Archive for March, 2009
Gentle Giant “Octopus” (1972)
Sunday, March 29th, 2009Gentle Giant
Octopus (1972)
Octopus (1972)
“Octopus” music digests my first acquaintance with works of this excellent progressive rock band. I want to say that I’ve liked their extraordinary music just after listening to the title composition. So, “Octopus” is third Gentle Giant’s studio work. Gentle Giant’s music is influenced by symphonic classical music, jazz, medieval chants, and baroque chamber music, and as a whole it is possible to say that their music is similar to Yes, King Crimson, and Jethro Tull. Besides fairly standard rock instruments such as vocal, guitar, bass, keyboard, and drums, Gentle Giant added non-traditional for rock music cello, violin, vibraphone, trumpet, and sax. “Octopus” impressed me with fresh sound, rich composer imagination and, of course, singularity of the performance. I’m sure, this album will make a good impression on every connoisseur of progressive rock. Reviewed by Alexey Gusev.
Mumbai Stands United!
Wednesday, March 25th, 2009In a unique show of solidarity, ALL radio stations in Mumbai played muzike mp3 song “Maa Tujhe Salam”, sung by AR Rahman, at 8 p.m. today on their respective wavelengths! Now ain’t that something? Good to see that they let go of their constant endeavor to hog the limelight and take such a step — I hope our news channels too take note of this and do something similar.
In another more widely covered act, thousands of citizens took to the street across the metros in India to demand action against the terrorists and to express solidarity with the victims of this attack. Read more on this here.
I just can’t help being skeptical of such ACTS - taking out demonstrations has the means to catch attention but I believe to elicit some sort of action from our thick-skinned politicians, it’s going to take something more than this! By now, our netas have tackled the aftermath of so many terrorist attacks that such “peaceful” demonstrations will not more than scratch the surface! History shows that we are pretty tolerant and lack muscle — from the Bombay bomb blasts in 1993 to the bomb blasts in the Mumbai local trains and the attack on the Parliament (not to mention several other instances of similar horrendous terrorist strikes, quite a few in 2008) we have been happy enough simply to put a bold, tough stance early on only to soften our “tough” stance as time goes by. We have been waving our “List of 20 most wanted terrorists” in front of Pakistan for several years — yet have we done anything beyond mere demonstration to show that we are serious about what we want. I think not.
What will it take to wake up the Government and get them to swing into action — actions that will not let terrorism rear its ugly head again and again? How many more lives need to be sacrificed for us to see some justice being done, our security being enhanced, our lives being secured? For how long do we carry on like this? It’s good that Mumbai and along with it, the rest of India, has an indignant streak, a get-on-with-life spirit — else how will we survive and continue our struggle in the city of dreams, the city that never sleeps, with a sword hanging perpetually over our heads?
Preaching about what is wrong with our system is a thing taken for granted these days — heck, I do it, you do it, the news channels do it all the time, with or without any due reasons. Now what can we do to show that this time, yes THIS TIME, we mean action! Action that is not only immediate but also long-term — while we are used to live under the lengthening shadow of fear and insecurity, let us make an effort to ensure that the next generation does not need to put up with the atrocities like we did.
Thinking of what the radio stations did made me think of what more could we do. A possible idea doing the rounds in my head is this: Could our newspapers join hands and launch a major campaign directed against terrorism? Times of India has in the past taken the lead and launched campaigns like “Lead India” (2007) and “Teach India” (2008) initiatives. Now can the newspapers come together, join hands and announce a war on terrorism? They say that a pen is mightier than a sword — time to put the old proverb to test, what say India??
Even as I’m writing this piece, I’ve received a mail from Network 18 announcing the launch of a platform “to express our frustration and helplessness”. Check the site here. I’m withholding my comments on this new endeavor for the time being.
What is Your Favorite Cooking TV Show?
Monday, March 23rd, 2009It looks that lately when turning on the television at anytime during the twenty-four hours you can tune up into a cookery show on tv. A long manner from read-only memory the cookery show of the past, when a individual shows up and just showed and instructed you on how to do a certain dish. I actually can only retrieve 2 cookery shows and one was on Populace Broadcast Media television when I was growing up.
Now not only make they demo you a peculiar dish, they now convey in celebrities, particular invitee chefs, politicians, and much more.
There are all sorts of cookery shows ie.
The Competitive Cooking Shows
Shows which promote up and coming chefs to be originative and to execute under pressure. The victor of the competition usually stops up with a hard cash award which can assist them in persuing their dreaming of gap up their ain restaurant. They have got cooking shows with more than experienced chefs running all over the kitchen after receiving certain ingredients and a clip bounds to contrive or complete a culinary masterpiece.
A batch of these culinary plates they set up I am unfamiliar with or could not afford the upscale eating houses where they are served. However, in City Of Brotherly Love (my hometown) there are a figure of eating house schools which you can see sit down down and have got a upscale repast at a considerable discount. The Restaurant.com and the Entertainment book are great for insouciant and mulct dining discounts.
The Cooking Home Show
The cookery place show is basically mundane nutrient tv. It provides to the workings person,stay at place moms,and people who are busy but still desire to have got a nice meal. Most of the formulas dwell of your Favorite Foods with a particular turn of spirit and assorted cutoffs to do your life easier. The Host or Hostess of these mundane nutrient television shows, have got a peculiar genius or personality which matched with their audience interaction do it a dainty to watch.
The Culinary cheap mp3 Discipline Cooking Show
This type of cookery television show, demoes people how to set up epicure repasts which you could happen in a 5 star restaurant. Sometimes I watch these shows and wonderment how could that taste sensation good with all of those different flavorers and ingredients. Well in hearing to the chefs they constantly mention to a certain flavorers bringing out certain spirits in meats and vegetables. Sometimes this do me interested in taking a culinary social class or two.
Bottom line there are a figure of cookery television shows the greatest job is getting caught up in them as sometimes they run the shows endorse to back and I could sit down there for hours watching them. Cooking isn’t the lone thing that demands to be done around the place so return attention I have got to go.