Rahul

Why do you travel?

2009-10-07T01:33:13Z

Nowadays i travel endlessly to find the ability to remain in one place.

rahulms @ 2009-05-18T23:27:00

2009-05-19T06:30:47Z

in the shadows of the red curtains
below the still of the city street
frozen memories of the foggy dawn
where their lips touched a life ago
she loses herself in the rhythms
up down up down
new passions to forget the time
on the other side of the moon
he stares out the grimy window
plays with shadows on the the wall.

What are you looking for?

2009-05-19T06:25:55Z

constantly we search
for something or another
why do we never find it all?

rahulms @ 2009-04-21T23:08:00

2009-04-22T06:09:53Z

they wait and count the days
for spring bloom to break
But I, dread the same
the winter for my heart.

Une Annee sans lumiere.

2008-09-23T20:17:20Z

3 years ago around this time, i was on the road, had more hair and was excited about a new life.

Music for the open road?

2008-05-20T02:39:48Z

Am looking to compile 1 or 2 CDs for road trips..
For one of those warm_drive_with_the_windows_down_on_country_roads sorta days..

Would love it if you all would recommend 2 or 3 of your fav songs each that would fit such a theme..

Am gonna start off with
Israel Kamakawiwole's version of Somewhere Over The Rainbow
Polyphonic Spree - Running away
and throw in some of S&G songs that remind me of americana.
America and Homeward bound

rahulms @ 2008-03-25T16:38:00

2008-03-25T23:38:35Z

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/black_guy_asks_nation_for_change

Come to think of it, they all make me feel uneasy.

home

2008-02-21T07:36:27Z

Rush Hour.

2008-01-17T19:09:30Z

Overheard at a coffeeshop

2008-01-06T04:12:35Z

girl: ever since 9-11, I was sure it was just the beginning of something big and was waiting for the other shoe to drop. I still am.
guy: I think something will happen once the new president comes in, because he will be soft and not like Bush and people will take advantage of that.

sometime later

guy: I would totally join the army if there was no war going on and stuff.

Apocalyptic worst-case thinking, a legacy of 2007

2008-01-06T00:31:45Z

"From global warming to obesity, bird flu to terrorism: 2007 was the year when the threat of an apocalypse became an everyday, even banal public issue. It was a year of ceaseless alarmist warnings about an ever-expanding number of calamities facing the planet." - Frank furedi writer for an online journal.

Decent european news source?

2007-12-05T00:40:20Z

can someone recommend a decent european news source to read?

Something with a resonably neutral to anti-US bias to global politics?

rahulms @ 2007-11-07T13:41:00

2007-11-07T21:42:56Z

I

like the word edgy
and the word dysfunctional
and use them both out of context
and like that too.

I also would kill to see radiohead live.

rahulms @ 2007-10-09T13:24:00

2007-10-09T20:30:53Z

Finally, change has become something that is inevitable, from something that was a gestational notion. More should follow, when the words start to flow again.

Little boxes on the hillside,Little boxes made of ticky-tacky,
Little boxes, little boxes,Little boxes, all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one,And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky,And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses, all go to the university,
And they all get put in boxes,Little boxes, all the same.
And there's doctors and there's lawyers, And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky, And they all look just the same.

I really like this!

2007-10-05T17:57:18Z

Vignette #4

2007-08-01T02:41:54Z

"There is no definitive point when all_I_can_be becomes all_I_could_have_been. Its gradual. Meanwhile I could feel it happen"

We sat around the fire under the desert sky bathed in the light from the full moon. He had long straight hair from the love era which stayed, a face too wrinkled for his age and pink glasses that reminded me of the pictures of janis joplin ive seen.The music was playing loud in the background. But the desert felt peaceful and silent.

He lit himself another.

"But all that Ive tried to be in my possible pasts defines the person I am now. So the question becomes, what all did I aspire to?..... not what I made of myself finally."

We stared silently at the people dancing in front of us.
He looked sure of everything.. the glowing butt in his hand, the music, himself..

And some absurdity too.

2007-07-18T00:38:02Z

"Once we have acknowledged the validity of the perspective of a world without values, of a life without meaning, there is no turning back. We cannot simply forget or ignore this perspective.
The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do. And even if we choose to live as if life has a meaning, as if there are reasons for doing things, the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point"
- Albert Camus

rahulms @ 2007-07-06T11:18:00

2007-07-06T18:26:36Z

La Nausee does make its way up to the surface occasionally. How can it not? I live in a plastic featureless part of the world. But am glad to have found out the few sub-cultures that make life in paradise bearable.

He yawned: he had finished the day, and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense, stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savor, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of life.
- Jean-Paul Sartre in "Age of reason".

rahulms @ 2006-10-11T05:08:00

2006-10-11T05:09:28Z

So, I can still legally ride a mule in the grand canyon.

Today I leave you with something original and something plagiarised.

2006-05-26T18:48:01Z

A good woman will pick you apart
a box full of suggestions for your possible heart

rahulms @ 2006-03-27T19:58:00

2006-03-28T03:58:38Z

Was hard to isolate and frame the empty chair.Too many distractions in the foreground, I think.

First light for my day.

2006-03-01T21:05:17Z

rahulms @ 2006-02-22T14:25:00

2006-02-22T22:26:20Z

Life is boring in regular shoes.

rahulms @ 2005-11-25T20:13:00

2005-11-26T04:14:30Z

My hands remember her,still.

rahulms @ 2005-11-23T16:11:00

2005-11-24T00:11:40Z

And then he said,
Let there be snow!