The best thing about that is I first learned it from a customer. An overweight, unwashed-hair-in-a-ponytail XXL-sized TOOL shirt customer with patchy facial hair and oversized earrings.
HIM: "Man, it was posted on March 31st, it's gotta be true."
ME: "Uh-huh. Ever hear about Tool's 'lachrymology' prank?"
HIM: " ... uh?"
MaðTom wrote:The best thing about that is I first learned it from a customer. An overweight, unwashed-hair-in-a-ponytail XXL-sized TOOL shirt customer with patchy facial hair and oversized earrings.
HIM: "Man, it was posted on March 31st, it's gotta be true."
ME: "Uh-huh. Ever hear about Tool's 'lachrymology' prank?"
HIM: " ... uh?"
MaðTom wrote:ME: "Uh-huh. Ever hear about Tool's 'lachrymology' prank?"
do tell us of this lachrymology prank
everything2 wrote:Around this time the members of Tool became infamous for something other than their music: Their behavoir in interviews. In 1993 and 1994, the band made enough references to lachrymology (which, literally, would be the study of tears), a supposed philosophy and religion whose followers sought to advance themselves through physically and emotional pain. The band built up the idea that lachrymology and Ronald P. Vincent's "obscure" 1949 book, The Joyful Guide to Lachrymology, had a great influence on their music. People began to realize the band was bullshitting them when information on lachrymology couldn't be found anywhere and the Library of Congress didn't even have The Joyful Guide to Lachrymology on record.
Fungahhh wrote:I did not know that a new album was coming out soon so to this I say :keen:
Yeah, it's taken long enough. If Lateralus was anything to go by, I say it's worth the wait!
In my opinion Maynard's been spending too much time on A Perfect Circle ... Thirteenth Step was all right, but I still say eMOTIVe really had only one good track on it. And Trent Reznor co-wrote it.
for some reason i feel compelled to bump this thread by saying i bought this cd while the forums were down
it is good, not as good as empires but better than futureperfect! i especially like "homeward" and "arena".
regards to tool i hope the new album is decent, i'm slightly gitchy about it since eMOTIVe (lol bush sux am i rite guyz) and i'll be sad if it's anything less than top notch cool
i used to be a tool fanboy but i kind of cooled on them in the last couple of years, mainly because tool fans are hilariously stupid pseudo-intellectuals
still like them, mind
he looked upon the world and saw it was still depraved
I wanted to post here again saying that the live VNV Nation show was very good, but I was scared because I got in trouble last time I posted in an old thread.
I like the new album. Empires is still my favorite for sure, but I don't mind their change in style at all. When they performed Arena, Ronan H. said something like, "Don't look so shocked. So it's not trance or EBM." He also sat right in front of me during an opening band. I don't know that anyone else recognized him, and I didn't bug him.
