Movies and what not

Doing night out in office yesterday in office, not for the first time and not certainly for the last, I began to regret for not having my phone loaded with some movies with which I can utilize the full powerful HD capabilities of my iPhone.

More than movies/series some funny clips or some action scenes at least. Here in comes Revanth, with whom I am in awe for ever for uttering the words "Exorcist em movie ra. Idi horror aa. chi.." after watching the Exorcist in iPod shuffle sized screen and earphones. He had this habit of having a good collection of nice funny clips and enjoying it watching it on his iPod or even his then Nokia phone, which I used to envy but never really bothered much about. Back then I was more than occupied catching up with latest movies, cataloging the ones to see, ones to download, whom to ask , how to get and so on.

Things change and after marriage they change in supersonic mode. I have such a huge list of pending movies to see and I am so darn outdated with the latest and the best I am now clinging to the idea of having the nice funny videos or some best movie scenes in my phone.

Top of my mind that I can think of -

1. Brahmanandam comedy scene from Athadu
2. V for Vendetta - Message of Hope
3. 300 Movie war scenes
4. Up movie scene of Ellie and Carl
5. Minion scenes from Despicable Me
6. Sri Devi's tearful speech from English Vinglish

Such is life that I can't think beyond this right away. Not to be too pessimistic though. I know this is a ongoing process and movies come and go and there are helluva lot more things to be put.

This and music would be keeping me occupied for a while. 

Organizing Music Collection and More - I

Scene 1-

Hari, Nikmo and I were gathered at Niks house. I don't remember the occasion. What I do remember is me sitting at his MAC looking at the album covers that was set as a screensaver. These album covers for flipping over arbitrarily and when the songs had to change the album to which it belongs flips. I am not cent percent sure on that. Anyways I was fascinated by this.

It feels always good to flip through covers of the albums as it gives out lot of details. To start with the main actors in it, the age of the album (old/new) and sometimes the memory you associate with the movie in itself. Of course all this within the realms of songs from Telugu or Hindi films.

Scene 2-

Nick, a colleague of mine had come to India on business trip and told me he had brought along his hard disk in a casual discussion we were having. Immediately piqued I asked him to bring it over next day. To which he replied "Dude, it doesn't contain many movies man".
"Come on dude, with 2 TB hard drive it should have some movies at least. If not are there any series/documentaries in it then?" I asked.
"Nope, nothing of movies or series. It's plain music. The other stuff I have it on my server back home."

That blew my mind away. It took me some time to digest. Then he went on to explain how he had setup a kick ass server at his home in Montreal which makes his collection accessible wherever he is. He even showed me how he accesses it. The only glitch here being it would take hellava time to copy bulk loads of it over the net.

A month ago my hard drives were choking. I had no space either in my 1TB hard drive or the two other 500GB hard drives. Just to note the two other 500 Gigs hard drives aren't accessible any more. Some sectors have gone kaput. My computer drives too were full. I started by deleting the odd movies that I had seen and didn't wish to see again. When I come to the drive that had songs in it, it showed the three folders Hindi, Telugu and English all combined together was comprising a full quota of 18GB!

Both the above mentioned scenes hit my mind and first question that popped up mind "Are all these songs really necessary?". Such humongous songs collection was always a thing of pride for me when I used to give my hard disks and never forgot to make a mention of it. Now it looks like a dead weight. I mean, what was I even thinking lugging them around.

Even the album artwork of the movies that appealed to me sounded a possibility. Just the thought of flipping the albums on my iPhone was setting my heart on race like giving a juicy candy to a 5-year old. All the times on ads for mobiles or Apple events one clip at least would contain the albums flowing in and out. That was what I wanted.

Implementation -
Getting the cover art proved to be more tedious than I thought. Here are the methods I tried -
1.Select an Album in iTunes, search the net get the cover flows and paste it.I had done this for almost 20 albums before losing the steam.
2. Jotting down the movies without cover arts and proceed with step 1. The main hindrance was deletion of the albums you don't want to have from iTunes and then from physical folder and in parallel doing the pasting job.
3. Delete all the goddamn tracks from iTunes. Every single track. Go back to your songs folder, start cleaning the junk right out from the folder locations and be selectively choosy about the ones you want. End of Story.

(3) is what I have been doing and am proud to say I am done with 128 albums in Telugu folder. I know there is another round of revision but that's for some other time. My next task is to pounce on the ones in Hindi. On cursory glance everything looked good and deciding on what to delete is hard task.

My idea of choosing good or bad is like this - Do I know this movie? Did I hear any songs from this? How was the talk about this during the time of release and what my impressions were? For example there is a movie by the name Raju Bhai in Telugu of which one song I know is good. So I kept the album with this one song. Will I listen to this anytime? Even a remote yes gets my vote. Examples include Avakai Biryani, Anumanaspadam etc.

The English songs folder itself had almost around 8 GB of songs of which I might not have listened to more than 10 -15 songs. Hello? These were always in the category of someday I will listen and get to know some English music artists better, be cool etc.

Suck It Biatch! I also saw Wake Up Sid and I don't think I like Jazz either. So that's that.

Will be posting a sequel to this post about the progress and thereof.
P.S. - Quite frankly, this cleaning up has given me some perspective on what I need and what I don't and to keep things simple. Is there any goddamn point in having junk in your life?
P.P.S - This post is dedicated to Nikhil a.k.a Niks.