The Long Night

Hi there, well its been quite a long time and alots happened since I last blogged,

The band I joined welcomed a new guitarist (who is phenomenal), and we're seriously considering auditioning for 'Enter Metallica' ,after going for Absolution , playing on stage looked like alot of fun :).

Oh yes Absolution was by far the best gig I've ever had the pleasure of attending, my favourite acts being 'Avarice' and 'Death of Eighty', unfortunately we had to leave early for a party that I'm going to talk about in a bit.

Ok now seems right,

Drove there with Hitesh,Behlul and Kaiwan right after Absolution ,

Almost got hit by a rash driver as well as being annoyed by the same (yes Ryan , this means you).

Managed to have a good time (yes there was an open bar) despite the music and other issues which I'm not really going to get into.

Around 15-20 drinks later, the epilepsy inducing strobe light didn't make give me as much as a headache as it had before, in fact everything looked like an old movie.

It's amazing how many amazing thoughts one can have under the influence of alcohol, I felt so poetic yet sad , knowing that I wouldn't remember any of the fresh, original thoughts I had lined up by the time I got up the next morning.

The turnout was pretty massive but its not like I didn't know anyone there ,and the venue kicked ass (kudos to whoever organised it).

Anyway, around 2 AM, we kinda wrapped up, and Yash was left with 2 drunk guys who had no way to get home, he asked me to stay and I did (yes I was still a little under the influence).

Drunkguy #2 was fast asleep outside on a couch with fresh puke all over his shirt,a bottle of water was hence poured all over him and he was awoken.

Drunkguy #1 & Drunkguy #2 were loaded into the car they came in, Yash drove the car and followed me and Behlul in mine and I showed em where DG#1 lived.

A few panic-stricken moments later we finally woke up DG#2 and Behlul escorted the Drunk Duo upstairs while me and Yash parked the car somewhere.

After that we went upstairs and DG#2 was sprawled on the floor and DG#1 was fiddling with the keys to the apartment, upon failure on opening the door, I took the keys and saw that there was only ONE.

A few more panic-stricken moments later we left them on a floor higher and made our way home.

Now I'm not a bad person , it did strike me later that leaving them like that probably wasn't the best thing to do, but it was the ONLY thing.

I spoke to the duo the next morning and they were fine, I told them everything that happened the night before and found out that DG#1 was trying to open the door with DG#2's key while his own keys were in his pocket.

*intermission while hair is torn off head*

That was officially the longest night of my life and I have a bottle of tequila to thank for that.

In other news I got a spanking new 50 Watt Crate amp for my bass :D, heavy though , couldn't fit it in my trunk when I bought it >.<.

Thats about it for now, tune in next time blah blah.....




Btw , small song recommendation

Sarah Slean - Climbing up the walls (Radiohead cover)

Jamming again

Well , these past 3-4 days have been something :D

Met up with my new bandmates and had an awesome time with them, even though the setlist for the prom we played at wasn't really what I had planned :O.

Then again it was a prom,and I had fun :D

So heres me giving props out to Paolo,Norain and Jason , twas fun jamming with you guys ;).

Heres a couple of pics a friend took of us on Sunday.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Narcot1c/IMG_0385.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Narcot1c/IMG_0387.jpg

Right now I'm trying to find an affordable/powerful bass amp, I'll be needing it for jam sessions since I've been using Sathvik's Aria as of late.

More later

Go now, shoo!.

The Shadowlands

Ryan Adams - The Shadowlands

Ritu sent me this song today and I listened to it,

For around 45 minutes.

Its safe to say that Ryan Adams has got style/finesse/whatever , in spades, I never gave him much interest before but then I heard 'So Alive' and it sounded so musically refreshing in this musical era full of bands that sound exactly the same,

If you liked his cover of 'Wonderwall' , you will really love this song, so go get it now :).

What my impression of what the song meant was that,

The Shadowlands is a place where people go after they suffer a great loss,
You lose something so dear to your heart that all thats left is the mere shadows that may have accented it before.

Alot of the lyrics in the song caught my eye , especially when Ryan says that you may never find true love, 'so sometimes you can just be a man'

Just a man,alone to mourn in the shadowlands.

I wouldn't go as far as to say stuff like "lyrical genius" but if anyone told me that Mr.Adams could never write, I'd show them this song.

The song in general is written like a prayer, the soft piano in the background takes up the first half of the song and sets the mood as Ryan sings ever so softly as to help you to grasp that particular emotion the song gives out.

Towards the end, a simple,light drum beat with an acoustic guitar playing the same chords along with the piano and some really beautiful electric guitar solo work which (atleast for me) could make you think about Knopfler's light and trebly guitar ditties.

