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I think the video's probably on YT by now. I'll be putting up the pic in the lolz thread in about 2 minutes.
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The Jets/Bills game on CBS: Uprising and Resistance in the 1rst quarter. (And given that the game has little or no playoff implications, catching Muse tunes is arguably the best reason to watch it.)
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Ditto for a Radio Shack circular from two or three weeks ago... they used the cover artwork for The Resistance in a pic of a cellphone (or maybe it was an MP3 player; I don't remember).
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Hi.
You posted this in a VM on my page: "So you're saying that MMers criticize Muse? I have not seen one post by a legit MMer that has anything negative toward Muse.
Mockery and rude humor have a major difference. Grant it, some things in "Lolz" are giggle-worthy, but for the most part...not so much. I try to be as open-minded as I can at all times, so I can see the general direction of where the humor comes from, but I don't find it funny or original."
Re. the first point: R U serious?!? "Legit" [??] MMers are just as critical of Muse as Banterers, although the latter camp is probably more snarky about it on the whole. Check out any gig thread, where the setlist beef sets in, for ex.
Re. your second point as to humor, that's how I feel about the Banter forum subculture here. A bit too 4Chan-y for my taste. If you have a jones for spoofing off of Muse, you might want to try the caption thread in Other Muse Topics. The humor there is often very lolzy, only they don't bother with actual text superimpositions. (Their hit-and-miss ratio is probably about the same, though.) Also, their takes are strictly single-panel, so there's none of the annoyingly long storylines, point-by-point pop culture parodies, etc. that sometimes pop up in lolz. Different strokes for different folks...?
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So I take it you have no FACTUAL objections to my post... that you're just peevish from my criticism? For someone so unforgiving for my not taking your "jokes" and mean-spirited insults more lightly (but why should I? You & yours don't seem to be insulting me lightly), you sure don't take criticism well yourself.
Pot/kettle/black, ad nauseum.
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There's no violation of patient confidentiality when it's anonymous (and maybe somewhat discreet in other respects, as in censoring unique details that might make it possible to identify the patient.) This kind of medical human-interest story even makes the news on a regular basis, as with stories, often with X-rays, of people who improbably survived getting impaled in the head with a length of steel rebar or whatnot. The journal write-up I had in mind would be of the short blurb/humorous anecdote variety, BTW. And there's definitely a number of doctors who keep collections of the oddball cases, and I'd guess that virtually all doctors enjoy gossiping about such cases on occasion. I've seen one such collection myself -- compiled by a radiologist aunt who had a freakshow stash of X-rays she'd quietly collected over the course of her career. And years ago I read online about one doctor (I'm pretty sure he was working in a hospital emergency room at one time, but that doesn't necessarily rule out his being a gastroenterology or proctology resident or what have you) who collected case histories of, er, unusual rectally-inserted objects that got stuck -- and eventually wrote them up (as a general phenomenon) for a journal. (And there's a lot more of those cases out there than you probably think.) Other oddball categories include: objects stuck in vaginas, huge bezoars, all sorts of swallowed objects, penile injuries stemming from kinky misuses of suction pumps, vacuum cleaners, etc., and even kinky, sometimes fatal accidents involving heavy machinery like forklifts. If it's any consolation, I read once that it takes on average about twelve frickin' years to earn a Ph.D. in that field, due to the expense and difficulties (some practical, some political) of accessing dig sites. The doctoral student will select a subject and begin the dig, only to be interrupted by a military coup or civil war or an insurgency of some sort... or they get sickened by a local bug or parasite that sends them back home for medical treatment... perhaps qualifying as an oddball case for some doctor's file!
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Maybe he's trying to get warm & fuzzy feelings about the persistent salty taste. But yeah, this is one guy who really shouldn't be doing any more drugs. It's easy to laugh at salanderson, but there's a very good chance he's making some unenviable medical history here, and that his case will be published in a medical journal someday (or written up in an otolaryngology blog or somesuch). Doctors love oddball cases and gossiping -- er, consulting and comparing notes -- about them, so at the very least his story will circulate through the UK medical community...
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This thread is like the best public-service anti-marijuana advert ever. Good thing salanderson didn't try a balloon fragment; he might've choked to death or succumbed to anaphylactic shock as a result of latex allergy. But seriously... I think altrocker's definitely onto something, but after looking up a few terms in Wiki, my utterly WAG is that what the OPer is tasting is a trace of an alkali metal sulfide, potassium sulfide, left on the streamer by the combustion of potassium nitrate, aka saltpeter, a key component of gunpowder. Wembley-goers, did any of you happen to notice any lilac-colored flames from the streamer cannons? (Lilac is the characteristic color of potassium combustion.) It seems unlikely that the offending substance is potassium nitrate because, its likely combustion aside, that stuff is used and ingested in various ways, from curing meats to being a toothpaste additive. But the product of its combustion is readily soluble in water (or saliva), resulting in potassium bisulfide and potassium hydroxide. And that would probably taste very nasty indeed. What troubles me about salanderson's story is the persistence of the taste; either this is unexpectedly serious (a chemical burn of some sort on his tongue maybe?) or a big wind-up. Another avenue to investigate: they say that most of our sense of taste is actually situated in our sinuses; maybe what's plaguing salanderson is some trace residue lodged in his sinus cavities, and maybe what he needs to be doing is not just swishing various substances in his mouth, but also irrigating his sinuses with a neti pot or inhaling saline water vapor or something. (But don't do anything without a doctor's instruction!) I don't know what the OPer can do to neutralize those compounds, but he might want to mention all this to his doctors when he sees 'em.
