Timepass - Fan/Hate Mail
After a huge gap, I looked at my Guestbook and saw that many people had
written about how much they liked the articles on the Timepass page.
There were also some people that have written about how much they
didn't agree with some of the stuff on these pages. I think those
people haven't seen my Recipes
page yet, and that's why I haven't received any emails from Robindro-shongeet enthusiasts yet.
Here's one guestbook entry
regarding my Keralite
Kindergarten Kop page:
hello, some things u said r funny. but when u write those
always think that it can hurt some ones feelings. i admit that olympian
anthony adam was stupid. but u must know that it was a flop in
theatres. there are other malayalam films which are not koppu. dont day
that the people in one state is stupid [sic] by basing on i "mallu"
film.
MANASSILAYOO KNAPPE also i have seen many malayalis who can speak
english very well. i bet u will never be able to say 1 word in
malayalam with the correct pronounciation.
I thank CHECHI/CHETAN very much for your guestbook entry. I can
prove you wrong at least on one count. The word Malayalam or the word
Malayali are definitely Malayali words, and I can pronounce them just
as fluently as the nearest Dubai-returned Mellu with coganett oyill in
his hair! Therefore, aren't you glad I didn't take you up on that bet?
You would have lost quite a few Dinars!! Or your favourite Sone-ka-Jhaadu!
Just kidding. There are more words in my fluent-Mallu dictionary, but I
don't think they exceed fifty or so. I don even no many word in
English, just enough to write web sight.
If your claim [this film didn't make it big at the box-oaf-feece] is
true, then I pity the Mallu commies. I guess some stupid-ass art film
was number 1 at the time, huh. I would rather go see Olympian. It is
not just eye-candy, it is a good laugh. Especially that olo-kosht dialogue.
As far as saying that all the people in Kerala are stupid, I never said
that. I never even said any
Keralite is stupid, so don't get defensive yet. I did definitely say
that this movie was funny.
Yes, you may have seen many Malayalis who can speak English very well.
This is also strange, because that would mean that they hardly venture
out of Kerala [this inspite of the high influx from Dubai into other
regions of India] - because I have rarely seen a Mallu [rarely doesn't
mean none, but we ARE talking majority here] that can't be identified
by his or her looks, accent or name. I recently heard about a POI
(Person of Indian Origin) that was talking to someone I know. Based on
appearance alone, my source was able to place the POI's origin in
"God's Oillu Country", Kerala. This inference was confirmed when the
POI said two sentences, the nametag [part of which was obscured] said
C. THOM now if that wasn't C. THOMAS, what was it?
Another entry about the
Meena Kumari Hate Page:
also meenakumari was the shit ok!! even tho she made a lot
of tragic movies, she was an excellant actress! pakeezah was out-effin-
standing! she was a great poet too, and incredible voice so as a
punishment , u have to watch her entire filmography in a 24 hr period
Thanks for your guestbook entry. BUT: NOOOOOOO! Don't do me like
that, please! I beg you! Isn't it punishment enough that you have to
open my eyes to the fact that there ARE twisted people in the world
that actually LIKED Meena Kumari and thought she was a POET?!?! You are
right about one thing, MK was shit. You are saying Pakeezah was
outstanding only because THEY made you think so. They're watching you,
NEO!
Yet another Meena Kumari
fanmail:
The effort for an anti Meena
Kumari page is a good one and
any artist looks for criticism. But this lady seems to have earned her
money and left for us all the films she made . For a
person born poor
enough so that she had to be left at the orphanage right at the time of
birth? Probably the page could be more beautiful with.
Probably I wish to criticize the use of the term Meena
(*******) Kumari but otherwise you must come up with some positive
ideas also. She was the actress who dared to wear half Pants in early
films. Must know that also if that pleases you. She gave a bathing
scene when Bollywood was afraid of adventures and was infested with
conservatives.
Thanks for your entry. But: I don't think mentioning the fact that
MK actually "dared to bare" says anything in FAVOUR of her!!!!
