happiness, Music, websites
In Music, Things I do on November 4, 2009 at 12:42 pm
I went to St. Joseph’s PU College, and although that’s what it said on paper, much of this time was spent at a host of other colleges – at fests! For the most part, this is what PU life is for. Nothing is quite serious yet, and you can spend all your time doing shit that’s more fun that crunching numbers.
What I did at these fests, largely, is play music. And you realise really quickly that Bangalore well and truly loves its music. I played a lot of these fests with Jason Zachariah, and now, he is pretty much a brand name in himself. He now plays with a heap of different bands, and is simply the keyboardist to turn to in India. So it’s almost his responsibility to spread the music-love. A couple of years in, teaching people in his home, he’s finally stood up and started a school.
He’s got friends, and friends of friends, and so on, together – and this quite simply is the who’s who of Indian Rock (see faculty and be amazed). These are people who, when they aren’t on stage, should be teaching more people to rock out. If there’s anything this country/planet/galaxy needs, it’s more intelligent music. His mom, Lillian, is running this thing with him, and I’ve sung alongside some other the faculty there – Timothy and Naveen Thomas. Tony Das is on board, who needs an unbelievable statement to be introduced. I can say, first hand, these buggers kick a lot of ass!
So I’m beyond glad this has come together. I’ve had the privilege of putting their website together and if you have music in your soul, visit it and enrol. If nothing else, get in the loop and listen to the graduates – every batch ends with a show.
Website: http://nathanielschool.com
Articles:
Become a rocker in 10 Weeks
Music Mania
Disclaimer:
I digress: this started out being a rant about music and connections you make in college, but it’s turned into an advertorial.
happiness, liberty, life, truth
In The Answers, Things I know nothing about on October 4, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Democracy is great. Capitalism is fun. But maybe it’s time we thought about where this organic approach to freedom is taking us.
There’s no debating that we are entirely wreaking this planet; and as much as people want to tell you that YOU make the difference every time you turn the tap off while shaving or half flush when you pee, it’s mostly bullshit. We need change, but we need it on a massive scale. We’ve depended on common sense long enough and need something harsher.
Now I’m nowhere close to a supporter of a police state. I hate being treated like a criminal at every airport check; detest censorship and bans on absolutely anything and think people should be absolutely free in the choices you make. Hank Moody said it right on Californication, although it’s probably been said before:
There is no right or wrong; just the consequences of your actions.
That being said, on matters that are of the scale of the destruction of the planet, I’d say we deserve to be treated fairly harshly. Prices on water, electricity and fuel usage should be exponential, and should pay for the development of all the alternate sources science is looking into. You use more than you need, and you should pay through the nose. Tax the manufacturing of paper, and use it to plant trees. This isn’t something we can handle in little changes: the scale is far to big. We need to realise people are expendable, but the planet isn’t.
Severn Suzuki makes decent points in a 6 minute speech, people applaud, and then ignore it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8ODrjr09I0
Let me however end my rant with the idea that all this is bullshit and ignorable if we colonise another planet and move out. Prove Agent Smith right and do the virus thing. Put more money into space travel and finding a habitable planet. Then we can hopefully start over.
