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									<description>Be There / Be Square!</description>
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									<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Chicks with Balls!</title>
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						<description><![CDATA[This is a tiny incident among the absolutely zillions of girl teasing incidents in the world albeit one that left a pretty profound impression on me. Happened in 1993 when I was doing my SSC. Please allow me to share with you...&nbsp; 
 
St. Blaise's was a pretty neat school. It was a co-ed and had an overall decent crowd of kids coming over every day for studies, time pass, and more. There were some who came for PT (physical training) too but who cares about them anyways, right?&nbsp; 
 
 
Anyways, so blame it on adolescent hormones or raging teenage fashion statements: it was like a &ldquo;cool thing&rdquo; to hang out with girls. We had a nice little group of 6 boys and we&rsquo;d proud ourselves on the fact that the most happening girls in school were pretty friendly with all of us. The girl-teasing incident occurred with one of these girls, Sapna.  
 
Sapna was one of the most confident girls I&rsquo;d ever seen. She was beautiful, rich, and had tonnes of attitude and was probably the first person I knew with Michael Jackson&rsquo;s Dangerous CD before the damn thing had even been aired on the then recently launched music channels! In short, Sapna was, pardon my French ladies and gentlemen, babe material from the word go.&nbsp; 
 
 
So there we are having mudh-golas (crushed ice topped with nakli honey and cheap kalakhata colours) outside school, Sapna and all 6 of us. She&rsquo;d missed her bus or something and was hanging out with us till the next one came.&nbsp; 
 
 
Three guys from school stood around us; cracking jokes that make young people in school standing with young girls, cringe.  
 
Let me tell you a bit about these guys. These boys, no&hellip; make that men, should have been dads by that time but had flunked enough classes to still be in school. They were big, cruel and looked meaner than the worst teachers. These are the kids your parents DON&rdquo;T want you to become. The &ldquo;bad company&rdquo; folks warn you about.  
 
They started jostling each other and before we knew it two of them had pushed Sapna and had, in the process fallen over her. Though it was over in a matter of a minute I&rsquo;m sure they had groped the girl. Just that no one, especially us, wants to notice such things. We were busy giving Sapna a hand getting up, each one mentally cursing himself for being a wimp in the most real, bitter and suffocating sense of the word. The guys were laughing aloud, hi-5s going around the pack of these absolutely ugly monsters in school uniforms.  
 
What Sapna did next is one of the most bravest things I&rsquo;ve seen a woman do in my life. She picked up the bucket of ice water from the golawalla and poured it over the nearest culprit. The other two ran away!&nbsp; 
 
It was insane I&rsquo;d never seen any thing like that. I&rsquo;d thought they&rsquo;d murder her, being the scummy gangster types they were. The drenched guy started arguing and Sapna argued back, calling him the choicest of abuses in hippest and coolest bad words. The dumb cretin didn&rsquo;t know what most of it meant. Perhaps a result of all those years wasted with education.  
 
Her bus came soon after and she left. So did we. But this thing didn&rsquo;t leave me. Till date. I&rsquo;m amazed at just how vividly I remember all of this. The amazing thing was she didn&rsquo;t begrudge us our cowardice. Just said something on the lines of &ldquo;Taught the F*****S a good lesson!&rdquo; and left us with a casual &ldquo;See you tomorrow!&rdquo; I was floored and still am.  
 
Respect to Sapna and to women like Sapna who live through this world dealing with all the anguished lust attacks from the male faction, the most repressed specimen you&rsquo;ll ever find anywhere. Brave women rock!  
 
PS: This was cathartic. I should do this more often.&nbsp; 
 
 
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						 <pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>10 Things I Hate About Women!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/9843</link>
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Ok. It's been a while since I've written anything meaningful. Dagny's tag has got me started on this post. Hope to vent my rage and to entertain you with these words. So here's some things I really hate about women: 
 
1. They can buy awesome stuff off the street for ridiculously low prices! Now you know where all those new clothes come from DAILY! 
 
2. Women scratching. Yup. I've seen it happen. And it's worse than what men scratching looks like. 
 
3. Women with moustaches. Sorry. Feminism etc can take a hike on this point. I've faced women with bigger mooocheees than me! And I'm a TWENTY NINE YEAR OLD MALE!!!! 
 
