There was this song tune that popped up in my head yesterday morning and kept starting up at very inopportune moments. How irritating it is to have a tune bouncing around in your brain without an anchor! I knew that the voice was a whiny voice and the song sounded like one of those top-20 hits, which meant it could be any band in the whole world.
But I figured out what it was just two minutes ago. It was Greenday’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams, that I heard on VH1 a couple of days ago, while sipping on a cappuccino in JavaCity.
I am a member of ebay.co.uk. Why? Because when I passed out from college, and joined the company I work in, I found out that ebay.com was a banned site. Mostly because you get adult stuff through the site and the automatic site blocker ensured I could not access it. The catch was that ebay.co.uk was accessible, and I proceeded to sign up, with nothing in mind other than browsing through the comics-listings. Then a year later, I managed to convince the sysadmin about ebay being safe enough, after which he allowed access to it. So I was an ebay.com member.
Today morning in the mail, I get a mail saying “Welcome to ebay India”. Whoa! Baazee is now ebay.in. Heh heh heh. Since I was an ebay.com member, I am, by default, a member of ebay.in too.
Now that I have seen The Last Temptation of Christ, and been suitably pissed off by a blonde and white Jesus Christ with an American accent (Though Willem Dafoe was good, really good), and followed by American-looking Israelites who used modern-day expressions in their speech while the middle-eastern-looking guys looked on and whispered and gestured to each other, I feel like watching The Passion of the Christ once again. I think the best thing about the movie was the use of Aramaic as the language. I didn’t like it at all the first time I saw it, and I don’t think I will – if only it had a storyline like the Last Temptation, or a soundtrack half as good.
Happiness is – waking up in the morning and listening to the Passion: Soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ really loud. On 5.1 speakers.
The Rahman-Passion connection goes deeper. Apart from the familiar bass track of Of These, Hope being copied in Anbae ( Jeans ), there’s also the (unauthorized) use of the main refrain of Baaba Maal’s Morning Prayer, which is a track in Passion: Sources, and appears in the movie as is, when Lazarus is being brought back to life, a very creepy moment. Funnily, the Passion album has a track called Lazarus Raised which does not feature in the movie. A bit from Morning Prayer is used in the One Two Ka Four theme music.
I just found a copy of Art Spiegelman’s Maus in Blossom Book House. For 250 Rs. I am signing up for membership in al_lude-sir’s anti-Blossom campaign. Er, on second thoughts, will sign on after 5 PM. Right after I go and buy that Moebius-illustrated Ray Bradbury collection that’s available there for a paltry 100 rupees.
boka choda,
get some discipline.
revenge will be served warm, so put on your bib.
“And cholera.” Har har har.
Revenge in the time of the Cholera?
Har de Har
The same thing happened to me with Boulevard of Broken Dreams! And if you liked that song, then you should try out these:
My Boo – Alicia Keys and Usher
Soldier – Destiny’s Child
These songs are on the Top 5 charts of every radio station in Jacksonville, so I end up hearing them atleast twice everyday.
I will keep an
eyeear out for them on VH1 whenever I am in Javacity next. :-DAnswers
hey
u did the IIT d LONE WOLF too… cud u pls mail me the answers to the prelims or i will give a candid shot to them and then u mail me answers… im not a IIT or IIM student but i really liked it so i took a copy of the prelims.
kunal
Re: Answers
You can send me your candid shot at my mail id, which happens to be the same as my livejournal username at Gmail.
Re: Answers
hey thx for the chance
here goes, the answers are partwise
virginia woolf-
1. nihilism
2. twinkle-2 lil star
3. hula hoop
4. narain kartikeyans partner
5. KFC
6. akele hum akele tum
7. horror degree of a movie
8. hip hop
9. fredrick forsythe
10. henry olonga
11.james cameron
12 ID
13. Linus torvald
howlin wolf
1. bhuvan shome
2. andre agassi, grand slam
3.
4. kaali
5.eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
6. file sharing
7. subramania
8. no clue
9.
10.
11. oliver cromwell
12. french boxing
part3
1.
2.
3. normal spel dwarves and tolkie’s spelt dwarfs
4.oprah winfrey
5.
6. muslim league n muslim league, maulana Azad
7.
8. joni mitchell
9. kevin warwick n cybernetics
10. gene rodden bury
11.arts
thx
tell me whats the qualifying n how i faired
kunal
Re: Answers
You get 7 in the first section, 4 in the second, 3 in the third. You would have made it through to the finals, yes. The cutoff was 12, if I remember correctly.
“Maus” is freaking fantastic, as is “Maus 2”. I haven’t gotten around to “In the Shadow of No Towers”, though.
And “Passion” is awesome. I think my copy vanished, over the years, though… I should find a new one.