A Tag

5 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 11:21 PM

A tag, which I picked up from tales of a lone wolf
1. Pick out a scar you have, and explain how you got it.
Ok 35 stitches on my back ......... fell of a rock formation called a balcony while trying to climb the cliff. have one stitch for every feet i fell, was paralysed and bed ridden for a year, had to learn all those things that we do when we are one year old all over again. twelve across my chest on the right side when while mountain bikin on my cycle the fron wheel came off and the handle bar twisted round and the brake lever went in thru the front of my chest and come out the side
and about a dozen or so inside my nose for the times when i break it and my friends dad , an amazing ENT surgeon has to set it right again so that it does wahts it is meant to do namely breath

2. What does your phone look like?
moto slivr L6 silver color screen and handy tuff

3. What is on the walls of your bedroom?
Nothing ...............

4. What is your current desktop picture?
oner of my graphics art works ........ that i made for friend on photoshop

5. Do you believe in gay marriage?
Why not. to each his own

6. What do you want more than anything right now?
I want to chase sunsets ........... and race across the world


7. Last person who made you cry?
don’t remember, people don’t usually make me cry. well some one did but dont want to talk about it. but learnt one thing don't give some one so much power over you that they can hurt u

9. What is your favorite perfume/cologne?
Addidas sport

10. What are you listening to?
Golden Earrings, Bon jovi, Gratefull dead, moby, jesse mccartney

11. Do you get scared of the dark?
nope

12. Do you like pain killers?
hate when im forced to take them . but the help reing in the cronic back pains i suffer when the weather changes

13. Are you too shy to ask someone out?
Nope nada neyt

14. If you could eat anything right now, what would it be?
hm........ what about Caramel rum and raisins cake my moms recipe

15. Who was the last person who made you mad?
Stupid clients

16. Who was the last person who made you smile?
Vishuruti

17. Is someone in love with you?
No idea and i hope to god that, that isnt the case

A Tribute To a Hero

1 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 10:52 PM

Jeremy Clarkson's tribute to Steve Fosset

I spent some of my summer holiday on a small Caribbean island. Created by a volcanic burp at some point in our ever-changing world's past, it was what most people would consider to be paradise.

Surrounded entirely by the sort of sea you normally find in airbrushed travel brochures, it was ringed by an uninterrupted
sliver of perfectly white, perfectly deserted beach and, further out,
a tropical reef blah blah Jacques Cousteau blah blah etc.

There were no hotels and the only other house I could see from ours belonged to Bruce Willis.

Hopefully, you have a mental picture of the scene because now we move onto the meat and potatoes. You see, the island in question was only a few miles long and a few miles wide. So how do you get about?

It's too far to walk from the one shop to the little dock where people keep their boats. But it would be ridiculous to drive. And so, while there is one pick-up truck - used to pull boats out of the water when a hurricane is coming - the residents move around in a collection of communal golf buggies.

It's all very communist. You help yourself to a cart and then, if you're the last to use it at night, you have to plug it into the mains and charge it up.

Brilliant. No noise, no fumes, no pollution, no jams, no sense that Bruce's golf cart is bigger than mine and I must respond. And of course, absolutely no chance of anyone being even slightly killed...

You'd think. But that ain't necessarily so because, you see, sticking its oar into this Liberal Democrat's idea of heaven comes something called youthful exuberance. Mix that with a T-junction and someone's going to need the flying doctor.

If the golf buggy had had an engine, the person going the other way would have heard it coming. But it didn't. So he came round the bush, and bang. Of course, you may argue that a golf buggy can only do 15mph and that no harm can come to a driver at this speed. True enough.

But when it has a head-on with another buggy, also travelling at 15mph you have a 30mph impact. Doesn't sound like much? Really? Well try running face first into a wall and then send me an email explaining how things turned out.

Did the accident bring everyone to their senses? Yes... we thought. But wait, what's this? Why, it's a teenager attempting to do a donut in his buggy. And over there, there's an 11-year-old trying to jump his over an iguana.

This is the problem, the concept that our friends in the yellow and green parties just can't seem to understand. That for some, taking risks is fun.Of course, they'll say that the people I'm talking about are yobs. They'll point to someone called Darren in a Nova, doing handbrake turns in a Tesco car park. But me?
Well I'll point to Steve Fossett.

As I write, the American adventurer is missing in the Nevada desert. There are fears that he's crashed his plane and that he's dead. It'll be a terrible shame if it is true, because Steve to me is what the baby Jesus is to the Archbishop of Canterbury.

I met him once many years ago and he didn't really fit the profile. I knew, from reading his biography, that he'd made a fortune on Wall Street and since retiring had raced at Le Mans, swum the Channel and beaten the world speed record for crossing the Pacific in a sail boat.

So I was expecting him to be a cross between Gordon Gekko, Thomas Crown and the Terminator. I was expecting him to break every bone in my fingers when we shook hands and for him to slap me on the back with such force that my spine was shattered.

This turned out to be wrong. "Can you tell me where Steve Fossett is?" I said to a man in tatty combat trousers, sweeping the floor in a big aeroplane hanger. "That's me," he said quietly.

He was a rubbish interview, stammering and not quite being able to enunciate what drove him. But when the cameras were off and we were just chatting, he was funny, extremely kind and driven by a quest for adventure so powerful that if you took out his soul, it could be used to light the world.

Since our meeting, he's gone properly berserk, setting 23 world sailing records and nine distance race records. And when he breaks a record, he doesn't do things by halves: when he crossed the Atlantic in 113 hours, he shattered the previous record by nearly two days.

Most people would have had their work cut out keeping ahead of the game in the world of sailing. But not Steve. Because during this time, he set a new record for crossing America in a non military jet. His average speed was 726mph.

And then he turned round, went back to the West coast and set a Transcontinental record for turbo props. Then he broke the record for crossing Australia. And then he broke one for flying round the world. Of seven world records for fixed-wing aircraft, Steve has three.

I have nowhere near finished.On top of this, he's broken 10 of the 21 world records for gliding. He's gone further than anyone else and he's been higher. 50, 727 feet. And then, just last year, he got back into a powered plane and flew round the world again without refuelling in 76 hours and 45 minutes. The longest flight in history.

He has competed in several triathlons, is one of only eight men to have done all of the world's 10 toughest ski races, he has done the 1,165-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska and he has piloted an airship at 71.5mph. Another absolute world record.

And I haven't even got to the ballooning yet. He was the first to cross the Pacific in a balloon and, after six attempts, the first to go all the way round the world. You get the impression he's circumnavigated the globe more often than most 747 pilots. Oh, and he's climbed six of the world's seven highest mountains.

He disappeared while on a flight looking for somewhere in Nevada where he could break the land-speed record. He had the car, 47-feet long and powered by an afterburning jet engine from a Phantom F4. He just needed somewhere to drive it.

