To artists of all kind... a good piece of advise

Rule One for a writer, as far as I'm concerned, is that There Are No Rules. And Rule Two (since Rule One was made to be broken) is that There Are No Excuses for Bad Art. Painters, writers, singers, actors, dancers, film-makers, musicians - they are meant to fly, to push at the frontiers, to worry the edges of the human imagination, to conjure beauty from the most unexpected things, to find magic in places where others never thought to look. If you limit the trajectory of their flight, if you weight their wings with society's existing notions of morality and responsibility, if you truss them up with preconceived values, you subvert their endeavour.

Arundhati Roy

Prozac Nation

I wanted to watch this movie because I heard a little about the best selling novel from a friend so I thought I'd give this movie a shot because I can't be bothered to spend too much time reading a depressing novel.

Yep, this was a very depressing movie, however, an insight to what clinically depressed people go through. It was heart-breaking in many ways. Besides that, Christina Ricci's acting was incredibly powerful.

It basically tells a true story about this young girl who had a hard childhood because of her parent's divorce. She goes to Harvard to study journalism and that's when you see her gradual and sudden fall into depression. She became one of he youngest music writers for Rolling Stone then comes the core of the movie, her depression.

Jessica Lange, her mother acted brilliantly well too. You see how Ricci is caught up between her mom and dad who are divorced and her flash backs into childhood. Of course when things are a little too late for her to handle her depression, she is prescribed with prozac.

The movie was not all that apart from understanding what the world is like for a depressed person and the crazy measures they would take to escape their reality.

Banksy in Palestine

Art prankster Banksy or secretive "guerrilla" artist has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.

go to:

http://www.banksy.co.uk/news/index.html

Brilliant and Chilling!

2046

A bizarre movie...
Memories and regrets...

Excellent cinematography and I just loved the music soundtrack!

I liked how the movie made me think of things..."Sometimes you meet the right person but it's either too late or too soon"....In the 60's, secrets were about "climbing up a mountain, finding a tree, carving a hole in it, whisper a secret into it, covering it up with mud so that nobody learns about that secret".

The movie itself is about a mysterious train that takes people to the year 2046 where they search for their lost memories and a place where nobody returns and where 2046, is a time when nothing ever changes.

On a sentimental level, this movie is about the torment of emotional loneliness and regrets. A sequence of love stories between the lead actor and women . The narrator, the hero himself is a newspaper writer who also writes "2046" in the movie itself.

The movie has numerous elements of romance, sensuality, regrets, despair and where deep true feelings are kept at a silence.

"Memories are traces of tears"

I loved the movie although I could have done without the soft porn clips.

Why do people have blogs?

Clearly, it's not just a personal electronic journal. Many crave for responses, for communication with the unknowns. I myself at times crave for it. I certainly do for the thought of this blog. What is the essence of a blog?

Right now: I feel figuratively painted into a corner with a fear that the paint I don’t want to ruin will never dry. Stuck in a rut.

Is writing just our outlet? to express ourselves, to vent, to bitch, to blabber away. We have all said it numerous times within our very blogs. Are we doing some self-examination? That is all well and good.

While many of us dont know eachother personally, I believe we are a lil' blog family who can provide a little support, a little commentary, a little laughter, some music, and warm thoughts, and even prayers to eachother just based on what we write.

Many inspire others to journal and others to come here and simply soak up what they say. One could be very surprised at how much contributors mean to the blog community especially when some check in daily.

This is digital age indeed.