Across the Universe

Cinema Paradiso

Everything I know I learnt in an old movie theatre
Indore's summer spreading over our backs like butter
and I five years old
I learnt:

Lust

Seduction

Love

Longing

Sadness

Drugs (heehee)

The Dark Side

Family

Motherhood

Friendship

Action

More Action

Begum Akhtar sang my dreams to sleep
Jadugar Anand was the talk of the town
Hot winds from the desert would keep us hiding in our house for days
or running to the theatre where it was cold.
Now it's a multiplex.
"pretty paradise to put up a parking lot"

Black holes and Revelations

fishbones and feet

High and Dry

somewhere in tamil nadu- 2006

I cannot rest from travel.
I will leave.
Soon.

your body is at home in every sea

Blame it on the black star

"Certain creatures of the air
Frightened by the night
they came to see the world again
and perished in the light

And now I sail from sky to sky
and all the blackness sings
against the boat i have made
of mutilated wings"
-leonard cohen

at the end of this sentence
rain will begin

"Say this city has ten million souls,
Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes:
Yet there's no place for us, my dear, yet there's no place for us"
W.H.Auden

'Thoughts meander like a
restless wind inside a letter box
they tumble blindly as
they make their way
Across the Universe'

trips to post offices in vain
moons
mirrors
maps
mysteries
ladybugs on glass
why I do what I do
I know not
(treasure hunts
where rain is born).
.
I am pulled
like the tide
to the moon magnet.

Dark eyes
and sweet sighs
little boys in a womans disguise.

Tales from Topographic Oceans 2

more fiddling with photoshop I did
and this was the result.
If you go across the ocean
I'll send you this with much devotion.
Who am I speaking to?
No one.
Because I have no one to send postcards to across the ocean.
I like sending postcards :( and making them
*sniff*

Teach your children well

little girl in school
rather fascinated with all me feathers and bells
said
"Are you a magician?"
'Maybe', I replied.
:)

Tales from Topographic Oceans

Some stuff Ive been doing on photoshop
Pretty postcards they would make

Woman

Shes from the Haalaki Tribe near Honnavar
her name?
Shukri
Whilst working with her over a span of four days
discovering her art, her life and her being
Many myths were broken
many moments shared
She too, like me, loved shells above all things as a child.
She played with soil and simplicity.
When I asked her what she thought of me sitting in my jeans infront of her
she said in her native tongue:
"Won't it be difficult crossing the river in those?"
I had to agree.

1st Feb

Hoppitty Birthday to me :)

Before:

After:

Now that I'm eighteen:
I can drive a car
(contact me if in need for a ride)
I can legally marry
(contact me if in need for a bride)
I can vote
(get in touch if you need some support)
I can drink
(as if thats ever stopped me-watch me float)
Yippeedoodunklesfrumples!

Crow

Crow thought 'Alas
Alas ought I
To stop eating
And try to become the light?'

Jesus with Dirty Feet

Or maybe its just me.
.
.
Ps- Loving Indiranagar. I can take autos. The convenience brings great joy.
Making New Rainbows in new room.
I shall complain no more. :)

Totisimba totifruity happy birthdaybop

Totisimba totifruity happy birthdaybop
i really do love you dear-
you know thats true
doowop. *hug* the hippie twenty three trippy i love you dear-doowop.
I'll make you cake and drink some yippie
(hows the view from the top?)
i think this rhyme must stop.
Gej
Fej
Love
Monkey
Happy birthday
doo-wop.
I'll see you at home.

Kvlt a?
Do one moonwalk for me again no? :)
*thriller..thriller night *

this toto photo taken when he came to school drunk . hehehe :)
many thanks to his classmates for these pictures :)

"you're squawking like a pink monkey bird
And I'm busting up my brains for the words"
david bowie

A break from broken images.
for an update.
and a little venting this evening.

Once again our family of three packs our life into boxes and moves to another home. Whitefield to Indiranagar (oh no I've revealed my location to serpents and stalkers. Sigh!)
the 10th house in 11 years of breathing in this city.
I crave stability. Physical stability if nothing else.
My room. "The lions den"
was like a rainbow. I had fairy lights hanging from the ceiling like stars made of colours that were always on.
I've had a blue wall, an ochre wall and finally a plum wall.
All painted with me two hands.. There were papier mache mexican dolls that I made sitting all around me. Posters. Paintings. Lyrics.
The handprints of friends and lovers.
pieces of broken mirrors on the walls reflecting the light.
pieces of the ocean (shells.testubes of sand).
My little carnival of souls and squiggly worms!
SIGH!

Ofcourse one can recreate it and all but its so damn frustrating.
I'm tired of losing homes and I'm tired of losing people.
Gah!
though indiranagar promises to do wonders for my social life,I am annoyed.
:(:(
~
Come for Toto Funds the Arts' evening of two performances
'The Army Doesn’t Need You' ,a new play by Ajay Krishnan
translated into Hindi and read by Amrit Bakshi and Nakul Krishna
&
'Mad Man’s Dream'
based on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
enacted by Anish Victor
at CFD (centre for film and drama)
(5th Floor, Sona Towers, 71 Millers Road, Bangalore 52)
Date: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 at 7.00 pm
COME TOGETHER.
totis birthday is coming up too. I will make/bake/fake cake. people must come eat it. or regret forever.
~

I need to buy myself my own camera. I dont want to have to use borrowed lenses anymore. :(
I want a puppy. more than anything. i met a brown stray puppy a while ago and called her lakshmi. there are more puppies near my house. they are black and white and live in a gutter. I call them my gutterpuppies and feed them rotis. they like rotis. I like them.
Enough for today. More later.
Toodles and Noodles.
and have a goodengrinkle newyear.

" Oh, who did you meet, my blue-eyed son?
Who did you meet, my darling young one?
I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a black dog,
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard, it's a hard,
It's a hard rain's a-gonna fall."

his name is rajendra. he showed me my future.
i met him on the beach as he made sandcastles and offered to help him
build and rebuild everytime the waves would wash our fortress away.
he is five. maybe six. He didnt seem too sure. but he did introduce me to a crab.
he gave me a tarot card. but thats another story.

Motorcycle Diaries

That's all the motorcycle is, a system of concepts worked out in steel.
~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Driftwood

'Untrampled Footsteps
Borderline dreams
Occasion for sinners
Alive as it seems
Given to wander
Alone at the shore
Wanton to whisper
'I am no more''
jim morisson

Me taken by ganjesh meow on my Dali beach on the tamilnadu coast.
Where is it?
I'll never tell.
But I could show you if you followed me.

"Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled"
bored and intoxicated
done on photoshop.
muchos thanks to polkameow for the quote

Moon Shiva

Moon Shiva
Moody Shiva
One sleepy morning in pondi I felt randomly inspired to wear flowers in my hair.
A sleepier friend (who is also my blackcatganjeshmeow aka Boodi billi)
decides to whip out her camera
and capture me on film
when we saw the pictures
we realized
I WAS TURNING INTO A GOD
(shiva to be precise)
it also proved to be a documentation of the moods of Shiva
they are:

Dopey Happy------- Grumpy-------- Sleepy Bashful

we feel that we have missed out on two documentations of moods. sneezy perhaps?
after this we ate apples(non poisoned variety)
click it for exact expressionism
and then bow down to me