A menace? A one-man carbon snowshoe? I don't think so. I dislike using the word 'hero' because I think it should be mainly reserved for soldiers. Or at the very least, people who risk their lives to help others. But in a way, that's exactly what Steve Fossett did. He risked his life to show that there's still some hope in the Liberal Democrat's stupid vision of a perfect golf-buggy-and-cotton-wool world.

At the very least, that makes him an inspiration.

F1's new star - and it's not the champ

1 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 2:01 AM


F1's new star - and it's not the champ
By Andrew Benson

Hamilton's good looks only added to his wide appealHe did not win the world title, in the most heart-breaking of fashions, but Lewis Hamilton has changed the face of Formula One this year. In fact, it is fair to say he has become it.
For a driver in his first year in the sport, that is an incredible feat. But then there seems to be nothing about the 22-year-old English phenomenon that is not incredible.
As the former world champion Damon Hill has said, no-one has ever seen a rookie like Hamilton. And if that sounds like hyperbole given the drivers who have come before Hamilton, it is not. It is a simple statement of fact.
First of all, there is the world championship. No driver in his first year had even come close before.
And although Hamilton did not win it, many will argue he deserved it more than anyone, even in a year when there were three worthy champions.
Part of that is obviously down to the fact that he has had the car to do it, but it is not just about the car.
The weird thing was when we got there there were all these celebrities - and yet I seemed to be the main attraction
Lewis Hamilton on attending a party with rap star P DiddyThere were two McLarens at each race this season, and the other one was being driven by Fernando Alonso, double world champion, the youngest champion ever, the man who unseated Michael Schumacher, and undoubtedly an all-time great.
Hamilton did not just beat Alonso; he got under his skin.
The battle between the two men was close - and it may even have been closer had the Spaniard been able to separate his emotions from his profession more effectively.
The reason he could not was that he was unable to cope with the fact that, more often than not, he was simply not as fast as the man in the other car.
No-one had been faster than Alonso before - and this guy was a rookie.
No wonder he found it hard to deal with. No wonder, as he sought to protect his position, he ended up in a dispute with his McLaren bosses that seems to have made his position at the team untenable.
That is as stark a demonstration of the level of Hamilton's talent as any.
And it is his ability that accounts for a lot of his appeal.

The media loved Hamilton - and he cleverly used them to his endsHe is fast, aggressive, confident, unfazed. People know the real deal when they see it - and Hamilton is definitely that. He has also demonstrated an almost boyish enthusiasm for driving a racing car on the limit.
But that is not the only reason Hamilton's appeal has transcended F1's traditional fan base.
He is young, cool, strikingly good-looking, and the first driver of Afro-Caribbean origin in a traditionally very conservative sporting environment.
These attributes have taken Hamilton himself - and by extension F1 - into unfamiliar territory.
Hamilton's potential to cut through F1's traditional demographic into new areas was apparent by early summer, by which time he was already leading the championship.
Before the British Grand Prix in July, he was playing golf when he got a call on his mobile phone inviting him to a party with the rap mogul P Diddy.
"The weird thing was," Hamilton recalls, "when we got there there were all these celebrities - and yet I seemed to be the main attraction."
He has also become friends with the pop singer Beyonce, and another rap star, Pharrell Williams.
Despite his entry into the world of celebrity, Hamilton's appeal is that he is clearly not the son of privilege.
He grew up, as he puts it, "in a one-bedroomed flat in Hatfield [in Hertfordshire] and in a council flat in Stevenage".
His grandparents emigrated from Grenada. And while his father, Anthony, now runs a successful IT business, he started out as a humble British Rail employee, who took redundancy so he could spend more time helping his son's burgeoning career.
That career started, as do those of so many Grand Prix drivers, in karting, where Hamilton's incredible ability was spotted from a very early age.

Alonso and Hamilton were closely matched as driversBut ability only takes you so far in sport - you have to have the determination, ambition, application and confidence to maximise it.
Hamilton has those qualities in abundance, too.
In an incident that has already passed into sporting folklore, at the age of 10 he introduced himself at an awards ceremony to Ron Dennis, the boss of the McLaren team, and said he wanted to drive for him one day.
Impressed, Dennis kept an eye on this precocious little boy, and within two years had signed him up.
Dennis's decision has paid dividends for Hamilton.
He has had the best equipment on his way up the motor racing ladder, and providing it cost McLaren millions. But the deal was two-way. They would continue funding him only as long as he delivered - and he has never stopped.
In three years' time, he'll have his own place in Monaco and be on his fifth supermodel girlfriend, but they'll be distractions
David CoulthardRed Bull Formula One driverThat tutelage by McLaren meant Hamilton arrived in F1, as Jackie Stewart pointed out, as the best prepared driver in history. And the legendary Scot was not just talking about in the cockpit.
Some of Hamilton's remarks this year about the way his life has changed make him appear like a wide-eyed ingénue, and there is something of the choirboy about his image.
Yet the reality is somewhat different. Hamilton is no angel.
On the track, he has been as ruthless as anyone. And off it, even at the age of 22, he has proved adept at navigating the murky political waters of a sport that Dennis famously described as "The Piranha Club".
Hamilton has been anything but an innocent in the unravelling of Alonso's public image. In fact, before his win in the Japanese Grand Prix, Hamilton seemed to be carrying out a carefully calculated campaign to totally discredit his team-mate's personality.
It seemed to work when Hamilton won masterfully in the rain at Fuji while Alonso crashed out, putting the new-boy on the brink of the world title.

Hamilton was not flawless, as this off in China provedBut it backfired when Hamilton himself made a crucial mistake a week later in China, to put Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen right back into the title picture.
As a result, it is already too late for Hamilton to maintain a squeaky-clean image, which is probably just as well.
F1 is, after all, a hard sport, full of hard men. Its demands tease out the extremes of all its participants' characters, and maintaining the impression of angelic innocence is impossible.
But Hamilton will have to think carefully about how he wants to be perceived before he continues making similar remarks - or he risks being tarred with the same brush he was using to paint Alonso.
Hamilton has also talked about his belief in God, saying: "I feel quite safe on the track. I know He's always looking after me."
And he has added: "I never think about being killed on the track at all. I don't have any fear out there."
I feel quite safe on the track. I know He's always looking after me
Lewis Hamilton discusses his faithRemarks like this are unusual for a racing driver, most of whom are strongly aware of the risks of what they do, even if they like not to think about them too much.
And they make Hamilton sound like a cross between Ayrton Senna, whose religious beliefs were combined with a strong sense of his own mortality, and Gilles Villeneuve, the daredevil Ferrari driver, who used to say he "had no fear of a crash".
Villeneuve and Senna were both extremely brave and skilful, and their total commitment to their craft won them millions of fans. But they both died at the wheel of a Formula One car, and no-one wants the same fate to befall Hamilton.
It is not just an attitude that Hamilton shares with Villeneuve and Senna, though, for already it is clear his talent is from the same bracket. He is so good that already it is clear he is likely to dominate F1 for years to come.
Assuming a competitive car - and when you are as good as Hamilton, that sort of thing more or less takes care of itself - the only thing that could stop him is dealing with the trappings of fame.

