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So, I hear there's some season premiere on tonight? What's the name of the show again? ;D

TGIF post, with one song:
Suno Aisha - A very catchy song from the movie Aisha. I love the tune and I love the voices.
Download here (right click, save)

And one poll:
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So A.R.Rahman just came out with a new soundtrack for the movie Raavan. The whole soundtrack is amazing, here's one of my favorites from there:

Thok De Killi Striking rhythm, powerful beats and a very catchy tune. Since I can't do the lyrics justice in translation, the theme can be approximated to "viva la revolución".
Download the song here
As usual, songs are on my server, so right-click save. And if you can, let me know what you think :)

A lot of hilarity courtesy of the US military:
The US Army presents: Telephone, the remake
( Amazingly hilarious video behind cut )

And just so the other services don't feel left out, some older videos of:
• The Marines doing the Cha Cha Slide ( Video under cut )
• The Navy with "I'm on a Boat" ( Video under cut )
• And the Air Force Academy with "Tik Tok" ( Video under cut )

I'm dying of laughter. XD

Also, Supernatural and Mentalist last night were very entertaining. That mini music video midway through SPN=shiver inducing ♥

This time a poll that does have one question I'm curious about, i.e. the possible breakdown of what fandom people are mainly following this lj for. It's totally fine if you're just here for my sparkling wit and scintillating conversational skills too :P
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Today's song: Iktara from the movie Wake up Sid.
Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy are my favorite composing trio right after A.R. Rahman. This song is beautiful. Soft and slow, the main female voice is gorgeous and the refrain is amazing. I love the song, and if you're interested in hindi movies, I recommend the movie as well. The female lead, Konkona Sen Sharma is not only lovely but also an incredible actress.
Download the song here (right click save and let me know what you think :))

In a totally unrelated conclusion: Women in suits are HOT (NSFW warning for last picture in the first post)

Item 1:
trekreversebang can haz shiny new banner! What do you think?

Item 2:
In my extremely enthusiastic ongoing quest to uncover for nargynargy the wonder that is A. R. Rahman, here are two more of his songs. Usual drill, right click and save, songs on my server :) And let me know what you think!

Dheemi Dheemi from the movie 1947 Earth. I posted a few more from this movie here before but hadn't shared this one yet. It's a delightful melody, the singer is one of my favorites and the whole song is just so light and sweet it makes me think of spring.
Download the song here

Rehna Tu from the movie Dilli 6. This song has a really laid-back feel to it, very smooth and uncomplicated. Also, I really like it whenever Rahman sings his own songs.
Download the song here

Item 3:
Any How I met Your Mother fans here? Or Neil Patrick Harris fans? Here's a behind-the-scenes video of the 100th episode coming up on Monday, where he (and the rest of the cast) finish off the episode with a grand singing and dancing finale.
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Two songs for sharing today. On my server so right click and save please :)

Manmohini from the movie Yuvraaj. It's a gorgeous song, a mix of classical Indian with a hint of contemporary that A.R. Rahman does so amazingly well. The singer's voice work is really wonderful. Recommended really highly.

Baawre (remix) from the movie Luck by Chance. After Rahman, Shankar, Ehsaan and Loy are probably my favorite composers (the three always compose together). I love this track, it's a little zany, really catchy and lots of fun. The video of the original (unremixed) version is up here if anyone's interested. Things to note: a) The hindi film industry can be quite indiscriminating about what kind of outfits they put their male leads into, b) the setting actually does make sense (a little) in this context, the song is kind of about the circus c) Hrithik Roshan is very attractive.

Two recs:

Star trek: Cityverse Comic Book Page by turntap2 and mangotrills
Really cool linework and coloring. I haven't really followed the storyline that much, but the artwork definitely works for me.

Supernatural: Stitch in time by nargynargy
Really impressive mixed media artwork. No blood or gore, but disturbing, so please note warning. The atmosphere is amazing.

Am working on prompts. Also, I am either just tired or have the lowest tolerance ever because I feel like I might be kind of buzzed, even though I only had one small frozen margarita. Whooo.

One song today, composed by A.R. Rahman. The song starts off slow and soft and gets complicated in a very playful way. The singer's voice is really sweet too:

Anbae from the Tamil movie Rhythm
(As always, song's on my server, so right click and save and let me know if you enjoyed it :))

Working on the Star trek art meme and oh man, it's like working on 10 different and complete art pieces on the same canvas! It is SLOW. GOING. It will be done in, oh, maybe a month or two :/ Here's a little peek at a part of the favorite pairing answer:

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The more I work on this damn SGA comic, the more unfunny and lacking a climax it starts to seem to me :/ It's just about two and a half pages, it shouldn't take this long to do. It feels like so long since I last posted any SGA art and this thing won't get done. Hopefully tonight.

