Om Sweet Om

So thursday was a Live show on necklace road. Balasubramanium, Hariharan and that other guy who sings fast and out of breath.

I dont understand what the big deal was.

The show started almost an hour late, then our Hyderabadi Hooligans broke the Rs 100 barricade ( plebian enclosure ) to leap into the Rs 300 area ( middle-class ), while the Rs 500 and VIP ( bastards ! i hate the term VIP so fucking bourgeois)

Then an hour later the "public" outside, broke the entry barricade and piled-on for the show. Altogether "Fukkat" !!

By which time two of the talent had already finished their act, and some crazed chick was screaming some third rate Telugu film crap into her mike.

So we upped and left.

Its no wonder all the good ones are held in Bangalore or Bombay.

 

Current Mood: Happy
Current Music: (.) (.)

DooWop Rules !!

Got a nice site where i could download as much as i like ( over 1500 available ! ) great sound from the 50s and 60s.

If you want the site details, anyone interested can email me at :

manali_c21_h30_o2@yahoo.co.uk

and i'll email you the URL and some.

 

Current Mood: Happy
Current Music: The Flamingos - I only have eyes for you

 

So like i bought this new DVD player last week, but hadnt had time to run it.

I'd also picked up 2 new VCDs, and for some strange reason Disk 1 of both movies wouldnt play, but 2 and 3 play !

So i go back a few days later to the VDO store and he plays it for me on his machine and it plays fine....Bummer ! ( isnt it weird how that always happens ?! )

But he's polite and all, treats me like an imbecile and says "try it one more time, if it still doesnt work, bring it back and i'll replace". So I slink out.

I try again, and its the same problem.

So i go back he replaces it, and i try the newly replaced new ones now. ( did i just say newly replaced new ones now ? ) anyway, same problem.

I'm now convinced its not the VCDs, but the friggin player. So i call back the shop ( sweet old lady proprietor ), and i explain my problem.

She doesnt understand and says : " Ek minute, mein bacche ko de deti hoon ", and puts her shop assistant on.

He asks the the basics, and then asks me if i've had a "demo" yet by the company person. So i let him have it, and with all attitutde i tell him :

" Hum log unpad nahin hain jo DVD player chalane nahin ata. Waise bhi yeh itna hi-tech nahin hain. Mujhe full replacement chahiye ".

Sweet old lady comes back on and tells me to come over.

So i drive half an hour thru rush hour traffic, Begumpet to Bank Street Koti !! Stride into the place, and proudly demonstrate the "problem" ( with the new VCDs which i've carried to prove my point ).

Shop assistant merely presses one button. ONE BUTTON, and it plays fine.

Turns out, its a feature called PBC ( PlayBack Control, which is either set at ON or OFF at the time of recording. If you are in the wrong mode it wont play. )

He again asks me if i need a demo. I mutter something and make understanding sounds.

Sweet old lady smiles at me from across the counter and says :

"Aap kyo takleef li, ghar pe mein admi bhija dethi ".

I pack up, and split, head between my arse, and tail between my legs.

On the drive back home i think about all the kinds of people it takes to make this world.

And i imagine the shop assistant is thinking the same.........

 

 

Current Mood: Happy
Current Music: x

Current Mood: Happy
Current Music: Marvin Gaye : I Heard It Through The Grapevine