ء says…

First of all, I am god damn slow at reading… so when I start reading the paper after waking up (while I am on the cycle, trying to get rid of some serious flab ) it takes almost 2-3 hours finishing the ordeal. I still haven’t figured out newspaper reading discipline. I end up reading a lot of useless unwanted stuff (and I read 2 different papers) but when I stop reading that useless stuff I realize how incomplete the picture is!! So I keep going back and forth between microscopic reading, and superficial surfing. Still haven’t found balance…

Secondly, reading so much of the paper makes me tired of reading and so I don’t have energy left to read anything else… I have the Black Swan catching dirt on the mantelpiece and also this book on Jurisprudece – I have enrolled for LLB exams, I took Part 1 this August, but I know for sure I will flunk, so I have to prepare again.. and seriously this time!

Thirdly (it’s funny how I delegate this to ‘thirdly’) is my professional work!! And that’s the most spread out thing in my life. This do-it-all-yourself (DIAY) approach is really messed up. I have equipment to maintain: store/restore, clean etc., Music to make, Jam Sessions, Personal Practice, Music to Listen to (it’s just like doing serious reading with your ear – i.e. when you listen seriously), Video Concepts to figure out, Videos to Watch (same as the serious listening situation), and then further research on the net…

By the way, these are all agenda’s – very few of them are actually fulfilled!

And then there is this blog, which I am constantly trying to write ‘purposefully’. I made my mother read some of my posts and she said that ‘what you right is less objective (even tough you think you are being objective) and more of your own instinctive thoughts….’ she’s damn right and it makes me a) lose my confidence altogether and, b) want to discipline myself more and aspire towards maturity… yea right!?!?!

Honestly… I am kind of losing my time-space perspective. I wanna revisit the way I write this blog for starters… I like the Amitabh Bachan approach the best; although I don’t think I can be as regular as daily… but the diary thing seems much more normal for this blogging stuff…  maybe put up a few articles/essays once in a blue moon, when I become more objective and precise with my approach .. yea yea… I know the shappeal some of you will give that I have to practice it to perfect it… but hey.. let me experiment here ok?

Before I go, I will try and ‘hybridize’… let’s see if you understand what I mean:

Two things…

1. We had an amazing show in Karachi, at the Ramada.. for The MUSIK… Not sure when it will air, but it happened amid lots of violence in the near vicinities and the added threat of escalaitng cross border tensions. Net Result: Only 35 people turned up for the show! My dear friend Abid, for the sake of a story (and probably under influence of his editor) had to play around with words to make it sound as if we had a decent audience – in terms of numbers (kudos to him though, for using the aptest expression so as to mislead while not misleading!!!). There were 3 females (hats off to them!) and the rest were guys (guys who we consider more as friends than fans – the core noorifreax group), and there was this gora guest (staying at the hotel) who was into it just like malangs do the dhamaal. For us, the audience was perfect, as we got a chance to f#$k around and have fun ourselves, while of course giving a kick ass performace for television as well as the crowd. Make sure you guys watch it on TV… will update the airing date @ nooriworld. The best part of the show, however, was the sound we got on stage … it was just perfect! There is also the fact that we had a new guitarist with us: Hamza Jafri (Mohammed Ali’s brother and Coven’s axe-man/band leader); he is a virtuoso… quite twisted, but virtuoso nonetheless…
All in all, the concert was brilliant.. and Hotel Ramada is the best hotel in Karachi: highly recommended to all!

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2. I was just thinking that media and specifically news media is a direct product of political activism. Think Pravda and Izavestia… throughout history, newspapers have always been associated with a certain political agenda/party… what’s all this hoopla about freedom of press then??? In fact, what’s all this hoopla about freedom?? With time passing I am finding us humans to be more and more rigid, biased and unwilling to be self-critical, unwilling to reanalyze ourselves and revisiting our conjectures about life/politics etc., giving the excuse that it will make us inconsistent!! I think we have en caged ourselves in our own egos … The prime example of all this has been the media coverage of the Pak-India standoff… i don’t even want to bother explaining in detail .. it’s quite evident… and applicable to both sides!
At the same time let’s not forget that our politicians, our intelligentsia, our state machinery (our = humans – Americans, Indians etc. etc., and not just Pakistani’s) have been playing the media game since it came into existence (because they are the ones who created it). The experience they have in maneuvering and manipulating this platform is more than that of the platform itself… so even if they have privatized it (just like they privatized politics) they must have privatized it while creating a new space for manipulation along with it… and we, as usual, love making fools of ourselves .. don’t we?

Until Next Time….

p.s. This Love and Revolution stuff is getting on my nerves… it’s too complex and too multifaceted…. i will put up a concluding part.. but don’t expect god!

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