I doubt I'll get over listening to this song for quite a long time...

...but I'll be damned if I ever regret listening to it in the first place.

Wow its late ,

'Night.

Whoa is me

Woo! new 'song obsession' based post today :)



dredg - Whoa is me

I wish I'd alot more attention to this band when I first heard about them a few years back but I probably wasn't in that stage of more mature listening back then (yeah I as an......Adema.....fan......*rolleyes*)

I haven't given a more in depth look at the lyrics to decipher its embedded meaning yet but rest assured , I will :)

From what I've heard, the booklet talks about a man dreaming in a dried up lake , and the chorus of the song it goes when the water comes, I will overflow.

There I've planted the seed of understanding, go and listen to this amazing song now and try coming up with your own conclusions as to what its about :).

Done for now.

Around the bend

So this is my first blog post for the month of June.

woo!

So I got up to jamming and finally meeting Jiten after so long at Hitesh's new apartment (or what I like to call the 'Haven') tried doing Fade to black and Master of puppets but the solos were an issue >.<.

Ohyeah Jiten if you're reading this, thanks alot for getting your 'Shaista' on while the 3 of us were stuck in CBTL >.<

monk3h d00d3h...:P

So about that other band I answered to on phride, I get a PM and a call from the drummer and now I've got to figure out a way to get to Mirdif for jam sessions :S.Hopefully after exams I could get my dad to drop me there the first couple of times , I really don't know the roads that well yet.

On the other hand I was listening to Disturbed - Remember all day and I must say, the vocals and the riff are amazing :o, its been on repeat for quite a while too.

In other news , I got really far with a new song I'm working on for Faux , its called 'Around the bend' and I'll post the lyrics as soon as I finish them and coordinate with the guitaring.Whats amazing is I can already imagine what it'll sound like with the violin score and bass line, in fact, this would be the first time I actually sang a song of my own in my head while day dreaming, it was at the tip of my tongue all day when I was in the Magrudys area when Ishita called and asked me how to spell 'goatee'

I know ,

wtf,


Hah tried learning Fur Elise today on classical guitar ^_^, just got the beginning bit down so far, I'll probably go back to it if I'm interested.

Cheers.

Disconnected

Just got back home from meeting Ritu,Behlul and Nauseen at Ghurair, and I got ready at about 9ish just to do so.Grabbed some coffee and ate about 1/4 of a Mushroom and chicken muffin pie thing at Starbucks.

Yeah I don't do that often.
Oh and I got to see The Mexx Guy who Nauseens all crazy about too :P.

I'm currently writing this on Notepad because something went wrong with my router yesterday and its broken.

I still feel kinda disconnected without the internet, I wonder if thats a bad thing at times, but then I just think about watching a movie to pass the time.


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Hi again

Just got back from jamming with a few guys from what was known as Coronica at Hitesh's new apartment.
Now I'm tired, but my internets back (yayz :D).

Think I'll watch City of Angels today.

Later.

Bass is teh pwn

I love bass guitars, they're funky and stuff :)

Anyway , so I'm in the middle of my AS level exams, so far so good but I usually never know until I get my grades.I've stopped playing Guild Wars for a while because of the exams and Etisalat's accursed lag issue >.<.

Karan's 18th is coming up pretty soon :), Friday to be exact , and I'm going to give him FFX since hes had his eye on it (Karan , if you're reading this, shoo).

I'm also contemplating on using the money I'm going to get from selling my PS2 to buy a better bass than the one I'm using now , instead of going for the PSP,

I even answered to a thread on a music project that needed members on phride so if that works out, I'd need a new bass (this JumpStart would be kinda...embarassing :$) , then again I'm not amazing and it'd probably be best if I wait a while and get better, patience however, was never one of my strong points so...

NEW BASS FTW! :D

Its nice to know that my right hand speeds gotten better, I can finally manage that bit after the main riff in the beginning of Master of Puppets

A---------2--------3----------4----------3---------2---
E---0--1----0--1------0--1-------0--1-------0--1------


Or something like that, anyway you get the idea.

Incidentally Tool - Reflection is a killer song to get high to :O, simple yet awesome bassline to it too :).

The age-old , boring console war

Right,

So the Guild Wars server was a bit laggy , I'd thought it'd be a perfect time to write something here :).

Hmm consoles, consoles , consoles.

