tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63490062011-07-17T08:56:48.868-07:00Industrious LudditeMoonjunglehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03614097758546627739noreply@blogger.comBlogger1441100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6349006.post-45756053526867184002008-03-15T08:33:00.000-07:002008-03-15T08:41:43.563-07:00

About 3 weeks ago I bought a shiny new laptop. Unfortunatley the bloody OS - Vista Home has taken the shine out of it and has reduced the machine to a black body. My pen-tablet works only on the desktop & refuses to work in any other program. Try and avoid this shitty OS till time & program compatibility allows.

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Finally somebody does visual justice to the Goldfrapp song - 'Lovely Head'. Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.Created using processingAnd the fundaism can be found here

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Dexter Wansel was session's keyboardist, who in 1976, released a solo album titled 'Life on Mars'. An instrumental tour de force in space age funk (with a few tracks featuring vocals). An album that has to be experienced in full stereophonic glory. For a 70's album I believe it had some pioneering synthesizer effects and sounds. If you like the band Jamiroquai, you need to listen to this. The

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Happy New Year everybody.

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.....If there is a polite way of saying "My mistake, whore!"

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I found a beautiful website while scanning my daily feeds. Its the site for an upcoming videogame titled 'Edge of Twilight'. What makes this site great is the short loading time even though its built using flash. No unwanted mouse-over noises. Overall colour scheme is subdued and your attention is drawn to the type by blue luminescent broken and weathered egg like object at centre of the bottom

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In the words of late Hunter S. Thompson they/it must be 'fucked, broken and driven across the land'.Gathering wind for plan B.

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Colour and/or its choice are subjective. Some people have an eye for colour harmonies. Some sadly don't. But there has been a disturbing trend that's been assaulting me over the past 10 years. If you are a synesthesiac and you could taste colours, you'd be left nauseous by the trend. Somehow our (Indian) movies go overboard in their use of colours. Any 'blockbuster' hindi 'movie' would have a

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The greatest movie you will ever see in your life time. Rent or pirate it. Watch it. Then fall on a knife and die like you should.The movie is titled ' Young Frankenstein'.

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Will be electronically unavailable for a couple of days. Shifting to a new appartment.

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After giving things a lot of thought, I've realized that I've changed quite a bit as a person over the last 10 years. I'm definitely not the man I was 10 years ago. As an unprecedented act of masochism I'm going to re-read Ayn Rand's Fountainhead. I had nothing but loads of bile & gripe juice the last(also the first)time I read it in 1997. I couldn't stand it when her character's wings were

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Ryuichi Sakamoto composed & performed this moving theme song to the movie "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence". There is also a song sung by Sylvian set to this piece, its titled Forbidden Colours.

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Brown Puris (slightly over golden brown stage) remind me of cane toads.

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Woke up accidentally about 3am today morning. I found that I enjoy life more when I'm alone and waking up in the wee hours of the morning while everyone is in bed, gives me an inexplicable burst of energy. Today I decided to apply it to work that lay yawning before me. But before work, I spent a couple of minutes in front of the mirror. Its official I have a couple of grey hairs. I also may be

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In the early 90's I was exposed to anime and some phenomenal stuff at that too. What attracted me to it was the attention to details. One could follow shadows into the furrows on a character's brow; split screen action shots and many other gimmicks. If you've seen the cartoon series Samurai Jack one can see each and everyone of these cliches in one episode. Today the anime scene sucks and can be

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Then:Bearded chap singing is Phil Collins!Now:This clip has annoying audience voices in it, but the quality of sound is pretty good. You can see the cops standinng guard in the front. It must be cool to be a cop at concerts from a voyeur POV. This a reunion tour of sorts, why can't these chaps come to B'lore?

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ORQ: How much does crappy software cost?A: $999The piece of shit is called Photoshop CS3 Extended. Adobe recently came out with a new version of Photoshop. They claim its optimized to run all the new hardware, platforms & most decent configs of today. The first sign of trouble was when they released 3 versions of the same product a la Windows Vista fashion. Most of the features work just fine

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Last year February, on returning home I was greeted by a concrete maw. On inspection I discovered that the 'brass-slot' fitting on my letter box was nicked by some bastard. The letter box is built into the wall in front of my house and the brass-slot assembly was fixed onto a black marble slab accommodated in a recess on the outside of the wall. So if you came to drop a letter you saw a brass

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I just love the keyboard & brass theme that keeps rolling from the start this song. This one is yet another eel of a song.

