People from around the globe painfully collected and uploaded songs at ESNIPS. The convenience of the site was greatly appreciated all over. It provided ANY SONG and I mean ANY and EVERY song with the greatest of ease. Alas! One fine day, the ESNIPS community discontinued the download option and also removed thousands of files without giving the users a prior notice. But, I would not budge! I just knew there was some way to download songs off ESNIPS. So true was my feeling!
A little research over the internet and I came out with a wonderful answer!
The people at ESNIPS simply did all that to keep the anti-piracy people at bay. There was a wonderful back-door entry still waiting for the users. Here it is!
USE THIS LINK TO DOWNLOAD ANY SONG FROM ESNIPS WEBSITE. Yes even if they say that the "FILE DOES NOT EXIST ANYMORE" ! Try it! It works perfectly well.
THE ESNIPS DOWNLOADER =)
http://indianraga.fileave.com/files/esnips_download_link_maker.html
Enjoy and let me know your thoughts on it!
Are you into the old fashioned wear? Does it still excite you to wear those polka dots, platform shoes, ruffled and polyester shirts? Do those huge collars and bell trousers make you happy? Well then, you sure are classy and you have taste. Like they say, history does repeat itself. Even today, wearing those clothes of yesteryears would make you look classy, elegant and prettier. Take my word!
The best way to shop around for retro clothing is to first find the local stores around you. If you are in the USA its even easier since the thrift shops and Vintage wear stores are all where you need to go. Even the GOODWILL stores are a great way to find old threads.
Go to GOOGLE and try using the keywords, "Retro clothing", "Vintage clothing", "Vintage stores" and "70s, 60s or 80s Fashion". Of course if you are looking for something in particular say for example platform shoes or polyester shirts, just type it in. As simple as that!
If you are in a country where they do not have such stores, the local tailor would be the best choice. Just choose the fabric you need and take it to your tailor/designer. Make sure you have everything you want in your outfit, completely clear in your mind. Only then can you explain it right to your designer. The best option would be to provide a sample or a picture of what you exactly have in mind.
You are all set to go!
Here are few links to find some great threads from the yesteryears. Also, posted below are some store locations near San Francisco where you can shop for vintage clothing. Good luck!
Places at Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco
1) WASTELAND - 1660 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117
2) HELD OVER - 1543 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117
3) GOODWILL Store -1700 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117
4) AARDVARK'S ODD ARK - 1501 Haight St, San Francisco, CA
5) BUFFALO EXCHANGE - 1555 Haight St, San Francisco, CA 94117
Links -
1) Vintage Trends - www.vintagetrends.com
2) Rusty Zippers - www.rustyzippers.com
3) Dress That Man - http://www.dressthatman.com/
4) Sazz Vintage - http://www.sazzvintage.com/
5) Bally Hoo - http://www.ballyhoovintage.com/
Please leave me any links that you know! Thank you!
Esnips is yet another web space provider. Its simple interface and user friendly functions made it really popular in a real scarce time.
This was another invitation for people to upload media online. Almost each and every song is available in the MP3 format here. Looking at the privacy and piracy scene, the people at Esnips restricted the download of files to save their skin from the anti-piracy laws etc. But, yes, they do have a backdoor entry to their files. Smart huh?
They never declared it but of course people are smart enough to figure it out.
Here is the easiest solution to download stuff off ESNIPS. Mind you, you may only download the file if it still exists at Esnips and is not blocked.
Try this link - http://indianraga.fileave.com/files/esnips_download_link_maker.html
A great song from Cliff Richard, the lead man of the band "The Shadows". The Englishman born in 1940 in British era INDIA is known better for his great contribution to music. Enjoy the song!
For Desis~~~ The song has been plagiarized in the movie DISCO DANCER (1982) as "Krishna Dharti Pe Aaja Tu" by Bappi Lahiri. Enjoy the music! I posted the copied version too.
The first english song to be ever composed by an Indian composer R D BURMAN! Back in action again! The coolest hippest and grooviest always amazing and numero uno hitmaker from India does it again hereby creating history and sets a new milestone in Hindi cinema. Enjoy this rarity.