How about them eh? , you've got the PS3,Xbox 360 and some other plastic horror in the making by Nintendo.
I don't know if any of you saw The Colony mini show dedicated to showing us screen junkies the power and features of the XboX 360, pretty interesting stuff, I was on Penny Arcade when I saw the link there (http://www.ourcolony.net/ , if you want to check it out).
I always seem to fall prey to advertising campaigns, no matter how silly the product is, someone in a spiffy suit, all smiles will always be able to convince me that explosive robot worms are a good idea for fishing.
Coming to the Xbox, the design didn't really grab me at first,I was looking forward to seeing something that looked "old school" to say the least, I miss how those chunky plastic consoles looked like, the N64,PSX etc. really proclaimed fun factor in almost any game associated with it.
Now you have futuristic looking mini space ships, satin silver,polished etc. which really doesn't do anything for me.

One bit in the video changed all that for me, I think the guy was talking about how the design is concave to represent "inhaling" or something, the browser looked pretty nice too as well as the fact that you could connect it to a computer.Another small detail that tipped the odds in Microsoft's favour was the big button on the controller.

Hell it almost made me feel like I....wanted one.

Damn it.

In other news, I picked up bass again today :), I forgot how much I loved the instrument , it can seriouslly kill your finger tips though :O , mine are blistering already , and this is after playing guitar for a year.

This is going nowhere so I'm going to end it.

Oh yes, listen to Tool's cover of No Quarter (Originally done by Led Zep).

Its Been a while...

...since I last blogged, I've been either studying or playing Guild Wars alot, yeah I cancelled the Qpad order in the end, the thing wouldn't fit on my table anyway.

Apart from that I think I have enough tracks done for an EP :D, I'll get cracking on that this coming summer if I find the time (and I better).

Interesting thought, yesterday my dad asked me to drive with him to the Alfa showroom because of a serious oil leak in his car, just so he could get a lift back home as well.Now I drove the Alfa earlier that day to pick up Shehara and I thought my car would feel a little underpowered.

Strangely enough it didn't o.O I honestly think its got a helluva good pull on it, was alotta fun whizzing around the 4th interchange area chasing after my dad :P, he made it hard enough though with his infernal lane changes and such >.<.

Moving on,

I had the strangest dream last night,and I'm going to tell you about it if you like it or not, so hah!
I had the same one before too, I know this becaus I remember telling my sister about it, anyway here we go,

It was a world where humans had evolved, everyone had inherited some kind of power, mine was the ability to climb walls I think, I dreamt of an area straight out of a Tool video and then it faded out and I found myself in my room, and I started...climbing up walls, and I turn around and theres Thom Yorke (vox for Radiohead for those who don't know), and this big bouncer guy was helping him to climb a wall,because by the looks of it he was having trouble doing it, and I move closer to him and find that,

hes singing Muse's Sing for absolution o.O

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In other news, I got a cool lamp :D

Justin King's "Something about angels"

I thought I'd turn TLW into a more music discussion/evaluation blog as well as a place for my personal rants so you'll be seeing posts like these put up at random, not that you really care anyway.

Right , so moving on,



This man has singlehandedly made me alot more interested in acoustic guitar than electric as well as really inspired me to make my own music (which I am incidentally and its coming along great :D).

I never gave this song much attention, after listening to 'Ashes' and 'August train' I was lost for words and didn't give much scope to 'Something about angels'.

I did however, while driving back home from lunch and its a really beautiful song, very easy going and Justin's voice definitely goes up there on my list , right next to Maynard James Keenan.

For those of you who haven't heard of Justin King, I feel sorry for you.

Just kidding, but do listen to his music, he isn't commercial so his material isn't really available on the market, although you can still order a CD or two from his website.

This guy is the best acoustic guitarist I've EVER come across (yes I AM taking into consideration the likes of Eric Clapton and that jazz guitarist whose name I've forgotten..again), if you still aren't convinced, I'd suggest you check out his Larrivee video on his website.

I don't know what else to say about this brilliant man, definitely a helluva role model as far as my musical interests go.

P.S > Thank you Reuben for telling me about him ;).

P.P.S > due to a recent failed attempt at cancelling my Qpad order, I'm now due to receive a Gate 01 XXL Qpad

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v118/Narcot1c/qpad_gate1_small.jpg

Bzzt.

A bit put off today , after typing a long post DEWA (Dubai Electricity and Water Association) decided I had enough of their services and promptly cut my power.Disgruntled as I was I phoned them and they said we hadn't paid our bill in 3 months , well if they'd actually GIVEN us a bill we would have known earlier >.<, great there goes my post...hmmm.

So Jiten gives me a surprise call today and I thought it was someone else :P, turns out hes here for 3 months :D woo! LAN parties and Jam sessions :D.Sam and Chris, you foos better be on your way too.

