I Cut People | I Quit
Album Year: 2016
I Quit takes reality and pulls it inside out to expose the innards of our destructive mental environment. Our incessant drive to digitally stay connected tears away at our senses and creates the illusion of relationships. This gross ambition towards alienation has generated ever more anxiety in a society already on the verge of its own demise.
Through the process of reification, humanity is enslaved by the very products it produces. These products help to distract us from a fear of boredom (which would lead to thoughtfulness if utilized), pure freedom of consciousness, loneliness, and death. I provide both subtle and crude references to overcoming this addiction to things and accepting our unavoidable mortality.
I Quit is a cut-up that tells the story of a reawakening that is spawned by utilizing pure freedom and setting the foundation for transcendence. Among all the chatter and distractions, I drag loneliness to the forefront and expose its importance.
“The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Things are in the saddle and ride mankind.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Track Listing
1. Take me Somewhere Else (Prologue)
2. Welcome to the…Hold On Just a Sec…
3. Dumped on Stupid
4. Bland
5. All You Need is More Things / Love Left Behind
6. I’m Already Involved
7. The Ballad of the Uninsured
8. Pause to Process
9. Guilty
10. Machines Move Me
11. This is Boring
12. Try It
13. Pharmony
14. Happening Now to No One
15. I’m Trippin’
16. People Down
17. I Hop Scalia
18. Real Uncle
19. Need More Food
20. Slow Motion Fox
21. Signed Up for Life
22. Big Dumb Flag
23. All About Crap
24. Dick Bible
25. Reality, Don’t Go Anywhere
26. Here Now, Dream Later
27. My Lonely Transformation (Outro)
Samples
All samples stolen from television news programs, commercials, talk shows, pharmaceutical ads, dramas, christian programs, reality tv. Other samples include found sound recordings of my daily activities.