Lavatory Graffiti

So I was at Spinneys with Tarun one evening getting something to drink when I decided to answer the call of nature.

Now usually I don't 'go' in places like this, shops,malls,school,the like ,

but if I hadn't gone this time, I would've missed some great art like,


or,


Monet anyone?.

Got Wood?

Woke up that morning with a bad neck and a helluva hangover but I managed to get to Tarun's quick enough,
Kirk wasn't at home and Mark hadn't gotten there yet.
Tarun and I headed over to CBTL for a cappucino.
Kirk calls us over.
We run through our set, didn't go as bad as I thought, managed to sing alright
I think,
Headed over to the venue after getting lost atleast twice.
Ran through sound check.
And I was doing alright so far.


Then the metal kids started pouring in 2 hours later,
Greeted a few people in the crowd and waited until Adham gave us the go.
Hid behind the drumkit after I got bored of walking around.
Quick pep-talk and Adham gives us the 'go'.
We 'went'.



Man it was incredible , we pulled off a really tight set, considering the kind of music we were playing, it was really awesome seeing the crowd enjoying themselves and even (no seriously) moshing :|.
I'm going to end this post here , because I can ^_^.

Thanks a lot to everybody who came and saw us, your support means the world to us , thanks for having an open mind and thanks for listening, we were 'Got Wood?' ;).

This was our setlist for anyone who wanted to know :

Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching
Incubus - Summer Romance (Anti Gravity)
Got Wood? - Star Train
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Got Wood? - Of Today

Cheers all, heres a link with more pics of the show,

Assembly 5 : Re-Ignition

Assembly 5 : Re-Ignition

In order of appearance

1.Got Wood (New name)
2.Nepenthe
3.Devastatrix
4.Sandwash

http://ignite-events.com/

Thursday 7 PM

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P.S Check out DVNT's new tracks on

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Audiostreet

The Assemblies are back

The first of the season being on the 7th of September at the Lotus Hotel in Deira.Theres a 20AED entrance charge at the 'gate' and 4 local bands playing including the likes of :

Nepenthe (Thrash/Rock)
Devastatrix (No idea yet)
MorningWood (Jazz/Alternative/Funk)
Sandwash (GrooveCore)

Sure to be a fun way to spend your evening, hope to see you guys there.

Bai Bai!

Cigarette burns and coffee circles

Its easy to draw a link between being in a sensory deprivation tank,

and the relatively slow effects of living alone.

Woke up at around 4:28 PM today and played a little guitar,
conveniently skipped lunch, and managed to get myself to make some coffee an hour after.

Don't get me wrong though, I love this.
I'm afforded a few opportunities of coming home late,getting shitfaced without worrying anybody.

Right now I've got a pack of lights and coffee in front of me, lights dim, and Dire Straits - Fade to black playing.

I've had quite a week too, I won't get into any kind of details , but I wonder how good this will get.

The only reason I'm actually even posting this is because I haven't had the time , energy or need to post in a while.

Well I've got time now,

and stuff.


Oh and if you're wondering whats happening with Deviant (or DVNT as we're now called), the recording process is finally over and we've sent in our demo to CSM so keep your fingers crossed for us , lord knows we've got ours in knots at this point.

Cheers and goodnight.

The Collective Unconscious

The hidden sweeps
The clock runs lean
The faster they run
Fueled by ignorance
To choke their own
To Survive

Angels alight, morning fire
The break of dawn will mark
The final circle
Will we perish this time
Or left alone in this
Self destructive dance
To live
To breathe
To sin

Do you really move
As what I see
Nothing ever changes
Never at peace

Do you really bleed
For all that you do
Comes back to you
Never will be

- Caes

Viva Italia and such

Who would've thought football would've been so much fun, Arnold was lucky enough to get his hands on two VIP tickets to the "Majlis" at the aviation club with an open bar and diner and we took full advantage of it.

Great game blah blah but what was really awesome was...



The ultimate head.