I think I got the song I was working on down to pat, first two verses for the lyrics are done too, the rest will flow out of me later on. Now I just need the other two (Shehara and Karan) to get their parts down.

Whee probably going to go for shisha today :D.

This post ends here.

I know

I blog a little too much in a day,

I also know that I think I'm in love.

With this song by Sarah Slean , its called 'I Know' and I'll be man enough to say that it almost brought a tear to my eye (that would be an understatement but I'm not looking to destroy my reputation, if any)



Loud mouth, suits and ties
Liars, with money and girls
The kind you fit in your pocket
I can't save them from this darkness
My sisters, I love them all
My faeries pinned against the wall

I know what you want
And I know what you want
And I know

Doll, made of paint and china
Your worth lies only in these
But you're real to me
Little bones, will you break these legs like twigs now?
There's pain here you'll never have to feel
Never have to feel

I know what you want
And I know what you want
And I know

And I would fight a thousand men
I'd fight fire and wind and rain
I'd cry a river of tears for them
The bodies floating there
Christ-like and bare
Tell me, is that fair?

There are some things I can't forgive
Some things I just can't forgive
Some things

Jesus, I thought we had an understanding
The fact that you can buy a woman
Makes me want to die
Where were you last night?
Jesus, Jesus
Where were you?

And I know what you want
I know it all too well
And I know
I know


After the song started playing on my Winamp , I ceased whatever I was doing and listened a bit more,

This was followed by me acquiring the lyrics, and then immersing myself into a quiet state of rapture , much like I do for the few other songs that really caught my attention.

Ah bliss...

Boring Friday evenings

So what does one do at times like these? , as of late me,

Shehara

and a close friend have been playing isketch (www.isketch.net) which is the online equivalent of Pictionary.

Its alot of fun, until my fellow sketchers got bored of the game at hand and......



also,



oh and my personal favourite,




Fun though :)

Guilty as charged

Yes I still play CS , but for money :D , 60 bucks a week isn't bad considering theres no way in hell you can lose to those junkies who roam the nicotine soaked walls of Qclub.

However its all going to end soon , with everyone going their separate ways and me getting pissed off at them for a number of reasons.

I do ONE mistake in-game and I get hell for it , it put me off so much I even asked Anas to cancel my Qpad order, to be honest I'd feel better playing Guild Wars than enhancing the smoothness of my mouse sweeps on a vulcanized rubber mat thats large enough to fold around my arm atleast three times.

Then you tend to stop and think, followed by laughter.

Performance mouse pads?

Purpose built mice?

Sponsorships for playing video games?

Christ...

Its bad enough the town folk in this part of the world are deprived of any intellect, now big shots like Angel Munoz decide to put small dreams in their minds of going to Dallas to compete in gaming events and even (I shudder to say it) become.....pro.

The game was alot of fun in the beginning , then they mixed it up with all this 'pro' mumbo jumbo and its even used to settle real grudges.

"Walla come 1v1 bloodstrike I'll rape your mom"

Believe me this is no exaggeration, there are about 5-6 LAN parlours that I know of that play a stage to these little happenings.

At the end of it all I can truthfully say that Counter Strike messed up my life.

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In other news , I wrote a new song :D, I just need to sort out the lyrics and hopefully Karan and Shehara won't be arses and depend on me to sort out the violin and bass bits in the track.

By the way,

Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely, an 8 minute song that really grabs you with its simplicity and uniqueness.The song reminded me alot of The Mars Volta - Televators actually but anyway, give it a listen if you're interested , you won't be sorry.

Its amazing how many people I know who have blogs o.O, I started building up my link list earlier today and I checked out Chris' list and saw 3-4 people who I had no idea they blogged :|.

Ok so thats my rant for today,

I'll just see myself out...

Keep the chicken away from me.

What I meant to say was "Keep the vodka away from me" but I was a little sloshed last night, and I blurted it out when I knew I was getting a buzz.

So alot of things happened last night , most of it has eluded my memory but hell , a bottle of vodka,rum, two guitars,smokes,friends can really be the signs of clearer skies when you're feeling down.

I do remember me and Richard playing guitar and singing with all the guys, we did Outside,Iris and Nothing Else Matters , I think I did Goodnight by myself at one point.

I think I sent a rude sms to a random person on my phone while someone rambled on about personal problems (always happens when under the influence of a little King Roberts ;) ),one thing I was worried about was me getting really high and smashing my guitar on the ground like those wannabe rockers who seem to find enjoyment in that sort of thing,

Hell

If you appreciate good music, why destroy a source?.

