Posts Tagged ‘The Beatles’
Bet Ahava (For Love)
Last year, on 29th December, I was in Jerusalem. I had spent five days in the city and was slowly getting used to its charm, its aura, its sometimes disconcerting piety and I was able to discern to some extent why so many people had fought over it for two thousand years. I had planned to spend four days more in the city and understand it and [...]
American Gods and Minor Chords
When I was in Bangalore to attend the Simian's wedding on 23rd May, I had time to kill between the wedding ceremony (which I went late for, thanks to horrendous traffic, only to eat the lunch served there like the shameless freeloader that I am) and the reception later in the evening. I then decided to indulge in my current favourite pastime, [...]
Rock Street Journal – My Column (April 2009)
I don’t know how many of you’ve noticed, but the pop music of the yesteryears is the muzak of today. It is quite surprising, but the gym I used to pretend to work out at had on its playlist so many pop songs I used to listen to when I was a kid, including that of boy bands, mentioning whose names within the pages of Rock Street Journal would [...]
