Sometimes you need support in that slow and painful march against common sense. Firm, dedicated fighters who know their way around a potato. Featured on your right, from now on, will be the print version personas of all the people who've dedicated some part of their lives to fighting sense and sensibility, and bloody burning all the rest of those Goddamn Jane Austen books as well, god i cant stand them.
January 29, 2005
All filing clerks, watch out
October 18, 2004
Preludes and Nocturnes
People. I've waited weeks for this. On my incredibly slow internet connection I have downloaded all 75 graphic novels of neil gaiman's "sandman". I've waited so long for this. Today, it completed download. I've spent all day at work thinking about this.
And its amazing.
I've got a quart of bacardi here to help me through it. And i'm freakingout. The personification of dreams. The embodiment of death. The melding of mythos, pathos and sad, coffee stain reality.
Im going to hav very strange dreams tonight. But i dont mind.
For those of you who want in, download a torrent streamer off the net (im using sharezea) and go to zcult fm. I dont know if the stream still flows, but if it does, flow along. oh, and dont forget to share your bandwidth. We in the world of pirate media must help each other...
sweet dreams....
October 17, 2004
Obsession
Im obsessed... I cant help it. I cant get enough of wikipedia. It's quite insanely addictive. This has got to be one of the most genius concepts in the history of web design. Because of the incredibly diverse bunch of people who post new articles to this encyclopaedia, you can get information on everything... A sceptic friend of mine decided to try Marina Beach, then I tried Tollywood. The later on I tried transformers, those cool robot vehicle dudes from our television past.... Go on, try it.
That fried my head.
I never even liked the transformers that much, but i was obsessed, staring away with upwards of 30 links giving you the definitive info on transformers. Obssessed, that's what i was. Very obsessed.
Still am. Th worst thing is, every article you read links into other keywords. If you're a click-happy pscycho like me, that means you'll travel from The Simpsons to The Fourth Wall of theater to Simon the Sorcerer (Rohit J, if you're reading this, this was one of the best games you ever gave me back in UC... Thanks).
Ok, just or your info, I took a little trip just now and left this post alone for about 20 minutes surfing wikipedia... It hooked me.
October 16, 2004
Ze Photoblog!
Hello peepulz! I am now having phenomenon called the photoblog! the next step in virus infected marine evolution is here! for all you not-so-informed bloggers out there, it's pretty simple. there's this cool software out there called Hello! which is a picture IM software. I've just downloaded it five minutes ago so I'm not quite sure how it goes ( but its short and its sweet and I knew it complete when i wore a younger man's clothes).... um, ah, anyway, It lets you post pitures straight to your blog! which means all my grainy cellphone snap pics can finally be shown to a worldwide audience and I can be shown for the genius I am ! Hah!! Please appreciating my first pic from my phonecam... Khan Market, Delhi... the ultimate Delhi snobspot... But still one of the more fun snobspots i've seen. Bookshops to wander, expensive lasagna's that would cover a meal for 3 at any Chinese vandi, cool shops selling exotic phoren foods like blackberry jam and cheese stuffed olives in brine... this rather nice cafe called cafe turtle where I happened to have some amazing chocolate cake for free because it had a bit of glass in it... long story, some other time maybe... Perhaps in this manner I can satisfy my insanely craving public.
August 10, 2004
Saving the Final Solution
Please take a look at this. If you think the cause is worthy, please take the five minutes required to sign. Your email address will be kept private, if you are afraid of spamming or virus harvesting.
Please send this to as many people as you know.
Message: 3Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 14:28:38 +0530From: Jeebesh Bagchi <jeebesh@sarai.net>
Subject: [Commons-Law] Censor Board bans documentary
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As you know, the Censor Board of India recently banned Rakesh Sharma'sinternationally-acclaimed documentary - Final Solution. An onlinepetition has been created by Anand Patwardhan to protest against theban. The petition asks Central Government to intervene and revoke theban immediately. As you may already know, under clause 6 and 9 of theCinematograph Act, the Central Government is empowered to overturn anydecision/ recommendation by the Censor Board.People who have already signed the petition include Shabana Azmi,Nandita Das, Vijay Tendulkar, Shyam Benegal, Javed Akhtar, Aparna Sen,Karan Johar, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Farhan Akhtar, Rahul Bose, VishalBhardwaj, Arundhati Nag, Sanjana Kapoor, MS Sathyu, Lekh Tandon,Yogendra Yadav and Teesta Setalvad among others.Please extend your support by signing the petition online by clickingthe following link:http://www.PetitionOnline.com/FilmBan/petition.htmlPlease forward the petition details to people in your mailing listasking them to sign and circulate the petition widely.Final Solution ( India; 2004; Digital Video format - miniDV; 209/148minutes).Final Solution is a study of the politics of hate. Set in Gujaratduring the period Feb/March 2002 - July 2003, the film graphicallydocuments the changing face of right-wing politics in India through astudy of the 2002 genocide of Moslems in Gujarat. The film documentsthe Assembly elections held in Gujarat in late 2002 and records indetail the exploitation of the Godhra incident (in which 58 Hinduswere burnt alive) by the right-wing propaganda machinery for electoralgains. It studies the situation after the storm and its impact onHindus and Moslems - ghettoisation in cities and villages, segregationin schools, the call for economic boycott of Moslems and continuingacts of violence more than a year after the carnage.Final Solution is anti-hate/ violence as "those who forget history arecondemned to relive it".Awards :Wolfgang Staudte award and Special Jury Award (Netpac), BerlinInternational film festival.Humanitarian Award for Outstanding Documentary, HongKong Internationalfilm festival.Silver Dhow ( Best Doc category), Zanzibar International film festivalSpecial Jury Mention, Munich Dokfest.Special Award instituted and given by NRIs for a Secular and HarmoniousIndia (NRI-SAHI), NY-NJ, USA.Festivals : Berlinale ( International premiere; Feb 2004), HongKong,Fribourg, 3 continents filmfest (South Africa), Hot Docs (Canada),Vancouver, Zanzibar, Durban, Commonwealth film festival (UK), Oneworld filmfest (Prague), Voces Contra el Silencio (Mexico), Istanbul1001fest, Singapore, Flanders (Belgium), World Social Forum (Mumbai;Indian premiere), Vikalp (Mumbai filmfest organised by Campaignagainst Censorship), Films for Freedom, Bangalore and several otherfilmfests
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