5 lounge/trance/peaceful tracks one *MUST* listen to...

(artist) -- (track) -- (album)

1. Mark Isham -- Tibet part II -- Yoga Zone

2. Mark Isham -- The host of Seraphim -- Dead Can Dance

3. Karsh Kale -- Longing -- Realize

4. Deep Forest -- Night Bird -- Deep Forest

5. Thievery Corporation - Satyam Shivam Sundaram -- AOL music DJ sessions

College Ends... Part 1

Barely 10 working days are left.. It has all come to end... finally...

College.

Quoting the chef (south park) , "There's a time and place for everything. And its called college"

That time has ended it seems...

Come may end, and on may 28th would be the last exam. And after giving that exam... The relief of the exams ending would fill the air outside mech canteen with cheers and shouts of "Exams khatam ho gaye".... but this time only with the hollow of the college ending...

Hated as much... i have loved college.

******

joined college as a nobody. leaving like a nobody. i can still feel a romance in this tragedy.

*****

first year seems just like yesterday...

i dunno what to write next. theres too much to write. theres too much to say... and words dont seem enough to express it all...

as i smoke this cigarette i can only see clear... how i smoked my first... Myself, Bhaskar going out and buying out that "forbidden"... a last resort to stay awake and sail through our first end sems... I can still remember it remained in that drawer for like 2-3 days before we could gather enough courage to light it up.

And how can i forget the night of the second sem. The PEE exam night. The two books. Was awake till 4 am for the first time. And even by morning was hardly anywhere close to being familiar with the syllabus. Was so screwed... kept mumbling "aaj to Fuck ho gya!".. lol... it earned me a name... "Fucku"...

My very first friends... Ap, kiki, kani, Tushar, Bhaskar, Vishal- my dormant roomie, Anshuman, Avinash... the world was small then... frnds were more frnds.. there was less of that cunningness. The guard against "betrayal" didnt exist... The need to think before speak wasnt there. That school innocence was not lost. But the gleam of that innocence wasn't as bright.

And there are parts i hate to remember. The first hostel night. Many things.... Yet the indelible mark and mould that they have given me remains... All the shenanigans of being there and enjoying it and and... it all falling apart.. The initial joy and the pathos that it brought.

And yet i can only look back and say that the period was so so much fun. Every other day was something new. A movie, a bunk or just sitting there at mech... the endless talks. Initially the big D group and then us four frnds... exploring, discovering ..... LIVING....

Elizabeth The golden age

Actors: Cate Blanchett and Clive owen

Direction: Shekhar Kapur

I haven't well seen the first one of the "series", Elizabeth; so i cant really compare this 2007 release to that earlier 1998 one. But there was certainly that something missing in this flick which could have made this otherwise fine movie, a great movie.

The performance of Cate Blanchett certainly deserves an applaud. But other than that, theres hardly anything to watch out in this movie. All the complexities of a medieval British royalty seem far to uninteresting and trivial. The romantic liaison of the Queen with this pirate guy Riley (Clive Owen)... i dunno... was pretty much indigestible. I wonder if anything of that sort ever happened ( Add to that, my anger at any wrong depiction of history... but well thats just my speculation).

The direction, screenplay and art et all are pretty much cool and nothing seems half hearted. Shekhar Kapur also needs a priority in mention over such fine handling of subject matter.

Verdict: Watch this movie if you love period films. Its a fine movie no doubt. Just dint click with my likings.

Score: 6.6/10

Boondock saints

(Release: 1999

Actors: Willem Dafoe, Sean flanneey & Norman reedus)

This is one exhilerating watch. And i loved it!

Its funny. Its thrilling. Its messy. And gawd! this movie manges to be arty too, at times!

The movies is a tale of two "spiritual" irish guys set out to erase evil from the planet with their mafia friend. And while they execute all evil reading bible its just so cool. Thrown in the middle is a bit of drama. A lot of action.

A lot of fun. It has got mafia in it. It has got the FBI in it. A clever detective and the mean evil in it. In fact this is one of the rare few movies that have made the killings and the massacres look artistic and funny at the same time.

Its a wild shooting party throughout. The biggest positive for this movie is the element of thrill that it manages to maintain thorughout.

The characters have been clearly defined with the story. The irish brothers (Norman Reedus and Sean flanery) are just so cute and cool.

Willem Dafoe is at his acting best. (After antichrist, this one! man! am one fan of Dafoe like never before. !)

Verdict.

The verdict is as clear as a bottle of vodka: If you are looking for one action movie, which is light, funny and low on a lot of drama and other sorts of morass, this is the one for you!

My rating 7.5/10