I wrote this post for Pagalguy. I like to think of it as a prescription and a way of life!!
Read on....
There is nothing like listening to the heart tearing strumming of Joe Satriani's guitar or no pain killer better than the mind numbing head banging bass of Rammstein. Nightwish gives you the feeling that someone has reached into you and is trying to hold your thumping heart still. Metallica seems to have a song for all moods..... something like Queen who also has this effect on me. When you feel furious and like ripping someone's head off (perhaps before a big game) Godsmack is what you are looking at. When you have mellowed out Nickelback helps. When you feel lost and worn there is Nightwish again...... as well as the Ozzman who completely Ozzmisizes you with his lyrics. Heartbroken??? Evanesence sees that you get in touch with that inner you. And for a little funk you have Limp Bizkit (As I always say... the good songs are good but the others suck!) and Linkin Park (Don't listen to this all that much). Iron Maiden is nice on most days too but only an album at a time (max!)No party can be complete without Alice Cooper's Poison nor G 'n R's November rain/ Sweet child 'o mine.
Rock on!
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Monday, May 16, 2005
Kingdom Of Heaven
After a Totally Smashed out saturday I dragged my sorry self outta bed on sunday and caught the 1830hrs :-) Kingdom of heaven show at Regal. Ridley Scott cast Orlando Bloom (Wonder how he made it out of school untraumatised with that name :-)) Anyways his performance was rather subdued. I felt that Viggo Mortensen (of Aragon - Lord of the Rings fame) would have done a better job with the same role.
It is a movie set in the year 1185, the location: the burning sands of Jerusalem. The mission: a blacksmith doing his duty. Ridley Scott has captured the fearlessness and the honour of the Crusaders very well. It is a gripping epic that keeps you sitting upright for all the two and a half hours. The fight scenes are pretty graphic and the battles are done in perfect detail.
The crusaders were supposed to be a strong passionate army completely driven by zeal - The army of the Lord. The warriors brave and fearsome. And that their leader would have 10 times these qualities and the personality. It is said that at war their first attack was the most terrible and the second was a formality. These qualities seemed to be missing in Orlando. Always felt that Orlando would be better in a romantic comedy role. Because of the strength of his character he pulled it off ok.
The depiction of the war was excellent; The cinematography, the depiction of the strategies, the planning scenes et al. It was the small things that moved the audience like the moment when Saladin sees the Crucifix toppled over on the floor. He pauses, bends over and picks it up. He sets it upright on a ledge showing him as a person of great moral rectitude. Even the scene where Balian (Bloom) spares the life of the servant of the man he fought for a horse is touching. This mans turns out to be the master and Orlando meets him later on where the man returns the favour.
Sybilla (Eva Green) is the sister of the king of the Crusaders(who is dying of leperosy) asks Balian a very interesting question in the movie. "Can you not do a little evil for greater good?" She asks him this as she asks him to marry her. She knows her brother is dying and when he did she would be the next queen and her husband the blood thirsty Guy de Lusignan would have complete command over the warriors in white. Balian declines.... again on grounds of honour.
As a movie with knights, blood thirsty kings, bitter enemies and a man seeking forgiveness there was a strong theme of honour that ran through the movie. In todays world there is a lot less of that to be seen. It is the most easiest thing to have yet is the most difficult to uphold. OK I am going off on a tangent here.
It is an insightful and an excellent movie - a 9 out of 10! at least.
I found a bit of trivia about the movie on this site.
It is a movie set in the year 1185, the location: the burning sands of Jerusalem. The mission: a blacksmith doing his duty. Ridley Scott has captured the fearlessness and the honour of the Crusaders very well. It is a gripping epic that keeps you sitting upright for all the two and a half hours. The fight scenes are pretty graphic and the battles are done in perfect detail.
