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Abida Parveen - Maula-E-Kull
Saathi Salaam - Sawan Khan & Clinton Cerejo

Gems from coke studio. How divine!

When all the organs unanimously embrace and establish trust with the choices we make, the music we pick, the objects we lay our eyes upon.

H.A.L.T

Bon Iver - Holocene
London Grammar - Truth is a beautiful thing

How we do what we have to do. Slipping through different states of mind, no matter how congruous or incongruous they are to our plotted desires, which was molded over years of pampered play with our minds - devoid of wise thoughts.

To run and receive feedback from the calm wind.

Lazarus

Lazarus - David Bowie
London Grammar - Strong

The sax by Donny McCaslin in Lazarus is perfecto! Bowie is exceptional.

"We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking" - Albert Camus

How true.

New finds

Slow Life
Thousand eyes
Wolves without teeth
Empire
Human
- Of monsters and men

This is not a group with a one-off hit. They make good music and show great enthusiasm.

Be. Believe.

Worried moon

Muse - Dig down
The Lumineers - Sleep on the floor

We must all find a way. To recreate. Paint the path & wait. It just will happen.

"And the noise just drowns me out" - Worried moon - Chris Cornell

Chris

Katatonia - Old heart falls
Arcade Fire - Haiti
Beethoven - Egmont Overture
Chris Cornell - Dead wishes, The Promise

"Hunger Strike" was on repeat.

Chris, Chester

Chris Cornell - Nearly forgot my broken heart
Audioslave - Shadow in the sun
LP - A line in the Sand

Special artists. Special songs. Chris had one of the most unique & creative singing style. Chester was a heavy lifter for so many LP tracks. His cover of 'Rolling in the deep' was truly special.

"Unapologetically embracing badass riffs, he eschewed lyrics about dungeons or dragons and instead wrote deep dark soul searching poetry that opened the door for generations of artists who felt empowered to use their brains along with their musical brawn"

"Thank you, Sunshower. Thank you for your love, your friendship, your peerless talent. The body is weak. The psyche is fragile. Things decay and are gone in time. Gardens turn gray. But, Chris, I know two things that are f–king invincible and will endure forever, your beautiful voice and our love for you"

- Tom Morello on Chris

Pearl Jam to Chris

A dose of Thoreau again

..but from Emerson, in his eulogy to Thoreau

Had his genius been only contemplative, he had been fitted to his life, but with his energy and practical ability he seemed born for great enterprise and for command; and I so much regret the loss of his rare powers of action, that I cannot help counting it a fault in him that he had no ambition. Wanting this, instead of engineering for all America, he was the captain of a huckleberry party. Pounding beans is good to the end of pounding empires one of these days; but if, at the end of years, it is still only beans!

Thoreau, always my favorite writer. 

Arcade Fire

How we have to "wake up" when Arcade Fire says so
And synths in the background of "sprawl II"
And Buckland's wavy solo at the end of "warning sign" - Glastonbury 2005

Sing Street

Good movie. A blend of being common and uncommon at the same time. John Carney, the director, was once a bassist for 'The Frames', who by the way make fantastic music led by Glen Hansard - one of my all time fav artists. Guess, it all comes around.

"Rock and roll is a risk. You risk being ridiculed"











When there is a win, you bow down and let humility sweep you. And that's how we are supposed to 'be'.

Let not impatience get to your head. Like they say, your mind is a precious real estate. Do not let in impatient tenants. All wins just around the corner.

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No worries. Absolutely no. It just makes things harder. Search for that calm moment. There is a win here. In the midst of everything, all chaos converges to one small dot. Hold on to that chap. It's a win.

Marche Funebre

Marche funebre - Chopin

I am sucked into it. Chopin is taking me to places. Such passion and energy.

Glen Hansard

Wires - Athlete

Yes, I do wonder. A letter on the way. 

After all we've seen
We can do anything, lay
Where your heart is strong
Where we can go on and on, lay
Where your good times gone
Where we are forever young, lay
Where your heart is strong
Where we can go on and on, lay, lay! - Glen Hansard - High Hopes

I keep circling back to Glen - such an amazing artist

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Judas Priest - Beyond the realms of death
Perfume Genius - Queen
Autumn Leaves - Cannonball Adderley

Time to dream a new dream and quiet that lizard brain. Ramble on!

You'll build your walls, and I will play my bloody part
To tear, tear them down

Mumford and Sons - Babel

You - the indifferent world

I - ramble free mind

Kiddo

Story of an Immigrant
Letters from the sky

--- Civil Twilight

Nothing much to say. Just an innocent state of mind waiting for a cab to take me home & be greeted by the kiddo making wavy hand gestures - 'Yo, How was your day? Nah, I don't care. Come life me up. Call of duty'

What precious time --

I do have time these days!, as in my mind feels the tangible ticks & tocks of the ever walking legs inside an inanimate frame. In putting my kid to sleep & between changing diapers, I picked up a book - The Last Mughal - and finished it. Poor books of yesterday that lie in dusty ( allergic ) shelves and look with envy. How dare I abandon them and lay my eyes upon a new one! Sorry folks.

And to accompany me during this reading journey is Coldplay's - Everything's not lost & Deep purple's - Soldier of fortune; both seemed to have a profound dozy effect on the kid as he seems to drift sideways first and with half-droopy eyes succumbs to sleep! What magic :-)

Thoreau again

Dark necessities - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Chasing Shadows - Angels and Airwaves
Didn't he ramble - Glen Hansard
Tu Kisi Rail Si - Indian Ocean ( from the movie Masaan )

My bouncy, rocky kid keeps me busy. Curious, energetic & 'sneeze-on-your-face' kid. 

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

- Thoreau

Vertigo

How laborious is labor! Its a battle zone. Man must be prepared :-)

Boredom. Foster Wallace talks about how "being unbored is the key to a meaningful life". Just as we find "stuff" to keep ourselves busy, the creeping emotion of boredom keeps haunting us. It attaches to our non-local mind like cholesterol to arteries, if that makes any sense ?

Shun auto-pilot. Work hard. Keep fit.

2015

Hello hypertext. Hello insight. 

Tapped letters to words.

The curtains ridicule me. Subtly moving to let in the orange strokes.

The printed schedule is now drooping

The sax blending with time - drive all night

Lucille did cry for BB King

I slid the volume up

The clouds enclosed in odd shaped parenthesis

The endless river by Pink Floyd

Gilmour on Fender's 50th recalibrated

Ignore what the world says. Really! Progress. Move forward. All the negative attention is a waste of time.

Put on some music, set your priorities, make things lightweight, travel a little and bring closure to all the fancy stuff. Life is fragile! :-) It will annoy you most of the time. We are after all incapacitated to understand everything. Bring peace. Live in peace.

Reach down

Temple of the Dog - Reach down

While our guts lie down in shame, in ways least attributable to self slander, lets chill and reach down.

Hear that riff, a thin soft wave followed by a turbulent distortion going an extra mile just to pacify our gutless mind.

All our voices squabbling over tense over dramatic events that passed through our eyes on an uneventful day. Across the street, a friend he is. Brag now, how eventful this encounter with you is. While my luggage is packed, clothes ironed, false pretensions wrapped under shitty clothes.

Reach down my mind. 

Half Moon Run - Full circle