LNOYL

This is the second song on the test pressing, “the plan”. Since the story within the song has inspired the graphic novel that accompanies the album, I played with some of the images from the book while the record spun. I stuck images from the novel on the label. Half way through, one of the labels came off, spun towards the needle and there was this huge screech as the needle played the groove-less paper.  Ouch. The swirl is this optical illusion -- if you stare into it, straight on, it will start feel 3D. I video recorded it with my 2001 digital camera, which was budget back then, which means it’s like a super 8 now in digital terms. The frame rate does weird things when I zoom too much with it. The effects are totally early star trek. Out of all the songs on the album, this one’s probably seen the greatest amount of change from early demo to final form, but it feels the same none the less. The squeal and voices at the ending, around the 4:20 mark and onwards are ripped from a scratchy video, of myself and Josh having an argument one night -- we were at each others neck’s, arguing drunken graduate school style about the existence of consciousness, while dareck was laughing/instigating/moderating the whole time. We spent a whole day looking for that clip, then stuck it into the AKAI. I had this little radio that used to wake me up in time for school, and we got it into action for this song. Dareck would play and manipulate the conversation on the 80′s akai, which then went to another effect box i was controlling, which then was hooked up to an FM radio transmitter, then the radio picked up those frequencies and blared the modified conversation out the little speaker that used to tell me to wake up 10 years earlier. It was a blast from the past, which is the sound I think we got for that part of the song…