~Groove~!


When Vinay buzzed me up and informed me about a Deep Purple gig in 10 Downing Street sponsored by z3 Shirts, the news hardly hit home, because as far as my playlist goes, Led Zeppelin has always presided over the rest of its kind like Deep Purple or Black Sabbath.

But man, one night in 10D was enough to convince me otherwise.

Deep Purple have this distinct appeal about their songs.. the brashness of Sid Vicious, the guitar play of the overlords.. understandable, cuz they've got Ritchie Blackmore among their ranks.. the guy is pure genius.. and without drifting from the topic, they also have a more subtle sound, a curious mix of world music interwoven into Classic Hard Rock.

Mention Deep Purple and people immediately think Smoke On The Water. There's more to them than that, my friend. And so I discovered along the length of the Deep Purple tribute.. a couple of ol' Deep Purple faithfuls and some songs I had never heard of before.

Had a whale of a time with the merry gang of Vman, Jagan, Kman and Lee.. with our senses melting into El Booze and Le Music.. what better combination can a man ask for, I say. And that's all the French and Mexican I can come up with.. :)

Really tight act.. great band.. with strong lead vocals, a great drummer and guitarists who knew their trade. For the record.. the band consisted of Timothy Madhukar, Joshua Raj, Wilfred Demoz, Shyam Rao, Jim Satya, Vijji Cheyyur and Rohan Nambiar.. rather unknown among the general public, but regulars with the Chennai Rock scene enthusiasts.

Their covers of Burn, Black Night and Sometimes I Feel Like Screaming had the audience roaring for more, and Highway Star was in huge demand with the crowd chanting the song's name over Luke Kenny's talk. Perfect Strangers was yet another great cover.. and dude, we all do know how good Smoke On The Water is, any time of the century.

Amazing night, set the groove factor rolling and sent me ransacking Warez websites for Deep Purple discographies. Hope the z3 guys sponsor more such events and promote the rise of the rock subculture in our city.

Until next time :)

Cheers to life!


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Existentialism


Stumbled across this list of top 10 Existentialist movies of all time.

There are a few more great ones mentioned in the list.. although methinks the guy's done a good job of assessing the messages conveyed in each movie.

And here's the link.

Free!
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#6- Chezzhness











And thats my 50th Post! Half century!

Cheers! Free :D
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The Long Arm Of...

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The V-man Chronicles!

The thing about the Web is, you never get enough of it. It never gets boring, and it never quite gets old, cuz there's always a million stuff you can do. :)

And I kick-off yet another new timepass in my cyber life... Comic Strips!!!!!

I've started this new strip called 'The Vman Chronicles' that specifically revolves around(you guessed it) our very own Vishal and Anish!

Its just that these guys are major sources of fun in their own ways... Vman being the scrawny, happy-go-lucky 'dude' and Anees being the 'rotund', 'chubby'(in his words), or plainly fat funny guy who has a social life that can rival mine anyday. :P

So in a quest to curb my vettiness, I've added this to my daily to-do list.. just check it out and lemme know how badly it sucks.

Get the grub here. Free!!!!
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Literature Blues

Literature is always a riot, and the way we freaking play it is beyond awesome.

Sample a bunch of extremely lazy, non-thinking, free-ing, pointlessly laughing and totally crazy guys and line them up to play this thinking game of cards which focuses on Memory more than anything, and you will know what I mean.

We'd given up on the regular Literature habit due to a bunch of pointless reasons, ranging from the end of Margazhi to the decline of the V-man era, and Mooli was the bleddy fellow who suggested the idea of playing the game at his play during our usual round of Dahi Samosas in Bakya.

So we rounded up the old set of Literature faithfuls... the regular shaving 'set' of Me, Dipak and Jagan... versus GS, Mooli and Mokka Maddy/V-man.

And man, was it a riot. In a flurry of worstu activities and an even worse play, we decided upon new nicknames for our usual gang starting this Tamizh New Year. This may not seem even remotely funny to members outside the vetti circle, but the usual suspects will know what it implies.

So the nicknames go like..

Dipak Ragav- The Thoppa Floo

Maddy- The Mokka Floo

I yam- The Golti Floo

GS- The Worstu Floo

Mouli- The Pool Floo

Jagan- The Late Floo

V-man- The Arrear Floo

and

Anish- The Panda Floo.

If thats not a testimony to our vettiness, nothing else is. And speaking of testimonies, let it be known that I'm currently in a mood of accepting testimonials in Orkut. :P

Cheers... :D Free.
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Standby

I guess I've hit the block big time now. Everytime I think of blogging, my mind just sends out this blank white sheet, pretty much like my freaking printer.

Its one of those days, I guess. It first starts with the ominous rumble. Thy printer beeps out and the PC tells you to get more Ink.

Your sister feigns innocence and acts like she's been wrongly accused(with round eyes, quivering voice and the usual works), even when the whole wide world is aware of the fact that she emptied them cartridges with daily 'Collage' pictures of her and her pals.

