Attribution

The "quote of the day" on my Google mail header attributes to self-help charlatan Tony Robbins [1]:

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

Of course, those of us of a certain impressionable age in 1993 might remember the proper phrasing [2]:

Cause if you do what you've always done / you'll always get what you always got / (Uh... could that be nothin'?)

On an unrelated note, so to speak, I listened to the Muse album Black Holes and Revelations recently. I think it's really good, although I haven't listened to enough Muse to compare this to their other work. Their style is right up my alley: it's generally rockous and progressive, overuses textural synthesizer and orchestral punctuation, and combines electronically driven tempos and overarching, squealing-dude vocal in a way that clearly follows, but is implemented distinctly from, the Radiohead archetype. Their use of instrumental synthesizer plucks some of the best from, perhaps, Gentle Giant; vocal harmonies emulate (what is undoubtedly) the best from Queen. If I were to select an objection, it's that they rely primarily on the extended-radio-pop-song form in their compositions. What my record collection needs is a serious composition from these guys: an album-length [3] masterpiece in the vein of The Fountain of Lamneth or Scenes from a Memory. Five people would buy it, and I'd be one of them.

[1] Ref. Nothing personal; if career = "self-help writer" and wealthy = yes, then this is my assumption.
[2] Ref
[3] In modern times, why limit a concept album to a 30-minute side, or even an 80-minute disc? I think my ipod has 3.2 GB available: that's about 640 minutes at high quality. Bring it on.