I'm Back

So i'm back from india, slightly earlier than expected but luckily whilst i was out there i managed to catch a few glimpses of Indian TV which mostly consisted of bollywood style dancing. i also watched an extremely cheesy indian comedy which i later found out was called Kambakkhat Ishq which featured guest appearances from both Sylvester Stallone and Holly Valance. It was part English, part Hindi but was fairly easy to follow as the plot was achingly simple in every meaning of the word, in other words, it was awful as was the acting and pretty much everything about the film. That is not to say, though, that at any point during the film i was bored. In fact i found it quite amusing, probably for all the wrong reasons.

I watched Step Brothers whilst stating in Delhi as well which i thoroughly enjoyed. It was utterly childish but completely hilarious. I have yet to see a Will Ferrel film which i haven't loved.

The plane journey's were also great excuses for sitting in front of a TV watching movie after movie for 7 hours each way. My favorite of the lot were Watchmen and Burn After Reading but i also watched Monsters vs. Aliens, The Boat That Rocked and Coraline.

Unfortunately i inadvertently formatted my mp3 player at the airport before flying out to India so i wasn't able to listen to much of my own music whilst i was out there but luckily most of the others on the trip had iPods that they shared and i quite enjoyed seeing what other people listened to. a lot of it i was familiar but i did stumble across a few things i'd never heard before that i loved. One of those was a track called Ain't No Rest For the Wicked by Cage the Elephant.

The song starts with interesting, twangy, country style guitars reminiscent of Beck's song Loser. The vocals are cheeky and obnoxious and not dissimilar to those of jamie T. imagine the Beastie Boys backed with the guitar antics of Seasick Steve and you'll be in the right area. Not something i would usually go for but i'll definitely look for some more of Cage the Elephant.

I also stumbled across the video for a Four Tet track called Smile Around the Face whilst trawling through the depths of YouTube. It basically follows Mark Heap playing a melancholic depressive as he goes about an ordinary day. the video is hugely bleak and is held together only by Heaps gloriously characteristic face.