goal!!

You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Bhagavad Gita--Swami Vivekananda


(Disclaimer: Found these pics on yahoo news. In other words, all your pics (and base) are belong to yahoo. just couldn't pass these by!)

Music to my ears

I normally don't listen to much popular music. I reserve my ears for better stuff like rock, trance, etc etc. But once in a while, there are artists worth a dekko despite being currently popular (complicated oxymoron). Here are two artists with talent, sense of music and the "do your thing" spirit.

If you have been living outside of a cave, you should have heard the new "group" Gnarls Barkley. Well, at least their song "Crazy", which is somewhere close to being the most popular song of the moment. The brain behind this group turns out to be a guy nicknamed "Danger mouse" aka Brian Burton. He shot to fame/notoriety a couple of years back with his out of the box remix titled "The Grey Album". Burton's music in essence cannot be classified into any one slot. That usually means either no one is interested in your music or everyone is. Looks like Burton is slowly getting into the second category. Good for him and good for us listeners.



The other artist currently making waves on both shores of the Atlantic: KT Tunstall. A Brit Chinese-Irish musician with a catchy name and an inexplicable penchant for legwarmers, she has a great voice. At least I think so. I must admit that I have not heard more than 3 songs of hers. But I was intrigued when I first heard an acoustic rock version of her song "Black horse and a cherry tree". It has been a while since I had seen anyone use one of those foot operated loop pedals on stage. She uses this to add to her "alt" music. Try finding her stuff. I have been told quite a lot of her videos are available online for free.

can you hear it

if you can hear this, you are young of heart. at least young.