10,000 Days Trivias

Vicarious means either "experienced or gained through someone else" or "done on behalf of others". (See Vicarious (song)).

"Marie" is the middle name of Keenan's deceased mother, Judith Marie Garrison.

As Keenan explains in his commentary on aMOTION, Judith suffered a stroke that left her partially paralyzed and wheelchair-bound. The length of time between the paralysis and her death was 27 years, or approximately 10,000 days.

In the Guitar World interview, Jones confirmed that the title of "The Pot" was a reference to an idiomatic term for hypocrisy (i.e., the "pot calling the kettle black").

The Lipan are an Apache tribe, also known as the "Tall Grass People".

An April 7 post on the official Tool website specifically mentioned Dr. Albert Hofmann (the "father" of LSD) and stated that he first synthesized LSD on that date.

The Rosetta Stone is an archeological artifact of carved granite found in Egypt. The tablet was used as a key to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs; its name was also used as a nom de plume for children's author Dr. Seuss.

"Viginti Tres" is Latin for "twenty-three" - the number has a lot of historical, mathematical, and occult significance. For more information, see 23 (numerology).