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Thank you for viewing my blog. I hope that you will enjoy going through the posts and don't forget to comment on them. My blog's focus shifted recently, from anime in to many other things like music and books and certain other things i want to blog about. I hope you all talk and comment about things on my blog or anything at all here too! :)


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Thursday, December 9, 2010

Monday, November 22, 2010

MCR's Danger days

Hi guys,

don't have much time but here are MCR's new videos (SING and NA NA NA (NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA)






-mystic

Monday, November 8, 2010

Pyaar ki yeh ek kahani review of the episodes so far

Hi guys, sorry about the slow blogging lately. But well, I'm online now.


Ekta Kapoor's twilight serial finally premiered two weeks back, after all the delays, and though so far, i think most people are watching it, the story is only very loosely related to twilight. (obviously). just the basic plot is similar. the indivisual scenes are a bit overdone, but as a whole, its quite entertaining.

i personally, dont feel like i would really sit down and punctually watch every episode of it (which i haven't for a week now) it is worth sitting back and watching.

I think eventually, it has the typical saas-bahu soap direction, but that doesn't seem very prominent.

good watching, to all who are courageous enough.

-mystic

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Taylor Swift's Mean

Well, I heard the song and well, its good. More country than pop. It's a bit Kenny Roger-ish. I think its got a typical country kinda music.

That's all I have to say about  it.

And, yeah. In her lyrics, TS is obviously pointing at her critics so I think it'd be ironic when someone doesn't like the song and will lash it out in return.

Back to December still the best song on the album so far.
-mystic

Thursday, October 14, 2010

LP Concept album v/s TS concept album Videos

This is just like sort of something random, but i feel strongly about.


The LP MVs from A Thousand Suns were kind of like abstract, where as Taylor Swift's Mine video was more of like a story and even though it is typical of Taylor Swift to have a storyline in her songs and videos. But still. Speak Now is a concept album and I think as much as a video should represent the idea of the song, it should also be in accordance with the rest of the album. And if its a concept album , the music videos should depict the story of the album.

So, inside my head, Taylor Swift Videos from Speak Now win from LP's videos from A Thousand Suns.

But as far as the songs go, the two are still competing, also considering the Speak Now hasn't released yet.

-mystic

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Taylor Swift's Back to December

So I just heard Taylor Swift's Back to December and its actually is good. Its nothing I was thinking it was gonna be after I had heard Speak Now, and I was hoping for something pretty bad. Her vocals in the song are amazing and I just love the way the song's melancholy yet lively at the same time.

I'm just kinda happy that there is a good song on the album, even though I like Innocent and Mine.

-mystic
 p.s.- I sincerely hate her fringe in the pic though.



UPDATE- Its been floating around the net lately, so I'll put it up. Taylor Swift has allegedly written this song about Taylor Lautner.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010

LP's new MV

Hi


So, the new LP MV came out and it's like a sequel to the Catalyst MV. The Catalyst was smoky grey-green and this is starry blue. I just couldn't see the greatness or difference from, well, other MVs. But then, I guess, we all know how quickly my opnion might turn positive.

-mystic

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Taylor Swift's Speak Now

So, just heard Taylor Swift's Speak Now, and, well, its a typical Taylor Swift Song. The lyrics are okay, nothing great. The song kind of lacks the rhythm 'Mine' had, just something kinda off hand. So far, both Mine and Speak Now have failed to achieve the new-ness, or the freshness I was expecting. I mean, you could listen to the songs, but might not really volunteer to.

Now, something about the lyrics. Like I said, they weren't anything great. This is how it goes:
I am not the kind of girl
Who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion
But you are not the kind of boy
Who should be marrying the wrong girl
Don’t say yes, run away now
I’ll meet you when you’re out of the church at the backdoor
Don’t wait or say a single vow
You need to hear me out and they said speak now
Which, frankly, doesn't even rhyme. The song's a lot like Picture to burn. Something that you can sing along with but it doesn't really strike you as something you want to listen to.

Let's expect something better from the rest of the album. Speak Now releases 25 Oct. 2010.

-mystic

Song of the moment - 'Waiting for the end' by Linkin Park. (Yes, I have started liking the album)

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Pyar ki yeh ek kahani

Now, Ekta Kapoor is maikng a serial on twilight. Yes, I thought we needed to stop her from doing this, and I was a bit sceptic but I have strated to like the look of it...though I could suggest improvements.






Only tym will tell how much ekta kapoor will ruin it.

-mystic

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

To people who administer Mysticalchemist land

So its been raining all month in mysicalchemist land and it's not like we have frequent powercuts, just few prolonged ones. And so far only a foot bridge has collapsed. Yeah, right. Stadium roofs have also collapsed and the roads aren't there any longer. I think they have submerged under the flowing rivers flowing in place of the roads. Also, the remaining parts of roads that were still visible have hid under potholes and dug-up holes and manholes and all the other holes.

This is for all the people who responisible for or adminster all this or work in these deptts or can do something about this to kindly rescue the people who have been inflicted with all the rain induced infrastucture-less-ness of the mysticalchemist land and go do something about the power and the damn foot bridge.

-regards
people of mysticalchemist land.

ps- I think the rain has stopped but that is just one thing.

Monday, September 20, 2010

LP's Suns' Concept

All right, so five minutes after the previous post, I find this article on MTV. So apparently, there is no definite story in the album.

