Thursday, January 24th, 2008
it was acceptable in the 90s
now that [at the end there] was really horrifying. the twisted workings of our minds are too hazardous for public display. have pity! think of the children!
okay, so steve jobs’s speech was cool. i felt like he was reading it most of the time though. and dil dil pakistan is awesome. vital signs were teh roxor. their final album - 1995’s hum tum - is an absolute classic. the sequence ‘guzray zamaney waley’-'janaan janaan’-'hum tum’-'mein chup raha’-'dair ho gayee’-'un ka khayal’-'namumkin’ must have few, if any, parallels in pakistani pop [that's practically the whole album too!]. luckily for all of us, it’s on-line at sangeet radio. i must confess, though, that i came to this album really late, sometime in 2003 or 2004 when rohail hyatt released a few remastered mp3s from hum tum via bandbaja. [this was back when the baja was actually a music zine, before its sole purpose became playing host to remotely witty one-liners.]
anyway, i’d like to share with you another classic song from the vital signs: woh kaun thi - in which video our beloved signs show sting and the police that, try as they might, no one can match the psycho-obsessive stalker skills of a pakistani man. *^_^*
oh, and i’ve also fallen for post-independence indian films of late. though not quite wet sari tree hugging, some of the films i’ve been watching come dangerously close. for example, the much-hyped rang de basanti and taare zameen par - i have to admit a newfound admiration for amir khan, by the way. also, more damaging to my meticulously-nurtured reputation as a connoisseur of fine film - jab we met, dil chahta hai, and kal ho na ho [yes, yes, have your fun]. strangely enough, it’s been helping this awkward homesickness i’ve had for a while. some of my cousins, through one of whom i’m now related to our resident unsuitable boy, would watch indian films religiously back in the 90s, and i would be a willing accomplice in their hedonistic pursuits of haraam pleasures.
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