{@ 01 March 2007
muse in concert

this is a tribute to muse's concert
well you cannot deny that your youth days is inseparable from music. you are either a groupie, a funloving boyband fan, an amateur band member, or even just a regular top 40 listener. As you grow older, taste changes. a system of a down die hard fans may have been a boyzone fan, you may even preffer celline dion over metallica nowadays. For all that has tasted the love for music, going to a concert is a must go through experience. It is just so awesome it will last your lifetime. You may be able to forget your first love, your parents birthday, or even your cousins name, but you will never forget the experience of going to a concert.

Therefore, i recommend that you watch as many concert as you can while you were young. Going to a concert is best be done in our youth days, I mean, you dont want to wait in lines for hours and getting smashed during the concert in your 40s when you started to develop rheumatics or ostheoporosis. Anyway, may I present to you...



the definitive guide to the concert of your lifetime...


.the perfect band, one that you are fcuking crazy about because there isnt anything worse than watching a concert of a band that your just not into. Mind you, these things requires lots of efforts and energy, so there better be a good motivation behind it.
. get the ticket concert. I know that concert ticket can get very expensive, but please please bear in mind that this beautifull city country, indonesia rarely gets a visit from all those decent rock bands out there(westlife, inxs and mike tramp is definitely not a decent rock band)
.familiarity of at least their latest album, the more album you know, the better
.knowledge of most of their song, the very least you can do is memorize the refrain only, trust me, you wouldnt wanna sing along semi humming as if you know the lyrics, it sucks and it makes you feel like and outkast
.knowing each member of the band would be nice, not a compulsory though cause your not a fucking groupie, this isnt a westlife concert, and no matter how hard you call them, they wouldnt listen to you anyway
.get a comfortable companion so you dont spend all of the hours waiting bored and alone
.wear something comfortable, and a shoe(fyi. a strapless baby doll dress with low bust cut and those cutie slippers is defitinely not an appropriate dress code!!!)
.the less baggage the better, bring only important items, and if you can, smuggle in a digitial camera, electric fan,laptops,ipod,sofa
.make sure to come early (for like 6 hours early, doh!), it really pays off
.run for your life, cheat, kill, and win a great spot. In the front, but remember never on the very front position in the barrier, cause you always need that extra person in front of you to act as your padding incase people started pushing form behind
.make new friends
.make new enemies
.getting involve in a love hate relationship with your surrounding crowds (bond at the moments of your syncronized jumping, singing together, sweat colliding, sharing the omg-this-is-so-fcuking-awesome-i-could-cry moments and diss them when they try to bypass you to get to the front)
.i swear nothing beats the moment when your favourite song is played and you get to sing along with thousands of other people
.mixed emotion would occur, hysterical, exited, abused, ecstatically astounded, hypnotized, and yet at the same time you swear you could almost die from exhaustion but youre just too amused too even care
.take as many documentation eventhough your cameraphone sucks big time and you only get 5 good pictures out of 124 shots, damn!!!
.the classic to do thing: shouting the we want more word even though we know they'll always come back
.end of the show

the aftereffect...
you go home with a grin in your face and that beam in your eyes that will last for hours
the song will be rewinded repeteadly in your head for days you will unconciously mutter it
you have just created a new milestone in your memory
something that will lasted years after, even a lifetime
and those graphic images, scattered shots of matt bellamy playing the piano gracefully,those blast feeling when knights of cydonia was played, the annoying guy that keeps leaning to my shoulder, the muscle ache, how the stars in the backdrop amazingly sparkle according to the beat, that song that you have never heard before yet hypnotized you so deeply, everything...
it will still be there...
you will still remember
just incase someone who didnt watch asked how the concert goes,
or just to brag around in the future,
or even as a story for your future grandchildren
as you tell them the story
those amazing feeling will get back to you once again

feeling good - muse . review