Never had I thought there would be a time when I’d feel paralyzed without a pen and a paper. Nor had I imagined that I would not be able to survive without scrutinizing my mind to think beyond the ordinary. While today is no special day for the rest, I consider this as one of the best. These fifty thousand hits have not come easy…
I define writing as letting myself loose so the mind can wander about and bring me back such situations that not only hold true to what I am trying to express but also look at life upfront. Although I kept metal – the genre – as the base theme for the blog, there have been several other articles I have thoroughly enjoyed putting down and sure derived a lot of pleasure from. Trying to review everything under the sun helped me broaden. Full-length albums, Eps, demos, teasers, gigs, films, documentaries, gadgets, et cetera.
Occasional polls, photographs, interactions, interviews kept it going and quite a few of the articles had also risen from my misanthropic nerves allowing me to not beat around the bush when talking hatred. I just love to hate, thanks to my experiences which push me to keep the abomination uncensored and first-rate.
Definitely not someone who believes in hiding anything from my readers I dedicate the next few lines to my own fucking self. In the course of last one year or rather since the time I had stopped forcing myself to write there have been some revelations that need to be documented. First amongst them (and sadly enough) I realized I was the only one in the world who had not watched Simpsons. Trying to ignore what you read would be a sweet gesture, as I was also made aware that free porn sites did exist. *explosions and bright lights*
I think that would be enough to make your day.
Absurd History – the blog – was registered by me on 28th of November, 2009 on wordpress. The first three articles that came on the same day go like this : poetic tribute to Kryptos, review of Workshop’s debut album Khooni Murga (2009), Great Indian Rock XIII (2009) – Bangalore leg review. As of today this piece that you are reading is the 183rd topic here.
I salute the readers. I salute the subscribers. I salute the supporters. The rest of them will reach here soon. There isn’t more to life than being absurd, and this term has a lot more to it than just what it actually means.
Cheers and keep reading,
Itihas Shetty
February 20th, 2011 at 7:19 am
Congrats Iti, Wish you all the best, hope to read more about you as well in coming days!
Keep it real !
February 20th, 2011 at 7:31 am
yes sire, I will. thanks a lot!
February 20th, 2011 at 8:24 am
congratulations love….cute pic btw 😛
February 20th, 2011 at 8:29 am
Ha ha. Thank you! 🙂
February 20th, 2011 at 8:37 am
wah …. kya bat hai congats dude….
February 20th, 2011 at 8:47 am
thanks brother.
February 20th, 2011 at 8:50 am
Congrats.. I wanna read more !!
February 20th, 2011 at 8:56 am
thanks man! you will read a lot more for sure. I’d say the first half was slow, now words will flow out faster.
February 20th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
50 k for a blog is insane. Keep up the good work Itihas and the next 50k will be reached in no time.
February 20th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
thanks Aman. Considering I have focused more on metal than other topics your thoughts about 50k are apt. Like you said next 50k would be predictably sooner and I want to get there asap!
February 20th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
damn,i feel good to follow such a good blog man…
Thanks a lot for givin us good-reads time and again!
n Congrats for the hits 🙂
February 20th, 2011 at 6:25 pm
thanks Tj!
you were amongst the first ones to visit this blog, and you have read all along. I want to see you at 100K too. stick around. 🙂
February 20th, 2011 at 5:47 pm
congrats 😀
you know you can make this a profession in the future 🙂
February 20th, 2011 at 6:27 pm
thanks Hemal. 🙂
Finally both of us want to visit Norway, so if this becomes a serious profession in the future then probably our chances would increase. 😉
February 20th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
congrats hero!!! tht’s awesome.. keep up the good work !!!
February 21st, 2011 at 8:19 am
thanks Divya. you’ve been an ardent reader here. keep reading.
February 21st, 2011 at 4:56 pm
am 1/50000
February 22nd, 2011 at 7:36 am
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