Hamilton and Alonso had a difficult relationship this yearAs David Coulthard puts it: "Three years from now, the penny will drop and he'll say: 'God, I didn't realise how easy it was in that first season.'
"By then, he'll have his own place in Monaco and be on his fifth supermodel girlfriend, but they'll be distractions. The key to his success will be how he reacts to those diversions and difficulties."
So far, though, Hamilton appears to be in control.
In fact, one of the most impressive aspects of him has been his coolness during a rookie season in which he has beaten the best driver in the world in equal cars at the same time as watching his team become embroiled in a spying scandal that threatened not only his title bid, but that team's very existence.
And if he can handle everything that has thrown at him, there seems little reason to believe he will not be able to handle everything else.
He might not have won the title - and for now that will be painful indeed. But there is little doubt that Lewis Hamilton will be Formula One world champion in the future.

Review Hamilton part 1

1 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 10:36 AM

The 2007 formula one season began very much like any other. The teams had done their pre-season showing off of their new cars and announced their new driver lineup, however one team stood out. McLaren Mercedes announced their number two driver was a young Englishman by the name of Lewis Hamilton. Few people had heard of him until now and fewer expected what was to come.


Australia


The first race of the season and Lewis Hamilton qualifies 4th on in debut grand prix. Finishing only three tenths of a second behind team mate and reigning world champion Fernando Alonso he expressed his delight:


"I'm overwhelmed to be on the second row for my first Grand Prix," said Hamilton. "This weekend is what I have been preparing myself for during the past 13 years and I'm enjoying every moment. I think we are in with a good chance in the race."


The relationship between the two McLaren drivers began on a high note with Alonso quoted as saying "I'm pleased that Lewis is right up there with me which puts us both in the best position to score points for ourselves and the team, I can't wait for the race."


Living up to the massive hype surround Lewis Hamilton's entry into Formula one he managed to pull off a podium finish in his first race, finishing third behind Ferrari's Kimi Raikonnen and team mate Alonso.


Malaysia


Having qualified fourth on the grid Lewis finished in a respectable second place, managing to keep the Ferraris at bay and help team mate Alonso secure a race win and also completing McLarens first one-two since the Brazilian GP in 2005.


"That was the most difficult race I have ever had...I had Kimi hunting me down for most of the race. I can't explain how tough that was, it was getting hotter but I had to keep pushing and I made no mistakes."


Bahrain


LH qualified second between the two Ferraris with Alonso starting from fourth place. Hamilton pressured Massa for most of the race and eventually finished in second place to become the first man to take podiums in his first three grand prix.


Spain


Another second place in Spain mean't Lewis Hamilton was now leading the championship, just four races into his F1 career. He managed to keep team mate Alonso behind him to go two points clear in the title chase. Lewis was quoted as saying "Things just keep getting better and I continue living my dream" while things are not going so well for the reigning champion as the chance of winning his home GP disappeared as he tried to overtake Massa in the first corner, damaging his car.


Monaco


Things start to go right for Alonso as he manages to beat team mate and win the Monaco GP for the second year in a row. Hamilton settles for second place, saying "I knew we were both extremely quick, so I could only apply pressure, but he's a two-time world champion and he doesn't really make mistakes".


Canada


Lewis dominated qualifying and took his first pole position. In only his sixth race Hamilton drives his way to his first GP win after a race full of drama and incidents. Confidently Hamilton says "I've been ready for this for quite some time, ready for the win - it was just a matter of where and when". Meanwhile things weren't going so well for Alonso, finishing only 7th USA.


100 best movies of all times

0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 10:59 AM

  1. Casablanca (1942), dir. Michael Curtiz
  2. The Godfather Part II (1974), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  3. North By Northwest (1959), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  4. Citizen Kane (1941), dir. Orson Welles
  5. Lawrence of Arabia (1962), dir. David Lean
  6. Manhattan (1979), dir. Woody Allen
  7. Gone With The Wind (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
  8. Chinatown (1974), dir. Roman Polanski
  9. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), dir. John Ford
  10. City Lights (1931), dir. Charles Chaplin
  11. Raging Bull (1980), dir. Martin Scorsese
  12. Sunset Boulevard (1950), dir. Billy Wilder
  13. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), dir. Stanley Kubrick
  14. The Philadelphia Story (1940), dir. George Cukor
  15. To Have and Have Not (1944), dir. Howard Hawks
  16. The Graduate (1967), dir. Mike Nichols
  17. The Maltese Falcon (1941), dir. John Huston
  18. Star Wars (1977), dir. George Lucas
  19. It's A Wonderful Life (1946), dir. Frank Capra
  20. The Wild Bunch (1969), dir. Sam Peckinpah
  21. Vertigo (1958), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  22. Singin' In The Rain (1952), dir. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
  23. The Godfather (1972), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  24. E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), dir. Steven Spielberg
  25. The Palm Beach Story (1942), dir. Preston Sturges
  26. Blade Runner (1982), dir. Ridley Scott
  27. Double Indemnity (1944), dir. Billy Wilder
  28. The Manchurian Candidate (1962), dir. John Frankenheimer
  29. All About Eve (1950), dir. Joseph Mankiewicz
  30. The Searchers (1956), dir. John Ford
  31. Rear Window (1954), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  32. Annie Hall (1977), dir. Woody Allen
  33. Ninotchka (1939), dir. Ernst Lubitsch
  34. Blue Velvet (1986), dir. David Lynch
  35. The Wizard of Oz (1939), dir. Victor Fleming
  36. Bringing Up Baby (1938), dir. Howard Hawks
  37. The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957), dir. David Lean
  38. Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964), dir. Stanley Kubrick
  39. Pulp Fiction (1994), dir. Quentin Tarantino
  40. Some Like It Hot (1959), dir. Billy Wilder
  41. On The Waterfront (1954), dir. Elia Kazan
  42. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975), dir. Milos Forman
  43. Taxi Driver (1976), dir. Martin Scorsese
  44. Touch Of Evil (1958), dir. Orson Welles
  45. Nashville (1975), dir. Robert Altman
  46. Apocalypse Now (1979), dir. Francis Ford Coppola
  47. The Hustler (1961), dir. Robert Rossen
  48. The Big Sleep (1946), dir. Howard Hawks
  49. Bonnie And Clyde (1967), dir. Arthur Penn
  50. Unforgiven (1992), dir. Clint Eastwood
  51. Network (1976), dir. Sidney Lumet
  52. The Silence of the Lambs (1991), dir. Jonathan Demme
  53. Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg
  54. The Deer Hunter (1978), dir. Michael Cimino
  55. Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), dir. Woody Allen
  56. Gunga Din (1939), dir. George Stevens
  57. Schindler's List (1993), dir. Steven Spielberg
  58. Hud (1963), dir. Martin Ritt
  59. The Third Man (1949), dir. Carol Reed
  60. Modern Times (1936), dir. Charles Chaplin
  61. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), dir. Steven Spielberg
  62. Red River (1948), dir. Howard Hawks
  63. The Empire Strikes Back (1980), dir. Irvin Kershner
  64. Hamlet (1948), dir. Laurence Olivier
  65. Notorious (1946), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  66. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), dir. Elia Kazan
  67. Last Tango in Paris (1972), dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
  68. Sweet Smell of Success (1957), dir. Alexander Mackendrick
  69. Out Of The Past (1947), dir. Jacques Tournier
  70. All That Jazz (1979), dir. Bob Fosse
  71. Top Hat (1935), dir. Mark Sandrich
  72. The Misfits (1961), dir. John Huston
  73. Tootsie (1982), dir. Sydney Pollack
  74. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), dir. Frank Capra
  75. Short Cuts (1993), dir. Robert Altman
  76. The Grapes of Wrath (1940), dir. John Ford
  77. The Apartment (1960), dir. Billy Wilder
  78. A Clockwork Orange (1971), dir. Stanley Kubrick
  79. Psycho (1960), dir. Alfred Hitchcock
  80. Moonstruck (1987), dir. Norman Jewison
  81. GoodFellas (1990), dir. Martin Scorsese
  82. Stagecoach (1939), dir. John Ford
  83. The Last Picture Show (1971), dir. Peter Bogdanovich
  84. Die Hard (1988), dir. John McTiernan
  85. Midnight Cowboy (1969), dir. John Schlesinger
  86. West Side Story (1961), dir. Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins
  87. The Quiet Man (1952), dir. John Ford
  88. Reds (1981), dir. Warren Beatty
  89. Rebel Without a Cause (1955), dir. Nicholas Ray
  90. A Hard Day's Night (1964), dir. Richard Lester
  91. A Room With A View (1986), dir. James Ivory
  92. From Here to Eternity (1953), dir. Fred Zinnemann
  93. The Piano (1993), dir. Jane Campion
  94. Adam's Rib (1949), dir. George Cukor
  95. This Is Spinal Tap (1984), dir. Rob Reiner
  96. It Happened One Night (1934), dir. Frank Capra
  97. Do the Right Thing (1989), dir. Spike Lee
  98. The Thin Man (1934), dir. W.S. Van Dyke
  99. Patton (1970), dir. Franklin Schaffner
  100. The Terminator (1984), dir. James Cameron

