Haobam

Sonic Flare playing at Tavern, Church Street, Blore - 13 Sept & 11 Oct 2007
Info & audio sample of the band, pls visit - http://www.sonicflare.in/

My last performance was at Melbourne with my colleagues. I’m really looking forward to this gig. If you guys around in Bangalore. Catch you around. A good break from normal office routine.

And don’t forget to visit our band site and drop a few line ;)

Our band Sonic Flare performing live one of our original “Still”. I wrote the lyrics based on a riff composed by Neeraj.

Raiders of the Lost Ark, the first of the Indiana Jones trilogy, one of my favorite movie of all time. I like Indiana Jones mostly because, he’s not perfect, makes whole lots of mistakes though at the end he beats up all the baddies :)

The movie had quite a fan following allover the world, but some fans go that extra miles.

Three kids from Mississippi, 1982, created a shot-to-shot remake of the movie. twenty-one years later, their fan film creation has become an underground hit receiving attention from media elites such as CNN, Vanity Fair and even a nod from Steven Spielberg himself.

And now, in February of 2004, it was announced that producer Scott Rudin (Addams Family, School of Rock) purchased the rights to the untitled life story of the three Mississippi kids who remade Raiders of the Lost Ark over the course of 7 years. The film will chronicle the childhood adventures of Chris Strompolos, Eric Zala and Jayson Lamb on their ultimate quest to remake the greatest film in cinema history.

http://www.theindyexperience.com/raiders_adaptation/raiders_adaptation_main.php
http://www.bbcworld.com/content/talkingmovies_archive_18_2005.asp?pageid=665&co_pageid=6

Now apart from this adaptation, watch out for Indy 4, with Harrison Ford coming soon 2007 ;)

Finally our band site is up & running. I would like to thank our drummer Vinay (Raghavan) for the constant pestering and making my life a living hell for the past one week. But then, I got another site up & running, and I’m really proud of it. So putting it in a better way - Thank you Rags for making the site possible :)

I’ve been playing with these guys since my engineering days in Tumkur. Dumb was the first song that I wrote in my final year in college. Its a nice feeling to look back how Neeraj, Jonks & me start perfecting Dumb with a few chords I’d composed, hmm D-G-Am. Then the 9th & some dim chords thrown in by Neeraj and I forgot the actual chords progression I composed :)

It’s impossible not to shine,
You’re the mirror to your soul

People ask me whats thats. It’s from our new song No Heroes, which I wrote. And it’s the title of our upcoming album.

Check our music at http://www.sonicflare.in

This time I pledge that I won’t be a spoiler like I did in my previous entry “Revenge of the Sith“.

Thriller writing doesn’t get any better than this. - Denver Post
The review about Dan Brown’s much acclaimed novel The DaVinci Code is never ending. The book ran at an exhilarating tempo through a night of murder, symbology, code breaking, cryptology, secret societies and Leonardo DaVinci’s The Vitruvian Man.

The Vitruvian Man, there are many myths and theories which surrounds this DaVinci work. But from an angle, we can understand the proportions of the human body. For example, if we divide the total height of our body with the length from toe to waist, or the total length of our arm divide by the length from fingertip to elbow, we get a value 1.61803399. This proportions can be found in many of natures creations from the arrangements of petals in a flower, eye like marking in a butterfly, spiral of a sea shell, the list never ending. This value is roughly a ratio of 5/3, called the The Golden Ratio or Phi (Pronounced Fi).

This ratio was applied to many of DaVinci’s work and on many Roman architects.
The Golden rectangle, as many of us may have heard is also based on the Golden Ratio.
There are unlimited applications today from paper sizes to page layout and yes graphics design.

Thank you Mr. Brown for helping me realize that not all old painting are for Historians. Or who knows, maybe I’m growing old, while learning to appreciate your book and old paintings ;)

Some related links:
http://goldennumber.net/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/leonardo/gallery/vitruvian.shtml
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldenRectangle.html
http://www.danbrown.com/

Note: The following may contain spoilers about “Star Wars: Episode III.” If you’d rather not know anything, stop reading now.

Closing the circle of ‘Star Wars’.

Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was a Sith Lord, and the fear of Anakin’s recurring nightmare of Padmé dying in childbirth, made Anakin embrace the dark side. Is this how the circle closes after 28yrs?? or is this some demo reel for “Industrial Light and Magic”??

Sad to see such an epic movie closing up in this fashion, the story rushing in from one scene to another. Atleast, let the smoke of Anakin’s buring skin subside to put the much anticipated Darth Vader mask. The one thing that will make me watch Star Wars again will be Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi). I can actually feel him becoming Sir Alec Guinness in the 1st Start Wars, now Episode IV : A New Hope.

I guess I might be expecting too much too much, growing up with the original Star Wars movies, with Hans Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Chewbecca and the Millinium Falcon. Or maybe This is how truth dies - to thunderous applause.

Maybe I’ll run back to the theatre and prove myself that I still haven’t Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith.

A lovestruck Romeo sings the streets a serenade
Laying everybody low with a lovesong that he made
Finds a convenient streetlight steps out of the shade
Says something like you and me babe how about it?

The National Steel Guitar shines under the spotlight like a proud lover lost in the blissful melody. Shuffling between an array of guitar from a flaming strat, telecaster to a sunbusrt Les Paul. The man has aged gracefully, theres no more of the Dire Straits days headband, swinging to Walk of life, but its Mark Knopfler — Boom Like That. The man, the guitar is a force to be reckon with when the band plays an extended version of Telegraph Road.

Then came the churches then came the schools
Then came the lawyers then came the rules
Then came the trains and the trucks with their loads
And the dirty old track was the Telegraph Road

Then came, Mark Knopfler LIVE in Bangalore 07 Feb, 2005.

I sink like a stone that’s been thrown in the ocean
My logic has drowned in a sea of emotion
Stop before you start
Be still my beating heart

No, he didn’t sing that song, but beneath the white collared and the pin-stripped trouser, the Englishman with the Lazarus Heart didn’t falter. The scratched Sunburst Fender, clapping like a salsa dancer and arms spread out to embrace the whole world, this is the man freed from the Soul Cages

Be still my beating heart

Its 2:30pm on the clock, a little drowsy after the lunch. I would have slept on my workstation, hadn’t my mobile phone rang to have a lady on the the other side, “Is this Haaooa baaam”.
Me: “Yes, Its Haobam Martin here.”
Lady: “This is from The Times of India, you’d won a free ticket for tomorrows Sting concert at Palace Ground, Bangalore.”
Me: “Uh!! Oh Thanks”
Lady: “I’m Ruby, you can collect your free ticket, from our MG Road office, 1st floor, before 5:00pm today”
Me: “Thanks”

Me: thinking, which of my friend playing around??

I checked up with the number on my mobile phone, and made another of my friend call up that number. yes it was indeed form Times of India. WOW i got a free pass to the STING concert. Ran off immediately to the Times office, met Ruby and voila, i got it.

I’m an alien
I’m a legal alien
I’m an Englishman in New York

Yes, the Englishman is performing LIVE in Bangalore INDIA, tomorrow 4rd Feb 2005.

Catch up with my update tomorrow evening. If my camera passes through the security, I’ll freeze up STING.