I went to Bangalore for the weekend. A time well-spent, especially because Uddu had this scooter he filched from some friend of his, and consequently there were no unpleasant incidents with auto-drivers. Had my first brunch at Koshi’s and ’twas yummy. Mandatory trip to Planet M and then a DVD\/CD shop called Habitat<\/i> which has an amazing collection of cds, the best I have seen in a long time. Only rarities and collectibles, I believe. I got Mike Oldfield’s Exposed<\/i> – 2 cd set, with live and complete versions of Incantations and Tubular bells. <\/p>\n
Onward to Blossoms’ – got Vector Prime, the first book of the New Jedi Order series, and the monthly Gotham comics fix – an Ultimate Spiderman superspecial being the highlight. Most of the afternoon and the evening was spent with my sister who, being possessed of extreme short-term-memory, informed me that I had not gifted her anything since getting a job, and proceeded to remedy that at Lifestyle and Commercial Street. Jeezus! She sure knows her shops. Dinner was at Tiger Bay, a seafood restaurant at MG Road, Uddu and Arul regaling me with tales of days-gone-by.<\/p>\n
Sunday. Three quizzes in a row. We skipped breakfast and sat through the first, a college quiz. Madhav came in just when it was about to end, and very soon, the Hollywood Quiz was underway. Midway through the prelims, I decided Pradeep Sebastian must be a very nice guy – there were about six questions ( out of thirty) on cult horror movies. <\/p>\n
And then the finals. Somehow managed to hang on until the very end, answering the questions madhavn<\/a> and Anustup let go. Second prize was book coupons of 1500 bucks. <\/p>\n The next quiz was a bummer. The prelims were all either second-hand Quiznet stuff, or culled from the newspaper headlines of the last two weeks ( and in one case, that day’s TOI ) The finals pissed me off, with the QM referring to Vangelis as a “band”, and according to Anustup, messing up fundaes about horse-racing. The first audio round was painful, don’t people learn that tapes are passe? Our question was about a Lorenna McKennit song – we were told to identify the lyricist . The answer happened to be Lord Tennyson’s Lady of Shallott<\/i>, which we could have gotten had we recognised anything<\/i> against the noise from the tape. Then there is an Indian audio round where questions like “Identify the band.” ( C’mon, how many bands are there with Sufi lyrics and a Page-like guitar and an Azmat-like voice? ), identify the film ( I can identify Atheseyam<\/i> from Jeans and Pachai Kiligal<\/i> from Indian in my sleep, thank you) and other such enlightening topics were asked.<\/p>\n Anyhow, we finished second. Mostly because of Anustup.<\/p>\n Interesting stuff that happened after I came back: A trip to Walden showed that they have something called The Bloody Streets of Paris<\/a><\/i>, which is a Black and White graphic novel, and according to<\/a> Time.com’s Andrew Arnold<\/a>, “Jacques Tardi and Leo Malet do for comix what the French New Wave did for film: taking the trappings of American pulp fiction and retooling them with a cool, European update.” Cool!<\/p>\n Another surprise: Marjane Satrapis’s autobiographical Persepolis<\/a>, available in Odyssey of 640 Rupees. To my surprise, this was on display in the “biographies” section. This graphic novel has gotten a lot<\/a> of accolades<\/a>, and thanks to those, and mikester<\/a>‘s recommendation, and the sample pages<\/a> he pointed me to, I think I will buy it. Ditto for the Paris book.<\/p>\n *Sigh* Total expenditure for 2004, even before 2004 has started : 350+400+350+590+640 = 2330. Not good at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I went to Bangalore for the weekend. A time well-spent, especially because Uddu had this scooter he filched from some friend of his, and consequently there were no unpleasant incidents with auto-drivers. Had my first brunch at Koshi’s and ’twas yummy. Mandatory trip to Planet M and then a DVD\/CD shop called Habitat which has […]<\/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-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","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=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}