Of Bullshit , Maids and Chicken !

In case you are wondering if I have gone nuts totally and am dishing out some jibber-jabber in the title of his blog-post just to seek the attention that i never got , HOLD ON !!!
A word-to-word clarification of the relevance of the title :
Bullshit : YES--> Many might find this post as bullshit !!
Maids : NO--> I am not a pervert and this post has nothing about me fantasising about maids! :P
and thirdly CHICKEN : NO --> no relation to the post except for a dig at the author who has very often 'not-so-fondly' been called one for his timid nature !!
But most of all , the title is my take on a recent blog post of my dear friend ( also a prolific blog writer ... BE ENTERTAINED @ http://blahblah-etc.blogspot.com/ ) which dealt with his experience of last week's IRON MAIDEN LIVE @ Bangalore .

So , Here I am travelling all alone from Nagpur to Mumbai ( my home ) after a long and 'EVENTful' week . The train has just halted at BADNERA and so has my torrent of thoughts . Amidst the noisy bonhomie around me , I 'enigmatically ponder' over what the last week has been like for me and decide to give direction to my random thoughts on paper .

I backed out at the very last minute from an exciting plan to attend the MAIDEN concert , a plan which had been eagerly rolled out by me and a few close friends over a month ago . And while they had the best time of their life at Bangalore , I 'happily' spent my time sleeping around in my hostel room back at NGP . It happened so that i simply went into a ' PSEUDO-DENIAL' mood ( one responsible for my long history of ugly backouts ) just around 2 days before they left which techincally is an inexplicable mental barrier which just dint allow me to think otherwise. While T,S, WDDK might laugh this reason off as another of my failed attempts to be ' independent' , this is TRULY the reason . The initial fervour and excitement somehow seemed to have fizzled out of me . Call me a MOODY GUY or watever !!

I am an ardent devotee of extreme metal music ( music very extreme and harsh to the common man's ears ) and i do listen to MAIDEN but truly I am not as crazy about them as I would be of a lesser known Norwegian Black metal Band ' SATYRICON ' who graced Mumbai earlier last year . I am really happy my friends had a blast in the moshpit , pampered themselves to great food and icecream ( DBC especially ) etc.etc. and i feel bad that i cudnt be part of those fab. moments , but BELIEVE IT OR NOT , not once did i sit sulking in my room thinking over my decison to miss MAIDEN for apparently no CONCRETE reason !
I quote a good friend which aptly describes the mood here :
" Sometimes JLT ( just like that ) is a good enough reason to do or not to do things " ( Aggie aka Weasel King , Source : DC Private chat dated 17-02-09 )

I have experienced the moshpit and the raw heaviness of LIVE METAL MUSIC . I also realize that i would be insulting IRON MAIDEN by comparing their ( 20,000-strong crowd )concert to SATYRICON's ( 2000-strong crowd ) gig . But the underlying emphasis thruout the post is that of a 'PERSONAL CHOICE' which may/ may not seem right to others but it somehow seemed right to me ! ) . As pompous as i may sound for making such a statement I would like to consider this as a meek reply to rest claims of me having a long-ugly history of backouts and being a spoilsport of some kind !!

On a rather dramatic finishing note , I would defintely have preferred to know that my close FRIENDS ( who have stayed with me for the past 3 years i.e. ) atleast would judge me better . More so as a guy who would on any day hang up his boots and soak the rain on a WET road with his friends than travel all alone along a DRY path in a quest to be different !!!