I've been on such a prog kick as of late as far as my music listening habits go.


Life update keywords : Italy,Free,Rehan,Gordian Knot,Fantomas,V-drums,52.

Dayaan's random thought of the day #1

"If modern music is technically nothing but different instruments spewing forth a bevy of notes in an orderly manner......



.............will there ever be a time where all possible combinations of said notes are made?"




Perish the thought, although its a little frightening how close music has gotten to the above statement, yes I'm talking about 'grindcore' and all it's other definitive forms.

It's almost like these bands decide to place notes that don't 'sound right' (yes yes I know, grano salis in mind) and just work from there.
Its not that I don't like it, in fact its quite the opposite, I find it really interesting the way bands like 'Sikth' can claim complete originality (for now) because of their 'strange' sound.

Thats all for now, I just thought I'd better make an update before I'd have to do it at gunpoint.

Saves a lot of fuss really.

*Puts on flame suit*

A State

The 3 songs to trip out to include

1.Tool - Pushit (Live)
2.Pink Floyd - Welcome to the machine
3.Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy

I had a pseudo party at my place where I tripped out incredibly.

Cheers and goodnight

Stickboy

A long time ago, about two years to be exact,
A bored, yet ambitious boy decided to liven up a certain forum that he was a part of , by creating a webcomic of his own.
However, owing to a lack of funding, talent and time,
It didn't really look all that appealing.

Believing in simplicity , he ploughed on and soon succeeded in spicening up the website he aimed to....spicen

So here it is, The Adventures of Stickboy

P.S On a side note, your first encounter of any of the strips may lead you to think that they're lame.But fret not little ones, for they were made for that purpose , and above all to be show how being random,

can also be kinda funny ^_^.

Go on then :).












Fin.


Incidentally, I've updated the blog roll on the right ,
I recommend Ishyta's blog, though new, I have a good idea what shes going to do with it,

Cheers all ;).

Chat Blog again

ishyta says:
oi blog
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
?
ishyta says:
you blog
ishyta says:
blog now
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
not right now
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
I made that lame blog post recently
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
that should be enough for now
ishyta says:
but why
ishyta says:
i want you to do it NOW
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
:(
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
what do I blog about though?
ishyta says:
aboutttt your cuticles
ishyta says:
nose hair
ishyta says:
any body part
ishyta says:
tht's always amused you
ishyta says:
toe-hair
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
hahahahahha
ishyta says:
ear lobes
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
nipple hair is by far the strangest and most amusing
ishyta says:
yes tht too
ishyta says:
do it. NOW
ishyta says:
bah i'm wasting my time
ishyta says:
i know you won't
ishyta says:
and no i' m not trying reverse psychology.
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
haha
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
nah I wanna post something now
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
I got the window open
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
but I don' tknow what
ishyta says:
say exactly tht
ishyta says:
tht you wanna post about something but you don't know what
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
I've done that before
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
two occasions I think
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
or more
ishyta says:
and type out all the thoughts tht come to your head
ishyta says:
THEN WRITE THT TOO



So I ran out of ideas,
Life update keywords- Sarah , A levels , My Jeep , sheep , Tension , The Davinci Code , Some more tension , Pantera.

Dubai's Budget Advertising

You might have come across a truck with this masterpiece crowning it's rear,



Carry on now.

Graduation '06

I don't know if I'll be able to recreate the feelings or emotions floating through the halls that night , mostly because it happened on Saturday and its like.....Tuesday now.

But where words cease to be effective, pictures do even better,




Rajat gave a very very very good speech , as did Sonam, and Arnold and me managed to move the crowd with our 'close-to-solid' rendition of Mark Knopfler's 'Local Hero Theme : Going Home'.
Whats great is, that song will always make me remember that night, as well as the preparation and practice we went through,

Even as I listen to it now, the beginning still chokes me up.



