Starlight

Slash – check. Awesome fun, and did I tell you I am majorly in lust with Myles Kennedy.
This one stuck by, even after the concert, for reasons unknown. This one’s for you, child:

You will see as the mountains fall and turn to dust
That there’s one thing that won’t change
I believe there’s something within each of us that always stays
That will always remain as long as love never fades

And the acoustic one, which I don’t dig much, but pasted here for completeness.

Madhuri Madness

There is undoubtedly a serious Madhuri Mania going around town. Five people in the past three days have put something Madhuri related on Facebook, and I have diligently put ‘like’ on each of them. It’s like the world is going through a phase of having a collective crush on her. For me, it’s back to school days I was really mad about her. I would pray that they played more Madhuri songs on Rangoli and Chitrahaar, and I still have the India Today with her on the cover. She even made that hideous blingy saree of HAHK look good. And looking at her after all these years, just flashing a smile here and there, I feel that crush coming back, and I grin from ear to ear when I spot her on screen. (Someone random once told me I smile like her, and I am still preening from that compliment. Like really!)

I think of the reason why the mania has come about, and I think it’s her grace, her dignity and her quiet exit from the space where she was once the queen, which is a stark contrast to current bunch of catty actors (and senior actors as well?). I think people are just exhausted from the bitchiness and twitter-this and blog-that, and she’s just the breath of fresh air and sunshine that was prescribed.

And then there the way she dances. Move aside Munni and Sheila, this one just doesn’t move her arms and legs and thrust her bust in our face, she really puts in joy even when she does the movements sitting in her chair. To dance from the very spirit, that joy is something to learn from.

Watch this, here, because, well you should.

I think I should stop now.