All Nightmare Long

Death Magnetic - The new album by Rick Rubin, oh yes of course.. in collaboration with Metallica. The Gods of Metal's new album since 2003's St.Anger (It actually won a Grammy and went double platinum.. thanks to me as well.. I bought the tape, yes tape.. I never went through the CD phase.. directly shifted from tapes to illegal mp3's like most Indians \m/)

Anyway, do I like Death Magnetic?? I don't know. Do I think it will be a hit? I don't know.

But I do know this...

1) Lyrics suck
2) Solo's suck
3) The sound absolutely lacks any feeling at all.

Metallica's music always lay in the guitars. The vocals were never the main instrument for them to 'communicate' music.. it was the freaking guitars. And in Death Magnetic.. they seem to have thrashed it.. all for just one thing.. thrash.. yes, 'Thrash Metal' to be precise.....

I'm not going into a song-by-song breaking down of the album for I'm sure you can find many other reviews for stuff like that. But I'd like to make one observation - The songs sound like a 'cut and paste' mashup of riffs that could have been the fulcrum for a number of great songs.

Even St.Anger had Metallica's soul in it.. but this one? No way!! There's no Master Of Puppets Solo, no songs that build like 'One' .. and Unforgiven III ... LOL!!!!!!!!! Suicide and Redemption doesn't sound anywhere as inspired as Call Of Ktulu, Orion or To Live Is To Die.. I really wonder why Kirk is so reluctant to hit any high notes in his solos...

Poor Metallica, getting all beaten and kicked over by pig-headed fans who fail to accept that all great bands have to progress ( Guess no one complained when The Beatles stopped making love ballads and released St.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club.. a psychedelic experiment.. yea and that was mainstream them...). So what's wrong with Metallica making Load and Re-load.. if you don't like the music, don't buy it for metals sake....

If Death Magnetic sucks so bad.. I'd blame you.. THE FAN, for killing Metallica. Stop telling them to make music YOU want to listen to.. listen to music for what it really is. Maybe Death Magnetic would have a couple of songs with lyrics about love and fatherhood, but at least it would have been honest music.. not manufactured shit like Death Magnetic... Metallica sound like a band being forced to make the music that they so want to run away from...

"...The Slave Becomes The Master..." - James Hetfield, in the song 'End Of The Line'

But its Metallica, and I'm still going to listen to the album because "Free Speech For The Dumb" was one of the most liberating experience I ever had way back in Class VII. When all you could see and hear around you was the Backstreet Boys the song simply blew me away (and did I mention that it has the F word in it as well??) Metallica's been a part of my life ever since. The least I owe them is a good listen....



Oh, n btw.. 'All Nightmare Long' is probably the best song on the album for me at this point...

What rubbish have I written? This was supposed to be an album review.. fckkk......

A Slightly Long Zen Story

Teacher: So students, what is the purpose of life?

BITS student who spends too much time on DC: Sir, the purpose of life is a life of purpose.....

Wierd Greek Dude: I second that. It is very important to have a purpose in life. In fact if the state does not dictate us with a purpose, finding a purpose is our single most important duty.

Teacher: Oh?

Indian Dude: Errr.. the question was what is the purpose of life, not what you are supposed to do once you are alive...

Wierd Greek Dude: Let me get to the point. As living beings with conciousness we need to define something known as a purpose. This is gives us the reason to live on....

Junkie: Reason? What is that??

Wierd Greek Dude: Reason is the cause and effect that we perceive in everyday life.. it is the....

Buddhist: So reason is a thought? Am I right??

(Wierd Greek Dude, thinks a bit and then nods in the affirmative)

Buddhist: But you think that the answer lies in thought? How do you know that thinking is an accurate process to decipher such a profound question. Isn't thought a major barrier in understanding the deeper nature of things? The mind is always in motion, never still enought to understand the true nature of things...

Junkie: Dude.. look at me.. I can be without having thoughts.. The acid man.. that really kicks some ass .. all you experience is true love man.. like you are one with the universe and shit.. your soul flying in the heavens....

Buddhist(Annoyed): But you are aware of all this right? There is an 'I' that is experiencing all of this.. so how can you be 'ONE' with the universe when you are still yourself??

Indian Dude: Now look here all of you. The problem with this line of approach is TIME. All that you know as 'thoughts' , the 'ego' , the 'I', philosophy, truth and meaning .. all of these exist in time. But what if time was a lie? What if time itself isn't real?? Then is the question "What is the purpose of life?" a valid question. The question does imply that for something to have a purpose there must have been a time where either it existed not having a purpose, or that a purpose existed when life was not. But what if time didn't exist.. then what???

Junkie: Dude, thats so whacked!! Thats some trippy shit man.. wow......

Buddhist: Yes, that is a very good question indeed....

Wierd Greek Dude: Well, you have me there my friend. We have no way of knowing whether the 'Time' that we experience is real or not....

BITS student who spends too much time on DC: zzzZZZzzzZZZzz (YAWN) zzZZZzzzZZZZZzzzzz....

Indian Dude: Sir, what do you have to say about it sir?

