Satan Said Dance

This is a track by a band called Clap Your Hands and Say yeah. Have a listen and post your comments. Let me know if you liked it or not. Listen to the whole song however.

Squarepusher - Hello Everything

This album, one of the many that Squarepusher has released, even though some might disagree, is really really good. Now, even though it might not be as good as some of his earlier works, this album has an amazing array of sounds and that is automatically quite refreshing. With sounds such as 'water droplets hitting a surface' and the amazing skill with which these sounds are constantly changed and yet integrated and with signature Squarepusher, distinctive base and brilliant percussions, this album is quite a treat. The melody that one is introduced to in the first track flows through the entire album.
Totally worth it!

The link to the research study blog

The link to that blog concerning the research study i talked about is below. Do visit it.

http://forschungbid.blogspot.com/

Information

A few of my friends, as a part of their effort to minimize boredom during these summer vacations, have planned to conduct what promises to be an out of the box, over the top, research on "body image dissatisfaction", on the "general" public in the city of Bangalore. They promise - a sample representing all stratas in society; research dimensions beyond what are generally associated with this topic, implying that they aren't gonna study just the effects of media etc, but things like genealogy, ethnicity and other such things not generally, directly linked to body image dissatisfaction. They also promise research methodology that breaks all norms.

I have gone through their ideas and from what I can gather this appears to be extremely interesting.

This post is just to make the few people who read this blog aware of this study. Soon, the people concerned are going to set up a blog dedicated only to the research study. I will post the link once that happens.

Anyway below I have given the email Ids of some of the people concerned, please do mail your suggestions to them. I guess, any feedback, that qualifies as sincere, is welcome. Do mail them but, not me.

Email Ids -

purnimamurlidharan@yahoo.co.in
vidya.2108@gmail.com

The Edward Said Reader

clipped from www.edwardsaid.org The Edward Said Archive:: إدوارد سعيد

Just like the Chomsky reader, The Edward Said Reader (www.edwardsaid.org) lets you read articles by Said and other articles on him by others for free. People interested in Said can check this site out. Just click on the link.

A Weird Feeling

At night alone,
way up on the terrace,
40 floors will do I guess.
Just so when you look down,
all you can see around
are twinkling neon advertisement lights
and maybe the headlights of cars.
Small, insignificant by themselves but
significant as they mirror your alienation from them.

And the stars must be out.
I don’t know if a cloudy sky will do
(don’t have a reason to believe it shouldn’t).
All you must hear are whispers that lend themselves
to no human explanation.
And a sound that can’t be differentiated
into it’s components.

From the edge then you will peep down,
and get repelled back as from alternating current.
But like that adventurer who is drawn into the crater of the volcano,
you too will inch forward,
each time checking if the closeness affords a view down,
till you are at the edge again.
And maybe this time you will want to fall.

God Damn! - 3

Well....

God Damn! - 2

Another bad comedy show. And no, I have not bothered to watch this one either. All you complaining people go ahead and watch, and convince me that it isn't bad and I will delete this post.

God Damn!

The Worst comedy show around. I have not seen it but I am sure from the ads, that come on Star World, that it is somewhere in the league of Full House and all. I know I have been criticized by a few people for commenting on things without watching/reading them but even those people, I am sure, will not expect me to actually watch this thing.

The Catch

Catcher In The Rye was published in 1951, following which its author J.D. Salinger withdrew from all public life and since then has almost disappeared. Catch 22 was published in 1961 and there were strong claims that Joseph Heller, keeping the quality of his previous works in mind and his general persona, was incapable of writing a novel of the quality of Catch 22.

Claire Douglas, Salinger’s wife says, “I was shocked when I read Catch 22. He (Salinger) had been working on something that must have been very very similar. I can’t be sure because he never let anyone see what he was writing but from what he had said about his work, I am certain that it (Salinger’s work) must have been something on the same lines”.

Apart from the fact that when Catch 22 was released almost everyone who read it agreed that – it could very well have been Salinger’s follow up of Catcher In The Rye; there were a lot of unofficial reports that Catch 22 was not Heller’s original work. His close friend, Matthew Ponty, said the following in 1971 to a local reporter – “I am quite sure Joseph was receiving mails regularly from some address in Cornish, New Hampshire. Once he had told me – ‘someday my conscience will prick me for this, but even he insists so that relieves me a little.’ He had said that out of the blue as if he was talking to himself when I was sitting right in front of him. He refused to say anything more and asked me to leave immediately. That was very unlike Joseph.”
Cornish, New Hampshire is where Salinger had withdrawn to with his wife.

