Thursday, October 12, 2006

Searches That Lead Here: Tagged

Well, since Rajesh tagged me and helped me out with how to get this information, I went into Google Analytics and located all the keywords that led people to my blog from search engines. Mine is not as interesting as I would have hoped it would be, but still there are some interesting ones. The keywords that came up on top were :

1. coolkrishnan - Wow, thats my friends blog. I wonder how people ended up on my blog when searching for his blog identity!!! Coolkrishnan, you better do something about it.
2. naveen roy blog - Well....
3. naveenroy+blog - Hmm...
4. cristiano+ronaldo - Thats interesting cause during the World Cup, I did blog about this and I have got a lotta hits on this. Have even been linked back to my post.
5. naveen+roy+blog - Boring!!
6. naveen+roy - Hehe, damn, hope its not some stoopid guys looking for my blog....Hot women maybe??
7. happydent ad - Haha, thats a really cool ad and I did link it on my blog..

Well, that was the top keywords.....scrolling down, lets see if there is something else interesting....

1. setc bangalore - Yeah, I had blogged about the pathetic journey me and Anwin had from Bangalore to Nagercoil last December....
2. setc tamilnadu - Same here
3. valeri+gradinarski - What?? well, a little bit of googling told me that hes a Bulgarian musician....
4. ...hmmm... - How many search results did u trawl to to reach my blog??
5. carvalho kicked groin - Thats damn funny....
6. ananiah+mccarrell - Well, a rock musician
7. dutch+helmets+and+sheilds - Can I start this new business??
8. dilana rockstar supernova blog - Yeah, did follow Rockstar Supernova regularly till the end and did blog about it too.
9. how to configure airtel broadband in ubuntu - Yeah, I was really glad to be able to configure Airtel Broadband on my comp the last time I went home. But for all of you who want complete information, here is a link on the Ubuntu India forums that will be of more help... HERE...

I guess Anwin's been tagged too. Would love to see his results. I am not tagging anyone, cause I dont think Anoop or Karthik even use Google Analytics.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

INXS concerts and a sore throat....

Saturday morning came (11:30 AM) and everyone in great spirits...spirits left over from last nite....Ajit coming down from Trivandrum, Anwin already here from Vellore for some “test” he said, and the rest of the bangalore gang....hmm, thats me and Anoop.

After a little bit of a scuffle over the remaining OH (alcohol) of yesterday, we decided to head out for an early matinee and landed up in a place called “Shivas”. We asked for Mr. Peter Scott, who was our hero the last time we went to a concert. I never have posted about that time....But an offspring of Seagrams was the next best thing that they had. Wonder where it came from though, didnt taste like any good whisky!


After a couple of good conversations with the son of Mr. Seagram, Renie texts Anoop from Chennai saying that the concert was cancelled!! A very good attempt to frighten him and it worked really well!! Anoop gets all worried and even asks me to go and check on the internet. Well, I take over and make plans with Renie about taking a drive to Vellore. Renie, "allegedly" has not fallen for it, but carries the joke along and we finally decide that enufz enuf. I had to calm Anoop down though, he was visibily a bit rattled and wanted to check and be for sure... until Renie gave up and called his bluff.

We are sitting in the bar and me, Anoop and Anwin are wearing Iron Maiden T-shirts. Abhilash is wearing a T-shirt with an up yours symbol on it. So Abhi suddenly looks around and says..wow, three Iron Maidens and one....oops Fuck!!

At about 4 we decided we had enough of a chat with that son of a seagram and headed off to Styx..we dont know how we got there but we did. HoneyKing was there and Ajith had slyly slithered off to one of his “appointments”. Anoop hassled the DJ (Venky) so bad that he was playing all the songs we wanted to hear and none that he wanted to play.

Ajith returns bloody eyed..he still says it was from the Bloody Mary..but we have our doubts! he he. 6:00 PM and time to leave..we had to catch the front row so we could create some havoc! I dont remember Anoop driving..I think Thenraj did..

We hit the concert area and met Spike..Houdini Anwin manages to smuggle one son of seagram inside while Abhilash fails...more concerts are in order for you my friend....you learn a new thing at every one of em....


Finally inside the ARENA!! Anoop gives us this crazy idea of giving Ajit some kicks and we try to haul Ajit. Ajit felt bad and wanted to be alone for a few moments, with Thenraj constantly reminding us not to have done that!!. Thanks machan, you dropped my high by a few points there. We finally decided to go to the front of the stage and Anwin was leading the way and promised to take us to the front, but third row was all we could reach.

The band comes on stage!!!!!! JD walks up and they start with Suicide Blonde!!! It was electric! Man, especially when you are that high and close to a stage, I guess anything sounds good....more on that later. Anoop, me, Anwin and Abhilash in one group and Ajith, Thenraj and Spike missing. Wonder if Ajit was still feeling bad about it all. "Never tear us apart" was next and was simply fantastic!!! The bass was just echoing through the air...



Especially since this was Abhi's first concert up so close, he was having a gala time, headbanging, banging some heads and jumping up and down. We were going haywire in there and all the guys (a dad included) thought we were mad and all the girls thought we were just plain obscene and being fucking pervs..Hey what the FUCK did they expect in a rock concert?....a fucking ballet dance?? A few disgusting looks and we were still jumping, arms failing about like butchers making pork chops. Myself and Anoop were banging the same old dude, but I think Anoop enjoyed it more..he he he


End of concert..so we thought!!..But they came back for an encore..indian brains at work there...its happened for every fucking concert so far!!! Played 4 more songs and we were good to go home..


