qlog

open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

2012-01-28T19:28:00.003+05:30

movies watched

loved	hated	meh
the bong connection	sex and the city 2	the descendants
midnight in paris	melancholia	one day
red state	drive	horrible bosses
		ceremony
		the ides of march

from worst to best

11. sex and the city 2 - i have nothing to say. i was bored. i knew what i was getting myself into :|

10. melancholia - arty, slow-moving, crapola.

9. drive - this is mostly a case of disappointment. i was expecting crazy, stupid, love. gosling (crazy cool! music plays! he wears suits! and he's funny.) and got creepy, silent, violent gosling instead.

8. the descendants - so dull. no moments stand out. none. has everyone gone mad? why the raving? why the oscar noms? o0

7. one day - sappy romance (usually i love!) ruined by the stupid ending.

6. horrible bosses - funny.

5. ceremony - lee pace!

4. the ides of march - solid.

3. the bong connection - suprisingly good. good acting. good bong music. and the best part. the accents were right. not some simpsons thing that the american actors they managed to find put on. must endeavour to watch it from the beginning. missed all the bits where grandfather aka. soumitra chatterjee (my love!) was actually alive. extra cool because the main character's name is apu.

apu and rita

2. midnight in paris - woody allen doing his thing. it works :)

1. red state - OMG. watch it. watch it now. it will blow your mind.

Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality

2012-01-08T23:08:00.004+05:30

in a red state of mind. watched it yesterday, but have been listening to the red state of the union podcast (the episodes with each of the 3 boys and the kerry bishé one). there's something magic about michael angarano that makes people want to repeat over and over what an amazing actor he is. they all do it. and it's not really his movie. but you remember him. like in almost famous. there is no movie without "man, hey man, you take care of her man" (i paraphrase, to be accurate it is: “Hey, man! Take good care of her in San Francisco! …Man!”).

i think red state is the reason i did not love drive as much as other people seem to. although i watched red state after drive, that is the sort of acting that i am into. what these people do with kevin smith's words... and you can pause and imagine kevin smith saying the words. and go teehee how awesome that he fucking wrote (edited and directed) this! i am so excited for hit somebody. cannot wait.

and i love ryan gosling (usually)...but in drive he wasn't a person. he wasn't real. why doesn't he like it when people talk to him? why does he like carey mulligan? why does he have that creepy ass blue tile in his kitchen?

but kerry bishé, i know why she's the crazy religious nut she is. who also wants to save the "babies". she is so good! (i am in love with kerry bishé now) and i liked marc blucas popping up an agent. he's the ultimate police/military person. he is that. he's the good little soldier. ever since he was riley finn :)

riley in buffy - i wasnt a fan (team spike all the way!). in the comic - i'm starting to like him. ish. maybe. marc blucas - i like. i like seeing him in a non buffy context and thinking to myself "oh hello there, riley finn!"

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

2012-01-04T02:37:00.000+05:30

let me ponder the ways in which i might be driven to the strange side by being stuck in a bad work/life scenario. there are 3 options: mental, alcoholic or dead. it would have to be a case when things get bad and stay bad so all sense of possible escape is lost.

mental
my hypothetical imaginings: this is the resigned to my fate state of mind. where you want to say fuck this shit but cant. headaches will turn into babbling, black-outs (loss of time) and eventually a nice bed in white room being asked if i can remember my name...

alcoholic
wherein i do say to myself fuck this shit. and start taking a hip flask into meetings. full on captain haddock it. pour shots for the entire conference table from my "kit" - complete with actual shot glasses.

dead
just quietly conk off one day. found dead slumped over a table where it looks like a simple headdesk but actually it's the final destination.

of the 3 (if ever the badness takes over) alcoholism is the by far the likeliest.

i've been sobbing over fictional characters again

2011-12-30T19:22:00.000+05:30

watched the second half of north & south again. richard armitage doing his broody thing.. and that heavenly voice and accent. the long 'a's (wiki says he's a leicester man :) the 'a's did remind me of selby!). baked a caked in the microwave which we have discovered also has some oven-like properties. turned out alright. chocolate banana cake. just the thing for this weather we're having. rain rain all day long. :) and now i'm mentally swooning over mr armitage's acting prowess, his distinctive silhouette, dreamy eyes... so pretty.

what now? back to my book i go. now on book 4 of the song of ice and fire series: a feast for crows. this seems to be the one that's especially full of/about strong female characters. asha greyjoy (i love her! she reminds me of vidya balan), brienne of tarth, margaery tyrell, cersei lannister (i hate her! she things she's so clever but she's not), the sand snakes, arianne martell, arya stark, sansa stark, gilly...

speaking of which: thornton's mum! - what a woman. i'm so glad i finally have the dvd. good buy.

3 things

2011-12-23T22:49:00.004+05:30

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reading (a storm of swords part II) blood and gold. about 1/3rd of the way in and 3 people are dead already. i forgot the "no one is safe" rule. anyone can die, anytime. i forgot and it snuck up on me. total WTF moment.

watched a christmas play. some of the same actors as last year. really well done for a local church production. detailed sets. people really cared about making it entertaining. i'd go again next year! it's fun spotting the same people year after year...

one of the actors reminded me of tracie thoms. but googling tracie thoms christmas songs yields not that much... i really want to hear the tracie thoms version of white christmas. rewatched all 13 episodes of wonderfalls so the need for tracie has come to me. i want more thoms in my life!

preferably tracie thoms and lee pace. in the same thing. again. *sigh* that would be glorious! what say santa?

naked as we came

2011-12-18T22:40:00.002+05:30

watched 7 films over 2 days at the chennai international film festival. (as far as i remember) 5 of which contained nudity. bodies are fascinating.

how the same bits can look fully different on different people. uneven boobs. barely there boobs. saggy boobs. hairy backs. hairless chests. crooked teeth. large feet. stubby fingers. visible ribs. concave bellies. wobbly bellies. bums.

so beautiful though. anything short of completely obese/skeletal is a good visual. bodies are pretty things.

pinkerton

2011-12-13T22:14:00.001+05:30

the pinkerton diaries and alone III - a look into the mind of rivers cuomo in the form of a dissertation style book and cd package. it is pure porn for graphic designers/weezer lovers. the description itself is mouthwatering: 237 Pages • 3-Pound Cloth Binding • Hardback Book • 26-Track Audio CD • Exclusively Available from Riverscuomo.com • First Edition • Hand Numbered. they bloody described the heft of it! hand fucking numbered! unreleased demo tracks! want. but for $75 dollars i dont think so. *fingerscrossed* for a cheapier paperback + cd option eventually.

LOL i'm like an advert. but seriously this should be epic :) im currently listening to pinkerton again and everytime i do it seems more relevant to me and life and everything. i first listened to the album after reading a multi paged feminist article hating on him. and then i was all wtf there's nothing wrong with this! this is awesome! should have known the guy who wrote island in the sun could never disappoint. the man speaks the truth.

like in pink triangle when he says:

"I'm dumb, she's a lesbian
I thought I had found the one
We were good as married in my mind
But married in my mind's no good"

apart from the lesbian bit, i've been there.

but when i sang butterfly to a friend she said he sounds like an abuser...

"I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Every time I pin down what I think I want it slips away
The goal slips away "

...it was probably the lack of context. you need the whole album. i dont think butterfly sounds like that.

ps. lolol just found this and he actually uses the word "hefty" himself :D

gotta keep walking on

2011-11-27T11:26:00.001+05:30

on episode 3 (season 1) of the walking dead. doing it in order, right proper from the beginnin'. rick grimes makes me want to talk this way. i damn near lost it *tears* at the end of episode 2 when he's reunited with the son and wife (ain't nothing going to get in the way o' that man). andrew lincoln is a better american than hugh laurie. and you believe that he is a man worth rooting for. a man who knows how people work. and this i feel is the biggest skill (yes it is a skill) and most basic skill that one needs in life. maybe not needs. but it sure is good to have if you want to treat other people right. gotta know before you act. got to know the right thing to do at the right time. right for that person. for those people. for that situation.

feels like most of my posts these days are about this very thing. rephrased. reiterated.

and when better to think about people and life and survival than in the middle of a zombiepocalypse (and with this show you are right there. in the middle. considering whether you'd make it, or whether you'd become a walker). and remember: always go for the brains. live long and prosper y'all.

have a willy mason song.

cleeeeeaaaaaaan

2011-11-09T07:59:00.002+05:30

i had the best manicure+pedicure of my life yesterday. it was bloody endless. just when you think it's done.. there's more goopy stuff in a new and exciting colour. got me super relaxed and happy with my life and pondering the nature of the pedicure and the nature of work. specifically people who work in small parlours the job satisfaction must be immense*. in my head it's like restoring a vintage car. pedicure = overhaulin'. the removal of dead skin cells (rust) to reveal the raw human inside - full of new and pink skin. yesterday there was a pink goopy wax like cream, bleach, a mud, white moisturiser, pink moisturiser, orange-brown goop, tingly white goop with crystals, dettol, fizzing white crystals (not in this order) plus scrubbing, scraping, cutting, polishing... when the mud went on and slowly dried into a landscape of dry, cracked earth.. overhaulin' changed into those discovery channel shows where they talk about tectonic plates and what not - how the landscape changed with volcanoes, lava flow.. i almost started pondering the potential flora and fauna that could inhabit the landscape of my arms. everything got massaged. there was even an electrically powered vibrating (sander looking) thing. for ultimate massage. i was over the moon happy. it's so much more about the experience than the end result. sure you know you got rid of much matter but it's not a very visible change. people will look at my hands and feet and think: "oh nail polishes. cool." but that doesn't even begin to cover it..

when i was nearly done (meaning about 10 mins to go, it was looooong) a grumpy girl sat down next to me for the exact same thing and was so so grumpy about. what use? pfft!

also also the whole experience happened to the hindi music soundtrack of my youth... it was some shahrukh khan filums through the ages type thing all the way to rang de basanti type songs. i was flashbacking all over the place.

ps. nina's, kundanhalli gate, bangalore.
* you've got to be that sort of person though, to really enjoy this slow revelation of inner human. i've had a few shitty pedicures where you know all the person working on you is thinking about is the ick factor of having to touch someone else's feet. but these have all been in fairly posh places and that is just a bad bad idea. posh places = zero service. it's all about the fancy looking foot-massaging tub of water that needs to be plugged in. rubbish i say! rubbish!

this has been a girly post in the style of AA Gill.

didnt get to do #airporttweetz

2011-10-24T19:52:00.002+05:30

oh dude... so many airport thoughts. maybe it was the willy mason soundtrack to the whole thing. but it was this thought that humans are easy to figure out. we all stress about shit. and travelling sucks. it's hard. you have to remember a million things. carry the right id. the right stamp on the right ticket. be there on time. the right flight. the right day. and you deal with it. with all the shit of the delayed flights, the wrong train compartment, waitlisted tickets... and it's mostly dealing with people. who you can convince into helping you out. who the right person is (in the situation) to rely on. and sometimes some people are just so gorram nice. we're all in the same travel hell and just want to help out. just because the day has sucked, it doesnt mean you cant help someone with a bag or just commiserate.

feel the pain. hell yeah! (swearing to compensate for random sentimentality)

ps. goa airport. the scene: waiting for boarding to begin. vijay mallya walks in. people fucking stand up and hush down. he is the man. also kingfisher has smooth pilots. so good. it was like "what? we've landed? that was it? chill".

the amazing life

2011-10-24T17:41:00.002+05:30

my life this past week has been very the amazing race. oh that show. that classic classic show. which is about life and people and relationships and the way things can break down under the pressure of constant travel. the drama's all built in. and it takes a special sort of person to just chill and be zen about it. surely the person you're with is more important than winning a silly game.

which brings me to this andrew-garfield-looking-shorts-wearing boy i saw at the bangalore airport today [Note: i thought i was going goa to chennai direct but it turns out..NO. drama!] he was reading his paper. looking zen. a totally gibberish sounding announcement happened. he puts his paper down. listens in a half intent/half amused way. shrugs in a "that must not have been anything to do with me" way. and happily goes back to reading his paper. so chill. so sane. casually waves to his check-shirt-and-hipster-glasses friend...

and that is where i shall end the tale of the boy and his paper. one cute boy observed. one giant conclusion reached.

cynic who?