All in all, it was a wonderful night, one that I won't forget for years to come,
The dinner right after at the Irish Village was brilliant too, Harith took the trouble of making a small speech about everyone in our grade and Aishwarya was kind enough to hand out personal gifts to us all (she even managed to be late for the ceremony because of it, you're an angel hun ;) ).



I'll wrap this up and continue on another post with more pictures as I get them hopefully,
Thank you to everyone whos helped me get this far,
and goodnight ;)

Has it been a year already?

"......this is what blogspot is like.

Nothing much to report on my first post, its 11:09 PM and I just got back home from a small family party , my hairs all fuzzy and I have school tomorrow :|"

My first post on May 2nd 2005, exactly a year ago.

Happy Birthday TLW ;)

Daddy loves you











(Oh God, I did NOT just say that.)

Another chat log space filler

I have been asked to update....

I shall do so,



now.

Dayaan [DVNT] says:
Sathvik looks very sexy now
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
very sexy
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
I can't have him though
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
he speaks of this ...........Sarah
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
his heart belongs to another YA ALLAH!! !!
Sarah says:
sarah, what a bitch, right?!?!
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
*sobbing*
Sarah says:
haha.
Sarah says:
well I know he has the hots for you
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
!!!
Sarah says:
so I may consider sharing
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
speak not
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
of this
Sarah says:
if you offer me the right amount of chocolate to compensate
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
it only hurts me ,
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
I am but a poor young pubescent girl
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
at the ripe age of 13
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
the tender parts of my anatomy have blossommed
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
*sigh*
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
my training bra cutting into my soft skin
Dayaan [DVNT] says:
HAAHAHHA okay I can't go on much further :'D
Sarah says:
too much
Sarah says:
haha I cracked up in the middle of the net cafe




I hope you lot don't think of me as weird now ^_^, honestly it was all in good fun,
Of course this isn't the same Sarah as the one you all know and love, but another friend of mine

this one in fact,

If you haven't guessed yet, Sathvik is her boyfriend and hes in town at the moment, and I couldn't miss this opportunity to poke fun at her yet again ;).

Cheers you lot.

The Year of Tool

"They are the greatest band to sodomize my mind and soul...ever"

I don't care what the rest of you say, I think the new release Vicarious is great, I'm about to pre-order the CD as well.

If you're a newbie to Tool, the first thing you'd notice about their music is the off-time effect evident in almost all their songs, theres always some kind of twist that you can find in songs that would deter your finger drumming or rhythmic head movements.
Danny Carey's momentum building tom-work ,Adam Jones' simple, yet effective guitaring,Justin Chancellor's percussive use of bass and to crown it off, Maynard James Keenan's insightful lyrics and powerful vocals are the elements that together , can cause quite a stir in your thoughts.

I shall say no more.

Dear Murphy

Some of you might know that I'm about to say goodbye to my Prelude, if you don't,

I'm about to get rid of my car.



Now that thats out of the way,

Me and a few friends went to the dealership a few days ago to browse around for good deals and such,
Thats where I spotted her,

She was a white VW Golf GTi, the car I've been after for a little over a year.
Thinking it'd be an automatic, I had already written it off in my mind but it wasn't...
She was beautiful,
the rest of my posse quickly evaluated the car, beginning with whatever was wrong with it (no it was more like JUST what was wrong with it),
My eyes managed to see through the missing rear windshield wiper and the broken right headlamp, as well as the scuff on the left side mirror.

She really was something.

Excitedly, I called up my dad and told him about it and he said he'd take a look the next day.

I went to bed with a smile on my face that night.

This morning, my dad managed to take a day off , and we went and saw the car again, only the salesman wasn't to be found,

I went back there tonight with Arnold and after he inspected my Prelude, he agreed for a trade-in with a little expense. I couldn't believe it to be honest, but apparently it was "on".

I left the place and made my way home and hit the Sheikh Zayed Road,

Then it happened,

My hood flew up and smashed into the windshield and sunroof , I was blinded.
I tried to push it down repeatedly but this only caused it to smash into the windshield again.

