So in conclusion, Chris' amp and Matt's mic seemed to have cut off and died about 30 seconds into Knights of Cydonia. They stopped and restarted about a minute in, tried to check some controls and start again.
Two stops and starts, no voice, no bass.
Eventually Matt says "we're very sorry, we've run out of time". They won't be able to fix the tech issues in time, it is now 1 AM, their scheduled end time.
Muse go off stage, fans continue to chant and cheer and sing Knights of Cydonia themselves.
Dom comes out and apologises for the tech problems, thanks the crowd for their patience, says give us a few minutes as we try and navigate a tech meltdown off stage.
They're trying a few controls with their sound tech off stage, you hear guitar channels being tried, Matt and Chris can be seen on the cameras off stage, in intense discussion with tech.
Matt comes out and says something on the mic, we can't hear him. They go back in, more discussion.
Dom comes out and says they've had a "tech meltdown" nightmare off stage, but they're going to try and play something for them anyway before they "get kicked off stage".
Matt's guitar seems okay, he comes out to the mic, starts playing his guitar.
Chris and Dom follow him.
It looks like they won't be able to play Knights of Cydonia tonight.
They start playing Showbiz instead.
Rock Werchter crowd get Showbiz, complete with the outros, Matt hopping around, Matt destroying his amp in frustration, blue Manson's chucked across, the energies are like the old days.
At the end of the song, Dom comes to the mic, apologises, thanks the crowd, says they'll definitely be back to play Knights for Belgium some other time.
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pokemon theory i just thought of: new pokemon appear in the pokemon universe when they're designed in this one. they're created ex nilho but they have retroactive realness; they weren't here yesterday, but today they've always existed.
pokemon researchers have had to suss this out on their own over decades, and it's a really unpopular theory, made worse by the fact that no one can come up with a better one. from their perspective pokemon generate spontaneously but in both chronological directions, and the similarities of many pokemon seem to be detived from a conscious and creative understanding of the world--their world, though? what other world could there be?. there are ice cream pokemon and pokeball pokemon and sword pokemon and trash bag pokemon.
there are so many pokemon with both wings and a beak. is this like swords? is there an ur-flying type that this class evokes? there are so many canine pokemon. but what is a canine? is there such a thing? there's only one set of sword pokemon, right. one tea-set line. is *feline* a coherent category? would the ur-feline have two legs or four? why do so many pokemon have humanlike bodyplans-- but then again, why so few?
pichu has always been the prior form of pikachu. why didn't it get counted in order? why do we call it that instead of saying pikachu is the middle evolution of the pichu line? why can so many trainers remember finding this out well into their journeys? why didn't ash start with one?
this is why pokemon researchers do a lot of labwork, drink heavily, and use ten year olds for field research. you can't have an existential crisis if you don't even know what time is yet.
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i love the artistic stylings of studio ghibli as much as anyone else does but im kind of sick of anything with like vivid environments and big blue skies being branded as ghibliesque. because its like. you know where else you can hypothetically find some vivid environments with big blue skies? my friend the great and wonderful outdoors are here for you
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You know, it would be amazing if Hollywood learned the right lesson from the success of Nimona. Something like "Hey, maybe don't throw out a nearly done movie as a tax write off" or "people want queer stories" or even "don't be afraid to take some storytelling risks and be original" but you just know they're going to come away with some absolutely batshit takeaway like, "next time delete all the evidence and burn it to the ground so the gays can't make us look bad!"
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