Rage against the Machine's eponymous first album...The band is lot political and they used a powerful image from the Vietnam War period...The self immolation of Buddhist Monk as a protest against US war.
The southern rock band Lynyrd Skynrd's last album Street Survivors...The most eerie thing happened...3 days after the album was released their plane crashed and 3 members died tragically...the ones covered by flame on their heads on the cd cover...
The smashing album Nevermind by Nirvana...the cover shows a baby chasing a dollar. Signifies the current attitude of money above everything...People protested against showing the private parts of the Baby...Kurt Cobain said they were Closet pedophiles and rightly so...
CD covers are said to be an extension of the music conveyed in the album. Yesterday I saw a program on VH1 which showcased the top50 cd covers. The first was Rolling Stones' Sticky fingers. It portrayed a close up of the crotch of a man complete with working zipper. Who's Next by The Who came next with a picture of a monolith on which the ban had releaved themselves! Top ten included Madonna, Prince etc... Here are some covers that I like from the show and the cover of Appetite for Destruction By Guns N Roses which was a glaring omission from the list.
CD covers are said to be an extension of the music conveyed in the album. Yesterday I saw a program on VH1 which showcased the top50 cd covers. The first was Rolling Stones' Sticky fingers. It portrayed a close up of the crotch of a man complete with working zipper. Who's Next by The Who came next with a picture of a monolith on which the ban had releaved themselves! Top ten included Madonna, Prince etc... Here are some covers that I like from the show and the cover of Appetite for Destruction By Guns N Roses which was a glaring omission from the list.
Though I have been hard rock fan for a long time it was recently that I heard Led Zeppelin , the Granddaddy of Hard Rock. I liked most of their songs, from their best of collections Early Days and Latter Days. The favourite of mine has been Stairway to heaven . The most famous and arguably the best Led Zep song (though Kashmir is also quite the same...) I started reading about it and was blown away by the mindblowing fact that the song is backmasked or accused to be so! Backmasking??? It is the art(?) of introducing a message into a song which can only be deciphered when listened backwards. Back to our song. This song straight forward has references to the Lord of the Rings. People like Galadriel and Gandalf come to our mind. Golden lady references and the smoke rings through the forest.The yearning of the elves for the west is also specified. It is natural as Robert Plant, the lyricist and singer and the whole Led Zep were Tolkien fans. Like most other rock songs the song has referen...
You Are Rain You can be warm and sexy. Or cold and unwelcoming. Either way, you slowly bring out the beauty around you. You are best known for: your touch Your dominant state: changing What Type of Weather Are You?
Elated at getting an Interview call from IRMA. But now I have got butterfies in my stomach now. Anyway I am trying to put that aside for a while and concentrate on my project which has not yet been started. Actually the trouble is I am creatively washed out...Have to get back on track... While I was frantically searching for IRMA documents I came across a poem I wrote during class time in S6...Those were the days...I wrote a lot during those days. Most about love because of the inspiration from friends and one or two serious stuff. The best was one about decadence and I lost all of them. I wanted to give the following poem to the college magazine as it was the 'politically correct' one...but I lost the paper and cooked up a similar one while the editorial board was busy edting the mag on the computer...Here is the original one and the cooked up one and the inspiration... Original one Fading Light... The cool moon light fills the sky You don't know how hard I try To enjoy th...
For the first time I have been tagged, by Arti. I did some tags voluntarily but my first direct tag. It about 8 qualifications I would like to have in my better half... Rules of the game are … 1. The tagged victim has to come up with 8 different points of their perfect lover. 2. Need to mention the sex of the target. 3. Tag 8 victims to join this game & leave a comment on their comments saying they’ve been tagged. 4. If tagged the 2nd time, there’s no need to post again. Sex of the target : Female So here is it: 1. Should be loving and caring...not just to me but to my family as well. mischievous 2. Should have a sense of humour. I can be very sarcastic at times and pretty mischievous too. Ask my friends! 3. Looks don't matter too much but brain does. Should be a fairly sophisticated lady who can understand things that I do. That makes it a lot easier to live later on. That means a pretty good education but not necessarily. 4. She should be assertive so that she can '...
