Office Annual day on Monday. Moi was entertainment ( read “cultural programme”) incharge. Thanks to laziness ( or the loadbalancer-related work, if anyone would believe me , the actual practice for the songs got postponed to Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Friday, I didn’t come to the office. Saturday, the key player in the skit ( yeah, there was a musical skit ) was AWOL. My role in the selfsame skit was…umm, remember the black guy in Chicago<\/b> who played the piano and introduced every song? That was what I was supposed to do, minus the-introducing-every-song part. <\/p>\n
Hey, but the skit was fun, it lampooned everything in the office, right from the “vision” part of it, to people getting hooked-up through Yahoo Messenger. ( try singing E-Mail Se Maine propose kar diya, chat par unka jawaab aa gaya<\/i> to the tune of Aankhon Hi aankhon mein ishaara Ho Gaya<\/i> ) And miracle!!! With 45 minutes of practice to sync up with the music, people managed to stay in scale<\/i>!!! What else could a lazy pianist hope for?<\/p>\n
The music part was four songs, or rather five songs, if you count a 2-song medley as a single one. All but one featured me on vocals; Baahon Mein Chali Aa<\/i> was me on piano and Laitha on vocals. Champagne Supernova<\/i> and Time of Your Life<\/i> were blasts from the pasts, both Deepak and I don’t have to think when we’re doing them…..ditched Creep<\/i>, because I got worried people would start running on the “run, run, ruuuuuuuun” part. <\/p>\n
The FUN began when Chandru decided to check out Rishi’s guitar after lunch, he started strumming something in G, and moi decided to fit in Blowing In the Wind<\/i>…and voila, 15 minutes of practice and we had a decent medley of BITW<\/i> along with Neil Diamond’s I Am A Believer<\/i>.<\/p>\n
A decent time was had by all.<\/p>\n
Veerana<\/b>, Ramsay Brothers’ immortal epic is in town, and come what may, I am not missing it. Besides, I think it will get me in the mood for Bhoot<\/b>.<\/p>\n
Currently Reading:
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\nThe Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay<\/b> – Michael Chabon. This one is a lulu. One night and I am already into the 370-th page. 1940. Joe Cavalieri (or Kavalier) and Sam Clayman. Two Jewish kids. Cousins. One a refugee from Prague, an art-school graduate, HOudini-admirer and non-practising magician. The other a Bronx-native, good with words, and an avid comics-fan. 1940, remember? The Golden Age of American comics, with sales of Superman<\/b> touching nearly a million per month. (Afterthought: The sales right now, for an average comic is about 20 thousand in the US) These guys create their own comic-character, the Escapist<\/i>, and strike gold. Sam Clay writes comic-book history to flee from his own mundane existence, and because he’s good<\/i> at writing and coming up with ideas (“The important thing”, He points out early on, “is not what<\/i> the Escapist can do, it’s why<\/i> he does whatever he does.”). Joe Kavalier paints to finance an escape for his 13-year old brother from Nazi-occupied Prague. Beautiful writing by Micahel Chabon throughout…..especially the parts where he points out how the partners were influenced by a screening of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane<\/b>, just before which Welles himself had professed to be a fan of the Escapist. I hope the euphoric high the book has taken me to persists until the last page. And I also thank the unfortunate moron who sold off his copy to Blossom’s at Bangalore. And also my Boss for sending me to B’lore at the right time. <\/p>\n
Kishore Kumar – a Biography<\/b> – I forget who’s written it, but it was good enough for me to read a second time. The nicest thing about this book is the anecdotes, I am a sucker for movie-related anecdotes, and this guy claims these aren’t half baked “legends”, but stuff straight from the horse’s (in this case, Ashok Kumar’s) mouth.<\/p>\n
I am enjoying myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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