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I'd be happy if Muse chucked some of the riffs they've played the most in recent years and used more of their own material, like "Execution Commentary". Only I'm not satisfied with the "EC" riffing they've done in the past; they should revisit the breakdown section and use that part especially; it's really heavy and it'd be a great substitute for the "Maggie's Farm" riff and maybe the "Headup" riff. See : :50 - 1:12 for the first breakdown and 1:34 - 2:13 for the second. (Not that the original faster riffage isn't great too; it is, but I think the breakdowns would better suit what they've been doing for outro solos generally.) Question: do they have to pay other artists royalties for the in-concert riffage?
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"Starlight" on MSNBC this morning, between touting some upcoming news story and a commercial break. It played for a good ten seconds or so.
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In the "Muse in the Media" thread about their recent mention in New York [magazine], you posted: "It was a U2 gig, not a Muse gig. They don't deserve any collumn space when it isn't their own show."
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But like I pointed out in my post, Muse at the time was sitting on top of the charts in about 19 countries... so it wouldn't have killed the critic to have dropped a line or two about this rather distinguished opening act.
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Your determination to cut me down at every opportunity, even at Muse's expense, is pathetic. As is your spelling ("collumn"?), you ignorant, semiliterate little twerp.
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"MK Ultra" on NBC just a couple of minutes ago, in their intro to the US/Switz men's hockey game starting now! (This is the perfect moment for New Jersey Muse fan MK Ultra, he of the hockey-star avatars... USA Olympic hockey, "MK Ultra"... dude, where are you?) On Edit: this was non-diagetic, BTW, added to the video montage in the studio, for the TV audience only. There's some rock music piped in the arena, too (that would be diagetic use of music)... I just heard a snatch of Bruce Springsteen a minute ago.
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Just sighted [???], er, heard, the first use of Muse on NBC's Olympics coverage, with "Uprising". It's a start...
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Happy Birthday (this month)! 17 is a milestone year, for sure...
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Thanks for saying so, but right now I'm feeling like a bit of an idiot, because I failed to pick up on it being a "joke". By the time it was revealed as a joke in the Muse.mu thread, I was writing my response. Not that it would've mattered; I only read the first page before racing off to check it out and counter his ridiculous posturing.
That kind of humor really bothers me, though, especially given his injunction to use force to put an end to Muse's propaganda. That blog could remain accessible on the 'net for decades, for all we know, and absent a context of Musers explaining the joke (apparently Keir himself is being less than forthcoming on his blog), what are others to make of it out of context of the debunkers? (Who hasn't played the hypothetical fantasy of assassinating Hitler, or ask 'what would I do if I was like Christopher Walken's psychic character in The Dead Zone,' etc.? I have a new nightmare now: that someone will read that blog and get The Wrong Idea, big-time!) So for that reason alone, I'm now glad that I went ahead and made an uncool fool of myself.
That Keir a-hole may have intended it as a joke, but he's in such poor control of his craft and message that there could've been unintended consequences.
Regards,
Stephanie
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I forgot to mention that the BBC piece aired on my local public radio station this morning mentioned Muse and Matt Bellamy specifically as a rare (one of only two) examples of post-millenium artists to make the list (Top 20, anyway). The BBC anchorman mentioned that he knows his daughter "is really into Muse" and added that that makes him sound really old, doesn't it? Two more bumpers on the ABC college football game: an "Uprising" "woo-woo!" bit on an outro, and a very nice extended bit complete with identifying info for the return.
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The BBC America news program this morning had a segment on the MusicRadar.com readers' poll on the greatest guitar riff of all time, and "PIB" came in at #12 -- a result virtually identical to the Total Guitar readers' poll from five years ago. Here's the article on the poll from The Telegraph U.K. Cincy-Illinois on ABC? I heard that too... just a few seconds' worth on the bumper leading to a commercial break, but it was nice to hear! The Illini seem to be putting up a better resistance themselves at the moment; too bad they were letting the game get out of control earlier.
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In the Miami -- North Carolina game on ESPN, Brian Griese just used the phrase "collateral damage" in his final comments on a series, followed by the bumper to the commercial break. The song on the bumper was [a few seconds' worth of] "Uprising". Well, I wouldn't expect a sports program to use USE, now...
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And they just did it again... woo-hoo!
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I did enjoy the Helsinki gig, although I've been kvetching about its setlist (for both content and length) on that thread, and been catching some flak for that, too... but I'm afraid that without being goaded and prodded a bit, the lads may just get too complacent and start slacking off, y'know?
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Um, sure,and thanks again! I actually did find once some mode where you could crop, retint, rotate, etc. the pics but don't remember now how to get there... Have pity on me, I only learned how to Lolz a few weeks ago!
The short series I wanted the pic for is almost all ready to go, but I've been so caught up with Helsinki and some other current affairs that I haven't gotten around to it.
On edit: I can't believe you remembered my photo request! Even I had almost all but forgotten about it!
On edit redux: I've "friended" you and made it reciprocal; no hard feelings if you decline, though.
Regards,
Stephanie
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THANK YOU!!! I think the last one will be just the trick, after I figure out how to rotate it... Again, THANKS A MILLION!!
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Thanks! It isn't what I need, but I might use it for a different Lolz someday... Matt's a real cutie, even when overexposed in a cam flash!
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Thanks, melon, but I need one with all three. I'm sure I'll find it eventually, but it's no biggie (no pun intended) if I don't.