10,000 Days 4/28/06 16:30

So the new Tool album is coming out this tues, but I've had it for the past 2 weeks. I was going to write a small review about it, but you just can't do a "small" one. That and I found a few reviews (1 & 2) that does the cd justice. Now, in the second review, the writer's explainations of the songs are probably off, since Tool is well known for their cryptic meanings. My opinion is that the album, like all other Tool cd's, has grown on me, and I think it's brilliant.

Some Possible Track notes found on Wiki about the CD:

• Vicarious means either "experienced or gained through someone else" or "done on behalf of others".
• Vicarious begins with the same note progression as the Lateralus track "The Patient". A recreation or remix of previously recorded tracks, the songs' drum parts both begin at 00:11. It appears that many parts of the album consist of recycled material.
• Jambi is the name of a province of Indonesia, as well as the name of the wish-granting genie character who lived inside a purple jewel studded box on the show Pee-wee's Playhouse.
• "Marie" is the middle name of Maynard James Keenan's deceased mother, Judith Marie Keenan.
  • As Keenan explains on commentary on aMOTION, his mother suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. The length of time between her paralysis and her death was 27 years, or approximately 10,000 days.
• It was recently revealed in an Adam Jones interview with Guitar World that one of the lyrics on the album to the song "The Pot" is "Who are you to wave the finger?" Jones confirmed the meaning of the lyric as the "pot calling the kettle black".
• The Lipan are an Apache tribe, known as the "Tall Grass People".
• An April 7 post on toolband.com specifically mentions Dr. Albert Hofmann, the "father" of LSD, stating that on that date he synthesized LSD.
• The Rosetta Stone is a granite stone found in Egypt; the stone was the key to deciphering the hieroglyphs; it was also used as a pseudonym for children's author Dr. Seuss.
• "Viginti Tres" is Latin for "Twenty Three" - the number has a lot of historical, mathematical, and occult significance, as well as in American slang, where "23 skidoo" means to leave a place quickly.

Now, once again this is only "possible" track notes, but interesting none the least. Ah...and thinking, they are probably only interesting if you've heard or seen the song listings...ah find them here. I don't want to post them and make this post even larger than it is.

Karleen and I went and saw American Dreamz the otherday. It could have been better. Hugh Grant was pretty good as the Simon Cowel/Ryan Secrest character, you disliked him. Either than that, it was definatly a renter. The next movies I want to see are An American Haunting, about the Bell Witch, and Mission Impossible III.

OH, and I'm loving the MP3 player. I've been using it in the Cammobile to listen to tunes, and I've found out that I can put the lyrics of the songs on to the player and they scroll across the display. Neat.