15!! people visited my blog yesterday. That’s huge for a new blogger like me and what makes it even more exciting is that all of them were from different parts of the world. So it seems like my blog is finally doing what its supposed to do - relay my thoughts to other people - even the ones I don’t know.
I just checked the blogpatrol site statistics and the visitors were from the following places :-
Singapore
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Seoul, South Korea
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Warsaw, Poland
Fair Oaks, California, United States
Norwood, Massachusetts, United States
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Kailua, Hawaii, United States
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Laval, Quebec, Canada
Los Angeles, California, United States
Amazing, isn’t it.
Well, I hope my blog has more & more visitors soon and it will be even better to have returning visitors.
I’m probably too excited for my own good right now.
Don’t Lie
The Black Eyed Peas have released the video for their second single from Monkey Business. The song’s called “Don’t Lie”. The sepia toned video complimnets the song well. The song relies heavily on Fergie’s singing ability and she does not fail them. The song is a little mellow but still has the peppiness that has now become the band’s trademark.
Artist : Black Eyed Peas
Album : Monkey Business
Genre : Hip-Hop
My Score : 6.5/10
Sarakti Jaaye Hai (Aahista Aahista)
Asha Bhosle has come out with a new album of ghazals, called Asha. The album comprises of 8 tracks including “Aaj Jaane Ki Zid Na Karo” (Farida Khanum), “Awaargi” (Ghulam Ali) & “Chupke Chupke” (Ghulam Ali) but my favorite track from the album is the song “Sarakti Jaaye Hai” originally sang by Jagjit & Chitra Singh. Asha Bhosle is at her usual best in the song and the music arrangement is particularly good.
Artist : Asha Bhosle
Album : Asha
Genre : Easy Listening
My Score : 8/10
Edit: All those who have come to this page looking for download of Asha’s new song/album can try going to DJLuv Forums or Coolgoose.
Mele Chaliyan [Remix]
There seems to be a new trend in Hindi Film Music of releasing the remixes of few tracks in the original album. Its a good way of trying to get more listeners and it also stops other people from screwing up your song by remixing it in the most ruthless manner. Recently released albums Dus and Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya included remixes of few songs and now the album of…Yahaan also includes remixes of two songs. The song “Mele Chaliyan” is a traditional punjabi wedding song but with a kashmiri flavor but the remix makes it sound like a completely different song with great beats and some good rapping. Good effort!
Artist : Shreya Ghosal(singer), Shantanu Moitra(music)
Album : …Yahaan
Genre : Hindi Soundtrack
My Score : 7/10
Cool
The fourth single from Gwen’s latest album, L.A.M.B. is very different from the enrgetic dance dongs that the first three songs were. But it still boasts of that truly gwen style of singing and the result is a good rock song. It may not be an “Underneath It All” but its still good. The video is cool too.
Artist : Gwen Stefani
Album : Love.Angel.Music.Baby
Genre : Rock
My Score : 7.5/10
That’s the tagline of Television Without Pity(TWoP), a website that I have now become very used to. I visit it at least once in 2 days. The site basically recaps most shows on television in detail but as the name suggests they pretty much do it with no pity. I started visiting the site for reading recaps of The Amazing Race and its recapper Miss Alli introduced me to a new world I never knew existed. A world where you make as much fun of people on TV as possible. She also introduced me to new phrases like The rich and the tasteless and Skyline porn among others, some of which made me laugh out loud in my office and resulted in people looking at me all funny.
Of course, you can’t imagine how fun it is to read these recaps unless you read one yourself but just to give you a hint, here’s a line from the recap of an episode from The Apprentice:
Trump has decided, since the teams are even at six and six, that it would be a good time to shuffle them up like a deck of playing cards. Incompetent, backstabbing, badly-dressed playing cards with great big teeth. In my favorite development ever, Trump says that this time, the teams will be mixed by having each PM send over the three people the PM doesn’t want. Heh. It’s sort of in the “the more they suck, the more okay it is to humiliate them openly” spirit of this season…….Oh, and Stacy is pouting a tiny little pout, because someone has given her a clue of that which she clearly does not know about herself. It’s like she’s got her brow wrinkled over a brain teaser that says: “You are a [rhymes with ‘rain in the sass’].” Trump says that he’ll see the new teams tomorrow, and sends them off. Carolyn stares after them skeptically, like, “You know, you can rearrange them as many times as you want, and they’re all still going to suck.”
Of course, I must thank reality tv for giving both Miss Alli and the readers for giving us characters that scripted television can’t no matter how hard they try because as the saying goes, “Truth is stranger than fiction”.
More on TWoP later…
Raj
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