Can't wait to see this!
YouTube - Muse Spoof Trailer - The Terminator
Saturday, February 27, 2010
The Flaming Towers of Ilium...
Just imagine Hector, Paris, Achilles, Agamemnon...
Pictures, Photos of Troy, Turkey
Pictures, Photos of Troy, Turkey
Warm and Sunny Daze.
Part II
Helium, Hydrogen gasses. Solar neutrino, planetary masses.
Organism – breathing in breath out.
Water and oxygen, but...
How should I ask the hamster or the trout?
The sun pats me on the back as the wind kisses my check,
Birds are talking the fallen leaves are laughing,
Snow melting into the soil – a green sprout amid the skeletal arms of bushes.
I smile as I watch the plane fly through the calm coloured ceiling of the world.
Radiometric dating, P wave, S wave – wave goodbye.
This is your half-life in the natural fission reactor.
Decay, decay, away. Why does uranium turn to lead?
Can lead be promoted to uranium? Demotion...
Walk.
I walk – always walking never stopping. Walk up, walk down. Walk to get me from one place to another, get there and walk back. Walk forward. Walk fast. Walk slowly to watch the flowers. Watch the trees, touch the bark. Smile at the rabbit, the bird. They blink, I walk on.
Walk on concrete walk on grass. Walk on the moon.
Why is the moon? Glancing collision vaporized Earth’s crust. OR
Artemis and Apollo – Moon and the Sun
The huntress, chasing her brother across the sky. That’s better.
Walking, walking, walking on ice. Break the surface, walk on water.
Then walk on...
People all around me – but here I sit alone. Alone? All Alone? All one, Al.
Here I sit – looking out the window. I see trees, the sun sees me.
I wave, he smiles. I’m happy.
Listen to the music, feel the sun, write the words. I smile with all my being because I am right here, right now - perfection. Bliss? Maybe not quite, but close, I think.
I see a guy – face painted like a mime, why is the mime crying? Or maybe he is waiting for the Twilight. Where is his Bella? Over the cliff... going, going, found! By That Guy. The Other Guy. Him. Poor mime.
I paint my face to make them laugh. I wear hats, and silliness on my head – to make them happy, make you laugh and smile. Are they happier? I’m happier – wearing big pink headphones on my head now. Listen to the February playlist, over and over.
Momentum, momentous, moment. This moment, perfect. Vivaldi’s spring is just around the corner.
Oh, goodbye mime!
I Don't Know - I Yes.
PART I
(Preface: I wrote this last night (or very early this morning) but I was in a very peculiar frame of mind. In retrospect it must have been a paint-chipping-away kind of frame but what I wanted to do was try something different - to write completely free-style without any thought for punctuation, spelling or grammatical norms. It was refreshing to be sure, but I’m still not quite sure how I feel about it. There is a bit of a darker undercurrent even if it does sound like a load of gibberish.)
Sand, sandy, sandiest.
Dripping through your fingers, blowing through your hair.
It’s all around us, it is nowhere.
I own it, but I have nothing.
There is too much, too little, always. Never.
Like antipasto and past – are you still hungry?
How can you be full? What is full? What is empty? What is it?
We try to control everything, always, sense of comfort, sense of familiarity.
(Stream of consciousness)
The aberrance drives us nuts, one small defector from the plan.
But:
Maybe we should stop.
Stop.
Stop.
Let it all go. Go right, go left, go wrong.
Wrong.
Wrong.
All wrong.
Is this right?
The world is too structured. Subject, object, verb, stop. Sentence, stop. Paragraph, stop.
Can we think without the backbone? Can we conceptualize without the map?
What happens if we are left with nothing. Then everything. What difference does it make. Does it make it the same.
So...
Is this still a question if it doesn’t have a question mark.
?
When it all goes wrong then, and only then, can it finally go left.
Left.
Left.
Left behind.
Left in front. Preposition in apposition. Why is the dative sympathetic?
Why why y?
Y, x, w
W?