2011-10-03T19:55:00.000+05:30

every time i meet one of my dad's friends i come away with the same feeling of incredulity at just how different we are. the theme of the evening seemed to be his feeling that i'm too much of a cynical realist who doesn't believe that bad things in the world can change. this is true. politicians suck. people die.

but i can see how he's a different sort of cynic about life. he doesn't get excited about things in the way that i do. i constantly exclaim over bands/music (pulp!), songs (superfreak - rick james/the hanson+meiko cover), human ability (radiolab podcast: a 4-track mind), good stories (moffat's timey-wimey doctor who), characters (river song!), people (ryan gosling!)… i fangirl over everything. of late i've been sending songs and links his way. and his reaction is mostly: meh.

him: yes i listened to/saw it. *shrug*

and i'm all: it was awesome right?!

then he changes the subject. :)

ps.

i recommend:

podcast: psycomedia (rather entertaining/british/funny psychology podcast)

book: beautiful losers - leonard cohen

fanfic: dalton - cp coulter (glee-fic)

movie: crazy, stupid, love.

show: doctor who

Tom Chiarella, our Chiarella

2011-09-24T16:04:00.003+05:30

just read the esquire article about Franco in the magazine i've had for ages. got the mag. ripped out the full page black and white glossy of the man. it went on my wall.

on my wall

finally read the article. it makes james franco seem really normal and the writer seem like the "semi-academic hipster artist" who's watched dead poets society one too many times (uses the phrase "Franco, our Franco" to death). what i'm getting to is that it's less about franco and more about tom chiarella. maybe i should google him.

ohhh he's got a wiki page. he's a somebody then.

"Born Rochester NY (1961), he received a BA in Studio Art/Writing at St. Lawrence University, 1983, and an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Alabama (1987)."

man! he is a semi-academic hipster artist. mind is blown. i cannot take this guy seriously. XD

#lifeupdate

2011-09-21T23:53:00.000+05:30

today

totally awesome work wise!

(fingerscrossed for presentation at meeting tomorrow.)

listening to

metallica

(in anticipation of seeing them live at the end of october.)

reading

a storm of swords

least favourite character (so far)

tywin lannister

(shit father, shit man. just all round unpleasant.)

favourite character (so far)

tyrion lannister

(he's the only one i can't imagine dying on me.)

last watched

glee - s3e1
(made me want to listen to musicals again. the old time ones. cole porter!)

least favourite character (in the ep.)

quinn fabray

(skank quinn is not working for me, baby mama quinn was the best.)

favourite character (in the ep.)

(weirdly) rachel berry

(i just love her ok?)

the blogger

2011-09-05T20:17:00.002+05:30

weirdly me and divya had the exact same thought (but separately): if aliens used blogs as research they could easily misunderstand and imagine that all blogs are written by one person. because all blogs have the same pattern of "fuck my life" followed by "life epiphany" followed by "i have thought deeply on such and such" and then it loops around - with a grand tone of discovery! like we've just found hadrons or a new continent. it's like there's this unwritten book on how to blog that we've all had conditioned into us. this very post could be written by absolutely anyone/everyone/no one. i sound super intellectual and profound right? right?? :P

(click the link to read divya's version)

wherein i review stuff:

2011-08-24T22:27:00.004+05:30

1. Kkok-du ★★★
Korean theatre involving puppets. first i was all - meh puppets. this is going to be dull. then came the toilet humour and general south park sensibility. play - saved!

2. Success ★1/2
American play about an ad-man choosing between 2 political campaigns...kind of pointless. lacking in drama! needed to be more like the hills/entourage.

3. The Blue Mug ★★★★
Final play of the metroplus theatre festival. indian cast including Rajat Kapoor (my ultimate hot uncle crush!) and Ranbir (ex-vj Ranbir). they totally had mad acting skills. almost no set. almost no props. sad. funny. true.

4. Kull the Conqueror ★★★1/2
Kevin Sorbo from back when Kevin Sorbo was everywhere! hercules makes a good kull. gaaah karina lombard is so beautiful. i spent most of the movie going: kiss! kiss! kiss! but they didnt...i guess they did at the end that i didnt watch. it was so entertaining! (for more Kevin Sorbo i reccomend Hercules and The OC!)

i'll use any excuse to have ryan atwood/ben mckenzie on here really.
weird thing: during 'success' i was visualising him as the man's unseen son

5. Entourage (the final season) ★★★★★
it's always good and should never end. 24 hr entourage please?

6. Cocktail Soundtrack ★★★★★
downloaded it because of one av undercover vid. i cannot rem which for the life of me. the members of some band said they listen to it. and it is so worth it! it's party party party man! chris baio would listen to it.

7. Shobana's Krishna ★★★
21/2 hours is way too long for a dance-drama thing. but it was really well done, picturesque. plus there was the added hilarity of mathi and other stray factory man being in it, doing a lot of nodding and standing uber straight. then he died all dramatically.

active vs. passive

2011-08-02T18:54:00.001+05:30

when i was agnostic i didn't spend a lot of time thinking about religious people. now that i'm an atheist i think about it quite a bit. what is it that people do when they pray? what/who do they pray for? why do they do it so much? do they genuinely believe that god favours them because they do? is it for self satisfaction or some sort of benefit? if a religious person stopped praying actively, would they then assume god thinks about them less? (what would passive prayer be? lol-ing at the "praying actively" in my previous sentence.)

the scary side of "ask and ye shall receive" what? so what if you just don't ask.

religious people must also wonder how atheists survive without god and prayer and all the belief. i do fine. i am thankful for top gear and entourage and for people to watch them with. people i actually want to hang out with. i dont miss having the possibility of god (i never really thought that was good possible answer anyway). i miss people.

also we had a long convi today about listening to lyrics vs listening to music. realised later that we split the two up during the discussion but you can't really do that when listening. even if you dont absorb the meaning of the lyrics, you still hear the voice of the singer. it's not like listening to a karaoke track at all. it's instruments plus voices.

i think i'm a contra

2011-07-31T12:37:00.000+05:30

going through a phase of listening to all the vampire weekend i can get my hands on (again) ...which is not a lot. about 5 1/2 years - 2 albums. not enough. why can't you be prolific like phish (but phish have a lot of years on everyone) ? why cant all bands have a phish.net equivalent? maybe if i pray to the gods of comic con...

think i got started on the big re-listen after ryan adams started on his (lame) covers. i press play...i gawp in amazement that it doesn't sound a thing like vw. it's covers that manage to remove everything that's vampire weekend about the song apart from the lyrics which sound a bit garbled... so i give up listening in about 10 seconds and have a desperate need to listen to the actual songs. good result!
and then i listened to contra on headphones: beautiful. it's (almost) like a new album.

i'm in the mood (to bracket).

i dont do long words

2011-07-29T19:57:00.000+05:30

I find it so difficult to read academic/paragraphic writing on the internet these days. It's reached the stage where if I click on a link and get to a page which is just chock full of text - I click it away almost immediately - reading nothing.

I think it's a combination of having left uni (4 years now) and mostly reading design blogs. Designers don't do long words or paragraphs unbroken by images. That's not to say that it's less intelligent. It's just more concise. Everything makes sense at first read.

Also twitter.

And I have Radiolab to teach me things.

what i like about music #3

2011-07-19T00:09:00.000+05:30

this is more about why people listen to music. so many reasons!

ironically. nostalgically. to sing along to in a car. to jump about to in an empty room. to dance to in front of/with other people. to karaoke. because it was in that movie. because it's vedder playing a ukulele singing 'dream a little dream of me'. because "the sentiment was really nice". because it's good music. because it's so bad it's good.

...and all of these things are subjective!

leedstalgia

2011-07-18T22:15:00.000+05:30

starbucks, the light

typical leeds weather - random bouts of rain. my first ever cake pop. summer of the (mocha) frappuccino. i dig that their branding extends to the straws and not so much the walls. i dig views of road: people walking by, knowing what's to the left and the right of this particular view...

nation of shopkeepers, bang opp. red chilli

red chilli sucks now btw. new chef or whatever. i was disappointed in the beijing hot wok lamb. no more fiery little red chillis *pfft*. but nation of shopkeepers - i love this place. dont think it existed back when i actually lived/hung about leeds. lovely chill grunge vibe. and that was some super buttercream frosting right there. made the cake. i make better banana cake but it was so so worth it.

CLICK THE LINKS

2011-07-18T22:06:00.000+05:30

thinking about my life and what's good about it versus other people's lives. let me take a break from being emo to appreciate the fact that i can (sometimes) just live in the moment and appreciate a good mango/song/conversation/email/tweet/meeting/workday...whatever.

things (some) other people do:
• they worry endlessly about things they have no control over/dwell on things that have already happened
• they are "slow to trust" - i think that effectively describes a certain kind of fear.

deviation: twitter. twitter makes you stop and appreciate your life i think. twitter is awesome.

yeah i had this big huge thing planned out in my head but i think it's covered.

peace! (but not literally...)

B'lore Vs. Madras - Round #1

2011-06-14T21:00:00.001+05:30

Recovering from my Bangalore weekend of making merry and general chilling. Also thinking on why Bangalore people are the way they are. It's like my dad saying island mentality to explain the way British people think and act. Bangalore is lacking in a coastline, hence less chill than Madras. I can just go to the beach whenever i want to, to stare at the ocean and ponder life and not give a shit about things like what other people must think of me.

The biggest difference between Chennai and Bangalore is the number of phone calls you can expect to get after making a plan with someone.

In Chennai:
Step 1: Make a plan.
Step 2: All land up at the meeting place as planned.

In Bangalore:
Step 1: Make a plan.
Step 2: Get calls asking 'where you are' about every half hour before the meeting (calls increase in frequency nearing the agreed upon time).

If I was going to ignore the plan and move elsewhere, I would call you. Just CTFD and come to the place. Calm down, I will be there. Like I said.

what i like about music #2

2011-06-01T00:11:00.004+05:30

Part I

Part II

i know i already mentioned harmonies but it bears repeating. there are so few bands (i listen to) with multiple people singing together. the large bands tend to be multiple instruments with one/two singers. i guess mumford and sons qualify but marcus mumford is still the lead singer there. ideally i want more to listen to more bands who do what hanson do but less pop-y? i love me some hanson but i want reccos. hanson-like will do as well (i just re-listened to 'a minute without you' - genius! they are so underrated).

what should i listen to?

(...or i could watch sister act 2 again.)

thinking about: a song of ice and fire

2011-05-23T17:54:00.000+05:30

it's high drama stuff because no one is safe ever. even when you think they've made a friend, a temporary ally...they could turn right around when they least expect it and bitch slap them so hard. help is not coming. this is your life - deal with it or die. Cersei Lannister says as much:

When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die. There is no middle ground.

