| Thursday, May 1st, 2008 |
| 2:56 am |
I'd forgotten how good Thick as Brick was. Current Mood:  enthralled |
| Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 |
| 12:40 am |
Demonoid is back. I'm so happy. Current Mood:  happy |
| Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 |
| 12:17 am |
Crysis  That is all. Current Mood: satisfied |
| Friday, February 29th, 2008 |
| 8:31 pm |
Callooh! Callay! O Frabjous Day! My broadband is back. Though it is disturbing to know *just* how addicted I am to being online. And I don't even chat/orkut. Current Mood: ecstatic |
| Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 |
| 11:21 am |
In my current quest for normalcy, a good friend and I are experimenting with not going to GSBP 1. Restaurants are indicated. But the alternatives in Bandra are limited. Consider Jat Corner. Maddeningly bright and aspirational, the worst part is the food, rather than the annoying people with bad taste in clothes. The burgeoning bourgeoisie who infest the place supposedly come for healthy salads. Which chiefly consist of: eggs and mayo, bacon, sausages, macaroni and mushrooms horribly drowned in white sauce and one forlorn sprout. Death by salad does not have the erotic attraction of death by chocolate. The real problem with the food though, is that it tastes musty, fresh out of a crypt. If they served alcohol in Jat Corner, it would be a cask of Amontillado. Even the Aztec coffee, which permits you to raise public libations to Quetzalcoatl with a clear conscience, is not sufficient incentive. Therefore, we turned to an alternative- the inspirationally named Red Box. Red. Box. redbox. Red! Box? And the bakery is called Bread Box. Such inscrutable depths of wanton and languorous mystery. My friend insisted that the road to Red Box lay through the non-Euclidean heart of Pali Naka. This was a vicious lie and I said so. I observed that Pali Naka is not Rome. All roads do not lead to it. Totlani, who must surely be as wealthy as Crassus, has not lined its wide avenues with crucified slaves. Pali Hill is not the Seven Hills. And so on. Following this unhinged, but perfectly normal, rant, we entered. And had a burger. They do bring food quickly, no doubt a habit born out of feeding Bombay's starving hordes and the utter dominance of Udupi restaurants in the city. It was a Perfectly Normal burger. But the glaring lights would certainly remind Vladimir Putin of the jolly times he had with Jewish subversives in the Lubyanka. I don't think I live in Bandra at all. At least, not the Bandra which They claim exists. Pooh, I say. Bah, even. I bet They don't exist and I dare Them to do something about it. 1. Generic Sleazy Bandra Pubs. Current Mood:  annoyed |
| Monday, February 11th, 2008 |
| 9:41 pm |
Y: # 60. That is all. Current Mood:  sad |
| Friday, February 8th, 2008 |
| 8:58 pm |
Obey the Kitten. There's something soothing about surrendering your will to the Centurion Kitten. From the same people who brought us the Genghis Khan Kittens. Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Genghis Khan Kittens |
| Friday, January 25th, 2008 |
| 1:40 am |
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| Friday, January 18th, 2008 |
| 8:13 am |
Stairway Wit I have no way of totting up the count of books/movies I've read/watched in 2007, but I've decided to keep track of this in 2008. No comments will be made. Read and Find Out. From Jan. 1, till date: Books I have read: 1. The Age of Unreason. 2. Neverness. 3. Stuff by Jasper Fforde: the last three Thursday Next books and the two Nursery Crimes books. 4. The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India. Gyanendra Pandey. 5. Daughter of Regals by Stephen Donaldson. 6. The last two novels of Feist's Empire Trilogy. 7. Manifold: Time. Stephen Baxter. 8. Manifold: Space. Ditto. *Boink* 2. To console myself, I decided to re-read Moby Dick. "Speak not to me of blasphemy, man; I'd strike the sun if it insulted me." Heh. 3. Billy Budd and other stories. 4. Kaleidoscope, One and Two, Stefan Zweig. 5. The Great American NoveL, Phillip Roth. Books started, but not finished(yet): 1. Empires of the Word. Nicholas Ostler. I was halfway through this when cruel fate forced abandonment. Now I'll have to begin from the beginning. Current Mood:  awake |
| Wednesday, December 26th, 2007 |
| 8:09 pm |
