Back In Blue

I have wanted to do this for a long time, and I finally managed to get it done today. So hey, here's the 'new' layout of the blog. Back in blue.

A coupla weeks ago, we celebrated Arya's birthday. That's when Vikram got his digicam (Canon Powershot A80) along. It's a fairly nice thing, and that's when I decided to buy the Powershot A95.

The pics from that day (April 9th) are here.

Discovery of the week has been Michael Kamen. The first time I heard of this guy was when Metallica released S & M - a recording of their duet with the San Francisco Symphony. The latter was conducted by Kamen.

Some time later, I watched Lethal Weapon 2 (the one starring Patsy Kensit as the pretty South African). Throughout the movie, I was struck by the fabulous, mellow blues guitar that accompanied most of the scenes. When the movie ended (and I make it a point to watch the credits - crazy huh? Some of the best music happens during the credits... You Could Be Mine at the end of T2, Sway in Shall We Dance.. the list goes on), I was pleasantly surprised to see that my good friend Eric Clapton had done the score alongwith the said Michael Kamen.

And then, on Sunday night I decided to look up the guy. The first thing I found was his official site. And it declared that Michael Kamen left us in 2003.

The man's a marvel. He's composed for some amazing movies - Band of Brothers, Die Hard, X-Men, the Lethal Weapon series... just to name a few. The sucker for OSTs that I am, I intend to get my hands on as much of his work as possible. Especially, his work with Eric Clapton (also heard in the BBC's Edge of Darkness). I have seen very few people with such an all encompassing command over music.

Gels so much with my own goal of knowing everything about everything.