Flux: One lyric that jumped out was, "When you open your mouth you're too stupid to scream" from 'Promise of Water' Was that inspired by a particular person or incident?
M: Well we're all just too stupid to scream, considering the predicament we've allowed ourselves to slip into. That song is about being infected. Thoughts, images, desires, ideas injected directly into your head and blood, where George Bush is equal to Paris Hilton is equal to an internet stalker with a hard-on beneath a towel caught on camera naked in the kitchen of his intended victim is equal to some stupid rock band in their video is equal to a poor African kid with flies in his eyes is equal to an American boy getting his legs blown off in Iraq as 100s of thousand Iraqis themselves are
displaced or murdered or erupt in an orgy of willing slaughter and public gore and revenge is equal to a slick car commercial with ironic contemporary music is equal to myspace.com or The New York Times. I'm just taking it all in, it's a phantasmagoria of wonder and possibility, more real than any thoughts or reality I might come up with on my own. We're in a new age, for sure. The only reality is pain, or possibly orgasm. Everything else is on the news. But it's also a sort of heaven - at least our ancestors might have thought so.
Flux: This song seems almost prophetic of this summer in Britain, as much of the country is flooding!
M: I'm sorry to hear of your troubles. Count your blessings though. At least you have a government with a sense of social responsibility, sure at least
to do their (flawed) human best to bring people to safety and clean up the mess. In our case, over two years later, New Orleans is still a disaster
zone, just muck and mold. A short time ago bloated corpses floated down its streets while dogs howled, quickly revisiting their bestial ways, rooting for nourishment in the ripe intestines of the proud citizens of one of the greatest and most historically rich cities in America... A disgrace! But I'm as complicit in this crime as the next person...
Flux: One lyric that jumped out was, "When you open your mouth you're too stupid to scream" from 'Promise of Water' Was that inspired by a particular person or incident?
M: Well we're all just too stupid to scream, considering the predicament we've allowed ourselves to slip into. That song is about being infected. Thoughts, images, desires, ideas injected directly into your head and blood, where George Bush is equal to Paris Hilton is equal to an internet stalker with a hard-on beneath a towel caught on camera naked in the kitchen of his intended victim is equal to some stupid rock band in their video is equal to a poor African kid with flies in his eyes is equal to an American boy getting his legs blown off in Iraq as 100s of thousand Iraqis themselves are displaced or murdered or erupt in an orgy of willing slaughter and public gore and revenge is equal to a slick car commercial with ironic contemporary music is equal to myspace.com or The New York Times. I'm just taking it all in, it's a phantasmagoria of wonder and possibility, more real than any thoughts or reality I might come up with on my own. We're in a new age, for sure. The only reality is pain, or possibly orgasm. Everything else is on the news. But it's also a sort of heaven - at least our ancestors might have thought so.
Flux: This song seems almost prophetic of this summer in Britain, as much of the country is flooding!
M: I'm sorry to hear of your troubles. Count your blessings though. At least you have a government with a sense of social responsibility, sure at least to do their (flawed) human best to bring people to safety and clean up the mess. In our case, over two years later, New Orleans is still a disaster zone, just muck and mold. A short time ago bloated corpses floated down its streets while dogs howled, quickly revisiting their bestial ways, rooting for nourishment in the ripe intestines of the proud citizens of one of the greatest and most historically rich cities in America... A disgrace! But I'm as complicit in this crime as the next person...
-M Gira in Flux Magazine, july 2007