I was tagged by Dili so here are ten things that make me happy.
1. Music – Ambient/atmospheric black metal/death metal/technical death metal/jazz fusion/folk/neo folk/acid folk/hard rock/carnatic/romantic/baroque/’world music’. Sorry for the list and all, but I am a genre nerd. Discovering new artists in these genres is always a pleasure.
2. My favourite writers and poets – Willy Shakespeare, Anthony Burgess, George Orwell, Arthur C Clarke, Mark Danielewski, Toby Litt, Martin Amiss and many many more.
3. Brian Lara taking guard makes me disturbingly giggly and excited. Imagine, if you will, how I react when he plays that awe inspiring cover drive of his or when he charges down the wicket. My world stops spinning when Lara is batting.
4. A certain Cynic. Enough said.
5. Friends – From the guys in school to the Cynic and Pissu Perera Gang, and the buggers in 891. Love ‘em all.
6. Nick Drake – For Pink Moon: saved my sanity (and probably a lot more) when I was on the verge of losing it
7. John McLaughlin – For Shakti and short-circuiting my mind with his guitar playing.
8. Wolves in the Throne Room – For Diadem of 12 Stars. What I would do to relive that moment when I first heard this album.
9. Roger Wootton – For penning those amazing lyrics on First Utterance.
10. Sanath Jayasuriya’s (now sadly infrequent) moments of madness when he becomes a freight train without a break.
7 Comments
May 15, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Dude a certain cynic is going to kill me after that 1st line
Ditto on 1,2, 10 apart from the 1’s genres. You opened my ears but i have ways to go.
3 is somewhat disturbing….. 
May 16, 2008 at 11:25 am
heh! the cynic is the only female in a list almost entirely made of MEN who make you happy.. i always knew there was something wrong with you
May 17, 2008 at 4:31 am
That’s because most female personalities are akin to milk: they come with an expiry date after which they turn sour.
May 22, 2008 at 2:17 am
that’s what they all say when they can’t handle them. i think it’s sour grapes we’re talking about
June 3, 2008 at 5:11 am
Ay!.. lost poet! You’ve been tagged! by ME!..
June 10, 2008 at 7:22 am
I’ll get to it soon, my good man
September 3, 2008 at 6:38 am
1) Isis Live.
2) Tendulkar or Lara, in their prime.
3) Single Malt Whisky!