Movie ~ Deewaar
Year ~ 1975
Music ~ R D BURMAN
Track ~ Falling In Love With A Stranger....... ( UNRELEASED )
Singer ~ Ursula Vaz
Ever been to websites that just force you to sign up before you can do anything on there? It gets so boring and makes you disinterested. Well not anymore! BUG ME NOT comes to the rescue. Try this! Just go to www.Bugmenot.com and search for the website that is asking you to register and a pre-made username and password will be ready for you to use. Just use it copy and paste and forget the case. Bypass the registration process in a flick of an eye! Smart isn't it?
Music holds its own sweet place in every human being's heart. It has proved to have remarkable results on trees and animals as well. Music heals, it soothes, it elevates.
All of us hold a little or huge collection of melodies that we simply love listening to. We listen to music on-the-go! In the car, while working, while reading, while exercising or while walking. This all requires some medium to carry the music say an iPOD, portable cd/cassette player
etc. It is not possible to carry such commodities everywhere. We may tend to forget too! Here is a wonderful solution.
The very new ANYWHERE.FM is an online personal radio service that provides a user with UNLIMITED storage space to store his/her music. Now you can listen to your music on any computer in any part of the planet. Just go to your online station and the melodies will flow
and soothe your senses. Try it! It is wonderful. Make your friends listen to what you listen to. It is YOUR SPACE, YOUR MUSIC which is played YOUR STYLE!
Check out my personal radio station at www.anywhere.fm/harshilan
Coming up soon- Vividh Bharati @ www.anywhere.fm/vividhbharati
2001 : A Space Odyssey was one of the greatest science fiction movies to be ever made in history. A magnificent direction by Stanley Kubrick, the movie has been nominated for various prestigious awards and also won several of them. The movie has been actually made from the novel of the same name by the author Arthur C. Clarke. The movie has always been a great enigma for most of the viewers and each person has his own different facet of watching this movie. But, definitely there are several points that the director is trying to make in the movie. Want to know and clear all your concepts about this movie?
Here it is, a short Flash movie devoted to the movie which explains it part by part and makes everything so bright.
Go to www.kubrick2001.com and watch the Flash video.
Now you know what this great movie of enigma really means.
Here is a list of ten things that desis do in this country, which are interesting to the persons doing it, but maha boring to all the others around them.
1. Take part in Spelling Bee contests
How many times have we seen it ? A pipsqueak (sp ?) of an American born kid of Desi ancestry, usually called Venu Iyer or Anita Potlaneni or something equally bombastic (sp ?), complete with thick glasses and futuristic nerd looks, spelling its way to a fat college scholarship. The Newsweek or Time then publishes a photo and adds that "english is not the language they speak at home". Personally, I would rather use spellcheck.
2. Compulsive tendency to log in and read email and bboards frequently.
This activity is too boring to even describe.
3. Give vote of thanks in India Association meetings
This most boring activity takes place between the Cultural Evening and the Holi dinner. It serves no purpose other than to find out who the President of India Association is. This is the high point of his or her career and he thanks everybody and makes at least seven PJs. He uses the phrase 'Last but not the least' at least five times. He also makes about six announcements, including one about coughing up membership money for the next year. He also asks the audience to be quiet about three times.
4. Talk about their Ph. D projects
Usually this guy talks about how busy he is and how his project sponsors are coming the next week. If we pay some attention to him as a matter of courtesy we are treated to a byte by byte account of his computer code, completely debugged and documented for our benefit. He also believes he is running the show and his advisor is completely dependent on him. Watch out for the lumpen elements, who bore you to death with their projects, yet tell you that they would rather be doing something else.
5. Come here from India to visit their nephews
I am reminded of Ashish Ghosh's uncle who insisted on discovering America on a two week visit to this country. Once in a restaurant he was staring pointedly at the left breast of the waitress. It was unsettling. Before we could do anything about it, he even pointed his finger to her left breast. Every one of us, including the waitress, was horrified.
Uncle: (still pointing to the name tag on her left breast) "What your name means ?"
