Sunday, March 30th, 2008
To boy: The carrot cake missives
Ah, but the point is, it isnt foreign music, in a language you dont understand, isnt quite the same as a song which do understand, and you recognize that the lyrics are bad. I think it makes the whole experiance poorer.
Also, it seems our conversation was rather prescient: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7321147.stm
Al, for your benefit, amongst the innumerable avatars of inanity that graced our conversation earlier today, i can recall
1) a debate on whether musicans who write songs with bad/meanigless lyrics should be sold into slavery
2) a hybrid inductive/deductive hypothesis for the question that has long troubled us (used in its broadest sense) - “where do the pretty girls go in winter?”
3) what is the one pakistani song you hate to love.
March 30th, 2008 at 5:15 am
al-tahafut said:
1) i strongly believe everything — including my beliefs — is meaningless, so let them be.
2) pretty girls are all around, at least here, even in winter.
3) sanu tere naal, by abrar ul haq. [i can love you more than anybody else, i meeen it]
[i think the default colour for our links is too similar to the colour of our text; let's mix things up, yeah?]
March 31st, 2008 at 2:24 pm
an_unsuitable_boy said:
i hereby move to place abrar ul haq number 1 on list of musicians to be sold into slavery.
we could keep him locked up, bringing him out every 20 years or so to introduce the wonders of billo de ghar to a new generation.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lVccjGTBQ9I
when you realise where this concert was held, you’ll be deeply disturbed.
March 31st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
al-tahafut said:
okay, so i can’t watch youtube videos at work, but i think i saw that last night, since i got abrar ul haq stuck in my head after listening to sanu tere naal. i think trafalgar square will never be the same. i was searching for the original video for billo de ghar. i never found it though. such a great song — it really took pakistan by storm. unfortunate for my friend bilal, however.