Tom Peloso writes awesome Modest Mouse tune a long time ago

The extremely creepy, somewhat ecologically-minded, partially Heath Ledger-helmed animated video for Modest Mouse's latest single "King Rat" came out about a month ago. After overcoming the heebie-jeebies (mostly stemming from the part where the whales start skinning the humans) we finally bought the track from Amazon, at which point we noticed that the "Composer" field in the metadata tag pointed to former Hackensaw Boys bassist and sorta-soloist Tom Peloso.

Royalty structures can be considerably friendlier to songwriters than performers in what's left of the record business, so this would have been filed under "local boy done good" even if the song wasn't cool, which it definitely is.