A Game of Fathers

2011-05-20T10:08:00.002+05:30

i am fully hooked on George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. done with A Game of Thrones, reading: A Clash of Kings. Do you like the lord of the rings? arthurian legends? merlin? dragons? 300? LOST? if you answered yes to any/all of these questions. this is the book for you.

how a game of thrones is like:

the lord of the rings: features words like 'westron' and 'lordling', mysterious creatures in the woods that sound a bit like ringwraiths
discworld: there's a Night's Watch
star wars: the brothers of the Night's Watch take no wives much like the Jedi*
300: the dothraki and khal drogo remind me of xerxes
arthur/merlin: knights, dragons, etc
lost: daddy issues floating about everywhere, also the mysterious creatures are called 'the others'

but ultimately it is itself. what makes it so good:

realism: lots of death, danger, strategy, betrayal, plots, lies...anyone can die. it's probably as unflinching as whedon that way.
really talks about cowardice, desertion and treason and war. is it cowardice to admit that you're no good at fighting or a lack of denial? is it desertion when you're running away from one thing to go help somewhere else? is it treason when the lives of your children are at stake? is it murder when you kill women and children in wartime?
the daddy issues!
the characters. so well written. so many sides to every situation.
and finally: direwolves. BEST. PET. EVER.

*i don't think that was an issue in the original trilogy tho. it's not like luke didn't have a thing for leia before he found out she was SPOILER ALERT his sister.

tumblpost

2011-05-08T20:38:00.009+05:30

yeah my tumblr's acting up again. and i don't feel like spamming the peeps on facebook. that gives me no joy at all. so here you go:

"Ladies love a good mustache ride..."

via @austinkleon with instagram

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Embarrassing Photo Protective Sunglasses

via @UrbanOutfitters

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via @judd147t:

@rsummers89 getting a feel for the Audi R8!

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"Animal ethicists are calling for a new vocabulary about animals, shunning words such as pets, wildlife, and vermin as derogatory and even suggesting animal is a term of abuse."

via @Doublenaut: this is the dumbest thing I have ever read: http://tiny.cc/op6bi

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^note the millennium falcon in the back!

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@dannynorthphoto: incase y'all were worried, I found that pub.

what i like about music

2011-05-03T00:08:00.002+05:30

an analysis/list of some things i enjoy in songs.

long/unusual words eg. 'denouement', 'secateur', 'rarefied', 'insidious', 'frigidaire'... (guess the songs!) - it's just the love of a good rhyme i guess :D
when lyrics narrowly escape making sense - i'm not talking gibberish lines, just lines that almost make sense. mostly lots of beatles/bohemian rhapsody/freelance whales...

"I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in / and stops my mind from wandering / where it will go" (fixing a hole)

"My ears are blown to bits from all the rifle hits/but still i crave that sound" (giving up the gun)

clapping/whistling/laughter - it's a case of it being really human as opposed to manufactured beats and things or even people playing instruments..there's a certain regularity about that - timing. these are more likely to be a tiny bit off and the idea of that appeals to me.
wonky singing - i dig the sort of singing that isn't about hitting the high notes and how long a note can be.. eg. joanna newsom, cyndi lauper, marianne faithfull...
harmonies! eg. the beach boys, mumford & sons, hanson...
unabashedly catchy things eg. mcfly! i am remembering that reality show that found leads singers for bands, the inxs season: there was this dude who said something along the lines of "if you can predict how the line should end...you should come up with something else" and to me that's just forcing it. why resist the logical ending? i like being able to listen to a song once and halfway through start singing along. like:

"Don't you want the way i feel/Don't you want the way i feel/Don't you want the way i feel..for you?' (don't you)

but the strange thing is i seem to look for the exact opposite when it comes to songs in musicals!

i dig the big singing! the lovely long notes!
okay all the other ones still apply here XD

..also this is hugely incomplete and most of the music i listen to is probably nothing like this. *shrug* :)

welcome to the blodcast

2011-04-21T20:39:00.000+05:30

in the mood to throw things away. be brutal. managed to finally ditch a kurta i bought around 2003/04. it held up really well. shout out to fab india! this is my blog post that will be conducted like a podcast... so just imagine me saying this right? right. moving along. i have paused in the middle of the big clean to do this blodcast (less gruesome than it sounds i promise). i might even do dinner then tackle the last shelf. for now there is a pile of socks before me and i have tough decisions to make. who makes the cut? who gets a second lease of life - sock puppets? who's gone forever? feet friends, you have served me well. and long. and it's time for us to part. i feel like i should sing a song here.

...

what kind should i make?

but i'm not going to. but speaking of songs! (segue!!) i was pondering the difference between songwriting for a musician and a musical. it's all about context. a musical song co exists with a plot. a random song is allowed to be abstract. but does a musical song make any kind of sense to someone who has no idea of the context? mostly yes. because music in that case is like dialogue in a way. it's a story song. like 'tommy' - i havent seen the movie but i feeeeel the album.

discovery

2011-03-27T14:42:00.002+05:30

the last time i did this was with blur. last year? or the year before... watched this blur docu, then got into listening to anything blur related in addition to blur ie. graham coxon, gorillaz, the good, the bad and the queen... and now i'm on a vampire weekend kick (fact: they opened for blur once!) and it's leading me to some really good shit. first i found p-i-z-z-a p-(a)-r-t-y and i seriously thought that was as good as it gets :D Ezra's rap duo pre-vampire weekend (or VW as people refer to them in comments...)!! what's better than white boy rapping eh? eh? turns out discovery - rostam's side thing with wesley miles - OMG! i am swooning for this. oh i almost forgot to mention the best part - that rap duo, it was called l'homme run according to Ezra's it's a "play on words" XD

l'homme run's mascot

...yeah i also swoon for how sometimes he can ramble on in this highly articulate fashion about the different connotations of the word contra and other times be completely monosyllabic.

Interviewer: What is your idea of a perfect holiday?
Ezra: Easter.

before this turns into an Ezra Koenig appreciation post...let me give you something to ponder on: for halloween, Chris Baio once dressed up as a naughty french maid...very naughty... chew on that!

*smoulder*

i heart chennai/madras

2011-03-25T17:44:00.000+05:30

this makes me smile big.

things that would ordinarily go on my tumblr.

2011-03-21T22:29:00.000+05:30

i miss your face richard armitage. boy am i glad you'll be in the hobbit films.
did the thing i hate to do. picked up the phone and called people. face to face conversations are so much better. but i miss my friends!
downloaded fleet foxes by fleet foxes. *thumbs up*
bought more fabric paint colours. hoping to finally complete paitandy's umbrella after sitting on it for aaaaages...
manic monday indeed...so much work this week!
here have some christoph niemann.
its about time i made another uke vid. am thinking jolene/rainbow connection.

i miss tumblr. and doctor who.

2011-03-20T23:21:00.002+05:30

here have some charlieissocoolike.
i want tumblr back. why isnt it working for me? *whines*

i need the new album. anticipation

2011-03-16T22:26:00.000+05:30

i am not the wolf(or a)man

2011-03-16T22:22:00.000+05:30

turns out chandru uncle gave me steppenwolf to read after reading my writing and thinking i might relate to it. so he was surprised when my reaction to the book was - relief in not being like the dude in the book.
here's the difference:

Harry Haller aka. Steppenwolf: i guess life's pretty alright...but i cant enjoy anything ever cause i'm daft like that.

Me: Life sucks sometimes huh? oh well i'll just have to grab all the joy out of it in the most hedonistic way possible then. kthxbai!

but the disturbing part is now i probably should go back and read some of the things i've written over the years...dark? depressing? really?

wibblywobblytimeywimeystuff

2011-02-20T22:57:00.001+05:30

flipping channels on tv. furry winter coats suit vin diesel raaather nicely #tripleX. amanda peet is in #BladeII with ashton kutcher?! hahahahaa XD anyhoo earlier today i was watching something even sillier: the time traveler's wife. it has got to be the most logic-lacking fantasy (not scifi) movie. it makes less sense than jack frost.

what they have in common:

1) there is no logic. why is his dead dad a snowman now? why is the time traveler time travelling? movie answer: genetics. (this is why his daughter is also a time traveler *eyeroll*) riiiiiight. the real answer is: *shrug* because!
2) but they both made me cry. more 'cause im a sap than it actually being good.

there are worse movies tho: timeline *shudder* / spiderman 3 (oh the horror!) emo-spiderman is the silliest of all plotlines.

*continues watching tripleX*

"These guys attack those guys. Those guys invade these guys. Soon, whole world implodes!" #actualdialogue

this would be why i love this movie so much.

revelation

2011-02-16T23:31:00.001+05:30

this is the best uke chord chart except the pdf has the two pages one below the other...

..so when you see it the way it's meant to be (side by side) for the first time enlightenment hits you like a balloon to the face.

rows: chords A to G#

instead of

page 1: A to D

page 2: E♭ to G#

let me feel you moving like they do in babylon

2011-01-27T22:12:00.003+05:30

is there some prepared speech all hiphop ppl get off the interwebs somewhere? just got back from this thing at express avenue - hiphop ppl from texas. and they were all: this is hiphop 101..blahblah..4 elements of hiphop blah blah...which was almost word for word the same as what the hiphop tamizha dude said in his PKN presentation. anyhoo it was a bit much banter and attitude (oh look at me! im so cool! i strike a pose and clap for myself...that's cool right? right?). there was this long bit where this one guy was on the ground and they pretended he was a robot..who's battery had run down...*eyeroll*

hiphop tamizha are way cooler. respect. listen here.

mostly i thought of stuff id rather be watching live. the list: darren criss, starkids, mumford & sons, phish, willy mason, tunng, laura marling, the cast of step up 2 (see i like dance!..or maybe just step up 2...i have irrational love for that movie *sigh*), w00tstock, comic-con panels, jake shimabukuro, joco...

but before the dance part of the evening... a weird thing happened. as they seem to do to me. its like theres something about me that makes people want to prank me. i was just having a brownie by myself (waiting for people) at gloria jean's when this random dude sits down opposite me at my table. im trying to give him the wtf-is-wrong-with-you-dude-death-glare but he's avoiding making eye contact. and then he sighs in this ahh contentment manner. and then gets up and walks past me muttering: life is good. *shrug* way to get your kicks dumbass! i was more amused than annoyed but still.. W-T-F.

first rule of the internet

2011-01-07T21:01:00.008+05:30

you'd think i know this by now. but strangely it didn't occur to me. the first rule of the internet has got to be don't click on dubious links when parents/older people are in the room. or basically ever. and now a story. helped along by james van der FEELINGS^TM.

so yeah. Chandru uncle was there and we were watching the scott pilgrim trailer on youtube to show him and mum the awesomeness of it. when he mentioned this charlie gets bit again thing. and so we watched that. my reaction:

yeah it was pretty funny. and i was all oh man i cant wait for ppl to make reaction vids to this (totally did not think this through...i was maybe thinking of some sort of vampire connection? what with the sparkly obsessions of everyone). and uncle mentioned some remix version and thennnn i randomly clicked on a link which was supposed to be a parody of it. bad idea. DUBIOUS LINK ALERT! which i totally ignored. turned out to be a random dudes-giving-head vid...i dont even want to go there. reminder: this is with my mum watching..OO my reaction:

ohnowai! is this what i think it is?!

holy crap it is!

then i clicked it away really quickly.

so this is like a slo-mo van der reenactment.

followed by: awkward!

ah well. embarrasment happens right? (i did the hysterical laughing it off thing) and i have so many embarrassing moments buried in my brain that it's pretty much past countableness now. happens. ah well i get a blog post out of it. and at least it was only chandru uncle and my mum (could've been worse. trust me.) and divya who doesn't count (i could click on dubious links with her around) and my reaction would be:

you know how it could've been worse. i just had a thought. we had more guests some time after the "incident" and they also mentioned the same vid.... yeah. it could've happened then! *phew*

many thanks james!

you sir are a god among gifs. and actors.

varsity blues - so good.

heroes in a half shell!

