Anna: A Fat Cat's Had A Heart Attack

OH. MY. GOD.

So this all started back in December when I was randomly scrolling through Eventful thinking, "I reallyreallyreally want to go to a concert." And then lo and behold, I saw the MUSE was going to be playing in April. Well of course once I got back to Portland I told my roommate, because I know she loves Muse as much as I do. We convinced her friend Lindsay to come and we paid our 60 bucks in January for seats.

It was so fucking worth it.

Silversun Pickups opened, which was cool. I was a bit tipsy at best (we had mixed rum with some delicious Dole Orange-Mango juice and had been drinking it for the past hour), so I kinda just swayed along and laughed and wondered when the fuzzy feeling was gonna leave my head. But once Muse actually started I completely sobered up and went totally crazy.

We were mooching off other people's seats because our seats sucked and that was just not okay for a Muse concert (seriously, it wasn't. There were these three huge cloth towers on the stage that completely blocked our view. Lame) so we had to relocate. We walked around for a while, and then founds seats RIGHT AS MUSE WAS STARTING. The towers were pulled down to reveal the band playing on platforms. The opened with Uprising (AMAZING) and continued on for a fucking mindblowing show.

The drumset's platform was circular and rotated around randomly, there was a kickass lightshow (my favorite part was the green lasers going everywhere), our left section had a cheering contest with the right section and Matthew Bellamy kept directing the spotlight between us to indicate when we should cheer. Massive eyeball balloons were thrown down from the ceiling at some point, they played Supermassive Black Hole and Hysteria BACK TO BACK and ended up coming back onstage twice as we were screaming for encores (although, I think that was planned). They ended with my two favorite songs, Stockholm Syndrome and Knights of Cydonia.

After screaming myself hoarse and jumping up and down and waving my arms like a lunatic for a good hour and a half, I headed out with Leigh and Lindsay and we along with dozens of other people clambered onto the Max. Trust me, I got very comfortable with some strangers there. We wanted to head to McDonalds afterward but it was closed by the time we got there (LAME) so we just headed back up and now I'm typing this and listening to Muse again. And I should say that I am BEAT. Seriously, I'm gonna sleep so well tonight and wake up with no voice tomorrow and its so amazing.

Also Heaven, I tried to call you and converse and it ended up as fail. :( Sorry. I hope you caught part of Uprising though, because that's when I called.

Whew. I want to see them again already!!! I FUCKING LOVE MUSE SO MUCH. And they are SO amazing live. Every once in a while they'd talk in their wonderful British accents and I just melted inside. SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm about to drop off to sleep now though. Love y'all and goodnight.