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I thought it would be fun to take a quote from Thus Spoke Zarathustra and put it in a subversive context. To me the gist of it means 'to be religiously existential'. Someone akin to a schrodinger's cat in superposition between being a fool with nothing to believe in and a corpse in the making regardless of any decisions made. To me the act of being in that superposition is akin to walking the tightrope mentioned in the book. The dividing line in the album art is simultaneously a threshold barrier and the thin tightrope. 

As for my personal beliefs? I take most of my influence from Albert Camus' idea of Absurdism more than stock Nihilism, specifically his take on The Myth Of Sisyphus. I'm pretty sure I'd easily be able to get into Sartre too if I took the time to acquaint myself. Every now and again when I'm looking for some novelty I'll learn a little bit about Mainlander or Neitzsche but I'm mostly about that rolling stone life, ya dig? 

Anyways, the second half of the album was recorded in three hours and the first half was recorded in just two as a later session. This was the first time I'd ever tried using drums as a compositional tool, let alone using real drums for an entire album. All I did to get a semblance of tone was plop a stereo field recorder behind myself on a table and run a high pass filter on the stereo signal while leaving the low end in mono. The rest is all just a Hello Kitty Squier guitar recorded direct to amp with an Sm57.