Friday, July 28, 2006

Thoughts of a tired man 4 hours before bed time

I don't have anything to write about in particular, but I have some spare time on my hands.
I make an attempt to explain concert atmosphere, (most recently, had been to a Nickelback gig), the electric charge in the air, the opportunity to have screaming fun with a group of strangers whom you wouldn't recognise if you saw them on the street the next day. But I'll save that for another day, I'm not in a rocking state of mind.
I try to put forward my two cents on the Lebanon-Beirut crisis.
Action: Hezbollah kidnaps two soldiers.
Reaction: Southern Beirut is more or less reduced to rubble; 450 Lebanese, 50 Isrealis dead and still counting; around 500,000 people displaced; Condoleezza Rice wastes some air fuel doing her bit for environmental pollution, by aimlessly flying to Israel and Lebanon with not the slightest incline to attain a ceasefire, Bush's intellect is challenged yet again trying to figure out whether Lebanon is a country or a city!
Over reaction?

But while I would like to give a discourse on the futility of war, my tired mind disagrees. So we'll save that too.

Read a news article, family of approximately 7, finally decide to leave their village after a few days since the Israelis sent a warning. war planes, constantly scanning the terrain for any transportation of enemy ammunition, bomb the van in which the family is travelling. Cruelly enough, only survivors are 3 bleeding children, left to fend for themselves. Is the world crying???

Shall leave with a parting thought. When you begin to worry about your pay hike/ your next promotion/ your poor jilted self/ the impression your boss has about you/ how unfair life has been to you, pick up the paper. Rest assured you'll find enough to read, that will make your teensy-weensy problem seem like a scratch compared to the cancer this world suffers from.

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Superman Returns........Yawn!

I watched Superman Returns last weekend, slept through certain parts, though whenever I woke up it didn't seem like I missed anything. The IMAX where it was screened had around 4 scenes from the movie specially converted with 3D effects. But even that stunt failed to lift the movie. Hollywood's obsesion to convert comic superheroes into overtly emotional soap actors continues. Previously we had Spiderman continuously ruing over his love life in S-2. Superman makes a kid in this one!!!! (You were supposed to save the world, not impregnate our women.) And the kid in question seems more mentally challenged and less of a superhero child! The plot is long drawn, the action sequences lack creativity and the actors themselves seem so bored to be in the movie.
All in all a movie one can comfortably forget.