It would've been alot more fun however if me and Sathvik weren't the ONLY people who were wasted because if theres one thing I dislike , its people watching out for me.

Started listening to The Crystal Method again , especially 'Weapons of mass distortion' which is (simply put) the perfect driving music, that could be said for almost every song by them anyway.

I spent most of this morning hoping I'd make it back home safely without getting into an accident (yeah I was still a bit giddy after crashing at Hitesh's last night).

I'll probably talk alot more about last night once I start to recall each and every embarassing and/or memorable event that occured at the time.

Good times.

Oh did I mention how much I hate rain?

I pay a guy near Lamcy plaza to wash my car for 10 bucks , he does a good job, it starts drizzling the next day and my car looks like its got the measles, I wash it again yesterday by myself, and it starts to pour 2 hours after...oh speaking of the rain , while on Sathvik's rooftop I saw a Lumina SS doing this cool skid thing on the wet ground on the road near Bur Juman, made alot of noise though.

Right, the rambling ends here.

Oh What a Night...

...to quote the chorus of a song by the Doobie Brothers.

Graduation went well actually , much to my surprise I even pulled off the song nicely :) except that my fingers kept twitching and I kinda messed up a little towards the end of the song.

"Close to flawless" according to someone who watched it.

I got a cool purple thingy that went on my hat too (only thing we got to keep) as well as a class picture and a certificate thing saying that I have successfully completed my AS level examinations when in truth I haven't even started them yet.....crazy Cambridge folk.

Got my car washed for 10 bucks while I was doing shisha with friends near Lamcy, seemed a bit dull until I gave Sonam and Karan a ride home.

We started talking about how dangerous the city was these days, along with different incidents , some of them pretty.................disturbing.


Oh did I mention that I've never been photographed as much as I was after the ceremony?, those hellspawned purple dots clouded my vision for around 30 minutes >.< , it only amplified the effect I was going through after being in close proximity with one of those spotlights aimed point blank at me for the entire time I had to stay put at my seat praying that they'd get my accursed last name right when I was called to shake hands with Mr.Ritson and receive my certificate.

Going to go get "sloshed" tomorrow at Sathvik's rooftop , hopefully I'll get a nice buzz on ,or else I'd probably just be bored.

Cheers.

Graduation Day

6:54 AM , thought I'd grab some breakfast for the first time in a while. Practiced the Nothing Else Matters solo on my black acoustic last night (my electric is in school), so lets see if we get to the bit where the solo starts or just end it before like we planned, either way I hope I don't mess this up.

On a lighter note , I got my car back yesterday with a new battery and a full check-up, seems to be running fine , I'll be giving it it's test run to school in a few minutes.

inseperables.com really makes me laugh these days, a recent post on a debate over the PSP and the Ngage read out something like "I hav the n-gage n it rokz becuz it fits in mah poket" or something to that effect, needless to say I gave that individual what was coming to him.

Leaving later

Back home

Got back home feeling exhausted, closed my door and took a 5 minute nap (no I wasn't counting) then I thought I'd write about what happened.

Got into school at around 7:30 AM as usual , and left at 9:45 to Karan's place , followed by a trip to the new Spinneys for a quick bite with the bunch , and thats when it happened.

My beloved red 'Lude failed on me , it wouldn't start, it didn't even make a sound when I turned the key.Mariam said it was a battery issue, and with the help of Karan's Mom's Mechanic's Brother (phew) we settled on it being a dead battery.

Apparently I had been screwed over again, the battery that was in the car wasn't powerful enough for a Prelude... car dealing dickwads.

Played alotta foosball while I waited for a ride and I think I've developed a small bruise because of my *cough* signature playing style.

Incidentally , A Clockwork Orange , is an amazing movie , Stanley Kubrick is a genius , and I am a content individual.

oh and Ishyta is a girl who likes to giggle alot in public though shes great regardless.

Frou Frou - Let Go :D

Morning

I feel like shite this morning, for a number of reasons which would induce nausea in me before I'd write it down. Gonna go to school but theres no Graduation practice (apparently we can't walk right) , plus I'm doing an instrumental version of Nothing Else Matters with Hitesh on drums and Arnold on keyboards which should be good , planning on playing For Whom The Bell Tolls right after (without the teacher's consent of course ;) ) so lets see if that actually happens though I doubt it , I guess it depends on how elated we feel at the time.Feck my cars almost out of gas already , had a bad feeling about that gas station I went to.

Later.

So...

......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 :|

Was mean to Antara today , but this time in person , its alot more fun when you can add expressions to put-downs.

Out for now.