"Ever git smart-mouthed with a cop again, I show you what a cop does. You unnerstand me?!"

The initial idea for this "song" came about when I heard about the case of Brett Darrow, who was pulled over and threatened by a certain Sergeant James Kuehnlein of St. George, Missouri. In <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._George,_Missouri">St. George</a>, to not show one's identification with fawning obsequiousness is to commit a crime for which one can be jailed based on made-up evidence. Fortunately Darrow, who had previously been assaulted by another drunken cop, had a car loaded with video cameras and so the entire incident was recorded. You can read more about the incident and watch the video <a href="http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/19/1961.asp">here</a>. (Kuehnlein, who had previously been charged with "assault and stealing" according to the Wikipedia, was eventually fired and a lawsuit against him and the city of St. George has been filed by the ACLU.)

The track itself was inspired by the eastern European hardcore techno I had been listening to on Last.fm around this time - or rather by my desire to write something more interesting than what I was hearing. "God-creature" is one of several of our recent tracks to feature guitar, though it's far more prominent here than on any track I've written in over 10 years. In a way this track marks a return to the style of much of the earlier (pre-)Mezzanine Stairs music: loud, dirty, and noisy. I think I'll write more like this in the future...

Anyway, 75% of the way through writing this track I thought it would make a great vehicle for the Kuehnlein samples and so I added a few of them into it; only one of them survived into the final version as the rest just didn't fit in. I had hoped to add a sample of Alex Jones referring to cops as "god-creatures" (such references being the origin of this track's title) but I haven't heard him say this in ages.