the mad world song is ringing in my ears. i am doomed to have not seen donnie darko.
in the morning i was listening to all these songs .....
mad world
streets of philadelphia - bruce springsteen
philadelphia by neil young

long ago i had seen the youtube video of the streets of philadelphia, i dont have access to youtube, and the pictures haunt me.
and its bad that i havent seen philadelphia either.

the need to be sad and calm and be let alone.

wassup?

wassup with all these people making sales?

wassup with all these people going to US ?

wassup with esellerate, and reg now n cnet?

wassup with amazon?

wassup with all these guys who think it is all right?

wassup with barrack obama n mccain?

wassup with these people going head over heels for gmat?

wassup with 9.4 / 10 or 3.97 / 4? ( i mean what the hell is that all about???!!!)

wassup with people not inviting me to parties?

wassup with those carcasses hanging in shops?

wassup with these auto walas?

wassup with reading books and listening to music and love, and writing blogs and talking and wanting and knowing that its all gonna be alright?

i am in the office and my back tingles with a little pain. the long weekend has definitely refreshed me, yet at the same time i feel sad. i thought a lot and the thinking, like most of my endeavours was not to a certain end. it was as puposeless as it ever was. and i wasted time and lied and worried. and oh dear god, so much time wasted walking down the kutchcha roads, riding buses, watching umpteenth time the episodes of the "friend"ly sitcom. i figured so many hours and days of the 24 years of my life have passed pondering, listening to music, singing to myself, thinking, looking and seeing into some unknown. and i wonder if there is some romance to such purposeless meanderings. sure, what i know for sure is that i am like that only. and i do see some beauty if not much else. do i learn? on some levels yes, on some others no. some time ago i was sad doing what i did, now i am not, doing the same old love.
on friday i had lunch at jeevi's place. we had pretty engrossing discussions about what goes on in our respective companies. we touched on so many matters about the way work goes on, and that people stop learning, and the ones who taught us have been so .... and the ones around us are so..... and we ought to be so.....
then we talked much more and then there wasn't much to talk.
then i saw the dark knight again.
the next day i bought books from blossoms. (the shop is way better than its website) i cannot begin talking about the shop. but it has made life so much better and richer and livable in bangalore.
i was wondering, what if we make a cumulative sum of all the homeworks that we have done in our life. yes, the school homework, starting from kindergarten. a small task that someone (supposedly) older and wiser than us asked us to do. and ask ourselves, if i did all those homeworks with twice as honesty and completeness of PURPOSE, we would be different people. again lets go back to a moment. there was a moment when we were fresh, and we didnt have these webs in our minds. the next moment our approach to doing work changed. someone asked us to do something and the way we agreed to it, the way we did it, and how much of it we did changed completely.

but it has to be said, dark knight could have been more enunciated. it irks me that it is twisted in terms of evidences, the reasons for particular turns of events, particularly of course in the second half.
and now i m sad.
there always is some factor, some piece of the puzzle that is missing. there isnt ever a PERFECT movie.
but kudos to nolan brothers who have managed to put such moral complexity on screen that also has the popcorn entertainment value. the visuals are the most lucrative asset of this film. add to that the uneasy position of the hero. not enough can be said about the villain, so i wont start again, but that is the reason why the movie needs to be watched again and again.