The song which has been haunting me for a while...its by Heart (two sisters front the band), a popular 80's band. A hard rock classic... Falling through an abyss... I hear the ticking of the clock I'm lying here the room's pitch dark I wonder where you are tonight No answer on the telephone And the night goes by so very slow Oh I hope that it won't end though Alone Till now I always got by on my own I never really cared until I met you And now it chills me to the bone How do I get you alone How do I get you alone You don't know how long I have wanted to touch your lips and hold you tight, oh You don't know how long I have waited and I was going to tell you tonight But the secret is still my own and my love for you is still unknown Alone Till now I always got by on my own I never really cared until I met you And now it chills me to the bone How do I get you alone How do I get you alone How do I get you alone How do I get you alone Alone, alone
You Are a Dreaming Soul Your vivid emotions and imagination takes you away from this world So much so that you tend to live in your head most of the time You have great dreams and ambitions that could be the envy of all... But for you, following through with your dreams is a bit difficult You are charming, endearing, and people tend to love you. Forgiving and tolerant, you see the world through rose colored glasses. Underneath it all, you have a ton of passion that you hide from others. Always hopeful, you tend to expect positive outcomes in your life. Souls you are most compatible with: Newborn Soul, Prophet Soul, and Traveler Soul What Kind of Soul Are You? Quite me...May be upto 90%! But hey I am a Gemini :-P
As a kid I was a real good boy. Never troubled my parents, never got into a fight and stayed the same throughout my school days. If something 'unusual' happened around me then I was never a suspect and never was I responsible for it. But now I think I am a qualified prankster. Good one to be when you are 21years old and on the verge of becoming a professional (hopefully!) Traces of being a prankster was there in my 11th and 12th. But I was a depressed nut those days to do pranks. But college has really fuelled me and I have become a certified one. Well, I don't do pranks with everyone. Best of my friends, notably Jackie and Rajeev have beared brunt of my insanity. I think I have taken them to the limits of their wits with my practical jokes. I think I used to be a Nazi Interrogator in my previous life. Jackie and Pappu stimulate me to find new methods of torture. It is said you hurt people you love the most. May be that's why I do this to my best friends. Listing are so...
Got myself a new look... Looks are important especially since first impression is the best impression... Has to impress the external examiner...Heard its a lady ;-) Had a sumptuous dinner... Chilly Chicken and Fried Rice...Yummy! Chinese food for every mood! Time 8:30 PM. Hasn't touched books or PC. Fired up PC. Glances at the game shortcuts. Admonishes self for thinking about gaming. Fires up Turbo C++. Looks at the programs Hafeez sent. Can't understand...Must use power... Back to desktop and fires up QCD. Slow to load.Wondering if songs would drag. Selects Korn (Album:Take a look in the mirror)...haven't heard for a long time. Liked their new song Twisted transistor. Not much of a fan of Nu Metal. Song: Right Now Back to TC. Yup! Right now I am going to do a simulation of Penalty in Football. Writes functions. Draws field. Draws goal post. Thinking... Song:Break some off Yeah! Take a break from thinking... Fire up Thunderbird...Check a sent mail to Riya. Makes a mental n...
Yes, that is my mind right now...A fear factory... Lots of stuff going on and the pace at which things happen is pretty much frenetic to say the least. Today is 19th... The project submission is on 1st February...Not much movement at all...Infact nothing at all...I hope I don't pay the prize for over confident and arrogant about my abilities. May be should have swallowed my pride and went with the crowd... I have this inherent nature that makes me sail against the wind. Is it good or bad? Then there is the Computer Graphics Lab...The way my friends are preparing scares me a lot...May be they have got serious as the college has come to an end...And me? Still the same 'Fivepointsomeone' (no, I have'nt read the book and may be thats why the usage) May be I am changing as well. My status in Yahoo reads listening to Krishna by Colonial Cousins ( got it from Jackie after a horrendous day) My messenger friends know that usually it is something like "Flying with Led Zeppel...