YUCK!!!!! CONSERVATIVES???? How is it that when we talk about B/W
actresses and they bare, people say, they did something brave in a
world of conservatives, it was art, and all that
Bengali-director-moves-to-Bombay-to-rip-off
some-Bong-film-with-a-Bong-music-soundtrack crap, and when we talk
about someone in recent times exposing themselves, it is done purely
for box office revenue??? I believe Parla when he quotes, "Any time is
as good as any other time" - so if they do it for box-office revenue in
the 21st century, that's what they did it for in the 50s. The only
thing you can infer from this is that general public is as desperate
for some skin as it was 50 years ago. Which is good news for arty-farty
movies with some "brave" filmmakers who intend to show some skin or
intend to have sexual content in their films. Look at what it did for Fire or Kamasutra or Utsav!! [The
only movie worth actual watching, if one is looking for quality skin,
would be Kamasutra,
else you would be forced to encounter Shabana Azmi as a middle-aged
lesbian or Rekha as a 60-year old prostitute! But movie-quality wise,
KS sucks, of course. I'm glad Naveen Andrews was in Bombay Boys,
otherwise I would have probably written a hate page about him]... As
far as "earning her money" and "leaving us all the films she made" - if
you mean that there wasn't anything else they could find in a country
of 0.6 billion people, then yeah, I guess she earned her money. BUT:
Just because someone had a hard life doesn't mean that we have to put
up with the crap they create. What kind of philosophy is that?! I would
think that living a hard life gives you more of a drive to excel. But
MK was just a dumbass who couldn't act if someone held a gun to her
head. All she did was moan and cry in movies. I don't think that has
anything to do with hardships she suffered. Even if it does, sorry,
that doesn't amount to diddly-squat.
So, in effect, you are saying that she was poor, and she made money by
wearing half-pants and appearing in a bathing scene ["Arrey? Barsaat?"]
in more conservative times. How is that different from all the women
(and men) that make money selling their bodies to the public? The
difference is, the other women and men probably look better and give
you more bang for your buck! Pardon the pun.
Honourable mention:
I don't whether you know about this movie called Sahiban.
There is this one particular scene. Sanjay Dutt, had kidnapped Madhuri
Dixit. He wants Madhuri to sing and dance for him. At the end of the
song, Sanjay tries to force himself on her, a white rabbit comes flying
on to the screen out of nowhere and knocks Sanjay out cold.
Thanks for your entry. I guess the moviemakers decided to follow the
white rabbit on that one. Nice.
A Message from someone
claiming to be Meena Kumari:
your hatred of me is hilarious and acute. i wish i had
been less of a weepy passive pathetic female, then maybe i wouldn't
have become a bloated alcoholic poetry-writing female. i wasn't so bad
looking in a pouty-lipped semi-central-asian kind of way though.
Sorry honey, just because you put pencil (or pen or quill) to paper
doesn't mean you were (or are) a poet. So, let me get this straight -
you pretended to die, and are in hiding, still releasing movies? Wasn't
Pakeezah released a little after you died, or something like that? That
would mean you at least started the Gangsta Rap Death Trend - say hello
to Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac wherever you are - I know they are on the
same island, still making music but pretending they recorded it years
before they died. And yeah: You were butt-ugly. Probably Bong, too
[that wouldn't surprise me, since you "fancy yourself a poet", to quote
a certain movie starring a certain band that you Bongs love to listen
to while you're doing all that pot.]
I have potential, but I waste
it on criticism
How cool is this!
You must have hell a lot of time to talk
trash. I was
browsing and ended up viewing your page about Suhasini. Im not sure
what's your beef against her, but doesnt seem quite healthy. But i do
have news for you, whatever content you have in there you did a lot of
research.... or maybe its all in your head. Alrite the reason Im
writing to you is to tell you, you have a lot of potential, but use it
for the right reasons. Take care Good Luck
Well, thank you for noticing! The Timepass rants are
written in my
spare time, which is why there are so few posts. If it weren't for the
fact that I had a job, I would spend the whole day writing articles
about how I hate [people like] Suhasini! Not sure what my beef is
against her? Actually, it's partly explained on the I hate
Suhasini page, the one you were writing about! Thanks for your
compliments - I actually do have a lot of research under my sleeve.
Growing up, I have suffered through loads of crap, waded my way through
gigantic oceans of bullshit, and I passed continents of bat guano like
Suhasini and Kamal Haasan (someday, a BIG page about him will follow!)
and archipelagoes of little shits like Senthil and Vadivukkarasu and
Johnny Lever. I wish it was all in my head. I really do appreciate your
comments, though. Thanks for saying I have potential! Maybe I will one
day go on to direct a movie with Suhasini in it... not.
I would have been called a
fucker (probably a motherfucker)...
