Map of settings used in "Heart of Grime" by John Thillen-ushttp://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025180MapBuilder.Net751021Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:43:31 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The location referred to in the song "Heaven Under 14th St."  (Track 14).  A particularly low underpass that commonly floods during the rains.  A secret entrance to heaven is located beneath this bridge.33.973794331984 -117.3736810684233.973794331984-117.37368106842751009Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:33:21 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The interchange project that from 2001-2005 was outside my window.  Both my Riverside apartments were near this interchange.  I could hear night hammering and I saw flashing lights outside my window telling motorists to merge for construction ("Heart of Grime" - Track 8).  Even in the dead of night this construction project slowed traffic to a crawl.  Therefore, the traffic outside my window at the Mulberry St. House was bumper to bumper about 60% of the time.  33.993188345311886 -117.3571586608886733.993188345311886-117.35715866088867751020Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:41:35 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The eastern hills refered to in "Between 2 Hills." (Track 9).  Prominent dumping grounds and site of the Cochina Festival.  Once in about two years they become gorgeously green.33.97938168500 -117.295875549333.97938168500-117.2958755493751017Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:37:05 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The fields behind University Heights Middle School.  Pick-up games of cricket are played here on Sunday afternoon as referred to in "Mulberry Street" (Track 1).33.989772473236 -117.3364734649633.989772473236-117.33647346496750989Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:21:00 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Riverside's favorite open drug market.  Good spot to buy methamphetamines and heroin.  The origin of "the drug dealer's call" in "Mulberry St." and the "drug dealers yell" in "Violence" (Track 3).33.98279797472 -117.3775005340533.98279797472-117.37750053405751108Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:54:32 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The location referred to as Tortilla Flat in the song "In May" (Track 16). 33.83320699378598 -117.5231552124023433.83320699378598-117.52315521240234750992Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:22:32 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Large park in downtown Riverside, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the same man who designed Central Park in New York.    Home to the homeless, drugs, and family picnics.  Beautiful or threatening depending on when you visit.33.99589247998299 -117.3730373382568333.99589247998299-117.37303733825683750996Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:25:03 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Townhouse on Spruce St. in Eastside Riverside where I lived for four years. One of two places I lived in Riverside. They put a fence around it to keep the miscreants in.  Hence the name. 33.98980805594 -117.343297004633.98980805594-117.3432970046767072Mon, 07 May 2007 17:30:59 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Heaven, aka the Pomona Valley.  Inside joke between Whitman and I.  Seems like heaven by comparison to Riverside at the worst points. The song "I Quit" (Track 5) refers to moving to Heaven, which at the time did not refer to this location.  I didn't live here then.  Shortly thereafter Chris Payne changed his myspace location to "Heaven."   He was then living in Pomona. Thus, Pomona Valley has become jokingly refered to as heaven.  More information than you needed to know.  34.091904555072404 -117.7411651611334.091904555072404-117.74116516113751530Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:26:27 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025A stretch of I-10 pervaded by hacked eucalyptus, dust, smog and some of the grittiest industry in southern California.  The site of the "motorcycle crash" in "Cynic's Sin" (Track  2).34.06972475691 -117.372436523434.06972475691-117.3724365234767084Mon, 07 May 2007 17:40:43 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Somewhere out here on the I-70 I slept in reststops on my way back to California.  It is the setting for "Destroying Angel" (Track 6).  It was very hot.  I was in a state of raw panic.  I didn't want to arrive anywhere from here.  I was wasting two days trying to make sure I didn't get to Denver too early for a show I had booked there.  I drove almost all the way to Nebraska through the Kansas countyside, wasting time, feeling aimless.  A fascinating and starkly beautiful place.38.96795115401593 -99.420776367187538.96795115401593-99.4207763671875751534Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:30:44 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The Lake in which the flippered children of whores are said to swim in "Heaven Under 14th St." (Track 14).33.99599922037 -117.3791527748133.99599922037-117.37915277481751018Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:00 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025When "Violence" (track 3) refers to "giving the lawyers hell" this is who it refers to.  Chestnut St. was a line of lawyer's offices excepting the Pixel Palace and their neighbors to the North.  It made the area great for loud band practice and house shows.33.980876328648 -117.3800969123833.980876328648-117.38009691238751531Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:28:53 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Upstart gang turf in downtown, Lime St. was home to some of the slummiest tenement houses in Riverside.  