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Partially Naked Self-Examination Music Blog, Week 10

March 6, 2010 by Mark Linsenmayer 2 Comments

Another tune destined for the Mark Lint & the Simulacra album: "Night Before the End."

If you've listened to the podcast ep. 16, you've heard that Seth thinks that it's boring when musicians interpret songs for you, so I won't to that, and leave you merely to wonder what it would mean to be "bold enough to bend" and "cold enough to mend" or whether these are just rhyming devices.

This was written back in early 1994 during a period of pretty substantial emotional turmoil, where I still entertained the suicide fantasies of the very young, and this was a song I would play very late at night with my vision shrunk to a point boring through my wall and a harsh night calm set all over me, when it seemed like THIS WAS IT, whatever IT was. Music is nice at capturing one's visions of personal Armageddon.

I started this particular recording (the only one of this song) in maybe 1997 and decided in 2000 to add it to the Simulacra album via my friend (and philosophy student!) Mark Doroba's awesome trippy guitars (and drums... double tracked at the beginning for extra clickery by Armando Reyes, who played in my previous guitarist's new band). I managed to record bass w/in the next year but didn't get around to doing the singing and mixing it down until now.

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  1. Episode 16: Danto on Art | The Partially Examined Life | A Philosophy Podcast and Blog says:
    July 13, 2011 at 9:54 am

    […] End song: “This Night Before the End,” by Mark Lint and the Simulacra, recorded mostly in 2000 but finished just now. Here’s more info about the song. […]

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    July 3, 2015 at 6:45 pm

    […] End song: "This Night Before the End," by Mark Lint and the Simulacra, recorded mostly in 2000 but finished just now. Here's more info about the song. […]

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