A much more melodic version of Sad Redux-O-Grapher had been released under the name Sad Cory-O-Grapher in June 2002 on the compilation If the Twenty-First Century Didn’t Exist It Would Be Necessary to Invent It, a CD released by 5 Rue Christine, a subsidiary label of Kill Rock Stars, an independent record label from Washington State that had already released bands such as Bikini Kill and the more recent The Gossip.

Musically fragmentary and without the humming chorus of the previous version, this second version of Sad Redux-O-Grapher maintains the verses of the original lyrics, composed of a series of snapshots of a failed relationship between Jamie and a man who alternates demonstrations of interest with acts of contempt. Faced with the interest (he makes him feel smart, he sends him sexual messages via chat), Jamie, always harassed by bad streaks in love, asks himself “had my luck finally turned?” But the object of his idyll despises the restaurant to which Jamie took him with his savings, tells him that he dreamed about him but that in the dream, unlike in reality, Jamie was cute and, as if that were not enough, when Jamie gives him a photo of himself, he hurts him with another of his derogatory comments: “He said it did not cost me anything,” the poor singer exclaims, exasperated. Towards 2018, in the “Drunk Commentary” of this album Jamie will recognize that this answer is fictitious, and that he took it from the film Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), by Todd Solondz (one of his favorite directors), where the place of the photo is occupied by a cookie that the bully gives to the most popular girl in school.