2010-12-31T20:33:00.009+05:30

roc bank. underwater viewing area.

was so so much better in real life (is pretty awesome in this pic only, photo by divya avec instagram) the leaves and dust and things were swirling about in super slow mo HD way...national geographic meets gus van sant. plus they looked positively glowy and golden...and just before this the croc was facing the opp way...and turned slowly to directly face us with it's teeth bared. and then turned away. and super adventurous turtes decided to walk right by it. like they were on a dare. or dancing.

dream: prancing cera

2010-12-29T08:15:00.007+05:30

me and divya were in this awesome shiny white old car...one of those chrome jobs. like so:

it was night and divya was driving down this dark road sort of like last highway but less creepy and with more traffic. think it was meant to be LA. and there's this pedestrian running down the road right in front of our car like it's perfectly normal. and it's michael cera! in a black hoodie/tee and grey/khakhi running shorts. and i roll down the windscreen and say hello. we're stopped in traffic so he reaches through and hugs me and divya and does the whole so nice to meet you thing. but like he's genuinely made new friends. he's a good hugger. we ditch the car and decide to walk to the concert which coincidentally he's also going to. many ppl playing at the pyramid hall. i think we were going for freelance whales but coldplay was also playing...anyhoo he knows his way around and shows us in...but we cant get seats all together and he has to go do famous people stuff. and im sitting by this middle aged indian lady (35?) and her many relatives come by and say hi to me...and im a bit disgruntled because of the change in mood. i look up and altho we're in a medium sized room shaped like this:

the roof is a glass pyramid lit up pretty.

cera's making an announcement of some sort and calls us up on stage...and then somehow the place floods and then it's just the two of us (me and michael) trying to use the wooden stage as a giant raft. bickering like we're on the amazing race :) it's day and there are trees and things..

a very youtube christmas

2010-12-25T11:27:00.010+05:30

tv was disappointing! where have all the good christmas movies gone? the classic fare! woe! woe is us! thank santa for youtube!

oscar hates christmas #sesamestreet
a very zombie holiday #childrenyouregoingtohavetoshootgrandma
twelve interesting amendments #melanie griffith #bornyesterday
wikileaks christmas song 2o10 #DanAndDan #leakingallthecrackerjokes
white christmas #asongfromJedandMoWhedon
christmas time #timeforalittlenostalgia #backstreetboys
baby it's cold outside #glee #klaine
the little drummer boy/peace on earth #bingandbowie
mull of kintyre #macca
the nanny/mad tv stop motion/alvin and the chipmunks #traditionaltoonage
all i want for christmas is you #mariah!
grape jelly #thegrandfinale #mixed nuts

smiiiiiles!

2010-12-06T08:16:00.002+05:30

tumblr is down. this had to be blogged. #pinkfluffyunicornsdancingonrainbows

strumming

2010-12-05T20:50:00.007+05:30

i watch a lot more videos of people playing uke/guitar now that i have a uke. i think the thing i've got to sort out in my own playing is more to do with my brain than my hands. I've got to let one hand do it's own thing while letting the other do another thing. chords vs. strumming. they are kind of independent of each other...to an extent. one goes on. one changes. got to get my left brain sorted out. got to get it to stop thinking so much.

i have way less trouble with picking. which makes sense. have to think about both hands at the same time. synching things up. makes more sense to my brain than the staying out of each other's way sort of thinking.

hee it's like that movie - i think it was called idle hands - with the excellent trailer "the story of a boy ...and his hand" LOL.

you know i wants them shades!

2010-12-04T22:32:00.008+05:30

truly lazy saturday. spent most of the day in bed with youtube and a very potter musical (done with act 1). it was loading uber slowly so inbetween that i googled/tumblr'd darren criss (he's dreamy, acts, plays 6 instruments, sings, writes songs and is funny...supermegafoxyawesomehot!). it was one of those get obsessed with something...get to know the cast..find them on twitter and see what else they do on youtube days...and these guys have shit loads of videos up. i probably havent made a dent. so yeah the video i just watched was a documentary style youtube vid about brian rosenthal. now yesterday i didnt know brian rosenthal.. or about his (quirrell's) bromance with voldemort aka. joe walker. or that joey richter was/is his flatmate. more names.

this is brian:

this is so stalkerly. but then i am a stalker by nature. often i wish i could participate in real life stakeouts of random people. like a picnic in a car with binoculars and notemaking! timed intricate notes in a detecting notebook. like veronica mars meets tmz and harriet the spy. id use my dictaphone too..if only the sound of my recorded voice didnt piss me off so much.

annnd now im thinking back to sillier times. good times. they happened and that is awesome. or should i say totally awesome.

also this:

‎"I can't go to Pigfarts, it's on Mars. You need a rocket ship. Do you have a rocket ship Potter? I bet you do. You know not all of us inherited enough money to buy out NASA when our parents died. Look at this! Look at this! Look at rocket ship Potter. Starkid Potter. Moonshoes Potter. Traversing the galaxy for intergalactic travels to Pigfarts!"

a gif.

2010-12-03T18:21:00.003+05:30

ok-go gymming

2010-12-03T13:30:00.006+05:30

i was at the gym listening to the overthinkingit podcast and thinking on how i should have more friends in the city and then all of a sudden discovered how to make the treadmill fun. the podcast got over and i switched to listening to modest mouse etc. and there was only one lady there and i started doing this half jog-half dance thing. proper workout and awesomely fun! and when she left i cut loose with some ok-go. :D best best idea! the place was super empty today...so there i was with this loovely view of the pool and outside and ...did a little improvised dance all over the room! god how do people walk/run on the treadmill when this is so much better! total high. got that all's right with the world feeling after ..and why georgia came on the radio (best car song ever!) w00t :) i even had myself a little (500) days of summer moment with that hall and oats song... yeah i hope the club doesnt have cctv XD

expectation/reality

2010-11-22T22:26:00.003+05:30

yesterday at lunch i had this conversation with a friend where she was all: i started watching the social network but it was really sexist..and i stopped. and i tried to guess which bit she meant but guessed totally wrong. i would never have connected what she said to 'facemash' at all. ok so some dudes rated females against each other...big deal...people do it all the time...in life. so yeah, i was all: ohh that's what you were talking about...you do realise i've mentally rated all the people in this restaurant right?

everyone does it. and the only people who might pretend this isnt true are attractive people. it's easier to see it when you're one of the weird people (these girls on the bus, sitting behind me were having a conversation today about how this girl they know is really nice...but they couldnt think of a boy for her because all the guys they know think she's - weird. im guessing she's not drop dead gorgeous - more like 4 or 5. the girls behind me on the other hand. easily 6s or 7s)

might as well be honest about it. it hurts less that way. i notice the way you look. you notice the way i look. i'm over it. except dude on the train serving soup might've called me: sir. hopefully that was a slip of the tongue... if not, he probably thought these were moobs. o0

also while im on the subject, pinkerton is my favourite weezer album.

some uke love.

2010-11-17T21:41:00.002+05:30

reading an article about how to read tabs. im taking it slow so i really get it. anyhoo i also get to learn new (crazy/awesome) words!

mu•so |ˈmyoōzō|

noun ( pl. -sos) Brit., informal

a musician, esp. one overly concerned with technique.

tab•la•ture |ˈtablə ch ər; -ˌ ch oŏr|

noun chiefly historical

a form of musical notation indicating fingering rather than the pitch of notes, written on lines corresponding to, for example, the strings of a lute or the holes on a flute.

vi•hue•la |vēˈ(h)wālə|

noun

a type of early Spanish stringed musical instrument, in particular.

...breakthrough! i think i just got it...tabs are like chord diagrams! with extra info like which strings to play and blah blah. ohhhhh. excellent! i can work with this! (in theory :D)

friend - within inverted commas

2010-11-16T11:36:00.002+05:30

went to the gym after ages. au revoir simone is surprisingly good to work out to. and on the way back home the radio produced deeelights :)

"are you telling me that im mature enough to get married but not to party?"

"how old are you?"

"im 28 now. and i drink but i know when to stop because ive got to drive home"

"so you drink and drive!" _chennai live 104.8

"there iis a difference between learn-ED and learn-ING"

"i am having experience in the academic field for all my life of 40 years…i know the psychology very well. and often i am getting guest lecturers to come and lecture for periods of time like 30…40…35 minutes whatever. and they are all very impressed with how my boys are interested in the lecture. but they don't know that there is a rehearsal. i tell my boys: because you love ME..you love the college, for the first 10 minutes of the lecture you listen. and after that what? after that if it is interesting keep on listening. otherwise we all have TVs yes? we watch the serials…so you keep looking at his face and think about yesterday's serial. YES SIR. but then some boys they say sir we don't have TV/radio/books.. and i say boys you are from the villages..there was that pretty neighbor girl? YES SIR. you think about her face…your girlfriend. and then some boys say sir we are not like that. we don't have love affairs. then i say this city madras is full of crowded buses full of people standing-sleeping? YES SIR. just like that you can also sleep…BUT the only thing iis with eyes OPEN. YES SIR. so there are 3 options: think about the serial… the FRIEND - within inverted commas! or sleeping with eyes open." _107.8

best! beeteedoubleyoo: he totally did the "YES SIR"s all by himself XD

he then switched to some convoluted stuff about how in tamil we put thiru/thirumathi in front of a person's name but in sanskrit it's just sri whether the person be male/female. and there was also some stuff about rama and him becoming crown prince…and that being like some dude's father calling him and telling him that he got a really good rank and will appear in the paper tomorrow… :D

some free verse. it's all i seem to be able to write now shrug

2010-11-10T21:46:00.003+05:30

At a party. They got on. They got on and on and

Yes the conversation was good. One didn't

Feel like one was doing talking too much. The jokes

Fast and loose. Wouldn't have been funny to one

Outside. But they were in the loop. The closed string.

All well. Unified theory of everything. A pause.

She looked around. Everyone was happy. Right.

Good. Sorted. He looked at his drink. He'd barely

Touched it. Didn't need it. That was new. He took

A sip. A deep breath. Felt his age. Young. Maybe he

Should be more cynical. Thought: There's loads of

Innocence right here. Concentrated. In this place.

No one knows what they're doing. Lost in a fug

Of personal space. Shared space. Stumbling over

Introductions. Meeting people one'd rather not

Run into. Unnoticed by the unforgettable. Another

Summer. An endless string of empty days.

enthiran? more like oompa loompa!

2010-11-09T17:53:00.003+05:30

chose to scar my brain with horrors yet again. *doh* why? why? i dont know.... it was so bad. so bad. no words. i think iv managed to block out most of it already. theres a whole dusty boxful of crap movies back there. let this be a warning to you! do not watch these: 1. enthiran 2. my blueberry nights 3. sivaji 4. bad boys II 5. bicentennial man...

still sucks. scarred for life.

goodbye betty! spoiler alert

2010-11-04T23:03:00.011+05:30

o more ugly betty! (technically am not sure that iv watched every single episode) just got done with season 4. anyhoo this is a 5 reasons why i love ugly betty post.

1. their ability to make every new (major) love interest seem absolutely perfect for betty. exhibit a: henry - look they match! exhibit b: gio: freddy is hawt. and funny and all things awesome. exhibit c: matt: so cute. how? how? how? (they're equally adept at turning cute people into psychos *coughmattcough* first the stupid haircut. then just plain stupid.) *spoiler alert* she doesnt end up with any of them... :D

2. ralph macchio. daniel san!

3. *SPOILER ALERT* you have been warned.

(and for those who may feel to stare at - a much bigger version - of this and *sigh*, click here)

4. knowing daniel used to be him:

5. amanda! and marc+justin.

and of course (so obvious that i forgot!) Vanessa Williams!

leeds art gallery thoughts

2010-11-04T08:45:00.004+05:30

id written this down on the back of a postcard i picked up in leeds (things to blog about):

•art gallery people

•more than words/nick cave

•well realised feet.

