Oh, Goodness Me

First off, I have tape on my back to correct my posture, courtesy of the physical therapist. She hates my slouchiness. It pulls when I try to sit wrongly, thus supposedly stopping me from doing so.

Second, I really want some popcorn.

Third, Muse are a bunch of...I can't say it. I just can't say it. Suffice it to say, they are torturing me and everyone else with their cryptic, freaky little clues.

(I am building up to a rant, so if you don't want to hear it, get out of the way)

So, Muse put up this picture on their Twitter yesterday.



It was a terribly confusing mess of stuff, and in the last day or so, it has been more analyzed than the Mona Lisa. Everything from chicken worship (cock equals chicken and minster equals church, so apparently Dom (it's apparently HIS finger there) is either worshipping chickens or sacrificing them to ancient warrior gods) to supposing that it might be giving the date and time of the end of the world (again).

This came out about half a day later (same picture, analyzed to death by a cleverer fan than I):




No one has gotten an answer everyone's happy with, especially after this was added about five minutes after the first one was:




Now, this one has Dom's hand (apparently because it's too masculine to be Matt's but too small to be Chris's, on top of the fact that it has that geeky calculator watch and Dom has one of those) playing a chord (with the LEFT hand, because Dom is a lefty) strangely called the MU chord (something to do with Greek lettering, I believe). Odd? I think not. Muse's official web address ends with .mu. That was definitely a clue for us.

So I have spent half a day plugging in bits of the code from the first picture with .mu, in the hopes that I would find whatever they want us to have a look at. Nobody's found it yet.

But then Matt posts a picture of himself online this morning, at the Apple computer they're working with to create this bugger of an album, and it kicks up a tizzy AGAIN. Is the cup important? Is the screen important? What's on the screen? ARE THEY DONE YET?




I have decided Muse are probably done with the album. They are sitting back, drinking some form of alcohol, patting themselves on the back for a job well done, and laughing uncontrollably at the thought of Dom doing terrible things to chickens that would make a PETA member go into a seizure. That and the fact that hundreds of their fans have spent the last almost two days working on this stuff and have no definitive answer.

I wish we could get a straight, easy clue. Someone was bemoaning the fact that she wasn't a Jonas Brothers fan and that certainly THEY don't tease their fans with cryptic clues like this. And certainly they don't get into serious discussion about chicken worship...

Ah, sometimes it's hard being a fan of these guys, waiting. Waiting. Doing some waiting. And then waiting some more while everyone else tries to sort out the clues (and I try to help-too damned complex for me).

Will let you know if anyone cracks it for sure, or if Muse give the answer to us nice and straight.

Ta,
Bec