Thats Me In The Corner

Chinmay: i think spam is nice
Chinmay: or else i would be so frustrated..seeing empty inbox everytime
Batty: spams nice ?
Batty: lol
Batty: hahhaa
Batty: write that on your blog
Chinmay: it gives u hope
Chinmay: makes u feel someone cares
Chinmay: someone wants to communicate
Chinmay: u r not alone
Batty:
Batty: you just wrote a nice post
Batty: put it on blog
Chinmay: lol…I think I’ll jus paste this conversation
Chinmay: and this line too
Chinmay: and this one too
Chinmay: ok..thats it…
Batty: this one too
Batty:
Batty: /me rocks
Chinmay: al righ’

I know I am one hell of a lazy ass. Also I am a hateful person by nature and a small fraction of people who actually care for me must have forgotten my domain name and the others must have thrown parties by disillusion that I must have killed myself under the drug influence. Well, mates I am pretty much alive and kicking. I actually find it funny how I’ve been procrastinating a blogpost for last 10 months. Trust me, I have done absolutely nothing except wasting my time watching movies and listening to Jim Morrison ever since I got into college.

Things have changed since I last posted. To begin with, I didn’t get admitted in engineering after staying in Pune for a month and watching the engineering students slogging their asses day and night. I am simply not made for that kind of hard work so I chose to do B.C.A from MIT, Pune. The course is so easy that I am scoring pretty good without attending the classes at all. Now, thats life! I am living in a flat in Pune with five of my friends and life is pretty much fun. Its much better than living practically alone in Delhi and yet theres so much freedom.

Then, my taste in music has changed a lot, shifting from Progressive rock to classic rock and psychedelic trance. Still can’t get my head off the good old System Of A Down and Tool but I am more into The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, etc. Psychedelic trance is one hell of a genre which was pretty much undiscovered by me until on my friends made me listen to it a few months back. I am into G.M.S., Skazi, Mahadeva, Astral Projection, Infected Mushroom, Chakra, Transwave and any other kind of Goa Trance as of now. I like what it does to me and the feeling is pretty much close to getting high. In fact psytrance is the best genre to listen while getting high.

My bookshelf currently contains The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand and thankfully I don’t care much for Howard Roark instead of getting highly influenced by his infectious character. I’ve heard people getting beaten up for a typical Howard Roark behaviour after reading that book. Londonstani is another nice book I am reading simultaneously as I have nothing much to do after my exams just got over.

Another good news is that my parents are generous enough to take me for a trip to Europe. The bad news is that I am not researching much about it out of laziness and because I am going with my parents. Here is my itinerary if you are lame enough to want to take a look into it. The only thing I am excited about is my first visit to Amsterdam, the doper’s paradise. I hope I’ll be able to smoke a joint or two in a hash bar out there.

Thats it for now. I hope i have gotten over my unwillingness to make a blogpost and will be able to post frequently from now on. But thats a promise I make every time I post so don’t believe every word I type.

Long time. For once, I am not to be blamed. Thing are not so lazy after my 12th grades results are declared and I don’t need to get into any shameful and guilty details. I had to get into the usual well deserved hunt for a decent institute on this shady score when unlimited scholars in the country with the modest attitude were hoarding all around. Blame it on the population and not procrastination until last moment.

Anyway, somehow through a friend I came to know of Pune institutes where admission is possible with proper sources and a cost. Now that my scores for 10th grade were pretty decent my dad agreed to stake on this one last chance. We made an immediate trip to Pune and came to know of this excellent institute called ‘Pune Institute Of Computer technology’. Luckily with proper sources and an NRI quota charge, we have been assured of the admission as of now. Gotta reach there on 9th August and get myself admitted hopefully.

Until then I have been reading a lot, eating a lot, sleeping a lot and surprisingly exercising a lot. Been listening to Metallica and watching the watched episodes of Family Guy for the nth time.

I was to write a longer post but somehow I seem to have lost my writing skills( they weren’t there in first place). I’d rather sign off and hit the publish button before this ******, *******, ******** and ********** dial-up disconnects yet again. Bbye.

*****Warning – Spoilers Ahead*****

I was just bored so I went through my DVD collection of unwatched movies and I came up with DVD Screener of ‘Hostel’. After watching the movie my first thoughts were ‘Why the fuck did they have to flash Quentin Tarantino’s name so many times in the cast ?’. Not that I hated this movie but just to ensure quality he didn’t have to be included for this was far from his stuff. I am his huge fan and I feel sorry for he must have felt like an idiot to give his name for a movie like this.