Waitress: "What ?"
Uncle: (insistently) "What your name means ?"
Waitress: "You want to know what my name means ? I don't know what Cheryl means. Its just a name."
There are still other such stories. About the time he went to Seven Eleven and rushed straight into the cash counter and grabbed a pack of cigarette, instead of asking the cashier for it. The cashier would have shot him down, but for that sad, apologetic look in Ashish's eyes. And another time, he went to Sears and started taking his banian off in the aisle itself to try on a new T shirt or something, because he didn't know about the fitting rooms.
6. Go to India for a visit
This guy can be an absolute pain, starting a couple of months before his India trip. "Only forty three days more" he would insist on telling you. He would also tell you the complete list of gifts he was planning to buy for his various relatives. As an appetizer, he would also tell you what all he had to finish in the 'lab' before he leaves. "I can't wait to eat all the good grub and the mangoes" he would drag on. "I have fifty two uncles and two hundred and twelve first cousins and ten of them are getting married this summer and I will have to go to all their weddings. Pappu actually is my Mama's son, but we went to high school together. Actually he is a year older than I am. But I joined school one year earlier. You know how this is in India. My dad gave a false birth date and blah blah blah"
7. Trying to be interesting in a white man's party.
This is essentially done by fresh off the boat engineering/computer types who are trying to be cool. This involves constantly sipping alcohol and trying to make extended conversations with women, while trying to ignore other desis. If this desi dude meets another guy, lets say from Sweden, he would then tell him, "I like Sweden a lot. Land of the erotica." or something equally absurd. He would also pretend to understand all the jokes that are made, including some about himself. He would harangue extensively about India's foreign policy to people who would not want to get any more intellectual than talk about Michelle Pfeiffer.
8. Hang around in Indian Stores and try to rent desi videotapes
This activity is done by a lot of men and women. They would wander through aisle after aisle of moong daal, gripe water and sale items. "Have you got any fresh toor daal" she would ask. "Last time we bought it, it was bad". She would mentally divide the price to get the 'per pound' value and compare it to the prices in the other Desi store or the India Abroad prices. In the meantime, the male is hanging around the video section and asks the owner "Have you got any latest good movies ?" And then he would turn to whoever is willing to listen to him and say "Woh kaun hai ? Amitabh Kakkar or is it Amitabh Khanna, nahin nahin Amitabh Bachchan - that fellow acts okay. I saw his latest picture Zanjeer last week. It was good. You must see his movies." At which point, the storeowner would push a mushy trash videotape, a South Indian movie dubbed in Hindi, with heroines bigger than some Sumo wrestlers and the desi guy takes it without any resistance.
9. Have surprise parties for their girlfriends/boyfriends/spouse
This is the most boring kind of party you can be invited to - essentially because you are asked not to tell the person to be surprised and you really don't want to clutter up your brain with such trivial secrets. At the appointed time, you yell 'surprise' along with the other guests, with simulated enthusiasm in your voice. Lets face it, you are there primarily for the food. Then the 'surpriser' tells the 'surprisee' a long story about how elaborately he had planned the whole thing, how it almost got botched and how even though he has been doing it year after year on the same day, it is still very much a surprise and ......
10. Start singing in a desi gathering for no reason.
This is the lowest level a desi party can stoop to. Typically nobody knows how it all starts. But before you are ready for it, a wineglass shattering voice is rudely bursting into a song. The singer can be a male or a female. But whatever the sex may be, he or she usually closes its eyes and looks really funny. They also firmly believe that they have a gifted voice. "My throat is not okay today" they would shyly say at the end of the song. Just when you breathe a sigh of relief, they had already started on the next song, this time, even tapping their feet or shaking their whole body. At the end of the song, the embarrassed audience has no choice but to clap and encourage. "You have a good voice" someone in the crowd would lie to the singer "You must have sung in college". The singer becomes an icon of modesty while simultaneously getting flattered, before letting his blackboard-scratching voice boom into another song. If the singer is not the host, throw water on the person and extinguish the songs. You can always apologize later. Antakshari and dumb charades are much better.
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