I've heard the first track off the new TOOL cd, VICARIOUS. It is to say the least phenomenal. I can only imagine that the rest of the CD will be just as powerful.
Listening to a new TOOL cd is like awaking to your own thoughts re-ordered into brilliant poetics, set to music that pulverizes your ignorance, and bellowed by the voice of perfection. Your life will never be the same. Tool is a tool for their expression, music is the wedge in the doorway of perception. They share with us their brilliance in the light that shines through that crack they've managed to open. Damn if their music doesn't replace my existence for months and months after a new release and then upon future revists I am exposed to even deeper levels of exploration than I had originally realised.
I try not to do this, build up the hype for myself when awaiting something of this nature, but Tool has proven they deliver, again and again. Whereever their music takes me, I will follow and realize a new perception/perspecitve having suffered the birth of awareness.
Listening to a new TOOL cd is like awaking to your own thoughts re-ordered into brilliant poetics, set to music that pulverizes your ignorance, and bellowed by the voice of perfection. Your life will never be the same. Tool is a tool for their expression, music is the wedge in the doorway of perception. They share with us their brilliance in the light that shines through that crack they've managed to open. Damn if their music doesn't replace my existence for months and months after a new release and then upon future revists I am exposed to even deeper levels of exploration than I had originally realised.
I try not to do this, build up the hype for myself when awaiting something of this nature, but Tool has proven they deliver, again and again. Whereever their music takes me, I will follow and realize a new perception/perspecitve having suffered the birth of awareness.
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a-hem. i was making the rounds and hadn't gotten to your journal yet, so you beat me to it. sorry. i can't sing the praises of Indian food enough, and to think i almost gave up the whole genre because the first time i had it, there was a hair in my pakura! what i would have missed!
life in the flatlands is about how it sounds. but i've rearranged priorities, and i think it's making a difference. more or less straight-edge now, no longer obsessed with semi-arty art house movies, a little closer to getting realigned with the magic things in an otherwise boring life. growing closer to my fiance every day. it goes well, thank you. how bout you?
Bill hicks huh? I'll have to check that out.