When The World Ends

Nature is beautiful. Everything around that feels beautiful. My love for the origin, the cradle and the field of action for mankind is honest. And pure. Then again, there's always the dark side of the moon. Afterall, the fact that junta is fascinated by the end of civilization a.k.a 21st December 2012 is not total bullshit. Although logic, sense and rationality deny it. But who'll listen to me? I'm no Hrithik Roshan. Not total bullshit because the judgement day is nearing each day. Just 200 million years away now. O-crap minus one. Day. Already. And that's the nearest possibility of a dozen theories predicted.

Anyway what's funny is funny. A friend's Facebook homepage boasted of a status by his girlfriend, "How many of you believe that the world's gonna end on 21st?". A few graced that post with comments affirming how they believed. One guy went on with the pheko-logy,"Have faith in Nature!". I know, Oh-dear-God! I gave an euphoric expression associated with the words, BITCH, PLEASE! ;-)
Half a dozen people with a total IQ of less than 100, and their beliefs. I could use their beliefs instead of toilet paper and there won't be a scratch of conscience in my clean-wiped behind.

I still hope that the end comes. I am upbeat about it. What's funny is funny. And it's been a rather pathetic year for Manmohan Singh anyway, politics-wise and economy-wise. Months of NCERT Economics book-reading convince me that he won't hesitate in joining hands with the US(it's always them) to invite those alien-ships at the Taj Mahal for a grand, probably human, dinner. I hope those vegan pseudo-intellectuals step up with their firm resolve, then. Er, just saying!

We have less than a month. And Neo should be prepared for the rescue, just in case the world ends. I have a bad habit of getting subjective, something I'm working on these day. So after random blabbering, I'll get to the object of my post, a playlist. When The World Ends. There was a Dave Matthews Band song in The Matrix Reloaded by that title(here), but that's not what we are thinking. The singer is more like a moaning pervert, trying to have sex on his death bed in that song. Here's one kick-ass mini playlist I thought would work for me.

5 FIVE 
Lesiem - Temperantia (Bescheidenheit)
Well, we are going to need a lot violins, awesome(and innovative) percussion and a lot of mysterious synth. So here it is!

4 FOUR
Navras - Juno Reactor/Don Davis
With the obvious Indian connection in this one, need I say this is something ultimate. Music-wise, it adds Flute and Sitar to such conviction. Besides, this comes from the morning prayer we had in the assembly during my middle-school days. Another reason, The Matrix is just awesome. Ask Neo. What do you know, I'll lead us out of this big mayhem? The problem is choice.

From delusion lead me to truth

From darkness lead me to light

From death lead me to immortality.

Let there be peace everywhere.

When the five senses and the mind are still, and reason itself rests in silence, then begins the path supreme. No kidding.

3 THREE
Becoming One Of "The People" / Becoming One With Neytiri - James Horner
Too much of soundtracks? The basic idea of this playlist is to fit background music to life. I know, same thoughts! And movies are the closest escape from reality, offering everything you want. And who better than James Horner to fit in. This track, as the name says, fills the mind with a sense of what's really important in such times, of becoming one of your own, spiritually. The Indian connection, Nature, this movie has everything. Toruk Macto? Yeaahaa, bithes!

2 TWO
Mad World - Michael Andrews/Gary Jules
Donnie Darko classic. Gary Jules won't ever write a better song. If you've watched this movie, you'll feel the obvious connection.. deep enough to give you goosebumps when the Judgement Day arrives. Watch this video, PLEEEAAASSSEE! This song is so intriguing that dumbshit like me has been inspired to add a stanza of his own to these tunes. Very fitting. Thank you, you mad mad world, I'm grateful for my existence along with such music! Phew.

1 ONE
Now We Are Free - Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard
Is there ever a playlist without this? I am stuck ;-) A feeling of inspiration, ecstasy and liberation. On the big day, whether it is about the final resistance with collective strength, the ultimate defeat or the journey to the end, this piece will accompany you till the end! Have I gone nuts? Well, that's pretty usual. And expected.

0 ZERO
Strawberry Swing - Coldplay
Why? Because it is the tradition. I am talking about the ZERO thing. Why Strawberry Swing? That's tradition too. I am a real believer. These tunes calm me down, come what may. Main bhi hoon Nature. What do you know, Strawberry Swing might calm the elements of Nature to give up the destructive instinct. People deserve a chance. What's more important you won't be bothered even if it doesn't work. Because in the end, living is more important.

Now the sky could be blue, I don't mind. Seriously, I don't.

