Faiz and "The unbearable lightness of being"

आनेवाले दिनों के सफीरों के नाम

वो जो खुशबु-ए-गुल की तरह

अपने पैगाम पर खुद फ़िदा हो गए हैं

The last lines of Intesaab reminded me of Milan Kundera talking about kitsch in "The unbearable lightness of being"

Faiz

Aaj ke naam
Aur
Aaj ke gam ke naam
Aaj ka gam ke hai zindagi ke bhare gulistan se khafa
Zard patton ka ban
Zard patton ka ban jo mera des hai
Dard ki anjuman jo mera des hai

In other news this is the worst I have felt in my entire life

The Arctic Monkeys are coming

I can sense it.

I mean I obviously always liked them, but I think they are coming for real now.

"Expect us" they whispered as she clicked on her fourteenth Youtube video...

Regardless of all the other things that are transient favorites

....I will always maintain that "Imagine" is the best song ever written obviously but what I wanted to talk about is "Brothers in Arms" which is the best song ever written that really does find deep resonances within my soul and permeates the spirit of my entire life and also future lives (if any).

Anti-war hero.
Mark Knopfler is the best person.

Buddha in Glory, Rilke

Center of all centers, core of cores,

almond self-enclosed, and growing sweet—

all this universe, to the furthest stars

all beyond them, is your flesh, your fruit.

Now you feel how nothing clings to you;

your vast shell reaches into endless space,

and there the rich, thick fluids rise and flow.

Illuminated in your infinite peace,

a billion stars go spinning through the night,

blazing high above your head.

But in you is the presence that

will be, when all the stars are dead.

My father is such a jerk
But Joe Strummer said the heart of the matter is "Forget about your parents, and deal with this". And I am twenty two, so to hell with that.

No more Blur after Hyde Park says Damon

WELL DID YOU JUST DECIDE THAT BY YOURSELF DAMON

WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT IT, DAMON ALLBRAN
THAT'S RIGHT. NOTHING. 
SO SHUT UP AND RECORD "UNDER THE WESTWAY" BECAUSE YOU ARE DUMB

But, okay fine. I have been thinking about how,2010 (s (?)) was becoming the decade of reunions of nineties and early 2000s (great) bands- this time in music was just getting really really desperate in the calling up old girlfriends and stuff way, you know?
Okay  fine. Don't reunite. But if you're going to do music anyway you might as well do it with Graham. Because you two have got something and that stuff is fucking precious you know?

WOW GIFs!!

Paul and George in India. Hee hee.

(I got this from tumblr ages ago, so I don't remember from where exactly.)

tenacitee

This semester has been the worst semester ever. I haven't read much, not listened to new music, and generally not tried to think about anything that has not been presented to me- I have lost all intellectual curiosity- and I have not really loved anyone better. I haven't done any "heart's work". My soul has become smaller. I haven't been patient or open in my heart. 

And I don't have any tenacity or anything, which Amba says I do. 

If I die now I will die the worst version of myself. 

There. Now onward to the things that have never been.

I am believer in Stephen Fry. Fucking Hallelujah

Anybody who tells me what happens after I'm dead is either a liar or a fool, because they don't know. 


-Stephen Fry

Graham on BBC Breakfast

I just realised through this interview that Graham is actually a really sensible 43 year old man. Not that I didn't know, I just I mean him talking about something other than music, about media over reporting stuff and sensationalism about the youth and drugs thing just made me think about how absolutely weird it is that there are 15 year old girls all over the world calling him their precious bb and such when he is actually a person like the person that he is.
Not that I am going to refrain from such behaviour in the future.
Not that I am fifteen years old (either).