100 best songs of all times

0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 10:45 AM

1. (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay (Redding/Cropper) - Otis Redding, 1967.

Shortly before he died in a plane crash in 1967, Otis Redding had recorded six takes of the melancholy (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay. The slight crack in that sweet young soul voice, the sparse semi-acoustic arrangement, the whistled solo - divine.

2. I Heard It Through The Grapevine (Whitfield/Strong) - Marvin Gaye, 1968.

A terrific arrangement and a stunning vocal performance from Marvin Gaye on this classic tale of betrayal. The ominous organ andgrim, tribal drums are warning enough badnews is afoot.

3. Fall On Me (Mills/Buck/Berry/Stipe) - R.E.M, 1986.

A few years before they became one of the biggest rock bands in the world R.E.M. delivered this supreme piece of jangly, post-Byrds folk-rock. Counter-melodies fromthe angels.

4. Everybody's Talking (Neil) - Harry Nilsson, 1969.

A simple bassline, the tap-tap-tap of a hi-hat cymbal, zippy, finger-picked acoustic guitar, keyboard pads and Harry Nilsson's suitably weather-beaten delivery of Fred Neil's greatest triumph.

5. Take Me To The River (Green/Hodges) - Al Green,1974.

Later covered by Talking Heads, but I'll take the Reverend Al Green's funky, horn-drenched mid-1970s original version any day of the week. Check out the Rev's dedication to his cousin over the opening bars - very, very smooth.

6. That's All Right (Crudup) - Elvis Presley, 1972.

When Elvis first covered this in the 1950s it was a pioneering manoeuvre. By the 1970s he had cranked it up to fifth gear, added blazing horns and gospel vocals and it kicked like an irritated mule.

7. Eleanor Rigby (Lennon/McCartney) - The Beatles, 1966.

Paul McCartney's grim, evocative, two-minute narrative about Eleanor Rigby, a curious, lonely woman who dies sad and alone. The song is brought to life, as it were, by the stark staccato string arrangement.

8. Sympathy For The Devil (Jagger/Richards) - Rolling Stones, 1968.

Driven by Rocky Dijon's congas, Nicky Hopkins's piano and Keef's bassline, this was a cleverly constructed, tightly-coiled piece of late-1960s pop.

9. River Deep Mountain High (Barry/Greenwich/Spector) - Ike and Tina Turner, 1966.

A mega-production from Phil Spector's School Of More. A mini-opera, it swings from finger-clickin' cool to oceans of swelling strings and vocals. All these years later it still sounds incredible.

10. Hurricane (Dylan) - Bob Dylan, 1976.

A devastatingly potent protest song about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin Carter. When Dylan sings "He coulda been the champion of the world", it's truly spine-tingling. Justice, American-style.

11. People Get Ready (Mayfield) - the Impressions, 1965.

12. Matty (Mulhearn) - Christy Moore, 1985.

A poetic Irish drunk heads out into the night and never makes it home. Johnny Mulhearn's tune about Matty is so exquisitely written and touching you'll need Kleenex at hand.

13. Superstition (Wonder) - Stevie Wonder, 1973.

14. Respect (Redding) - Aretha Franklin, 1967.

15. The Boy In The Bubble (Simon/Motloheloa) - Paul Simon, 1986.

16. Positively 4th Street (Dylan) - Bob Dylan, 1965.

17. Papa Was A Rolling Stone (Strong/Whitfield) - the Temptations, 1972.

18. Good Vibrations (Love/Wilson) - the Beach Boys, 1966.

19. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (Harley) - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel, 1975.

Steve Harley's only true global hit is a gold radio staple and is still used regularly in film soundtracks. A perfectly formed pop song topped off with a memorable flamenco-tinged nylon string acoustic guitar solo.

20. Feelin' Alright (Mason) - Joe Cocker, 1969.

21. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (John/Taupin) - Elton John, 1973.

22. Everlovin' Man (Lynch/Lovett/Anderson/Humphreys/Clyne) - the Loved Ones, 1966.

23. Last Great American Whale (Reed) - Lou Reed, 1989.

24. Ain't Too Proud To Beg (Holland/Whitfield) - the Temptations, 1966.

25. Stand By Me (Leiber/Stoller/King) - Ben E. King, 1962.

26. Monkey Wrench (Grohl/Foo Fighters) - Foo Fighters, 1996.

Full of crashing power chords and over-the-top pregnant pauses, this is asgood as melodic grunt gets. Thehighlight is when Grohl starts screaming the last verse. Let it out,Dave.

