vindaloo

Gosh Ron Howard sucks...how can a book this popular be made into a movie this uninteresting. Now Now, I know of his past prowess, but it just goes to prove that success does not come merely based of reputation.
I know people are going to tell me that it was the biggest grosser, but monetary gains are not what make a movie great. Tom Hanks is a waste in the movie, you could have picked an upcoming actor and he could have acted boring in the movie.
The reason the movie has earned so much money is that a whole bunch of lazy illiterate people who dont want to read the book went and watched the movie instead. What with all the various organisations protesting the release of the movie. How dumb is that. The book is aldready out, every channel on earth has a gazillion interviews and trailers running about the movie.
Its not like people dont know the theme of the movie. What then is the purpose behind preventing people from watching fiction.
I guess the movie came out at a wrong time. I mean everyone has just finished reading the book, theres no way the movie would be able to compete with the book. Add to that the media hype and it was a sad movie waiting to happen.
Well atleast he tried and failed miserably. This is the second time I have been duoped based on the directors credentials Oliver stone was the prior culprit.
I prefer all those documentaries on discover there cover more material and look more realistic.

Attended a concert yesterday, well not really a concert cause it was a recording of a concert that David Gilmour played in London, sort of a promo for his new album The island. The show was called Sounds and Voice of Pink Floyd. It is typical of David to cache on the Pink Floyd Name. But then he has lended his sound to the band, and of course there is no way I miss anything even remotely connected to Floyd. Fortunately we bought tickets ahead of time, cause the show was sold out.
I was happy to see a mixture of youth and elderly people in the crowd, proves to me that people with a taste for good music do exist in the current generation and not everybody likes to hear a masochist screaming shake that booty and skeet skeet. The musical intelligentsia is not dead.
The music of the new album is good, David seems to be in denial about the fact that the first song sounds very similar to Shine On You Crazy diamond.
Once the show got going it was great and david di not dissapoint, after a few of the new tracks he got down to playing Floyd, it helped for a fact that Richard Wright was accompanying his band on the keyboards. Now olny if he can get waters and mason to tour with him thatd be awesome.
He did a couple of songs from the division bell and it was sublime, listening to David to play the guitar is like laying in paradise. He switches from a normal guitar to the slide version so easily and him playing the slide guitar is sheer ecstasy. And yesterday I finally gave credit to a long due floydian for the haunting background scores that he made all these years, yeah the ever so forgetable Wright.
Missed Waters on the vocals, and also he is a much better lyricist than any of the others in the band could ever be.
My one true wish hope it comes true is to watch Floyd in concert. I have seen waters perform and will watch him again in September, but i long to watch if not the most elegant one of the best Guitarist Gilmour glide his fingers over a guitar.

Wish You were here.