Wither must I wander…

Tomorrow Parikrama is supposed to perform at someplace in Gurgaon. Goddam, I wish my workplace was still out there somewhere or I had an off. Life acts so fucked up sometime that I really wanna kick it’s butt. Anyway, Debs was online, seems that her birthday was on the 5th of this month. Goddamn I never remember anyone’s birthday. I hardly remember mine aswell.

So I was wondering what the hell has happened to all of these web loggers who all started off with me… The only ones surviving is Blues, Pompy and that Jo-so-fine kid. Even Jo has become quite infrequent. I miss that weirdo michelle, freaky Tara, music messiah Zen and geeky nobody. Well that would be all I guess. I never really knew that many people, cuz I didn’t have the time. Oh yea I also miss reading p1uto and rocknsocknNY. Now p1uto was insanely blunt and the later one was insanely funny. I miss one of my oldest friends from the WWW Cher (bear). If I recall correctly she had turned 19 this July.

Theres a song, theres a song, theres a song, theres a song… ummm… it’s in my head… sings Martha Wainwright. I love her voice madly! Zen got me her album, and I’d say it’s the best album to be released this rather shitty year. I can’t really recall but her voice sounds so fuckin similar to somebody that it’s driving me crazy as I can’t recall it.

Like Martha sings…

Poetry has no place for a heart thats a whore
And I’m young and I’m strong
But I feel old and tired
Overfired
And I’ve been poked and stoked
It’s all smoke, there’s no more fire
Only desire
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
You bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole

It’s one of the most beautiful songs I’ve heard this whole year. If you want to listen to this beautiful voice you can download the full song from here.

Anyway, I fucked up my Ubuntu as well. And I was on Windoze for a couple of days to download this distribution called PCLinuxOS. Man how I hate everything about Windoze. I wish someone can banish Microsoft Corp. from the face of the earth for coding such non sense software.

Anyway but I guess PCLinuxOS (a fork of Mandriva) is the best fucking operating system ever. I always wondered what people meant when they referred to something as: “It just works!” Well, guess I’ve found the answer. It’s PCLinuxOS. Seriously I have never seen a desktop so ready as soon as you finish installing it — 30 minutes that is. Pretty cool huh?

Anyway it’s almost 6 in the morning so I gotta sleep a bit. Shit I have to go to work today.

Adios!

P.S. –> She fucking sounds like Stevie Nicks in some of the songs and a bit like Grace Slick in some others. Now I can have a goodo sleep.

Livin’ Rockin’

Do you think Dunbar had a point when he said getting bored all the time is okey cuz that makes the time crawl, and makes life seem longer? Interesting theory, huh? I have always loved Dunbar’s intelligence ever since I read the book for the first time. How come then I hate boredom so much myself? Just proves I myself am not that intelligent!

I’m listening to the clear crystal acoustic rock of Mieka Pauley. I love the way her voice almost breaks when she picks up the scale in this song called Stronger. I tell ya there is something about these American female singer-songwriters who do the club circuits and all they ever need is an acoustic guitar. Remember Jewel Kilcher also started the same way? Before she had become too popular and now she does stupid pop and trying to pretend being sexy and all that crap. I mean I dunno that was like 2 years ago. I kinda haven’t followed her music ever since her last album so I don’t really know what’s up with her. But my point is I hope Mieka is never signed up by any major record label, cuz before you know it, some fucked up producer is gonna mess up her work.

Anyway, skipped work cuz of a terrible stomach… Tired of making international pages man. Can’t they fucking gimme a business page for whoever’s sake. Eventho that wound’t be any exciting… but at least there would be some things related to IT. I wish there were some serious open source or rock n’ roll magazines which I could join. Crap I dont even kno what they look for in a subeditor/reporter. I wish I hadn’t joined a regular newspaper. It makes me a hypocrite, cuz I don’t really give a damn to any newspaper. Was I better off as a Gen Corr rep? I wonder!