27. Downtown (Hatch) - Petula Clark, 1965.

28. Stuck In The Middle With You (Egan/Rafferty) - Stealer's Wheel, 1973.

29. Back In Black (Young/Young/Johnson) - AC/DC, 1980.

30. Sloop John B (Trad/Wilson) - the Beach Boys, 1966.

31. Smells Like Teen Spirit (Cobain/Nirvana) - Nirvana, 1991.

32. I Feel The Earth Move (King) - Carole King, 1971.

33. In The Ghetto (Davis) - Elvis Presley, 1969.

34. Spoonman (Cornell) - Soundgarden, 1994.

35. Big Hat, No Cattle (Newman) - Randy Newman, 1999.

"Since I was a child/I've tried to be what I am not/I've lied, and I've enjoyed it/All my life." So begins Randy Newman's hilarious tune about a loser whose whole life is a lie. All set to a tasty, Floyd Cramer-ish country feel.

36. You Should Be Dancing (Gibb/Gibb/Gibb) - Bee Gees, 1976.

37. Golden Years (Bowie) - David Bowie, 1976.

38. It Was A Very Good Year (Ervin Drake) - Frank Sinatra, 1965.

39. Kinky Afro (Happy Mondays) - Happy Mondays, 1990.

40. Sign O' The Times (Prince) - Prince, 1987.

41. The Disappointed (Partridge) - XTC, 1992.

42. That's The Way (I Like It) (Kasey/Finch) - KC and The Sunshine Band, 1975.

43. Power And The Passion (Hirst/Moginie/Garrett) - Midnight Oil, 1983.

44. Son Of A Preacher Man (Hurley/Wilkins) - Dusty Springfield, 1969.

45. Lady Marmalade (Crewe/Nolan) - LaBelle, 1976.

46. Built For Comfort (Dixon) - Howlin' Wolf, 1966.

47. California Dreaming (Phillips/Phillips) - Mamas and the Papas, 1966.

48. Song 2 (Blur) - Blur, 1997.

49. All Along The Watchtower (Dylan) - Jimi Hendrix, 1968.

50. No Regrets (Rush) - Walker Brothers, 1975.

51. Higher Ground (Wonder) - Stevie Wonder, 1973.

52. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood (Benjamin/Caldwell/Marcus) - the Animals, 1965.

53. I Got You (I Feel Good) (Brown) - James Brown, 1966.

Ow! Get on the good foot! Get On up! The Father of Funk. The Godfather of Soul. The Hardest Working Man In Show business. General Groove. The dynamic dancing machine. Ow!

54. Love Is In The Air (Vanda/Young) - John Paul Young, 1978.

55. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And If Feel Fine) (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - R.E.M, 1987.

56. D.C. (Clark/Peno) - Died Pretty, 1991.

57. X-Ray Style (Strummer) - Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros, 1999.

58. Tenterfield Saddler (Allen) - Peter Allen, 1972.

59. Hallelujah I Love Her So (Charles) - Ray Charles, 1963.

60. Get A Little Dirt On Your Hands (Anderson) - the Delltones, 1962.

61. Dream Lover (Darin) - Bobby Darin, 1959.

62. Heartland (Johnson) - the The, 1986.

63. Gypsy - (Nicks) Fleetwood Mac, 1982.

64. Love Rears Up Its Ugly Head (Reid) - Living Color, 1990.

65. You're No Good (Ballard) - Linda Ronstadt, 1974.

66. Jolene (Parton) - Dolly Parton, 1973.

67. Back On The Chain Gang (Hynde) - The Pretenders, 1982.

68. To Her Door (Kelly) - Paul Kelly, 1987.

Over the years the great Paul Kelly has messed around with the lyrics on this quietly hopeful folk-pop diamond, adding various expletives and changing "The Buttery" to "the North Coast" and "Olympic" to "McCaffertys".

69. The Honeymoon Is Over (Cruickshank/Perkins/Rumour) - the Cruel Sea, 1993.

70. I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City (Nilsson) - Wayne Newton (release date unknown).

71. Fairytale Of New York (Finer/MacGowan) - the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl, 1987.

72. Don't Look Back In Anger (Gallagher) - Oasis, 1995.

73. Get Off My Cloud (Jagger/Richards) - Rolling Stones, 1965.

74. Run Through The Jungle (Fogerty) - Creedence Clearwater Revival, 1970.

75. Everything's Turning To White (Kelly) - Paul Kelly, 1989.

76. Sparky's Dream (Love) - Teenage Fanclub, 1995.

77. (You're The) Devil In Disguise (Baum/Kaye) - Elvis Presley, 1963.

78. Scorn Of The Women (Thomas)

- Weddings, Parties, Anything, 1987.

79. Relating To A Psychopath (Gray/Ruzumna/Swann/Wilder) - Macy Gray, 2001.

80. Anarchy In The UK (Cook/Jones/Matlock/Rotten) - Sex Pistols, 1977.

81. Oliver's Army (Costello) - Elvis Costello, 1979.

82. Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (Croce) - Frank Sinatra, 1973.

83. For What It's Worth (Stills) - Buffalo Springfield, 1967.

84. If I Can't Change Your Mind (Mould) - Sugar, 1992.

85. No Myth (Penn) - Michael Penn, 1989.

86. Into Temptation (Finn) - Crowded House, 1988.

87. Cheaper To Keep Her (Rice) - Johnnie Taylor, 1973.

Over a cruisy walking bassline velvet-suited Johnnie Taylor does the math: "Five little children that you're leaving behind/Son, you're going pay some alimony/Or do some time/It's cheaper to keep her". Finger-clickin', pre-PC gold.

88. Love Will Keep Us Together (Greenfield/Sedaka) - the Captain and Tennille, 1975.

89. Play That Funky Music (Parissi) - Wild Cherry, 1976.

90. Ray Of Light (Madonna/Orbit/Muldoon/Curtis/Leach) - Madonna, 1998.

91. Senses Working Overtime (Partridge) - XTC, 1982.

92. Still In Hollywood - (Napolitano) Concrete Blonde, 1987.

93. Not Fade Away - (Holly/Petty) - Buddy Holly, 1957.

94. Blister In The Sun (Gano) - Violent Femmes, 1983.

95. Nothin' But A Woman (Cray) - Robert Cray, 1986.

96. The "In" Crowd (Page) - Ramsey Lewis Trio, 1965.

97. Bittersweet Symphony (Ashcroft/Jagger/Richards) - the Verve, 1997.

A loop of an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones song The Last Time formed the basis for this sweeping pop tune. To gain clearance to record it, English band the Verve had to hand over 100 per cent of the royalties to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards's publishers.

98. Freak Scene (Mascis) - Dinosaur jnr, 1988.

99. Come Fly With Me (Cahn/Van Heusen) - Frank Sinatra, 1965.

100. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Bono/Clayton/Edge/Mullen) - U2, 1987.

