My Nirvana

  What is better than a night spent without parents with your iPod and an amazing set of headphones? Tough, eh? :D

Well it is a night when it rains too!! India being the paradise it is, the electricity goes off as soon as there is a hint of downpour. And thus the evening turns more interesting! It is almost like the most romantic candlelit night spent with your beloved music player. I had a double date with nature and my pod too recently. Having just had my dinner (Italian :D), my folks were too stuffed to bother staying awake and enjoying the storm that had been thundering on for a couple hours then. I was only too glad when they announced they were off to sleep, finally I get some private time with my love, my iPod!!  I’m not going to brag much about it. It speaks for itself (yes, i can be quite arrogant about it :D). Its an iPod touch 16GB 2^nd Gen. And its kickass! There. I’m done.

                                 Just in case you didn't know :D

Anyway, so back to where I was originally heading, I put on headphones and started with my routine warm up tracks. Equivalence, Dethharmonic, Terminus.... and as i progressed in building up my “drive”, the storm got wilder. It was like as though the Gods and I were in an epic battle trying to show whose got more grit, perseverance and raw strength to win over this breathtakingly beautiful maiden who for some reason dresses like elves from  JRR Tolkien’s series of novels :D.

And now i proceed to Amon Amarth, Equilibrium, Nile, Gorgoroth and Arch Enemy. The continous double bass and the bass line rings in my ear like this tribal war beat. My pace quickens and reduces with the music hitting hard on my eardrums, and all the while i have this constant cold war on with nature outside. One prolonged growl is met with an ear splitting thunder. The toughest of the solos challenged with a million droplets hitting surfaces unceremoniously, showing that they are not going to give up.

After an hour of open war fare, I gave in. I put my pod down. For a few seconds, all that my ears perceive is a ringing noise. Then Silence...

 Then came this whole new sound... The leaves were singing!! The wind whistled about merely. The droplets created a rhythm with the car tops and metal and thatched roof... not so unceremonious after all!! The night sky lighted up with thunder, celebrating my defeat! The nerve!! I was pissed.

And then my anger ebbed away slowly giving in to a new feeling. The same kind that i get when I listen to

David Lanz or Lacuna Coil. And then it dawned upon me. Music was our way of duplicating the greatness

that nature is. I had found a substitute to what I had considered the best thing in my life.

Now whenever I listen to Amarth or Arch Enemy again, the sounds of the Rain is what haunts me....      

                                         

                                     Twilight of the Thunder God \m/