A few days ago there were two goats tethered to a post outside my building. Yesterday there was a nativity scene- still is. SO it goes. And all this while I've been humming "Freddie the Red-Brained Mi-Go" to myself. It goes something like this: "Freddie the Red-Brained Mi-Go Had a very Slimy Brain And If You e-ver saw Him You would scream and go Insane" And also "Silent Night, Blasphemous Night": "Silent Night, Blasphemous Night, People Quake At the Sight Monsters Rising from Deep Rl'yeh People screaming `please go away' Great Cthulhu has come; Silent Night, Blasphemous Night, Cthulhu Wakes, Death in Sight Cosmic Terror Destroying Your Mind Great Cthulhu has come" All courtesy the twisted, talented and slightly non-Euclidean folks at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society. They are as assiduous in spreading insanity and dread horror as the most prolific infant sacrificer out there- and (almost) as much fun. Buy their stuff- share the madness! As someone once said, spare a buck for your squid-headed Lord. Which reminds me: Best Mastermind episode. Ever. Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: Great Old Ones are coming to town |
| Sunday, December 16th, 2007 |
| 8:08 am |
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| Thursday, December 13th, 2007 |
| 11:59 am |
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| Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 |
| 8:17 am |
I have just learnt that my order has shipped. I'm spending the next few days on the dhl site. Current Mood: excited |
| Monday, December 10th, 2007 |
| 5:42 pm |
Chimps are smarter than you Don't think so? Test yourself against the chimp. Current Mood:  indescribable |
| Thursday, November 29th, 2007 |
| 8:56 pm |
![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rajasen and this awesomely cool video on how to make a Bollywood film. And stuff. Words cannot describe the unspeakable hilarity. Current Mood: amused |
| Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 |
| 8:19 pm |
Act of God insurance. Heh. As an atheist in the industry, I am frequently annoyed by the phrase "Acts of God". This is so much better than Pascal's wager. Current Mood: amused |
| Friday, November 9th, 2007 |
| 7:18 pm |
From a review of The Last Drop: "Most of the film’s comedy also comes from here, as Karel Roden and Alexander Skarsgard make for a rather hilarious “Odd Couple” tandem. In fact, if these guys weren’t part of a genocidal war machine steamrolling through Europe , you’d think they were swell fellas." Current Mood: mildly amused |
| Saturday, October 27th, 2007 |
| 12:26 pm |
I just read God's Debris. It is mostly a bunch of utter crap, interspersed with some not-very-original philosophical speculation. Socratic dialogue is a boon for people with no convincing arguments and barns full of straw men. I've been watching a bunch of fascinating films on the Third Reich. More on that later. Current Mood: annoyed |
| Monday, October 1st, 2007 |
| 1:36 pm |
Eldritch weirdness I have been having the oddest conversations. Yesterday, chez davenchit, the following SMS exchange about avian assaults.Me: Words cannot express my hatred of pigeons. P1, unexpectedly: You are marked out by a deviant kamikaze flock. That's about it. Me: Indeed. They probably compose haikus to the emperor before dive bombing my flat. P: They shall cover your books in blood and gore for the greater glory of Japan. Me: Bah. I will use flamethrowers and grenades to winkle them out of their bunkers. It will be Guadalcanal 2 all over again. Me, ranting, with delusions of grandeur: Clint Eastwood will make movies about the epic battle- two of them. One in English and the other in a succession of gobbles and coos. Defeated, the leader of the pigeons will open his belly in contrition. 3P: Sleep well brave one for you man the anti-pigeon turrets at dawn. Me: Sleep is a luxury for those who would resist the monstrous onslaught of the Pigeons. And then, today, on a slow work day this. 1. Good friend and drinking buddy.
2. I actually meant to say "Iwo Jima" but the freudian slip occured because I had just been watching Kanal, thus hopelessly confusing not two but three great conflicts.
3. In yet another case of knowing-what-you-were-thinking-after-you've-thunked-it, I said contrition(instead of shame) because I was thinking of this guy. Current Mood: amused |
| Sunday, August 19th, 2007 |
| 10:40 pm |
So what is in the package Madman Mundt gives Barton Fink? The Coens claim watching The Tenant will provide the answer. The problem is, I watched it many, many years ago. Current Mood:  frustrated |
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