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Rachopin

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About Rachopin

  • Birthday 12/17/1979

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    Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Interests
    Guitar, cooking, traveling, movies, music, home design, reading (conspiracies, economy), news
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    Male
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    musicdoc2001@hotmail.com
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    alexraymond79@gmail.com
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    alexraymond79@gmail.com
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    GoTaiwan2007
  • Favourite Bands
    Vampire Weekend, Of Montreal, Architecture in Helsinki, MGMT, Joe Satriani, Mozart, Last Shadow Puppets, Blackmore's Night, Lila Downs, Gamma Ray, Gogol Bordello, Queen, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers, Lily Allen, Nightwish, Elvenking, Panic! At The Disco, The Pogues, Oi Va Voi, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius, Yngwie Malmsteen, Tri Yann, Within Temptation, Band of Horses, Sophie Solomon...and thanks to Exogenesis...Saint Saens.
  • Favourite Films
    State of Play, Lions for Lambs, Idiocracy, The Time Traveller's Wife, The Bloom Brothers, Endgame (Alex Jones), Burn Up, Body of Lies, White Chicks, The Hot Chick, Deuce Bigalo etc.
  • Favourite TV Shows
    Simpsons, whatever is on, you know...lots of lady programs that my wife likes to watch...heheh
  • Favourite Books
    The Great Depression Ahead (Harry S. Dent), America And The World (Zbigniew Brzezinski), The Rise of The Fourth Reich (Jim Marrs), Obama: The Postmodern Coup - Making of a Manchurian Candidate (Webster Tarpley), The Revolution - A Manifesto (Ron Paul), Second Chance (Brzezinski), The Choice (aka The Grand Chessboard), The Billion New Capitalists (Clyde Prestowitz), Rule by Secrecy (Jim Marrs), The World's Biggest Secrets (David Icke), The Bilderberg Group (Daniel Estulin) etc.
  • Muse Releases Owned
    Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry, Absolution, Hullabaloo (2CD), Black Holes and Revelations, HAARP (lost the DVD), and soon "Resistance" (Sept. 25th in Taiwan)
  • Muse Concerts Attended / Attending
    Unfortunately, not yet. I only knew them after I left the UK.

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  1. When I first heard the Globalist, I kept thinking of the song "This Night" by Billy Joel. "This Night" is the second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata accompanied by lyrics arranged by Billy Joel. However, "The Globalist" is in fact based on Elgar's 'Nimrod' from the Enigma Variations. So why was I thinking Beethoven/Billy Joel? Here's the answer from Wiki: Once, when Elgar had been very depressed and was about to give it all up and write no more music, Augustus J. Jaeger had visited him and encouraged him to continue composing. He referred to Ludwig van Beethoven, who had a lot of worries, but wrote more and more beautiful music. "And that is what you must do", Jaeger said and he sang the theme of the second movement of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 Pathétique. Elgar disclosed to Dora that the opening bars of 'Nimrod' were made to suggest that theme. "Can’t you hear it at the beginning? Only a hint, not a quotation." So Beethoven influenced Elgar who then influenced Matthew Bellamy.
  2. Sorry, I never knew you posted back, If you post on my board it will alert me. Hope life is good.:musesign::musesign:

  3. Apart from in my house and in my car, I also heard SBH at an open door seafood market in the harbor north of Tainan in Taiwan three years ago (where I live). Where else did I hear them? Did anyone ever hear any Muse on an airplane? I don't think they ever have any Muse songs playing on "AIRplay". In the UK, my friend and I played Muse nonstop in the jukebox in a pub (KOC, Invincible, BAH, Starlight etc.). Where else? I heard Uprising on the Taiwanese radio for the first time. It's an English speaking radio channel (American).
  4. hi there, how are you?

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