Twenty Eight Reasons Why "Eight Two"
  1. The wheel arrangement of steam locomotives.
  2. 82 is the atomic number of lead. Eight Two got lead poisoning as a child which is the most likely cause of his musical hallucinations.
  3. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial ('82).
  4. Audio CDs came out in October '82.
  5. "Et tu, Brute?" betrayal by numbers, Eight Two has OCD about the numbers 8 and 2.
  6. Étude: Eight Two songs are studies, the externalization of interior music.
  7. Alexander Scriabin, Étude Op. 8, No. 2.
  8. Eight Two arrived in New York at 8:02am ET.
  9. The first two registration numbers of the L trains in New York.
  10. There are 8.2 million people in NYC.
  11. Average NYC temperature in the summer is 82 degrees.
  12. The road leading into the front door of the Met is east eighty second street.
  13. Like E.T. Eight Two was an alien who landed in the US in '82. He is now a US citizen.
  14. Started 82 paintings while sleeping though his first solo art gallery opening. Lived in the gallery painting for 28 days. Finished 81 paintings, the music is the 82nd painting.
  15. The numbers of Eternal Love: 8 and 2 are the numerological identifiers of eternal togetherness.
  16. Messier 82 (starburst galaxy M 82).
  17. At school he had the TI-82 calculator
  18. E.T. phone home! Like E.T. Eight Two wants to use the phone to call home, instead he uses a phone vocal effect and misses his family terribly.
  19. The musical times of the day are from 8 AM to 2 PM and 8 PM to 2 AM.
  20. Eight Two was too modest for "He Got Wit".
  21. The movie Magnolia.
  22. Etu is advantage in Finnish.
  23. 28 earth days is one day on the sun and the average human menstrual cycle.
  24. The song "Eight Two" by Eight Two is 8 minutes 2 seconds long.
  25. The longest human life expectancy: 82 years in Japan. Eight Two likes long songs. Life is a song.
  26. Italian è tu, it is you.
  27. Misha was born on this day.
  28. In the nineties, a Colombian wizard told Gerardo that he would die at 82.