W!
Who, whose, whom. Huh?
Lol... rofl...brb...ttyl... our new lexicon
As empty as the space in the middle of the o. Oh, oh?
Uh oh.
Onomatopoeia. Pffft. Psh. Pshaw. Ugh. Argh. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh......
Ellipses... or Stop.
.
.
.
Then go.
Go.
Go where?
Here + w, that’s where. No, that’s here. There – t. Pess-optimism.
Naw
Hey... hay is for horses.
I didn’t see the plumber but I saw the Culligan Man crack.
Bottled water, bottled air, where is the bottled peace? Piece, peas.
Snow peas, chick peas, black eyed peas, cheese please.
Is this still my poetic licence to write what I want if I’ve not registered and I am no poet?
Is this still art if it lacks artistic license?
Is this still writing if I haven’t written anything?
Writers block. Blocked, block, block of cheese.
In my way.
Let’s see how long this gets, are you still reading?
You don’t have to read this. I had no other ideas. The light bulb is in my closest – the station light is still flickering. Maybe I only imagined that I got on the train. Maybe it did fall. Fall, winter, spring summer... onto my head. How do I know? I didn’t hurt.
Should I post this grand mess of a blog post? What if you stop reading now? What if no one follows? Will I still write? Right? Wrong.
I hope you laugh, this if funny. Fun, funny, funnier, funniest. Fun sounds funny when you say it so many times. Times, times, Times New Roman. My font. Font. Elephant.
This irritates me. Iratus... means angry in Latin, I think. Ire. Ire. Iron ore. Or. Or?
Why do I keep writing this if it makes me mad? Mad. Crazy. Insane? Outsane?
Hmmm... hummmm... mhmmm...
Oh, I hear the geese honking outside. Must be too late and now it’s early. Where’s the logic in that. Stop.
Geese, goose, gooses. Goo. Goop. Google. Goggle. Go. Gag. Gaggle of Geese.
Blech. Bleach. Blue. Blew. Flew. Flu. To. Too. Two. You, u. Y?
U c?
O, I c. I don’t even need the whole word. SO
Why dno’t I jsut witre like tihs? You can slitl raed it. I can siltl type it. Wrdos are jsut ltetres rgraenraed. (rearranged – i made it too messy.) i don’t want to ‘shift’ anymore. why bother, the document will fix it for me.
i ramble. in shambles. in brambles.
what is an epic fail? This? Peace of writing? That’s not a mistake. I meant it. Peace of writing, world piece. Piece of cake. Psh.
No.
Wow. Ow. W. Y. I dunno. I yes. THAT’S the problem
Where’s my Muse?
Where is my mind?
I’m out of my mind – and I locked the keys inside. Inside, side, slide ,in inn.....
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
How to Stay Awake
zzzz.... sounds promising....zzzz
How to Stay Awake at Work or School - by Dumb Little Man
How to Stay Awake at Work or School - by Dumb Little Man
Do We Need This
Grrr... have you ever stayed up later that you should have?
And then the next day, OH BOY.
Thinking hurts!
(Apparently yesterday was National Thinking Day???) *shudders*
It really does, *painfully thinking of a good analogy* it's like walking through steel wool. Every thought hurts, is kinda fuzzy and vague, and you feel like that little person living in you head is having a field day with a lawn mower.
The thoughts come in the form of green ooze - gross and pathetic without any shape or form. You know, like when you're in the middle of an exam - WHY is it so easy to start daydreaming/fall asleep during exams?? (Or is that just me?) Maybe the brain is just being rebellious and instead of focusing on the task at hand (and a mighty important one at that) it procrastinates and does everything/anything else it can... oh, wait. Maybe that's just me. Ah, well.
There is no real reason why this picture is here - I was looking for something neat (tried NOT to look in any of the 3 Muse folders) and came across this. It's a picture of Alice Liddell or the REAL Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll wrote the book for her and since Tim Burton's take on the classic hits theatres in no less than 10 days I figured it would be a fun deviation from Muse.