June Thinks far with vision. Easily influenced by kindness. Polite andsoft-spoken. Having lots of ideas. Sensitive. Active mind. Hesitating, tends to delay. Choosy and always wants the best. Temperamental. Funny and humorous. Loves to joke. Good debating skills. Talkative. Daydreamer. Friendly. Knows how to make friends. Abiding. Able to show character. Easilyhurt. Prone to getting colds. Loves to dress up. Easily bored. Fussy. Seldom shows emotions. Takes time to recover when hurt. Brand conscious. Executive. Stubborn. What Does Your Birth Month Reveal About You? brought to you by Quizilla This scares me...Every word is true... You will have a Content love . Not boring, but without fights and problems. You will just... be in love. Simple as that. As a person, you're not the one who laughs highest or most often, nor the one in the dark corner crying. You are the one who sits watching everyone else, often with a little smile playing on your lips. To you, life is good and you will g...
This is post is about my first serious brush with the authority (read Principal). The time...the days of S3. When we had a real @$$hole of a sir, lets call him Devil. (Can swear since he is no longer my teacher!) The guy did not teach well at all (an understatement) and once he even sent Nibin out of the class for asking a doubt. Me and Hafeez were also sent out once, though for a legitimate reason (We didn't bring the notebook :-P ) and we ended up getting an angry reprimand from our then class advisor Rajarajeshwari Maam. The fellows from other colleges would be laughing. Dudes, our college is one with difference. We cannot cut classes. Even if we do where will we go? To the rubber farms? Well, our condition is far far better than other new colleges (barring MBT). Well, back to our story. With the anger burning inside our hearts, tormented by the devil, we were looking for revenge. And then the first ever ACES (Ass of Com Sci Eng Studs) came. We were bent on putting a good show...
On our last college day in our class. We in the traditional Kerala dress :-) From L to R: Panackal, Hafeez (rabbit ear courtesy me!), Dinkan (Rahul), Me, Rajeev (Pappu, the tall), Rahul, Naveen, Anand, Kiran
From our trip to Agasthyarkoodam last year. Almost an year now...Still fresh in the memory...A trip of the lifetime...have no stamina to do one more...Thought i would publish after talking about trekking in the last post. Some 30+Km walk in a day. 25 to reach the base camp and then 5Km vertical ascent...We were panting like dogs after a small trek in Ponmudi...May be its time to quit smoking... (From L to R) Anand, Hafeez, Me( Pekaboo!), Kiran, Jackie, Naveen and Panackal
From our recent Ponmudi Trip. (From L to R) Me, Panackal, Unni (at back), Sreenath and Anand. We had a small trek to a place where me and Kiran thought we heard a stream and we found a small water stream...
You Should Drive a Ford Explorer SportTrac Tough and supercharged, you have some rather extreme driving practices. You've been known to intimidate a few drivers. You rule the road. What 2007 Car Should You Drive?
"Bad boys and the girls who love them..." This was an episode of a VH1 All access show. It featured rock stars like Gene Simmons (KISS), Tommy Lee (Pam's own boy!), Liam Gallaghar (Oasis), Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Mick jagger (Roling Stones), Eminem ( not a rock star!) etc But this one is about our own bad boy who was tamed by a pretty mean lady :-( Disclaimer: Bad boy in this article is not one like above. His vices extended to smoking and drinking and certainly not extending to womanising (ala Mick Jagger), dope (ala Steven Tyler) and extrme hatred (ala Eminem and Manson). He is a reckless fellow, on the wrong side of the law (read teachers, Principal etc). But deep inside he is good fellow. I am taking some liberties here with one of my best friends and I am exagerrating a lot of stuff just for the fun of it. Some of these incidents are purely and simply blown out of proportion. Figments of inflated memories I have cooked up in my mind. So please friends take it ligh...
