Archive for July, 2005

29
Jul

Rock Star:INXS Week 3

The third week of the show saw a lot more drama than the earlier two weeks combined and even though it is rare for a reality show (especially one from Mark Burnett) to have such less drama as Rockstar seemed to have initially, I, as a reality TV addict was missing the drama.

That is not to say that I don’t like the show cos I do and am kinda surprised that the show is getting such low ratings.

The week kicked off with JD asking everybody if they were OK with him for saying “while they’re learning the INXS songs, I know them because I love them”.
And unsurprisingly, most of them said they were. Now I would like to say at this point that I don’t really like these kinda statement-questions, u know of the

-r we okay?
-i hope u didn’t mind.
-i hope i wasn’t rude.

variety cos more often than not people who are asking these questions expect a yes to r we okay and a no to the others and more often than not they get those answers which is sad cos whenever somebody asks such an assy question, they deserve an honest answer which actually is no in the first case and yes in the other two.

Huh, coming back to the show, JD continued to make an ass of himself by first trying sort things with Brandon who (thankfully) told him that he was hurt by what he said and then making a scene before letting everybody go for song selection.

The he pulled Jordis aside and convinced her to let him have “We are the Champions”, which is a good tactic cos you are in a competition after all but then he starts having problems with the song and wants Jordis to switch it back but Jordis isn’t buying it. So he is stuck with the song. Heh.

This week definitely saw the worst performances so far and I really thought that Tara will go home this week but the bottom three included Heather, Daphna and Jessica. I was surprised to see Jessica in the bottom three cos her performance this week was better than that of most of the others. I guess a lot of people hate her.
I don’t, YET.

Anyways, long story short Jessica stayed and INXS sent both Daphna & Heather home. Good riddance. It was a smart decision on INXS’s part to spare themselves and the viewers of some suffering.
Who can we get rid of next week - perhaps sitting ducks Tara and Brandon.

28
Jul

Road Rage

Its very cold here in Bangalore these days(the temperature varies between 21 and 23 degrees) with no sunshine for the past three days and I don’t feel like getting up early in the morning. So I got late and left home at 9.45 instead of 9.00 which could only mean one thing - more morons on the roads.

Now I consider myself to be one of the most coolheaded people on the roads of Bangalore and I generally empathize with most people who seem to be out of their element on the roads but I am running out of patience. Just a week ago a stupid bus driver got his bus stuck under a rail overbridge but today just near the overbridge, a moronic motorist bumped his car’s left front door into the pavement for no apparent reason and then stopped, got off his car and started inspecting the damage he had done to his car, all the while causing a traffic jam. And just guess where I was during this time,right!behind!him! I was stuck there for about 3-4 mins amidst all the honking.

Later, I had to dodge a very old lady(80-85 yrs) who was trying to cross Queens Road (a one way with non-stop high-speed traffic). I don’t really blame her because even I find crossing one ways very difficult and to be fair to her, she was trying to walk as fast as she could, unlike a middle aged guy who was walking so slow while crossing Millers road (another one way) that believe you me there are people who walk faster than that while on a casual stroll.

More rambling about the Bangalore traffic situation soon…

27
Jul

Blogroll Vol. I

Some good blogs I found on the world wide web:-

Click Red Blue

A great blog if you are looking for rock albums to download. It has a huge list of freely available downloads.

Amodini’s movie reviews

Reviews of mostly new and few old Hindi movies.

IAM(also)CANADIAN

A very fun blog to read.

eyes wide apart

Another great blog with a lot of pretty drawings by the author, Paige.

27
Jul

Troubled Times

You know you are living in troubled times when an organization like RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) criticizes BJP and VHP on their supposed “ideological erosion”. I mean, for an organization that was the forerunner in the Babri Masjid incident and opposes everything even remotely western, RSS seems to be very “ideological”, don’t you think? At any rate, few weeks ago, RSS “expressed serious concern over the ideological erosion, behavioral misdemeanors, and violation of organizational discipline with impunity by some functionaries of a couple of like-minded organizations”.

Well, at least they are sticking to their ideology and principles (no matter how stupid their ideology might seem) so good for them.




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