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 [...]
Posted in 2007, Articles, Bands, Bands/Musicians, Music, weird music, tagged devin townsend, drumkit from hell, strapping young lad, the new black, ziltoid on November 25, 2007 | 6 Comments »
DEVIN TOWNSEND – Ziltoid The Omniscient
I recently joined a Facebook group called ‘The Devin Townsend Is An Absolute God Amongst Men Society’. Hero worship, I hear you say disapprovingly. Well, duh! The man is a mad genius whose musical ideas sometimes defy belief. His last album with Strapping Young Lad (The New Black) had more [...]
Posted in 2007, Articles, Book reviews, published work, tagged Book reviews, fnq, mission, patrick tilley on October 19, 2007 | 11 Comments »
I mentioned in my previous post that I was asked to contribute to FNQ magazine by a friend of mine. The following is the second article, a book review of, arguably, one of my favourite works of contemporary fiction. As always, I’d appreciate your thoughts on the article and, more importantly, I hope that it [...]
Posted in 2007, Articles, Creative writing, Music, media, tagged diabolus in musica, fnq, published stuff on October 13, 2007 | 7 Comments »
A couple of months back, I was asked to contribute to a fashion magazine.
WTF! Come again? I asked incredulously. Had the person who was asking me to come on board the writing team not noticed my God-given ability to constantly stay out of touch with fashion trends? Fashion advice from moi would involve acquiring a [...]
Posted in 2007, Articles, Musicians, weird music on July 20, 2007 | 6 Comments »
When it comes down to it, as a fan of music I can only think of three types of music: the shit ones, the amazing ones and the music to die for. No genres, subgenres and all that nerdy nonsense I ponder on when I am bored. Comus’ debut album ‘First Utterance’ is music [...]
Posted in 2007, Articles, Issues, Sri Lanka, media on July 13, 2007 | 12 Comments »
My apologies for giving in and covering a topic that has had enough coverage in Kottu. This is a long post so please bear with me.
Since the shit hit the fan on Monday, I’ve been commenting on various blogs and sharing my personal experience with the Abeynaike Brigade. At various points, Rajpal or some of [...]
Posted in 2006, Articles on December 24, 2006 | 8 Comments »
As many of you may know, I was keen on writing an article on the Seagull Software Scam. The piece was published on the Leisure Times magazine’s December issue. Here reproduced in full is the published article. I’ll include pictures later.
The Seagull Scam
by: Theena Kumaragurunathan
On the 25th of October, thousands of Sri Lankans [...]
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