Just had my dinner. There was an interview with Mohanlal on Kairali TV. He was asked whether he wanted to do something that he wanted to but could never be. He replied that nothing of that sort is there. He had become everything in movies so that kind of negates the question. My mother said then, "You used to say you wanted to be Mohanlal when you were 3 years old.You reasoned that if you became Mohanlal then you could be anything. Doctor, Police etc. My father: "You wanted to be the trash trolley puller when you were 3!" Well, I used to have a Russian childrens book then. (Believe me they rocked! I still have some torn pieces of it which I read out of Nostalgia...) In that there used to be a Porcupine (very cute looking one) which had a trolley made of wood. It used to collect stuff in it. I really wanted that and the only real life trolley I saw was the trash trolley. During that time I wanted to be a CI (Circle Inspector of Police) after reading about the escapades of...
Your Inner Blood Type is Type B You follow your own rules in life, even if you change the rules every day. Sure, you tend to be off the wall and unpredictable, but that's what makes you lovable. And even though you're a wild child, you have the tools to be a great success. You are able to concentrate intently - and make the impossible possible. You are most compatible with: B and AB Famous Type B's: Leonardo Di Caprio What's Your Inner Blood Type? Hmmm...My blood group is B+...Any relation???
Too much pressure these days. My last chance at a good management education around the corner. XAT on sunday. Not a bit of prep except for some reading up of permutations tonight. Project is giving me jitters. Has to learn a lot to do what I wish. My proud self is'nt allowing me to be satisfied by something which I can chew. Importantly, I have my batchmates, who have placed their entire trust on me to consider. May God help them.. College is over in four months. After that...a big void looks upon me. Ofcourse I have got to clear a lot of backs I have placed on myself. I wish to do it one stroke or I won't be there to say something like the title anymore... God...what is in store for me???
Your Brain is 46.67% Female, 53.33% Male Your brain is a healthy mix of male and female You are both sensitive and savvy Rational and reasonable, you tend to keep level headed But you also tend to wear your heart on your sleeve What Gender Is Your Brain?
New year mornings are almost always not too special. Late wake ups and a rush to the school or college. Thankfully it is sunday today. So I can relax my ass today. New year brings with it a lot of new hopes and fears as well. Engineering Life will be dead and buried by May and I have got an uncertainity over my future. Lets see how things work out. I am optimist and I hope for the best. Last year was pretty important for me. I have blogged about it in the fellowship blog . It is not that bleak as I wrote in that article though. This year I hope would be good for all of you out there and for me as well. Haris and me have started a new newsblog. Web Vibz . It gives you information on all happenings on the internet and web scene. It has stemmed from our frustration at not able to find web news from one spot. It is not just for geeks mind you! I hope we will not be discouraged and carry on the work even if there is poor response. By the way I wanted the blog to be called 'Newt...
The vacation has passed of quite quickly. Lots of plans...but none materialised except for some gaming. More on that later(?)...Now it is time for serious studies and our project...Has to call ousr sir today to remind him of the Red Hat guys. We friends had never had a new year bash and badly wanted it... But it was not to be :-(. Now that this is the last semester this will be unfulfilled. Heres a cheers to our virtual party! The glass contains Royal Stag XV (in a virtual party you can imagine anything ;-) But I had the fortune of having two memorable trips. One with the class guys and a reunion of sorts with guys from the school days. Prelude I have never visited Ponmudi inspite of being in Trivandrum for the entire life. This was my first time. We decided to go at early morning to avoid the rush towards noon and to enjoy the morning cold. We decided to leave at 6 A.M. SO I had to lie at my home that we had a cricket tournament and it would start at 6 and go on till afternoon. My par...