{"id":768,"date":"2007-10-15T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/things-i-did-in-bangalore-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T13:39:00","slug":"things-i-did-in-bangalore-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/things-i-did-in-bangalore-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I did in Bangalore this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li> Conducted <i>Infinite Rampage<\/i>, the KQA quiz on comics, comix and graphic novels. Which was the reason I was in Bangalore in the first place.<\/li>\n<li> Somehow managed to be placed second in the Open quiz that followed.<\/li>\n<li> Managed to spend my eight-month-old Premier book coupons on worthy Items-on-Wish-list. Bought six volumes of <i>Spirou<\/i>, that I had promised to buy when I saw them in Walden a couple of weeks ago. Also bought ( and finished reading yesterday ) <i>Fantasies of a Bollywood Love Thief<\/i> by Stephen Alter, an informal look at the Bollywood machine. It&#8217;s actually more of a making-of-Omkara, but alternate chapters are dedicated to various aspects of Bollywood, and I must say that Alter manages to be pretty informative without dissolving into film-journalistic cliche. And now I want to watch <i>Omkara<\/i> all over again.<\/li>\n<li>Found a new edition of <i>The Mammoth Book of Vampires<\/i>, ed. Stephen Jones. I had bought the older edition of this book at Guwahati, a long long time ago and after much soul-searching &#8211; what to do, finances were tight at that time. But the last story in that collection, Kim Newman&#8217;s novella <i>Red Reign<\/i> made up for it all. This was the novella, incidentally, that spawned the Anno Dracula trilogy, possibly my favourite Vampire series of all time. It&#8217;s written in the same fan-fictioney, shared-universey vein as Philip Jose Farmer&#8217;s Wold-Newton novels and Alan Moore&#8217;s <i>League of Extraordinary Gentlemen<\/i> &#8211; an alternate history of real and fictional characters revolving around a new society of vampires and humans. The new edition of tMBoF has Newman&#8217;s <i>Andy Warhol&#8217;s Dracula<\/i>, which is a sequel of sorts to the third book in the series, and which was only released as a limited edition book-format before, muhuhahahaha. Am really, really glad I picked this up. <\/li>\n<li>Seriously disappointed by the graphic novel collection at Blossom and Bookworm. Most peeved at the fact that they are not stocking newer volumes of <i>Negima<\/i> and <i>Genshiken<\/i>, two Del Rey Manga titles I&#8217;ve been following closely. There are tonnes of DC\/Marvel TPBs, but nothing substantial that I wanted. Pah!<\/li>\n<li><strike>Ganked<\/strike> Borrowed the third book in the Watch series, <i>Twilight Watch<\/i> from <a href=\"http:\/\/madhav.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">madhav<\/a>. Why, why, <i>why<\/i> isn&#8217;t it available anywhere I look? Gah!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conducted Infinite Rampage, the KQA quiz on comics, comix and graphic novels. Which was the reason I was in Bangalore in the first place. Somehow managed to be placed second in the Open quiz that followed. Managed to spend my eight-month-old Premier book coupons on worthy Items-on-Wish-list. Bought six volumes of Spirou, that I had [&hellip;]<\/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":[84,165,104,168],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acquisitions","tag-infinite-rampage","tag-quiz","tag-vampires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}