The crusaders were supposed to be a strong passionate army completely driven by zeal - The army of the Lord. The warriors brave and fearsome. And that their leader would have 10 times these qualities and the personality. It is said that at war their first attack was the most terrible and the second was a formality. These qualities seemed to be missing in Orlando. Always felt that Orlando would be better in a romantic comedy role. Because of the strength of his character he pulled it off ok.
The depiction of the war was excellent; The cinematography, the depiction of the strategies, the planning scenes et al. It was the small things that moved the audience like the moment when Saladin sees the Crucifix toppled over on the floor. He pauses, bends over and picks it up. He sets it upright on a ledge showing him as a person of great moral rectitude. Even the scene where Balian (Bloom) spares the life of the servant of the man he fought for a horse is touching. This mans turns out to be the master and Orlando meets him later on where the man returns the favour.
Sybilla (Eva Green) is the sister of the king of the Crusaders(who is dying of leperosy) asks Balian a very interesting question in the movie. "Can you not do a little evil for greater good?" She asks him this as she asks him to marry her. She knows her brother is dying and when he did she would be the next queen and her husband the blood thirsty Guy de Lusignan would have complete command over the warriors in white. Balian declines.... again on grounds of honour.
As a movie with knights, blood thirsty kings, bitter enemies and a man seeking forgiveness there was a strong theme of honour that ran through the movie. In todays world there is a lot less of that to be seen. It is the most easiest thing to have yet is the most difficult to uphold. OK I am going off on a tangent here.
It is an insightful and an excellent movie - a 9 out of 10! at least.
I found a bit of trivia about the movie on this site.
Sunday, May 15, 2005
Joe Satriani - Live!!
Went to the Joe Sat show last nite!!
Man it was a F-R-E-A-K-I-N A-W-E-S-O-M-E show. Totally kick ass.
I had to leave a bit early from work (Yeah that is why I am at work on a Sat typing this out). The gates were supposed to open at 1645hrs but yunnoh with the way IST (Indian stretchable Time) goes the gates opened at about 1745 hrs. I reached there at 1750hrs. (Yeah i know this is becoming like a history lesson with times instead of dates - Will try to keep that at a min). We had to stand at the end of this looooong queue. The great thing about this show was that there weren't too many free tickets and that kept the riff-raff out. Was a complete gathering of the worshippers of the God of Guitar.
15 mins later we were in and making our way to the front of the block. At about 1845hrs in walks THE ONE ..... THE ONLY ..... JOOOOOOOOOOE SATRIANI!!!. The crowd went hysterical (Isnt that supposed to happen... still it is worth a mention) Anyways to mixed chants of JOE!! JOE!! and JOEY!! (I still can't believe I heard that) He touched his guitar the way a car enthusiast would put his hand on the bonnet of a purring BMW. Those first chords sent shivers up my spine and my mind spiralled outta control. I dont think that the high that I had at the end of the show could have gotten any higher with any amount of ANY alcohol.
Ok now this is the place I suck! I usually put songs into my playlist and wander around so I don't know the names of most of them.
But I think he opened with War. He went on to play Summer song, Psycho monkey, Starry night, Satch Boogie, Down(Vocal?) and many more. He flung picks into the crowd (Yeah these were flung into the Rs 2000 crowd. You do get a lot less for buying lowly Rs 1000 tickets like us)
The feeling of being there and listening to the music is inexplicable. I mean if people make babies to Richard Clayderman's piano music they would DAMN well have to stop and listen if the Satch man was playing.
The fans stood in awe during the slower music and head banged their way to the upper inospheric state of mind during the heavier ones. They sang along with the vocals and roared to the tune of the guitar!
Well he kept strumming for like 2.5 hours and at the end of it all the Theory of relativity kicked in. Over??? This fast????
NNAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
ONE MORE!! ONE MORE!!
