Rock my Audible

I found myself singing the Weezer song "Aloo Gobi," so I played it on YouTube. When it was finished, the algorithm put "Grapes of Wrath" on next:

In addition to Grapes of Wrath itself, the lyrics reference Mrs. Dalloway, Moby-Dick, 1984, Peter Pan ("take me up to Neverland"), Catch-22 ("hanging with Yossarian"), and The Lord of the Rings ("Frodo jonesing for the ring"). He isn't reading any of these works but rather listening to them, as in these repeated lines:

I'm gonna rock my Audible

Headphone Grapes of Wrath

and in the bridge:

Open ear and open mind

I can see without my eyes

This syncs with my last post, "Gone with the wind from the house of leaves," which quotes Aenaes imploring the Sibyl to speak her prophecy rather than writing it, because that will somehow be more permanent, and which connects that to the Book of Mormon's mention of a book that "proceedeth out of the mouth" rather than being written. Bill thinks this book will be brought forth by means of supernatural "Stones," which syncs with the "rock" references in the song.

The phrase "house of leaves" is a link to Weezer, since house can mean "family," and Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo had a brother named Leaves. (He has since changed his name to James Kitts.)

I don't do audiobooks myself, with the exception of scripture, for which I like to cycle through reading and listening. Having already read through the Book of Mormon once this year, I am currently going through the audio version.

Several of the titles mentioned in the song are synchronistically relevant. Moby-Dick has come up indirectly via the sermons-on-Jonah sync in "There again! There she blows right ahead, boys! -- lay back!" (January 26), the title of which is taken from Moby-Dick. "I have forgot much, Cynara!" mentions that War and Peace came up before in "Terry the giant Irishman critiques my supposed literary preferences" (July 2025); in the dream recounted in that post, Terry criticized me for supposedly preferring War and Peace to Moby-Dick. Peter Pan was most recently referenced in "Blueberry Hill and the Golden Age" (January 7). As for 1984, it was one of the five books in the infographic in "I have forgot much, Cynara!" My own copy of 1984 has a single blue eye on the cover, while the title character in The Lord of the Rings is associated with the image of a single red eye.