Friday, July 25, 2008

Of munks & heroes

Yep, that's right... I got munk'd - cute movie that - Alvin & the Chipmunks... never thought I'd catch myself grooving to 'Funky Town', that too by the munks...

anyhoo, after the munks, out of sheer bored-out-of-my-mind-ness, I started the usual 'trollin for online tv shows and guess what - found Season 2 of Heroes online at NBC's website - ended up watching 4 eps back to back - that's right - 4 x 45 min shows - that went into the wee'er than wee hours of the night... aannd now, I'm hooked...

its not going to take a genius to figure out that Heroes Season 1 is gonna be bumped up my NetFlix list and in the meantime, am gonna try & figure out my sooper-power... *scratches chin thoughtfully* - sooper-procrastination... no no.. sooper-deadline-dodging... ok I'm gonna stop now... this is NOT helping... till the next post then... think sooper....

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Aaaand I'm back....

Had some random thoughts... Casablanca wins over Maltese Falcon.. hands down... next movie - Alvin & the Chipmunks... howzzat for a change!

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Deja vu

Had gone to watch Jaane tu ya jaane na (loved it!) at the movies last night... the teaser before the movie was for Farhan Akhtar's Rock on!

Anybody else note a passing resemblance of Rock on! to August Rush - that Jonathan Rhys Myers movie (ok ok dont roll your eyes - it happened to tbe the in-flight entertainment on my recent trip to D.C) ... ok atleast the part about the band splitting up and moving on with their lives? hmmm *scratches chin thoughtfully*

Guess will have to give both another viewing to be sure...

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Its comin!

The Maltese Falcon is on its way!! Bogey movie#3!!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Mid week (daaaark) blues

Ever have that feeling of the day dragging on and on and on.... More work than time to do it... and even though its Wednesday, feel like Friday is just eons away? That's where I'm at!

My to-do pile has slowly but surely grown from a stack to a heap to a pile to a mountain now!! Maybe the rescue choppers can spot me - I'm here!! *waves hands frantically* haaallpp!!

When will it be Friday?!? (And no - do NOT say, in two days time...)

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Hitting all the right notes....

I'm gonna write about music for a change... Happened to hear songs from Kismat Konnection - which is set to release on July 18 ... the first song I heard was Bakhuda tumhi ho ... featuring one of my fave singers... Atif Aslam...

I think he's one of the best things to happen to Hindi film music.... I've loved his tracks from Woh Lamhe(Zeher) to Pehli Nazar Mein(Race)...

His voice is so soulful - let me pause a moment here to melt ... he always seems to sing from his core... the end result is almost always, a full-throated, powerful rendition... and the kind of songs he is given are also like that... ballads, in every possible sense of the word...

And at the risk of sounding like a love sick puppy, Pehli Nazar mein turns me into mush.... Don't look at me in that tone of voice - I can't help it... the lyrics, his voice, the beats, his voice ...

And Bakhuda is along the same lines... and the fact that it is picturized upon Shahid Kapoor, another guy who makes me melt (ok.. after Clooney & Pitt & Damon & Boreanaz etc etc) - well, the combination is good... I am gonna stop gushing now...

Back to music.. so ok, Pritam copies most of his tracks - I know that... some of them are good anyway... Kismat Konnection is full of upbeat, peppy tracks - that's exactly the kind of music I like - enough energy in them to keep me going... I would recommend atleast one listen to all the tracks...

And like in Jab We Met (another fave of mine) & Race - he's given the right tracks to the right folks - Mohit Chauhan in JWM & Atif in Race were brilliant - this album (Kismat..) has them both! Mohit is on Kahin na lage and Atif is on Bakhuda...

I must mention here - two other guys who I think are godsends to the newer hindi films... KK & Shaan - they make me melt too - maybe not as much as Atif, still...

Anyways, this album is growing on me... gonna give it another listen... did I mention that Pritam has remixed all the tracks on Kismat... maybe he feels his albums are incomplete without the remixes... anyways, back to my ipod... ciao!!