tool s every tool is a weapon if you hold it right. ani difranco says that on a tshirt. i think it has more to do with who's holding it. a tool is just a tool, even if some are more effective than others. 990711 ... JBauer Maynard James and the gang. Possilbly the greatest band out there, certainly the smartest. Quoted many times on blather, but rarely credited. New album: April 17, 2001. 001219 ... MexPanther Very good band in deed 010325 ... yoink indeed a little scary sometimes, but still good 010519 ... yoink oh yeah, notice how the new album came out may 15, not april 17 stupid record companies...always pushing it back 010519 ... BEEEEEE ohhhhhh!!! "and i´m slipping back into the gap again; i feel ALIVE when you TOUCH ME.. A FEEL alive WHEN YOU hold me... DOWN." 010522 ... Karp So good to see you... I've missed you so much... So glad it's over... I missed you so much... Came out to watch you play... Why are you running away? Came out to watch you play... Why are you running? 010523 ... faaip de oiad 010523 ... jesse it was daylight when you woke up in your ditch you looked up at your sky then that made BLUE be your color You had your knife there with you too When you stood up there was goo all over your clothes your hands were sticky you wiped them on your grass then that made GREEN be your color Oh lord why did everything always have to keep changing like this You were already getting nervous your head hurt and it rang when you stool up Your head was almost empty it always hurt you when you woke up like this You crawled up out of your ditch onto your gravel road and began to walk waiting for the rest of your mind to come back to you You could see the car parked far down the road and you began to walk toward it If God is our father you thought then Satan must be our cousin Why didnt anyone else understand these important things You got to your car and tried all the doors they were locked it was a red car and it was new There was an expensive leather camera case laying on the seat Out across your field you could see two tiny people walking by your woods you began to walk towards them Now RED was your color and of course those tiny people out there were yours too... -tool- #69 010528 ... Mushroomman I've been wallowing in my own chaotic, insecure delusion, 010620 ... John The band's name says it all. Their music is a tool for your mind. Anger, Passion, Love, Hate. There are so many emotions that are conveyed through their music. "Prying open my third eye" 010822 ... Weed Eater Tool of the devil is more like it. Examine their agenda to see what I mean. Besides, nobody can have such an awesome, beautiful voice, Masterful poetic lyrics, Innumeral ambiguous meanings and metaphors, perfect sub-conscious targeting, creative techniques, and the music. Oh the music. The sounds of vibrating harmony, balanced rythem. Their rythem is their melody. Almost perfect. Angelic. Yet, on earth. For us? Nobody has that level of ability... Without falling down from heaven first. 010822 ... no reason "What we have in common is the ability to listen. You just listen to each other and find some space in the center. And if there isn't room for you there, then you wait until there is." Maynard was quoted saying this about the members of Tool...pretty much sums it up. They are one of the smartest, most ambitious, most open-minded most and musically and lyrically talented bands out there. and...there's so much more to be said about them, so much that i can't even think of how to put it all into words. i'll be back. 020122 ... Brandon My shadow's Shedding skin and I've been picking scabs again. I'm down digging through my old muscles looking for a clue. I've been crawling on my belly clearing out what could've been. I've been wallowing in my own confused and insecure delusions for a piece to cross me over or a word to guide me in. I wanna feel the changes coming down. I wanna know what I've been hiding in my shadow. Change is coming through my shadow. My shadow's shedding skin I've been picking my scabs again. I've been crawling on my belly clearing out what could've been I've been wallowing in my own chaotic and insecure delusions. I wanna feel the change consume me, feel the outside turning in. I wanna feel the metamorphosis and cleansing I've endured within my shadow. Change is coming. Now is my time. Listen to my muscle memory. Contemplate what I've been clinging to. Forty-six and two ahead of me. I choose to live and to grow, take and give and to move, learn and love and to cry, kill and die and to be paranoid and to lie, hate and fear and to do what it takes to move through. I choose to live and to lie, kill and give and to die, learn and love and to do what it takes to step through. See my shadow changing, stretching up and over me soften this old armor. hoping I can clear the way by stepping through my shadow, coming out the other side. Step into the shadow. Forty six and two are just ahead of me. 020504 ... Photophobe loves Maynard And as the walls come down and As I look in your eyes My fear begins to fade Recalling all of the times I have died and will die. It's all right. I don't mind. I am too connected to you to Slip away, to fade away. Days away I still feel you Touching me, changing me, And considerately killing me. 020504 ... Photophobe loves Maynard "So good to see you. I've missed you so much. So glad it's over. I've missed you so much. Came out to watch you play. Why are you running away?" Prying open my third eye. So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing the tail of dogma. I opened my eye and there we were. So good to see you once again I thought that you were hiding from me. And you thought that I had run away. Chasing a trail of smoke and reason. Prying open my third eye. 020504 ... Photophobe loves Maynard Fuck L Ron Hubbard and Fuck all his clones. Fuck all those gun-toting Hip gangster wannabes. Learn to swim. Fuck retro anything. Fuck your tattoos. Fuck all you junkies and Fuck your short memory. Learn to swim. Fuck smiley glad-hands With hidden agendas. Fuck these dysfunctional, Insecure actresses. 