I LOVE THIS SONG!
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Mujhe bhool gaye, beta?
Now that I'm on Blogger Beta, I've pretty much forgotten what the earlier one looked/felt like.
Its on a day like today that you realize what paranoia truly is. One incident can lead a city into absolute panic, blocking the home page of CNN, and having all of Fox News dedicated to it with flying helicopters, whereas a similar incident, 5 years ago, would've been a page 3 story in the Metro.
In other news, here's a tip. When you've got too much work and 2 million things on your mind, watch a mindless movie. It works like a charm. I just did. "Just My Luck". The added incentive, of course, was the highly-adorable Lindsay Lohan, who is the paragon of cuteliness (see? watch girlie. talk girlie).
Spending this weekend cleaning out the comp, and backing up the drives. Look out, world. This loyal Dell-onist converts to a Sony lifestyle, on Oct 18th.
The Vaio cometh.
Now that I'm on Blogger Beta, I've pretty much forgotten what the earlier one looked/felt like.
Its on a day like today that you realize what paranoia truly is. One incident can lead a city into absolute panic, blocking the home page of CNN, and having all of Fox News dedicated to it with flying helicopters, whereas a similar incident, 5 years ago, would've been a page 3 story in the Metro.
In other news, here's a tip. When you've got too much work and 2 million things on your mind, watch a mindless movie. It works like a charm. I just did. "Just My Luck". The added incentive, of course, was the highly-adorable Lindsay Lohan, who is the paragon of cuteliness (see? watch girlie. talk girlie).
Spending this weekend cleaning out the comp, and backing up the drives. Look out, world. This loyal Dell-onist converts to a Sony lifestyle, on Oct 18th.
The Vaio cometh.
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Naam kya hai?
You know what? forget all the Dons and the Umrao Jaans and the Jaanemans, something tells me that this movie will be India's calling card for '07. After Water, which I will gratefully watch this week, thanks to the benevolence of the Netflix gods, I love the legit look that the Namesake has. The characters seem to have leapt out of Lahiri's book right onto screen, with effortless adaptation. The music (Nitin Sawhney) sounds so apt - anyone have leads into this soundtrack?
Meanwhile, I'm expecting Freakonomics in the mail this week - have heard rave reviews about it. And in the queue for big-screen experience this week, is The Departed, which finally has the eldritch Yahoo Movie Critics and Users at spring-balance congruence on their reviews (A-). Looking forward to catch it, based on the availability and choc-a-bloc schedules of certain hotshot, busybody, Burberry-bedecked account directors (yes, I mean you, D).
Yeah I don't see any work happening this week. Salute!
Sunday, October 08, 2006
Saturday, October 07, 2006
Snap to Reality
When it comes to good quality digi-cams, my requirements are simple:
(1) Good quality landscape daytime image capture
(2) Shake resistance
(3) Brilliant performance in lowlight conditions - cuz that's where the action is.
After mucho research, my digi-senses tell me that the Canon Powershot S2 is the way to go. Now of course, the crucial question. Where does one get this cheap? :-)
Kya karen? phir bhi dil hai hindustani!
Friday, October 06, 2006
Ride 'em Cowboy
Since there's been so much rider talk for the last 2 weeks, with our event management team for our internal bash on the 27th (much hoopla!) - and for the uninitiated, a rider is a technical spec sheet that an artist gives a show organizer, with the bunch of things that he needs - here's an actual rider for an Iggy Pop concert. Hilarious, oi!
In other news, remember the Google puzzle I shot at y'all? Well, this one's a little bit harder.
RED-BLUE-YELLOW-RED-YELLOW-BLUE
PS: Its really funny.
Since there's been so much rider talk for the last 2 weeks, with our event management team for our internal bash on the 27th (much hoopla!) - and for the uninitiated, a rider is a technical spec sheet that an artist gives a show organizer, with the bunch of things that he needs - here's an actual rider for an Iggy Pop concert. Hilarious, oi!
In other news, remember the Google puzzle I shot at y'all? Well, this one's a little bit harder.
RED-BLUE-YELLOW-RED-YELLOW-BLUE
PS: Its really funny.
Thursday, October 05, 2006
The Upper RIM of class
Phone. E-mail. Browser. Media (Video and Mp3) Player. Camera. Mistress.
Now you're talking, people. Now .. you're ... talking!
In other news, don't you find people who get overtly excited about gadgets, strange and materialistic? I'm bi-polar. So sue me.
Otherwise - Here's a brilliantly designed shock campaign.
Phone. E-mail. Browser. Media (Video and Mp3) Player. Camera. Mistress.
Now you're talking, people. Now .. you're ... talking!
In other news, don't you find people who get overtly excited about gadgets, strange and materialistic? I'm bi-polar. So sue me.
Otherwise - Here's a brilliantly designed shock campaign.
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
Walk the Line (Roar!)
Until fairly recently, I thought that the Equator was an imaginary lion that ran across the center of the earth. This is owed greatly due to the exquisite pronunciation abilities of my Ernakulam-ite schoolteachers, wokay? I used to think that people in Equatorial Guinea and Ethiopia used to constantly live in fear that they will be mauled by a passing, globe-trotting lion during its manic marathon of many miles. Strange things kids be learning, y'all?