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Recently I listened to a version of ' MacArthur Park' by Beggars Opera, on their Pathfinder album. ' MacArthur Park' is one of those songs that begs to be covered (with one exception of course, I'll come to that in a bit). The song was written by Jimmy Webb , who also wrote ' Witchita Lineman'. Jimmy Webb, in my opinion is a great songwriter with an amazing knack for writing haunting songs. Only

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Today will be a very gusty day. With windspeeds high enough to break heads using broken mango tree branches. Wear your helmets!

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Oblique Strategies are these cards with simple messages on them. I've found these very useful when I'm painting myself into corners and in effectively dealing with blocks. Think of these messages as situations that force you to think out of the box. Here are two links. Link1 has a detailed history of the cards. Interestingly Brian Eno had a hand in the creation of these cards.Link2 leads you to a

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Black, here I go!Little did I knowI can't go outWhite has my goat!

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An old favourite with wonderful lyrics. Puppets in the video were created by the guys behind the show Spitting Image .

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Love the band, love the song and love the twisted teletubbyesque woodland creatures.

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I'm back on a roll. Went to sleep at 3 a.m. and woke up by 9:45 a.m. today. Within this period I had four different nightmares. Dreams being volatile, I've forgotten one of them. I'm sure I'm missing out on details on the three described in this post. So here they are in full ascii glory before they evaporate.The First nightmare, starts in a carnal tangle with a person I know (name withheld

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A couple of years ago, I had a chance to play this wonderful demo of Strange Adventures in Infinite Space. Yesterday I got my hands on a demo of its sequel Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space. These games were developed by Digital Eel. While my experiences are based on the demos, they were thoroughly enjoyable. The game has a bit of everything, perils of outer space, trade, diplomacy, space

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Real men grow beards.Check out the galleries at The Beard Community for inspiration you metrosexual!

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In an attempt to keep my blog relevant and useful, I've come up with a plan:Everybody who reads this post is urged to leave a useful tip in the comments section to this post. Alternately, you could leave a link to a post about a useful tip you've on your blog. By 'useful tip' I mean anything that you have implemented and was actually useful to you. Here is my tip:Leave a candle and a box of

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Looking at pictures with too many bright colours usually leaves me visually violated. This is probably why I don't enjoy psychedelic poster colour schemes. Under such schemes, abstract forms are much easier to look at than definite forms. As a result I tend to keep my colour schemes conservative. Sometimes I worry if this move is actually shutting me out from creating unique visuals. In a bid to

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A lively pop song 'Porque te vas' by Jeanette featured in a 70s Spanish movie. The horn section is just amazing.

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From the Spongebob Squarepants cartoon. Premise: Squidward's cousin, turns up in Bikini Bottom (the town the cartoon is set in). There is this one-upmanship thing going on between the two. The cousin challenges Squidward to lead his own music band. Squidward tries desperately to teach his band (comprising of local idiots) to play and he finally gives up. After a dejected Squidward leaves the

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Pixar's Short titled 'One Man Band'. The little girl's expressions are priceless

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Three games to look out for:BioshockThis is yet another FPS but with a ROM full of quirks to interest the easily bored gamer. As much as I hate Ayn Rand's writing, marrying some of her concepts to an FPS (as is evident from this article) is something I'm extremely interested in. Judging from the screenshots, gameplay video its gorgeously Art Deco.Fallout 3A teaser videoProject OffsetThese guys

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Recently on a holiday, I realized how much I missed my hostel room back in REC. It was room 309 in E-Hostel building. Got this room by chance. Rooms were allotted by a lot system - you were given a unique number, a lot was drawn and if your number came up; you picked your room. Back then I was aiming for the room 108, as I had managed to hold onto that number during the last 2 years. Luck would

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.....and other meals for a couple of days. Will be back in B'lore on 6th June.

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Leaving for good......a good 3 days.Office will be closed until my glorious return.Till then weep bitches.

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Informative video about something that I have never even heard off - Link

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Last year around June and through to August I was lucky to find some really old folk albums on torrent sites. Torrent sites are like mana from heaven. If you are music lover like me and have trawled the various 'music' shops in B'lore for good ear-food, you'd die of malnutrition. Synthetic pop sludge packaged as high art sit like colourful toads on shelves mocking human evolution & intelligence.