020504 ... freakizh i'm in love with lateralus. everytime i hear parabol / parabola i want to scream. when i hear disposition it sounds like nostalgic memories in a cold morning. and as the drums keep playing, reflection is the ultimate prayer for the cold starry night. "without her, we're lifeless satellites drifting.." 020505 ... fates offspring i don't think i can handle it! 020505 ... reitoei is a pen a tool or an implement? 020505 ... screw driver select your weapon. 020505 ... littleidiot all you know about them is what they've sold you. 020702 ... no reason I've got my hands bound, my head down, my eyes closed and my throat wide open. 020921 ... siokaos he had a lot to say we'll miss him 021028 ... i hope this works i am trying to fix this for "no reason" 021031 ... helper hey, that was really cool. the statement "i'm trying to fix this for no reason". heheh. well, there ya go, "no reason". all i had to do to get it back was to post under it again. 021031 ... no reason ahhh, that makes sense. :) Thank you so much. 021031 ... freakizh loves maynard wear the grudge like a crown desperate to control unable to forgive and sinking deeper (what a coincidence. tool was at the top of the recent blathes. this may be a case for the blather_oracle). 021031 ... unhinged unhinged loves driving around in the summer with her best friend getting stoned and listening to aenima. yes yes yes. mmmm mmm mmm. she does. yes she does. but it was 6am and we hadn't slept and smoked ourselves silly driving in the rented car pulling the sun across the sky driving through the quaint little town blasting tool while maynard led us to the matress on her parents' living room floor. yes yes. those are the things i live for. 021031 ... cole no seas un tool 021116 ... littleidiot i watched my bootleg again today. tool in hamilton, august 25, 2002. awesome awesome awesome. and not to mention awesome. 030111 ... *nat* Don't be a fool Wrap your tool 030112 ... Nathan88 lachrymology 030311 ... no reason sigh...it's been so long since i've let you flood my ears and invade my mind. 030610 ... dragonfly7 Tool are simply an amazing band! Listen to enema, it is well recommended! 030828 ... lost tool is by far my favorite band. the most awesome tee-shirt i have ever seen is this shirt that on the back says tool fuckin' tool. it sux i only have 2 of tools cd's now because my entire cd collection was stolen recently. i had so many old classic rock cd's and stuff i will never be able to get again. it was about 2500 bucks worth of cd's. i had the first 12 aerosmith cd's. it would take tooo long to name all of them. it sucked 030828 ... sincerely confused Can somebody please tell me what the definition of a "tool" is? As in the context of "he's such a TOOL". This is an entirely serious question! I have been trying to figure it out through context for weeks and am mystified. 031118 ... no reason a dick? 031118 ... Piso Mojado someone who thinks they are living on their own free will, ideas, choices, etc when infact they are just a being used by someone else for that other person^s needs/intentions/goals unknowingly 031119 ... celestias shadow Listening to Tool is like nothing else. It's an experience unto itself. The first time, it's for Maynard's voice. Oh that voice. If I were a guy, I would want that voice more than any other. The second time, it's for the music. The third, fourth, and fifth times, it's for the lyrics. They are so amazing. So perfect. After that, it's just because you can't help coming back for more. 031128 ... jesse yea! disposition reflection traid yes yes yes and more yes favorite line is, the moon tells me a secret, this light is not my own, and , a million light reflections.... pass over me, and as i pull my head out , i am without on doubt, don't wanna be down here, feeding my narcissism 031204 ... lifeless satellite .... my favourite: its source is bright and endless she resuscitates the hopeless without her we are lifeless satellites drifting 031204 ... Spiraleyes Watch the Weather change 031205 ... cp-R I think Tool is the most amazing band in the history of progressive music... Long live Maynard. 040118 ... a thimble in time Listening to a live-recording of Pushit. . . It is Unreal. 040208 ... r. first time for the voice second time for the music third, fourth and fifth time for the lyrics ... this sums it up quite well aenima has a very special meaning to me. the day when I`ll stop listening to this album will be my last day. 040303 ... Emberghost Crawl back into your cave, because you cannot handle this light. 040316 ... ambermoon tool changed my life... i love Maynard. 040316 ... scorshie Phew. For a second there, I felt like a tool. Then I remembered my own sinister motives. 040402 ... hsgatincamail http://www.alexgrey.com/ 040409 ... the outsider one of the best bands in history. Ænima is