B*** S*** posts

I just read my last two posts the one on Gods and Monsters - ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh overly dramamtic trying to be "aantel" a word all bongs would understand, and if you're not a bong who is reading this well there are enough bongs in the world go find one and ask them - but this is probably not stimulating enough to move your butt and do all that. Anyway it was a piece of trash - I must have been really zonked after work!!!! the two boots pioneer theatre - well - ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh it just doesnt read good - its drab not funny not interesting its just blehhhhhhhhh. So why am I writing this? Its not like my other blogs have been absolute Pulitzer winners ! Well I had a tough day at work with one executive Project Manager who was being an absolute ass and just interrupting my flow of work - I had a big mind of saying F*** off! BUt the nice person that I am and also because this job pays my rent - I didnt say anything - and ....................so................... this tirade against my own blogs but hey it feels good to turn critic, and plus those WERE bad blogs!

Two Boots Pioneer Theatre

"I have been to indie movies but this is the MOST indie I have been to !" - Thats what my friend said.

We had had a long day at work and she wanted to go home but I was in the mood for a film. So up came Google and we were frantically searching through movie listings all over Manhattan to find a good one. She suggested Science of Sleep - I was not in the mood for it - so we went to watch - Ever Since the World Ended - filmed on a hand held camera with no particular ending or beginning the movie doubles up on itself and comes back to the beginning showing an audience watching the same movie from the very same beginning, I forget the theatrical term for it - play within the play - there is one in Hamlet if I remember - it sometimes helps put the audience in their place sometimes it is just for the characters within the play to be and sometimes it is just to show the irony of the situation - but I drift. Anyway the first priority was reaching there in time - we cabbed it - the next priority was finding the thing itself - we could see this one neon sign saying Two Boots but no matter how much we looked around the place we could not find the place then we stopped in front of a rundown video shack and found this small notice saying - IF you are looking for the Two Boots Pioneer Theater please go round the corner and you should be able to find it - so we went round the corner and what we would have probably given up as a small coffee house turned out to be the theater. We bought the tickets walked into the theater - it would hardly fit a 100 people I think and the film began with no introductions or titles. All in all it started well - it kept me interested for quite sometime but then it just went slack for me - it did not quite end where I thought the movie had a definite end to it, the director continued the movie to give the finishing touch to his movie by making it a big circle and ending where it began, Maybe I should not compare the movie to usual pot boilers and the way it ended kind of brought out other meanings but the movie had still ended for me long before. Anyway over all there were some very ironically funny characters which I loved - but the movie was not anything that great - the whole experience was fun though - we later went to a Mexican pizza parlor which had only a semblance of heating - so everyone was in full outer gear and eating pizzas. it was a fun night out! Though I have a feeling I could not describe the whole experience in words here.

Gods and Monsters

I finally finished watching this movie today after numerous interruptions - and I wanted to write about it - but I find words strangely inadequate to describe - sometimes words are not enough - and so I will only describe the feelings it evoked it made me smile first to see the the monster walk into the rain - finally not alone anymore and then it made my eyes tear and I cannot describe why I dont know whether it was happiness or grief but it evoked a feeling - an unnamed one and it is not necessary I guess that it has to have a name.

dreams

I know I am procrastinating with my Matrix and Time blog but so many other things are happening in between which I need to write about. I went to sleep at 1:30 yesterday night and then got up at 6 to go back to sleep again - from 6 to 10 I saw the most amazing(involved but not necessarily happy) dream I had seen in a long time - I woke up feeling utterly depressed - I do not remember the exact things that happened - it was almost like my brain was telling me don't put up false hopes through a fable of its own -I revisited something that I really want and found that it is not achievable after all - now is this my brain telling me to wake up smell reality and let bygones be bygones or is it my brain telling me you gotta try harder to achieve that - God knows but I think I know what my next project is going to be DREAMS - how does the brain create them? Why does it create them? How are dreams affected by what is happening in your life? And also my ability to lucid dream that was something I picked up as a child I could absolutely control my dreams at times if I wanted -do dreams and deja vu's have anything in common? So next pit stop is dreamland! Also there are these old wives tales which say that whatever you dream in the early morning will come true - now can there be a scientific explanation to that? Lets say in the early morning your brain has been rested and is gearing up for the busy day ahead now your brain is probably trying to logically calculate the residue of emotions and thoughts left in your brain so that you can encounter the day better - maybe early morning dreams are a result of these calculations in which in weird subliminal ways the brain is trying to provide you with answers to the things which are most bothering you. Lets see what my research turns up!

Nothing is impossible

I am basking in the sunny glory of having achieved what I thought was unachievable. A few months ago I was at the movies and I saw the trailers to both The Departed and Children of Men and both sent me back to my childhood - a time when I used to lie in wait for my grandma to come with her yearly bounty of VHS movies she had recorded from Britland and with them came the British commercials - some of which were my absolute favourites -though I do not have an inkling of what they were right now, but watching these two trailers hit a chord somewhere - they had a background music which was extrememly familiar and yet I could not place where I had heard it. I forgot about this sudden remembrance after leaving the theatre untill of course I went to another show and heard rather than saw the trailers again - I think I went to see both the movies simply to try and figure out the music but there were no clues, I ended up liking The Departed - and liking Michael Caine in the Children of Men - but let me not digress - the tune was driving me crazy - I reserached the soundtracks for both the movies - bu there were no clues - I even researched the scores - again fruitless - the day before New year's Eve I went to the Virgin store on Times square - got hold of the albums there - in anticipation that maybe they would have it. I spent an hour jostled at the listening station but still no luck Though I discovered Iron and Wine - and I must say I liked them! - but I digress again -
Then came the next phase of my desperate search - I emailed one of my friends who I thought might have an answer but to no avail - ultimately today after so many unfruitful meanderings over the internet I remembered that it was in a car commercial - and I started looking up car commercials and............................................................
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No luck there either!
Minutes before I was finally about to leave my research and give up - I changed my search criteria to this -
same music used in The Departed and Children of Men
and I came here:
http://www.gerardbutler.net/news/news_main.php?Action=Full&NewsID=1574

and thankfully this wonderful guy had written about exactly what I needed to know - it was the starting of a Rolling Stones song - Gimme Shelter - I watched the video - everyone seemed to be in a drug induced stupor but I guess that kind of fits the beginning piece. Well and there was the sweet after taste of success which was lacing the song - as well as memories of sitting in my grandpa's armchair - watching videos while my grandma took her afternoon nap and my parents were out buying - what my dad loves best gadgets - for home improvement.