I left it in a sandpit close to Thunderbowl and walked home,

The only reason I'm typing all this right now is because it happened atleast an hour ago and I've had plenty of time to think about it and get over some of the trauma.

The worst that could happen at that time, actually managed to happen (barring an accident).

It'll be a while until I can pretend to laugh about all this.

Part 2
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The walk home was terrible, the wind in my face only reminded me of how the hood flew up about 30 minutes ago (I have quite a graphic imagination)
It all caved in the whole walk home, from what I was feeling at the time, to the vicious cackle I heard from a passing motorist,and the person who came near my smashed vehicle and offered me a laminated card with arabic written on it.

This would probably qualify as the proverbial icing on the cake in regard to my recent string of unfortunate events.

That car is now dead to me,

R.I.P Carla.

Prose : n 1: "ordinary writing as distinguished from verse 2: matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression"

I've hit a low again,
don't ask me why,

I'll probably forget about it in the morning.

I just feel a little hurt but it'll rub off as soon as I finish this post.

Its closing in on 3 Am right about now.

I feel pathetic having to turn to my blog for comfort.

Musics a great anesthetic when you aren't thinking about it.

This is beginning to morph itself into a poem.

Like one of those 'dare-I-say' emo ones you'd find on a random LiveJournal.

I should be grateful.

Yeah, I should be grateful.

End.

Snow of the Sahara

So its been eons since I last blogged , or has it?,

My blog 'culture' usually entails me being inspired at random times, although right now I'm going to attempt to force it.

hm.

Ah yes, prom managed to suck even more than last years (if thats even possible) ,
However, after about 5 Vodkas (I lost count) and swig of Tequila, Karan made up for the rest of the night with his shenanigans , God bless him the poor sod.

In other news I realised what a computer geek I am,
Our router fried and after about two days of no intraweb , I spent my free time being holed up in my room doing absolutely fuck all.
I did get a lot of bass practice done though, I think I'm finally getting better, I can feel my left hand getting faster , after a stint of it not being able to keep up with my right hand.
I need a proper bass too, I've lowered the action so low on mine that when I tune down to D (which incidentally is what Deviant tunes to) , I get a slight fret buzz,
I'm hoping it won't be noticeable when we record this summer.

I've been listening to quite a lot of Jazz these days thanks to Arnold, mostly stuff by Dave Weckl, if you haven't heard of him, try getting hold of a track of his called 'Tower of Inspiration'.

I've got nothing much to say now,
Checked out Beneath The Remains , NSD , Stenchwart M.A.N , Believe and Revenge Tragedy last night at the 4th Assembly gig, it was great meeting a lot of people there too.

Incidentally, I've added the Sandwash blog to my chain of links, I recommend checking it out.

So thats it I guess.

Cheers and such.

Neunundneunzig Luftballons

This post will begin as nothing but a baseless body of text.
I just clicked 'New Post' on the dashboard and here I am with an empty head and nothing of substance to put up here,

But thanks for joining me here and welcome to The Long Winter ,seats are currently available in the backrow, take a load of your feet and wallow....

Alots happened since I last posted, I had the pleasure of meeting the guys from Testament,Megadeth,3 Doors Down and Reel Big Fish (who signed my wallet ;)) prior to Desert Rock.

If you want me to review the show ,

no,

Although it was could probably qualify as one of the best nights I've had in a while,
Tarun ,Anup and I ended up getting lost on the way to the Country Club, I should've seen that coming, the moment I stopped and asked them,

"Wait a minute, do any of you know where the club is?"

It took us around an hour and a half (minus the pit stops) but we finally got there in time to meet Testament.

What I found amazing was that we met quite a few Deviant 'fans' there who approached us and even singled me out for a quick chat about how the band was going and such
Tarun and I even encountered two drunk guys screaming "OMGZ ITS THE BASSIST AND DRUMMER OF DEVIANT ,LET US BOW"



Spot the blogger ;).

Well thats it for now,

Cheers and such.