There was this song tune that popped up in my head yesterday morning and kept starting up at very inopportune moments. How irritating it is to have a tune bouncing around in your brain without an anchor! I knew that the voice was a whiny voice and the song sounded like one of those top-20 hits, which meant it could be any band in the whole world. <\/p>\n
But I figured out what it was just two minutes ago. It was Greenday’s Boulevard of Broken Dreams<\/i>, that I heard on VH1 a couple of days ago, while sipping on a cappuccino in JavaCity.<\/p>\n I am a member of ebay.co.uk. Why? Because when I passed out from college, and joined the company I work in, I found out that ebay.com was a banned site. Mostly because you get adult stuff through the site and the automatic site blocker ensured I could not access it. The catch was that ebay.co.uk was accessible, and I proceeded to sign up, with nothing in mind other than browsing through the comics-listings. Then a year later, I managed to convince the sysadmin about ebay being safe enough, after which he allowed access to it. So I was an ebay.com member. <\/p>\n Today morning in the mail, I get a mail saying “Welcome to ebay India”. Whoa! Baazee<\/a> is now ebay.in. Heh heh heh. Since I was an ebay.com member, I am, by default, a member of ebay.in too. <\/p>\n Now that I have seen The Last Temptation of Christ<\/b>, and been suitably pissed off by a blonde and white Jesus Christ with an American accent (Though Willem Dafoe was good, really good), and followed by American-looking Israelites who used modern-day expressions in their speech while the middle-eastern-looking guys looked on and whispered and gestured to each other, I feel like watching The Passion of the Christ<\/b> once again. I think the best thing about the movie was the use of Aramaic as the language. I didn’t like it at all the first time I saw it, and I don’t think I will – if only it had a storyline like the Last Temptation, or a soundtrack half as good. <\/p>\n Happiness is – waking up in the morning and listening to the Passion: Soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ<\/b> really loud. On 5.1 speakers.<\/p>\n The Rahman-Passion connection goes deeper. Apart from the familiar bass track of Of These, Hope<\/i> being copied in Anbae<\/i> ( Jeans<\/b> ), there’s also the (unauthorized) use of the main refrain of Baaba Maal’s Morning Prayer<\/i>, which is a track in Passion: Sources<\/b>, and appears in the movie as is, when Lazarus is being brought back to life, a very creepy moment. Funnily, the Passion<\/b> album has a track called Lazarus Raised<\/i> which does not feature in the movie. A bit from Morning Prayer<\/i> is used in the One Two Ka Four<\/b> theme music. <\/p>\n I just found a copy of Art Spiegelman’s Maus<\/i> in Blossom Book House. For 250 Rs. I am signing up for membership in al_lude<\/a>-sir’s anti-Blossom campaign<\/a>. Er, on second thoughts, will sign on after 5 PM. Right after I go and buy that Moebius-illustrated Ray Bradbury collection that’s available there for a paltry 100 rupees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was this song tune that popped up in my head yesterday morning and kept starting up at very inopportune moments. How irritating it is to have a tune bouncing around in your brain without an anchor! I knew that the voice was a whiny voice and the song sounded like one of those top-20 […]<\/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":[105],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-faxoflife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}