♫ now playing: Indian Ocean - Zindagi Se Darte Ho

I'm Not There

In the madding crowd,
In the big city
Bright, ebullient faces hold their smiles.
I'm not there.

Or in the flocking of the birds
The winds through the green,
In the streams finding their way to the sea,
I'm not there.

On the streets
Few people, they mock
Political jokes, fending off the worry
I'm not there.

They're counting their days-
Militia on the railroads
And the prisoners alike;
I'm not there.

Tall buildings- corporate- big-fat cars.
In black suits and ties
Those workers banter.
I'm not there.

In the faith of a child,
in his Nature's play
The road to learning
I'm not there.

In a circle of friends,
People of their liking
Shipping thoughts that matter,
I'm not there.

In the heart of a little girl,
Her poor father fighting the world
To survive each day;
I'm not there.

In the apathy
In the indifference
Or in the passion for compassion
I'm not there.

In my surroundings,
my existence thus testified,
I do not belong, anymore.
I'm not there.

In the compromised freedom
In your fight to fit in,
The search for normal
I'm not there.

I hear they laugh off
this, a fool's paradise.
In the shrill sounds
I'm not there.

You say you don't fear the light
In me you feel the spark,
It's not real.
I'm not there.

In your memories far off,
Good times to keep.
The mementos nurtured-
I'm not there.

In the smoky lights
of my revelation, your conscience;
You say you see me-
But I'm not there.

Marauders of Lucknow

Expecto Patronum!

"After all, if growing up is a war, then the friends who grew up with you deserve a special respect. The ones who stuck by you shoulder to shoulder, in a time when nothing was certain, all life lay ahead, and every road led home."

This one goes out to my friends. If I could thank them for it all, for putting me up together.. time and time again.

I'd not exist without them. I know it. Boomerangs. Shit. Best Unsaid. You know a friend: when you've turned an A-hole and they don't feel  it's permanent. And it's not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. Damn it boy, true words. Wise-ness! To express my-inner-feel right now, I am in a moment where on one fine rainy evening, we stretch our arms and run on the streets like mad kids, me and my friends.

You are the best, buggers!

Awesom-est lines of an awesome-ness filled movie - "Remember George, no man is a failure who has friends!"

WHAT NEXT?

So, after one fractured finger, a broken knee and well, slipping head-first down the rocks, I've realized what I've always known. Nature is my first love. And Music is second. And Liverpool is third. Sequence changes often. Also that if you underestimate my passion for the fourth, it'll be a big mistake.

Anyway, Nature. Here the reflections of truth are unaltered, precise and pure. This in turn fills my head with a sense of extremism. An there's this theory that extremes are addictive. To the passionate of the lot, ofcourse. I'm not sure whether I want to put everything on a hold and turn back to what I've left behind, and start rooting for a career, people and interestingly, my small initiation in the music world. The fact is you can never know for sure. And as my recent stint out in the wild has grown upon me, I never want to be sure. Coolness, I call it. With Enigma's Return To Innocence playing in background.

I don't want to know where I will be in next few years. I'm not going to sit with a plan. And that is not the plan. Maybe someday I will have a plan! But that's not the plan. Phew.

Well, as I always say - Eccentricity costs too much in normal people's denominations. I do not know how I should present this in front of my folks, as far as I've tried, some tag it as my escapism and shower their holy-gyan, some friends tell me I'm one dumbass to be dealing into "the shit", some generous ones act like DDLJ ka Amrish Puri who let's Kajol catch that train.. some just smile, some I won't share my ideas with; they won't take this very well.

Apparently even with a limited access to the internet, mobile phone and a special mention to the macho-connector, Facebook, I should be able to justify the definition in the Social Sciences stating - Man is a social animal. Not very, but yeah some you gotto carry along.

But Facebook's a bitch. It's a leveler. All three-four hundred "Friends" reaching out to the same version of YOU. For heaven's sake, there were easier times I know of. Exclusivity is the key to preciousness. Talk diamonds, talk gold. The price accounts to the availability factor. Economics. Exclusive and rare and pure, that sums up friendship, for me. 10-15 do good to me; quality vs quantity? Sire, everything about me smells 'class'. Narcissism. So, Quality it is for me. Of course you'll meet super-ass-holes and be friendly, but then time kicks ass soon. Negligible, them.

Man won't stay social for very long if this stays, I must warn you. Well, I don't expect to find population where my fantasies lie. And I hope I don't. For now, we are free.

  ♫  Gladiator - Now We Are Free