Thank you

I've been listening to a lot of new stuff lately...
new to me i mean... the stuff isn't exactly new... not even close to new actually... grateful dead, bob dylan, chuck berry, hendrix and so on... (knew a bit about the dead and used to listen to hendrix quite a bit too, but now im like big time hooked)

occured to me, this is quite a bit like me in college... all curious, wanting to know about different bands, finding out new stuff all the time, generally in awe of the kind of geniuses the years gone by have produced... and then a while after college, it all seemed to go away... like i wasnt curious anymore, happy with the music i already knew about, not too bothered about anything else... content

that's a fairly decent state to exist in, but that's it... it's just a state of existence.

thank you for bringing back in me the side that was almost buried, almost forgotten... almost.
thank you... for reminding me...

p.s. ...grateful dead, bob dylan, chuck berry, hendrix in one sentence... phew... did i just write that?
anyway, just taking this post further random, the dead collaborate with dylan in one album (at least), the dead (like hundreds of others) played "johnny b goode" which is a chuck berry original, hendrix played dylan's "all along the watchtower" and played it so well that dylan started playing hendrix's version of his own song from then on...
but then that's hendrix for you, he apparently played "sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band" 2 days after it was released, and actually decided back stage to play this song or something like that. (that was me unnecessarily dragging the beatles into this post).
note, i havent written about dylan's "like a rolling stone" in this post and have not dragged the rolling stones into it yet :)

guess we can also thank the geniuses who shaped rock and roll considering this post is about thanking people anyway

2 down... ok, almost

I started following cricket when I was 8. So it's been 18years now. Thats how long Anil Kumble has been playing before he finally went out, as he said, on his own terms.

How about that for a void...

I grudgingly admire Ganguly too... the change he brought about in the team and all that... but I guess I'll leave the writing about him to gag or one of the others who genuinely admired him right through.

The departure of the next 3 is only going to be more painful.

ok, lets not get all sentimental here now, that isn't something that happens on this blog on a regular basis. Look someplace else if you want tears, flowery language and all that.

On the practical side... Rohit, Badri, Raina are being billed as the future of Indian batting right?
Has it occured to anybody that the starts they have had to their careers have shown mostly flashes of brilliance and hardly any consistency?
And do they have quite the reputation in the domestic level right now that any of the big 5 had when they started out?

The new bunch sure is talented, attractive to watch and most of them do seem gritty as well, let's not take that away from them. The only problem is, they have very very big shoes to fill. With everybody being excited about the new look team after what they accomplished in Australia and Sri Lanka, the expectations are unrealistic. I almost pity them.

why3 (or is it 4?)

Why do people have to have an opinion on,
1) Stuff they know nothing about.
2) Stuff that has nothing to do with their lives.

(1)
He: hey that isn’t a goal
me: (mildly surprised) huh?? didn’t you see the ball go between the posts, under the horizontal and into the side netting?
he: no, I meant that was offside...
me: offside? but look at that (replay on at this point). The leftback’s broken the line, the forward isn’t behind him, so it isn’t offside.
he: what nonsense? see where he is when he gets the ball, he’s far behind the leftback.
me: dude... it doesn’t matter where he is now, all that matters is where he was when the pass happened.
he: you obviously don’t know the rules, it’s when he gets the ball... (sees me sniggering)... oh, it’s when the other guy passes is it?
me: hahaha yeah...
he: ok, I got confused, thing is, it isn’t like that in hockey...
me: eh? I thought, there isn’t any offside concept in hockey, not sure, they might have brought it back...
he: (all charged up) no way... in hockey, there is offside, and there they see where the player was when he got the ball!!!
me: (half sympathizing) ok, watch the match now...

(2)
he: can you believe what srk said about ash... what does he think of himself?
me: huh?
he: who is he to say that man?
me: huh?
he: oh you dont know...
me: huh?
he: he said... he said... you don’t care what he said do you?
me: huh?
he: forget it!

couple of days later
(out of the blue)
he: jaya auntie gave him a good reply no?
me: HUH!!!!!
he: jaya bachchchan man... remember I told you about srk and ash...
me: huh?
he: see man, I don’t know what rajnikanth is doing, so I tell you about srk-ash...
me: huh?
he: oh, you don’t like him either
me: huh?
he: hey if you don’t like anybody in India, why don’t you go settle abroad... USA or UK or something
me: huh?