i recall standing in a grocery store check-out line one night... it was late and i was very tired and irritated after a long couple of weeks on tour... i remember two girls, obnoxious girls... frothing at the mouth over some fashion magazine... their bodies and faces, draped and trimmed in every single product that the previous issues tips and tricks had vomited out to them... all of its glitz and glamor had them all fucked up, and it amazed me how much they were obsessed with getting out the following day to each get matching designer hand bags from god-knows-what over inflated mega-retailer.
watching them worship someone... some "thing" that theyd never met, would likely never meet, and were about to hand over hundreds of dollars to... in the name of mirroring the status quo...damn...
all the while im reminded that there was a point in history where none of these things were necessary... there was a time when you could discover some open plain with fertile soil, claim it as yours, find your place within that local eco system and live happily ever after. the dollar... the euro... these things had never existed...
it became upsetting to me how much 'money' has become the end all/be all of the human condition, so much that its more important to spend time making money than it is to spend with your family, friends and loved ones. even more sickening was the billions of people driven by the industry of "fashion and fame" in a non-stop cycle of trying to impress each other... buying shiny cars, clothing and houses strictly for the purpose of feeling complete.
do we really need all of that...?
over the next few days at the studio, i sat with a track tentatively titled 'nevermind', which was nothing more than a rolling drum loop and 2 tracks of filthy guitar chords. a few days later, it was 'half-LIFE'...
fuck those people.
-pm
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