This is what Mike Shinoda is saying (after reading which I think that the whole concept-less concept album doesn't bug me so much):
"People asked us if it's a concept record, and in the middle of the process, we were contemplating whether or not that was what we wanted to do. And I think, as we finished it, it became clear that, usually the problem with concept records is, like, [the] term usually refers to things like [the Who's] Tommy or ... rock operas and stuff like than that has a narrative. And this doesn't have a narrative; it's more abstract that that. "

A Thousand Suns II

All right, so I am not a musical genius, but i did realise that Linkin Park's A Thousand Suns is a concept album. I have heard like two-three times by now, and frankly, where is the story?

I mean, out of the 15 tracks, I hav even started liking some more that I did the first time, but I can't figure out the concept of the album.

Its just this thing they are singing and A thousand Suns, I think, failed achieve the depth it could have. Just a bit of modifications, and this album could really have done well for me.

Anyways, I still think 'Wretches and Kings' is the best track so far.

-mystic

Saturday, September 18, 2010

A Thousand Suns

Linkin Park's new album A Thousand Suns was released on September 14 and I was in high hopes that day about how great it was going to be and everything but now there is just one thing that keeps coming to mind.

I finally heard the album today and it completely stripped of Linkin park-ness. Hybrid Theory and Meteora but both amazing, Minutes to Midnights was still entertaining, but this album really did it.

It has like 15 songs out of which I think 3 are just famous-people-quotes, the opening song (The Requiem) Was Something like what Green Day did to 21st Century Breakdown's Song of the Century, but they (Green Day) did it much better. Even the lyrical style was different. Linkin Park was all about life and human perception (that's how i see it), but this album has just a hint of it with political and social opinions being more prominent. Frankly, I don't mind it one bit, if they would have done it in the same style.

Most of the songs simply didn't make it to the bar I had set. I think Wretches and Kings was the one song i actually liked, but the rest kinda hung between nu metal and rock. That Linkin Park thing was missing.

All in all, it was a big disappointment. Though the cover really got me. One word for it: Beau.ti.ful. Love the way its done and and the title interpreted.

Rating - 2.5/5

-mystic

Friday, September 17, 2010

Taylor Swift's Innocent

Yes, the song premierred on VMAs 2010 and admitedly, it was better than I expected. Really, after I heard Mine, I was a bit disappointed because it had the Love Story rhythm, but it didn't have the charm. (The video was great though). But Innocent has a strange Evanescnce tinge to it, which isn't very bad. It might actually work.



Matilyn Monroe (sort of hair
)+curly hair+red lipstick=definitely not working.
 But yeah, that hairstyle of her's might have been a miss.-------------------->







ps- I just realised that the title could mean a lot of different things.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Review - "Fallen" by Lauren Kate

SYNOPSIS-There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.

Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce–and goes out of his way to make that very clear–she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her.

AUTHOR- Lauren Kate

RATING- 2.5/5

MY MUSINGS- The book was good enough, but was mostly plot-driven. There was no force in the characters. Luce was just a whiney teen with no idea what to do with her life. I mean, seriously, how can she love Daniel one moment and not love him another. I guess it was simply forced into it. And that's exactly why the writing style was horrible. It didn't make me feel the way Luce did. I forced myself to think like her, and when I finally accomplish it, she changes her mind! And that was so irritating. Her erratic mood and character was frustrating in a way that pulled the book downwards.

And the one thing what I totally didn't get was why did Lauren Kate have to write in 3rd person from Luce's perspective?

FINAL SAY- It's an okay-okay book, and I would reccomned it for those who want to read something princess diary-ish.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Reading Wish-list for March (and the time it takes me to read them)

Hey,

I was scrolling through some websites and blogs, compiling all the books I wanted to read, that I thought I should probably write them down. So heres the list:

  • Fallen ny Lauren Kate 
  • Hush, Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
  • Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
  • Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl
  • Gone With the Wind by Magaret Mitchell (I know, there are still a lot of classics I haven't read)
  • Persuasion by Jane Austen (I'm halfway through. Yay...)
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 
  • The Hunter Games by Suzzane Collins
  • Catching Fire by Suzzane Collins

If any of these boos aren't worth reading, just tell me to get them off the list. And if any of you think that I should add some book to the list, you can write it write here.

Thanks

-mystic

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

World Book Fair Delhi

Hey,

On Sunday, I visited the World Book Fair in Pragati Maidan, Delhi. The fair was simply HUGE (and that's when I only visited 2 out of 8 halls). Almost all the publishers whose books I wanted were there. Random House, Om Books House, Pan Macimillian, Roli Books, Hachette, Harper Collins, Frank Brothers and a lot more (except Simon and Schuster (I wanted Hush, Hush by Becca FitzPatrick really bad)). I got quite a bit of books. Some books (like hush hush) were ones I wanted and couldn't find, but probably Though probably one book shouldn't cloud my experience. All in all, it was great, and all book--lovers are reccomended to go there next time.
-mystic

p.s.- I'll review the books around mid-March

Friday, February 5, 2010

FMA:B in English

Hi all,

Speed Post: fullmetal alchemist:brotherhood will be telecasted in the US on Adult Swim fron Feb 14 in ENGLISH.

Vic will reprise his role as Ed, but Al will be voiced by Maxey Whitehead. (i personally think that Aaron would do better as Al. Let's hope Maxey turns out to be a good Al too.)

-mystic

P.S.Since i am posting this, I'd like to mention that Animax already broadcastes FMA:B in english from Monday to Thursday at 7p.m. IST.

Announcement

Hi all!

I know that I haven't posted in ages, but I'm going to post more regularly now. But as of now, i have decided not to use this blog only to post about anime, but about others things that interest me (books, music, movies, twilight etc. etc.)

The blog URL and title will stay the same, but now it will about a lot more, giving me a braoder range to things to write about.

-mystic.