Friday, April 13, 2007

Apocalyptica

You don't believe in Music, Do you.

Maria Callas was last quoted in Philadelphia ( Tom Hanks movie , Bozo, the one with AIDS). My introduction to opera was in DCH where Aamir khan clutches his throat in the middle of a performance.youtube can help you listen to many of Maria Callas' renditions. Though generally speaking i couldn't differentiate one from another.Anyways, another bouncer was an article on the same lady on wiki and some kind of professional enmity she shared with another lady. The point was how such a talented person could also be let down (according to wiki)by believing in the pleasures of external beauty. I am no woman , and i generally know/believe womenfolk are a bit fussy about their appearances ,Natural or otherwise.But how high can this expectation from oneself go, Very high it seems.

But the fun part is not just Callas's rendition ,but Tom Hank's description of some French revolution along with that, the way in which he gets a high as the music proceeds. It was a treat.Yes, i am not the kind of person who appreciates things a lot.Mostly.

Similar is the experience when Apocalyptica plays..Nirvana's Nothing else matters. I thought it was a violin, but their website claims it is something called four cellos. An example of an infinite iteration :when i googled on four cellos, it took me back to apocalyptica rather than telling me what the heck is Four cellos. My first reaction on hearing that blasted combination of words was like four kids going to school carrying that half Liter cello water bottle which people told kept water cold, and which used a chain to keep its cap from getting lost.In my case the same was always found broken on the return procession from school on the very day of its debut.

They say oil and other necessary items were in short supply just after the first world war 2. So they manufactured something called hydrogenated oil, In India called Dalda to keep oil in solidified form. Also Oil use to come from Iran in Tin shaped containers and distributed all over India.And at those time vegetables to Mumbai use to come from Pune, essentially being grown in the pune-nashik stretch.Unloading was done at Byculla.Initially Leavers India was in the soaps business, but soon Tatas realized soap's potential in a dirty emerging India and founded tata chemicals.A client told me all this and a lot more.

The opening gambit's courtesy lies with the dude who composed Hallelujah (and not me).

Tomorrow i have another medical, Third in my lifetime. And strangely i am not a bundle of nerves i was before the previous two.Growing Up or growing down or growing out?








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