Sceptre at NIFT 2007

What do you do when the grapevine tells you that your favourite band, Sceptre, is going to play at a place which is loaded with senorita’s of the finest form…well, leave all else and head straight to the gig, what else!!

Once we entered, there was only one thing I did consistently. Pick my jaw off the floor. NIFT Mumbai is a right structural marvel when you look at it. And the beautiful girls you see over there is like an icing on the cake. (I hope all of the NIFTians take this in a positive manner. Come to think of it, you are now famous for your sense of style over the internet too!)

The event started slightly late, but who’s complaining, I was in wonderland, you see. There were many performances which you usually get to see at college functions and their ilk. I was sincrely bored to death (I actually made a song… Bored, Bored to Death) and all the more agonised when all this meant Sceptre would have to cut down on their stage time.

There were 3 vocalists whom I really liked, 2 gals and a guy from some remote place. None of the instrument brandishers were any noteworthy. Some of them even got their chords wrong. Bah!

It was finally time for Sceptre, and the band made sure that the sound was upto their satisfaction before they played. But once that happened, everything was forgiven and forgotten(the 2 hours before they played tested my patience to the T). They opened with Metallica’s Fuel and the wannabe crowd started moving around. I witnessed some of the funniest headbanging in all my life. And there were some specimens as well. My Chemical Romance inspired attire, tattoos, piercings et al. I swear, Sceptre must have played to the most wannabe crowd in their whole life as a band.

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Dr. Watson, you need some rest..

Dr. Watson who?

James Watson, is someone who jointly won a nobel prize in medicine in 1962 for discovering the structure of DNA, and now he heads the newly-formed Allen Institute for Brain Science. ( You can see his Wikipedia page for more ).

Dr. Watson what?

So you ask, why am I reviving his memories now? Because this guy doesnt quite rest on his laurels, and I dont quite mean it in a very positive way. His other favourite passtime apart from ripping DNA is passing racial slurs. Huh? Whats that now, you ask. Why will someone who’s so brainy pass such remarks?

I just got up today morning, to read in the Times Of India about this old hat speaking nonsense about how the colour of skin determines intelligence and a lot of other factors.

He says that he is”inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa’’ because “all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really’’.

So Mr. Watson, you think the amount of melanin once skin generates decides the intelligence of a person? Intelligence and beauty are certainly not things that are concentrated in certain pockets of the world, but spatially distributed by Nature, all across the globe. If some part of the world has a rich pool of intelligentia, it does so only because it has the infrastructure and moolah.This in turn attracts talent from all over the world.

But its just you, Dr. Watson, who says that “Blacks are stupid?” This directly means that you are accusing people like Martin Luther, Oprah Winfrey and so many other countless people of being stupid. Pray, were/are they? I am ashamed that we let such frivolous factors affect our logical decisions and there can exist such narrow mindedness at the highest levels of professionalism. I thought all this “racial” crap was buried a long time ago. God bless, people like you, who have nothing better to do, to bring it up. Like I said, Dr. Watson, you definitely need some rest.

KFC… Bah!

Metalheads are a hungry lot alright, and they turn all the more hungry when you give them the idea that a KFC store is on the way home. (We were coming back after a session with our guitar teacher, Teemeer, in which I was sounded off for not getting my chord shifting right)I was desperate to try their brand of chicken, cos I was way too tempted seeing their ads on the idiot box…Trust me, you’ll go bonkers just seeing that ad. But, for me, that is where the excitement ends.

As soon as you walk into the place, it feels no different like a McDonalds outlet. Very similar setup, the counter, the kitchen and the way things go about. We ordered some stuff and got one huge bucket full of chicken wings, crispies and what not. It all sounds tempting, but trust me, it isnt.

When we finally sunk in, it was all loaded with the bones. I thought it’d be completely boneless, the way it is shown on telly. Nightmare, with all of us eating like dogs and putting up a brave face when some really tiny bone went inside, and we politely pulling it out. And taste wise it was nothing great either. We Indians are used to spicy stuff and comparitively it was rather tasteless.

The only things I liked were the Chicken Swirl or something to that effect, which was boneless, the potato chips and the 9 buck ice cream cone. To simply sum it up, the cheapest products were what we found the best.

I sincerely think KFC needs to Indianize a bit, just the way Pizza Hut, Dominos and the big Mc have done in order for them to boost their sales in India. As they say, when in Rome, do as the Romans do…