Heavy Metal Sunday already knows how to swim, thank you.

Today's selection has been stuck in my freaking head for weeks. Really, I've woken up singing this song. Not that I'm complaining, it's a great song, but it requires a little back story.

The prog metal band Tool were close friends with guerrilla comedian Bill Hicks. Tool's lead singer Maynard James Keenan had worked as a comedian in Los Angeles prior to forming Tool and had met and befriended Hicks through mutual friends and performing at the same venues. Hicks heavily influenced Tool's early work, especially their second studio album Ænima. The title Ænima is a combination of the words 'anima' (Latin for 'soul' associated with the ideas of "life force" and a term often used by psychologist Carl Jung) and 'enema' the medical procedure.

This album featured many of Hicks' ideas, and you can hear Hicks performing at the beginning of the track Third Eye. But the biggest influence is the title track of the album, which is based on Hicks' Good bye you Lizard Scum off his posthumous Arizona Bay album. Tool took the idea from the bit and wrote what they have described as a "poisonous love song" to Los Angeles. The video was directed and created by guitarist Adam Jones, who prior to Tool had worked as a set builder and special effects technician.

WARNING: This video contains some disturbing images and the song has quite a bit of profanity. That being said, enjoy Tool - Ænima

( Here are the lyrics )

One amusing note. Keenan owns a winery in Arizona. He proudly boasts that he already has plans for building the first beach resort on Arizona Bay.

Learn to swim.

My tweets

• Sat, 16:24: RT: @SFGiants: #SFGiants win 1-0 over #Indians today. Only run of game comes on balk by Tribe pitcher Tony Sipp w/bases loaded in 7th. #fb

Still a lot of work to be done.

Mentioned yesterday that we had got a lot of cleaning done.



I took seven pictures of the work in progress.

I'm really tired of our old crappy bookcases. I'd really like to get at least one, prefarbly two, of the Expedit bookcase from Ikea. I really like that the bookcase works with the Lekman box or the Branäs basket. This is also quite cool. But I'd be happy with the basic bookcase at this point.

I'm really at the point of throwing a "framing and hanging" party. I'd happily provide pizza and drinks for folks willing to help us get all this crap framed and up on the walls.