I love songs about growing up.I love it when the Title of this Blog is asserted so strongly .Jon Mclaughlin , about my age . Glad I am can relate to people my age, and tolerate the others ;)
The Song is called 'The Middle' from the album 'OK Now'
I love the album name. It just sucks the possible melodrama from a lessons learnt sermon.Haven't heard the rest of the album , but I hope it lives upto this one.
Here it goes
I've been around for a little over 20 years
And to anyone who needs advice on getting here
Don't ask me, the path I took was not exactly by the book, by the book
I was too young to know and too dumb to figure out
That you can lose yourself in all this traveling around
When you reach a point of no return losing touch with lessons learned, lessons learned
Let me tell you now where i went wrong
Hollywood is just another place I don't belong
Let's go to the middle where time stands still
Let's get lost in those hills
Live a little closer to what is true
I'll be me and you be you
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
I've been around for a little over 20 years
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Multiple Choice
He1: I don't think I can understand women ... or maybe can't get through to them
He2: Dude... is this going to be one of those cliched toilet seat conversation ... thats shit man ... all that mars venus garbage ... all bull.
He1: We like to judge everything and everyone around us ... but when we have to live through it ... wait i guess we call that hypocrisy ... yeah thats the word
He2: I hate that word... though it suits this situation , it has a very negative connotation to it.
He1: Ok Mr. Psychologist ...
He2: I don't care man .. u r the one who started this.
He1: You are missing the point.
He2 : Its simple, its a human trait ... and unfortunately we have promptly labelled it with a spiteful word .
He2 : Its like that line from the movie 'Crash' - "You think you know who you are .. you have no idea" . I love conversations where i can quote from Crash ...
He1: I am generally very afraid when things come to the point .. where I can't make sense of anything. You beg , you ask , you demand ... its like hitting your head against a stonewall.
He2: Dude.. I am just your alter Ego.. if you don't have multiple choice questions for me... I am as good as your overflowing wastebasket .
Monday, July 13, 2009
Kamineyyyy
What a kickass song from the movie Kaminey . The song i am talking about is 'Kaminey' . What talent ... Gulzar and Vishal Bharadwaj actually use the word Kaminey in an extremely heartfelt song ... I am hooked ...
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Shazaaaaam
Did I mention i finally got an iphone ? Well its been a while .
My Life has changed. Why ? Its Shazam .
The daily ritual in my car while I drive to work was to start the radio.
Anytime a song played which I like , i would switch the record mode on my Nokia 6682 . Mind you the recording wasn't too great . I would go home , strain my ears to figure what song was it. Once I catch a few words, google the lyrics and find the song. :).
But now all you have to do is start shazam , let it listen to the song , it gives the name , cover album and hell yeah even the youtube link to the song. Life is good.
Life is getting simpler.
Really ?ummm ... somewhere else... a new problem is lurking. I am growing up. I gotta do things which if I don't do know .. i will regret later. Suddenly I stop, look back, look ahead and wonder how am I supposed to figure this out. Then I look around , whoz done and how . . I judge absolutely everyone around me and choose who I want to be . I just want to cruise along .. and then maybe suddenly shake things up ... do my thang ...
In the meanwhile me shall groove to the Madcon remix of Frankie Valli's 'Beggin' .... beggin beggin please....
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Both Sides Now
I just saw the season finale of House M.D. a few hours ago . They called it 'Both Sides Now' . I had heard the song a long time ago . It was good to find it again .
A wonderful song by Joni Mitchell . Though i first heard it as a cover by Neil Diamond . His version is my favorite :).
Here it goes :
Rows and flows of angel hair, and icecream castles in the air, and feathered canyons everywhere,
I've looked at clouds that way,
but now they only block the sun.
They rain and snow on everyone.
So many things I would have done,
but clouds got in my way.
I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
from up and down, and still somehow,
it's clouds illusions I recal.
I really don't know clouds...at all.
Moons and Junes and ferris wheels, the dizzy dancing way you feel
as every fairy tale comes real; I've looked at love that way.
But now it's just another show. You leave 'em laughing when you go
and if you care, don't let them know, don't give yourself away.
I've looked at love from both sides now,
from give and take, and still somehow
it's love's illusions I recall.
I really don't know love at all.
