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Monday, March 17th, 2008

I want you to want me

Good to see a pappu saein has made its debut on youtube – I couldn’t find one earlier.. although, admittedly it does do a grave injustice to pappu saein and the whole bhang-infused pall that hangs over the thousands of mesmerised, perpetrating and incredibly stoned people I saw crammed into the mazaar, lounging under the throbbing overpowering beat of some incredibly primal percussion.

Oh, and how can I forget the searing pain of stepping barefoot on some charsi’s smouldering birdi..

That said, it still was a rather odd, and incredibly theatrical experience – if you ever do head down to Lahore, then a thurday evening could be far less well spent.

Overload’s atrociously insufferable noisemaking has given pappu a new stamp of legitimacy amongst the yuppies of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad – which is somewhat amusing, if only for its irony. Pretentious pop trying to lure a troubadour to the sparkle of lux style awards and jazz music awards, surely should be making anybody cringe. I just find myself unable to sit thorough overloads cacophony, what did you guys make of them?

Pertinently (and you’ll know why) I guess it brings us, inevitably, to why places like JB do what they do. It seems to me that art for it own sake is just such an appealing, clean and somehow morally attractive proposition, an yet, art really seems to flourish when its motives are far baser – the rich history of court art in the sub-continent for instance.. do you think we should be running a more aggressive PR campaign for JB? Why? Why not?

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