The old teacher slowly stood up and arched his back. He scratched his neck and tried to swat a fly that was buzzing around him. He then turned around slowly showing his back to the students, bent down gracefully and farted. The students were enlightned.

Trigger

[If you ever find out who wrote this, do let me know]

You decided at a young age that love wasn't something you wanted to get messed up in, just like the way i thought about drugs. We've both had a few close calls, but nothing major. Nothing life changing.

Friends for sale don't interest you. It's give and take and you do neither. I wonder at how figured out you seem to think you have youself. Let my sentence structure fuck you up. This is just a story about love, anyway. Nothing you'd want to touch.

It's hard to choke yourself when your body focuses on breathing so hard. Holding your breath from the day you get out of this stifling town. Imagine what it's like to be me; I came here years before you and I'll leave here after you.

Years down the road, you and I will never meet. We will never pass by in the street and recognize the new lines in an old face.
I'm going to go ahead and force myself into your veins. I'm going to go make it so you never forget that I was alive. Close your eyes, I bet my image won't decay. Press my lips to your cheek and whisper that this is it.

I had the courage to do so long ago. Back when the ice wasn't so frozen, my blood shook up like a million tiny pinpricks under my skin. This will happen again. The clock is shattered but it ticks for both of us.

Back when you were younger, you promised never to get mixed up in someone like me. Someone who would try to wrap you up in the tangled tape from a mix she made, someone whose veins pump something other than normal.

Talk one more time and I swear I'll shoot.

This is me with my trigger finger tensed.

Supercorp Part1 - A New Story!

Hi folks!

Just to let you know that I uploaded my latest story on 'Word On Canvas'. My blog where I put up my stories and (hopefully) better non-timepass stuff.

Here's the link: http://thestorysjustanexcusepart1.blogspot.com/

Hope you like it, and do leave your comments.

Thanks n adios for now!

Full Circle

A recent magazine survey showed that the average age at which Indians loose their virginity is 16. Ok, its not that low among people I personally know, but still its a figure to think about?

Wasn't child marriage (and hence Indians kids losing their virginity at age 14-16, you should read Ghandiji's 'My Experiments With Truth' for example) a staple thing in the 1800's???

Didn't people like Raja Ramohan Roy and Ghandiji do something about it?

But off late with the permeation of western culture into Indian society, more and more kids are experimenting with sex at a younger age... only this time without the security (or is bondage a better word?) of marriage.

Have we come full circle???

On Perceived Reality

Do lemme know why Pi=3.14159265358979323846… the question is WHY? Is there even a reason?

Wonder how a circle would look like if Pi=10 ??? Some kind of 3 dimensional oval??

First Encounter with 'Your Mom'

Me: Hi da, how you DOING??

Frnd: Your mom!

Me: whaT??

Frnd: Doing 'Your mom'...

Me: O.o

Frnd: Got jacked .. hahahhahahahha

Silence

Shhhhhhh.. how long can you stay silent?
In mind, body and soul??

The Noose

So glad to see you well, overcome them
and completely silent now
With heaven's help
And to not pull your halo down

But your halo's slipping down,
around your neck and to tug you off your cloud
Your halo's slipping down
Your halo's slipping down to choke you now

Me, Myself (Irene... Where Are You???)

Myself: zzzzzz, waa?? zzzzzz

Me: Stay awake, it doesn't look nice...

Myself: He's talking crap, I wanna sleep.. sleep is good. Re-wires your head, makes you more intelligent and improves memory and creativity. How about trying some lucid dreaming right now??

Me: No way!! wake up.. falling asleep when someone is talking is just plain wrong. You're insulting the guy you know. You're not that smart yourself...

Myself: Whatever, dai.. this guy is talking shit. Why is he teaching you to install an OS. You already know this crap.

Me: True, should I tell him that I know all this? Oooh! How about if i show off!?? Tell him that I know all about virtual machines, I used VMWare and stuff? What do you think?

Myself: Whateva, either you do something exciting or am gonna fall asleep and take you with me

Me: Alright, here goes...

Myself: Well........??

Me: Ummm, he looks so happy explaining it. Seems to be having a ball.. who knows, I might actually learn something.

Myself:Ok, he does look passionate about installing the OS, but learn something? WTF?? Do you know how irrational what you are saying is??

Me: Yea, what you say is true indeed. So....? Do I tell him to move on.

Myself: Hmmm, That'll require a jolt of energy and I am too happy now, in this half dreamy state..

Me: But this'll be a waste of my time otherwise

Myself: Next time, I swear... we'll speak our mind out. Next time no hesitation OK? Just leave it this time...

Me: Hmmm, sure.. next time.. surely??

Myself: Yea, surely.. now how many times have we been here before?

Me: Many I guess.. we sure suck...

Myself: We sure do... yep, we suck...

Me: So, next time.. no hesitations. I want your full support. We'll pick a fight with an annoying shopkeeper, talk to a random hot chick and ask her out, show the finger to someone who thinks they are smarter than us but isn't, get on with spirituality and all that other shit....??

Myself: Sure.. next time.....(Whisperingly) you wish.....