From Prashant Yewle:
i
accidently stumbled on this BIZARRE site. Your opinions
about Rajesh Khanna in Anand and other movies was bullshit. Do u know
anything
about
acting, seems u r influenced by hollywood. and ofcourse
what u call as unemployment movies to some extent portrayed the real
Indian
middle class, maybe u dont know about
the middle
class, so plz
do not post any wrong information about things that reflect opinions of
ur
brother and urself (which r
bullshit). had this been an email i
surely would have called u f****r or probably m*****f****r.
Dear Prashant Yewle, what's the difference? I don't understand how the
guestbook NOT being an email would stop you from calling me a fucker or probably motherfucker, I
mean, you DID call me a fucker and motherfucker in the above comment,
the fact that you didn't know how to spell those words and ended up
using asterisks to denote the missing letters doesn't change anything.
I don't understand why you would want to use asterisks anyway. Seems I
am influenced by Hollywood? Au contraire, my friend. BOLLYWOOD is
influenced by Hollywood, not me! I treat both industries as equal as
far as bad acting and histrionics are concerned. The sad fact is that
Hollywood lacks great people like Kakaji and Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan
who can become mountains of histrionicity (The Police aren't the only
ones who can invent such words) if they choose, which means that
Bollywood is definitely better off with people like them.
By the way, what the hell is this "influenced by Hollywood" bullshit?
So anyone who states the fact (I assure you, it is a fact!) that (some)
Bollywood movies suck has to be a Westerner? I wish that were true. It
would have made life so much easier to understand for
easily-entertained mental midgets like you.
But I agree with you. My brother and I don't really know what it is
like to be part of the "real" Indian middle class. This is because we
had such a sheltered life - so sheltered that we had to spend eight
months without electricity. We didn't participate in meaningless
dialogue-deliveries that lasted the better part of an hour, we didn't
start singing any chance we got (Actually we did, but they weren't
ghazals! Ghazals suck ass.) We weren't told how to play the part of the
"real" Indian middle class by some art /film school reject director. If
only more people would take REAL courses in college, unlike a B.A. in
History or Arts, they would get REAL jobs and wouldn't have to be a
character in an Unemployment Movie bitching about how they are shit
upon by everyone. Hell, I don't even mind people bitching about how
much they are shit upon (being a graduate student myself!) as long as
they don't do it in ghazal form. Unemployment Movies suck.
As far as "posting wrong information" goes, I will echo Eric Cartman: Go have sex with yourself asshole, I'll do
what I want. It's my website, I never forced you to come read my
opinions, although I would LOVE it if you did. Keep coming back for
more! Thanks for the comments. Feel free to leave
more, they will be read.
The
United States is a safe haven for haters like me...
From Leo:
You are one
useless fuck ranting about tamilians... u must be in US... no wonder u
dont know anything better to do in life... thats the safe haven for
haters like u... have fun.. and take ur time to grow up and do
something productively
Dear Leo,
It IS good to know that dingchak's Visu
page probably brought all this on!
Wow, no shit, Sherlock! You had so few clues to go on - I mean, there
are sooo many places in the world that could have a domain name that
ended with an edu, and sooo
many University websites that could end with a jhu.edu, (like Jhumritalayya Hindu
University in Bihar-Jharkhand) and you pinpointed the country of origin!
So what if I am in the US? That doesn't mean I wouldn't have come up
with these pages if I were in India. Most of these pages were born in
Bangalore, and if I had a dedicated internet connection and 2 GB of
hard disk space at IISc, these pages would have started out in India
instead of the States. Have you checked out N. T. Ramarao's filmography
on the Internet Movie Database? It runs longer than Amitabh's!! The
point is, there are more Gults in the US than Amitabh fans, so
obviously NTR gets first preference. EACH and EVERY Chiranjeevi movie
is listed on imdb. No wonder I don't know anything better to
do in life [sic] - I'm sure that if these people had a high
speed internet connection at their disposal in India, they would have
done the same thing in Rajahmundry hosting videos of Recorder Dances
instead of downloading them in Seattle!
The US doesn't have to be "safe haven" for anyone, and it isn't one for
me, either. I don't need a safe haven just to "rant about Tamilians",
as you so succinctly put it. I did the same thing while I was in India,
while I was in Madras, listening to some asshole go on and on about how
Vairamutthu enriched our lives. I did the same thing when Bombay came out.
I did the same thing when a random auto driver went on The
World This Week to talk about thighs. So, kindly go fellate
yourself. And Vairamutthu and Kemel
Saar, if you think they are so great.
Anyway, I have to go now, it is time
to grow up and do something productively [sic]...
