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“Let´s break through the madness of the night, everything is gonna be alright, soon this life will be over.”

Pitchfork: The first track I heard from the LP was “Mental Breakdown” from 2004. Can you tell me more about that song? JM: I’ve always struggled with sleep and motivation and crazy feelings and emotions that just seem overwhelming. So I tried to share a little bit of that cruel insanity with people. I wrote that in 2003, when I was living with Ariel; he was doing Worn Copy, and I was doing that in my room. Sometimes you’re listening and you’re just like, “What the fuck is going on?” I envy the shit out of people that believe [life is] a certain way. I don’t know what the fuck is going on. The best wager to me has always been the Socratic one. You ask people who seem to think it’s a certain way why they think that. And invariably you find that they come up against foundational leaps of faith– axioms that their whole certain way presupposes. I hate to talk about philosophy, but the shit I read in there makes a lot of sense– that we’re alienated from our true communal nature. I have no idea what the hell is going on in the world, in my life, in what anything means, or what I’m supposed to do. And that’s kind of what that’s about.

“Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”