And then the next day, OH BOY.
Thinking hurts!
(Apparently yesterday was National Thinking Day???) *shudders*
It really does, *painfully thinking of a good analogy* it's like walking through steel wool. Every thought hurts, is kinda fuzzy and vague, and you feel like that little person living in you head is having a field day with a lawn mower.
The thoughts come in the form of green ooze - gross and pathetic without any shape or form. You know, like when you're in the middle of an exam - WHY is it so easy to start daydreaming/fall asleep during exams?? (Or is that just me?) Maybe the brain is just being rebellious and instead of focusing on the task at hand (and a mighty important one at that) it procrastinates and does everything/anything else it can... oh, wait. Maybe that's just me. Ah, well.
There is no real reason why this picture is here - I was looking for something neat (tried NOT to look in any of the 3 Muse folders) and came across this. It's a picture of Alice Liddell or the REAL Alice in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll wrote the book for her and since Tim Burton's take on the classic hits theatres in no less than 10 days I figured it would be a fun deviation from Muse.
Monday, February 22, 2010
The 20 Funniest Figure Skating Faces
What's your favorite face? :P
The 20 Funniest Figure Skating Faces: Pics, Videos, Links, News
The 20 Funniest Figure Skating Faces: Pics, Videos, Links, News
Sunday, February 21, 2010
How to Become a Muse
Not quite what I was hoping to find, but what the hey!
How to Become a Muse | eHow.com
How to Become a Muse | eHow.com
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Easily
Once upon a time in beautiful Lake Como, there lived a happy couple...
Matt and Gaia <3
On occasion, Matt's friend Dom would come over to visit... and check out the local "chicks”
This sometimes put a strain on their friendship.
Now, Matt was able to do it all: texting, while fishing AND maintaining his awesome hair.
There was nothing that this man could not do. This includes not drowning while sitting on two chairs in a dockside hotel.
(Since it's a bit small to read, the sign on the wall says:
"No Drowning Please.")
Matt always found it aMuseing to eat bananas...
Except when they gave him the itches.
Until one day, a teddy bear (that Dom had abducted), spoke to Matt and said that the true cause of his itchiness was, in fact, the new brand of soy sauce that he had been drinking.
You can imagine Matt's relief when he realized that he would no longer need to use smelly anti-itch cream...
(relief)
So now, Matt has more time to spend doing the things he really loves, like racing in small cars...
... and wearing cool hats.
Hey Matt, what's so funny?
OH.
Figure Skating Exhibition Gala 2010
Such beauty, such grace, such agility! ... and the figure skating wasn't bad either :P
Naw, these two are amazing - the amount of coordination they would need to pull off some of the those moves!
YouTube - Sinead Kerr & John Kerr - Exhibition Gala 2010.mpg
Naw, these two are amazing - the amount of coordination they would need to pull off some of the those moves!
YouTube - Sinead Kerr & John Kerr - Exhibition Gala 2010.mpg
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
In Your World
Just imagine...
You're 14 years old and in secondary school. You're shy and don't really fit it with the popular crowd but you're happy with your own group of friends. You listen to Jimi Hendrix and you're into the grunge scene. You lead an average life, with the exception that your father is a musician, and everything is going fine until the day your parents divorce.
You move in with your grandmother and although music has always been a part of your life, it has never called to as it does now. Music becomes a need, a necessity, an emotion. You started playing piano when you were six, but this year you decide to pick up the guitar.
... flash forward two years. You're attending community college and you've just successfully auditioned for the part of guitarist in a band. You and your two band mates enter into a local "Battle of the Bands" contest. You've got long hair and baggy clothes and you're on stage just having fun. But then, you win...
Suddenly things change. You decide to take the band seriously and the first step is a new name. Thus, you become:
Muse.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
My Plug in Baby
What is a man? That is the topic of today’s philosophical discussion. How do we, as humans (or monkeys if you prefer) define ourselves in this day and age. Well...