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This post is courtesy T3knomanser Remember the illegal number? Well, I converted the hexadecimal number into a set of five different colors (using hex-color codes) and made this lovely GIF to illustrate. Don't use these colors together. If you do, you're breaking the law. Or, at least, you're breaking it enough to get sued for it.

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There was a time when speculative fiction and art were utterly enjoyable and deep. I'm talking about glorious sci-fi visions of the future. Things were definitely positive back then. Tall spires piercing blue skies. Primitive shapes of crafts gliding lazily in the background. Machines that did your bidding without bothering you. Humans striking elegant poses as though they had achieved all they

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Groove Armada - Get DownSkittles Ad - Opera Bunny

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In September 2006, I managed to read William Gibson's Neuromancer (thanks to Mridul). A down right propah cyberpunk novel. I usually can't read cyberpunk novels because cutting through all the technobabble is tedious. Neuromancer is supposed to be the grand daddy of cyberpunk, written in 1984 and Its influence on movies, books, comics and video games cannot be overlooked today. The novel is about

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I recently finished this wonderful book by Susanna Clarke. Its fiction and reads like an English classic. The story is set around the time of the Napoleonic Wars and its is about two English magicians who are trying to revive magic and its practice. There is a lot of politics and drama between (& surrounding) the two. The good book follows a slow pace. It doesn't drag and the authoress does a

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In the 80's, I grew up watching cartoons & programs mostly produced in the UK. I've seen most of the stuff produced by Cosgrove Hall and then some. So in a series of posts I'll introduce you to some of the best stuff I have ever seen till date. Around that time a lot of anime-esque shows were gaining popularity and most kids my age preferred watching violent crap like G.I. Joe and mecha shite. I

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Something for your optic nerves here.

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Mridul has alway claimed that I always blame things on pollution. I've never disputed this. Land, air and water, its all filthy. We're living like those fish in 'Finding Nemo'. Our fish bowl is dirty and we've no choice but to breathe, eat and drink it up. The world we live in is doomed. We can attribute this condition to various factors, mostly manmade. OR...We can blame it on entropy and

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I believe that we can all agree on the idea that we live in a materialistic world. I remember going once to my Mom's ancestral home in Pallakaad, Kerala. We had tea in this dining room which had a cupboard with neatly arranged, dusty and delicate china. A grand uncle of mine spent some time in the Far East & he had brought this and many other quality stuff. Quite a bit of his stuff were rumoured

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Found these ads starring the ever eccentric Salvador Dali.The next ones' a gem!Happy bubbles but devoted bubbles!

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I have just killed a stale blog - The Hall of Beard. The blog was dedicated to famous bearded personalities and It featured two - Rabindranath Tagore & Gustav Klimt. Attempts to introduce readers (if any) to Arthur Brown (Musician), Alexey Pajitnov (Designer of the video-narcotic, Tetris) & Jeff Minter (Programmer of many obscure games & the not so obscure light synth) have repeatedly failed. The

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Fallout & Fallout 2 were two RPG games that I really enjoyed way back. Both games are set in a world that has been ravaged by nuclear war. Lawlessness & mutants prevail. Its a turn based game. There is a rumour that Bethesda Softworks, the guys behind the Elder Scrolls series are working on a Fallout 3. Check out the intros to both these games. The voice on the first intro is Ron

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Today is H.P. Lovecraft's 70th Death anniversary. Master of all consuming horror and general sphincter laxing paranoia. His work dealt with phenomenon beyond human perception. No matter what humans do we are a doomed bunch as there is a Pantheon of Gods slumbering for eons waiting to be roused. Once roused these powerful beings will have a party that would make the Kali Yugam look like a second

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Two Important issues that can never be stressed enough:sleepnaked.orgDescribes the benefits of sleeping in the buff. One can find a link to some research conducted on this particular subject on this website.Leave no child inside is an article about reconnecting kids with nature. Sadly humans are losing their touch with nature and the environment we're brought up in isn't helping anyone on this

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In yet another attempt to flog this dead blog into life, I've been experimenting with colour schemes and layout arrangements. Let me know about how it looks on your end.

