These are tunes the strains of which I pick up when they are heard for a fleeting few seconds in advertisements, background scores of movies, and sometimes on the radio. I pride myself on my high level of perceptibility of music.
Some of these songs are very well known, and only I did not know them. Some of them are rare gems. Some are underground labels.
1. Guster - Satellite (When the credits begin to roll in Martian Kid)
2. Mr. Blue Sky - ELO (When he credits roll in martian Kid, heard it again in Invention of Lying)
3. Fortress - Pinback (On radio, San Diego 94.9)
4. Under the milkyway - Church (Lincoln commercial)
5. Psycho Killer - Talking Heads ( San Diego 94.9)
6. Help I'm Alive - Metric (San Diego 94.9)
7. Somebody Needs You - Lo Fidelity All Stars ( Sex & the city background score for just 10 seconds)
8. Don't let it bring you down - Annie Lennox ( American Beauty background score)
That's it for now, will continue to update as and when.
Enjoy the music, it is all around... you just gotta feel it in the air.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Friday, July 3, 2009
Emo post
Do we really need cell phones that power up from the charger when the battery is removed? Or the other way around? No.
We invite these problems. Thus we earn our bread and butter (or just bread for vegans like me). And we absolutely love solving these problems. Many of our lives are nil and purposeless if we did not have hi-tech gadgets or communication devices. We sweat it out, work over long weekends just to feel a sense of satisfaction over solving an issue associated with a microscopic (literally!) part of an instrument.
When that is the case, why do we fret over personal problems? Why can't we take an impersonal approach to solve these problems? Do we get pissed off with an opamp for not working the way it is supposed to? Sure, we all swear at our work, but we know deep down that we are to blame. This is because a resistor, capacitor or transistor can NEVER behave the way it is not supposed to. Obviously any idiosyncracy must be due to a wrong hook-up and/or ignorance about some second or third order effect. That is it. Law of nature. Beyond scrutiny.
Similarly, if we adopt an introspective bent of mind in every problem that we face, and immediately correct / amend ourselves to best suit the situation with no personal feelings, that would certainly lead to the most effective solution. Possibly the only solution. People are just transistors, bias them the wrong way and they fuck you over.
Most discoveries were made by questioning the basic behaviour of materials, and not accepting them as truths beyond the scope of scrutiny. Similarly, if we analyze people and their problems there might spring up many an unravelled truth about them. But who hurts less? The transistor or the person?
We invite these problems. Thus we earn our bread and butter (or just bread for vegans like me). And we absolutely love solving these problems. Many of our lives are nil and purposeless if we did not have hi-tech gadgets or communication devices. We sweat it out, work over long weekends just to feel a sense of satisfaction over solving an issue associated with a microscopic (literally!) part of an instrument.
When that is the case, why do we fret over personal problems? Why can't we take an impersonal approach to solve these problems? Do we get pissed off with an opamp for not working the way it is supposed to? Sure, we all swear at our work, but we know deep down that we are to blame. This is because a resistor, capacitor or transistor can NEVER behave the way it is not supposed to. Obviously any idiosyncracy must be due to a wrong hook-up and/or ignorance about some second or third order effect. That is it. Law of nature. Beyond scrutiny.
Similarly, if we adopt an introspective bent of mind in every problem that we face, and immediately correct / amend ourselves to best suit the situation with no personal feelings, that would certainly lead to the most effective solution. Possibly the only solution. People are just transistors, bias them the wrong way and they fuck you over.
Most discoveries were made by questioning the basic behaviour of materials, and not accepting them as truths beyond the scope of scrutiny. Similarly, if we analyze people and their problems there might spring up many an unravelled truth about them. But who hurts less? The transistor or the person?
Friday, June 26, 2009
psychic?
I watched Kill Bill for the umpteenth time the other day. I was so taken in by David Carradine's personality that I wikied him. He was found dead that day in Thailand.
Yesterday, I had copied couple of snaps and some music from a friend's HDD. I noticed there were two MJ songs, and was like..wow it's been so long since I heard MJ at all. Why don't I ever listen to him these days? And I played smooth criminal. He died that very afternoon.
Weird.
Is this the way souls bid adieu to some material aspects of the world that their manifestation made a connection with during the bodily stint? MJ's soul manifestation was his music, while that of Carradine's was his acting. And there is something special I feel in the context of personal impact about both of those soulful manifestations. Is such a thing possible only through art? Can engineering ever be sublime?
Yesterday, I had copied couple of snaps and some music from a friend's HDD. I noticed there were two MJ songs, and was like..wow it's been so long since I heard MJ at all. Why don't I ever listen to him these days? And I played smooth criminal. He died that very afternoon.
Weird.
Is this the way souls bid adieu to some material aspects of the world that their manifestation made a connection with during the bodily stint? MJ's soul manifestation was his music, while that of Carradine's was his acting. And there is something special I feel in the context of personal impact about both of those soulful manifestations. Is such a thing possible only through art? Can engineering ever be sublime?
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Picture Perfect
Give me the plain picture and I will throw in the colors for you. Grey it down with your wisdom, I would make it dazzle with my stupidity. Structure it with your realism, let me fuzzify it with my romanticism. Ground it with compromise, I would manumit it with my ideals. Tame it with your silence, I would indulge it with paen. Treat the picture as a picture, while I would get in there and live in an imaginary world.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
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