4. They can get anything they want, any where they want and ANY TIME they want it. And they don't even need to ask for it. It's offered..... And this includes&nbsp;first preference during shopping trips obviously. 
 
5. They can get away with most of the evil stuff they do only because they are &quot;shes&quot; 
 
6. The way men are crazy for women. It's horrible the bhav they get. 
 
7. Their absolute nonchalance at performing activities like brushing teeth,&nbsp;shaving leg/under arm hair etc in their complete splaendor in front of you.&nbsp; 
 
8. And assuming it's vice versa!!! 
 
9.&nbsp;Getting to leave early from work. 
 
10. Ladies only local trains.  
 
 
 
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						 <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Johnny freaking Gaddar!!!</title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Movie name: Johnny Gaddar  Genre: Thriller &amp; Crime  Actor/ Actresses: Neil Nitin Mukesh, Rimi Sen, Dharmendra, Vinay Pathak  Review:  When I saw Ek Haseena Thi for the first time, I liked the movie. It did have lots of the Bollywood cliches in it though, but still it was better than say a Baghbaan or something.  The promos for Johnny Gaddar fascinated me. The music (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy) seemed brilliant and slickly edited fast pace of the adverts attracted my attention. The promos also mentioned one more fact: From the director of Ek Haseena Thi.&nbsp;  I knew then that I would see this movie. I saw it last evening. And it was an evening well-spent.               The movie is a homage to the thriller genre without being a spoof or a lame imitation of any of the succesful films of this genre.  The plot is slick. Cinematography is excellent. Soundtrack very good. Acting is top notch, especially the new comer, Neil Nitin Mukesh. The best part of the movie other than all of these is Dharmendra's seemless command of the English language. You only have to experience his dialogues in a cinema hall to realize how this man can make cheesy beautifully hilarious. &quot;You saan of a beej&quot; &quot;Saan, you are going dawn a darkh path&quot; etc.&nbsp;  This is a brilliant take on double cross and a movie well-made. Don't miss this one.&nbsp;  PS: And DON&quot;T dare miss the scene where Dharmendra dies. It's unmissable!!! ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Wed,  3 Oct 2007 15:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>5 Things I HATE</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/6990</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Well, considering that I do have a lot of peeves with most of the things around me, it&rsquo;s pretty hard to narrow it down to a list. But I&rsquo;m going all stops for my most memorable HATEs!!!!!!!!!!!   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Number 1: &ldquo;Cycle chalana aata hain na to bas!&rdquo;   I got a bike first and then I learned how to ride it. It was depressing!   The gorgeous shiny black motor vehicle that could enable me to zoom past my contemporaries of the road lay in the parking lot (with a garland and tikka and all!) and I was still out in the sun hunting autos (spending billions!) and tracking train schedules. Do you know how hard it is to find a person or an institute that teaches you to ride a bike??? Why is it taken for granted that just because I&rsquo;m born, I know how to &ldquo;do it&rdquo;?   Anyway, I approached at least eight people, all of whom seemed veteran bikers. All of these, and more folks whom I didn&rsquo;t approach but shared my problem with, had the same comment to make: &ldquo;Cycle chalana aata hain na to bas! Bike bhi cycle jaisa hi hain! Thoda practice karo sab aajayega.&rdquo; That did it.   I wanted to kill them. I still do&hellip;.   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Number 2: Men who are not men.   Meet Goldilocks. She&rsquo;s a man!   You&rsquo;ve seen loads of these &ldquo;guys&rdquo; everywhere: the rich, uber-chic, spotless dudes. Long shampooed hair cut straight, immaculately well-dressed and enchantingly perfumed. He&rsquo;s the man who makes most wives late for parties. BECAUSE HE&rsquo;S DRESSING UP! These guys are snobs. Not that you&rsquo;d want to talk to them anyways. Don&rsquo;t know why, but I&rsquo;m R-E-P-U-L-S-E-D.   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Number 3: &ldquo;Auto! Station jaayega?&rdquo; &ldquo;Nahi.&rdquo;   These are Bombay autowalas; that repulsive breed of humanity which one is forced to endure when one has no bike (refer Number 1). They&rsquo;ll sit there vacant, lazy, and unmonetized watching you struggle with transport. The worst is when you&rsquo;re in your vehicle and the autos speed up, cut lanes, overtake, and sometimes maim and kill EVEN WHEN THEY ARE EMPTY!!! And that&rsquo;s just few of my grouses with them. Ever noticed the auto guy adjusting the auto&rsquo;s INTERNAL (wtf?) mirrors when a girl&rsquo;s in it? Sounds familiar right? You betcha. This is one race of humans I simply cannot stand.   &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Number 4 to 5000: Coming soon &hellip;  ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Thu,  6 Sep 2007 19:56:47 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Standby for the PUNX!</title>
