BodhiTree-Revisited

ok.lets get over with the confession part of it,first-while i like the music of BodhiTree-I am NOT a diehard fan.In fact,only by the very loosest definition would I be called a fan,if at all.Given a choice, I would more rather listen to The Eagles,Pink Floyd, The Doors, Tina Turner, R D Burman or even Guns [...]

radio and pastimes

I have found a great new pastime…one even more entertaining than reading profound comments on issues of national import which people write on earth shaking news stories-stories of epochal significance,like sonam kapoor casting her vote.the way rediff publicise this,i am convinced that we should start a campaign to make the vote of sonam kapoor count [...]

one perfect something

You are around chasing things that disappear You can’t get enough cuz you want it all When you thought you were ok you opened up your eyes When you thought you had it all that’s when you lost it If you want to hold onto everything you will fall : One Perfect Something (Linkin Park)

letter

constant reader, do you listen to music?i do.a lot.except these days i watch a lot of movies and so hardly get time to listen to music.anyways…point was…music is a very powerful thing…it just grabs hold of you and mixes you up like you are being revolved inside of a washing machine or a grinder maybe [...]

wo ja rahi hai,meri heroine…

am watching aakhiri raasta right now…and just now was listening to the song. it comes from the days when the inimitable duo of laxmi-pyare used to create irrepressible melodies [sic] and the song has phrases like “naka naka go”   :P but still, in one of the most obvious set pieces of hindi cinema, it [...]

night

couldn’t sleep even tonight,even though i have been nursing a bad cold and been feverish.spent the night downloading papers for my dissert,i think i am going to have to scrap half the stuff i earlier read.sad situation.first i dont work.then half the work goes down the drain enhances my knowledge but has no use for [...]

The clouds have paused, and the moon seems tired…

(warning: very long post ahead.read at your own leisure and risk) So i cannot sleep at one in the night, and do not want to study. And slightly high on three stiff shots of Vodka, listening to soft music reminds me of an old idea I had of writing about the songs I love. And [...]

coward

headaches, and a sleepy insomnia,bring a screen of red,in front of the eyes,tired eyelids droop but cannot sleep.stiitng in classrooms, business discussions with thoughts of perdition- i think of cheap hotels and dirty,muddy coffee,and spectral shapes of cigarette smoke in dark rooms; shouting neon signs, too loud in the scared night;and subdued junkies.the high of [...]

morning

i have sleep in my eyes,and swollen lids,and tired hands,which refuse to write.tired body hearing and not listening to voices in the classroom.i am dreaming of stars,and discotheques,and eyes, and lips and hair, and flowers and blood, i woke up early,in the morning,sitting by the window,listening to Pink Floyd,and Dylan and jim morrison fill the [...]