Tool: Schism - The Patient

When dreary sounds emanate from depths of a strange planet, the atheist prays that God is at last eliminated from the theorem, at which point Tool is quantum gravity thrust upon the daft punk who hangs onto the principle of contradiction caused by fear of his dark side. The quantum causes unsettling vibrations and articulating pain, which allows him to vomit what he does not remember consuming. The disbeliever yearns for warm pig blood filled with Schism - The Patient and while trapped in his cold coffin, he ejaculates feverishly craving for infinite space screaming ‘I Know The Pieces Fit.’

To the hip and hop and everything else the fool thinks is cool (a) Tool does not boast a fan base but a growing crop of Manchurian Candidates (b) denial of basic musical assumptions is converse with the ideological basement (c) lyrical expletives are not the yardstick for Parental Guidance but the potential Manchurian that ferments in the left-brain hemisphere, is (d) it is artful-Metallica you cannot categorize (e) it relegates Nine Inch Nails mainstream.

On Tool’s mosh-pit, paraphrasing William Yarroll on how messages reach the sub-conscious (a) emotional responses to Tool psychedelica are sieved within a musical databank residing in the ‘conscious’ left-brain which are accepted or rejected (b) if interpretation by the ‘conscious’ left fails to match the data, the process is relayed to the ‘creative’ right for further evaluation (c) the ‘creative’ right attempts to decode the in-decodable Tool data and when no match is found, the tranche is relayed back to the ‘conscious’ left for storage (d) the ‘creative’ right fails when it mirrors strange and incoherent data and thus (e) the Manchurian is born in the pit when Tool is stored rather than rejected.

Words, Videography – Tommy Peters   

(The clip was made on a Mac with CoverVersion’s Cuboid and Screenflow)