"The fact is... no matter how closely I study it, no matter how I take it apart, no matter how I break it down... It remains consistent... I wish you were here to see it!" Call me MistmanX, Misty or just plain ol' Calum. Music is my life. Progressive music... Rock or Metal... King Crimson, Genesis, Queen, Mars Volta, Primus, Tool, Devin Townsend...
“About 10 years ago or so I locked myself away in a house on the ocean, and I tried to… I said I was trying to write some music. Some of which wound up on The Fragile. But what I was really doing was trying to kill myself. And the whole time I was away by myself, I managed to write one song, which is this song. So when I play it I feel pretty weird about it, because it takes me back to a pretty dark and awful time in my life. It’s weird to think how different things are now: I’m still alive, I haven’t died yet. And I’m afraid to go back to that place because it feels kind of haunting to me, but I’m going to go back. I’m going to get married to Mariqueen Maandig there.”
—Reznor, on the origins of the first instrumental written for the album “La Mer” at a 2009 performance in Mansfield, MA.[8]
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