Patti Smith as a muse. I like that idea. And I think, as much as I love Topless Robot, we all go through spells when we need something else to feed the creative need. Saying that...

We ended up going all english major on George Lucas's ass and doing a feminist critical analysis which culminated in our simultaneous, drunken howl of "DARTH VADER IS THE PATRIARCHY!"

First, I'm not an English major - but I so could have got into that conversation. Second, you should make bumper stickers out of that 'drunken howl'.