{"id":590,"date":"2005-09-13T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-13T19:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/indulgences\/"},"modified":"2005-09-13T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T19:44:00","slug":"indulgences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/indulgences\/","title":{"rendered":"Indulgences"},"content":{"rendered":"

So bought five box-sets of the first five seasons of The Simpsons<\/i>, over at National Market. Good thing I did too, I go there again three days later and all copies are sold out. <\/p>\n

Found volume 6 of Negima<\/i> at Blossom, and picked that up. Had just finished volume 5 the day before, so much rejoicing. Also picked up the first two volumes of Genshiken<\/i><\/a>. A trip to Magazines(which happens to be the definitive magazine shop in India, with a fair stock of back issues and even *boggle* 2000AD comics) yielded quite a stock of Wire<\/i>, Mojo<\/i> and Uncut<\/i> *with* CDs. Wire<\/i> releases a yearly 2-disc compilation called “The Wire Tapper”, chockful of undiscovered music – the last time I had bought one was in 2003 – volume 9<\/a>, for full price, let me add, and that was the first time I heard M\u00fam, Sigur Ros, Sonic Youth and Amon Tobin. That was also the CD in which I heard the weirdest song ever, called Tsuginepu To Ittemita<\/i> by this three-man band called Asa Chang and Jun-Ray. Trust me, you have to listen to this piece to figure out how weird it is. (Click here<\/a> for a link to a delightful video by this band. Quicktime and WMV formats) <\/p>\n

Bought Wire Tapper Volume 12 this time, and there is a comprehensive track-listing here<\/a>. Can’t say I’ve heard of any of the outfits before.<\/p>\n

Bought seven magazine with discs in all. Mojo<\/i> had some cool Soul and Punk cds, Uncut<\/i> had tracks compiled by REM and Keith Richards, among others. Guess what, REM loves Bill Hicks too. And each for 100 Rs, hoo-hah!<\/p>\n

Been doing some nightly Double Bill movies for quite sometime now. Stuff like watching two movies by the same director back to back – did Takashi Miike’s Visitor Q<\/i> and City of Lost Souls<\/i> sometime back, David Lynch’s Eraserhead<\/i> and The Lost Highway<\/i>, Takeshi Kitano’s Boiling Point<\/i> and Violent Cop<\/i>, Bigas Luna’s Jamon, Jamon<\/i> and The Ages of Lulu<\/i> ( this was on a night and a morning, but that’s acceptable, I guess). Of course, nothing beats watching all six Lone Wolf and Cub movies back to back in a single day. Hyuk.<\/p>\n

Watched Conan The Barbarian<\/i> again after a long time. Mostly because of my Finnish friend, who suggested that some scenes ought to be savoured as they get better with time. Sample this:<\/p>\n

Warrior Bigshot: Tell me, what is best in life?
\nWarrior Trainee: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair!
\nWarrior Bigshot: Wrong! Tell me, Conan, what is best in life?
\nConan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
\nWarrior Bigshot: That is good. <\/p>\n

Try saying that dead-pan, as only a man with a bad East Asian accent can say, and try to respond the way you think Ah-nuld would respond. Try. Try not to laugh. Not possible, right? Especially the part when he goes “lamentation”. If there’s a Hemant Birje Award for WAH! (Woody and Ham, people, don’t forget) acting, Arnold Schwarzenegger as Conan bags it. <\/p>\n

That said, it would be so seriously cool to have a Conan movie series that tells the story the way it is. Robert E Howard was a pulp God, man. A movie based on Conan’s life, beginning with his career as a thief and ending in him being crowned king would make for an enviable franchise. Heck, they could even use the Marvel comics as storyboards!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So bought five box-sets of the first five seasons of The Simpsons, over at National Market. Good thing I did too, I go there again three days later and all copies are sold out. Found volume 6 of Negima at Blossom, and picked that up. Had just finished volume 5 the day before, so much […]<\/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-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}