i beseech you:

(yes you)

go to the library. find Peter Maxwell Davies' Eight Songs for a Mad King. make sure it has good liner notes; read them before you listen.

pull out the headphones. make sure you aren't going to be interrupted for at least 45 minutes. close your eyes.

listen intently.

let it overtake you; let it suck you down into its mad hell until you're screeching and howling with the vocalist. when it's over, let whatever is bubbling up inside of you come out.

let it force you to confront your own madness.

we are all mad.

some of us just hide it better than others.

WE ARE ALL MAD.

deal with it.