I am a kind of person who can watch 5-6 movies in a day without getting tired. but, I should say that after all the sex, blood, gore and shock value served raw this movie left me pretty much exhausted. The feel was very reminiscent of the Saw movies to me, which I think are a great concept in and of themselves but ‘Hostel’ itself had nothing of a great story line. Let me sum up the movie to make myself clear :-

Three backpackers, two Americans and one Icelander, tour europe with an intension of getting as hisgh as they can and as many chicks as they can screw. In Amsterdam they accidently come to know of a place Slovakia where sex-mad women thirst for men in general, and American men in particular. They of course decide to go there and at first it seems the rumors were true. But they soon learn that the hostel is nothing more than a front for a bizarre club called ‘Elite Hunting‘ where one can pay for torturing and killing humans.

The first part of the movie is something more of a cheesy teen sex comedy with lots of fake boob jobs and subjects clubbing in unrealistic discos with loud music where you can still talk in normal volume. The rest of the part of Hostel develops an interesting premise and is better seen in ignorance of any plot summaries/background information on the movie. In the style of Asian horror, there is plenty of over-the-top gore, and in the style of campy American horror, there’s plenty of nudity, but this doesn’t detract from the ability of the director, Eli Roth, to take us to new and ever darker places as the plot thickens, building suspense right up to the gratifying finale. The end of the movie serves sweet revenge with the escaped torture victim making one of the torturers taste his own medicine by severing the fingers and then killing him.

This movie left me with a mixed feeling. No doubt this movie kept me didn’t let me take my eyes off the screen for a split second and I thoroughly enjoyed it but it did lack in creativity ,storyline and acting with the first time average actors. The movie had a better scope and what was served raw could have been made more beautiful. If your expectations are low enough, and your tastes in gore sufficiently robust, then you are in for a good time. Otherwise, skip this and see a classic Hitchcock film. You’ll feel better about yourself. I gotta give this one a 7.5/10 for its sheer entertainment factor

10,000 Days is the title slated for Tool’s fourth full-length studio album, announced for release on 2nd May, 2006. The album was leaked on the Intenet via torrents network and I am here to write my review after almost 20 full listens to it.

In My Humble Opinion 10,000 days is my second favourite Tool album after Ænima. As per my view the first 5 songs of this album is the best first half that any Tool album has ever done. This is what I think of some of my favourite Tool songs in order of track listing:-

• Vicarious – A very catchy and deserves-to-be-leaked-first song. The guitar riffs are amazing, specially before the ‘Lie-Lie-Lie-Lie-Lie’ part. One of the best lyrics I have ever heard after stinkfist. I give it a 4/5

• Jambi – The best drumming in the entire album. I would agree with Andy King that it is Hendrix like here. A pretty addictive song and definitely deserves a 4.5/5.

• The Pot – Definitely the most bizarre and the best song in the entire album. Maynard’s voice should no longer be called monotone as he has experimented a lot in this song. The song is fun to hear and has been rightfully called ‘Hooker With a Penis’ of ‘Ænima’. The song is damn addictive and I have been listening it all night. Unobjectionably this one deserves a 5/5.

• 10,000 Days/Wings For Marie – A very different and the most personal/emotional song Maynard has ever written in my opinion. Amazing lyrics keeps you stuck to the song. 4.5/5 would be nice.

• Rosetta Stoned – A great song, stands out due to its outlandish lyrics. This one takes away the ‘Crazy Song Of the Album’ tagline. Maynard must be high while writing this one.

• Right In Two _ another great and mysterious song. The lyrics are very vague and thee song wants to remain hidden for reason. The only good song of the second half in my opinion.

So where does this album lack? It fucking doesn’t lack anywhere and is an awesome album overall. But, I will have to agree that the second half when compared to other albums like Ænima or Lateralus isn’t at par. The lyrics are comparatively weak and nothing ‘progressive’. It sounds very Toolish and has nothing new compared to the first half.

Overall, its by far Tool’s one of the greatest work and I’d recommend you to go ahead, buy it and support the band so that we keep getting the great piece of fucking music from the fucking great band. I spent a sleepless night yesterday listening to the album and have already got the album pre-ordered by a cousin in the UK.

My Ratings –
Official Site – Toolband
Fan Site – Toolshed