Plank

So the other day me and my friend attended an acoustic band competition at this college fest and we realised how it was such a simple thing to come up with a name for a band.

You just put together one or two random words and say them in a cool deep voice and presto, you have a smart-ass name for your otherwise shitty band. I was sitting in the auditorium and the first two things I could see were, White Wall and Plank. Now if I name my band after either of these two completely random things, I'm bound to sound pseudo-intellectual and people will think of a deeper meaning behind it and come with a truckload of bullshit I could never have imagined for it. But hey, thats the way it is. Reminds me of the Emperors New Clothes. No one really gets it, everyone pretends to be impressed.

Long time ago, when this fad started everything with an unconventional name sounded really smart and pretty darn cool . Now its almost like everyone tries hard to be different which defeats the basic purpose and they end up being the same. Get it?

So when was the last time you heard something named conventionally? Yeah, I don't think I can remember either.

Who were you?

Remember watching Hollywood movies on school cliques and wondering how, surprisingly, no Bollywood movies ever focus on that; maybe just questioning if we do have cliques at all. Its strange how all Indian kids get classified into three basic categories: the bespectacled nerds, the ambitionless ruffians and the plastic snobs. I remember writing this whole long piece for my school magazine once about how ‘My School Has Cliques’. My better sense prevailed since back then I did not have much censor (or sense) and quite a few would have been offended. But now that we’re out of school we all have our fancy delusional stories to tell about how cool we were in school. In everyone else’s head we were who we always wanted to be. Cool like that. I might write about it today, since exams are over and I’m planning to be a dedicated blogger.