Tympanic Toast was born and raised in Podunk, Michigan in a small Vietnamese Laundromat. His fascination with washing machines, resulted in the consequent accumulation of 57 head injuries, believed to have inspired his musical style, but more likely contributed to more strokes. After the 32nd head injury, he began to attract the interest of psychologists, whom intrigued by his worsening psychotic condition, decided to continue their observations without offering medical assistance. The final 57th head injury was the result of a psychological experiment gone horribly awry. When given a simple discrimination task in order to receive a marshmallow, he dove head first into a mop-bucket, presumably for safety as it vaguely resembled a washing machine. The injury left him a paraplegic, causing him to believe he is a writhing, tentacle-waving piece of toast. Psychologists speculate that he regressed to an early-life state of mind, causing him to experience rebirth among what he may have thought were tentacles, but was really just a mop. The 'toast' part of his identity has remained more illusive, some suspect that the janitor's sandwich may have fallen into the mop-bucket. Out of fear of the NIH revoking further grant money, the Toast experiments continued, although in a much different setting. Currently he has 245 electrodes hooked up to his brain and a touchpad operated by his tongue. Psychologists hoped that in this way they might be able to resume some level of communication with Toast, but due to software incompatibility errors, they had to disconnect him from the system for repairs. During the lag time, one of the interns thought it would be amusing to hook Toast up to his laptop, making the first discovery of Toast's musical talent in Fruity Loops software. Ever since this discovery, this intern has been exploiting Toast's bizarre and degenerating neural connectivity for whatever it may be worth to the internet.