Pat on the back...

...for the following artists for making songs that Ive really enjoyed listening to in this week!
Maroon 5 -She will be loved
Green Day- American Idiot and Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Rolling Stones- Angie (I know its not new...I just discovered this song)
Korn -Word Up
Metallica-Some Kind of Monster (new video is out)
Eminem-Mosh
Nirvana-About a Girl

And one kick in the butt to John Mayers for writing a song like "Daughters". I swear to God I can come up with better lyrics and more melody!

Russell Peters...

...is Canadian-Indian and is very funny! I wont commit the fallacy of raiso-expectationo so just check this out!

http://rack1.nethosters.com/~charles/russell/russell.ram

Have a nice one!

The Manchurian...

...Candidate!
-> Very Slow at the beginning!
-> Excellent acting by Meryl Streep, Denzel Washington and the other guy!
-> Made for lovers of Conspiracy Theories!
-> I liked it!
-> Last movie that I can watch for only 1$ until another 2 months!
-> Nothing to do with Chicken Manchurian Triple Rice which I so terribly miss now! :(

Its Thanksgiving time...

...here in the USA and for the Americans its a time for getting together with their families and doing loads of shopping. For me it was strictly the later! I learnt that almost every store has a post-thanksgiving sale where they slash the prices by more than half with the catch that this sale happens only on the day after thanksgiving and that too for just 5 hrs...from 6 am to 11am! What a cruel marketing stratergy...considering that temps hang arnd zero deg. celcius in the mornings here! Those Blood Sucking Leaches! Still I was not going to let the system beat me! Me and a roomie (who agreed to accompany me...cuz he desperately wanted to buy a hometheatre system cheaply) got up at 6am, padded ourselves with 3-4 layers of clothing and made our way to the local Walmart on foot! As per the tradition here, the previous night we had made a visit to Walmart and drew out a mental map of the aisles that held our coveted goods. S0 once we got there we wasted no time and waded through jam-packed aisles and found our booty comfortably. I returned a satisfied shopper and a proud owner of new sox, sweaters and a tee-shirt!
My watch said 8 by the time we got home!...We decided there was still some time to take advantage of and off we went (walking again :( in the chilly breeze) to the local JCPenny...and heres where I found the motivation for making this blog!
I found a SOUTHPARK tee :)
I ve been vainly hunting for a southpark teeshirt for a while now (in Bombay) and was glad when I finally came across one! Its a tee frm the episode "Lil Crime Stoppers" which shows
Cartman in a cop's attire and the words "RESPECT MY AUTHORITY" written beneath :D All this might seem very hollow to neone who is not a Southpark fan. But if u belong to the other half of the world which absolutely loves Southpark ull know what Im talking abt! That episode is one of the funniest Ive seen! Was so elated...ended by buying another sweater here for no reason! Needless to say..I returned home a happy man! I wonder if women feel satisfication something along these lines when they shop. I have gottobe careful! ;)

Tanuj...

...takes the honour of being the first to comment on my blog. Thanx Tanuj...appreciate it :) Dont worry...now u may be all alone but soon ull find urself being at the head of a large group of people! And for now since uve asked me howz my hair...heres link to a pic.

http://home.olemiss.edu/~rsammeta/about_me.html

Ive checked and this blog doesnt let me host images directly...theres another new application that prolly lets me do this...butIll explore that later. So for the time being please accept my humble apologizes for causing u the inconvenience of jumping around frm one page to another!
And btw...that pic uve seen/will see was taken using my now semi-new Sony Ericsson T616. I have grown very fond of this phone :D

A joke...

...I heard on Jay Lenos "Tonight Show" goes like this!
Jay was saying..."So everyone has heard about the fact that Colin Powell has resigned. But it is said that hes going to hang around for a while to help Rice get used to her new office. I guess that makes him a ; "
OK...as I type this out it doesnt seem all that funny but it was when I heard it!

My hair...

...is something that I have been experimenting with for a while now. As a kid I was blessed with thick black hair...a fact which my mom took great pride in and made sure my ears were half covered through the better part of my schooling years. When self-awareness kicked in I resented all the pictures in my family album and promptly cropped my hair real short. For 2 years I kept it that way resisting my mothers threats, requests, pleadings and what not! Then just an year ago I decided it was time for 80's rocker style long hair look on me! Many said I wud look bad...but I remained dogged. My logic was, and still is simple...how will I ever know if Ill look better or worse without really trying it. Besides theres the fun and variety aspect to it too. However a trip to 'Tirupathi' and then an impulsive decision based on the science of better aerodynamics just before I ran the Mumbai half-marathon (15th Feb 2004...yeah we ran in memory of all the guys who spent the previous day single!) resulted in me shaving my head bald twice in 2 months.
After that I decided that I was not letting any scissors touch my hair until it was of shoulder length. I had even done some research as to how to go about doing it on the net! I thought I was all set and with my keen interest it wud be an easy 6-7 months before I looked like Tom Cruise! Alas...it wasnt going to be so easy! Firstly, if u r South-Indian and are used to not combing ur hair for a couple of years..then the impact of a trying to manage a crop of twisting and turning and irritatingly curly hair which has absolutely no chance of looking well kept except if u emptied out a dozen hair gel bottles onto ur head can be quite rough! Couple that with the very high risk of your professor not appreciating your sudden transformation into a road side romeo and expecting you to look decent (im not saying theres nething wrong with that) on the day of your final B.Tech project presentation....and the result was me making a trip to the local hairdresser and telling him the same thing Ive said for a long time..."Chota kar do...kangi nahin karni hain".
The last time I had a haircut was 3 months. This is going to be my second attempt at growing my hair. It has again reached the irritating stage and I am back to looking like a dork :(...I have survived major impulses to get it cut and the reason why I am bloggin now is also to survive another one! My prof here (who is non-American) either seems to be quite cool or is secretly planning to tell me sometime that I desperately need a haircut! I hope its the former! I know its going to be a long road ahead and all I can do is wait and pray that I complete this difficult journey and make it to my destination. And when I do...I shall be an inspiration to all. :)

The Village...