Anyway, so today was rather productive! Fucked up my computer! It starts but wouldn’t start the GUI, thus I’s stuck at the command line. So well now working on me Ubuntu after a month or so. It wasn’t much that I did wrong you kno? Was just trying to upgrade the GNOME 2.8.2 into 2.10.2 in my Mandriva. From which repository? Goddamn I didnt think you would ask! Umm… Cooker? Man how the hell would I know Cooker would fuck up my display manager? I mean I really had awesome expectations from that repo when I Upgraded to KDE 3.4.2 and it actually was working super for the past one week. In fact it had become more stable.

Anyway I didn’t kno I had my Ubuntu GNOME fake a Mac OSX look with all these icon themes and skins… I hate looking at it? Mac OSX is so dorky looking. I like that professional touch when I use GNOME. So lemme go and have that look back on to fix my mood…

…did that but somehow I cant change the icon theme from the default boring one that GNOME has. Anyway better than dorky Mac OSX fake. Anyway, so I have nothing better to do and upgrading my Ubuntu to the latest security and fuck all updates. I’m doin a smart update thru Synaptic and it’d be downloading 226 MB of files in all. Turns out near about 35% is done, and the system is clocking approximately another 54 minutes to download the rest.

I think I was writing something anti M$ last night… And I dont recall the name of the file. Wasted a lot of time in the Mandriva partition to find that.

Anyway, turns out that Jo-So-Fine kid has 14 Doors albums! Man I didn’t even kno Doors had so many albums under their belt! And I was blaming her for paying too much attention to alternative rock. Turns out she’s a geek.

I guess I’m done doin this crap post. Adios!!

Jack the stripper?

I’m listening to the Black Sabbath sing about their Sweet Leaf. Dont you just love Bill Ward’s timing on the drums? He’s seriously an amazing dope. And the way Bill and Geezer (Butler on bass) coordinated together I guess thats what created the magic in Sabbath’s music. A lot of people love Sabbath only for Tony and/or Ozzy. But I love em for Bill and Geezer. So there you go, I’m crazy! Tho I am not implying I dont like the other 2.

Anyway I have always wondered what state of a mind someone might be in, when he can weave such awesome words around marijuana. “I love you! Oh you know it.”

My life was empty, forever on a down

Until you took me, showed me around

My life is free now, my life is clear

I love you sweet leaf, though you can’t hear

Pretty cool eh? I love the way bands from the late 60s and 70s used to describe their state of mind and life thru their songs. The songs were all so autobiographical.

Another Sabbath song that I absolutely love is Fairies Wear Boots. Firstly I love the title of the song. It’s kinda funny. They say the fairies here is a reference to the skinheads of UK during that era when it wasn’t used as a term to define the racists. Skinheads were real troublemaker punks and they used to wear boots all the time I suppose, thats what the song says atleast.

Goin’ home, late last night

Suddenly I got a fright

Yeah I looked through a window and surprised what I saw

A fairy with boots and dancin’ with a dwarf…

It doesn’t have a lot of words, but what’s so special about the song is the opening instrumental to it. The specific part is also known as Jack The Stripper… Dunno what it signifies tho. But in here again you would get to hear the awesome coordination of Bill and Geezer that I was talking about earlier. But the best part is obviously Tony’s lead guitar parts. It has that psychedelic feel to it, if you kno what I mean.

Anyway I just realised that I don’t have my Black Sabbath songs in this puter… Ima go and dig out the CD, and after that I gotta hit the sack I guess. See ya all laterer.

Yeah, fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

Yeah I saw it, I saw it, I tell you no lies

Yeah Fairies wear boots and you gotta believe me

I saw it, I saw it with my own two eyes,

Adios!!

P.S. –> Oh while I am talking about drums, I wanted to to post the pictures of the Robin’s drum kit which she’s finally sent me.

This one is the new drum kit that crazy floydhead Robin got a couple of months ago. It’s a goddam Pearl man. Damn!! It’s the same when it comes to drums like a Fender Precision Jazz Bass is to the bass guitars. When would I get that? … Oh and that’s Kristen’s hand intercepting the view. lol!! Not really she’s just goofin around I guess. Kristen is Robin’s daughter who turned 15 this Saturday. Wish her a happy b’day guys!