We didn't get one more. NO SIR the satch man was way to generous with that. "You know what..... It is so great being here tonight and I really feel like playing my guitar so this one goes out to you......" (Wonder if I got that right)
WE GOT 3 MORE. He ended up playing 'Friends'. I heard one of the faithful comment after the show "He made my day man!! All I waited for all evening was to hear him play my fav song Friends' live....... he did it man! he did it!!"
After introducing the band members, he flung the last pick into the audience and the drummer chucked his sticks into the crowd as well.
Then it was really over really....... :-(
He had pulled all the right strings at the show. On my way home I was High OH sooo High...
Still am ;-)
Man it was a F-R-E-A-K-I-N A-W-E-S-O-M-E show. Totally kick ass.
I had to leave a bit early from work (Yeah that is why I am at work on a Sat typing this out). The gates were supposed to open at 1645hrs but yunnoh with the way IST (Indian stretchable Time) goes the gates opened at about 1745 hrs. I reached there at 1750hrs. (Yeah i know this is becoming like a history lesson with times instead of dates - Will try to keep that at a min). We had to stand at the end of this looooong queue. The great thing about this show was that there weren't too many free tickets and that kept the riff-raff out. Was a complete gathering of the worshippers of the God of Guitar.
15 mins later we were in and making our way to the front of the block. At about 1845hrs in walks THE ONE ..... THE ONLY ..... JOOOOOOOOOOE SATRIANI!!!. The crowd went hysterical (Isnt that supposed to happen... still it is worth a mention) Anyways to mixed chants of JOE!! JOE!! and JOEY!! (I still can't believe I heard that) He touched his guitar the way a car enthusiast would put his hand on the bonnet of a purring BMW. Those first chords sent shivers up my spine and my mind spiralled outta control. I dont think that the high that I had at the end of the show could have gotten any higher with any amount of ANY alcohol.
Ok now this is the place I suck! I usually put songs into my playlist and wander around so I don't know the names of most of them.
But I think he opened with War. He went on to play Summer song, Psycho monkey, Starry night, Satch Boogie, Down(Vocal?) and many more. He flung picks into the crowd (Yeah these were flung into the Rs 2000 crowd. You do get a lot less for buying lowly Rs 1000 tickets like us)
The feeling of being there and listening to the music is inexplicable. I mean if people make babies to Richard Clayderman's piano music they would DAMN well have to stop and listen if the Satch man was playing.
The fans stood in awe during the slower music and head banged their way to the upper inospheric state of mind during the heavier ones. They sang along with the vocals and roared to the tune of the guitar!
Well he kept strumming for like 2.5 hours and at the end of it all the Theory of relativity kicked in. Over??? This fast????
NNAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!
ONE MORE!! ONE MORE!!
We didn't get one more. NO SIR the satch man was way to generous with that. "You know what..... It is so great being here tonight and I really feel like playing my guitar so this one goes out to you......" (Wonder if I got that right)
WE GOT 3 MORE. He ended up playing 'Friends'. I heard one of the faithful comment after the show "He made my day man!! All I waited for all evening was to hear him play my fav song Friends' live....... he did it man! he did it!!"
After introducing the band members, he flung the last pick into the audience and the drummer chucked his sticks into the crowd as well.
Then it was really over really....... :-(
He had pulled all the right strings at the show. On my way home I was High OH sooo High...
Still am ;-)
Friday, May 13, 2005
Brand New!!
Always wanted one of these..... :-)
Now I can vent my feeling about everything and anything at one and all....
I thought I would get one of these and have a helluva of to say. Well turns out there ain't all that much.
I am going for the Joe Satriani concert tomorrow. The God of Guitar as the Times of India calls him. Will definitely write what happens.
Pray that I get out of work in time to go there
:-)
Now I can vent my feeling about everything and anything at one and all....
I thought I would get one of these and have a helluva of to say. Well turns out there ain't all that much.
I am going for the Joe Satriani concert tomorrow. The God of Guitar as the Times of India calls him. Will definitely write what happens.
Pray that I get out of work in time to go there
:-)
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