...but that was a couple weeks ago and i dont really remember what it is i wanted to say about art gallery people. i remember dashing in to use the loo... :s but i do remember about more than words! now that is a song that really really needs a nick cave version. something that sounds less soulfully pop (its a bloody depressing song if you think about it) ..and more like red right hand!

..and as i was leaving the gallery, walked passed this statue (bronze?) lifesize, of a couple sitting on a bench side by side. the figures were really abstract and just shapes resembling humans really. but then the feet were all detailed. ankles. toenails. the whole deal. i thought it was beautiful and goes with my theory of people's feet (posture) refecting the way they're feeling.

lian+john

2010-10-19T03:37:00.002+05:30

that was quite possibly the best wedding i have ever been to. mostly because they are so good together. also his mum was so happy she cried during her speech and there wasn't "a dry eye in the house". and there were bubbles (to blow) for the kids to play with. and they were pretty in the pictures too. so many little mixed race children everywhere! adorable much! they had their own table and everything...and many cute siblings too. mostly older sisters taking care of mental younger brothers. lovely. ohoh best quote of the day: "sabrina asked me where the bubbles were and i remembered they were in the toilet!" *giggles* :D kids are awesome!

[spoiler alert!] kipper

2010-10-14T02:04:00.003+05:30

just watched 2 epis of kipper with kavya. think i was more into it than she was. kipper is my favourite cartoon of all time i think. what other cartoon has a jazz theme song? and all the characters have names except pig who is mysteriously called simply 'pig'. he's awesome. he's got this voice like a permanent blocked nose. he calls his son 'ardold' deja vu...probably have said this before. anyway the two i watched now could not have been more different or more awesome.

1. the robot

a one eyed robot appears out of the blue. kipper takes him home (the robot holds on to kipper's tail and kipper leads the way). and then kipper feeds him a milkshake. and then pig and arnold appear...and it rains pink toy hippos and doughnuts/cookies (couldnt make out exactly what they were). the end. seriously. it rained hippos. from the sky. no explanation. just hippos. how frikkin awesome is that? i need the hope of a rain of hippos and edibles. *sigh*

2. the mystery of the disappearing tape (or some such title)

now this one had more logic to it. but still had its share of madness. for starters it's really non linear for a kids show. it started off being about arnold's birthday. pig, kipper, tiger, jake and arnold are in the park opening presents. because arnold's small sometimes they open his gifts for him. jake knitted him a hat, tiger got him this magnetic rocket thing, kipper - a squeaky toy and pig got him a tape player so they could play musical chairs. but when he opens the deck he finds that the tapes gone missing.

so detective tiger straps on his detecting hat (looks like a fireman's hat) and here commence the flashbacks. kipper and pig try out the tape player but then get distracted by playing combs and paper (like harmonica)...kipper has the tape.

kipper and jake blow balloons and this makes them really giggly and silly. they stick ballons to the wall. make squeaky balloon noises...

then kipper, jake and tiger make party hats. and sing songs. tiger thinks his hat is the coolest.

they still dont figure out who had the tape last. then tiger takes his hat off and out falls the tape. and he's all omg how? what? how did i have it? me! no wai! and they're all yeah it mustve gotten in there somehow... and move on to playing musical chairs.

they've got cushions to sit on. when the music stops: jake and tiger are really polite and offer each other the same cushion. when actually turns there are 5 cushions for all 5 of em. cause they forgot to take one away.

so they take one away.

and keep playing.

the end.

morals:

• people sometimes pick up things - it doesnt make them criminals. it can actually be an accident. • if you dont have a harmonica, a comb and paper are just as good. • it's ok to be silly. • be polite while playing musical chairs.

yookay trip [airport + day 1]

2010-10-12T02:39:00.005+05:30

yesterday was a narrowly avoided suckfest. plane was like an hour late leaving from chennai (technical issues and it left late from dubai to get to chennai - daft) and i was all stressed that we'd miss our connecting flight in dubai. but we ran. we go on (dubai to manchester). *phew*

got to preston. crashed.

today - woke at 8. planned to meet charmaine in manchester at 2. pics here.

saw boy who looked like a young (grumpy) ian curtis on the train to manchester. so cool. he was even dressed all in black. black tee. rosary tatt on his right forearm.

saw boy on the train back to preston with shaggy brown hair, ipod glasses and a vote for pedro tee. he got off at bolton. this is like a missed connections thing. except i dont think he saw me. i noticed the tee and figured he'd be good to converse with. how could he not be with that tee eh?

miseducation

2010-10-03T18:40:00.005+05:30

listening to lauryn hill again. it's been a whiiile. the last time was way back when i used to listen to compilation albums on casette. and then i saw the name 'lauren hillman' today (probably on twitter)...and just started craving the sound of lauryn hill's voice. if you've watched sister act II you've got it engraved inside your skull forevers. so yeah the miseducation of lauryn hill is beauteous. she's awesome. i cant believe i forgot. and wikipedia says she has 5 chilluns. cool.

anyhoo:

this is lauryn hil l.

this is lauren hillman.

sigree dinner

2010-09-20T00:18:00.004+05:30

this was going to be a post about how life is a cliche.

was watching 'suburban girl' this daft movie with sarah michelle gellar in. and icky alec baldwin. but anyway. she was blue and there were cds scattered behind her on the floor...setting the blue mood i guess...lots of elliott smith and there she was reading blubber by judy blume. and i've done that. listened to elliott smith on repeat. does everyone?

but now i think it has to be about how awesome my evening was :) dad's friend's son's birthday. didnt realise it was going to be such a big thing. ginormous gaggle of people at this restaurant. anyhoo it was awesome even before we got inside. we were trying to get in the parking...and this car was retardedly going the wrong way on the road...(retarded!!) and suddenly out comes bharath uncle wandering into the road to randomly direct traffic! (asked him about it later...says he does it sometimes. just. directs buses even he said :D)

so yeah we get to the restaurant. say our happy birthdays. and when bharath uncle appears..he's in conversation with dad's friend. and the one who's birthday it was and me were looking on. and bharath uncle turned around and saw me and mid sentence stopped and said 'what a pleasure!' or something to that effect. turned back around and continued with an indecipherable conversation. totally hilarious! ...the evening continued in this manner. uncle was amused with the way i cleared my plate. called it 'professional' :) i am not one of those people who cant take a compliment. i love a good compliment. the odder the better. and one that's truly meant. it gets me. (also i had some 6 gulab jamuns - was that sort of night)

i dig knowing people. i dig knowing the way they are. and anticipating the funny. when someone's prepping to make this dramatic statement. and you know it's coming. that is the best moment.

also also highlight of the evening! bharath uncle and ppl singing happy birthday in sa re ga ma. absolutely classic! how can any present top that? lucky! ..and better yet at the end of the evening. my old piano master commented that uncle went into a minor chord during it :D not done! lolol!

also vasundhara das was at the next table. so pretty! and and more people came up to rishi to ask for pictures and whether he's on fb than even realised she was there i think!

cow in big city

2010-09-16T21:51:00.001+05:30

found this yum video yesterday of laura marling and mumford & sons in india. and today's been a bit ridiculously only-in-india like. not so much picturesque as downright mental and hilarious XD

cow acting mental in the middle of road... attempted humping while crossing :D
cow carrying leafy branch as face cover in manner of stalker in a cartoon (stalking dog maybe).
car with a procession of dog stickers on the side. a family of basset hounds.

capitalist cafe

2010-09-15T22:07:00.002+05:30

thought: laura marling and siddhartha khosla should work together. that would be fantabulous. imagine the voices. together. mmmmm. *daydreams*

current went. went to shoppers stop. didnt really want to go to a mall. just wanted a nice place to read murakami in (the wind-up bird chronicle). and malls are not nice places. they pretend to be. but in reality have no windows. a building without windows is just crap. hate that feeling of no outside. like there's only the mall. so claustro. drank my coffee facing samsonite bags. :/

no one wants that.

i spy..

2010-08-10T10:42:00.002+05:30

my bangalore weekend in people i spied on.

"you want me dont you?" uncle

where: a cafe. uncle was sitting by himself in a corner reading a book with sunglasses on. you just know he carefully considered his attitude/posture/body language to display himself in as a desirable person (initially was attracted to the back of uncle's head... but his face didnt live up to it). he was also discreetly spying on us to pass the time. fair play. he was then temporarily visited by a hot young thing who stayed for a bit and then rode off on her bike. daughter? i think not...

the metrosexual poseurs

where: lunch/poshly restaurant. two fellows who would never fit into divya's chennai hot boy category, REALLY REALLY NO. they are the anti hot boy. firstly theyre probably from bangalore. shorts - good. obama chappals - bad. sunglasses as headband - worse. moisturiser - dubious. eyemakeup? - fuck no! all wrong. plus they made a beeline for the first solitary white boy they could find. ingratiators. it should be a word. also they had pointy gelled hair ><

girl in pink floral dress

where: same. the cutest little girl you ever saw. picturesqueness! short hair, long white dress with little pink flowers and a sash! just wandering about...hopping onto barstools when she felt like it. *sigh* there were loads of cute kids all over that place actually... mostly toddlers and bebes.

the i-spike-my-hair-up-into-a-point posse

where: pub. there were many high school chilluns hanging out at one table. they seemed that young anyway. they seemed normal enough. chilled out. then weird people kept joining the table. hot/bitchy girls. and this lot. identical pointy hair. random bling accessorising their tee ensembles. and they went everywhere together it seemed like.

i think im all that.

where: same. the above gang were later joined by this dude. he is his own category. but there are many like him i am sure. dresses all in black. some sort of beads around the neck for that mystical im a hippie drug lord touch. he think's he knows a guy who knows a guy who'll get you...whatever. he thinks the girls swoon for him. *coughdouchecough* fringe. hair brushed into face. but not in the brit way. thats a more i want it to look like the wind blew it into my eyes look. this is more i have straightened my hair so that my artistic fringe will nicely frame my face. also he'd make a nice austin powers movie extra. but his age probably excuses the vibe...unlike afore mentioned uncle. who has no excuse.

man who stepped out of the beach

where: same. foren man. sitting by self at a side table. with book. and earphones. total paranoia case. caught me trying to sneak a glimpse at the book cover (i always want to know what other people are reading..) and got this look like hidden assassins were after him. other mad beach style tourist types who want him to tell them the location of the beach. or people from the beach who are mad that he told others...

FIN

all we ever have is now

2010-07-25T11:22:00.004+05:30

i listen to the flaming lips and think on the state of the universe.. it has been a week of meeting people i havent seen in a while. conclusion: no one changes.
eally. ever. the outside changes: people shrink down/wear clothes you dont expect them to. but in most cases, even that hasnt really changed. everyone looks the same. maybe it's because we're in our twenties..and really teenagers and 20somethings..who can tell the difference? but inside - people dont change. they think and say and do the same things. i find the predictability comforting. im quite opposed to change me.

other observations:

chiwetel ejiofor is the new tommy lee jones. (hard on the outside but soft on the inside pursuer of fugitives...) #salt
i still dont know exactly how to pronounce his name.. (imdb says it's: chew-it-tell edge-oh-for)
amethyst is like alice in wonderland.
romantic comedies as a genre are dying a slow death, probably because they're called rom-coms *rolls eyes*

my mother should have murdered me/no jury would convict her babe

2010-07-20T19:38:00.001+05:30

im not a religious person. but i do believe in magic. magic in the universe. its probably why i dig gaiman and pratchett and murakami... anyhoo weird coincidence thing: when neil gaiman wrote american gods he was listening to 69 love songs. and i was listening to it (obsessively) just before i started on the book :)

reading bel canto by ann patchett now. loving it. its been so long since i discovered a new author that's easy to read and not a slog. bout 20 pages in. it goes swimmingly.

It was. It was a lie... but then it was a dream.