100 best movie quotes

0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 8:17 AM

  1. "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." — Rhett Butler (Clark Gable), Gone with the Wind (1939)
  2. "I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." — Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), The Godfather (1972)
  3. "You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am." — Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), On the Waterfront (1954)
  4. "Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore." — Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  5. "Here's looking at you, kid." — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942)
  6. "Go ahead, make my day." — Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), Sudden Impact (1983)
  7. "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up." — Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  8. "May the Force be with you." — Han Solo (Harrison Ford), Star Wars (1977)
  9. "Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." — Margo Channing (Bette Davis), All About Eve (1950)
  10. "You talkin' to me?" — Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), Taxi Driver (1976)
  11. "What we've got here is failure to communicate." — Captain (Strother Martin), Cool Hand Luke (1967)
  12. "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." — Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall), Apocalypse Now (1979)
  13. "Love means never having to say you're sorry." — Oliver Barrett IV (Ryan O'Neal), Love Story (1970)
  14. "The stuff that dreams are made of." — Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart), The Maltese Falcon (1941)
  15. "E.T. phone home." — E.T. (Pat Welsh), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
  16. "They call me Mister Tibbs!" — Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier), In the Heat of the Night (1967)
  17. "Rosebud." — Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), Citizen Kane (1941)
  18. "Made it, Ma! Top of the world!" — Arthur "Cody" Jarrett (James Cagney), White Heat (1949)
  19. "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!" — Howard Beale (Peter Finch), Network (1976)
  20. "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942)
  21. "A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti." — Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
  22. "Bond. James Bond." — James Bond (Sean Connery), Dr. No (1962)
  23. "There's no place like home." — Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  24. "I am big! It's the pictures that got small." — Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson), Sunset Boulevard (1950)
  25. "Show me the money!" — Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise), Jerry Maguire (1996)
  26. "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" — Lady Lou (Mae West), She Done Him Wrong (1933)
  27. "I'm walking here! I'm walking here!" — "Ratso" Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  28. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'" — Ilsa Laszlo (Ingrid Bergman), Casablanca (1942)
  29. "You can't handle the truth!" — Col. Nathan Jessep (Jack Nicholson), A Few Good Men (1992)
  30. "I want to be alone." — Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo), Grand Hotel (1932)
  31. "After all, tomorrow is another day!" — Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), Gone with the Wind (1939)
  32. "Round up the usual suspects." — Capt. Louis Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca (1942)
  33. "I'll have what she's having." — Customer (Estelle Reiner), When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
  34. "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow." — Marie "Slim" Browning (Lauren Bacall), To Have and Have Not (1944)
  35. "We're gonna need a bigger boat." — Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), Jaws (1975)
  36. "Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" — "Gold Hat" (Alfonso Bedoya), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
  37. "I'll be back." — The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), The Terminator (1984)
  38. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." — Lou Gehrig (Gary Cooper), The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
  39. "If you build it, he will come." — Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), Field of Dreams (1989)
  40. "Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." — Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), Forrest Gump (1994)
  41. "We rob banks." — Clyde Barrow (Warren Beatty), Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  42. "Plastics." — Mr. Maguire (Walter Brooke), The Graduate (1967)
  43. "We'll always have Paris." — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942)
  44. "I see dead people." — Cole Sear (Haley Joel Osment), The Sixth Sense (1999)
  45. "Stella! Hey, Stella!" — Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  46. "Oh, Jerry, don't let's ask for the moon. We have the stars." — Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis), Now, Voyager (1942)
  47. "Shane. Shane. Come back!" — Joey Starrett (Brandon De Wilde), Shane (1953)
  48. "Well, nobody's perfect." — Osgood Fielding III (Joe E. Brown), upon being told that the woman he hopes to marry is actually a man in disguise, Some Like It Hot (1959)
  49. "It's alive! It's alive!" — Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), Frankenstein (1931)
  50. "Houston, we have a problem." — Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Apollo 13 (1995)
  51. "You've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk?" — Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), Dirty Harry (1971)
  52. "You had me at 'hello.'" — Dorothy Boyd (Renée Zellweger), Jerry Maguire (1996)
  53. "One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know." — Capt. Jeffrey T. Spaulding (Groucho Marx), Animal Crackers (1930)
  54. "There's no crying in baseball!" — Jimmy Dugan (Tom Hanks), A League of Their Own (1992)
  55. "La-dee-da, la-dee-da." — Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), Annie Hall (1977)
  56. "A boy's best friend is his mother." — Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), Psycho (1960)
  57. "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." — Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas), Wall Street (1987)
  58. "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." — Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), The Godfather: Part II (1974)
  59. "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again." — Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh), Gone with the Wind (1939)
  60. "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!" — Oliver (Oliver Hardy), Sons of the Desert (1933)
  61. "Say 'hello' to my little friend!" — Tony Montana (Al Pacino), Scarface (1983)
  62. "What a dump." — Rosa Moline (Bette Davis), Beyond the Forest (1949)
  63. "Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me. Aren't you?" — Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), The Graduate (1967)
  64. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" — President Merkin Muffley (Peter Sellers), Dr. Strangelove (1964)
  65. "Elementary, my dear Watson." — Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
  66. "Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape." — George Taylor (Charlton Heston), Planet of the Apes (1968)
  67. "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine." — Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Casablanca (1942)
  68. "Heeere's Johnny!" — Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson), The Shining (1980)
  69. "They're here!" — Carol Anne Freeling (Heather O'Rourke), Poltergeist (1982)
  70. "Is it safe?" — Dr. Christian Szell (Laurence Olivier), Marathon Man (1976)
  71. "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!" — Jakie Rabinowitz/Jack Robin (Al Jolson), The Jazz Singer (1927)
  72. "No wire hangers, ever!" — Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway), Mommie Dearest (1981)
  73. "Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?" — Cesare Enrico "Rico" Bandello (Edward G. Robinson), Little Caesar (1930)
  74. "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown." — Duffy (Bruce Glover), Chinatown (1974)
  75. "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." — Blanche Dubois (Vivien Leigh), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  76. "Hasta la vista, baby." — The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
  77. "Soylent Green is people!" — Det. Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston), Soylent Green (1973)
  78. "Open the pod bay doors, HAL." — Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  79. Striker: "Surely you can't be serious!" Rumack: "I am serious… and don't call me Shirley." — Ted Striker (Robert Hays) and Dr. Rumack (Leslie Nielsen), Airplane! (1980)
  80. "Yo, Adrian!" — Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), Rocky (1976)
  81. "Hello, gorgeous." — Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand), Funny Girl (1968)
  82. "Toga! Toga!" — John "Bluto" Blutarsky (John Belushi), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
  83. "Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make." — Count Dracula (Bela Lugosi), Dracula (1931)
  84. "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. 'Twas Beauty killed the Beast." — Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong), King Kong (1933)
  85. "My precious." — Gollum (Andy Serkis), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
  86. "Attica! Attica!" — Sonny Wortzik (Al Pacino), Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
  87. "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" — Julian Marsh (Warner Baxter), 42nd Street (1933)
  88. "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you forget it. You're going to get back on that horse, and I'm going to be right behind you, holding on tight, and away we're gonna go, go, go!" — Ethel Thayer (Katharine Hepburn), On Golden Pond (1981)
  89. "Tell 'em to go out there with all they got and win just one for the Gipper." — George Gipp (Ronald Reagan), Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
  90. "A martini. Shaken, not stirred." — James Bond (Sean Connery), Goldfinger (1964)
  91. "Who's on First?" — Dexter (Bud Abbott), The Naughty Nineties (1945)
  92. "Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac...It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!" — Carl Spackler (Bill Murray), Caddyshack (1980)
  93. "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!" — Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), Auntie Mame (1958)
  94. "I feel the need — the need for speed!" — Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) and Lt. Nick "Goose" Bradshaw (Anthony Edwards), Top Gun (1986)
  95. "Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary." — John Keating (Robin Williams), Dead Poets Society (1989)
  96. "Snap out of it!" — Loretta Castorini (Cher), Moonstruck (1987)
  97. "My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you." — George M. Cohan (James Cagney), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
  98. "Nobody puts Baby in a corner." — Johnny Castle (Patrick Swayze), Dirty Dancing (1987)
  99. "I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!" — Wicked Witch of the West (Margaret Hamilton), The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  100. "I'm the king of the world!" — Jack Dawson (Leonardo DiCaprio), Titanic (1997)

