Still standing...

GATE helped. I'm now officially a student again. 2 more years of financial penury. eiyiyiyiyo.

Well, the one-song-a-month plan's not going too well. However, it's always good to get back on track.

'Standing'

Piano gibberish + Bass

I need more hours in a day.

Standing by Ga-Joob

So long, Coorji

'Dear Uncle Coorju, i love you.
All those blackmail-worthy snaps of mine,
All those trips to Bannerghatta,
All those trips to the beach,
All those photographs you've clicked,
All those memories etched.
Half my sense of humour i blame on you.
Dear Uncle Coorju, i miss you.'

Lots of love.
- Gora

May's early...

Canvas by Ga-Joob

"Canvas"

Melodies harmonise
Entwined verses from midnight to sunrise
Sailing ships,
Armies of poets fill up seas with words
About Your amazing smile

Flowing rivers of honey
Rippling the fabric of space-time
Over pastures of happy sunflowers
The Big star forgotten, they follow
Your bright eyes, in the sky

* I'm just an ordinary guy
With celestial cravings
Waiting for stars to align
And when The stars align,
You'll be right by my side

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Vocal+harmony
Acoustic guitar
Bass
Rhodes Piano


Full on missings happening.

Beautiful Morning and the morning rush :)

Beautiful Morning In A Rush by Ga-Joob

I just found out what her name means. I lau it.

This is April's. Bass playing is getting slightly more refined, i think.

Bass + Bass-wah + Rhodes layered.

Practice, practice, and some more practice.

Sun, please

No Sunshine by Ga-Joob

Two tracks of piano (Grand and Rhodes), and one of bass.

Bill Withers 'reworked'.

Religious Pooh

I walked out midway during today's service. Couldn't concentrate on praying. People piss me off. Sneezers, yawners, fidgety-handed-space-intruders.

It's Palm Sunday, and people were fighting over leaves being distributed freely. I got in line and soon out of it, because there ceased to BE a line...moronic motherfuckers stormed all around. Molestation galore.

I finally got a leaf and ended-up giving it to a really sweet old lady.

A woman's smile is dangerous.

After many months, the cute pianist in the choir finally made an appearance. The reason i stayed back for half the service, was just to listen to her play. She understands 'space' and 'flow'. Not many musicians get that. All those beautiful lines she plays, done without even a sustain pedal. I've been tempted to offer her a sustain pedal...but i never got the nerve to walk-up to her and talk, forget 'exchange notes'.

Traditional shy-ist, I.

The last week of lent almost certainly provides me with some sort of heartbreak or the other.

Oh well, theres a saying: 'Good things come to those who wait'.

But, theres also another saying: 'Those who wait, masturbate'.

Apna haath, Jagannath!

April's late

Maha G. by Ga-Joob


Late by a few days; only laziness.

This is for Sid-the-boar's latest short film.
On:
Lead Vocals - Chandni Venkataraman
Backing Vocals - Sid-the-boar
Guitar - Ken-Dawwg
Bass - Naanu


I dont like it too much...the song. Too much tailor work.


It's very likely i will not do such things again.


Break-ups are bad, grey areas suck... separation is the worst.

Not enough...

...time to play bass

...time to play piano

...of her next to me

...energy to identify a research problem

...of Samurai Jack

...women i blend with

...sense to stop brooding over all of the above.

Cracked GATE. Barely, surprisingly. Cant really use it though.

It will be a yearly event for me. Wash away the sins of B.E.

Blah.

Sea of Es

Seas of Ease by Ga-Joob


This month.

Too lazy to fill it in with colour. Botched up GATE, and fell ill for nearly 5 days (both being mutually exclusive).

I like my progress on the Bass. Lots more to pen-down, record and fret over.

Blues and all that

The objective is to record one song, every month. By the end of 2011, i should have enough for an album. Here's January :

Beaney Blues Town by Ga-Joob

The piano in this song annoys me, sort of. The bass seems to come through more naturally.

I've always felt like a guitarist trapped in a pianist's body. But then again, it's more about through which instrument the song was born. In this case, the bass. Framing bass lines to the disorganised, unstructured vague songs that i write on the piano could be challenging to me...have'nt tried that yet. For the moment, it's mainly lots of practice on the bass...occasionally a little tune creeps in...

Tiny riff, fleeting jingle

Would you like to mingle?

Serenade my mind

Till I'm lost inside

This loop to find that 'hit' single.

Sambadikeelim!

I want this to carry on. Maybe even join a band on bass.

Bassically

'Jordy'

New obsession
New gear resolution
New love
New ear
New "knew i've always wanted to"

Ibanez SR 300...the reason why i trudged through december frugally.

Worth it.