ladies, gentlemen and everything in between( he he !!)
welcome back to the biggest show on earth( maybe i'm the one that needs to be welcomed back .. but what the hell !)
ok my invisible audience (i'm still hoping thatthere were a few guys who went through this site but didn't post a comment. ) hope the last 6 months of your life have been rock 'n' roll'ish'(mine certainly weren't..)but was able to work on a certain number of things that have been bugging me for a long time- much better guitar solos, a better voice control and definately a much better control on my spoken english !(he who speaks speaks because thee knows he will.. whatever that means). so your truly one and only- the juggernaut is back in action and ready to kick off his second innings.
numerous topics seem to be going round and round in my mind(welcome back to the team dada!) so am not able to focus on anyone of 'em with my full concentration. so i guess this post will be a miscellaneous post, a pot-pouri of all that my thought process can lay it's hand on currently.
RIP- G.Duke(1999-2006 AD), Amen JNAuT, SlAsH it DowN
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Friday, May 19, 2006
Return of the Lazy-i
all right
i admit it
i am a bit lazy. but can't help it, sitting down to write another edition of my blog is sometimes not as enjoyable as i thought at first(i got six incomplete drafts waiting to be completed for the last three months) but as i have nothing else to do now, why not write another chronicle of my life ?
come to think of it much has happened in the last few days giving me numerous things to write about in this post-
reservations(get rid of these artificially drawn lines in society, abolish them completely !),
"da vince code" ban(hope the movie lives up to the hype it created),
celebrities standing up to fight for numerous causes only to get steamrolled before they begin(what the hell happened to this discussion ?),
return of two of my favourite bands-
rhcp-dani california rocks ! what a tribute to rock 'n' roll !
euphoria-mehfuz hoon !
and yah last but certainly not the least the soccer world cup in germany !
(there is an indian tour of west indies somewhere in between but i am more of a soccer maniac)
But as a celebration of my return to my blogging form i will start on a happier note(don't worry i plan to get my dirty hands on the reservation issue as soon as possible)
I think i will start with mehfuz -over the years as i grew up i have heard a lot of music( bollywood mainly) but was never actually been impressed by it. i mean i was never crazy about music, i was never a bathroom singer and didn't even try whistling or humming a song. The juggernaut of today happens to be an absolute contrast of that picture( of course i still can't whistle too well but i make do with whatever whistling i can do). then about a decade back i heard a new kind of sound, a sound that has captivated me ever since. out of nowhere a band called euphoria was suddenly born and it came out with a song called "dhoom pichak". awesome lyrics, great rhythm,awesome beats, very indian yet very modern. they followed it up with a song called sha na na which again rose to #1 on the music charts and the rest as they say is history. hence led to the birth of more than a hundred rock bands that came out with songs in hindi- indian ocean, aryans, silk route, etc. many of them came up with hit albums and only a few of the original bands are still existent but euphoria still continues to be at the helm of the indian rock scene.
their fourth album is titled mehfuz(apparently after a meghna gulzar movie which never got released). but does it live up to the hype that euphoria has created over the years and the expectations from their fourth album ?
well it depends on what u expect from euphoria. over the years i've seen many bands that have stuck to the same signature style of music and r in a steady state conditions, their number of fans over the years have remained the same.
then i've heard bands which evolve with every album, every album seems to b a different story altogether and the list of their fans keeps growing the bands in this category are probably the greatest of 'em all-U2, Led Zep, Deep Purple, Oasis, etc. On a more sub continent scene-Strings( Dhanni and Duur are like chalk and cheese) and Junoon(the last album was more pop than sufi-rock, but yah i preffer their rock style)
Mehfuz does just that for euphoria- it is what can be called the coming of age album for euphoria- much deeper lyrics than ever, more soothing melodies, more intricate work on the instruments and last but not the least a much more soothing and hard rocking palash sen voice.
The album seems to score in all departments- but i suggest u approach the album as a music lover and not as a euphoria fan, cause this is everything but vintage euphoria( the closest to the euphorian style is probably soneya- yah the one on air currently), the song mehfuz has got a great rustic feel to it and is undoubtedly the star striker of the album- great work by benny using the flute and rikki's guitar riffs keep u at the edge of ur seat not to mention palash sen's voice and gulzar's awesome lyrics. the center midfield is undoubtedly a song called bewafa which has some awesome work with a mouth organ , long after the song has finished the mouth organ coninues to linger about in ur mind. soneya is a high energy track with awesome percussions throughout the song but by this time most of u must have heard the song so i will keep this one short. apart from these there is a very jazz inspired track with some great bass work called kee farak painda, a "down in the dumps" song called savera with a very rock feel to it and another one called roshni which seems to be a sistern concern. also there's a song called bhoola sab with excellent guitar bridges and a mind blowing keyboard intro. this one's a must buy and definately one not to be missed !
that's all for now. hope to post another message by the end of this week( what r the chances of that happening ?)
yours truly
juggernaut
i admit it
i am a bit lazy. but can't help it, sitting down to write another edition of my blog is sometimes not as enjoyable as i thought at first(i got six incomplete drafts waiting to be completed for the last three months) but as i have nothing else to do now, why not write another chronicle of my life ?
come to think of it much has happened in the last few days giving me numerous things to write about in this post-
reservations(get rid of these artificially drawn lines in society, abolish them completely !),
"da vince code" ban(hope the movie lives up to the hype it created),
celebrities standing up to fight for numerous causes only to get steamrolled before they begin(what the hell happened to this discussion ?),
return of two of my favourite bands-
rhcp-dani california rocks ! what a tribute to rock 'n' roll !
euphoria-mehfuz hoon !
and yah last but certainly not the least the soccer world cup in germany !
