shadow me
shadow me
shadow me

mmm skyscraper I can feel you
gravity pulls me
slow long dance of immortal liquid
concrete and glass
she said

shadow me
shadow me
shadow me
shadow me

grey slab/glass wall/looking on rooftops/dancing at night/light streaming/sound screaming/i feel you
feel you
feel you
feel you
walking uptime/rising in shell/falling in dust/crashing in colors/cities in lust

with apologies to Underworld; this is what emerged from listening to them while staring at a nodeshell. The original quote is a song from their album dubnobasswithmyheadman. If E2 could handle MP3's I'd try to slap up the tune that's running through my head with the lyrics, but, ah well...

Mmm Skyscraper...I Love You was the first book released by Tomato. It's subtitled as a typographic journey through New York, where Karl Hyde, the singer and guitarist of Underworld, was living at the time.

Hyde's then-current method of writing lyrics was to get really really drunk, then go out in the city with a notebook. Whatever he found in his book the following morning made its way into a song, or maybe into this book. (As an aside, this process eventually came to Hyde throwing up and taking photos of his vomit in the toilet before he finally quit drinking. The track born slippy.NUXX is about him overcoming alcoholism.)

This book is not a story. It has no plot, no setting, no characters, no topic, and no actual sentences. It is simply Underworld lyrics (which may or may not have made their way onto an album or into a live performance) stylized into what was then the very innovative typical Tomato "layered typography" style, lots of seemingly random words in a variety of faces, styles, and sizes, all plopped together without apparent rhyme or reason. Most of the art within will look like the album art from dubnobasswithmyheadman. Sometimes the book is described as the visual by-product of the album's production.

Every page is in black and white; none are numbered. The only intelligible text is on the cover and the first few pages: title, copyright info, and Library of Congress cataloging information.

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