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Hiya
Yes my megapost as been bubbling under the surface, unable to surface because it really is such a tricky subject. I mean are we really assessing Matt's mental health on line!? Jeez! So I steered away and made some effort to keep it light. But while pulling some huge weeds out of my drive this afternoon, I was sort of thinking about stuff, so I posted. He is quite inspirational I think, but I forgot to put that in there, as I had to go and pick my daughter up, so I added that in as that was actually quite important to the point of my post! lol!
I do feel like there is a kind of constant suppression going on of any alternative way of thinking about things, and certainly, like you say, a blowing out of proportion and dismissal of any thinking that has any depth, which shows up in relation to attitudes towards Matt I think. In fact what I said is all intwined into what I'm studying too. I could have put references in! But even that is feeling constricting to me. It's all quite hypocritical. I want to be inspired but so much of academia is caught up in the very things that that it is criticising, hierarchy and control! Like Weber said over-rationalisation and bureaucracy removes the magic. I think like Matt I want to read a few paragraphs and work the rest out myself! It's probably just the adult version of my childhood fascination with Star Trek and The Faraway Tree!
Anyway as to Matt, looking at past interviews, it's difficult to untangle actually, what is meant, what is humour, what is journalistic sensationalism, what is of Matt's own making, and what is actually part of his personality/life experience, but he certainly comes over as perfectly fine to me now. He has said that stuff he has said has been twisted before. I take a lot of it with a pinch of salt but I also get a sense that there may have been an attempt to push a young man along a path which would satisfy the public desire for a tormented rock star and it's all power to him really that he didn't succumb to that. Did you read that interview when he keeps saying "it's not the time or the place" - that appears to me clear evidence that they were attempting to push him to talk about stuff that was beyond what he felt comfortable with. Made me think of Citizen Erased.
Anyway I think Matt's not your average dude, but all the lovelier because of that, and I think he comes over as very sensible, at least nowadays, well apart from his constant baiting of Dom that is!
I'm okay. How are you?
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Hi Julie,
Did I reply to you before? I thought I did, but maybe it got lost somewhere. I am confused about what you said about the tweeting musefans. Anyway it was funny what Matt did to Dom! He's such a sod but I love him to bits anyway!
Finally finished my exams, thank god, but I haven't quite realised it yet. Now I've got a bit of time off so I'm going to tackle my house and catch up with people I have been neglecting.
Hope you have a good day.
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Oh something I didn't say is I got that 100 page NME special yesterday. It's good actually reading all the old interviews. More than I thought it would be. Don't know how much Muse will like it, having their past revisit them like that, but it's a nice memento. I'm just glad that I've read some of them in full,years later rather than at the time, though I still wish I'd been a fan back then.
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No it was bad! Honest! I just couldn't get into it. It was my fault really as I stayed up too late the night before and then felt too tired to focus. Still I should have enough from my coursework to get a pass anyway. I have another one tomorrow so have got to be good this evening. I have seen all the news. That Twilight article is just an exaggeration I'm sure. Just the idea of Matt being a huge Twilight fan is rather ridiculous. Anyway it didn't sound like he was from the interview yesterday. Take care. Hope you have a good day. I just popped on, saw the twitpics of poor Dom which for some reason weren't tweeted to my phone, going to have a quick look on here and then get back on with revision.
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Hi
She registered to post something on the Matt and Kate Hudson thread, so you can read it. I have since noticed a couple of catty remarks, following that, regarding Kate Hudson, and just saw her name post up on your thread on the list. I don't normally read it. And low and behold it was another remark about Kate Hudson! Its getting a bit much, particularly as every post she has done so far, which isn't many granted, is in relation to Kate Hudson.
Carrie
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Hello. I'm okay. I'm still struggling with revision. I can't wait to get that over and done with and get my life back! I haven't done enough though. I'm not going to even practice questions I don't think. Too bothered I won't be able to do it and it will freak me out. I think I'm just going to try and keep calm and hope for the best when I get in there.
How are you?
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No it was just that it was very smelly and noisy and the cows didn't seem to be being treated very well. A big commercial diary, not like a small family run business. I won't even repeat the other thing, just something I read about the content of most commercially sold milk but I think it was on some animal rights or vegetarian website, I can't remember, so it could have been sensationalist. But then there is the thing I read that in order to produce milk the cows have to produce frequent calves (which figures) who are sent to the slaughter house. Don't know whether again that it is sensationalist.
Anyway. Matt's farm. Sounds a much better idea to me than a Beverley Hills mansion/celebrity lifestyle, though he could be after both, who knows how rich he is!? No, I'm pleased for him. I get the impression that he needs something alongside the music business, somewhere to get away from the madness. Presumably he can get people in to do the majority of it. Hopefully it will work out for him. If it doesn't turn out as he thought, I would imagine he would be able to sell up and move on.
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Oh no I'm not trying to stop you from contacting me. I'm just trying to have the self control to keep away for a while. As you may see it's not working too well this evening!
I hadn't seen that video, it's closer. I just love that song. It works perfectly in a intimate setting like that. I like the piece that Morgan does too.
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Yeah I've been trying to find out how I can go earlier. Seems a long time until September especially since the last time I saw them was November. Not had much luck though. Oh well!
I've not been too good on the revision front. Just can't get motivated. Bit scared! Though I could do really crap and still get through because of the coursework, I don't want to embarrass myself! Spent a while yesterday looking for holidays in Brittany in the hope that I might be able to go to the festival on the 15th July (instead of doing revision) and then realised I was already committed to something else that day!
Anyway better get on with it. The revision I mean. Have a good day.