Wednesday, March 09, 2005

The Mark Knopfler Concert.

Across the pale parabola of joy

Bombay the city which is always on its wheels and one city which yours truly detests to the extent possible forced its company upon me thanks to hosting the Mark Knopfler concert. The trip was worth it for just the concert. Went to the concert with my cousin K , his wife L and a friend M. The time taken to get to the end of the express way from Pune to Bombay was equal to the time we spent in getting to a place called Tikujenewadi in Thane (a suburb of the megapolis Bombay) . The drive to the concert took another good hour on the Pu.Dru.Mahamarg ( Purva Drut Mahamarg , the Eastern Expressway ) on which M gave a demo of his car driving skills which was equivalent to the consummate biker in Pune's maddening traffic. Thankfully we don't have too many Ms driving cars in Pune.

At the end of this reached the concert and for once there were speakers worth their salt with pretty good sound effects and for once, a concert started bang on time. No other bands playing , no one else playing before the great man , no other music to adulterate the magical sounds from his guitar which made your fingers ache for the exquisite music. Starting with the Walk of Life ,
singles from Philadelphia,Sultans of Swing, Tunnel of Love , Romeo and Juliet, he belted out some really amazing music which left one thinking about how such music could get out of the 4 strings on a guitar.

The concert ended in 2 hours but it left one clamouring for more such music. Drove back home in the wee hours of the morning and seriously considered driving down to Bangalore to attend the repeat concert. (Obviously didnt :-(( ).

He rocks !







Tuesday, March 01, 2005

Across the pale parabola of joy

Across the pale parabola of joy

Back to where we belong. Well its been a while and have been busy with release cycles, driving my new car down to Lonavla and back and so on and so forth.
Also spend sometime in getting some cool research done in gdb. Nothing much else otherwise with work....Keeps one occupied and busy and bored too (well sometimes). On the other side sitting in office one gets to hear amazing statements like "Let me wear my specs and listen to you "