Teh 5 Things About Me Tag

So I was tagged by CJ. My writer’s block kicked in again and I haven’t been able to write anything even borderline decent in a while. Didn’t wanna let the blog die so figured I’d do the tag. Was saving it up for just such an eventuality.

5 things found in your bag

• MP3 Player
• Spiral bind notebook
• Faber Castell triangular pencil, Non Dust eraser and Parker Rollerball (blue) [Yes, I'm particular about these things]
• Some book – Currently A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man by James Joyce
• A bottle of water

5 favourite things in your room

• Computer! – What would I do without my ancient excuse of a computer?
• Bookshelf and the books inside – I wanted a wooden bookshelf but a metal one’s better than nothing I guess. I wish I had more books to fill it up with.
• My assortment of crude, improvised, mock medieval weaponry  - Yeah yeah, laugh all you want.
• Badminton Racquet – Bought it when I was 12, after lots of begging and nagging and unkept promises. I was in love with it for a long while.
• Random clutter – Old newspapers, sawdust, random scraps of paper with doodles on them etc. Come in very handy at times.

5 things you have always wanted to do

• Get published – This is pretty obvious.
• Lead a real cavalry charge – This one is slightly insane and totally implausible. I blame the history obsession and cavalry fetish.
• Meet Bono and Moby [and David Gemmell too but he's dead so... ] – Two of my favourite musicians. And David Gemmell is quite possibly one of my favourite writers, easily the one who inspires me the most.
• Oh and I wanna meet Girish Jadhav – Amateur military historian with a huge collection of weapons. Need I say more?
• Go to Ireland and Turkey – I love Irish music. And the BEER (I haven’t tasted any, I just succumb easily to the hype )! I wanna see Dublin, the city that inspired the likes of Joyce and Wilde. Turkey is a melting pot of civilisations and cultures. Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) is one of the greatest cities of the world. Of course, I want to travel all over the world but these two are at the top of the list.

5 things you are currently into

• Cartography and sub-creation – Drawing maps of alternate worlds and populating them with people and chalking out a history for them. Fun stuff.
• Grateful Dead – In the words of Lenny Kaye “Their music touches on ground that most other groups don’t even know exists.”
• Minimalist fiction – I just like it. The subtleity, the multiple interpretations, the abrupt endings. I like it all.
• Sassanian heavy cavalry – I blame the cavalry fetish again.
• Woodworking – One of my phases. Every once in a while I become obsessed with woodworking and cover my room in sawdust. Right now I’m making a wooden cutlass. I made one earlier but it broke. Not gonna make the same mistake this time.

5 people you want to tag

Ish (If you haven’t done this before)
Vasudha
Amit
Nikita
Nidhi

Currently Listening To: Jeff Beck – Rollin’ And Tumblin’

My awesome funeral

Bob Marley was buried in a crypt near his birthplace with his Gibson Les Paul, a soccer ball, a fat Cannabis bud, a bong, a ring that he wore every day that was given to him by the Prince Asfa Wossen of Ethiopia and a Bible.

Ignoring the Bible part, isn’t that the coolest shit ever? Being buried with pot and bong…

When I die I want a badass Viking funeral. I think it’s illegal now in most countries but still…

Burial scares me and grosses me out. I don’t want to be food for maggots once I die. The Hindu cremation system comes with a shitload of disgustingly archaic and pointless rituals. Balls to that.

Now the Vikings, they did some cool shit. They gathered on the beach in the evening and lit a huge bonfire. They then laid the dead chap on a longboat and set it adrift. Viking men would then poke arrows in the bonfire and fire them on the ship thereby setting it ablaze. And then they’d watch as the burning ship faded into the horizon. It is said that if the colour of the flame matched the fiery red of the sunset then the dead man would go to Valhalla.

And in my longboat I want a copy of Catcher in the Rye, my saxophone (assuming I live long enough to learn to play one), my G.I.Joes (yeah yeah, you can make fun of me now…), a lochaber axe and a spagenhelm.That’s it I guess.

And then there were sixteen…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_Dexter_(businessman)

He is my hero.

www.moby.com/journal

My saviour during times of infuriating boredom.

R.I.P Heath Ledger

Yours is now going to be the best cinematic portrayal of the Joker ever. Dark Knight is going to be a box office hit. No one wants to say something negative about someone soon after his/her death. Even if it’s the truth. Instead they choose to exaggerate. Turn deceased person into the epitome of goodness. A saint.

Something which was beautifully portrayed in an episode of Dawson’s Creek.

It is too late. I am numb with cold and boredom.

As for the title. I have no idea what it means.

Currently Listening To: Parikrama – Open Skies