hate

1 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 11:59 PM

I hate the way you talk to me, and the way you cut your hair. I hate the way you drive my car. I hate it when you stare. I hate your big dumb combat boots, and the way you read my mind. I hate you so much it makes me sick; it even makes me rhyme. I hate it, I hate the way you're always right. I hate it when you lie. I hate it when you make me laugh, even worse when you make me cry. I hate it when you're not around, and the fact that you didn't call. But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.
its from the movie "10 things i ahte about you"
it repeats hate a lot in the poem but it dosent mean hate

Kat in "10 things i Hate About you"

the F1 saga

0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 11:57 PM

Where art thou lady luck ??

Lewis Hamilton is one of the most impressive talents to emerge out of the formula one paddocks in the recent years. And by hiring him in when he was brought in, Ron Dennis again proved that he had amazing eye for talent. All through the past decade he has bet on drivers who on over sight showed amazing talent, I mean just look at the list, Kimi Raikkonen, Mika Hakkinen, Fernando Alonso, Juan Pablo Montoya, to name but a few. They were let down for by the car some time or where overwhelmed by the competition (namely one guy called Michael Schumacher) but they were all good, but the thing about Hamilton is that he just might be the biggest and best driving talent to step into F1 after Senna or Prost. Well, hear me out before you start throwing things at me, and don’t even think about throwing that kitchen sink at me. Michael supporter can go take a hike, he was a good driver but he won most of his races on team strategy, he overtook more times in the pits than on the track. Mika was mediocre, with a great car and team, Juan Pablo was only good at going round and round in circles. Jenson Button, Massa, Davidson, Wurz, webber and every other driver who came on with great fanfare just kindoff failed. Kimi could have come over as a great but he was always outclassed by Schumi. And now that F1 is free of the Schumi-Todt-Brawn Triumvirate he will always live in Shumacher’s shadow.

So again, Awesome talent, Raw temperament and the best car in the field and one of the most exciting F1 seasons in 21 years and still the dominating news was what was going on off the track be it the Alonso – Hamilton competition or the spying scandal. It just kept getting funnier and funnier as the season went on. There is this kid first season in F1 and an Amazing car and he was on the podium every race and all that people could talk about was the spying scandal. He kept walking allover two seasoned veterans namely Kimi Raikkonen and Double world champion Fernando Alonso and all people could think of was the spying scandal. So, so idiot got a little greedy, is that what F1 is about?? No it isn’t over all these past years when Shumi was beating the crap out of every one left right and center we moaned the fact that F1 wasn’t exciting enough, and now that we actually have a really talented bunch of drivers and teams that are capable of giving their drivers good cars day in and day out no body noticed the racing.

I have gone round and round in circles about my bitterness at the way the season ended so now we will talk about the racing highlights of the season.

1. There was one constant through the entire season. That was Lewis Hamilton Amazing consistency, at getting podiums, Alonso’s growing amazement and to some extent jealousy at his teammates exceptional performance and talent, and the way Ferrari and all the other teams where stumped and then fumbled around with the amount of talent on display.

2. Kimi’s amazing comeback in the second half of the season, no doubt due to excellent teamwork and loyalty towards the team from Massa.

3. Kimi again with a donut at the pit lane exit at spa was arrogance personified. May be his move to Ferrari has given him the confidence he needs

4. inspite of the abundance of talent in the top 4 to 5 teams the championship was an open fight the first time in 21 years if i can recall correctly

The low point was the acrmonius dispute between Alonso and Lewis, and the unbelievable spin Lewis had at the Chinese GP neither were McLaren and neither was Lewis naive enough to make such an elementary mistake.

5. so here’s to kimi the new world champion, and here’s to Hamilton saying that he wants to win the championship on the track not by appeal. And I thought racing drivers were and extinct species.

So bring on the 2008 F1 season I say and may the best driver win and perform more burnouts ……………………..

The funny thing about life ……………

1 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 3:14 AM

Something funny happened a few days back. See on the third of sept. me and another friend were trying to finalise a deal on a house that we had found. Great house, two bedrooms, ground floor, the landlord was a scientist and a researcher, a man who you could talk to, and most importantly a floor you could fall in love with, well we did fall in love with it eventually. And for some reason the deal kept getting delayed from one day to another. So that day we decided we will go and finalise it. We reached the house and the landlord was busy so his wife asked us to come to their house which although not near was within walking distance for two strapping youth i.e. us. We got instructions for up to half way and then so as not to confuse ourselves and the nice lady on the other end of the phone we decided to call her from there. So we trudged in the humidity of Bangalore.
We got to the half way point and while my future roomie called our landlady, I was looking around and I saw this frail old lady with a ton of groceries in one hand and a walking stick in the other shuffling along trying to flag an auto. And Bangalore autowalas being what they are wouldn’t agree to drop the little lady round the corner even if they get paid. So being the gallant (sic) boys or men (if you will have it that way) that we are we offered to carry the bags and escort the lady to her destination. The lady meekly protested but we prevailed and we trudged after her talking all the while and we discovered that she was from Lucknow and had lived in Jaipur for some time and was here with her kid who was a techie. Any way we slowly walked and in the process passed our next landmark that our landlady had given us, resolving to come back and resume our task once we had escorted this nice lady to her home.
Once we had completed our journey and refused the offers of coffee and tea from an extremely polite lady we decided to retrace our route and go find our landlady who, we were sure by now, thought that we had lost our way or something. Any way we walked back another half a kilometer or so and called her again and she gave us instructions which sounded suspiciously like the route we had walked twice in the past 15 minutes or so. Any way we walked looking for the ninth house in the lane while my roomie told me that we had dropped the nice old lady at the fourth house and it was most likely that they, as in our landlady and the other nice lady both knew each other and would talk one of these days and have a laugh at our expense. When we arrived at the house our landlady called us from the first floor of the house that looked suspiciously like the house we were at fifteen minutes ago. And we both had a laugh at our own expense and later as everyone, i.e. the landlord the landlady and their tenant the nice old lady her daughter we all had a laugh. It turned out that “no good deed goes reward less” it may take time or it may be instantaneous, the rewards may be material or something entirely abstract like the smile from a nice old lady, or the trust that develops between a landlord and his tenants but the rewards will come and they will be worth the wait. Hey if nothing else you do it thinking that it was your one nice deed for the day and u can tell it later to your friends or your grand kids when you reminisce about old times and may be they will learn something from it or just to have a laugh.
You know what do your nice deed for the day forget about the consequences and hope the person you were nice to will repay you by passing that nice jesture to someone else who will again in turn pass it along making our world a nicer place.