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						<description><![CDATA[Album name: Standby  Genre: Rock  Artist/ Band: Tripwire  Review: This is my review of Bombay punk band Tripwire&rsquo;s debut album Standby. I also manage gigs for the band. Here&rsquo;s my email: ennuidotbomb@gmail.com. You might need it if you organize some sort of gigs/stuff and if you check out this CD properly. Readers, please don&rsquo;t expect a song-by-song murderous slander. Form your own opinions. Buy the album. (Get it anyhow!)   It&rsquo;s that good.   Ideally I would have liked to be listening to the tracks as I type my words. But sitting here in a dingy cyber caf&eacute; with a weird&nbsp;orange light (and probably repressed horny people all around), I can hear the songs resonate in my head. These three guys have been together as a band for almost five years. Can you imagine the kind of vibe they&rsquo;d share? And if the album is anything to go by, the answer won&rsquo;t be too tough to find. This is the stuff cult albums are made of. And Standby will prove to be one. Mark my words.   Jack/Drums, Sagar/Bass, Ameya/Guitar, have all written the words to some/other songs. Phrases grab me from each. Simple combinations of words that leave me @ random. These might be great lyrics or not but they&rsquo;re quirky enough to stick to the inside of your head like superglue. &ldquo;Outside they&rsquo;ll put you aside/ coz they think your brain is circumcized&rdquo; (Housewives/Ameya) for one.   Standby contains 14 listed tracks, one hidden track (one of my dad&rsquo;s favorite songs &ndash; Ramones&rsquo; Blitzkrieg Bop - tabla version &ndash; old recording), no thank you notes, lyrics, 36.08 minutes of music and some neat photography.   The songs are simplistic punk pop music with themes ranging from boredom, geekism, and housewives to call center folks, mall culture, weed and weed scoring lanes. The CD, in true spirit of a Tripwire live gig, offers old songs [Norm The Guy Is Cool (Sam freakin' Lal headbanged to this one \m/), Bad In Bed (ha ha love the thought!), That&rsquo;s Not What I Want (Sagar&rsquo;s debut as the second voice for the band)] along with newer and fresher stuff like Housewives, Boredom, Stupidities (with a single &ldquo;t&rdquo;) and System (Jack&rsquo;s masterpiece). Why Are We Like This and Stupidities are two songs gouging my insides nowadays.   Standby is that small album that&rsquo;ll be the cornerstone for a whole new musical tradition in our country. The album is very listenable and will grow on anyone if you give it a shot. And then new doors will open your mind. Then you will be rich and famous. And have all the chicks queuing up. You&rsquo;ll be the CEO of your company.   Or you&rsquo;ll have one more CD in your collection. One, which you&rsquo;ll know is very very good.   Tripwire&rsquo;s debut album Standby is available for a highly discounted price from www.tripwire.in. Don&rsquo;t forget to sign their guestbook!   ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Tue,  3 Jul 2007 16:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>FREAKSHOW V @ RAZZ</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/4688</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Gig&nbsp;name: FREAKSHOW V  Genre: Rock  Artist/ Band: PDV, Medusa, Dream Out Loud, etc    Review: If you&rsquo;ve seen the PDVCD given out free @ Freakshow V, you&rsquo;ll understand why this gig was very important to me. Ado (ennui.BOMB better half / also my fianc&eacute;) + me, both love the band, having seen them from their maddest earliest days. To have Dream Out Loud, musicians whom I&rsquo;ve grown up on (Indian rock superheroes!) also on the same stage was a very happy and nice emotion associated with gig. Plus, a chance to watch one of favorite bands (yes I&rsquo;m talking about Medusa!) along with two more bands we&rsquo;ve never worked before with, Groove Lab and Devoid. The vibe was unmistakable. This had the makings of a great show. And it was.  THE GIG WAS INSANE!  Those who were there last nite will know what I&rsquo;m talking about. I can bet this will be a memorable gig in their lives. The place was packed by the time the first band started! Wow! Thanks for coming you guys! You are the future!!  Did not catch a single song from inside. Heard the entire show from the gate. Except for parts of Dream Out Loud. Collected tonnes of money and met tonnes of wonderful folks, new and from the past. P-Man hosted the evening&rsquo;s proceedings. PDV played &ldquo;Sholay&rdquo; style, with both Jai and Viru playing on TWO separate drum kits! Lucky coupons were given out and lucky people won some cool CDs (Shaair N Func, PDV, Pentagram, We ARE The Scene, Stupiditties). Picked up some nice CDs myself (loads of cool stuff was on sale!), including Right II Riot. Picked a bunch of Ressurection zines (which btw seem to have some great reads, like Nolan&rsquo;s review of the Iron Maiden Bangalore gig). Didn&rsquo;t pick a single fight. : D  Standout tracks from the gate:  &bull; Some old school Sting/Police kind of cover &ndash; Groove Lab &bull; Devoid Of Emotion &ndash; Devoid &bull; Duality / H.A.T.E. &ndash; Pin Drop Violence &bull; Anti-Coke Ganpati &ndash; Medusa  Some of the best things last evening:  &bull; PDVCD (I love it \m/) &bull; The number &ldquo;334&rdquo; &bull; Cool CDs on sale &bull; Glamorous rocker women &bull; Sweat &bull; Great vibes &bull; Beer  PS: The serial number of the lasted printed lucky coupon was 350. We ran out of coupons. : D : D  PS: thanks to everyone who helped make this a great evening and a beautiful gig: ado, deepa, p-man, vijay, crowd control folks (toughest job yesterday! Respect \m/), oml, popcornsrevenge, sahil and furtado&rsquo;s, gigpad, rsj forums, orkut, hutch, a &ndash;z Xerox, old-timers for bumping into each other once again @ razz, and new-comers for the super turnout. Thank you for one of best gigs of our lives.   Cheers  Rishu]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Better than stupid...</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/3287</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Album name: STUPiDiTTiES 
 