Tears and fears and feeling proud, to say "I love you" right out loud,
dreams and schemes and circus crowds, I've looked at life that way.
But now old friends are acting strange, they shake their heads,
they say I've changed.
Something's lost but something's gained in living every day.
I've looked at life from both sides now,
from win and lose, and still somehow
it's life's illusions I recall.
I really don't know life at all.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Dekha kya?
Lately .. I have discovered a very interesting thing about myself.
I like every movie. Did I like Ghajini ? Yes . Did I like 'No Smoking' ? Yes. Did I like Chandni Chowk 2 China ? Yes . I mean I did not feel like leaving the theatre midway while watching any of the se movies. I don't claim that any of the movies were masterpieces , but I was entertained.
Mind you , its not that I don't appreciate 'good' cinema. I watch all kinda movies indies, arties , marathi, old English .
I sit on the first row to cheer Vivek Oberoi when he says ' Mai Marunga to tu Mar Jaayega ' in 'Dum' ( Btw I own this DVD :p) . And I don't forget my place on the last row as I quietly watch a masterpiece like 'Maqbool' in awe. Personally , I think Vishal Bharadwaj must be the most underrated individual in Bollywood . Anyways that subject warrants an entirely new post.
People expected a masterpiece from Ghajini . If you 'd seen the trailer and the well sequenced songs , you knew what to expect. Still people hated it coz it was too masala a flick coming from Aamir. Flawed expectations . Still its a super duper hit. Wonder how, since everyone I know who saw it , hated it.
While I was in India, I was amused by the reaction to Slumdog. Not that people hated it. But quite a few wondered what was the oscar fuss all about. A 'Traffic Signal' or a 'Salaam Bombay' ( haven't seen it yet) moved us. It showed the plight of the homeless kids in Mumbai . Thought provoking. Enough to make u donate to a NGO working the streets of Mumbai.
I did not feel anything like that with SM . Coz the movie is much bigger than that. . Poverty is the premise , not the subject of the movie. Its hope.Its your classic 'Rags to Riches'.
And everyone loves a R2R , right from the front bench to the back bench. And in this gloomy economy , just what the doctor ordered ....
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Maximum City
I sometimes surprise myself as to how shallow I can be ! But don't feel the least bit guilty .
Thats another story .Maximum City ... a gr8 book after such a long time . Its funny ... how as I read about my own hometown ..how blissfully unaware I was of the horrors. Let me correct myself ... not unaware .. just indifferent. Almost everyone i know who hails from the Maximum City wants to go back to Mumbai .
Now , will they ever ... is a subject of another book :p . Its safer than the 'Capital City' in its own cruel way . I think of this quote from the 'Walk the Line' ... when Johnny Cash addresses the Folsom Prison Inmates.
JC:I got to tell you,I can't tell you how many shows we done... but this is the best audience we ever had.
I want to thank you for that.
You know...standing back there in your
shop, catching my breath...I come to admire you even more.
Prisoners:Yeah!
JC:You see, I never had
to do hard time like you...
Prisoners:Yeah!
JC:...although I have on occasion...gotten myself busted.Once in El Paso,I had this bag of...
Prisoners:Yeah!!
JC:Oh...you heard about that?.You been in El Paso, too?. Well, anyways...I felt tough, you know?
Like I 'd seen a thing or two,you know?Well, that was till a moment ago...'cause I got to tell you,
my hat's off to you now.'Cause I ain't never had to drink this yellow water you got here at Folsom.
Mumbai ... Bombay .. Tomato ... Tameto .. .whats the difference :p
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Everything I do .. do it for you
How does it feel to have found that Radio Station which pretty much all day plays exactly what you want ? Bliss all the time !
I am so ready to have a Bumper sticker which says I heart KPRI 102.1 and I rock without rules.
It works better than Pandora for me ;) .
Of course I listen to the radio strictly only when i drive . I am one of those people who can hear a song on loop all day till they get sick of it . One of those people who order the same thing every time they go to a restaurant and never ever get sick of it. Are there any of my kind ? :p.
Thankfully Radio Stations , Songs and food generally don't vanish in thin air( Though I can give examples of the 1st and the 3rd ). But then there are things which do ... . And no matter how hard u try it seems u just can't do without them.
Anybody got that Memory Flasher from MIB ? Flash it Flash it Flash it .. I am paying attention to what you have to say !