Posted in 2008, Musing about the mundane, tagged anthony burgess, arthur c clarke, baroque, black metal, brian lara, carnatic, comus, Cricket, death metal, diadem of 12 stars, folk, george orwell, jazz fusion, john mclaughlin, mark danielweski, martin amiss, Music, nick drake, pink moon, roger wootton, romantic, sanath jayasuriya, shakespeare, shakti, toby litt, wolves in the throne room, world music on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 - [...]
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Anthropologist/metalhead Sam Dunn’s follow-up to to his groundbreaking 2006 documentary ‘Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey‘ will be coming out soon, and I am excited as a teenager on the brink of losing his cherry to his favourite pornstar.
The new documentary titled ‘Global Metal‘ takes a look at the extreme metal scenes outside traditional metal hotspots [...]
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Truth be told this is not how I envisioned spending my twenty fifth birthday, but, as the eternal optimist in me keeps reminding, it could have been a whole lot worse; I have more or less recovered, after all, and I no longer resemble a goblin (though my face looks like a dartboard but I [...]
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Obnoxious Weeds: In happier times
I’ve been indifferent to T20 cricket from the very beginning, apathetic even, unbecoming of my self-professed love for the game. But then, I am a bit of a traditionalist when it comes to cricket; give me test cricket any day. Hard grind, survival of the fittest and all that nonsense that [...]
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Three days since I got this damn thing and the depression is beginning to kick in.
When I got the chickenpox, I reasoned that the time off would be an ideal way to catch up with uni work and assignments, get some quality reading done and perhaps even devote time to practicing guitar. But alas. The [...]
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Posted in 2008, Musing about the mundane, tagged me on April 24, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Woke up with a hangover yesterday.
My head felt like a bowling arena populated by loud rednecks, my eyes droopier than usual, my back like I had performed some elaborate Kama Sutra postures on a bed of nails.
All of which was strange since I hadn’t got drunk in ages.
I reluctantly got myself off bed and convinced [...]
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The other night I had to refrain from throwing the laptop out in frustration as Google’s home page wouldn’t load. One lousy image, a search box and a bunch of text links taking so long to load is beyond the comprehension of my (arguably fragile) sanity.
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Posted in 2008, Articles, Literature on March 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Is it odd that I take time out in order to eulogise a man I never had the privilege of meeting? Not in the case of Sir Arthur C Clarke. The inner workings of his prodigious intellect and his astounding imagination which he shared with the world, made those of us familiar with his work [...]
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