And finally, in the above picture you see the autograph of the one and only Floyd drummer, the great Nick Mason, and his version of a floyd art work. Pretty cool eh? Robin got that done when Nick came to her town for his book signing a few months back.

Ok now I’m finally goin I guess. Too lazy to dig for the Sabbath songs so Ima surf a bit more and hit the sack.

You outta get me…

They used to say the Punks took rock music back to it’s basics — what it was supposed to be or some crap like that! Even tho I like Punk quite a bit, but the genre wasn’t really a very upcoming thing. It was like a ‘anyone can play the guitar’ attitude. And they shunned any technicality when it came to the guitar or some other musical instrument.

Banging 3 power chords throughout, hitting the drums hard and crazy, basics of bass and screaming your ass of about how you hate everybody around and the world. That was Punk wasn’t it? Funny how a lot of the bands from the post Punk era who were majorly influenced by the genre, do the music that actually has some depth these days.

Punk did have one positive side to the new rock culture that would appear in the 80s. It was the “dont give a fuck to the record labels and the popular taste.” I thank Punk for that. And this exact same attitude makes the post punk music quite good.

Sometimes it’s quite fun to listen to basic rock n’roll, really. Of course when you just need to relax. I really like AC/DC for that exact reason. Eventho their music is not even remotely punky, yet they were (or maybe still are) rock n’ roll in it’s purest form, before prog rock and heavy metal took it to a completely different and quite complicated level.

Heavy metal isnt really all classic. Probably many of them are more pretentious than any other genre of music. But the roots of the genre say: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Iron Maiden did take heavy metal to a whole different level.

Maiden, although being one of the most copied bands, still sounds unique when you take some of the gems from their catalogue. The first 2 albums with Paul DiAnno on vocals are still classic. Eventho Number of the Beast with Bruce Dickinson is regarded as the best of Maiden’s works, I personally like Killers above all. The genre of the album is hard to define. It has every bit of complexity you can except from an album. Say the guitar parts of Dzhengis Khan or the bass lead intro in Murders in the Rue Morgue are truly classic if not classical.

The first few albums were the ones Steve Harris — the bassist — experimented the most, and likewise has his best works. Of course Phantom of the Opera (from their debut album) tops the list. It’s really odd once you hit the perfect sound, you wanna stay with that, and your music looses its touch. Obviously it’s the human nature to play it safe. But in the process what they do not understand is that it’s the albums that suffer. They loose their uniqueness.

Maybe thats why Radiohead is one of the very few bands that actually make me really curious when they are about to release a new album. You can’t really predict what they might sound in the new stuff unlike majority of the bands. For Radiohead the perfect sound was reached in 1998 with OK Computer. To add to that it was an immensely popular record. Being a big fan of the sound of a bass guitar, I still love how Colin Greenwood played the bass for the song Paranoid Android. His riffs in that one are very much comparable to the bests.

Anyway, so what exactly did Radiohead do next? Well, they did Kid A. A sound that totally deviates from their previous act(s). Would you call that pompous? Most would. I wont! And I have my reasons. I believe it’s much better than becoming a dinosaur act. Sure you had your big hits, but better not depend on that for the bread n’ butter for the rest of your life. Well sure you would earn loads and would be accepted by a wider audience, but many of the true followers who were there from the beginning would move on. Not because their band now has a broader fan base, but because they will feel the sound has become too monotonous. Remember Floyd’s Momentary Lapse of Reasons or The Division Bell? A clear indication of a band loosing it’s magic is when it tries to imitate what has been popular in the past.

In words put simple it’s like what they have often said “it’s better to burn than to fade.” A band should never copy it’s own sound of all things. That simply implies a band being satisfied after all the hard work, and thus putting a break on progress. Burn yourself for the sake of progress, by not being static (or is it ’satisfied’ that I really wanted to say?).

Oh well, whatever floats your boat! Adios!!