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Gamma Bros. is an old school style shmup by pixeljam games. You'll require flash player innstalled and Its available as a free download for both Mac & PC here.A 'shmup' is short for Shoot 'em up. The unique bit about this shmup is in the little details. Right from the 'Thunderbirds are GO!' style intro to the small animations when you change ships. The game has the right pace before things get

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Last year I bought two overpriced collections of comics titled 'Flight' & 'Flight Volume 2'. Both volumes are published by Image comics.'Flight' had a theme - Flight. Each comic was written by a different artist. So there were different & wonderful interpretations of flying & flight. Most of the stories were of the feel good kind. Uplift - flights of fancy etc.'Flight Volume II'. Theme is still

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A: Mumbai

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I'm going through a hectic period. I'm trying to build the Westminster Abbey in a month. And paint frames of animation for a movie, whose deadline is fast approaching.I just realized that for a lazy fuck, I'm sure as hell hardcore.

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There is no such thing as a bad joke. You either have the 'right' sense of humour or you don't.

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Mac users & animators will find this widget useful:BBC Motion Gallery Search Widget

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I came across 2 intersting sites. One of them is a very informative site about typography. Its a companion site to a book on typography. Check out Thinking with TypeThe other site is about drugs. Scoot to ErowidSong for the moment: Luciano - Red inna Rome(Its a reggae number if you are wondering)

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If you don't like the Revolution controller, you are fundamentally part of the problem and killing the fucking art form.-Game journalist Kieron Gillen

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I came across a piece called Declaration of Revocation,some days back. I heard that this piece was a hoax. But I wouldn't be suprised if John Cleese (one of the members of the comic troupe Monty Python) actually wrote it.

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I've been reading a lot of comics by Alan Moore recently.V for Vendetta - Tragic thing is that I was reading this comic while the London Bomb Blasts occured. What if things took a turn for the worse. Imagine UK going the Nazi way after the bombings. Instead of the Fuhrer they have a boob that falls in love with a computer that is almost a shade of Big Brother (1984 anyone?). Along the way comes a

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Pixel MuseumFlcker related tag browserColour Fields Colr Pickre-merl.comA must read if u blog

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Finished 'Stranger in a Strange Land' by Robert A. Heinlein. Its got glowing reviews left right & centre. Whats more is that most people who I know liked it too.Setting all that aside this is one crap book. The characters are way too artifical. The book reads like a script for a bad mono-act by the author. Women & sex are given that I'm-a-10-year-old-boy-who-discovered-Play-Boy treatment. There

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Came across these cool sites:Vector Park LooptracksSome cool Japanese siteYenjoy!

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I believe this will be the next BIG thing (as far gaming is concerned), if its executed right.SporeAnd a couple of Pics

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Said Mr.T to Mr. Rocky (w/ mock vehemence) in one of those forgetable Rocky sequels:" You call yourself a Fighter? Prove it Now! "Wah! Wah!! Gold inlay in marble stuff, I tell you.

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Some things old, some things very old:History of Robots in the Victorian EraVintage Toy RobotsVintage Test PhotosPop CultAll links via The Cartoonist

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Happy Diwali readers.

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Today I hit the local theatre for a movie called 'Shaun of the Dead'. The first 20 minutes of it was shot in an interesting manner: The camera followed Shawn around pretty closely. Coolest bit of the movie was whacking up a zombie in synch to the beats of Queen's 'Dont stop me now'.Avoid movie, its bollocks.

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I've landed in Dubai. This place is like Kuwait except that it is spread across a large area.Somethings that struck me were:1> Horrible Traffic.2> My finger tips feel numb most of the time. I believe its something to do with shuttling between air-conditioned & non-ac-ified environs.3> I'm totally lost & need to find my bearings.4> Too pooped to do anything at the end of the day.5> MCM, a French

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Yes people I'm off to Dubai.Bangaloreans Bye Bye.Its been wonderful.

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Watched Kill Bill vol. 2 yesterday, at Symphony. Its a funny movie. I liked this movie a lot better than the 1st one. The 1st one was more or less like a haphazard connection of events. The 2nd one is more or less paced more slowly & less chaotically. General mood of the movie was that of afternoon tea. I was totally surprised to see David Carradine cast as Bill, I thought this guy died a long

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Offlate I've been nostalgic. It began as I was going through my stash of old games. Retrogaming is something I've alway wanted to dabble in & to an extent I have. By retrogamming I mean playing of old games, repairing relic consoles, coding emulators to capture the spirits of old hardware. To an extent I've accomplished this:Playing- checkRepairing (read as open cabinet, clean cobwebs, resolder

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It maybe easy being a pirate. But living off a pirate's loot is becoming harder by the day. I'm into 3D modelling. Offlate companies like Alias|Wavefront & Discreet are using sophisticated methods to crack down on people using illegal versions of their softwares. An advertising company in B'lore was caught & fined Rs. 2.5 Lakh. I began to think that it was the end of 3D modelling for me. Either I

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Stumbled across these 2 sites:1h05tokyoplasticYou'll need a flash plugin to view these sites & don't forget to switch on your speakers or connect your headphones.3 Funny Songs:1> Friday Night (by The Darkness)2> Rubber Bullets ( 10cc)3> Doll-Dagga Buzz-Buzz Ziggety-Zag ( Marilyn Manson) Now to catch a few ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ22222222----........