Had food at Fanoos and empty wallets later we went home and crashed..with Abhilash sitting in front of the computer on the sly again..

Woke up next day to find out that my neck was still stuck on to my body though it wanted to run away..

Read a shocking truth in the morning paper..apparantly JD had a sore throat and wasnt singing too loud or sometimes, at all...thats what I tell you people, you either go to a good rock concert or you gotta know how to drink before one!!

Moral of the story :- Sore throat or not.. If you are with us , Rock concerts will be Rock concerts!!!!

Abhilash has just given me the snaps..and I think there were some good ones...they are all scattered in this post...if you cant see em, you can contact Abhi at abhi@abhi.com

To see Anoop's side of the story, click here.... no permission was given to copy, but poetic license reigns!!

Colourblind - legal downloads

Thanks for the link to Split-Magazine, Renie. Yeah, I don't think many of us, even though such lovers of rock music, follow the Indian rock scene as much as we would want to. Or maybe we don't wanna. But its good that we can atleast hear and see some of these bands in action at some local music fests. I also get to understand what they all pretty much go through through this friend of mine in the band, Bhumi. While rock bands all over the world are atleast hated by the media, here its a complete write-off as though they are not really worth anything. How does it feel to write a great rock song and be asked to sing it in a regional language or worse, put in some "electronica" and make it a pop song? Yuuuck!! And I don't think the Indian Rock scene is getting any better. You can read up on some Indian Rock acts here.

On kinda the same note, I was really glad to visit the site for this erstwhile Indian band, Colourblind through a link from Split-Magazine. I remember me and Anoop buying the album all those years ago (I remember we buying it cause it was cheaper than all the other international albums and the album sleeve was awesome) and listening to it time and time again. I even remember making the album into mp3s some years back. If you haven't listened to the album, this is one album you have to listen to. Damn, all the songs are good and the ones that stand out must be "Bang A Drum" and "Falling from the Sky". I really loved the vocals and especially the bass guitar. Great job there. And when I visited that site, I see the links for the legal downloads of all the songs from that album. No idea why the band faded away after that one album. You guys had done a great job!!. You can download the songs here...

Was also happy to see links for the downloads of all the songs by Indus Creed/Rock Machine. You can download them here....

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Saurav Ganguly...

Well, I usually trash blogs, articles that say Ganguly should have been taken into the Indian team cause I really believe that he has passed his prime. His place in the Indian cricket team or any other professional team is gone. There is no turning back. I used to fight with Karthik, who thought otherwise. And I never bothered to read blogs based on this sentiment..until now. Kinda well written, somehow made me realise that yes, even though a sportsman has passed his time, he was a great player in the recent past and has made his mark. That still doesnt make me want to turn face here, but still, makes me look at it differently.....Here is the piece written by The Enigma.

On a side note, just a joke I heard long back about Ganguly...

X : Whats the difference between Ganguly and God?
Y : Hmm, no idea...
X : Atleast God doesnt think he's Ganguly.... har har har!!

Yeah, that was in times when Ganguly was at his peak.....

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Bangalore bandh and sleepless jokes....

Well, since there is a Bangalore Bandh today, we were asked to come into office very early today. Hmm, I have always only heard of bandhs starting off at 9 in the mornings. However, this time, it was different in the sense where it starts off at 6 and ends at 6 in the evening. Insane, yeah I thought so too. Well, a bandh itself is crazy. So we were asked to come in early...as early as 5 in the morning. And in order to facilitate this, we had our pickups fixed at times between 4 and 4:30 in the morning. And for that to happen, the cab driver gives us calls at 3:15!!! Man, I was feeling so pissed off that I woke up, decided to go by cab, then went back on the original plan of going by bike. By this time, I couldn't get back to sleep, so stayed up and watched TV and then called up Adel who was coming by bike with me. We were warned by so many people not to take the bike, but sweet sleep is better than that!. So got off and here we were in office, too damn early but still no problems. Did nothing except listen to music and here I am, working my ass off and feeling really sleepy. Good thing this time, they did arrange for lunch and breakfast. We had only breakfast for which I chose a very safe looking bread-egg-sandwich. The other options were gruelly looking curd-rice, uppuma, and something else equally gross looking.

Heres where the jokes started, all due to lack of sleep. A friend loudly announces, "Man, this is like a Nazi boot-camp!!. They take a spoonfull of crap and put it on your plate - "!Pachakk!!".."....haha, that still cracks me up...

Then when going on the elevator, Abhi asks, dude whats this "Alarm" button for. We both made this up - "Its when the elevator announces in totally Tamil accented Tenglish that you have reached your floor and have to fucking get off - NOW!!"...

Lastly, on another break, we walk past this team that seems to be doing nothing and Abhi asks, what the team does. I reply, "Its the Orkut maintenance team"...

Damn, I am sure they are horrible, drink up ppl.....

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Man sent off plane for speaking in Tamil

Man, how fucking paranoid and insane can these Americans be huh?? Man, I would hate to live in a country that has suppressed people for generations, has no sense on what and how the world outside America looks like, has no sense of other cultures (not that they have one in the first place!!), has systematically destroyed the Native Indian population, bombs nations just so that they can take their oil, is constantly paranoid thinking that the whole world is against them and has a frigging dodo/chimp for a president. And here, I read that a guy speaking in Tamil has been sent off a plane for talking in Tamil.

Whole story here....