Ever since the early days of Muse, frontman Matt Bellamy and drummer Dom Howard have shared a running joke about success. Before each major concert, each step up the ladder, Bellamy turns to Howard and says: "Is this it? Have we made it yet?" Every time, the drummer shakes his head and replies: "Not yet. Nearly."
Muse从组建开始就有这么个inside-joke，让鼓手和主唱乐此不疲。大场子开始前上台阶的时候，Matt每走一步都转头问老师，“到了吗？我们成功了吗？”每一次，老师都摇摇头说，“还没呢。就差一点了。”
Howard reckons that family life has made the singer "slightly more relaxed, but to me he's still as manic and weird and meticulous as he's always been".
老师认为妻儿使Matt“稍微放松了一点儿，但在我看来，他还是那个癫狂又偏执的怪人，一如既往。”
Matt自己也说他台下还是挺安静的，有点儿回避症倾向。看着Kate作为知名演员所吸引的注意力让他对自己的名声有更深入的思考。【所以其实名人和名人相爱是有道理的，不在那个位置上无法理解对方的处境啊。
Bellamy admits that the song was already written when the organisers approached him. "It was definitely a bit more demented than I think they realised," he says with pleasure.
Survival到底是在接下奥运组委会的活儿之前写好的还是之后写完的，每次采访都说的不一样。这次又说在接活儿之前就写好了，只不过组委会的人大概没意识到这首歌比他们所想的还精神错乱，哈哈。
I suspect Bellamy's politics are often overlooked because (a) he has never aligned himself with a specific cause and (b) he frames them in such a blockbuster manner that people assume he's joking – which, he insists, he is not. "I don't think our records contain obvious humour," he says, a touch defensively. "We're not cracking gags."
Matt的政~治观点太激进，因此许多人觉得他要么在开玩笑，要么在说狠话。他既没公开支持任何政党，又给自己塑造了这么一夸张的概念形象，结果人们都不把他这方面的意见当回事。Matt本人坚持说他没开玩笑。“我不觉得专辑里有任何明显的幽默元素，我们不是谐星。”【我怀疑这篇访谈的作者问问题的口气有意为之，想看Matt的反应，因为Matt一阵子之前还表示KOC这歌就是个玩笑，Survival把他自己都听得笑出来，他们的音乐颇有些娱乐精神etc.
A few years ago, Bellamy's reading list was more outré. He often recommended that interviewers imbibe the wisdom of David Icke, although even he admitted the theory about the royal family being alien lizard people was a little too ripe. "I was getting very drawn into obscure conspiracy theories," he concedes. "As time's moved on I've become far more rational and empirical and I've managed to focus on slightly more realistic, tangible things."
It's a wise move. Muse were taken aback when The Resistance was embraced by swivel-eyed Fox News demagogue Glenn Beck ("the lyrics are just dead-on [about] what's coming our way") and the single Uprising began soundtracking YouTube clips produced by the kind of people who believe climate change is a socialist conspiracy and Obama is an Indonesian Muslim. (Conservative attention seems to run in the family: Bellamy's father George used to play rhythm guitar in the Tornados, whose 1962 chart-topper Telstar was one of Margaret Thatcher's Desert Island Discs choices.)
Muse从组建开始就有这么个inside-joke，让鼓手和主唱乐此不疲。大场子开始前上台阶的时候，Matt每走一步都转头问老师，“到了吗？我们成功了吗？”每一次，老师都摇摇头说，“还没呢。就差一点了。”
Howard reckons that family life has made the singer "slightly more relaxed, but to me he's still as manic and weird and meticulous as he's always been".
老师认为妻儿使Matt“稍微放松了一点儿，但在我看来，他还是那个癫狂又偏执的怪人，一如既往。”
Matt自己也说他台下还是挺安静的，有点儿回避症倾向。看着Kate作为知名演员所吸引的注意力让他对自己的名声有更深入的思考。【所以其实名人和名人相爱是有道理的，不在那个位置上无法理解对方的处境啊。
Bellamy admits that the song was already written when the organisers approached him. "It was definitely a bit more demented than I think they realised," he says with pleasure.
Survival到底是在接下奥运组委会的活儿之前写好的还是之后写完的，每次采访都说的不一样。这次又说在接活儿之前就写好了，只不过组委会的人大概没意识到这首歌比他们所想的还精神错乱，哈哈。
I suspect Bellamy's politics are often overlooked because (a) he has never aligned himself with a specific cause and (b) he frames them in such a blockbuster manner that people assume he's joking – which, he insists, he is not. "I don't think our records contain obvious humour," he says, a touch defensively. "We're not cracking gags."
Matt的政~治观点太激进，因此许多人觉得他要么在开玩笑，要么在说狠话。他既没公开支持任何政党，又给自己塑造了这么一夸张的概念形象，结果人们都不把他这方面的意见当回事。Matt本人坚持说他没开玩笑。“我不觉得专辑里有任何明显的幽默元素，我们不是谐星。”【我怀疑这篇访谈的作者问问题的口气有意为之，想看Matt的反应，因为Matt一阵子之前还表示KOC这歌就是个玩笑，Survival把他自己都听得笑出来，他们的音乐颇有些娱乐精神etc.
A few years ago, Bellamy's reading list was more outré. He often recommended that interviewers imbibe the wisdom of David Icke, although even he admitted the theory about the royal family being alien lizard people was a little too ripe. "I was getting very drawn into obscure conspiracy theories," he concedes. "As time's moved on I've become far more rational and empirical and I've managed to focus on slightly more realistic, tangible things."
It's a wise move. Muse were taken aback when The Resistance was embraced by swivel-eyed Fox News demagogue Glenn Beck ("the lyrics are just dead-on [about] what's coming our way") and the single Uprising began soundtracking YouTube clips produced by the kind of people who believe climate change is a socialist conspiracy and Obama is an Indonesian Muslim. (Conservative attention seems to run in the family: Bellamy's father George used to play rhythm guitar in the Tornados, whose 1962 chart-topper Telstar was one of Margaret Thatcher's Desert Island Discs choices.)
翻得好好！
再次暴露无遗