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I've been planning this for quite some time. Its THE HALL OF BEARD!Currently only one person has been inducted into it.

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Posted some pictures I created a long time ago, while in college.Take Me Home, Daddy!

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Thought of this on the bus to Calicut:Let it GrowLet it FlowLet it Show Applies to Hair, Love etc.

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Bob Marley sang " Exodus, movement of Jah people".I realized my batchmates from college are all on an Exodus. I only realized this after sending off Srikanth today evening. Srikanth's off to Texas for his PhD.Heck! I too will be leaving in a few weeks time. It feels kind of weird. Its like in those detergent ads when they show stain blobs being yanked off fibres by super duper detergent particles

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Way after 80s acid-trippy Pacman, an awesome game landed on earth sometime around '91. Lemmings by DMA Design is one of those games that still shines today. DMA Design was also responsible for Grand Theft Auto. DMA Design is now Rockstar North.Getting back to the game. Its all about a bunch of suicidal munchkin like creatures who are trying to exit the level. Your job is to get a bunch of them

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I'm convinced that I'm a mutant. My mutation being an extra lobe of the brain which I dub as the 'radio' lobe. Just as the rays of the early morning sun stimulates the pituitary gland, this lobe too, tunes into some obscure radio station or your old playlist (which no longer exists). The radio lobe just about defines your day. It may play an irritating song & make you feel helpless or stud

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In no particular order:song (artist)1> Sex Type Thing (Stone Temple Pilots); The unplugged version of this song is great too. Loud & great.2> Mother[Live] (Danzig); Live version is the best & its best sung to, when the gangs' drunk3> In a Gadda Da Vida(Iron butterfly); Psychedellic rock at its best with a wicked riff (step aside prog rock!)4> Starfuckers, Inc.(Nine Inch Nails); Nobody can program

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Firstly I'd like to apologise to Jubilant- Dude your friend's software wasn't bogging down my system. It was something else (read on).I have this favourite font called the '20th Century Poster' & I managed to lose it. I searched high & low for it. Gathered a lot of fonts from people around me. But it was useless & now I have around 11,400 fonts. Then I thought to myself (like a prick) now that

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Click me

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While walking back home on Monday. I saw something weird : A large bark brownish toad just pops out of the gap between two granite slabs that cover the gutter. It was followed by an equally brown rat. The rat was trying to nibble the toad's behind & the toad just kept jumping away. The toad jumped on....the rat followed, untill they both disappeared down another gap. The whole episode lasted

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Sunday, I had been on a long walk with Anjalie. It has been a while since our last aimless walk. Just got me thinking about how busy I'm now (& how jobless I was, back then). Somewhere along the way I came to a conclusion that I will not die, instead I'd implode into my own navel. Maybe our navels are actually portals to another dimension!! All one has to do is 'implode' into one's navel and....

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I have this peculiar thing going on. Whenever I listen to a good song & 'connect with it', the hair on the back of my head stands up, or I get goose bumps followed by going numb for 3 seconds. This is something I haven’t been able to explain. By ‘connect with it’ I’m referring to the phenomenon wherein music & lyrics go hand in hand with mood I’m in, and I experience some weird kind of epiphany.

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The Devil only knew how many songs were being mixed into old school rap songs in the 80s. One fine day a singer decided to sue rapper Biz Markie. The sueing later screwed Biz Markie through & through. Since then then record labels have been scrupulous when it came to acknowledging artistes who were being sampled. Tapes & CDs came with inlay sleeves that were a mile long & contained crap loads of

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I just love this particular line. Problem is I keep forgetting it. I first heard it from Sarun. I remember writing it down on a napkin, in a pub. But I couldn't find it later. Almost a half year later (last week), I met up with Sarun at the same pub & wrote the line down yet again on a napkin. I fear that I'm going to forget the line again or lose the napkin. It has to be uttered exactly as it is

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Major upheaval on cards.

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