The second track, "Sailing By Night," contains a sample of the song "Meetings Along The Edge" from the Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar project Passages, as well as a sample from the Yellow Magic Orchestra track, Rydeen.

The third track "Noam Chomsky Spring Break 2002" samples the Regina Spektor song "Prisoners".

It also samples Astor Piazzolla's composition "Oblivion" in the opening and closing sequences.

The track "We Have to Respect Each Other" samples Shooby Taylor, the human horn, while the opening to "Forty Dollar Rug" samples "Il Teatrino Delle Suore" from Nino Rota's soundtrack to Giulietta Degli Spiriti.

The track "Gravity's Greatest Victory/Rex Snorted Cocaine" contains a sample of the John Williams composition "The Little People Work" from the soundtrack to Star Wars: A New Hope