2010-07-19T00:14:00.003+05:30

caught a few mins of benjamin button on tv and espionaged julia ormond and grew nostalgic about the movie sabrina. the new one. the good one. and i know why julia ormond is so irresistible..when really no one should be more so than audrey. its because audrey is audrey. but julia is sabrina. its pretty much the difference between the two movies. humphrey bogart is no linus larrabee. also sydney pollack is a genius. *sigh* its one of those ones where i know all the dialogue cause i used to watch it with the pater all the time. every time it was on. i feel deja vu writing this... i has blogged about this before yes?

look!

Linus Larrabee: So, what do they say about me?

Sabrina: Oh, you know...

Linus Larrabee: No.

Sabrina: That you're the world's only living heart donor.

Linus Larrabee: Oh, that.

Sabrina: And how does this one go? He thinks that morals are paintings on walls and scruples are money in Russia.

Linus Larrabee: How droll.

Sabrina: And then there's my favorite...

Linus Larrabee: No, that's ok.

humphrey couldnt do those lines. also the first one had lame dialogue. one good thing about it. audrey singing louis prima's we have no bananas.

that's guild incest!

2010-07-13T23:21:00.002+05:30

season 4 of the guild is here! excellent!!

EAT!

2010-07-03T13:30:00.003+05:30

watched half of episode 2 series 1 of skins (cassie) before megavideo died on me. realised watching people not eat makes me really hungry. she was demonstrating her anorexia with his food... *shudder* pushing it around and everything.. creepy. i am so hungry right now. cant wait to devour lunch. except drama happening. new cook. painters working outside. there may be paint traces in chicken curry...so not having it. sigh. just when i was thinking no chips in sight. at least i have chicken. well leftovers sound good too :D

just havent found it yet

2010-06-30T20:22:00.004+05:30

i am in search of the most customisable new blogger template *grumblegrumblewhydtheychangeitfuckerstryingtobeliketumblr* this will have to do for now.

havent got much to say. modest mouse, joshua james and the cure are working well together. no footie to watch tonight. can sleep comfortably. the fat making mirror in my room has been taken down, leaving me with more wall space. but the wall behind the mirror is pale lavender while the rest of the room is cream+red. it is in dire need of painting. twil happen soonly i guess. cannot wait to put all my new posters and things up. especially the one of the doctor and amy pond.

best things about the doctor who season finale (will try to keep it spoiler free):

the morocco mole style fez
amy and amelia!
...and the dancing!! ;)

who is emma frost?

2010-06-15T09:32:00.004+05:30

my comic book pile gets out of order everytime i show it to people. but i dont mind cause putting it in order is one of the best things ever. and everytime it seems to get more complicated. usually its just by publisher. but then i alphabetised it as well yesterday. and made lists of how many of each i have :D i have a few more marvel than dark horse but thats only because craze for x men began long long ago.. im still kind of confused by the variety of x men titles...and how they still seem to link up nicely... like astonishing x men to uncanny x men and what not.

...got to thinking about how comic book writers are like gods. especially x men writers (joss whedon/mattfraction etc). controlling the lives of scott summers (the movies kind of made me hate him...then i remembered he's cool and its james marsden who i hate) and the like.. and then it's canon forever. i love that word. so appropriate. etymologically.

canon (1)

"church law," O.E., from L.L. canon, in classical L., "measuring line, rule," from Gk. kanon "any straight rod or bar; rule; standard of excellence," perhaps from kanna "reed" (see cane). Taken in ecclesiastical sense for "decree of the Church," and as such passed through L.L. to O.E. General sense of "standard of judging" is from c.1600.

off to wiki emma frost.

the science of fandom

2010-06-05T23:07:00.002+05:30

finally i have the internet on my laptop again. after some ages. have become gleed beyond belief and am doing simply everything. updated my last fm. emailed a whole bunch of people. switched from firefox to chrome. because chrome is just better. and installed twhirl. mwahahaa im the king (technically queen but it's like 'sir' is just a better word than 'dame' which only makes me think of fat men in drag) of my own little corner of the internet again.

anyhoo this is a post that ive been thinking about for a while now. the difference between fanboys/girls and sports fans! its all a matter of time. a movie/song/comic book/tv show gets made and then watched after. sport is live. a fanboy has no control over whatever... technically a sports fan has no control over anything either. but there's the illusion of control. and therein lies the difference. oh the difference. it came to me when i was obsessing on the snooker... id sometimes squint my eyes on certain shots so that id just miss watching selby/hendry actually make the shot... an oh-if-i-dont-watch-this-all-will-be-well feeling... i made him make that shot because of that. like not watching man u/arsenal matches. iv always felt it's when i watch that united lose. this is what makes us obsessive and insane and paranoid and superstitious and hysterical and all those insanely wonderful things that sports fans are. it's power and the total lack of it.

the king of the crucible is in round 2

2010-04-19T03:37:00.006+05:30

there's no denying that zhang has skills (some lovely long shots, but exciting? no). im probably predisposed to be snide about anyone playing hendry. so here's what i think...he's slow. like old person slow. he walks slow. he makes the balls move slow. would i have liked him more if he was playing say doherty? probably.

anyway hendry won it (10-9), to my deep deep satisfaction. i was visualising being devastated. man u losing to arsenal in a penalty shootout level devastation. but stephen made it work...he was just...i actually 'wow'ed at one long red.

today's been a good day for my guys i say :D

button won and selby's through to round 2 beating ken doherty 10-4.

ah selby selby. i caught a couple of frames at the end there...ever the jester (he had a bit of a struggle with sitting on the table for one shot XD and rolled his eyes and everything). and just supremely smooth today. loving the form he's on (in?) ..also black on black with purple waistcoat back - very vampyrchic!

big bloodshot eyes

2010-04-04T05:31:00.003+05:30

insomnia. cannot sleep. this happens to me rarely. but when it does. its bad. was lying in bed for the longest time thinking on everything and nothing and finally i has given up and here i am awake and online. thankfully i had a dramatic day which warrants a long and dramatic blog post. it was either this or long and dramatic email to rebecca/pli/lab/dee/divya... this seemed easier :) (mass emails are so impersonal)

today began normally enough. watched the qualifying for the malaysian gp (gist: masses of rain, race should be good! force india in the top 10 wot!!!) and then th mater decided we had to get out of the house...so we departed for malham...sunny day, the drive was excellent. perfect car music: alexi murdoch/coconut records/banhart/dandy warhols. usually im bored by english countryside. too picturesque...not enough drama. but today i was all...omg so bootiful. and admiring the railroad tracks and trains going by...and the telephone poles punctuating the green green grass.

and there were loads of sheeps too! there were posters up at malham saying its lambing time and to take care not to disturb the sheep as they could then abort, keep dogs on lead... i figured as much. there were way too many baaba sheep to be seen on the way there. and little lambs are so cartoon like. it becomes appropriate to use words like 'gambolling' and 'fluff puddles' when talking about them...it was like one of those fabric softener adverts practically...sheeps cuddling with other sheeps...sheeps of all sizes and colours...full white...black with white wool...white wool+black and white mottled body... it was like bambi! minus the killing. and forest fire.

so we get to the place and have lunch and then walk up to the cove. malham cove, which is this limestone cliff like thing. very lotr. shouldve had the book to read there. was sitting under a tree that reminded me of the tree of gondor for a while... so until that point all was well. then we decided to walk up these steps to get to the top of the hill. was much like temple steps in coorg. easy enuf to climb. but which could be really sickening going down. and i knew we could either come back down..or take a flatter circular path back to town. so we get to the top and drama! we have to navigate this hideous (for me) stones/grass combo. which just creeped me out. so getting over them was a major pain. and everything was slippy cause it'd rained in the morning. and everything was starting to seem hellish... even so seemed like better option than the steps downward ...anyhoo after much cursing we got to the flat grass bit and i was praising the blessed grass and all that...we walk and walk and walk and there are no people to be seen and we hope we're going the right way...and then we get to a wall...and wheres the gate to the road? there like a mess of gate looking things which all look impassable. and then i see that the way to get to the road is this wooden stepladder thing over the wall :D (ladders are on my list of fears) and the stones were so bad that i was all... this should be a breeze! and quite happily. climbed up one side. got to the top, chucked backpack over. and climbed down to the road... (this is too much description wot? lol)

anyhoo...then we walked down the road for a while...and checked we were on the right path at this farm/private residences area...and walked thru a picturesque little lane...where there was this one house with 3 cats on the wall...eating out of a bowl...and a black dog... overdose of cute it was!

im planning to be indoors and glued to the tv tom to make up for all the drama :)

1. the race

2. new doctor who!!!

probably going to be split by a long nap in the afternoon to make up for all this not sleeping...

today was good :)

big mistake

animal count for the day:

millions of sheeps, a pair of ducks, a pair of chickens, some ponies, a pair of horses, 4 cats, about 6-10 dogs...

cuter than this! much cuter!

bloggerverbiage

2010-03-28T14:52:00.002+05:30

i have this theory that word verification words are actually signs from the universe... or me projecting :D some definitions:

hilingly

the opposite of swimmingly. eg: when you're a contestant on american idol and pick the climb - miley cyrus over millions of other songs.

colugne

when a well laid evil plan goes horribly wrong because you used too much perfume.

Oh child... you always knock me for a loop!

2010-03-27T02:55:00.006+05:30

this blog is pretty much the saga of how i go to travelling man and use it as a pick me up. an upper. its scary how much my mood improves when i step into that place. todays overhearings involved communism and how the comic book guy went to starbucks and someone called him a capitalist. and then he was all: imagine a communist coffee shop, it'd be crap. you'd get water and one coffee bean (general laughter) ...and then they moved onto sentence construction and how 'down with capitalism' as opposed to 'im down with capitalism' is a huge change in meaning #profound. too many new comics i wanted this week, got: daytripper #1, uncanny x men #33 (written by matt fraction) and the guild #1. also an issue of fetishman for my cousin.

daytripper is seriously the best comic i have ever read.

followed that up with coffee and 'kick-ass' (the movie) avec le mater. i dug it. she didnt so much. my heart was beating hard for most of the movie. the trailer doesnt do it justice. it makes me start planning this years halloween costume already (yes i know october is far far away) ..so far my options are: hit girl or the other mother.

also i admire the way aaron johnson says the words 'i'm KICK-ass'

also soundtrack - so good. it's like bad reputation was made for this movie.

ps. weird but cool thing. i was watching the scott pilgrim trailer in the morn. and they were youtubing it at travelling man. coincidence!

"It's over/You don't need to tell me"

2010-03-16T00:18:00.004+05:30

alex james - then and now, they totally all look like their julian opie selves

watched 'no distance left to run' on iplayer. a blur documentary. it's the realest thing iv watched in a while. its a very pretty documentary that feels like what id remember of my life now...if i had a good memory. theres one clip somewhere in the middle of them backstage after a gig...and its so ...you can see how close they are. its obvious. and then to think that that just went away until this reunion is scary. how that can happen to people. not went away. you still feel the same way about someone. you just dont see them all the time. and thats a lot to miss out on... it was quite a sentimental documentary really. or i just got really sentimental over it :)

this is when this girl said "we're not laughing at you, we're laughing with you"

he's not laughing.

my dad used to talk about how you know some people for a while and some people for another length of time..and thats just how it is with friends (you take it as it is, when you have it), and i always thought it was funny that he was the one saying that - being the person i knew with the most friends..

ps. no distance left to run - the song, has the best video.

the queen's corgis

2010-03-12T23:49:00.004+05:30

i seem to be haunting travelling man everytime im in leeds now. love the atmosphere. then jumped over to juice junction and had a hot juice (apple+lime+ginger) most perfect for the weather. started off not too cold. then got rainy. and cold. anyhoo thats where the funniest conversation ever was overheard by me. also sort of philosophical.

irish man: there arent any posh irish people. are there posh english people?

boi behind the counter: yeah...