A lot of questioned are thus raised and are left unanswered. However the fact remains that – one cannot trust official versions in these situations.

Reflection!

Which one needs to be saved? Are our priorities so fucked up?
Balls to animal rights activists!! (But you know it was always easier to save the puppy. You don't even need to stir up an issue. )

John Lennon's Death - What is the true story?

“At 10:50 p.m. on 8 December 1980, Mark David Chapman shot Lennon in front of the Dakota.

Around 5 p.m., Lennon and Ono left the Dakota to supervise the transfer of some of the Double Fantasy album numbers to singles. David Geffen said that more than 700,000 album copies had already been sold up to that time. As they were leaving the Dakota, they were approached by several people seeking autographs. Among them was Chapman, and Lennon signed an autograph on the Double Fantasy album cover for him. A picture was taken by another fan while he was signing Chapman's album, capturing killer and victim on film only a few hours before his murder.

The Lennons spent several hours at the studio on West 44th Street before returning to the Dakota at about 10:50 p.m. They exited their limousine on 72nd Street, even though the car could have been driven into the courtyard. Jose Perdomo (who was the doorman at the entrance), an elevator operator, and a cab driver all saw Chapman standing in the shadows by the archway. The Lennons walked past, and Ono opened the inner door — leaving Lennon alone inside the entrance. Chapman called out, "Mr. Lennon!", dropped into a "combat stance" and shot Lennon four times with hollow point bullets from a Charter Arms .38 revolver. Two shots struck Lennon in the left side of his back and two in his left shoulder. All four caused serious internal damage and one pierced Lennon's aorta.”

Source – wikipedia

This is believed to be the story of Lennon’s death and was widely circulated in the media and by other means of communication. However there are so many lose ends in this story that its validity is highly questionable and I am surprised that it has not been questioned before my serious Lennon fans who I am sure are huge in number. The following points discuss what I am talking about:

+ Yoko Ono was believed to be seen with Lennon all throughout after 5 p.m., from when they left Dakota till the time when Ono went inside after opening the inner door, following which Lennon was shot and killed. How ever the house keeper, with whom even the murderer had a chat, and who was assigned the duty to take care of Lennon’s son had reported that he was instructed the Lennon’s to strictly not go to the upper level of the house and neither let the child go there, which was quite strange because there was no one in the house, or at least no was supposed to be, after the Lennon’s had left. The housekeeper was sure that he had heard noises coming from the upper level but since was told not to bother he didn’t check it but he swears that he saw Ono’s reflections on one of the windows from the upper level, two hours after she was supposed to have left with Lennon.

+ Fans like Robin Upton, Karl Portman and Jacky Andrews who had been following the Lennon’s all around the globe and were loyal fans all have reported that they noted something strange in Ono’s behavior and more importantly her appearance when they stopped the Lennon’s for autographs. Jacky says, “It was not Ono, it just couldn’t have been her. I mean all of us knew how she looked. That woman looked very similar but definitely she was not Ono”. Some fans even near the studio noted something strange about Ono, or at least who they thought was Ono.

+ As I had mentioned earlier Ono went inside the house when Lennon was still outside, he was then called upon by Chapman and shot. Sources present there, including the housekeeper say that it was only after around ten minutes had past since the last shots were fired at Lennon and only when he had fallen on the ground did Ono emerge from within the house. Ten whole minutes after the shots were fired!

+ The most intriguing factor is the least established one here. A storekeeper near Lennon’s residence had, he said, seen Ono talking to Chapman a few meters away from the Lennon’s residence a day before the incident. The conversation, he had added, was concluded with Ono handing over a packet to Chapman.

These, I do not believe are anywhere near conclusive and pose more questions that they answer. For example, if it is to be believed that Ono actually stayed in house and someone else accompanied Lennon, then there can be no doubt that Lennon would have come to no of this. How come then he kept quite? Was he involved in same way in his own death? A lot of conclusions can be drawn and much of what has been mentioned might be brushed aside and proved wrong. However the point is that there appears to a point of view that is different from the point of view that is generally perpetuated and it is definitely worth investigating. Of course none of this is official.

Hello!

Balls to yahoo 360! Anyway hope this lasts longer than my last attempt.