Arbit musings 2112

I was totally into torrent sitting today. every now and then checked on the download speeds. made sure all the torrents are healthy.gee, torrent sitting is a lot of responsibility. feel sad for the orphans out there.it's a bad bad world.No seeders only leeches...to suck em dry.

have started biting nails of late. stupid habit. You know, this journalist came up to me today evenin while I was takin jhini for a walk and said 'Hello!we are doing a census of singapore immigrants in bangalore aka bengalooru who walk their labbies between 4 and 5 pm' I said 'ol to u!you see a chinki there walkin his labbie.Why me?' and he said 'only fawn-colored labbies are counted!'.I said 'ol to u again!'

And then I went to this tea/lunch shack near my house to see whats cookin. I told the guy 'namaskara! one regular' and then sat on the wooden plank mounted on a couple of stones. the guy next to me was readin the paper.'udayavani' i think. I said somethin which translates to 'Politics and cricket are goin to the dogs as usual' thinkin he would be interested in atleast one of them. he said 'This food is also goin to the dogs'and abruptly ended his meal gesturing to the stray dogs near by. They came,smelt and went to sleep.I dint wait for my meal after that.

To be continued...

Another Level

Background music:Long Gone Day by Mad Season OR Kiss Me by SPNtR
Mood: High but grounded

Had a candid conversation with a girl I barely knew in school and found a good friend in her.Pinched myself every now and then to make sure that it was real. Man!The mood of the conversation matched listening to Mad Season which I have been deifying of late.

The chat was damn casual and without pretensions.Candid.It was dreamy,nostalgic and all that for the sheer time that had gone by between our meetings.We seemed to agree overtly with each other on most things. I was too eager to agree sometimes...hehe.

I appreciated (to myself(how selfish!(hey!this bracket inside bracket thing is funny!))oops!forgot to close the last bracket) her enquiries bout the subtlest of things like my best friend in school,my interests back then etc. I did'nt think she would remember that much in view of how little I knew bout her. I knew very little bout her as a person. kicked myself for that. This substituted pinching sometimes.

This was our second or third chat online and I found myself havin a buddy level converstaion with her. Amazing! She was kind of more candid...initiating conversation on questions I would almost never ask on a third meet! Appreciated! hehe...the content is secret. Miss,I should've discovered you a long time ago!

You know there are a few things that get me high (not in any particular order):
Air guitaring to an awesome song
Sit pensive by the window and appreciate life around me or Zach Braff in Scrubs
Discovering a true friend

I m on another level
Now I just think it's mine!
       -Another level by Level 9

And now, a year later...
20th November,2007

Background music:Still Kiss Me by SPNtR
Mood: High but grounded (yeah rite!!!!Sweetheart, I just can't be!!!)

It's been a larger than life journey with this angel ;) I barely knew in school!!! And I mean every bit of it!!!!

Thank you so much for everything sweetheart!!!!

Yours truly,

Bagsy

Mad Season

My pain is self-chosen
At least so the prophet says
I could either burn
Or cut off my pride and buy some time
A head full of lies is the weight
Tied to my waist
The river of deceit pulls down
The only direction we flow is down
Down, oh down
      -"River of Deceit" by Mad Season

Good things come about in serendipitous ways. I wouldn't have perceived the idea of being high on some divine melancholic melodic grunge on a tuesday afternoon. It was the beginning of Mad season!

Mad Season, it seems,is an english term for the time of the year when psilocybin mushrooms aka shrooms are in full bloom. And man! listening to Mad season is as close you ll get to being super high on shrooms in full bloom.

The formation of the band left me wondering how different influences within a group make music so much different. AiC and MS(forget apping for a while),though has come out with only one album have made top class music, but they are ever so different in spite of Layne staley being the common factor. It's not difficult for an AiC stalwart to recognise this difference;even for a lay ear maybe. You can play these games where one makes a band of one's own from certain favourites and wonder how their music would be. Let's say I tag Jerry Cantrell with Chris Cornell and Tom Morello of Audioslave. Hard to imagine.

For a really absorbing blend of music listen to "Long Gone Days" from their only album "Above". Some magical Saxophone pieces by Skerik, a seattle based artist and refreshing percussion in place of drums.

I don't need to convince people to listen to MS. That would be the most redundant thing ever!! Kickin myself for discovering MS so late.

Mad Season is:
Layne Staley (AiC) - Vocals (R.I.P)
Mike McCready (Pearl Jam) - Guitar
Barrett Martin (Screming Trees and Skin Yard) - Drums
John Saunders - Drums (R.I.P)

Guest apps:
Mark Lanegan (Screaming trees) - Vocals
Skerik - Saxophone and percussion