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Friday, February 16, 2007
My love

I tell you, after getting slightly bored of listening to the same old 3 to 4 sophie ellis bextor songs and after influencing a female by the name of grace ho wan ting to download 10 of her songs at once I officially announce that I have moved on in terms of music artistes and uhh yes I have a slight obsession with brit pop still I assure you that this is so gonna last and yes my new love is MUSE.

Muse is a popular English rock band formed while at Teignmouth Community College in Teignmouth, Devon in 1992. Their idiosyncratic style is a blend of indie rock, progressive rock and heavy metal, with heavy influences from classical composers, especially those of the Romantic era such as Sergei Rachmaninov. The band is famed for its energetic live performances and frontman Matthew Bellamy's eccentric interests in global conspiracy, extraterrestrial life, theology and the apocalypse. Muse consists of Matthew Bellamy, Dominic Howard, and Chris Wolstenholme. As of the release of their fourth album, Morgan Nicholls assists the band during live performances, providing additional keyboards, samples and backing vocals.

Cryptic messages

Many of Muse's albums, most notably Origin of Symmetry, have revolved around strange and often cryptic messages which were sent by the band in a variety of ways.
Muse created what seemed to be a giant treasure hunt, and in their future set lists more anagrams pointed towards more complicated methods of decryption, including Caesar squares and the use of an Enigma M3 simulator. A second wave of fans complied to the demands of the clues, which involved writing the password on their bodies and including a picture in the email, and this time only four people were successful in getting a reply.

The band experimented with unorthodox instrumentation, such as a church organ, Mellotron, and an expanded drum kit. There were more of Bellamy's high-pitched vocal lines, arpeggiated guitar, and distinctive piano playing, inspired by the works of pianists of the Romanticism movement, particularly Russians such as Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Also palpable is the influence of minimalists such as Philip Glass. Bellamy cites guitar influences such as Jimi Hendrix and Tom Morello (of Audioslave and Rage Against the Machine), the latter evident in the more riff-based songs on Origin of Symmetry, and in Bellamy's extensive use of pitch-shifting effects in his solos. The album also features a surprising reworking of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse's "Feeling Good".

Wow and their inspiration comes from people like Rachmaninow, Phillip Glass, Tchaikovsky, etc. How cool is that?

Starlight is seriously nice too!

I mumbled to myself not to mumble ever again- 6:53 AM

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