Category Archives: history
SKYFALL: the movie where Bond is Bond no more
TweetNOTE: THIS IS FOR TRUE HARDCORE BOND FANS ONLY. IF YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE GUYS WHO LIKE THIS NEW AGE BOURNE INSPIRED BOND BULLSHIT, THEN PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK. THAT ASIDE, I HAVE NOTHING PERSONALLY AGAINST BOURNE AND THINK HIS BOOKS ARE FANTASTIC (NEVER HAVE EVER SEEN ANOTHER BOOK BETTER WRITTEN THAN THE BOURNE SUPREMACY) BUT COME ON, HIS FILMS ARE SUBSTANDARD COMPARED TO HIS BOOKS BY ROBERT LUDLUM. A bit nostalgic to see the old Aston Martin, but nostalgia was taken a wee bit too far in the movie. On a completely different note, now u
War.Peace.Love
TweetWhat do you think that what did we have experienced first? War, peace or love. This question is as tough as to decide who came first among a hen and an egg. If you read the international history, one can find number of wars and then lots of peace programs followed by them. Generally we think about peace only after noticing the economic and social losses we receive as a return gift in war independent of final result. Peace is nothing but a mutual understanding not to hurt anyone. This feeling of not hurting with an outline of caring is
I Like It Loud!
Tweet“I like rock music” this simple statement makes people think I enjoy loud music with an electric guitar score, sung by skinny dudes with long unkempt hair, clothes ripped in random places, who are addicted to alcohol and a variety of drugs. First of all that is hard metal, this is only a type of rock music! Rock music is volatile and an unpredictable kind of music that has been redefined through the years since its emergence in the 1940s. In the past sixty years there emerged different kinds of rock music, classic, punk, progressive, alternative, soft, indie, disco and
I am. I think. I will
Tweet Ayn Rand’s books cannot be called likable, but then that maybe because her ideas were never conventional. Ayn Rand, a Russian-American writer is best known for her two bestselling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. She describes objectivism as the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. In all her books she condemns the idea of duty towards others, she says that, “No creator was prompted
