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Ive had a lot of free time on my hands lately and all Ive been doing is watching movies. I am slowly working through my To-Watch list that just exists in my head. I am a bit bored so I figured I should keep track of the recently watched movies in this journal entry.

Adaptation

Being John Malkovich

The Hurt Locker

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Mister Lonely

This is England (comes highly recommended)

Bruno (not as good as Borat)

Harry Potter and the half-blood prince

Head-On (german/turkish)

Mad Men Season 2

Moon

I Love You, Man

The Boat That Rocked

Flight of the Conchords (Season 2)

Terminator 1

Gulaal (hindi)

Tokyo!

Ponyo/Ponyo on the cliff

Inglorious Basterds

District 9

Kaminey (hindi)

Antichrist

Persepolis

The Beach

28 Days Later

28 Weeks Later ( not as good as 28 Days Later)

Firaaq (Hindi)

The Proposition

Hercules

Where The Wild Things Are

2012

Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye

Wake Up Sid

The Assasination of Jesse James by Coward Robert Ford

New York, I Love You

Avatar

Sherlock Holmes

CDs

Caribou - Milk of Human Kindness
Can - Tago Mago
Thom Yorke - Eraser
Shout out out out out - Reintegration Time
Manitoba - Up in Flames
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Thom Yorke - Eraser Remixes

Vinyl

Portishead - Machine Gun Single
Portishead - The Rip Single
The Field - Yesterday & Today (2LP)
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (2LP)
David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life in a bush of Ghosts (2LP)

Wed 20 May – King Khan And The Shrines, Mark Sultan

King Khan & The Shrines put on one of the best shows I have ever seen. I know I say that every time I attend a show but this time, I mean it. I mean whats there not to like. You’ve got King Khan himself who seems to channel James Brown, the cheerleader who danced her heart out for the entire show spraying glitter over the dancing crowd every couple of minutes and the amazing backing band including the amazing brass section and a percussionist who formerly played for Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder.

The whole show was a spectacle and I couldn’t take my eyes off the stage. I was always guessing as to what King Khan will do next. He comes to the stage adorned in a leopard skin suit along with a peacock feathered headpiece and at the end of the show once everything was said and done, King Khan was seen shirtless wearing a golden cape and what looked like a Darth Vader mask

At one point, King Khan asked the crowd if they were in to gospel music and proclaimed that it was time for some gospel revival music but not just any gospel music. Obviously since this was a King Khan show , it would be “erotic gospel music”. I was curious as to what that would entail and I was not let down. With the help of his backing band, King Khan started talking about what could be described as an experience of “live rebirth” along with all the gory details but it was hilarious. He would always dedicate a song to a certain demographic among the crowd. He started the infectious track “I wanna be a Girl” by dedicating it to all the “transvestites, faggots and to all the people who make this world a fun place to live in”. He called out to all the unemployed people while singing “Welfare Bread” and to all the freaks before belting out their most popular song “Land of the Freak”. At one point, a drunk fan gets up on stage and start dancing with King Khan which was hilarious. I was able to capture that on video.

An hour and half went by way too fast and the show was over. If you get a chance to see them live, do not miss it.

I was planning on doing this for a while but due to wordpress temporarily shutting me down, I wasn’t motivated enough to finish it. My blog has been pretty stagnant for the last couple of weeks for exactly that same reason but fuck it, WordPress can shut me down if it wants to.

Back to the topic, this is more like a compilation than a mix of some of my favorite Bollywood(I hate that term) from the yesteryear. It features music from Kalyanji-Anandji, R.D Burman and the always funky Bappi Lahiri. This is by no means a comprehensive mix since I tried to keep it around the hour mark and there are a lot of good tracks that are missing here but perhaps I will include them in Volume 2. If you liked Bombay The Hard Way Vol 1 & 2 that I posted a while ago, you will definitely dig this compilation. Some of the tracks are not in the best quality since they come from vinyl rips but I find that when it comes to vintage music, I don’t mind some irregularities or hisses since it adds some sort of character to the music.

http://rapid share.com/files/233865253/Bollywood_Funk.rar

I guess music and movies go hand in hand. I know a lot of people here on last.fm have incredible taste when it comes to movies and I need a proper list to keep track of all the movies that I need to watch. Other can use the recommendations too

Here are the movies on my To-Watch List , Please feel free to add more

Adaptation
Garden State
Clockwork Orange
Do The Right Thing
Science of Sleep

Rob: What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?

That quote from High Fidelity has got me thinking. I only gravitated towards "the thousands, thousands of songs" and not the rest because I have never personally dealt with heartbreak or rejection. Its interesting to me that there is so much music out there. I have about 20,000 tracks scrobbled on my lasfm but I have barely scratched the surface. There is just so much music out there and I am afraid that I might not be able to listen to most of it. I wonder if it can be classified as a phobia. I do realize that its unreasonable but maybe its not.

Everyone seems to be loving the Slumdog Millionaire OST these days and I am one of them. I am happy that A.R. Rahman finally recieved some recognition for his work in the form of an Oscar, he totally deserves it. However, I don't think Slumdog Millionaire is his best work but it seems to be gaining a lot of recognition due to Slumdog Millionaire which is a good thing. It will only lead people to check out his older work since he has composed some incredible music for Bollywood films. This is where I step in, I have been a huge A.R Rahman since my childhood and I have decided to make a mixtape for people who are perhaps not familiar with him. I am sure that people who know his work might complain that I have left out some key tracks from his discography and I am sure I have but its hard to pick songs from such an incredible discography at the same time trying to keep the mixtape around an hour mark. The track list contains the name of the tracks and the corresponding movies they were a part of.

1. Bombay Theme - Bombay
2. Chaiyya Chaiyya - Dil Se
3. Ae Ajnabi - Dil Se
4. Mitwa - Lagaan
5. Khuda Hafiz - Yuva
6. Satrangi Re - Dil Se
7. Rangeela Re - Rangeela
8. Baadal - Yuva
9. Ruth Ae Gayee Re - 1947 Earth
10. Ghanan Ghanan - Lagaan
11. Arziyan - Delhi 6
12. Rang De Basanti - Rang De Basanti
13. Hai Rama - Rangeela
14. Ek Ho Gaye Hum Aur Tum - Bombay
15. O...Saya - Slumdog Millionaire
16. Spirit of Rangeela - Rangeela
17. Chale Chalo - Lagaan

Download link -

h t t p://r a p i d s h a r e.com/files/204637614/A_R_Rahman_mixtape.rar

Mediafire - 2 Parts

Disc 1 - h t t p://www.m e d i afire.com/download.php?gzih5yzmzjq

Disc 2 - h t t p://www.m e d i afire.com/download.php?yjk3zwn0tyn

Here's the thing. I made this mixtape for all the unappreciated scholars when it comes to music. I am not sure if this is necessarily a hipster garabe mixtape (what really is?) but I think this mix is pretty eclectic and represents my current tastes pretty well. Hope you guys enjoy it . Some feedback would be great


Atlas Sound - Recent Bedroom
The Good, the Bad & the Queen - Three Changes
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones
Slowdive - Souvlaki Space Station
TV on the Radio - The Wrong Way
Devendra Banhart - Lazy Butterfly
Beirut - Brandenburg
Oh No - Deliveries
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Forever Heavy
Brian Eno - Here Comes the Warm Jets
Yeasayer - Worms
Voices of Seven Woods - The Fire in my head
Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush
Portishead - Magic Doors


Link - http://wwwdotzsharedotnet/download/55314589a99f1bc5/

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