In other news, why would anyone in their right mind name their kids Dimple, Twinkle and Simple? SIMPLE??? I can't imagine her ever receiving an award for Most Unique Student. Picture it! "2005's Most Extraordinary Student is Simple". What is she, a 5th grade subtraction sum? Simple. Same goes for Joy and Boy. Parents - get creative! or at least get a higher-grade level dictionary from which you blind-choose these names of yers.
Peace out, world.
Until fairly recently, I thought that the Equator was an imaginary lion that ran across the center of the earth. This is owed greatly due to the exquisite pronunciation abilities of my Ernakulam-ite schoolteachers, wokay? I used to think that people in Equatorial Guinea and Ethiopia used to constantly live in fear that they will be mauled by a passing, globe-trotting lion during its manic marathon of many miles. Strange things kids be learning, y'all?
In other news, why would anyone in their right mind name their kids Dimple, Twinkle and Simple? SIMPLE??? I can't imagine her ever receiving an award for Most Unique Student. Picture it! "2005's Most Extraordinary Student is Simple". What is she, a 5th grade subtraction sum? Simple. Same goes for Joy and Boy. Parents - get creative! or at least get a higher-grade level dictionary from which you blind-choose these names of yers.
Peace out, world.
Origin-ally sinful
At the Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma concert last month, I am amused at the subtlety with which he expressed his inconvenience with the crying and ranting children that he overheard while tuning. He said, "There are some young musicians here, who seem to be interested in making some compositions of their own. Would request their parents to take care of them, as it might interfere with our music". This is in severe contrast to what statements I would have used, including "Keep it down, you little runts!", "Where's a gun when you need one?" or my personal favorite, "One pill would've saved ya, Jill".
In other news, the India Today Anniversary edition educates me with this information, about the origins of these phrases:
Jhakaas! - First used by Anil Kapoor in Joshilay (1989)
Bad luck hi kharaab hai - First used by Aamir Khan in Rangeela (1995)
Lambi race ka ghoda - First used by Davar Seth for Amitabh Bachchan in Deewar (1975)
Naani yaad dila denge - First used by Rajiv Gandhi in his tirade against foreign powers at the Delhi Boat Club (1989)
At the Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma concert last month, I am amused at the subtlety with which he expressed his inconvenience with the crying and ranting children that he overheard while tuning. He said, "There are some young musicians here, who seem to be interested in making some compositions of their own. Would request their parents to take care of them, as it might interfere with our music". This is in severe contrast to what statements I would have used, including "Keep it down, you little runts!", "Where's a gun when you need one?" or my personal favorite, "One pill would've saved ya, Jill".
In other news, the India Today Anniversary edition educates me with this information, about the origins of these phrases:
Jhakaas! - First used by Anil Kapoor in Joshilay (1989)
Bad luck hi kharaab hai - First used by Aamir Khan in Rangeela (1995)
Lambi race ka ghoda - First used by Davar Seth for Amitabh Bachchan in Deewar (1975)
Naani yaad dila denge - First used by Rajiv Gandhi in his tirade against foreign powers at the Delhi Boat Club (1989)
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Sunday, October 01, 2006
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always.
- Mohandas Gandhi
Some scenes in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi forever remain etched in memory. The one of the raging fire of British-spun clothing, with bare-backed and calm Gandhi looking on. The Salt March sequence. The chilling Jallianwala Bagh sequence (I would think, the first-ever depiction of this incident in international cinema), and the court martial of Dyer afterwards where Gielgud asks Dyer, "how did you ever expect an orphaned young child to apply for help?". Even the stark shocking numbers (1516 victimes with 1620 bullets) are characters themselves, that shriek in agony of their existence.
And of course, the funeral scene in the beginning - which is still held in the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest number of extras ever used in a movie scene. 300,000 of them! 200,000 were volunteers, and about 100,000 were paid. The scene was shot on the anniversary of Gandhi's assassination (Jan 31) in 1981 (the year I was born).
Ben Kingsley's portrayal was one of the closest any human being has gotten to an icon on celluloid. Can't even imagine that Anthony Hopkins and Alec Guinness were offered the role, and one is so glad they turned it down. Although, you must catch Daniel Day Lewis in his cameo as the thug in South Africa who threatens Gandhi as the young lawyer, in the streets of Cape Town.
Everytime I watch Gandhi, it makes me think that the passion that he exhibited, the principles that he stood for and the lifelong determination that he exuded, will never ever return to our planet. This thought resounds Einstein's words about Gandhi, "Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as [Gandhi] ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth".
Things I would give my right arm for
To hear Beyonce and Alicia Keys do a cover of Rhianna's Unfaithful.
In other news, what a jackass, ladies and gentlemen, what an absolute jackass!
To hear Beyonce and Alicia Keys do a cover of Rhianna's Unfaithful.
In other news, what a jackass, ladies and gentlemen, what an absolute jackass!
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