I AM The Universe: Random Thoughts

I saw Dead Poets Society last night. And all the while, I couldn’t stop thinking.. Dude! Robert Sean Leonard hasn’t changed a bit!! Even when he was riding a bike, it was like watching Dr.Wilson ride a bike!

Some of my favorite parts of the script:

The Dead Poets Society Introduction: I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life … to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Hopkins: The cat sat on the mat.

Keating: Congratulations, Mr. Hopkins, yours is the first poem to have a negative score on the Pritchard scale. We’re not laughing at you. We’re laughing near you. I don’t mind that your poem had a simple theme. Sometimes the most beautiful poetry can be about simple things, like a cat or a flower or rain. Poetry can come from anything with the stuff of revelation in it. Just don’t let your poems be ordinary.

Keating: Now we all have a great need for acceptance, but you must trust that your beliefs are unique, your own, even though others may think them odd or unpopular. Even though the heard may go ” That’s bad.” Robert Frost said, ” Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and I, I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.” I want you to find your own walk right now, your own way of striding, pacing: any direction, anything you want. Whether it’s proud or silly. Anything. *everybody starts walking differently* Gentlemen, the courtyard is yours. You don’t have to perform. Just make it for yourself. Mr. Dalton, will you be joining us?

Charles: Exercising the right not to walk.

Keating: Thank you, Mr. Dalton. You just illustrated the point. Swim against the stream.

Okay, I just came back from watching The Time Travelers Wife, and I have to say, it was one of the most romantic movies I’ve seen lately! Pity that I watched it with two other guys, which made it a little bit uncomfortable But it was an awesome movie! Anyone who hasn’t already seen it, watch it now! Oh and oh! Rachel McAdams looks absolutely stunning!

Though the thing is – the movie is named The Time Travelers Wife, but most of the story actually focuses on the guy, which isn’t really fair. Not because of the naming, but because in the set fantasy, she’d be the one more affected of the two. But anyway, wicked cool movie!

I was tagged by Sania.

I Rule, You Rule, We Rule
The idea is, to list five items in each category and not necessarily in order of liking. You can always add or subtract categories according to your will. Then tag five lovely people to be the next ones to take this quiz.

Favorite Words:

1. Ustaaaad!
2. Chal naa!!
3. Sweetheart (sigh… always gets me into trouble )
4. Riiight!
5. Insaan ban!!

Favorite characters (Fiction) :

1. Alan Shore (The guy from Boston Legal)
2. House (The guy from House? )
3. Dorian Gray
4. Skynet (DUH!! )
5. Winston Smith

Words That Must Be Banned :

1. Kindly (I hate reading this word in emails)
2. Ab-sir (Yeah you heard me!)
3. One more (I hate it when you can’t feel your pecs and the trainer keeps screaming this at you!)
4. Grow up! (You know I’m not gonna! )
5. Pop corn!!!!! (Guys should not be allowed to scream pop corn!! at the movies! It’s embarrassing! )

Favorite One Liners :

1. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
2. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
3. Everybody lies. The only variable is about what.
4. C’est la vie! (Gives you the luxury of believing in cause, even when there is no reason)
5. Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum. (I think I think, therefore I think I am.)

Favorite Movies:

1. Hors de Prix
2. Angel-A (I like this despite the tooty fruity ending! )
3. Anastasia (Oooohhh!!!! Best movie ever made)
4. Gone with the Wind
5. Roman Holiday (Ooh Audrey Hepburn!!!)
6. The Reader (Bonus movie! )

Favorite Music:

1. Coldplay – Lost (Just because I’m losing, doesn’t mean I’ve lost)
2. Sarah McLachlan – Dear God
3. Staind – Epipany (Amazing lyrics)
4. Train – Ordinary
5. Evanescence – Good Enough
6. Lacuna Coil – To The Edge (There’s a frame I can change, I just have to watch again!)

And I think everyone I know has either already been tagged, or doesn’t like being tagged So, if you’re reading this and would like to do it, consider yourself tagged!

I sat down to watching Gone With The Wind this past week, and the first thing on my mind was… well, the second thing actually, because the first thing on my mind was how many people Vivien Leigh slapped throughout the movie So, the second thing on my mind was how much Vivien Leighs character through the first half of the movie reminded me of someone I knew a long time back. And that was a long first half, considering that the movie itself is close to four hours long.

So Vivien Leighs character – Scarlet – she was a playful lady, but not truly a lady in the deepest sense of the word. To her, like most, relationships were more about conquest than emotion. She was a woman who, till the very end, having defeated melancholy and hunger and depravation, still didn’t know what she wanted. The last scene, where Vivien is going over and over I need to make him stay, I need to think! But I can’t think! I’ll think about it tomorrow! that was one of the most touching parts of the movie!

Any of you guys who hasn’t seen this movie yet, you really, really have to see it! Man movies in those days used to have class!!

Rhett (to Scarlet when she confesses how sorry she was about some of the things she had done to her deceased husband): If you had it all to do over again, you do don’t differently. You’re like the thief who isn’t the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he’s going to jail.

Rhett (sarcastically, falling to one knee, proposing to Scarlet shortly after her husbands death): Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett. I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. But it cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have felt for you has ripened into a deeper feeling. A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it? Can it be love?
Scarlet: Get up off your knees! I don’t like your common jokes!
Rhett: This is an honorable proposal of marriage made at what I consider a most opportune moment. I can’t go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

Rhett (after Scarlet says yes): I am not in love with you any more than you are with me. Heaven help the man who ever really loves you!

Rhett: Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn!

My favorite moments from my most-loved movie ever, Anastasia. I couldn’t sleep the night that I watched this movie. And that was a winter night – in Habshan! Not a very pleasant experience.