If you love music as much as I do..

You will absolutely love this movie and this song...



Once.

It is really a simple story about two people, their loneliness and their friendship. And, of course, music.

Another song.

Fusion

A nice mix. To my friends, it is well known that I detest fusion but it is usually fusion of Indian classical and Western classical that I hate. Mainly because it sounds discordant to me. I get these mixed reactions to the different forms of music and then when they are mixed together, I do not know which way to swing... :)

In this video, I liked the sound of the violin more than the DJ's sounds in the background and thankfully, it is in the background, giving it a nice feel overall

So true..

A mashup

Two movies which on the surface would seem to be poles apart but brought together by a brilliant mashup of audio from one and video from another.
"Ferris Bueller's day off" is an underrated classic, in my opinion.

LOL

Victor Wooten

Ok, this is even better..

AC/DC - She's got balls

A classic debate between Foucault and Chomsky

Part 1




Part 2



Justice Vs. Power

Of course, I am on Foucault's side. :)

Want to understand binary?

Watch this video

A reason to love Alanis

"A girl like me"

A long time ago, I read the autobiography of Malcolm X and besides being struck by the life and times of that man and that man himself, I was also intrigued by what he had to say about Blacks trying to be White -

"This was my first really big step toward self-degredation: when I endured all of that pain [of the hairstraightening chemicals], literally burning my flesh to have it look like a white man's hair. I had joined that multitude of Negro men and women in America who are brainwashed into believing that the black people are `inferior'--and white people `superior'--that they will even violate and mutilate their God-created bodies to try to look `pretty' by white standards.... It makes you wonder if the Negro has completely lost his sense of identity, lost touch with himself." [Source]

The process is called 'conking' and is generally used to straighten the naturally curly hair. It struck me very similar to the notions of beauty prevalent in India, notions that are still commonplace and for expression of which a popular blogger got severely burnt recently. Reading Malcolm X's autobiography, I wondered whether the beauty ideal originated during the British rule when the whites were the master of the land and the Indian mandarins fought for their favours and approvals...
Carlo Montemayor from the blog Double Conciousness posted a documentary called "A girl like me" in which a bunch of black girls talk about the beauty ideal that they were exposed to and they recreate an experiment that is disturbing. The video is posted below.



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Thanks to Jack and Carlo for the links..

The sodomobile!!

Methinks we need one in this country!

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