This one is cool....but though I am a Rahman fan I don't know what
is an "Interlude".Any one help me ......pleeeeeeease --- In
[email protected], Sreekrishnan R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> His Music ~ My Mother Tongue
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> --- On Thu, 23/10/08, light4_u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: light4_u <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [arr] Rahmaniac
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, 23 October, 2008, 7:28 PM
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> You know you are a Rahman fan whenâ¦
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> 1. You have a peculiar taste in music, which does not
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> 2. You have a good sense of melody and rhythm and can tell good
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> 3. You can go on for hours talking about Rahman when someone
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> 4. You are never content and are always hungry and thirsty for
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> 5. You have had many euphoric moments in your life.. connected
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> 6. You agree that an average Rahman song is better than the
best
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> most of the other can churn out.
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> 7. Regardless of how the World finds Rahman music, you think
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> Rahman makes music just for your ears. You genuinely believe that
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> Rahman somehow knows what kind of music you unconsciously crave
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> then magically delivers that to you.
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> 8. Your most prized collection in your entire music collection
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> 9. You sometimes feel this bliss, a kind of feeling that you
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> 10. If the World was to go back to using the barter system
again,
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Rahman
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> 11. You share this special bond with Rahman which is impossible
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> 12. Your friends/family fail to understand why you listen to
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> music in a language that makes no sense to you, whatsoever. But,
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> few weeks later, you totally understand why your friends/family
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> humming/singing the very song they don't understand and were
puzzled
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> about you listening to it.
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> 13. You are part of the Rahman Yahoo! group and visit it at
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> 14. You take pleasure in new group members arguing with likes of
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> Gops and Vijay, when they come out with some Rahman info/news.
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> 15. You are tired of new member joining the group and inquiring
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> about and referring to the fake "Ekyam Satyam". You too hope to
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> listen to the real one someday, if it exists somewhere.
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> 16. You can talk to any other Rahman fan and connect with them
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> 17. You have a deep desire to meet Rahman in person, and know
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> 18. You have thought of it many a times and tried to come up
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> a plan of what you would do? How would you react? when you
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> 19. You can find the challenging task of solving a complex
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> problem rather easy compared to the daunting and difficult task of
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> coming up with your absolute top-10 Rahman favorites.
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> 20. Any criticism of Rahman is hard for you to digest, because
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> Rahman and yet have no problem talking about him.
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> 21. Your blood pressure tends to rise when an average listener
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> sings praises for other MDs(especially Anu Malik, Harris J, and
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> 22. When it comes to R.D. Burman or may be Illayaraja, you tend
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Illayaraja
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> 23. You are a select few in the country that are familiar with
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> obscure terms such as "BGM" or "Interlude" etc. And furthermore,
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> these "BGM" and "Musical bits" used in commercials.
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> 24. You can listen to an hour of non-stop Rahman interludes and
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> 25. You eagerly wait for each and every Rahman release, you set
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> 26. You suffer from this rare condition where... you wake up
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Rahman
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> 27. You may forget to take your dose of medication but you can
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> not forget to get your daily dose of Rahman.
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> 28. You set high expectations of Rahman, and are honored and
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> touched that he cares about you and works hard to satisfy you.
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> 29. You know and realize that Rahman is potentially the most
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> 30. You love and respect Rahman, the human being and not just
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> Soooooo... true Kaisisom, its like u read me and my mind and throw
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