But you decide to 'free' that, due to the Act that your Dad's written in Home Politics depriving brothers of the power to inflict mental/emotional/physical torture on sisters.

You spend a few precious bucks and fill the cartridges, and suddenly this new record/assignment/project comes along and you need some fast printouts, so you give away that smug smirking smile, basking in the glory of having a printer in the house... the D-day comes and after working on Microsoft freaking Word for an hour(!)(an hour of work is like a light year of work in my life)... you hit 'Print' in front of one your most sarcastic pals(read: Dipak Ragav), and lean back in your chair still smirking... the Printer sucks up the sheet, chews on it, and spits out its mangled remains.

And you know you're screwed, cuz that sarcastic fellow is now rolling on the floor laughing.

Murphy's Laws come back to haunt you again.

You then get the guy to finally stop laughing, and check the Printer connections in this wannabe-technical way.

Its something that engineering fellows do, they NEVER give up on non-working electronic devices. Its like a national shame, so they atleast fiddle around for a bit, pretending to think it over before finally giving up.

So Dipak and I, the most accomplished engineers from my college's 2006-2010 batch, roll our sleeves up, and try tugging at some wires. No can do. We then fumble around with the ports behind the CPU. No can do still.

He then frowns, scratches his chin and says in this earnest tone "Machan ulla internal connections edhavadhu vittu poirukkum.."

I play along, nod, murmur and open the Printer up. We both stare at the internal parts with baffling curiousity, while aware of the fact that we both do not have the slightest idea what those parts are.

I then blow some air into the printer, kelappifying loads of dust, cough and pause. And after extracting two rubber bands, three 25 paise coins, a tube of Itch Guard(NOT MINE!), one Hanuman photo, some feathers(No Idea), a 10 paise coin, random bus tickets and a train ticket, he says:

"Ippa try pannu."

I steal a new A4 sheet from my Sister's bag, insert it and hit 'Print'. Grinding noises, scratching noises, unearthly sounds, a scream from the nearby house and the torn remains of the paper are thrown out at my face.

I try to joke, cut the worstu situation and say "Is this a Printer or Shredder??" and the guy Kaari-thuppifyse at my PC and starts ranting about how I should get an arnakayir(!) from Harish and hang myself.

And the ordeal didn't end there.

Its been a really long time since I went to Browsing Centres for any darn reason, cuz I have unlimited net at home.. so I was hardly prepared for it when the guy gave me this biodata to fill out, including my name, address, cell number, vehicle's license plate number(!)(seriously!), reference number and signature... just in case I did something illegal.

I mean, come on, we guys gave up on online porn when Anish got caught at Dreams Net ogling at Pamela Anderson... and had to pay his way out of there to keep his Dad unaware of it.. :D

So after all the trials and tribulations, it was a heavenly moment to see my Record sheets gliding out of the Laser Printer.. you know, one of those magical moments like childbirth, which are magical ONLY when its YOUR child being born... or else it just looks like zombie porn. I have a bad sense of humour. *Hitting head*

And with that... I've broken my writer's block again!!!!!!!

Long live printers, Dipak Ragav, Anish and all the other fellows whom I can write pages about without ever getting bored! You guys keep me up and writing!

Cheers!! :D
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Demotivational Pictures!

I've always wondered why them call them that, but they are cool :) ... here are a load of them!





























































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Phlaasaphy Online

Stumble Upon is THE fucking best.

All you ever wanted to know about how the World works... in one simple comic tale.

The Missing Piece.

Free... cheers.
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Fincherism

David Frigging Fincher.

The guy with an undying love for the darker and mysterious face of the human psyche... and don't his movies speak for his brilliance.

His scripts show his varied taste.. and his camera captures the most ridiculous and vague things in a stark and realistic light. Even when there are no dialogues.. his frames speak for themselves. Minimalist is his approach.. and known to be a hard taskmaster who goes for a million takes to get the shot just as he's pictured it.. this guy is one creative genius.

Who can forget the way he filmed the shot of Edward Norton standing in the way of a running bus(from Fight Club) 20 times, till Norton got hit by the bus and suffered a broken bone?

And the legend goes that he okayed the first take later during editing.

Stumbled upon his interview, one of the very few ones he gives out, here.

For all you movie buffs out there, cheers. And free :)
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The Man Strikes Again!


To all you bleddy buggers who didn't like the wonderful movie called Delhi-6, main man Sudhish Kamath strikes again!

Here.

Burn!

P.s: As a blogger, I'm entitled to occasional indulgences like this one. :)

Free :)
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Satanic Verses

I found this link online where the controversial Led Zeppelin song 'Stairway To Heaven' is played backwards, or rather, backmasked. I don't know anything about the entire process, and this maybe fake or real, depending upon your perspective on the band, but hey, its cool.

The specific paragraph where the 'Satanic' message of the band is hidden is this one:

'If there's a bustle in you hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
its just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes there are two paths you can go by,
but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on.'

This, when played backwards, runs like:

'Oh here's to my sweet Satan.
The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan.
He'll give those with him 666,
there was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, Sad Satan'

And you'll find the audio version here.

