The Sound of Settling…

Death Cab for Cutie is weird name for a band I tell ya. In my hay days I’d have looked for more info regarding the 4Ws and an H w.r.t. that name, but I’ve grown quite lazy. Many thanks to the likes of Texstar and the for-the-lazy-bums operating systems they designed. It’s only a matter of time before I get all spoiled with the only-a-click-away attitude.

At work it’s a frustrating experience to use a completely alien and difficult environment for your workstation. Man I only wanted to access dictionary.com, what are these weirdo-ass looking smileys staring at me for? Ooh, a pop-up. Damn u mother fucker, like when did I order for ya’ll to give me a visit? As if trying to make a page out of the shitty stories these so-called reporters file wasn’t enough.

Billy dude… how can ya charge for some lousy-ass software man? I wouldn’t even work on it if provided free of charge. Maybe that’s why you recruited that Stevie “FUD” Balmer dude to do all the hard work. I mean it sure does take a lot of energy to come of up with a new FUD concept every few days. Tells how he got all cheesed off working on that for-not-so-lazy-bums operating system in his hay days, hard working bloke that he is.

It’s about time some lazy-ass son of a bitch like me gets a bit not-so-lazy this one fine day, and starts a consultancy to promote the for-the-lazy-bums operating systems. I’m telling ya s/he can sure make a helluva lot of dough out of the experiences of being lazy all this while.

What else? Adios!!

El Condor Pasa (If I Could)…

I have read the serenity prayer several times in my life. It goes like this:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

I decided to use the wisdom I gained in a lifetime of experience to accept the things I can’t change. I also think that anyone in America who believes our government cares about us lives in a dream world. I don’t care if you’re a Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or whatever. The people running for office are politicians. They don’t listen and they don’t care.

… says Tom Adelstein. Read the full article here. Funny how most governments around the world are likewise, eh? And they still wonder why we couldn’t care any less about elections and stuff like that. I’m 24, and I dont vote — never have and never will I guess. Adios!

Lost in the haze of a dream…

I guess if music didn’t happen to me, I would’ve been very different. Although I have no focus in my life, I feel real lucky to have discovered the music of all these amazing musicians.

It’s one of the most beautiful sounds I can ever hear. Soft and delicate, that is a bass. There are not many things I’m fond of around here, but I certainly am obsessed with a few things, among them is bass.

She never really had a chance

On that fateful moonlit night

Sacrificed without a fight

A victim of her circumstance

This one is John Myung in Through Her Eyes. It’s so freaking expressive that perhaps it don’ t need words to lead it, or even back it for that matter. It almost sounds like a fretless bass, or perhaps it is. I remember the 5-string bass he used in this Dream Theater concert video I have called Metropolis Part II: Scenes From a Memory. But I can’t recall if he changed his bass for this song. As much harder it is to play a fretless bass, it sure produces a much richer sound.

Anyway, the following tattoo artwork is what Robin aka Heartmother’s got on her ankle. First time I saw it on a webcam I was amazed… It goes a full circle. On pictures its hard to define. But dont miss the great work of the artist, who illustrated the rest of it to complete the sequence and connect the diffracted light back to the prism.

From the leftside…

…and from the right.

Listening to Rage Against the Machines’ Renegades. It’s more like rap. But I love them. They’re perhaps the first band who came up with the bold statement: “All sound produced by guitars, drums, bass and vocals.” I like the attitude. Adios!!

You shook me…

The Final Cut! One of the most underrated, ignored or hated albums of Floyd ever — take your pick. I remember once this guy in a chat room say, “Final Cut is probably the best thing Roger Waters has ever written, but I don’t listen to it… It don’t have Rick Wright.” He went on to point the amazing stuff Rick has done in Wish You Were Here.

Umma jokes “(Jethro) Tull fans are touchy”. I guess Floydians beat everyone when it comes to being “touchy about it”. Take the chat room guy, who’d rather have the 4 together or none. Even my favorite girl Goxy, who just can’t even criticize — not even once — none of them. Yet, some are here just to bash David and others Roger. It’s funny the way we take everything so seriously. Or would ‘insane’ be a better word?

So as I listen to The Final Cut after a long while, it sure does turn back time. Those days were good: arguing in chat rooms for hours tryina put across your point. But hey, I have the best of my friends right here on the Internet. Maybe never would meet em for real in a lifetime, yet. Maggie what have ya done?

There was a time when I’d literally spend countless hours logged on, trying to scan the whole Internet (if possible) for any and all Floyd interview I can find. But over the last couple of years, I’ve been reading less and less. Umm… yea okay hardly anything. Now I see I’ve the biographies of John Lennon, The Doors and even Nick Mason’s Inside Out, and I’ve tried to read them countless times, but never went beyond the first few chapters.

If I show you my dark side, would you still hold me tonight?

And if I open my heart to you, show you my weak side,

What would you do?

Anyway, I started reading Fragments of Grace — My Search For Humanity from Kashmir to Kabul about a few days ago. It’s written by this Washington Post reporter named Pamela Constable, the paper’s South Asia correspondent. I’ve only read the first few pages, but what I find amazing is how in search of a story they can venture into such dreaded lands as the Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. And it’s not all too ‘God bless freedom’ crap, but the first-hand view of what the society was like, like every lay man may find if s/he visits.

amaroK started playing some Jeff Beck. I managed to borrow a Beck album finally. And like my pal Mushi said a zillion times: “Jeff rocks!” Adios!!

Dell nails it…

“Microsoft has not talked to us about Linux. If they did, I wouldn’t care. It’s none of their business,” says Michael Dell, chairman of Dell Inc. Read the full interview here.

Wrong Impression…

Yup I’m listening to this pop album of Natalie Imbruglia for a change. I checked David Gilmour’s site and it seems the album’s only been released in Germany, Italy and Ireland. Yea u heard me right, not even England. The Independent, Times, Guardian, Sun, and a helluva lot of other British papers have reviewed it on March 3, the same day it was released. I downloaded only those four PDF interview files from David’s site. I started reading the Independent’s review and got distracted.

My BCL membership has expired. I dunno when I would go and renew it. I never borrowed a book from there, but I used to go chill there occasionally. I liked reading The Guardian. It’s pretty cool, considering how it covers every aspect of life and society. So whatever your interest or beat, u have something to read. Indian press should learn something from that on how to write copies. Indian press is so much full of shit, it kinda stopped being funny a while back. I dunno tho, Hindu maybe a bit better. But heck do u guys mind getting out of the political and celebrity shit and covering something different? I mean politics ain’t that boring if only they knew how to write good copies.

So, someone named Jessica Lall is fucking dead some years back. Who gives a shit? Okay so some may… but she don’t really deserve so much attention. She ain’t a Suu Kye for crying out loud man. Even the big corporation-owned US papers aren’t that bad. At least reporters from things like NYT go and file stories on what goes on in Ethiopian schools. Oh and the press in general have people like Bernstein and Woodward to flaunt off. Now they’re just ordinary guys who cracked the scandal, didn’t they?

Okay I dunno what the fuck I’m ranting all about…. This Natalie chick is really irritating me. Have ya ever head Nine Inch Nails? It’s really weird music I tell ya…. In this song called Piggy from Downward Spiral, it’s all outta tune drumming. What’s up with that? But Trent Reznor is an intelligent guy. Maybe someday I might start appreciating whatever shit he tried to convey thru his music… Adios!