IM: how do you know? have you seen them? are you posh?

BBTC: working class mate.

IM: everyone's someone's working class. the queen's the only real posh one. (ramble ramble) she's got corgis. (ramble) irish corgis are different...

i lost track..or it dissolved into gibberish. there was something about corgis i didnt quite get.

yesterday

2010-03-07T16:29:00.004+05:30

this is the story of saturday. got to leeds, picked up our tickets for 'the history boys' then th'mater went to pick up her phone from carphone warehouse while i went to travelling man in search of the new green hornet written by kevin smith. it stupidly (or very awesomely) has multiple variant covers. while i was deciding which to get... the fire alarm went off :D all the shops on the road have connected alarms or something..so it was a bunch of people outside the shop.. looking horrified at the thought of not being able to go back in... we got back in like 3 mins later and one lady was all-omg that felt like quarter of an hour at least. like the sheer relief at getting back in (into heaven :D) was just kickass. this is the cover i chose. and i also one buffy season 8. totally reading it out of order, which sucks. but the (twilight) reveal was awesome! so glad i didnt get spoilered about it.

ps. comic book man asked if i wanted sleeves for them :) and usually i only get sleeves on the back issues. never thought of asking for sleeves. so i was super over the moon about it. new comics all covered in new plastic sleeves :) shiny.

so yeah the play (hee its weird that im so much more gleed to rem the comic book store fire alarm incident!) ...iv probably seen the movie way too many times. it was a bit of a problem. cant help but compare. but the play was structured quite differently. inner monologues/asides...couple of flash forwards. lockwood doesnt die or become a soldier. the set was cool. the stage spun during classroom scenes :) the desks and things were in this circle and that would spin. the upright piano stayed outside the circle in its corner.. i was really impressed when th'boy playing posner effortlessly jumped onto it and sat on top. upright piano's are tall. high off the ground. i can barely jump onto a kitchen counter. and he wasnt that tall either.

if twas me directing. one complaint: the actors were styled to look exactly like the original cast (except daikin/scripps) ..like irwin had light hair combed the same way and all. i know he has to have glasses for the script "Taking off my glasses is the last thing i do." the same hair? not required. overall it was good tho.

tillermanthink

2010-03-03T21:58:00.005+05:30

wow this is pretty much how i imagine gram oO

here i am doing my usual thing, reading overthought articles on overthinkingit while listening to a playlist composed of nick cave, my chemical romance and other miscellany. ok the my chemical romance is not usual. but it matches with what im reading.

now that iv set the scene...

went to the lib yesterday and found the 3 remaining books in the tillerman series (book4-the runner, book6-sons from afar, book7-seventeen against the dealer) that i hadnt read! got super gleed. read 2 yesterday and the final one today. that's 7 books about essentially the same people. separately and together. who each person is and hence how they relate to each other. its about watching and knowing how someones going to react and being the you that you are around them. because thats what family is about. knowing what to say, to who, and how to say it. how to give a gift so they'll accept.

thats what's wrong with chat/phone/skype conversations. you miss all the cues. the expression that tells you that theyre joking or saracastic, or sorry about what they just said and wish they could un-say it, in a bad mood blahblah. i guess skypes not that bad. you still get to hear tones. but not being there in person to deal with the tone is not fun.

not saying i dont like chatting. sometimes its about all i can stand when im feeling antisocial. but without proper smileys and things its easy to misread things. and you could never realise it. just saying.

danny duoshade recommends...

2010-02-17T16:53:00.003+05:30

music needs context wot?

here i am listening to my chemical romance. on a gerard way trip.

and knowing it's comic book influenced totally changes the way im listening to it...

so if id listened to iggy pop/the stooges before reading please kill me

..or read young liars before my bowie phase...

it would've been so different..

i wouldnt have got the 'spiders from mars' reference.

would i still have liked any of it? or did the order of things make me love them?

coincidence or magic?

2010-02-17T02:07:00.003+05:30

like this but gold and giant

went to 'travelling man' yesterday and 'forbidden planet' today, in my quest to own more 'casanova', 'the umbrella academy' and 'young liars'. anyhoo when i was sitting on the floor poring over the 50p bins... both days, both places... the people who work there were conversing about ordering things online which arrive/dont arrive, or arrive (really) late.. and refunds. just something i noticed, that made me happy :)

the other thing that made me happy today-

was in leeds city art gallery and they've put down a carpet and cushions in the middle of one of the rooms and a couple remarked on it then went and plonked themselves down on it. s'what i love about art galleries (in the uk) you can totally chill and talk/art watch. rem when i sat in the serpentine gallery staring at this giant metal gold (half) balloon which covered an entire wall (protruding out) for ages. it was called 'moon' or something.

*the eternal conflicts of the cosmic warrior

_fabio moon

cuss

2010-02-04T02:26:00.004+05:30

this is the story of a day that started off well and then became rather shit. i feel emo and vent-y right now. and then i think it started to feel like me just blabbering on about random stuff. didnt feel like a conversation or like anyone was listening. and then we watched 'up in the air' at the light. and it's a downer. it goes dark places. which usually i like. and then it snowed. and now im super grumpy. the end. i did get myself a new wallet tho. basic. brown. like chocolate. i like. i microwaved some baileys cheesecake which the box says you have to defrost at room temp for 3 hrs. 5 mins on defrost does the trick tho. didnt help. feel like i should be in a dark room with the smiths on. it's early but bed is the place for me i sense. end of whine. thank you.

dream: tiger beats lion

2010-01-31T14:26:00.002+05:30

brother type rescues 2 females from top floor flat of shady boy. has to climb up the building over complicated roofs and parapets (india, shabby flats..built really close together) and walk on top of compound walls like a tightrope walker. weird that he didnt just climp up the stairs like a normal person. because after he rescued them, they walk down like normal people. but the building is buzzing with the story of his superhero like climb.

boy (me) finds old comic book in the library with an old map of the city inside it. pornographic comic book? anyway it has some warped element. and a message to go to this place and show it to them and get it exchanged. the spot is an old hospital, now being used as an examination centre. the person in charge is ranjini miss (ergh why am i still dreaming about her?) and i show her the book and she studies it, then steps behind curtain and gives me a brand new asterix instead (hardbound, asterix and the gauls or something?)

somehow the comic quest is linked to finding a tiger... somehow get tiger to trust me in battle against a mangy yak, then take tiger and progress up this building... and the people who already live there are all, who are you? and im being all arrogant and la la la.. and just go prancing to the top floor where theres this old circus lion and its keeper..and they're all laughing, because they think the lion's going to eat me (the tiger is invisible for the moment?) so yeah..the lion lunges at me and i knife it...and then the tiger (a nice well fed tiger, so almost double the size of the lion) takes a big bite into the neck of the lion to immobilise it and then swallows it whole.

and im the king of the building. *shrug*

RIP

2010-01-29T00:09:00.003+05:30

Salinger is dead. 91.

...looking at the title of a story from nine stories 'de daumier-smith's blue period' and this is one of those stories i could never remember in connection to its name. but id remember the name on and off... suddenly in the middle of a completely unconnected thought. it'd pop in. de daumier-smith's blue period. id say it over to myself. something in the words made me feel better. i dunno.

i'm sad.

He was the funniest-looking boy, or man--it was hard to tell which he was--she had ever seen. His hair was bed-dishevelled. He had a couple of days' growth of sparse, blond beard. And he looked-well, goofy. "How did you cut it?" she asked.

He was staring down, with his slack mouth ajar, at his injured finger. "What?" he said.

"How did you cut it?"

"Goddam if I know," he said, his inflection implying that the answer to that question was hopelessly obscure. "I was lookin' for something in the goddam wastebasket and it was fulla razor blades."

_JD Salinger (just before the war with the eskimos)

st elmo's fiiiire

2010-01-18T22:36:00.015+05:30

Jules: Don't you enjoy anything anymore... like girls?

Kevin: I enjoy being afraid of Russia. It's a harmless fear, but it makes America feel better, Russia gets an inflated sense of national worth from our paranoia. How's that?

my love affair with 80s movies (mostly starring molly ringwald) continues! and in the absence of anyone to talk to, i am live tweeting/blogging my viewing of st elmo's fire. all because i was watching gilmore girls and lorelai mentioned rob lowe fake playing the sax and the good days of andrew mccarthy and i was hooked. and she's right. absolute classic. so far its got -

/SPOILER ALERT/SPOILER ALERT/SPOILER ALERT/

a glimpse of kevin bacon? or was i imagining things...
judd nelson and ally sheedy - together. thats pretty much out of a breakfast club fanfic right there (they're even in matching pjs).
andrew mccarthy singing along to aretha in a fedora (and shades, while playing the bongos!).
...and demi moore just told him he's gay and in love with judd nelson LOL
ooh do i sense an upcoming mccarthy/sheedy hookup?
80s movies are so cynical and realistic.. marriages never work. rob lowe has a wife and child and also relationships with girls in bars (also the plain, blonde, old friend girl)...judd wants ally to marry him because he just cheated on her with a sales girl while buying her a kinky nightgown. marriage to make him faithful and all that. andrew is the requisite love-is-a-crock man. but being an 80s movie i sense the ending sees them all set up with happily ever after endings (just the way i like it).
stir fried vegetables/wok as ashtray
oooooh TWWWIIIIIST rob lowe (billy)'s wife (the little missus) is a hottie and she's at the bar with another man, while billy plays sax. bar fight!...and now they're making out! (th'married couple)
judd and ally have a high fidelity moment as they fight over records

i wont spoiler the ending but it ends as it should.

cons: i miss molly ringwald ...and james spader's sneery face.

but you cant have everything :)

masters snooker - predictions!

2010-01-15T16:51:00.005+05:30

ok so ronnie beat ebdon, and williams beat murphy :) alls well in the world. todays matches are:

maguire v day
selby v allen

...the first match i really dont care. didnt watch either of their matches in the first round and so have no idea what sort of form they're in. so im saying nothing. either.

selby's got to win i think.. because really allen only won cause higgins was off his game. and he knows it too. but selby, now he's a man in the zone. gorjuss long potting. gorjuss everything.

im rooting for a final between williams and selby. which means i think mark's going to beat ronnie. setting up a final where im going to torn between.. the marks! lol just realised they have the same first name! allen's a mark too XD

ps. i dont really know why iv taken ronnie out of the equation. its probably cause him being so down on himself is catching. really he's got every chance of beating williams. i must be realistic about this.

turned out steve davis was right it was rocket vs jester in the final and mark won :) so happy.

th'masters

2010-01-12T00:36:00.003+05:30

quality snooker today. shaun murphy and stephen hendry both. final score 6 - 4 (best of 11). it almost went to 5 - 5 with a decider. murphy took the 10th frame with 3 balls on the table. potted the blue and that was it. wrenching stuff. the commentators kept using the words 'top drawer' to describe the play and form of the 2. wonder where that comes from... there was also a load of reference to 'leicester rhyming slang' like.. 'forrest' as in forrest gump... think it had something to do with being a in world of trouble... i dont really know.

they also did a flashback to 2003 doherty vs hunter. was i sad. so sad.

anyway now all my hopes rest on selby. selby ftw!

dont know about the 'leicester' kind, acc to cockney rhyming slang forrest means shit. the verb.

Mince Pies

Eyes

She got beatiful minces.

they used this one when talking about hendry "nothing wrong with his mince pies"

forrest gump was also to do with hendry...

Forrest Gump

Dump (shit)

"Off out in 10 minutes?" "Yeah, just got to have a Forrest first".

