The worst kind of scenario:-
\n Indian Ocean has come out with their latest album Jhini<\/i>. I thought the name of the album would be Bhor<\/i>, but no, that’s just a song. Now I came to know of this information two weeks ago, at Music World, when I happened to see the poster. Went and asked the dumbasses at the counter where it was on display. As usual, half of them didn’t know what Jhini<\/i> was. Finally, a bright chap, incidentally the same guy who put the poster up, says – “It’s sold out.” <\/p>\n
Hello! Sold out even before I got to SEE the freakin cover. Nice. Some hasty explanations later, he adds – “The cd hasn’t come yet, only the cassette.” <\/p>\n
Great! I rant and curse inwardly and that day onwards, I frequent the Lifestyle Music World daily, inquiring about the Indian Ocean album. And needless to say, they still don’t have it!!! <\/i><\/p>\n
Another moronic thing that only the Music World dumbos could think of – I was hanging around on Monday looking at (and drooling over) random vcds, when they started playing the opening strains of Nahin Saamne<\/i>. “Great”, I thought. “Another DJ Suketu 420 volts remix of a Rahman song.” And then the tune merged into that of The Journey Home<\/i>. A female voice. “Has to be Sarah Brightman”, I thought, because that was what I had heard, la Brightman covering Rahman on her latest album Harem<\/i>. Shweta Shetty on the “Aaja Saanwariya bit. Just to confirm whether it was Brightman, or the cover of a cover ( there were some nasty Eurobeats towards the middle of the song which ruined the mood), I went and asked the guy at the console. Yep, SB it was. And guess what – it was a sample tape.<\/p>\n
Now look at this. These guys don’t play anything good in Music World anyway. They don’t even have a half-decent collection. The latest Nirvana album arrived something like six months after I saw it in Planet M, Bangalore. And now, when they have a sample tape of something good, they have the nerve to say – “Oh no, this is not for sale AND we don’t have any copies yet. And some more good news, we don’t know when it’s going to come in stock, either.”<\/p>\n
I don’t know what kind of business sense these guys have.<\/p>\n
Anyway, the Jhini<\/i> cd is still not available. <\/p>\n
Gave in to temptation and visited Best Book stall the other day. New goodies include:-<\/p>\n
a) Lata Mangeshkar – a biography, hardcover, UBSPD – Raju Bharatan. A pretty nice buy for 150 rupees, I must say. Choc-a-bloc with interesting anecdotes and facts.<\/p>\n
b) Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Bloomsbury, Hardcover, 1999 edition – I bought this because my (pirated) HP books are with someone whom I don’t expect to meet again in the near future, and also because of the beautiful binding. 125 bucks.<\/p>\n
c) Srimad Bhagavatam. Bhavan’s Book House. – Kamala Subramanium – Like Sasi had predicted, it was less than half of what he had paid for his copy. ;-) This is not<\/i> the Bhagavad Gita<\/i>, it’s the translation of the Bhagavat Purana<\/i>. Just to point out that, no, no spirituality in my life.<\/p>\n
d) Filth – Irvine Welsh. I used to suspect that Ahmedsir<\/i> prices his books depending on how much my eyes glitter when I take the book to him. Yesterday my suspicions were proved right.<\/p>\n
And the tragedy of the week – this dwarfs even the Jhini<\/i>-fiasco(though by a narrow margin) – Inspite of having gone to Abids on two consecutive days, I did not, or rather, could not – have any panipuri. Sigh!! The inhumanity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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