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Hush

13 Oct

Hush

So this weekend was huge fun. Schumacher won the championship, with more than a little help from Barrichello. Valentino Rossi defended his championship by winning his seventh race in Sepang. Beautiful races, both. I met Bushbush after a long time, had a few drinks, chilled with the rest of the gang. Then went out and bought a few books, games and comics. Anandamath, Sun Tzu’s Art of War, and E=mc2, were all bought as supplements, but I couldn’t afford the one I really wanted to buy. Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. It was available only in hardback, and would have set me back by around 850 INR. Ouch! I guess I’ll wait for the paperback.

I finally got my hands on Daredevil:Yellow. Nice noir-ish book, and the water color look was amazing. Tim Sale’s minimalistic anatomy in some frames, with the extra dash of colors, did however, work against it a little. Still, pretty good. Jeph Loeb is darn good storyteller. Another winner by Jeph Loeb that I got was Batman:Hush. And I was dissappointed when I realized it was Hush #3. I have Hush#1, but I missed #2! :(

I bought another DC novella, Green Lantern:Dragon Lord. I just can’t stay away from ‘the beginning of’ type books. The usual repertoire of Ultimate Spiderman and Batman Adventures were accompanied by Avengers, and Fantastic Four #1. Fun fun fun.

I also bought American McGee’s Alice, to replace my existing, mangled, scratched version. Why, after 3 years, and finishing the game twice? Well, simply because the game is Level Design 101. You don’t have it, you are sad. End of story. Also got Midnight Club II. I’m not much of a racing game fan, except for the occasional Colin McRae Rally 3.0, F1 2002, NFS:HP2, Moto GP2, and now MCII. Heh. actually, even with all these titles, racing is the genre I neglect the most after Flight Sims. But I bought this for the sheer unadulterated arcade racing fun, not seen in a long time. Also, it is very well done. Shiny!

Except that couldn’t meet Andy, and forgot to get a haircut(again!), it was a hugely fun weekend. Did I say that already? Well, piss.

 
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Kissing Chaos

06 Oct

Kissing Chaos

This weekend I realized that I absolutely needed to get some books by Arthur Dela Cruz, J. Michael Straczynski and Frank Miller. I came across the work of Arthur Dela Cruz several times in recent times. Though I had never bought anything by him, I liked his art style a lot. Arthur’s pencil work is very, very cool – a sketchy, loose but solid style, and his knowledge and mastery of anatomy and proportions shows in every panel. His work reminds me a lot of how Piro draws. Both of them have a pencil work that just draws you in. Though I am a great fan of good coloring and flamboyant art, sometimes minimalism has its own impact on story-telling. I intend to pick up his Kissing Chaos book soon. The slightly grim story is well-done and told in a style that grows on you. There is a noir style to the whole book though, so its not recommended for people who don’t appreciate noir (there’s a sizeable number, believe me). Also, sometimes the art seems sparse, but then again, it is one of the strongest points about the book too.
You might have come across Cruz’s work if you saw covers for various Oni Press books including Barry Ween, Sidekicks, and Nocturnals.

 
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Bhor Bhor Bhor Bhor Bhayee…

29 Sep

Bhor Bhor Bhor Bhor Bhayee…
You know what is fun? Going to an Indian Ocean concert with friends. So I had fun on saturday. Gobs of it. As an improver, there was Shubha Mudgal doing an absolutely random jam thing with them. Wow. The best thing about them, that has not changed with fame and time, is their unassuming, unabashedly down to earth attitude. They way they connect with the audience is a synergy to be seen.
Rahul seems to go from strength to strength on the bass guitar. Right now, he’s somewhere around the super cool category. The girls seemed to kinda like Amit, the drummer. I got that idea when a particularly raucous groups of girls screamed at the top of their lungs, “We Luuuurve Youuuu Amiiit”. Heh.
Sushmit was his usual quiet, genius strumming on a guitar self, while Asheem is did what he does best… percussion, mostly tablas. AND he sang note to note with Shubha Mudgal. All in all, fantastic.
One funny thing happened… you know the time when a concert is about to end, and during a slow song, how everyone takes out lighters, matches, and candles? Well, since there was a dearth of smokers in this particular crowd, cellphone-obsessed Delhi improvised, and whipped out its phones, displays lit up! :D

Finally this is the story of my life:

image courtesy Dork Tower

 
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Sumimasen, osoku narimashita.

26 May

Sumimasen, osoku narimashita.
Konnichiwa. I’ve been busy changing jobs, hence the lack of updates. Though the juicy HL2 update should tide you for some time. This for the benefit of all of you who have never been to Megatokyo. Go crowd Piro’s phat pipe. And get an education on storytelling and art. Bai Bai.

 
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My Stupid Matrix Joke

15 May

My Stupid Matrix Joke
Why cant you have any soup in the Matrix?
Because THERE IS NO SPOON!

Heh.

Anyways, so Real Life left Keenspot. Aside from Sinfest and RPG World, I think this was the most popular one they had. This is important news. Greg Dean is one guy I’ve always supported all these years, and this is cool. AND he’s using PHP. Now that’s nice.

 
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