...a movie that I was longing to see ever since I first heard about it. I am a hardcore M.N.S fan. Not cuz hes Indian. He makes the kind of movies that I love watching. I am not just blindly led by Sixth Sense...I loved each and every movie he has made after that. Sixth Sense no doubt is his most popular work...somehow ended up liking The Village more than Sixth Sense...In fact heres my ranking
1.The Village
2.Sixth Sense
3. Signs
4.Unbreakable

At the risk of sounding like an arti-farti ass...let me say that I have noticed that I enjoy even those movies which dont have a very good story line...all I need is some grr8 acting or excellent direction. For this reason I have admired and loved so many movies that my friends have hated and have blasted me about. Thinking right now...Id say movies like... 'Adaptation' and 'Signs'. I absolutely loved both. I never really thought of Nicholas Cage as a great actor....he seemed to be the kind who was very good at senti stupid roles...BUT Adaptation changed all that. His performance was mind-blowing and in my opinion he shud have been nominated for an Oscar (thats just an expression...I dont really believe all Oscar Winners are the best amongst their lot). His potrayal of two entirely opposite characters with such conviction is very very impressive. And the movie itself is very vague....but if u r like me...someone who prefers watching movies alone rather than in a big group...all u have to do is sit back, relax and just let the movie grip u and take u on its wonderful path. Adaptation I think is one of the best off-genre movies ever made.
Coming to Signs.....this is a work of pure genius. It scares the shit out of you yet 'grips' you and takes u along. I guess it all depends on the kind of movie watcher that u r. If u resist being 'gripped' by the movie I do admit it wont. But u you do fall in voluntarily then this movie (or infact ne other of this kind) fills u with emotions at everystage and atleast I consider it worth my money and time. I loved the unique concept and the excellent way it had been portrayed.
Everytime I try to make someone else see my POV...I fail miserably and become the butt of all jokes abt being the arti-farti kind. :(

So being such a weird ass lover of weird ass movies I was waay too excited about 'The Village'. Maybe I am too much of an MNS fan...maybe I think too much...but the same thing happened. My friends thought it was ok...and were shocked when I came out beaming with joy and pleasure and shouting "shit shit...that was something :)"...so I thought...what did i like so much about the movie...
--The Direction...if uve seen the movie,u know that u can tell someone else the story in one line.."Its about this group of people who..blah blah blah"...BUT it bloody goes on for more than 2 hrs without u realizing that the end had come. Absolutely Grippin! MNS has too much talent!
--The acting was reasonably good...every did a good job!
--I fell in love with the character of Bryce Howard (the blind girl) :( She was waaay too amazing ... Bryce portrayed her character very well and she looked so captivating...If I were to meet such a person in real life I wud get married to her for sure! Some scenes were too moving...like when when she finds Joaquin Phoenix stabbed. Have to admit I had to fight back tears!!! ...also when she holds her hand out amidst the commotion in the wedding ceremony and also when the creature comes and how both times Joaquin Phoenix grabs her and takes her to safety! I guess I am a hopeless romantic!

I have come to realize I delve too much into and think too much about a movie than the common movie-goer...good or bad I dont know! That is only way I feel one shud watch a movie. Maybe I am in denial...maybe I am an arti-farti ass...that wud be interesting ;)

Life can be weird...

...cuz just when u think u have it figured, u find urself in a quandary. I cant decide whether to think with my heart or mind. Ive never achieved the necessary balance and I dont think I ever will :(. I am as confused about certain things as I was when I started off. I have to make a decision now and I dont know how to go about it!
The Heart or the Mind! Someone figure out and tell me!

Its like a butterfly....when u dont give a shit...it comes and lands on ur shoulders.
If u try hard to get to it....it flies further away from you.
But how long can u pretend that u dont give a shit?

What do i do? Damn!

I heard this joke...

...on the "Tonight Show" by Jay Leno last night. He had Robin Williams as his guest and Jay Leno by himself is quite funny but Robin Williams kicked his ass. BTW the show totally rocks and is very very entertaining. Neway...Robin was sayin..

"So the chicken and the egg lie exhausted in the bed and the chicken lights up a cigarette and says 'That answers the age old question i guess...so what do u want to know now?' "

I was ROTFLing... so thought it worthwhile to post. Thats my sense of humour for you :)

Its been a while...

...since Ive made my blog and I am still clueless as to what to write about. I guess thinking hard to come up with something to write about isnt such an appealing thing to do. Ill wait for something to pop up in my mind and put it down. Until then check out the lyrics of 'Black' by Pearl Jam and if possible... listen to it. An amazingly beautiful song. Musically gorgeous and sung to perfection by Vedder with such touching lyrics! Pearl Jam be Gawd!

Black

Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did
All five horizons revolved around her soul As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn

Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds Of what was everything?
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside
I’m surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I’m spinning,
oh, I’m spinning How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass Of what was everything
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I’ll ever be...yeah...
Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...
I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life, I know you’ll be a star
In somebody else’s sky, but whyWhy, why can’t it be, why can’t it be mine!!!

Numero Uno

My thoughts for all to see.
But only those revealed by me!