(there is an indian tour of west indies somewhere in between but i am more of a soccer maniac)
But as a celebration of my return to my blogging form i will start on a happier note(don't worry i plan to get my dirty hands on the reservation issue as soon as possible)
I think i will start with mehfuz -over the years as i grew up i have heard a lot of music( bollywood mainly) but was never actually been impressed by it. i mean i was never crazy about music, i was never a bathroom singer and didn't even try whistling or humming a song. The juggernaut of today happens to be an absolute contrast of that picture( of course i still can't whistle too well but i make do with whatever whistling i can do). then about a decade back i heard a new kind of sound, a sound that has captivated me ever since. out of nowhere a band called euphoria was suddenly born and it came out with a song called "dhoom pichak". awesome lyrics, great rhythm,awesome beats, very indian yet very modern. they followed it up with a song called sha na na which again rose to #1 on the music charts and the rest as they say is history. hence led to the birth of more than a hundred rock bands that came out with songs in hindi- indian ocean, aryans, silk route, etc. many of them came up with hit albums and only a few of the original bands are still existent but euphoria still continues to be at the helm of the indian rock scene.
their fourth album is titled mehfuz(apparently after a meghna gulzar movie which never got released). but does it live up to the hype that euphoria has created over the years and the expectations from their fourth album ?
well it depends on what u expect from euphoria. over the years i've seen many bands that have stuck to the same signature style of music and r in a steady state conditions, their number of fans over the years have remained the same.
then i've heard bands which evolve with every album, every album seems to b a different story altogether and the list of their fans keeps growing the bands in this category are probably the greatest of 'em all-U2, Led Zep, Deep Purple, Oasis, etc. On a more sub continent scene-Strings( Dhanni and Duur are like chalk and cheese) and Junoon(the last album was more pop than sufi-rock, but yah i preffer their rock style)
Mehfuz does just that for euphoria- it is what can be called the coming of age album for euphoria- much deeper lyrics than ever, more soothing melodies, more intricate work on the instruments and last but not the least a much more soothing and hard rocking palash sen voice.
The album seems to score in all departments- but i suggest u approach the album as a music lover and not as a euphoria fan, cause this is everything but vintage euphoria( the closest to the euphorian style is probably soneya- yah the one on air currently), the song mehfuz has got a great rustic feel to it and is undoubtedly the star striker of the album- great work by benny using the flute and rikki's guitar riffs keep u at the edge of ur seat not to mention palash sen's voice and gulzar's awesome lyrics. the center midfield is undoubtedly a song called bewafa which has some awesome work with a mouth organ , long after the song has finished the mouth organ coninues to linger about in ur mind. soneya is a high energy track with awesome percussions throughout the song but by this time most of u must have heard the song so i will keep this one short. apart from these there is a very jazz inspired track with some great bass work called kee farak painda, a "down in the dumps" song called savera with a very rock feel to it and another one called roshni which seems to be a sistern concern. also there's a song called bhoola sab with excellent guitar bridges and a mind blowing keyboard intro. this one's a must buy and definately one not to be missed !
that's all for now. hope to post another message by the end of this week( what r the chances of that happening ?)
yours truly
juggernaut
Monday, February 20, 2006
Finally an audience !!!!!!!
i feel like i just won the oscar or something. " i would like to thank my parents, my friends , my dog, my chowkidar, my doodhwala ............." all right you get the picture. so what do i write about today. anyone out there intrested in MMRPG's(Mass Multiplayer Role Playing Games)? there is quite a nice game out there on the net called runescape(runescape.com). awesome game set in a fantasy world like environment complete with goblins, giants, large spiders(i know this doesn't make any sense), knights , kings and queens, princesses(I'm sure there is one atleast). but what i think is the greatest thing about this game is that the required system configuration is very low(graphics are OK), it's free(unlike star wars's MMRPG) and the no. of bytes per second is very low(runs pretty well on dial ups too and no long bills if you are using broadband). though of course often there is an ocassional slag in the game and you may get disconnected from the server if the population playing is very high but it's still enjoyable to a large extent. is any of you apj guys are reading this , log into to the server called toronto 37. more than half of our batch's population can be found there after 12 midnight.