...i dont know. i need to be reminded of the context.

it's Craptacular

2009-12-27T22:20:00.001+05:30

the following poster makes me want to:
a. cringe and gag
b. not watch it
c. kill the photographer
d. and whoever decided to go with small 'i' capital 'C'...
just ergh!

glee'd about glee

2009-12-24T02:30:00.004+05:30

i dont like most of todays 'pop' music. i think its inane. but im watching glee and suddenly the song 'single ladies' by beyonce is making sense to me... in a different way. i dont think a song about liking it and should've having put a ring on it is a great song. but in the context of a gay teenager in a sequinned unitard singing it. it makes sense. im blabbering. but point being thanks to glee im probably going to be singing along with a lot more songs now. *shrug* musicals work for me :D

anything other than high school musical which i still think is retarded. bad disney. no chocolate for you.

white christmas - here to stay

2009-12-23T01:56:00.004+05:30

hit the borders closing down sale just in time. today was the last day. 90% off. i got the leonard cohen book for 90p. i didnt even know he'd written books. looking fwd to it (can just imagine it all in his drooly drooly voice)...after all the millions of lib books iv got to get through. just got done with 'a good school' by richard yates. so good. plenty of latent homosexuality.
also got the dr horrible comic (2.99 - its weird how im ok with paying full price for certain must have new comics. i prefer my novels on sale/second hand) at ok comics. its growing on me. my favourite is still forbidden planet, then travelling man..then ok. but the upstairs has many many 50p bins of back issues. i can see it growing on me more and more... its got this weird posh vibe tho. unlike forbidden planet where iv had fun conversations with people. this is a very keep to yourself type place.
also got started on the graphic language of neville brody.
design books are just better than other books (of the non fiction variety).
ps. havent fallen down yet. walked so slow (slippery pavements). legs feel like iv been doing the merengue.

christmas 24

2009-12-15T14:07:00.003+05:30

knew i was back in the uk when i was in a queue in heathrow with 2 men behind me grousing big time about how theres too much stuff in coffee these days, when all you really want is a bog standard cuppa, a nice cup of black coffee...cheese was easy in the old days, you just got a piece of cheddar and now there are hundreds and this is a reason to really really hate life.
also i fell asleep on the short flight to manchester. and kind of twitched awake suddenly...and the cute old couple next to me got all concerned (it might have looked like a mild fit mebbe) and she was all: are you okay? me: yeah i fell asleep... it was nice.
the x factor final was on sunday. does the name joe mcelderry mean anything to anyone outside this tiny island? he's a girly kind of boi... cheryl cole cries over him as she does over everything.
christmas 24 is name of the channel movies 24 for the month :)

10 ten cameron crowe moments

2009-11-20T16:35:00.004+05:30

there's a time magazine list and they have a rearrange option but it just wasnt enough, so...
a lot a lot of thought went into this but...ask me again in half an hour and i could change my mind.

a secret history - an excerpt

2009-11-20T15:52:00.003+05:30

playing with fonts on illustrator.

i can has found screenshots on tumblr!

2009-11-16T16:50:00.004+05:30

early wil wheaton lowe

the axis of anarchy - the guild

...and now

i cant wait to be all caught up with the season so far. think imagonna skip right to this. season 3. episode 5!!!

2012:jimi mistry is not indian!

2009-11-16T11:21:00.005+05:30

hot

the facts. jimi mistry is british. he's from scarborough. he's a yorkshire-man. alec guinness was a better indian than he could ever be. also indians do not all dress like gandhi. 2012 started off ok. it was only his apu-esque accent that was wrrrrong. but then he attempted to speak hindi...and dressed like gandhi as he was about to die in a tidal wave. and overused the phrase 'my friend'
-thank you my friend.
-goodbye my friend.

not

blah blah blah.
shut the fuck up.

ps. Alec Guinness simply had no heart or stomach to play professor Godbole,
a Kashmiri Pandit, in his friend David Lean's 1984 movie,
A Passage to India. 'It (the part) shouts for Hindu,' Guinness told Lean...

//SPOILERALERT//2012//SPOILERALERT//

2009-11-14T10:04:00.004+05:30

so yeah here's the skinny on 2012. it should have been called everyone (including gordon) dies so that john cusack and amanda peet can hook up again.

this is gordon
you know gordon is doomed from the moment when he's in a supermarket with amanda peet and theyre discussing their relationship and feeling a distance between them and then the floor cracks apart jumanji style.
anyhoo g2g.
coming soon:
the tale of how i traumatised other movie goers by yelling die bitches! and drink the tea!

mondaymindset

2009-11-09T19:06:00.005+05:30

i found the topher banner somewhere random just now and had to share! its so topher..

Sierra: Earth-identical gravity and atmosphere on other planets. Is that two?
Topher Brink: I'll give you one.
Sierra: That's fair. One ecosystem for a whole planet.
Topher Brink: Good.
Sierra: Human-alien cross-breeding without scientific intervention.
Topher Brink: Nice.
Sierra: Flamey explosions and sound in a vacuum.
Topher Brink: Yes! Good job.
Sierra: Oh, but there's so much more. Light speed travel, space storms and sexy, sexy aliens.
Topher Brink: Ahh-ahh-ahh, I said classic sci-fi errors. Now you're just attacking good story telling.

Ash: You should probably put your bandit hat on now.
Personally, I- I don't have one, but I modified this tube sock.

Kristofferson: You look good.

Ash: Yeah, I do.

...other things on my brain at the mo. the fantastic mr fox movie! i cant wait. i swoon for jason. cant you just hear him say those lines?? ok ok. i have heard him say those lines in the yummy trailer :) it was mmmMMm good. my tum feels out of it. i r wanting a whole bunch of bennjerrys to soothe it.

also look right for updated top 5s.

conor - now and then

2009-11-03T10:45:00.006+05:30

I'll be rooting for you
Like my favorite team
If somebody sweats you
You just point them out to me
(milk thistle, 2008)...............................

..............................And if the lava monster came,
I would block its flame from hurting you
From hurting you
(lava monster, 1994)

so that's 14 to 28?

he hasnt changed. im thinking the blocking the flame of the metaphorical lava monster is still part of his overall philosophy. its possible that lava monster listenage yesterday made me dream of bright red dragons. they hatched out of eggs and like the dinos in jurassic park, learnt from experience and got more deadly with time... could be killed with the holy words which werent traditionally holy...i dont remember what they were but possibly along the lines of din's rat bastard thing.

the scene:

sunil has made off with the wrong bag of delivered food (biriyani)
din calls him on the phone to make him come back and begins with:

rat bastard!

instant classic.

urbandictionary:remembeer

2009-10-30T16:11:00.001+05:30

quiz#1

2009-10-30T11:46:00.019+05:30

will update as more people respond. and add graphs and shit.
1.

hot/not?

gay hottie in the making
yeah hot, sexy ugly
Funny-looking, in a cute way (Jakob disagrees, he says hot, btw).
Hot guys who smoke instantly attain super-hotness.
errr NOT hot from any angle more like who is this baby who smokes?
Hot
Oh, yes!
not
Hot. Or Hot-ish. Would that work?
hot

2.
pick your lazy afternoon song

Lemon Tree
magic marker - monsters of folk
In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel <3
That’s so hard. Current one would be Heart of Gold-Neil Young
sunny afternoon - the kinks
Banana pancakes-Jack Johnson
ironically Sunday Morning- Maroon 5
parklife - blur
The postal service, or various movie soundtracks. Movie soundtracks are the best things ever – like a box of chocolates! :)
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan

3.
you want to believe?

in what? X files, then no.
yes i do
I want to believe in magic forests. And that Jimi Hendrix, Joe Strummer and Douglas Adams aren't really dead. And that I can learn Arabic.
In vampires and aliens…not to mention a creature that looks like a dolphin with a magical unicorn-horn that can fly and swim and is super-intelligent. I want it as a pet.
no i dont try too hard. with passion comes belief. i am corny
Santa Claus! Christmas is coming!! Lol!
in pretty, pink people
yes
That there's magic in the world. And unicorns. And elves. :p
Life is short.

4.
what's more appealing?
a. lazy lunches
b. lollipops
c. retirement
d. natalie portman
e. unicorns

LOLLIPOPS
unicorns
unicorns/lazy lunches/lollipops/retirement/natalie portman (the only appealing natalie portman is 12-year-old-Leon-Natalie)
retirement, unicorns (sorry I cant pick between the two)
lazy lunches.. anything wit food in it. throw some beer in?
retirement!!!!! I WANT IT NOW!!!!!
lazy lunches
unicorns
I’m torn between lazy lunches and unicorns, but I’ll have to go with Unicorns. They’re so cool!
unicorns

5.
which of the following would you not share?
a. soap
b. brad pitt
c. lollipops
d. comb
e. combover

SOAP!!! SOAP!! MIEN AND MINE ONLY.
comb and combover
uhh, how can you share a combover? anyway, lollipops/soap/comb/brad pitt (idgaf about brad pitt tbh :p)
lollipops.. cmon thats like makin out? :|
soap
lollipops- atleast not with just 'anyone'!
comb
soap/brad pitt – fuck yeah!
lollipops

also google ftw! google docs makes awesome charts.
shout out to sunil for reminding me of this fact.

You really think I never kissed a guy before?

2009-10-29T17:37:00.007+05:30

^thus spake chuck.
done listening to the these f**king teenagers podcast. and felt some gossip girl love. so here's some eye candy. except for nate and dan. they're not. but big improvement of the season - they've found a way to make both dan and nate less dull - a seth/ryan #theOC style bromance. it's nowhere near as good as that but it's better. and i like nate more knowing that he watches dodgy kinky vampiric king arthur movies. hee. #merthur dejavu ...also how cute is chuck? but i agree, old chuck hair is so much better than new chuck hair. too short. casual blair is a good look. but its rare. ps. mismatch shoes ftw!

qlog

open your eyes, look up to the skies and see

Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?

i've been sobbing over fictional characters again

3 things

naked as we came

pinkerton

gotta keep walking on

cleeeeeaaaaaaan

didnt get to do #airporttweetz

the amazing life

cynic who?

Tom Chiarella, our Chiarella

#lifeupdate

the blogger

wherein i review stuff:

active vs. passive

i think i'm a contra

i dont do long words

what i like about music #3

leedstalgia

CLICK THE LINKS

B'lore Vs. Madras - Round #1

what i like about music #2

thinking about: a song of ice and fire

A Game of Fathers

tumblpost

what i like about music

welcome to the blodcast

discovery

i heart chennai/madras

things that would ordinarily go on my tumblr.

i miss tumblr. and doctor who.

i need the new album. *anticipation*

i am not the wolf(or a)man

wibblywobblytimeywimeystuff

revelation

let me feel you moving like they do in babylon

first rule of the internet

heroes in a half shell!

dream: prancing cera

a very youtube christmas

smiiiiiles!

strumming

you know i wants them shades!

ok-go gymming

expectation/reality

some uke love.

friend - within inverted commas

some free verse. it's all i seem to be able to write now *shrug*

enthiran? more like oompa loompa!

goodbye betty! *spoiler alert*

leeds art gallery thoughts

lian+john

[spoiler alert!] kipper

yookay trip [airport + day 1]

miseducation

sigree dinner

cow in big city

capitalist cafe

i spy..

all we ever have is now

my mother should have murdered me/no jury would convict her babe

It was. It was a lie... but then it was a dream.

that's guild incest!

EAT!

just havent found it yet

who is emma frost?

the science of fandom

the king of the crucible is in round 2

big bloodshot eyes

bloggerverbiage

Oh child... you always knock me for a loop!

"It's over/You don't need to tell me"

the queen's corgis

yesterday

tillermanthink

danny duoshade recommends...

coincidence or magic?

i need the new album. anticipation

some free verse. it's all i seem to be able to write now shrug

goodbye betty! spoiler alert