thaumaturgist

Movies and Music are a few of my most loved things... and when movies have great music they can create some truly memorable moments. From the title itself it is easy to guess that this post has some french connection. We are planning a trip to Gay Paris for the New Years and while doing some research on the city I came across the website of a restaurant situated at the Eiffel Tower. The background audio of the website is a letter that Audrey Hepburn writes to her father in the movie Sabrina, while she spends some time at Paris. Immediately I was transported back to the movie whose background score was La Vie En Rose which brought to my mind the movie on Edith Piaf starring Marion Cotillard, which in turn reminded me of another movie of hers called A Good Year also set in France, Provence. I was filled with a warm gushing feeling, a pleasant warmth that one feels at spring time. Our imagination, affected by movies, music and stories we hear can create a completely different place out o...

disclaimer: Whoever wants to read this book don't read this post. Spoilers ahead! About a year back I was visiting Delhi for some work at the university and catching up with old friends. At the airport I had bought a book called Loving Frank by Nancy Horan, the name Frank Lloyd Wright catching my attention. Putting up with an old friend in her 'bachelor pad' I had a lot of time to my self while she was at work and I read my book. I had reached up to about half of the book when I left it at her place by mistake while leaving Delhi. I was almost killed of curiosity about how the book had ended but slowly I had forgotten all about it till recently when my friend reminded me of it. I quickly did a google search and realized that the story is in fact quite a real portrayal of Frank Lloyd Wrights love affair with Mamah Borthwick Cheney. I had loved what I had read of the book and I could connect with Mamah's emotional turmoil revolving around her children and lover and how sh...

This too is a post from my deleted blog! Sometimes certain songs just get into the head and keeps playing over and over in our minds... it can be highly irritating like the german song I learnt in class and just wouldnt leave my head " man nehme eier aus dem stall....." grrrr.. This other song just covered my heart with a melancholic wrap... the tune has a sadness to it but I wasn't very sure of the lyrics of this song, so after a google search I found out that quite a number of people have put down the lyrics to their blogs. SO why not I? here's the song.. its even more beautiful if you hear it..after all "our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts" Shelley EK Woh Din Bhi The.. Ek Yeh Din Bhi Hain.. Ek Woh Rat Thi.. Ek Yeh Raat Hain... Raat Yeh Bhi Guzar Jayegi!!!!! Raat Yeh Bhi Guzar Jayegi!!!! Koi aata hai palko pe chalta hua Ek aansoo sunhari sa jalta hua Khwab bhuj jayege, rat rah jayegi Rat yeh bhi guzar jayegi Rat yeh bhi guzar jayegi ...

This is a post from one of my other blogs that I have decided to delete. disclaimer: does not reflect my current mood! Alchemy- january 9th! Very often our minds are filled with thoughts that, in an attempt to shut out, we tumble over. One thought gives way to another and then another... almost always these are factual moments of one's life which have, over-time, become fictionalized in our minds. Therefore, whenever we are looking back in time and trying to remember these moments they are quite far from the realities; these are morphed ideas having some special appeal. In turn these have manifestation of different kinds like nostalgia, compunction, intrigue and chagrin... let me remind you these thoughts (which have rather become more 'imaginations') are far removed from the realities of the bygone times therefore, the manifestations are really the fabrications of the mind. Yet, we have etched them so strongly in our minds that we believe it to be the reality of the pr...