the game has everything from swordfighting to making bread and meat(after slaughtering the cow or hen with your hands that is), mining gold and making yourself a sword (though you will get one automatically after the tutorial), intresting missions, fishing, felling trees... the works.also the whole runescape enviornment is divided into numerous kingdoms , each with its own distinguishing features(desert,island,sea,plains,grasslands), each with its own share of missions and goodies.also a kingdom called the wilderness exists where you can settle your differences with your friends(or foes) .yah you can have a fight to the death and then when you kill him, you can keep all his goodies and shout "Eat Crow" at the top of your voice. all in all i think it provides an excellent simulation of a world where you will be happy to live in after playing runescape just once. so what are you waiting for ? just log on and have fun !
that's all for today i have to sit back and prepare for my boards and have to sit back and think what to write next.
the juggernaut
PS:thank you god for getting me an audience. i couldn't ask for more.
the game has everything from swordfighting to making bread and meat(after slaughtering the cow or hen with your hands that is), mining gold and making yourself a sword (though you will get one automatically after the tutorial), intresting missions, fishing, felling trees... the works.also the whole runescape enviornment is divided into numerous kingdoms , each with its own distinguishing features(desert,island,sea,plains,grasslands), each with its own share of missions and goodies.also a kingdom called the wilderness exists where you can settle your differences with your friends(or foes) .yah you can have a fight to the death and then when you kill him, you can keep all his goodies and shout "Eat Crow" at the top of your voice. all in all i think it provides an excellent simulation of a world where you will be happy to live in after playing runescape just once. so what are you waiting for ? just log on and have fun !
that's all for today i have to sit back and prepare for my boards and have to sit back and think what to write next.
the juggernaut
PS:thank you god for getting me an audience. i couldn't ask for more.
Friday, February 10, 2006
No Place For My Head (or mind rather)
all right . the last post was good but why the hell would someone be interested in me. so from this post i will write about myself and my life(all Dear Diary stuff) plus write about anything or any issue that gets me intrested. could be anything a movie review(most of my reviews are wacky, believe me), a game that i really liked(i go slow on the racing games. I LOVE FPS), a good soccer or cricket match, should sourav ganguly be in the team or not, and yah good old bollywood( All right now you know i am an Indian).last but not the least i am learning to play the guitar(I can play Boulevard of Broken Dreams pretty well)so if any guitar expert goes through this site, please post a comment to let me know.
That's all for now.
PS:the blog showed that nobody has seen my site yet. please god get my site some viewers !
That's all for now.
PS:the blog showed that nobody has seen my site yet. please god get my site some viewers !
Thursday, February 09, 2006
The juggernaut's intro
every guy needs a place to pen (or type) down his thoughts, somewhere where he can vomit his anger as well as happiness, express his distress and disappointment and where he can point his finger at each and every foe out there, where he is the king , where he is the audience. somewhere where he and he alone rules throughout.this blog has given me a way to do just that if not anything else.
the juggernaut is a 'title' that i awarded myself a few years back after going through an x-men comic. i remember there are all these cops that are trying to stop the juggernaut with everything from guns to rocket launchers .when nothing works they bring a tank which takes a shot at him. the cloud clears and the juggeranut is down and out. or is he ? the cops are too busy celebrating and they don't realize that the juggernaut is up on his feet and ready to rumble and with four times the original intensity he brings down all the tanks and the cops leaving only a sea of carcases and a dumping ground of metal scrap on his path. if not now then some day i want to be like that. no not a 10-foot tall monster but a guy who doesn't back down to anyone or anything. no matter how big or how powerful the foe, he can be stopped only for a few minutes and when he rises again he strikes back at them with a thousand times the original intensity
that's all for now , an intro that leaves everyone mystified about the writer with the only knowledge about him his character and no name or identity but then again hasn't shakespeare written in one of his plays "What's in a name ?"
PS:Believe me even though the first para is a little wacky, i wasn't drunk when i wrote that.
Probably i do have some creativity in me unlike what the english teacher said
the juggernaut is a 'title' that i awarded myself a few years back after going through an x-men comic. i remember there are all these cops that are trying to stop the juggernaut with everything from guns to rocket launchers .when nothing works they bring a tank which takes a shot at him. the cloud clears and the juggeranut is down and out. or is he ? the cops are too busy celebrating and they don't realize that the juggernaut is up on his feet and ready to rumble and with four times the original intensity he brings down all the tanks and the cops leaving only a sea of carcases and a dumping ground of metal scrap on his path. if not now then some day i want to be like that. no not a 10-foot tall monster but a guy who doesn't back down to anyone or anything. no matter how big or how powerful the foe, he can be stopped only for a few minutes and when he rises again he strikes back at them with a thousand times the original intensity
that's all for now , an intro that leaves everyone mystified about the writer with the only knowledge about him his character and no name or identity but then again hasn't shakespeare written in one of his plays "What's in a name ?"
PS:Believe me even though the first para is a little wacky, i wasn't drunk when i wrote that.
Probably i do have some creativity in me unlike what the english teacher said
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