I
shouldn't question Ravindra Jain's heterosexuality
From Amar:
Whoever you
are, What do you know about Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan. You don't know
jackshit. If you understood those lyrics by Ravindra Jain written by
Goswami Tulsidas, you wouldn't say all that shit you fuckin asshole.
Don't even crticise the story of Lord Ramchandraji. If you don't know
then you keep your mouth shut. You should be encouraging ppl to watch
the Ramayan rather than bad mouthing it.
Dear Amar,
Ah! What a breath of fresh air. It
has been awhile since someone posted a comment calling me a fuckin asshole. What do I know
about Ramanand Sagar's Ramayan? Well, I
watched it every week, didn't I, douchebag? I didn't even miss an
episode of the Uttar
Ramayan shitfest. Contrary to what you believe, I know, therefore I talk. And even if I didn't, the if you don't know then you keep your mouth
shut [sic] funda
doesn't work on the internet, haven't you heard? Just because you choose to
read something on the internet doesn't mean it has to reflect your
point of view. As Mr. Spock would say, illogical, dickhead. Not only that,
not all points of view are equal. Some, such as yours, are less than
equal. Let's not go into specifics. As far as
encouraging people to watch the Ramayan rather than bad-mouthing it,
who the fuck said I was bad-mouthing the Ramayan? I actually think a
daily dose of mythology*
is good for you. I was bad-mouthing Ramanand Sagar's version,
with the SHITTY SPECIAL EFFECTS and the pansoid attempts at stretching
each episode to 45 minutes by adding 15-minute songs and exaggerated
melodramatic facial expressions that last 5 minutes. Goswami Tulsidas, my arse [I can rhyme,
too]. Give me Kunal Goswami
any day (not really). I would definitely recommend a tele-version of a
mythological tale, because mythologies are always entertaining**. But I recommend the
Ramanand Sagar version of Ramayan only for people interested in
laughing at poor special effects and monkeys garba-dancing with (oops, I meant
battling) humans. Oh, also for Jaambvan. That dude is awesome. Haha,
Dara Singh as Hanuman. Buhahahahaaha. By the way, 'jack shit' is two
words. If you don't know then you
keep your mouth shut.
* And that's ALL it is -
mythology. A story about how a fair Aryan prince defeated the evil
dark-skinned Dravidian Asura king. Go build
your temple elsewhere, dumbass.
** Mythologies are
entertaining because they tell stories, but then they are turned into
DEVOTIONAL TELESERIALS with sub-standard special effects and really bad
singing that lasts through all of Kaliyug,
turning the target audience from "anyone" to "my grandma". Think about
it - who watches all the devotional serials now? When Ramayan and Mahabharat used
to be on TV, my whole family would gather round the TV. Kids everywhere
tuned in. No wonder they came up with cool shit like, "Paap se dharti fati, Sita andar chali
gayi, Luv aur Kush roye, Ram bola oye oye!". You think kids
today are clamouring for Krishna?
Boy,
I really got his coganettu oayil-lu
to boayil-lu
From someone calling themselves my dad (ninte thantha, is that right?):
pundachy mone aare ookanada
malayalikale kaliaakunathu
naayinte mone..ninte ammede pooru polayady melal ingane enthelum ezuthy
vechal vannam adikkan andi kaanilla paranjekkam...get it chutiya
Dear Appachan,
Hats off to you. This is the most hilarious post I have ever had posted
on the Guestbook. You get first prize. A whole year's supply of coganettu oyillu. Oh wait, I'm sure
you have loads of it already available where you are! How about some taddy instead? Olumbian liked it in the movie...
Sometimes, you're better off dead...
...There's a gun in your hand, and
it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable.
Kicking in chairs, and knocking down
tables...
Call the police, there's a madman
around. And he's suggesting Carbon dating! Autumn953, obviously
a disillusioned (and rightly so) reader, writes:
Looks like Sunder is dead. Because
there is no dead body for a post-mortem, I suggest carbon dating this
site. Love Autumn
I don't disagree with that sentiment. I have always wanted
for some kid (Master Babloo? Master Raju?) to come up to me and say, "Lekin, aap to zinda hain!", so that
I can use an immortal Big B line, "Arrey,
yeh jeena bhi koi jeena hai, lalloo? Ainh?"
My bad, I cannot apologize enough for the lack of posts on the Timepass
pages, especially since I have received more pertinent Guestbook
comments in the past year than ever, from hon-haar barkhurdaar readers like yourself.
