I am really excited now, ok? Didn’t really think I would be this excited about a book-release. Am hyper, am actually counting down the hours to figure out when I can get my hands on it.
I am going to owe psasidhar big. After all, he’s the guy who’s going to buy it, and he’s agreed to hand it over until evening. Really, Sasi, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate this. And don’t even ask why I am not buying it. It’s that insane, anti-capitalistic, anti-hype part of me, who refuses to spend money on something untested, something entirely unreviewed. (Ha! This from a guy who thinks reviewers are fullashite.) What if it’s all wrong? What if the story isn’t as good as it is made out to be? I love JK Rowling for keeping the faith – the secrecy bit is working,really – for having the courage to stick to her guns about no-excerpts-no-previews…..part of me hates her for not giving me a choice. Seven Hundred and Ninety Five Rupees. The end of the month. Tchah!
But no, like the Matrix Reloaded hammered over and over again into our brains – This isn’t about choice, and this is about choice…
Warning: beatzo nearly took a trip into cliche-land again….
That reminds me, I just saw the double-cd Matrix Reloaded OST cd in Music World, Lifestyle. It’s on sale for 690 rupees, so I will have to think a lot and read a lot of reviews before I decide to buy it. (Actually, I have already made a choice, I now need to figure out why I made the choice. The reviews and the thinking should help me out. )
Me and Sasi are meeting early tomorrow morning, having breakfast together, and then heading to Odyssey. Only Odyssey, and not any other bookshop, because (a) Sasi gets a 10 percent discount there. (b) I get two copies of the poster of Order of The Phoenix, through (ahem) acquaintances at Odyssey.
This feeling, of waiting and hoping things turn out right, and squirming at the thought of something unexpected that might happen and spoil the fun – this reminds me of the Ramayan-days on DD. Single channel on TV, and every Saturday night would be pure agony. I can’t go to sleep, and also I desperately want to fall asleep and not wake up until 9:00 o’clock the next morning, just in time for Appu Aur Pappu, and then ….aaaaah….Ramayan. Also, myriad thoughts would float through my brain all night ( at least before I fell asleep) – What if there is a powercut? What if some Leader dies on Sunday morning and they declare a three-day mourning on DD and show only Bhajans throughout? What if (oh horror!) there is the live telecast of a cricket match, instead of the serials? *shudder*
And then when I drifted off to sleep, I would end up having weird dreams, like – I am stuck at the barber’s, who is sloooooowly chopping away at my hair, and the clock shows 9:17 AM and I can’t move from the chair……
Yeah, I was that desperate for entertainment. And those were desperate times, all right.
One major event of note – I finally finished watching Four Weddings and a Funeral and Rain Man, the former over a span of eight(or was it nine?) months and the latter, three months. Thank you, Sasi for all the motivation. You get your CDs back now. And I have also watched reruns of Singin’ in the Rain and Monsters Inc., both dear to my heart.
Recent reads include Neuromancer, which I ended up comparing to the Matrix , trying to find similar themes and ideas ( let’s face it, that movie screwed up my thought-processes for good ), also a Gordon Dickson book called Straw Dogs, on which the gruesome Sam Peckinpah movie was made. The book contains none of tha graphic rape scene which caused a furore when the movie was released…just goes on to show more about a director’s “creative interpretation”. Faugh! Finished Gaiman’s Smoke and Mirrors, which was weird, really weird, and so very entertaining at the same time. I think I got a little too obsessed with Gaiman the past week.
And so, for myself, and for all those who care, here’s a short story Gaiman wrote, a reinterpretation of a familiar story – titled Snow, Glass, Apples.
I am not legally entitled to post this story, it’s already there in Smoke and Mirrors, but has been posted onto this site with permission. It’s creepy, and brilliant.
More Gaiman works here.
Eleven and a half hours to go!
Me and Sasi are meeting early tomorrow morning, having breakfast together,
When do you go to sleep?
Would have gone 2 minutes ago, except for the Yahoo mail icon popping up in my System tray. ;-)
erm…:-)
lucky you, and lucky psasi!! have a wonderful time together…SIGH IF ONLY I WORKED INT HE PULLA REDDY BUILDING TOO!!!! DANG!! @#$#@%#@$*&*#
Actually, Sasi’s office is no longer in the Pulla Reddy Building, it has been shifted to a place nearby, in Sowmajiguda itself…..Right now, it’s the Orbitech HQ at GP Reddy. And of course, DE Shaw.
Waitaminit, i think u already know this. Did u mean u wanted to work in DE Shaw by any chance?
That was my dream company. (still is??)
Hye, i have the matrix reloaded twin cd set with me. bot it for some 14 odd dollars, which seems to be the same price. Main mere website mein upload kar sakta hoon, phir tum download kar lena…
what say?
:D
I can do that, actually, but the mp3s must be zipped, or have a different file-extension, and must be less than 5 MB each. I believe the Matrix Suite by Don Davis comes to about 17 minutes….which can in no way be compressed to that level.
I think I will just wait for sometime, and either give in to temptation, or pass the Apple to someone else. ;-)
And by the way, there is this artist named Rob Dougan, his “Clubbed to Death(Kurayamino Mix)” was there in the first Matrix album, and another of his compositions is here too. That piece was easily the best of the techno lot….lots of pianos, strings and a great beat….seems he has used the samples from Edward Elgar’s Enigma variations for that piece and is in the process of developing a complete album based on an extension of “CTD”…..try finding out more, can you, more music pieces, I mean, both Dougan and Elgar’s?
sure.
Boss, come out of Matrix Reloaded. It’s gone and done with (or is it?). Watch Supari. More funny movies coming our way include Hawa(blurb: sexual violence), 88 Antop Hill, Koi Mil Gaya etc.
Remember when breakfast TV came? All the metaphysical discussions which ensued?
Gaiman rocks!
Re: i can barely remember the charactor…
:-D
Supari, the less said the better. Freakin’ nightmare!!! Padam Kumar deserves a taste of our collective pads.
Gaiman rocks!
Yowsa!!!!