Excerpt from the Tiny Mix Tapes premiere of the song "King Size" from the album:
TMT:
The press release says “a mistakenly broken loop on ‘King Size’ is work flow, the steady rhythm of carpentry.” If that’s so, then to paraphrase Tom Waits, what are you building in there?
Which is to say, if “King Size” is a creepy garage in the bucolic community that is Little Man, You’ve Had a Busy Day, what’s going on inside of it that has the neighbors stirring?
s.al:
I’m building the death scene in there. The set pieces. “King Size” is not the actual death but the recollection of a previous death.
By recalling something one might awaken it. In that way it is also a premonition. The Hagakure basically instructs to rehearse your death daily.
This is prep work. But it is lost on many people that the “prep work” can constitute the majority of total labor for a given task.
Grow comfortable, familiar w the idea of personal death. Prepare yourself mentally. And you will be more prepared to let things die.
My dad has given me one piece of advice that governs my style and aligns w this mode of thought: When the painting is done, let it go… and it’s finished sooner than you think.
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