And so the rain came down today on a Sunday, telling us, this is how a rain looks like. Chennaites refreshed themselves about the PHENOMENON called rain and went back to sleep. But before that rain went away.
FYI – Little Johnny wants more rain!!.
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Chennai’s sad irony
With the exponentially doubling Chennai traffic, I notice a sharp raise of the speeding ambulances.
Should we be happy about the speedy service that these ambulances render or should we sad of the augmenting emergencies/casualities.
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Come Back, Illayaraaja
Listening to a Kolla Kuthu (meaning a gaana) song called Sandai Kozhi from Dhanush‘s latest flick Sullaan, me and my friend pondered over the music sense of the current tamil music dierctors.
We both agreed on the fact that Illayaraja‘s music was free flowing even in a Kolla Kuthu song. These days, even if it is a melodious song, either you sit, listen and concentrate to enjoy it. Or shut it down, because it hinders your jobs.
But now, even as I am connected to the net and typing this very blog post, Illayaraja’s 80’s hits is playing in the CD player. Not a slightest disturbance it does to my thinking nor does it affect my flow. It serves as perfect background and still makes me jive. Ok, so you might argue that it is one of those Illayarajaa’s melodiest song that plays now. No way. It is Muthaduthey Muthaduthey Raagam from Nallavanukku Nallavan. It is fairly a fast paced song with disco beats. The amazing way the music flows given S P Balasubramanian‘s lovable voice, I think we are dearth of such music these days.
A R Rahman to a huge level filled up this gap. But because of his recent association with Hollywood, the gap has widened and gives me a feeling that tamil film music is getting down to ditches.
Even Yuvan Shankar Raja or Vidhyasagar comes out with some amazing tunes. I recently fell in love with Bharadhwaj’s Manasukulley song from Autograph, especially that malayalam accent was a great blend and the recent YSR’s Kanna Kaanum Kaalangal from 7G Rainbow colony are precious ones, hard to find stuff in the given tamil music scenario. But they don’t fill up the quest for good music of a tamil music fan. They don’t even come near it.
At this juncture, I can’t hope more except to shout, COME BACK ILLAYARAAJA !!
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The road to Nirvana…
Guest Blog #21 – Anand C
It is frustrating when people you like do things you aren’t proud of. Case in point: the suicide note of Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of rock-legend Nirvana and singer/songwriter of Never Mind, one of the most influential rock albums ever produced. The last line of the rather depressing note is reproduced here:
“I’m too much of an erratic, moody baby! I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.”
Why did this come to mind all of a sudden? Because this response in a recent interview by Kamal Hasan is something I would have hoped Kurt realized, that would have provided more A-class music to thousands of fans (like me!) for a long time to come (He was 27 when he died!)
How do you analyse your performance objectively?
Very easy. If you keep criticising yourself, the zenith of it is suicide. You hate yourself so much that you are ready to kill it. Yes, I said ‘it’ and not him or me. So criticism is easy. Some people suffer from it because they don’t know when to stop criticising. It is like eating sweets. You must know when to stop.Call it a selfish fan speaking… RIP, Kurt!
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Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11
[Typos intentional through out this blog post]The moore I read the moore I’m anxious, the moore I’m anxious the moore I’m lost.
As the world goes on and on over the controversial Michael Moore‘s Fahrenheit 9/11, the hype goes on and on like the bullish stock market. And before it begins to fall down, I would love to watch the film to get a glimpse of the controversy they talk about.
Read moore about moore here, here and here. Moore also has started a blog, Mike’s Blog. Welcome Bloggie.
Every move of Moore is watched here, Anti Michael Moore.
Ok. So this isn’t a blog post to place all the links of Michael Moore. These were just some(!) of the interesting news that I have been reading about Michael Moore. I observed one thing, the maker is reviewed moore than the movie itself. That sounds very biased to me but that alone kicks my entu to watch it soon.
I am sure by the time you read all these articles, you would be atleast half confused as me. Yeah, just reading all the news without watching the movie takes you nowhere. I realised it just when I finished reading these articles. There is just one moore thing, read the column Unfairenheit 9/11 – The lies of Michael Moore by Christopher Hitchens in Slate. This one gets you a clearer picture and sums up all the above said articles well.
But then, let me watch it and talk.
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