Tom is listening to Total Control. Flesh War. Mikey Young and Daniel Stewart make post-punk that sounds like the system being examined from inside. 'Typical System' is an album about the system and it's not optimistic. I'd like total control but it's important to accept the limits of control. One in the morning and the system is typical and I'm systemically embedded. Rune stones came up with Isa which means ice and standstill. He had a synthesiser that sounded like bureaucracy.

"The system is not broken. It was built this way."

System running, watch keeping time.