Lots of street kids roamed the area. Their tag sign was "LSG," they occupied a strange buffer zone between the ESRiva and WSRiva crews.  Mentioned in "Heaven Under 14th St." (Track 14).33.98365202569 -117.368402481033.98365202569-117.3684024810751535Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:32:49 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Somewhere in this vicinity Mayor Loveridge has a nice old Victorian house.  It is the location in which the deranged homeless dude in "Heaven Under 14th St." (Track 14)  ends up seeking heaven below the streets of downtown Riverside.33.98617854292 -117.383079528833.98617854292-117.3830795288750990Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:21:45 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Strange glaring mountain directly west of downtown Riverside.  Topped by a cross, it tends to remind you of your multitude of sins.  Referred to in several tracks on the record.  It is the mountain referred to on "Mulberry Street" (Track 1).  It is mentioned by name in "Drugs"  (Track 7).  It is one of the hills in "Between 2 Hills" (Track 9).  It catches on fire every year during 4th of July displays.33.9839011222 -117.3929071426333.9839011222-117.39290714263750985Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:16:34 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025I lived on the third floor of an ancient Victorian house here.  Our kitchen window was eye-level with the 91 freeway, which it backed up against.  There was no air conditioning.  I remember inhaling clouds of exhaust with the windows open on summer nights.  I remember the smell of rotting avocados and barbecued chicken.  I remember the sound of the neighbor's fighting cocks and the dull hum of the freeway.  Beautiful neighborhood, hellish to live in.  The title of the song "Mulberry St." (Track 1) is derived from this location.  The first night we moved into this apartment a car crashed outside our window.33.985075424924 -117.3661708831733.985075424924-117.36617088317750986Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:18:24 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025House where several of my friends lived, some during periods of heavy intravenous drug use.  The default setting for many songs on the album.  "Violence" (Track 3) refers to the spraypainted street outside the house.  The city eventually painted over it, but it took several months.  Pixel Palace is also the location of the song "Riverside" (Track 12).  This song is based on a true incident.  One night at dusk we were standing outside the Pixel Palace when this giant missile contrail cut across the sky.  It was lit up by the usual violent sunset, until the contrail was glowing like a neon cut .  It was incredibly beautiful, but also a symbol of impending doom.  This house sat unoccupied for a long time after the residents moved to San Francisco, Portland and the gutter.33.98114322653 -117.3799681663533.98114322653-117.37996816635767077Mon, 07 May 2007 17:34:48 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025I lived here with my ex.35.78551286273961 -78.6524963378906235.78551286273961-78.65249633789062751111Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:01:38 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The low point, elevation wise of the neighborhoods that range between the Box Springs Mountains and Mt. Rubidoux.  It also represents one of the lowest economic points in the city, choked by exhaust from the busy rail lines and the 91 freeway.  Mentioned in "Drugs" (Track 7).33.983705403600 -117.3636388778633.983705403600-117.36363887786751110Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:58:35 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Where my mother bore me.  Referenced in the second "Heart of Grime" (Track 11).33.97689055385 -117.3828220367433.97689055385-117.38282203674751532Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:30:07 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The Salvation Army Services Center referred to in "Heaven Under 14th St." (Track 14).33.9875307325621 -117.3698186874389633.9875307325621-117.36981868743896750993Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:23:13 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The languid Santa Ana River.  The river for which Riverside is named.33.99269020585 -117.3915338516233.99269020585-117.39153385162751019Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:59 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The liquor store referred to in "Violence" (Track 3).  One line just for lotto tickets.33.988100069129 -117.3723936080933.988100069129-117.37239360809751023Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:52:34 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The location of the stripmines mentioned in "In May" (Track 16).  Towering over the poorer unincorporated neighborhoods just outside Corona. 33.84094229058 -117.5043582916233.84094229058-117.50435829162751022Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:50:36 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025The landscape described in "In May" (Track 16).    You can drive past a monstrous stripmine on this road heading south from El Cerrito.  33.814739261836 -117.50744819641133.814739261836-117.507448196411750987Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:20:19 -0400http://www.mapbuilder.net/users/johnthill/42025Where Whitman (Chris Payne) lived.  Both of us moved to Heaven after living in Rivah.33.98137453735 -117.3797321319533.98137453735-117.37973213195