Shahar Ashob
My blogs
| Introduction | Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius. |
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| Interests | Eating, Reading, Sleeping, Watching movies mostly B and C grade preferably with Mithun in them and shot in the exotic locales of Ooty, (replace movies with cricket when India is winning, or Pakistan is losing, or both), reality shows, Listening to Baba Ramdev and music (generally Zihal e Mishkin or Mora Gora Ang played repeatedly over a period of 4-5 days), Driving(to work and back), comics (as opposed to graphic novels), graphic novels (as opposed to comics), walking around Delhi (and not NCR), aimlessly, driving around in UK(Uttara Khand)and anythingelse that get me away from work. |
| Favorite Movies | First and foremost Mithun’s movies, followed by……Jaane bhi do Yaaron, Golmal, Naram Garam, Chhoti si baat, Rang birangi, Baaton Baaton Mein, Pati patni aur woh, Chameli Ki Shaadi, Chupke Chupke, Gaman, Katha, Sparsh, Chasme Baddoor, Saath-Saath, Kalyug, Bhumika, Manthan, Bhavani-Bhavai, Mirch Masala, The Apu Trilogy, Feluda Movies that Ray made (Satyajit not Sandeep), Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, Andaaz Apna Apna, Maachis, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu chatterjee and Gulzar in the 60's 70's and early 80’s and many many many more..... Monty Python series, Little Miss Sunshine, Godfather movies(not the IIIrd), Terminator movies(not the IIIrd), Carry On series, Kubrick (not "Eyes Wide Shut though), Kill Bill-I, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Absolut Advertisements(if they qualify as films, albeit short ones), Hong Kong action cinema and its kung fu and wuxia films made by Golden Harvest Films and Shaw Brothers starring Bruce Lee, Gordon Liu, Jackie Chan, Samo Hung, Jet Li (just say Hong Kong and reel me in), Tony Jaa (not exactly Hong Kong but will do), Chou Yun Fat ( neither kung fu nor wuxia but action nevertheless). |
| Favorite Music | Amazing Joy Buzzards, The BravOs (later O Boyz), Bread Brothers, The Cadburys, Chemical Toilet, Subir Kumar & Uma Kumar, Arun Choudhury |
| Favorite Books | Necronomicon Ex-Mortis by Abdul al-Hazred, These Were Our Brothers by Gray Seville, The Shadow Exploded: Documented Cases and Specific Conclusions Derived from the Case of Carietta White by David R. Congress, Underworld Figures by Reg Thorpe, Riding to Babylon by George Stark, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Death: A User's Manual by Evadne Mount, Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Sex But Have Been Forced To Find Out by Oolon Colluphid, Dreams Don't Mean Anything by Richard Tull, The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim by Mir Bahadur Ali, A General History of Labyrinths by Silas Haslam, A Vindication of the Cabala & History of the Sect of the Hasidim by Dr. Marcel Yarmolinsky, Heavy Game in the Western Himalayas by Colonel Sebastian Moran, A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem by James Moriarty, The Dynamics of an Asteroid by James Moriarty, Panther Without Eyelashes by Adeodato Lampustri, On the Use of Mirrors in the Game of Chess by Milo Temesvar, Azathoth and Other Horrors by Edward Pickman Derby, The Proustian Theme in a Letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey by Humbert Humbert, Armando Dippet: Master or Moron? by Rita Skeeter, Why I Didn't Die When the Augerey Cried by Gulliver Pokeby, Birds of the West Indies by James Bond |