A person very close to me said something this morning that shook me up a bit:
“I want you to be careful... you’re only happy when you’re online [on Facebook or looking at Muse].”And while this may be correct, my first reaction was denial. Now, not only did that make me a typecast of ‘a person who absolutely refuses to see the truth even when it is right in front of their noses' but it made me think. How is it that technology has risen up out of the depths of our sci-fi imagination and virtually taken over our lives? Is it even physically possible to go 1 day without using some sort of electronic device? It’s not just Facebook, or YouTube or MySpace or [insert another/one of a gazillion other online networking websites] but it’s our iPods, our cell phones, laptops, televisions, radios, cars, remote garage door openers and car starters, vacuum cleaners, hair dryers, etc...
The conclusion: unless you live in a log cabin or an igloo you cannot live without electronics or technology. It has become our life-support sans the hospital. I’m not bashing technology (heck, I’m writing a blog!) it has been to humanity what the Canadarm is to the International Space Station, letting us reach farther than we ever could on our own. But on the reverse side, what happens when you remove the electronic from the man?
Well, we’d be hollow. Not hollow like the hole in the oak tree but hollow in the sense of that feeling of emptiness, of wanting more that what you’re getting from your life. Are we really happy when we’re watching our favorite shows on TV, or is it just acting like a momentary BandAid for what we’re really yearning for? Which, is exactly where Muse comes into play; Muse will fill your hollowness with a sweet cacophony of guitar riffs and soaring falsetto.
And so...
Now it’s time to plug Bellamy and his genius! One of the ‘classic’ Muse songs generally accepted to be the magnum opus is none other than Plug In Baby. On the Musewiki website (the ultimate compendium of Muse knowledge!) they state:
“It is...rumoured that the meaning of the song is Bellamy's love for his guitar, or it could be criticizing todays new technologies such as the internet, which are supposed to be encouraging people to communicate when it really separates them.”A frightening thought at first and one could easily argue that it allows us to communicate immediately (fbook chat anyone?) with friends whom we wouldn’t otherwise have had the opportunity to speak with. But are we using it as a scapegoat to stay within the safe and comfortable confines of our homes?
There is still more!
“As you bang your sweaty head to Plug In Baby’s monster intro, you’re actually listening to a bastardisation of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Bach ‘n’ roll, baby...”From the article, “Guitarist of the Decade: Matt Bellamy” in the January edition of Total Guitar. Ah, virtuoso indeed!
And now a sampler of the first verse:
“I've exposed your lies babySo, forget the false love that technology gives you, it’s a lie. Make the change and cleanse everything in your life of this false love.... ERR, maybe I’ll take little teensy weensy baby steps and start by spending less time on the internet this week...
The underneath's no big surprise
Now it's time for changing
And cleansing everything
To forget your love”.
And in closing, just as my thoughts were leading me down a very depressing road, I saw the silver lining... naw, I just saw a man walking down the street – with a BANANA sticking out of his jacket pocket! So all is not lost after all :D
Word of the day: rabble rouser
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Time Is Running Out! ... in a mannner of speaking
Hello all! ... isn't that funny, I made this blog to write and now I don't know what to say >.< Pretty much, blogging is my way of justifying the inordinate amout of time I spend online. This is what I was thinking at about 1:30am last Saturday:
(oh, by the way, this is just the beginning mwahahahah.....)
"Oh, the irony! After spending 6 consecutive hours online - a pitiful combination of sleep deprivation and watching YouTube blogs (vloging?) - my weariness led me not to reconsider my priorities and effective usage of time, but instead to this conclusion: I needed to make a blog. Where else could I ramble on about random things in a random fashion at random times?"To be specific, I needed an outlet. And yes, I do have a slight (ever so slight) obession with the band Muse but then again who doesn't?... [no snarky comments yet, plz]. Well, what better way to end this off than with an awesome MUSEic video ;)
(oh, by the way, this is just the beginning mwahahahah.....)
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