..and all of a sudden, i feel lost. all over again.

sometimes i recall snippets of our conversations. i draw my strength from them.

they could also be labeled as irrelevant memories.

a part of me feels scared that the memories are becoming hazy. and the other dichotomous part of me feels better to let them go.

So perhaps for now, i would like to think like Becca does in Rabbit Hole:

Somewhere out there I'm having a good time.

The MOST disappointing potter movie amongst the lot..arrrrgh.... :(

Quote of the day:

There is no shortage of ugly people in this world.

-- A

The thought can be as shallow or as deep as one would want it to be.

Over Dosing with before the 70s - 1

Audrey Hepburn:

Apart from her most famous Breakfast at Tiffany's,

* Two for the Road - ten years of marriage on rocks, a couple take their usual road trip across France and reminisce about their previous road trips. one of the earliest movies to experiment with non-linear screenplay.

* The Children's Hour - two women who run a private school for young girls are suddenly accused of having an "unnatural relationship" between them. eventually they lose the school and their personal relationships with others. this was 1960s when the word "lesbian" could not be used in mainstream media. so, the euphemism.

Katherine Hepburn:

* Bringing Up Baby - a screwball comedy with a paleontologist trying to find a bone, getting involved with a free-spirited woman with her own brand of logic and a leopard named "baby".

* The Philadelphia Story - another screwball comedy with the same cast as above (sans the leopard ;)), this movie explores the comedy of remarriage. a wealthy, hard-nosed socialite's second marriage plans are thrown off-rails with the arrival of her ex-husband and an attractive journalist. there is a delightful scene of husband punching the wife in exasperation and moving out of the marriage.

*Guess Who is Coming to Dinner - one of the most iconic movies when racism was still very much there in america and inter-racial marriages were uncommon. brilliant cast of Hepburn, Sidney Poiter and Spencer Tracy. perhaps the movie feels more poignant as this was Tracy's last movie and he died 17 days after completion of the movie. it also brought an end to one of the most beautiful off-screen relationships of Tracy and Hepburn.

Bette Davis:

* Now, Voyager - an unattractive and repressed spinster who is constantly berated by her dominating and wealthy mother. she finally comes into her own when she is taken away from her mother and sent to a recuperating home and subsequently a cruise where she falls in love. this movie has one of the most iconic scenes where the man lights two cigarettes in his mouth, lights both and passes one to his woman.

Liz Taylor:

*Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - a wife's predicament in her marriage - trying to save her crumbling marriage to a man who might have had a homosexual relationship with his best friend, and whose death he thinks he is responsible for, dealing with his alcohol, while at the same time trying to patch up his relationship with his father so that they can inherit his fortune. quite a movie on greed, superficiality, moral decay, sexual desire and foibles of the human nature.

*A Place in the Sun - a young working class man who gets entangled with two beautiful women, one of them being a beautiful and wealthy socialite. and his plans to climb the social ladder is thwarted by the other woman who is pregnant with his child. a tale of love and ambition gone haywire.

How do you capture a place ?

There is something to be said about a person by the way he or she captures a certain place or a city.

* As a tourist, putting-up the typical tourist attractions. The Statue of Liberty at NYC, the Eiffel Tower at Paris, the White House at DC. the "patel" points. are they subconsciously giving a proof that they have visited a particular place ? these pictures usually carry the caption of that place.

* As an advertisement of their own self. in my own words, "modelling" in front of a place. bust shots, full lengths, profiles. the photo would have no distinct feature of the place they are visiting. it could just as well be their own backyard. such pictures usually do not come with caption. wouldn't make sense to say: "Hard Rock Cafe at NYC" if 90% of the pictures consists of you and the rest is too blurry or dark to differentiate between a cafe and the dining area of your apartment.

* As a traveler. these are the ones which are results of astute observations of a place. the person may even capture the usual tourist spot at a different angle. and the captions are usually interesting and well described. i have often spied on random people's photos of places that i have visited, just to see how they view a particular place.

Disclaimer: i may be accused of psychoanalyzing. but it really is just an observation and a personal opinion.

Laughter

Pic courtesy: Google Images.

Laughing for not much reason whatsoever. Laughing till the eyes water and I clutch my stomach with pain. I wait for the uncontrollable bout to stop, wait for a few seconds, try hard to stem the flow and then end-up starting afresh. Laughing so much that I even forget why I was laughing. The worries, pain, hurt, sadness all goes away for those precious moments.

I will be alright as long as I have laughter and grace.