I Cut People | Miserable Day

Album Year: 2015

Hopelessness, nothingness, and loneliness are among the many themes I take on in Miserable Day. Constant references to suicide and the absurdity of life, while reveling in debauchery, overflow into a barrage of fierce polemics in the form of Menippean satire. Miserable Day is a testimony through the lens of Nietzsche’s “last man,” (a decadent and reactive) to how we go about our lives with nothing to lose (a will to nothingness), everything to fear, and nothing to expect when we die. Yet, the continuous references to suicide symbolize [perhaps] a rebirth / replacement / transformation. Though mostly dark, it maintains a sense humor throughout, adding a sliver of light to its bleak nihilistic convictions.

“The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity; and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer

“The meaning of life is that it stops.”
– Franz Kafka

 

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Track Listing

1. This is American Life
2. Subliminal Fun-Loving Wife
3. Partially Skeletonized Gandhi Body
4. A Misunderstood Idea
5. Ebola Vacation
6. I Wish We Were All on LSD at the Same Time
7. Working Weekends (We’re All Gonna Die)
8. Fuck Tomorrow, Try Again Blank
9. Watch Me, Innocence
10. Better Plan
11. Nothing Wallet
12. I Recommend More Misery
13. Spoiler Alert
14. All You Care About is Your Selfie
15. We Remember Thinking
16. Dead Body
17. There’s No Such Thing

Samples
All samples stolen from television news programs, commercials, pharmaceutical ads, talk shows, dramas, christian programs, reality tv.