Anyone think this could somehow be a reference to Mountain View California or even Google itself with the metaphysically significant road address of 1111?

I live about 30 minutes from Mountain View. and uh...there's nothing there that really relates to the song. At least, not much more than the movie From Dusk Til Dawn or the Pink Floyd song Shine On You Crazy Diamond...you see where I'm going with this? You can make some sort of connection with Silicon Valley, and then about the riches in California, and poof, some sort of connection with sultans and treasure. But IMO that's stretching it a lot. "Mountain view" just happen to be words in the song.

Also, Google's address is 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, I'm not sure where you got the 1111 from.

The Mountain View thing could be a reference to the notion that the future has finally been caught up to. If the next words, "Here from the wild dream come true" are interpreted as someone's vision of the future, perhaps the fact that Google's headquarters is located in Mountain View could somehow be related. Just a thought.

NO NO NO NO NO NO!!

jesus christ

hey, this is the opinion section. Don't eschew the "ridiculous" opinions. At least not without your own counter-opinion ("No" is not an opinion).

I wonder what Maynard thinks of Mountain View. He's certainly been there...Tool has played there three times.

lol, yes yes, feed the fools with lies and false hope to feed their precious little egos.


My momma told me it was ok if I thought the moon was made of cheese because she still loves me no matter stupid I am.

It's not that they're ridiculous, it's just that I don't see why people continue to look so deep into these songs so long after they were released.

I mean, yeah, I still think from time to time, 'This could mean this,' etc. But it has to stop somewhere.

I'm just too cynical, I suppose

Yeah, my post was a bit sarcastic as well but I agree, there's a certain point where you go past a decent half ass theory to ponder where you fall into the realm of needing medication or a straight jacket, depending on the severity of course.

Yeah, I'm a bit of a cynic myself I suppose, no offense meant.

jambi is the genie from the peewee show, and a genie can make any wish come true...

mukaluka hi

it made me laugh, inner

What the hell? So there's an official time limit on how long you can analyze stuff? We should just close down the entire Albums section of the forum, then.


What if someone just bought 10,000 Days last week? Some of us have been listening to the album before it came out. But I've actually talked to two people in the last year--and I'm not making this up--that said "Tool? yeah, they're pretty cool. I haven't heard their new album though."

Okay, well you've got a point. I'll take back the first part, but I'm standing by my second point.

oh, and my third

Seconded.

I think I read MKJ as saying somewhere that he wanted people to looking to his word and find inspiration...

I don't think that he wanted you to post on the internet but it's something. Masked maybe you could write a short story of something.

My Mama says that alligators are ornery because they got all them teeth and no toothbrush.

I wholly agree.

OMG you're not making that up?! I don't even know what this means. Why should I or anyone care about that?

It's a safe bet that all reasonable (and unreasonable) things have already been said about any song on any album. Oh hey there's a Mountain View, CA AR TX AZ MI NH, etc. Oh hey Tool has played in all those states, etc. Stop making shit up, seriously.

THIS.