Two songs by A.R.Rahman for sharing this time. You know the drill, right click save as, and let me know if you liked it :)

Link - Ada - This is a lovely song, soft and soothing. Rahman's voice can be really beautiful sometimes and the language is gorgeous. It doesn't have a lot of variation, but it doesn't get boring, it just stays even.

Link - Guzarish - Song from the movie Ghajini. I love the beginning and the refrain and it's a slowish but still kind of catchy song.

Art soon!

Song time! Three songs from two Tamil movies, Indira and Thiruda Thiruda, music by (who else?) A.R.Rahman. As always, please let me know if you're downloading the songs (right click and save), and if you like them :) More music can be found by clicking my 'music' tag.

Download Nila Kaigirathu (Nila Kaigirathu: The moon is shining) This is a beautiful song, for the melody as well as the singer. The original version of it in the movie is of a little girl singing this to console her father, and many years later, it's sung by her lover trying to console her.

Download Veerapaandi Kottayile (Veerapandi: Brave) Kind of a grand song, I love the slowly building up beginning with the lovely female voice and the mix of styles it somehow makes work throughout the song. It also makes me want to dance.

Download Thee Thee: An almost capricious song, it has a steady rhythm, but it almost feels like it doesn't sometimes. Again, a mix of interesting instruments and voices. Uses the kind of words as intermittent chorus that are usually used in classical music to keep time, and it works really well.

I was contracted a while back to illustrate a children's book. I got paid (not a lot) but the book itself is never going to get published :( So, here are two pages I randomly wanted to share.

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Two songs, the first one composed by A.R.Rahman and the second one by Pritam Chakraborty. Please right click and save, and comment if you are :) I'd like to know whether you enjoy them:

Mayya Mayya Fast paced, very interesting mix of Middle-eastern style music with Indian and Western influences. The singer, Maryam Toller, is Egyptian Canadian and sounds quite wonderful, as do the backing vocals. This song always makes me want to dance.

In Dino (In Dino= these days) Kind of a sweet song with a lovely refrain, and rather charming lyrics. I don't know if it's made more charming by its context in the movie, but the first bit translates to something like: These days, my heart keeps telling me- Dream a few dreams and live a little/ You're allowed to fall in love too.

(If you enjoy these songs, more can be found by clicking on my 'music' tag.)

Am working on SGA bigbang and an SGA comic. It's slow going because my linework in general is not automatically suited to cleaner comic lines and so takes longer to accomplish. It features Cthulhu, which decision was totally unrelated to any tentacles anywhere in canon. I can't believe I actually had to give that disclaimer.
Also working on Wild West Winchesters. Mainly for the alliteration.

I illustrated a children's book a while back, and given how iffy the publishers were being I'd kind of assumed it was ultimately going nowhere. Just got verification that it is indeed going nowhere. At least I got paid for it, even if I'm certain I charged too little. I mainly feel sorry for the poor author now. *sigh*

ETA: On my brief weekend wandering around a big city and meeting fannish people, I would like to give a shout out to miss_porcupine who I managed to guilt into bringing me delicious home-made biscotti, rageprufrock, who leads a very interesting life, and pentapus who is unable to follow simple directions like checking her email and manages to blame me for it (♥ ♥ :P)

ETA2: Also, dotfic is too sweet to be real. As is innie_darling, who was completely nice about my major miserliness ♥.

Oh wow, could we, you know, get back to that place where we are not entitled to know about anything celebrities do in their personal lives, and just behave like decent people? Some amount of curiosity I get, but this is paparazzi level mud smearing and speculation. We don't know anything and we are not entitled to. Of course, this is wasted on people who are reading it, given that I would not ever assume any of you to be doing any of the spreading or smearing, so probably the best place to rant about it since there are no crazies to worry about :/

Here's some music to try to take the bad taste out of your mouths. Both composed by A.R.Rahman. Hosted on my server, so please, right click and save and let me know if you're taking/enjoyed it :)

Fanaa (Fanaa means, approximately, to be destroyed) Fast paced, upbeat song about letting yourself be destroyed in love and loving every moment of it. From the movie Yuva.

Kaiyil Mithakkum Not sure what this song is about, it's in tamil, but I love the tune and the lyrics sound very pretty. Soft, slow song, and the singer has a lovely mellow voice.

More music can be found by clicking on the music tag if these strike your fancy. Feel free tot ake what you want, just drop me a line since I like knowing if you're enjoying the songs I put up.