If I was A. K. Hangal, I would even say, shabbash, beta, Hindustaan ko tumhare
jaise hon-haar naujawaanon ki zaroorat hai! I can only promise
that I will try my best to put up some new Timepass pages soon. Honest,
I have at least three reminders to myself in my mailbox with ideas for
articles. I keep pressing TAB and postpone reading those emails for yet
another day. I agree, it has GOT to stop. I'll turn my life around,
even if it means I have to return from the grave. Or, in my case, the
urn my ashes are in.
In the meantime, you can Carbon date my ashes. Better yet, Carbon date
my ASS. Next time, spell my name right, bitch!
Just kidding. Keep reading, it's posts from readers like you that keeps
me alive. Or is it hate mail from pissed-off people? OK, it's a tie. я
возвращу. Русско? Отсутствие преимущества теперь!
Learn English or Estonian in a few weeks, and accept the word of the Lord. Ollelujah!
From someone named Joe:
Dear friend, From what I understand u are a synical loafer. As we all
beleive in free speech I donot blame u for ur comments but just jotting
down my thoughts on the very same basis. You go on and on criticising
Keralites, and puning their accent. Well let me say my friend u are
just stereotyped. If I were to be in ur place...I could have made fun
of u with the level of standard u write on and ur fluency in English.
Tamilians for most part, how educated they may be, cannot pronounce an
english word whatever may be its level of difficulty though they use
English in between Tamil always....seems they don't have enough Tamil
words and need to borrow from somewhere. I say why go internationally
when u can borrow those words from Malayalam,but I donot wish to point
the defects of Tamilian vocabulary and pronounciation.....because then
how will I differ from u. We keralites can easily master any language
in the world be it English or Estonian within a few weeks, whereas
others... [Message truncated]
Dear Joe,
HUH??? How deliciously random. I agree that I am synical, but a loafer? What are you, a Hindi movie heroine from the sixties?? Dear friend,
you misunderstand me. You can make fun of Tamils as MUCH as you want, I
don't mind! In fact, if you come up wth something funny, please send me
an email, and I'll host it on the Timepass pages with full credits due
to you! If you want to make fun of my "level of standard of writing",
or my English fluency, go ahead! As an impartial synic,
I will make equal fun of BOTH Tam and Mallu. Therefore, I'd like to
point out that you are ABSOLUTELY right. Why use English words like
BOMB in Tamil sentences when they could just as easily borrow the Mallu
word for bomb, "BOHM"?? Why pronounce the word "COLLEGE" as "KAALEJ"
when they could be calling it "COAL-EDGE"??
As I said, I whole-heartedly agree with you on the lack of PROAA-PER
pronounciation when "most Tamils" speak English. Hang on a second, I'd
like to point out at least two things in your email that don't sit
right with your theories, though:
(a) You say, you DON'T want to be like me and stereotype a whole
people. But in the same message, you ALSO generalize something about
Tamils. I'm confused.
(b) "Keralites can easily master any language in the world..." - well,
I could learn a language every hour, if I was also given the freedom to
pronounce words any way I see fit, instead of the right way to do it
[Refer BOHM]... Instead of quantity, maybe you want to concentrate on
quality first. What I mean to say is, before you master Estonian, make
sure you can compose a cogent paragraph in English when you post a
comment on someone's Guestbook page.
Ollelujah! If you think I'm unfairly picking on Mellus, please check out some of my other pages - for example, my Kemel Saar page.
An Asshole To The Past
From The One and Only Dingchak:
Praise for the 1993 videos page:
mighty moking shitake mushroomz!
sundar
- i 've been scampering around your 1993 songs page all morning- like
the fatchick in the field in "no rain", opening multiple youtube tabs
in my browser and playing tribaldanceboomshakalakinformercomeundone all
at the same time, my cube-mate is giving me looks, but i need my
retro-cheese-fix, so fuckim.
What a treasure! its like..like..
an asshole to the past! ..aah the memories they are flooding back. I
was a year ahead of you at school, so things peaked a year early (i
probably kicked that football to start things rolling), I'm talking
about 1991-1993, but it was nice to see the usual suspects all on your
page, only leaving out the vanilla-ice(kone a?kuchi a?) and its hammer
time and james and petergabriel's sledgehammer/steam, and the hot,
wholesome and nasty swedish rockers who have very little to say but say
it very well,the ROXXETTE!! and the host of two-hit wonders whose
singles still occupy prime time space on lovingly recorded TTK
cassettes in collector's shelves in Kotturpuram still discussing
"aiyyo, anda boyz2men voda paatu ketaa saakshaat sri-linga maga prabhu
mootram ponamari irrukum..."... and also the slick fillers MTV used to
use between songs, and the nonies and sofias and the marias and even
akshay khanna's son, i forget his name, the one with the hair, man,
thank god our revolution was televised, and thank god for the internet,
and thank god for enthu guys like you.
