sucks.
Worse than the three Music Worlds put together.
Overheard a conversation between the manager ( a Bong guy with a pseudo-accent) and some bigshot. “Oh, this is just the appetizer, wait till you see the Main course when we open an outlet at Begumpet.” Yeah, right. Heard of something called a First Impression, dum-dum?
A vcd of Roja is now selling for 88 rupees. Man!
Reasons:-
1) With a normal book, I find it very hard to sit in one place and keep reading. I sit on my cane armchair for a while, and after a while, I decide that my ass hurts very much, so I shift to the chair on the balcony. Which gets pretty boring after a while because my back hurts, so I go to the bed. Five pages before I decide I need some sleep, so the book gets shoved under the pillow, and….
With an eBook, I keep staring at the monitor. It gets interesting after a while, so I can’t move. I HAVE to stay put if I want to continue. Ah! Masochism at its best.
2) Mood music. I don’t have to keep putting the book down and changing a cd or a track if I don’t like it. Alt-tab and B does quite fine.
3) Ctrl-F is really cool if I lose a thread, or I want to check on a character’s history.
4) Yes, I do have a great collection on my eBook cds. I can read anything I want, anytime I want, without moaning about the other books in the series stacked in Guwahati.
I don’t think eBooks will ever replace the real stuff, though. But it’s nice to know it’s there, all the same.
Reads:
Laurell K Hamilton – Guilty Pleasures : The first Anita Blake, vampire Hunter book. Definitely not mind-elevating stuff, it’s a cross between a hard-boiled detective story and a kick-ass vampire novel. Gory as hell. I really have to get started on the rest of the series.
Clive Barker – The Thief of Always: Very good children’s book, with sudden chills. My interest in Mr Barker’s work remains constant.
Rick Cook – The Wizardry Cursed: Not as much fun as the rest of the series, maybe because I have lost touch with the first couple of books. Should have re-read them before starting on this.
Quentin Tarantino – Kill Bill – The draft screenplay.: Whoa. This was cool. Please Mr Tarantino don’t delay the release dates.
TH White – The Sword In The Stone :Very different from what I had expected. This was supposed to be the Arthurian saga retold as a children’s story, and it’s really that way. Funny and quirky at times, with the Tolkienish habit of characters breaking into song at inopportune moments. There is a hilarious parody of the traditional joust, a staple feature in Knight-books, and White writes this with such a tongue-in-cheek flavour. But it drags sometimes….
Please somebody get me the Matrix:RevolutionsScreenplay before I die of suspense or OD on alternate theories. Or before Joel Silver makes an official announcement to Time Magazine and spoils everything all over again.
Sunday already!
A Victorian Sex Cries Generator, filched from Mr Neil Gaiman’s journal.
Planet M opens an outlet in Hyderabad. MPM Mall, Abids. Seems Suniel Shetty and Celina Jaitley are inauguarating it today, right now. Suniel seems to have become Hyderabad’s resident celebrity ever since he launched Mischief here…..he keeps popping up on Page 3, Hyd Times wearing the same leather jacket ( so it seems) and the same macho-bereft-of-smile look, kind of like a constipated St Bernard. Image building must be such a pain, poor fellow.
The scary thing is – the press release said “(Planet M) will have a selection of choicest titles that goes with the Hyderabadi taste…” Now, now, that means:- (a) More remix albums. (b) More DJ Dhinchuck-DJ Ram Narayan-type albums (c) More Aguilera-Vengaboyz-Spears-Keating kind of stuff. That does not sound too good.
Music World is going through this massive refurbishment program – the other day I saw one of the salesguys going through the shelves taking out all those ancient 550 Rs albums ( bands like Nazareth, Kansas, America, Judas Priest…) and packing them off. Lots of new stock coming, or so they say. They have even started a buy-and-exchange offer, where I can buy a cd and exchange it for something else if I don’t like it. Loads of interesting possibilities, heh heh.
Sangeet Saagar has a sale going on too, buy one and get one free, out of a selection of about 50 cds. Three Vangelis albums available – is what Chandru told me. He got two Jefferson Airplane albums for 250 each. So lunch today at Paradise, with the mandatory trip to SS.
