So bought five box-sets of the first five seasons of The Simpsons, over at National Market. Good thing I did too, I go there again three days later and all copies are sold out.
Found volume 6 of Negima at Blossom, and picked that up. Had just finished volume 5 the day before, so much rejoicing. Also picked up the first two volumes of Genshiken. A trip to Magazines(which happens to be the definitive magazine shop in India, with a fair stock of back issues and even *boggle* 2000AD comics) yielded quite a stock of Wire, Mojo and Uncut *with* CDs. Wire releases a yearly 2-disc compilation called “The Wire Tapper”, chockful of undiscovered music – the last time I had bought one was in 2003 – volume 9, for full price, let me add, and that was the first time I heard Múm, Sigur Ros, Sonic Youth and Amon Tobin. That was also the CD in which I heard the weirdest song ever, called Tsuginepu To Ittemita by this three-man band called Asa Chang and Jun-Ray. Trust me, you have to listen to this piece to figure out how weird it is. (Click here for a link to a delightful video by this band. Quicktime and WMV formats)
Bought Wire Tapper Volume 12 this time, and there is a comprehensive track-listing here. Can’t say I’ve heard of any of the outfits before.
Bought seven magazine with discs in all. Mojo had some cool Soul and Punk cds, Uncut had tracks compiled by REM and Keith Richards, among others. Guess what, REM loves Bill Hicks too. And each for 100 Rs, hoo-hah!
Been doing some nightly Double Bill movies for quite sometime now. Stuff like watching two movies by the same director back to back – did Takashi Miike’s Visitor Q and City of Lost Souls sometime back, David Lynch’s Eraserhead and The Lost Highway, Takeshi Kitano’s Boiling Point and Violent Cop, Bigas Luna’s Jamon, Jamon and The Ages of Lulu ( this was on a night and a morning, but that’s acceptable, I guess). Of course, nothing beats watching all six Lone Wolf and Cub movies back to back in a single day. Hyuk.
Watched Conan The Barbarian again after a long time. Mostly because of my Finnish friend, who suggested that some scenes ought to be savoured as they get better with time. Sample this:
Warrior Bigshot: Tell me, what is best in life?
Warrior Trainee: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair!
Warrior Bigshot: Wrong! Tell me, Conan, what is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
Warrior Bigshot: That is good.
Try saying that dead-pan, as only a man with a bad East Asian accent can say, and try to respond the way you think Ah-nuld would respond. Try. Try not to laugh. Not possible, right? Especially the part when he goes “lamentation”. If there’s a Hemant Birje Award for WAH! (Woody and Ham, people, don’t forget) acting, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan bags it.
That said, it would be so seriously cool to have a Conan movie series that tells the story the way it is. Robert E Howard was a pulp God, man. A movie based on Conan’s life, beginning with his career as a thief and ending in him being crowned king would make for an enviable franchise. Heck, they could even use the Marvel comics as storyboards!
goddang! ur listening to the “Death cab for cutie”!!!
Yep. Sexy Band. Getting all their albums one by one. :-D
:-) Ok, i actually played out that conversation. Still smiling :-)
I can understand. :-D
“Lamentation of the women” is second only to “It’s not a tumor!” (or “It’s not a tooooooooo-mah!”) from Kindergarten Cop as the funniest Arnold line ever.
Damn, now I have to see Kindergarten Cop.
Robert E Howard was a pulp God, man.
So true. I want to see a Conan movie. Get some money together, I’ll direct. :P
Is Conan in the public domain right now? Otherwise the rights would be killer.
There you go. Now go forth and Direct!
Actually I went to the Wikisource pages for Robert E Howard’s works immediately after replying to Sam’s comment. Man, my afternoon was made! :-D
Whoa!! Looking at your “indulgences” I’m sure talking on the phone with your “near and dear ones” is not one of them.
That used to take away a BIG chunk of my salary, when I wasn’t unemployed, that is. Now, my chunk’s been apportioned to my near and dear ones… Hehe..
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Do you like/need Supercar? I have a friend who lived in Japan for a while. He’s got some stuff by them.
>Of course, nothing beats watching all six Lone Wolf and Cub movies back to back in a single day.
Well, that’s not true. Flaunt these facts, and lots of people would be willing to beat you quite severely.
I love that Conan dialogue. But there is one that beats them all with the flat of a broadsword:
>Conan: Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valor pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!
Interesting theology.
>it would be so seriously cool to have a Conan movie series that tells the story the way it is.
It would be kind of hard to make- there were plenty of racist overtones to Howard’s stories. But yeah, I’d love to see the story of Conan’s ascent to the throne of Aquilonia.
Racist-shmacist, pah. I don’t understand why racism in art, pulp or otherwise should inspire such squirming among people. Yeah, so Burroughs, Howard, Lee Falk, Enid Blyton were all racists and general fucked-up individuals – why should we or anyone care? It was just a reflection of their times, and any inferences we find in today’s politically correct world is because we have fucked-up minds because of Reader’s Digest and Times of India and all that exemplifies modern pulp.
Maybe, reading 13 volumes of LW&C in a day beats watching all six movies back to back, eh? :-“
>I don’t understand why racism in art, pulp or otherwise should inspire such squirming among people.
Oh, I agree. But that doesn’t change the inherent difficulty of getting funding for such a project.
>Maybe, reading 13 volumes of LW&C in a day beats watching all six movies back to back, eh? :-“
Ok, that’s it.
>Man, my afternoon was made! :-D
Of course, this was at work, yes? You wouldn’t cut into your valuable movie-watching/comic reading time with such frivolous activities.
Nope, the movie binge was on a Sunday. The comic thingie was on some holiday, quite sometime back. :-D
No, I meant the Wikisource thing….
That was on an office day, you are right.