Genre: Rock 
 
Artist/ Band: Various 
 
 
 
 
Review: 
In no way a review. Only my comments about a good CD containing some great muzik for a negative scene.&nbsp; 
 
 
Every single track on this album reminds me of myself. And of&nbsp;&nbsp; people I know. That&rsquo;s the coolest thing about this album. But not the only one of them. The inlay is KICK ASS (and you know it!), the muzik&rsquo;s great (at least in my opinion) and overall; the CD&rsquo;s just got a great healthy aura surrounding it! Like I was telling a friend recently, EVERYONE who deserves to be connected to this album, is connected with it in some way &ndash; liner note thankyous, muzik, sponsorship, design, promotion, good vibes, etc.  
 
Anyways, to get to the most important issue at hand &hellip;  
 
STUPiDiTTiES features 18 tracks by an equal number of talented Indian rock bands (Skinny Alley, The Superfuzz, Medusa, Split and more). The muzik is &ldquo;un-metal,&rdquo; whatever that might mean to you. The recording quality varies, but the CD comes across focused more on the muzik than on &ldquo;live drums,&rdquo; &ldquo;fruity loops,&rdquo; and other similar sonic red tape. That&rsquo;s one thing I respect about this album.  
 
 
The liner notes for the CD were written during extensive listening sessions and thus more or less reflect the way I feel about the muzik and the bands &ndash; I feel extremely positive. It looks so good to me, I&rsquo;m feeling smug. The bands, artists and muzik were the key factor in inspiring us to raise our standards; we had to match up to some killer muzik. I think, with the design and production, we did. The CD has one of the most unique album arts from the country and I&rsquo;m ready to bet money on that.  
 
 
We&rsquo;ve practically thanked everyone who needs to be thanked on the booklet, so I won&rsquo;t get into that here. But I would take this opportunity to rebuke folks who might think that not talking about this album might just kill it.  
 
 
Never gonna happen.  
 
 
STUPiDiTTiES is here to stay.  
 
 
Cheers and stay bubonic,  
 
 
- Rishu  
 
 
ps: IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHECK THE TRACKLIST / ORDER THE CD, LOG ON: http://www.musicyogi.com/asp/idpndDetails.asp?albId=ALB6079&nbsp;&nbsp;]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 15:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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