One of my all time favourites, “Jaan Pechechaan Ho” by Mohd. Rafi. Discovered through Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes’ “Ghost World”, I present to you now the full Gumnaam rendition from 1966 — this great 60s Bollywood rock and roll number:
My search for more songs of the same sensibility has returned few results so I am open to any recommendations of this sort.
This track is the first of two parts, entitled “You’re going to leave the old home Jim”. I discovered this track on the album “Before the Blues, vol. 2″ under the Yazoo label.
I have since seen it on “Female Country Blues Vol.1″ with 7 other magical tracks. However this still remains my favourite, it has a sublime quaintness and that powerful feeling of nostalgic melancholy. This song was created between 1924 and 1928 and is classified in the pre-war blues genre.
From the soundtrack to Everything is Illuminated and described on the last.fm wiki:
“[As an artist that combines] elements of punk, gypsy music, and Brecht-ian cabaret, Gogol Bordello tells the story of New York’s immigrant diaspora through debauchery, humor, and surreal costumes. Leader and singer Eugene Hütz’s taste in music was spun out of black-market tapes of the The Birthday Party and Einstürzende Neubauten in his native Ukraine.”
The new Firefox release is great, especially the built in and seamlessly integrated spell checker, this should dramatically improve all those poorly spelled posts and web pages we see everywhere. The new glass theme and highlighting is an improvement (in my opinion) and new built in Phishing tools are also a positive development. Other noteworthy features include session saver, and suggestions in the search box. To test this release with regards to the ill-fated memory leak I loaded up a page of 20 or so animated GIFs which previous versions would choke on and die a painful death, the page still saw a large increase in page-file usage and some slow down but after browsing away from the page it all disappeared and I didn’t have to restart the browser.
A couple of things I don’t like, or maybe I am just not used to, are the changes to tabs. The changes give a fixed minimum width and a horizontal scrollable toolbar when the number of tabs exceed the screen width and also a “Close” icon on each tab. So I thought it would be helpful to state here how to change the tabs back to “the old style” ( i.e. FF 1.x):
Fit More Tabs on the Page To do this you have to reduce the minimum width of tabs. Once again, using the about:config file change browser.tabs.tabMinWidth to a value of your choice. The changes will not be apparent until you restart Firefox.