"This plane is definitely crashing!" This was screamed by musician Isaac Brock and has stood as the capstone for the music that would form under a subtle title: Modest Mouse. Formed in Olympia, Washington, the sounds of Modest Mouse would shape the genres that fall under the characterizations of indie rock. More significantly than their music itself, Brock's lyrical content referred to many, as "emo  would define a generation of manic-depressives, lost in the mist of trailer parks and the ever so cliché drug world of the Lonesome Crowded West. Written and produced on their earliest record, Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset has given the indie rock community a glimpse into the bipolar state of mind many persons underwent during the late nineteen ninety's. This mindset is summarized by two words: Oh noose. Admittedly, every human being will undergo good and bad occurrences throughout their lifetime. Human emotion has evolved into something very overwhelming for many to grasp yet in the same context, shaped our coexisted history as human beings. The overwhelming dilemma every human is forced to deal with at one point or another in their lives is the legacy they leave behind once they no longer exist. Some base their entire livelihoods and daily decisions on this sole concept, and others just exist. Then there are those who fall in between. Modest Mouse's twenty-year lead vocalist Isaac Brock is the epitome of those who fall in between. Constantly addressing his own existential crisis, Brock's lyrical content ricochets from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows, and addresses the full spectrum that is human emotion. Through this evocative approach to writing, Brock transcends occurrences in his life into over dramatized songs that all of his audience has empathized with. That is where an understanding of bipolar disorder begins: Brock's writings. As a young child, the musician was exposed to an array of subcultures. Being brought up in the Midwestern United States, he moved between hippy communes and churches located throughout Montana and Oregon. At the age of eleven, Brock and his single mother moved to Washington State where copious amounts of his lyrical content would find influence. Found on the 1997 Lonesome Crowded West record, the song "Trailer Trash  would reflect on Brock's teenage years with lyrics such as "Short love with a long divorce  and "I can't do anything,  Brock made it very clear that external conflicts in his childhood would influence the unstable person he'd eventually become. Seeing that his life was going nowhere in the eyes of society, and living in the shed of his mother's trailer, Brock wasted no time with the formation of Modest Mouse in 1993. At the mere age of eighteen, Brock and band mates such as notable drummer Jeremiah