Interesting.
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Random Post #1


Funny commercials...







No wonder they sell like hot cakes. Who would've thought condom commercials had so much scope? :p

Not to mention the Mentos ad and you neighborhood friendly Chlormint. Dubaara math poochna!





Free..
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Legendary


How I Met Your Mom, Season 2, Episode- The Lucky Penny----------

Lily: You don't understand, this is an amazing sale... I've heard about it, but I never knew where it was! We'll all have a wedding dress camp out, it'll be fun!

Barney: I can't go, I've got this thing.

Lily: What thing?

Barney: Uh... Pen*s?

-------------Barney Stinson rocks... all the way.

Legendary.

Free...
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Simply Spacey


Vatsan gave me the link to this video, and I had to post it for all you Kevin fans out there. Thala Spacey in all his brilliance, doing various impersonations of stars like Marlon Brando, Clint Eastwood, Al Pacino, John Gielgud, Hepburn and Jimmy Stuart. The guy even rolls his eyes like Pacino!

6 minute video, worth every second of it... Kevin Spacey in Inside Actors Studio.




And here's another personal favorite from Youtube... its Robert De Niro auditioning for the role of Sonny Corleone in The Godfather. He didn't get the part, cuz it eventually went to James Caan and he did a hell of a job. But the man did return to bag the role of a younger Vito Corleone in The Godfather II... awesome video. Check it out.



Free.. peace..
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Morello Is God



If there ever was a guy who turned the very tradition of playing the guitar upside down and shook it all up, it was Tom Morello.

For all those Rock-less souls out there, he was the lead guitarist of Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave. This guy can play, and how! He also co-founded the non profit organisation Axis Of Justice along with Serj Tankian, the lead singer of System Of A Down. Don't let the simple demeanour, calm reflexes and Himesh Reshamiyya style cap deceive you, the guy ain't got tattoos on his self, but he's made than sterner stuff than most of us, and his guitars can make the most rigid of stuff bounce.

Check out his sample videos...






Me was almost fallingse at this guys feet after the above videos and their related videos.

And if that made you go 'Whoa!', then maybe this one will knock you out. Kirk Hammett. Master Of Puppets. Ensaai.
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The Pukelist Awards 2009

Its finally here!!

Ladies and Gentlemen, I bring to you the 1st annual Puke-list Awards 2009! 2008 is over and done with now, so for all you folks feeling real low, I'll just show the flip side of what you'll NOT be missing... those little somethings you swore to erase from your lifetime memory.

The year that passed was an unkind year as far as photos were concerned. There was some random thing that went wrong every time a snap was taken... either the lighting was bad, or the picture was blurred, or the fellows being caught on camera were scary as shit. I had a truckload of these photos, and me had a hard time picking the Top Ten. So to cut short my boring paragraph, here we go the best Worst Photos Of 2008...

















10. Hairy Matter: What does GS do when he shaves both sides of his head by accident using an electronic trimmer? He calls it a hairstyle. Add to that Jagan's constipated look, Vman in all his essence and Anish's Kelso look, (plus the guy staring in horror from behind).. you have a near winner.

















(9). Here Cometh Vman: For those who know the basic structure of Vman's baadi-parts, this must come off as a real shocker.

















(8). I-bad: Atleast Vman got the positioning right. I righteously suck.

















(7). Dudeness: God knows what SJ tried with my Horlicks sunglasses and his cocked eyebrow. And the serious look doesn't help either.

















(6). King Mooli: What he wanted was a real stylish wannabe Vijay pose with his new Messi jersey. What he got was the urgently-waiting-outside-the-toilet routine.
















(5). The Mountainhead: Ayn Rand definitely didn't see this coming. The classic picture of a suddenly heavyweight Dipak Ragav... thank god you cut down those pounds, dude.
















(4). The Worst, The Mad And The Jetti: This is supposed to come out as one of those Joey-Chandler-Ross poses. What turned out was me with an Amon Goth look, Maddy with voldemort style slitted eyes, and GS looking seriously constipated.
















(3). Worst Photography: We clicked this one when we found Jagan's 8th Standard ID-card photo that had him sporting a Gemini Ganesan meesai. The photo turned out to be unbelievably tragic.

















(2). Dumbass: This one went Au-naturale. Everybody's heard of God's generosity to Dude Dipak in the ass department, but we wanted a publicity promo. The dumbass refers to me, cuz I was stoned enough to click this.

















(1). Worst. Photo. Ever: And ladies and gentlemen... I give to you the big daddy of bad photos. Kids, this is why your mommy told you to not wear stray sunglasses that you chance upon. They might carry deadly infections... or they may make you look like a dumbass. This photo is revered across the globe, I heard a tribe in South America even worship it. Me is proud this came off me camera. Amen.


Now that you're done seeing the horrors that passed, me is certain you're not gonna miss 2008 anymore. And for the disclaimer, the top ten were wholly my personal choice and opinions may vary. Just remember that those were at my disposal and this is my blog.

Until next time, folks..
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