Helium

For Gary Wilder, life is a guitar shop with more memories than customers . . .

Once Gary had been "Gary Wilder and the Hi-Tones - live on stage tonight". But that was before he let everything drift away: his folks, his wife, the band, the shower curtains . . .

And this is now - a bizarre bad hair day made worse by the reappearance of Kent Treacy, acid casualty guitarist from the days when the old surf band mutated into The High in a chemical haze. Kent's warped perspective on the gravity of Gary's situation proves unexpectedly influential as the lightness in Gary's step becomes of great interest in NASA.