Posts Tagged ‘Saarang’
2010: The year that was – Part 1
I'd written a post at the start of last year to document personal milestones / accomplishments / fun things that took place in my life in 2009 and when I look back on it, I realize that the content in that post brings back memories of times that have been relegated to the back of my head, primarily due to other, more immediate things that seem to [...]
IIT M Saarang 2010 Update
Last heard from the organizers at IIT Madras, Hammerfall, the Swedish power metal band was scheduled to perform at this year's edition of Saarang. You'd have no doubt read about it online in one of many websites, including, possibly an article here. In a recent development, it turns out that it is not only Hammerfall, but also Skid Row that [...]
Hammerfall at Saarang 2010
The Swedish metal invasion at IIT Madras is on in full force this year as well, with Gothenburg based power metal act Hammerfall being the main performing act. This, followed by last year's brilliant concert featuring Opeth, about which reams has been written (even by Mikael Åkerfeldt who had a mouthful to say about the whole main sponsor related [...]
2009: The Year That Was
2009 has been quite a year for me and when I am long gone and my great-great-grand kids want to read what I've written (yeah, your great-great-gramps is teh_pwnage!), they need to be shown how cool I was, even if it means writing something completely untrue and fabricated, as some part of this post might turn out to be. Having said that, most [...]
You Can Do (One Way Mirror) Magic
To get some context, check out part 1 of this series. Done? Happy, are we? Awsum! What you see in this video is four really talented individuals displaying their apparent lack of dancing skills in front of the IIT M Student Activity Center (SAC) building at 2 AM in the night, the day Opeth was scheduled to perform there. The SAC, we [...]
Disco (?) Dancing Metal Heads
Well, ok, not so much disco as freestyle dancing. But you get the drift. This is the first of two videos I am linking courtesy of youtube. I'd initially put it up, but some resizing error had made the layout look lousy and I'm sort of a stickler for symmetry and for things to look neat on MY website. Here's a background on why you are [...]
Parsimonious Peregrination
a.k.a travelling like the cheap guy that I am a.k.a Bangalore-Chennai-Bangalore on even less than a shoestring. At the very outset of this post, I am reminded of some random thing I did in engineering college, in the third and the seventh semester. We had this particular lecturer whose idea of teaching was to walk into class, dictate notes [...]
Demonic Resurrection : Opeth = Kryptos : Iron Maiden
Elementary, dear reader. Or more like an extension of high school math - ratio and proportion. So, for those that came in late, Mumbai based Demonic Resurrection is all set to be the opening act for Opeth's maiden India show to be held on 25th January at IIT-M for Saarang 2009. When last heard, Sahil Makhija, front man of DR was so [...]
