Notes

• "The artificial, man-made structure of life breaking down into chaos."
• "Regressing from the digital age into older mediums."

• Tracks:
  • Define society's infrastructure - Surrealism
  • Define society's nuances (life in general)
  • One closing track

• Song ideas:
  • "Feral employee" -- berserk cubicle worker
  • "Barbarian invasions" -- Comparing society's artificiality to the Roman empire and the way it crumbled; personification of said crumbling (barbarian invasion).
  • "All Along The Watchtower" -- bonus track
  • "Tuesday Black Tuesday" -- a parody of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" about the stock market crash of the '20s (new bonus track)
  • "Emby" -- based on Shakespeare's Macbeth
  • "The Plastic Revolution" -- people stop using plastic because of toxic side effects. Ties in with the theme of society's regression.
  • "Canadian Pie" -- I just want to do it.
  • "Computer Wizard" -- computer geek as some kind of weird Christ-figure
  • "Back to the Abacus" -- technology breaks down and people go back to simple machines
  • "CinemaChurch" -- the philosophical implications of a movie theatre inside an old church
  • "Ragnarök" -- ultimate downfall of society, metaphorically represented by the Norse myth of the end times
  • "I'm a Bear" -- problems with the stock market (get Nevik to write)

• Seeboard: Non-public miscommunication

• "...in that, with the crumbling of this artificial structure of society, man will be able to take the first faltering steps to further exploring his own spirituality."

• We should prob'ly put some quiet little thing at the start of "The System is Down" to start off the album... seems to be how a lot of classic prog rock albums (Tarkus, In the Court of the Crimson King, Dark Side of the Moon, 2112, Crime of the Century, Wish You Were Here, and, though they don't ezackly fit in this category, Neon Bible and The Slip) start out; some little echoey synth or voice thing, maybe to brace you before the weirdness kicks in.