte or projected background techniques did not yet exist) and was intended to reflect the dark realities for the average city dweller while romanticizing the Marxist-Leninist movement. The strange city-scapes were intended to show how capitalist and industrial societies would evolve into hulking, ominous and oppressive domains. Metropolis: City Noir is an excellent academic look at the film, and its title hints at the connections between this 1926 expressionist work, and the film-noir style that would follow it.

A metropolis is a large and densely populated urban area. Despite what Sim-City may have taught us, there is no general level of population that qualifies a city as a metropolis. It's a subjective term. It's also where Superman lives.

Hazeldean Rd. is a large thoroughfare that stretches east and west across Kanata, Ontario: part of Canada's capital city of Ottawa.

Kelly Funeral Home is a well established Ottawa business with locations all over the city. Their Kanata location is behind the Hazeldean mall... so if you wanna grab a mmmuffin before the service, you're in luck.