Conversations In My Head - 2

Hello Good days!

Long time no see. How have you been?
I just called to ask if you are okay. I haven't heard from you in a while.

The thing is I haven't been doing too well of late, work pressure, financial crisis, heartaches and such. So some of my friends and close ones have been telling me that you are gonna come soon and make everything okay. I was really looking forward to that. But alas!

I've been waiting for a while now and you haven't reached here yet, so I was just checking up on you to see if you have maybe lost your way?
Just to make things easier for you, I'm still where you left me last. The address hasn't changed.

Another thing, you don't have to get lots of presents for me when you come, just a few laughters, a bit of good health and some peace of mind maybe? Nothing more.
Oh! but I do need some money. Actually lots of money. Yea, you can get me lots of money if you want. That'd be nice.

So good days, let me know when you're gonna get here so that I can revel in anticipation at least.

Much love,
D

#MusicMondays – Week 1

So, yesterday was the first of many many more #MusicMondays to come. I don’t know about you, but I need music like others need coffee. I simply cannot work otherwise, especially on Mondays; it can get really difficult to get the day started and so I often try and find new songs to listen to. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to ask people, what they’re listening to on those dreary Mondays, hence - #MusicMondays. The plan is to choose a theme every Monday and post music for everyone to enjoy.

Week 1 wasn't as bad as I thought; some of you were nice enough to share the songs that tickle your funny bones.

I thought I’d just make a playlist out of all that you shared in case you need a good laugh someday!

     1. The Axis of Awesome: In The Club Tonight  Via @Tushar_Chhajed

  

 2. Flight of the Conchords- Business Time via @thefloatingbed

 3.  Inflatable You by Tim Minchin Via @jaded_juno

4. Sarkai Lo Khatiya via @Parthogorus

      5. Eye To Eye  via @Parthogorus

   6.  Memorize the elements via @vips06

    7.    Jab Tak Rahega Samose Mein Aalu  via@Curls2Curves

  8.      DIAPER MONEY via @pseudosoc1al

    9.       Bhangra Pale Aaja Aaja via @Stupid_minion

        10.   If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out (Take My Wife) via @anuja_b_

And here are some of the songs that I posted last week:

1.       The Loophole By Garfunkel and Oates (Anti-Theist Punk):

 2.       Enormous Penis  by Da Vinci's Notebook

 3.       Pregnant Women are Smug by Garfunkel and Oates

Share for more laughs!

Photo-walk at Bandra desh

I never really got around to writing about this amazing photo walk that I did last January.
My friend who lived in Bandra often came across lovely graffiti and thought it would be great to go exploring the by lanes for more art.
So one fine sunny Sunday morning, we set out, armed with our ancient  point and shoot camera's and bucket load of excitement to see what treasures we would find.

We started our walk at pali village and I was absolutely blown away by what I saw...such art, so many graffiti..Every house had walls with lovely graffiti .Not just that, the houses themselves were so beautiful, brightly coloured with lots of flowers. So many happy people, mostly smiling faces. Some were even happy to pose for us.

I'm not sure about the all the artists, but we could identify some of them. For example, the very famous BAP (Bollywood Art Project) and DAP ( Dharavi Art Project). There were some pretty powerful messages out there, especially about gender equality.

Here are some of the pictures from the walk.

                                                     This one's by BAP - Madhubala

                                     
                                           This one says Bandradesh

Lucky to have found a befitting model for this one.

There was an entire lane dedicated to female infanticide and its consequences. Each painting gave out a very strong social message.

                                               

We bumped into a group of people from the Dharavi Art Room who were raising money for underprivileged kids. These pictures were all taken by these kids. I was overwhelmed over with all the talent here.

                                            A very ugly rendition of the Monalisa

 

                                         
                                                Happy Posers!

Miss Universe and how!

Song of the day: Wicked Little Town - Hedwig And The Angry Inch

'Glam Rock'. I snorted the first time I heard it. WTF is glam rock? Paris Hilton with big hair and shiny clothes rocking it on stage? Strangely, it is just that minus Paris or Parez or a stick with a head, whatever.

Glam rock isn't just a genre, it's really a movement. It took UK by storm during the early 1970s. David Bowie and T-Rex are probably one of the most famous glam rockers, the pioneers more like, followed by Alice Cooper.  Although Glam stemmed from Rock& Roll and Blues rock, it shared a strong Psychedelic background. For the first time in history it erased the arbitrary gender lines. Glam rejected all the falseness and claimed simplicity of rock and shamelessly borrowed from a wide range of genres - from hard rock to progressive metal.

What really underlined the genre were the theatrics associated with it - outrageous clothes, big hair and loads of makeup, lot's of glam and glitter and fishnets and fur.

The flamboyant costumes and visual styles of glam performers were often camp or androgynous, and have been connected with new views of gender roles [Wikipedia]

The song that I'm talking about today is borrowed from a Musical - Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Glam was the only language in which Hedwig's story could be told.

She makes her entrance like a star dying to be born – goose-stepping through the audience with the arrogant aplomb of Marlene Dietrich and Jim Morrison; decked out like a trailer-park tart’s idea of a glam-rock fox, in stone-washed denim, an Aryan-yellow, blow-dried mane and red-glitter lipstick; accompanied by the refried-Queen strains of "America the Beautiful" and marvelously surly introduction by her crusty Serbian valet boy toy Yitzhak: "Ladies and gentlemen, whether you like it or not – Hedwig!"


Wicked Little Town - Hedwig & The Angry Inch

Song of the day : Teardrop - Massive Attack

Song: Teardrop
Artist: Massive Attack Feat. Elizabeth Frazer
Album: Mezzanine
Genre: Trip Hop


Teardrop is a song that I really love.

Massive Attack is an English band consisting of Robert '3D' & Grant Marshall (Daddy G). They often team up with other musicians for songs. This particular song was sung by Elizabeth Frazer (Member of a Scottish Rock Band Cocteau Twins). I think Elizabeth Frazer's voice is absolutely mesmerizing.

This single is from Massive Attacks Mezzanine Album.

"There was once a king sitting on his throne. Around him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honor. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of anything in itself but because the air bore it along. Thus am I, a feather on the breath of God."

Several artists have covered the song including Newton Faulkner, Joe Gonzales, Simple Minds and the Kooks...but the original is hands down the best version.

The Kiss

I had not known another body could do this to mine.

I had not known, before us, that every vein in my body was capable of carrying light, like a river seen from a train makes a channel of sky etch itself deep into a landscape. I had not really known I could be so much more than myself; I had not known another body could do this to mine.

—Ali Smith (via beryl-azure)