I am waiting for your
next post on the growing up years in your hostel, when you had to hum
richard marx while squatting in the shitter, because if others found
out you didn't worship some obscure 60's band like grand funk railroad
or didn't even own the 4 bootlegged albums of spyrogyra, then you were
labeled poofy.
..and
i forgot to add, i went to an interschool 'culturals' in my XI or XII
std., and in the light music competition, there were 2 dudes from one
of the sood schools in madras at that time- st bedes, or don bosco or
st johns or some such, who wanted to sing ice ice baby, and since one
guy forgot to get his casio synth , he played the intro part (from
queen's under pressure) on a frickin HARMONIUM potti!!!
I dirtied my pants that day.
Frickin ..harmonium??? they couldnt find a fancy pencil box that could make that music or what?
Dear Dingchak:
THANKS! You get me, man! That's exactly what it is, an asshole to the
past! I'll have to add a "Before and After" page of some sorts to
include all the magaaan yinsaans I didn't acknowledge on the 1993 page.
For example, kucchiya-kone-a White Moon (Venn-nila, which is what Tams
were calling him) Ice. The very first "western music" album I ever
owned was a gift from my friend on my birthday in 1991, and it was To The Extreme.
Me and my brothers borrowed our neighbouring uncles' adoptor (as Tams
would pronounce it), which had three voltage settings. One of them
would slow the tape down, and we used this 6-Volt setting to decipher
the lyrics to Ice Ice Baby.
Needless to say, it didn't work that well. We basically had to wait
till one of us spotted a lyrics book at Archies. Isn't that sad? Back
in the day we couldn't even do a Lyrics.ch search for such mundane
things. I'm glad Thackeray at least burns down these Archies shops
every Valentine's Day. They ate my money and gave me lyrics to the
whole Bombalurina album with the song, Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,
an album I have never encountered in my life, nor have I ever heard
anyone talking about this band. For some reason, that lyrics book had
ALL the fucking songs. Archies, tevdiya!
The Pre-Grammys in 1991 was the first "event" that I watched a recorded version of, and it had the videos to Ice Ice Baby, Here Comes The Hammer, You Can't Touch This, Vision of Love, and I'm Your Baby Tonight, among others. It premiered the same Tuesday night that the English TV show Clarence premiered (right after this show) That summer, Pepsi Beat Vol. 1 came out, with songs like M.A.R.R.S.'s Pump Up The Volume and Donna Summer's This Time I Know It's For Real.
Although I have never heard Tam Brams comparing their holy saamiyaar's
mootram to B2M songs, I have heard Tam aunties express their
appreciation for Enya's Anywhere Is, so I'm with you.
Richard Marx... hahahahahahahahaa.... the guy with the mullet who
totally looked like a child molester, but who sang screechy songs that
somehow made the Asian chicks swoon. Now, are you talking about the
songs Hazard Chapter One and the most phemous of all his ballads, Right Here Waiting?
They were before my time, both released in the late 80s or early 90s.
God knows how many poor girls' autograph books at the end of XII std
must have been full of "Wherever you go, whatever you do, I will
be right here waiting for you" from misguided boys who thought the girl
was the answer to all of life's problems? Thankfully, one of my
classmates in 1994 ALSO had Richard Marx lyrics to go with, from a track off of his 1993 chootiya album, Paid Vacation (which should have been titled "Here's More Right Here Waiting", like the Here's More Tell Me Why
book). Quoth he: "Now and forever, I will be your man". Sadly, it was
written in this girl's autograph who basically laughed it off. Anyway,
the point is, I would NEVER stoop so low as to sing Richard Marx tunes
while I took a dump. No, I did that in front of my mirror with a
pretend-mic (12" ruler)
Luckily, I didn't have to live in a hostel while in college in Bombay,
that way I actually got to watch a shitload of videos instead of being
misguided into shitty soppy ballads by guys named Bhaveen and Murugesh.
Finally, a harmonium for Ice Ice Baby is pretty novel. Kind of reminds of Weird Al's first famous spoof, My Bologna. Still, those were the days. These days... to quote Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan from a B+W film, "Friends, the times are
changing. First, there were blouseless sleeves. Next what, sleeveless
blouses?"
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