{"id":286,"date":"2003-04-10T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/a-thoroughly-materialistic-yearning\/"},"modified":"2003-04-10T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-04-10T15:21:00","slug":"a-thoroughly-materialistic-yearning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/a-thoroughly-materialistic-yearning\/","title":{"rendered":"A thoroughly materialistic yearning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this sounds real bad, but I have never seen a movie on DVD in my life. Have seen DivX rips galore, half of them with sound\/action out-of-sync and equally bad as the neighbourhood pirated vcds. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t have a DVD player, OR a DVD drive for my computer. And try as I might, I can&#8217;t prioritise my needs to accomodate a souped-up system at this point of time. The chain of flow is kind of this way &#8211;<br \/>\n  I buy a DVD drive for my computer. Then to enjoy the DVD experience to the fullest, I would need a better set of speakers. Preferably a 5.1 speaker set. Preferably Creative Cambridge Soundworks. Better speakers won&#8217;t necessarily sound better on my primitive soundcard, so I need to upgrade <i>that<\/i> too&#8230;.the Processor and Motherboard comes next&#8230;and so on and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>  Ok, I get a new computer. A souped-up mindblowin monsta of a computer at that.That takes care of my Music\/Movie\/Gaming needs, right? WRONG!!! What about THE FREAKING KEYBOARD???? My Yamaha&#8217;s still busted. The moron at the repair centre kept it for three months and now he says that two transistors have blown and he can&#8217;t get them in Hyderabad. So I can listen to music, but I can&#8217;t MAKE any music. (The thought counts! ) Not one without the other. Both or none. See how greedy I am?<\/p>\n<p> (I don&#8217;t understand how all my materialistic yearnings at this point of time boil down to just a Computer and a High-range keyboard. Just wait till I somehow manage to get both, my needs are going to increase. Increase dramatically at that. )<\/p>\n<p>  Hmm, so no seeing DVDs at this point of time. But wait, <i>that<\/i> shouldn&#8217;t stop me from collecting DVDs right? Ta-DA! That&#8217;s what I seem to be doing &#8211; my first DVD &#8211; free at that &#8211; came with the Audio cd of <b>Chicago<\/b> that I just bought. Contains three videos from the movie, a Behind-the-scenes section, and some of the demoes from the original Musical. The cd cover says so, and I guess I would have to take that. No way I can confirm it, for now.<\/p>\n<p>  Methinks this is an Omen. Please God, give me strength to control that overwhelming desire to go to Chenoy Trade Centre and &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>  No. No. NO.<\/p>\n<p>  (<i>Yes. Yes. Yesssssss. <\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>  Hmmm. Was I thinking of Gollum or Singing in The Rain just now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this sounds real bad, but I have never seen a movie on DVD in my life. Have seen DivX rips galore, half of them with sound\/action out-of-sync and equally bad as the neighbourhood pirated vcds. That&#8217;s because I don&#8217;t have a DVD player, OR a DVD drive for my computer. And try as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}