World Champions .............

2 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 2:10 AM














India Won ...................... as one of my friends said, dont ask about the margin, dont ask the about the game and dont say any thing ............. sit down take deep breath and just bask in the glory of hitting the pinnacle of the game. The game was close, it was gut wrenching with flashes of briliance coming from both sides flashes that showed why these teams were in the final and why it was anybodies game. and the funny part inspite of having so many brilliant performers and performances from both sides the game was decided by a mistake an impulsive shot selection, but thats how the dice fell isnt it. instead of the dice falling one way it well the other way. two young teams, two fearless and tecnically briliant captains, some amazing revelations and some guttsy come backs, and some confirmations as to why they were in the national team. the result people who absolytely hated the game or had no thoguths about cricket sat and watchd the game chewing their nails and shitting bricks every time the game turned on its head.
India went in a little unsure of waht it needed to do
the first match against scotland was washed out
the second against pakistan was a humdinger
the third against new zealand was lost
against england it would suffice to say that yuvi hit 6 sixes done deal
we tripped south africa in the next match and
we wrapped our bare hands around australia and choked them (we had to do it as we had developed choking to an art over the years )
so here we are in the finals against a team that has lost only one match oh and they lost it to us how nice,
hey why bother with all this now we are the champions arent we

down hill derby

0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 3:39 AM




















when you are going downhill and you know you have no brakes, then u might as well enjoy the ride.......... and pray to god that there are no trees or sadistic boulders in your path. and hope that the momentum carries you thru the valley and starts taking you up ones u hit bottom

The thing about friends…………..

6 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 3:20 AM

The thing about friends is that they even if they are the best thing that could happen to a person they are also the worst that can happen too. I recently moved to Bangalore to find a job, which a friend helped me find, though it’s not the best job in the world, it’s something I want to do, and I don’t have to depend on any one for my survival till I find something more to my liking. Before I came here I was not sure where my life was heading, I was ashamed to face my parents, and I tried to run from myself even though I knew it was futile. Another friend encouraged me to take this step and move to Bangalore take charge of my life she convinced me to believe in myself when I couldn’t trust my thoughts. Others provided me shelter, food and help or simply sat around with me to talk when I was lost. One guy took me in when I was totally at a lack for a place to live in even though he had met me only once about four years ago. His other roommates welcomed me like long lost friends and made me feel at home, sharing the second bed so that I could have the other one to myself, though I’m not entirely sure that their gesture was selfless.

Jokes apart what I’m trying to say here is if this bunch of people weren’t here I would probably be sitting at home brooding about the mistakes I made, the streak of bad luck that had brought me to the edge of disaster I was at and listening to my father recount my mistakes from the time I was two every time he looked at me. Though he is probably and more likely right. They still believed in me they let me close my eyes and step into the void because they told me that they believed in me and pushed me to rediscover myself. When I thought I was no good to anyone, another friend called me telling me that she missed me and needed me? Needed me when I wasn’t even sure where my day was heading. I went to Bombay and the moment I saw them I knew it was a mistake. Mistake, because that moment I realized how much I missed them and depended on them to keep me on track with life, tell me that no matter what happened or how spectacularly I failed or self destructed I could always count on them to pick up the pieces and put me back together, it might take them some time and it might take me more time to decide which way is up but eventually it tells me that everything will be all right eventually and they will still be around to egg ne on to new heights. That is the good thing about friends, when families will be thinking about how badly you’ve let them down and how disappointed they are in you. Your friends would already be busy picking up pieces, mopping up the blood and gore and preparing to help you stand up again and regain the footing you’ve lost. They will never tell you how bad you have been but only what you can do and how much they believe in you. They will lend you money when you don’t have any, the will provide you shelter, and take care of you. Does this make you weak and dependent? may be. Would I give up this for all the riches in the world? (are you out of your mind).

But the question is such a dependence good?, and the answer is that I don’t know, I really don’t know, maybe I make more mistakes because I know there are people around to bail me out and just may be I would be better off without them but would I be happy? That I can answer positively – no, never. I would probably die if I was left to my own devices. I need them and I would do anything for them they are my life. And I’m honored that they consider me as their friend.

thanx , Deepti, Sakshi, Mudassir, Vineet, Raj, Sowmya, Shival , Anuj, Cheriachen , Babu , Abhishek, Harshita, Vnieeta , Moose , Sonal, Vinitha, Arpita, Surya, Urmi , Preena, Vishruti new and old you guys helped me back on my feet . give me a call when ever and what ever you need . I owe you guys one . love you All

tango

1 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 2:32 PM

watch me tango. follow my lead,
i will teach u how to dance, i will ful fill your every need.
watch me twist and turn,
ill teach u how to crash and burn.

LOVE

0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 12:23 PM

I know you think we can't be together, but can't you respect me enough to let me make my own decision? I know there'll be risks but I want to face them with you. It's wrong that we should be only half alive... half of ourselves. I love you. So here I am - standing in your doorway. I have always been standing in your doorway. Isn't it about time somebody saved your life?
mary jane watson to peter parker - spiderman 2



Simply love

simply love you,
nothing less, nothing more,
never judged, never will,
you make me happy, you make me sad, of all the time here, will think about u the most, as all that matters is you, simply love you

mudassir khalil

isnt love wonderful

poems

3 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 11:35 AM

FOR YOU

there is a sweet song penned just for you
but its missing some thing cause its not sung by you
there is a beautiful picture but it looks dull
cause its not your's
its the same in every thing i do
whatever i do
where ever i go
i keep missing you




TWO DREAMS


living one life, in two dreams
prince in one
pauper in the other
who am i
where am i
lived in the belief
of invincibility
till destroyed by my own centurions
saved by my enemies
I am living one life in two dreams


shanu s john

Fear

1 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 7:30 PM


Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Timo Cruz ---- Coach Carter
Fear is an integral part of all human existence. we are afraid for our lives, for the lives of our loved ones, we are afraid of failure, of what the future might bring us, of what other might think of us, of what our actions or inactions might bring upon us or our loved ones. fear that life might prove us to be much more inconsistent than what we imagine ourselves to be.
The question every one asks them selves and others is "what is your deepest darkest fear?"

My fear
my deepest fear is that i will fall short. we walk in the shadow of giants, and angels people who rose above themselves to become larger than life and transceded sainthood, i am afraid i wont be able to stand up to the stadards of saints and angels that preceded me.

this is how a heart breaks

0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 4:10 PM 

Don't you wanna go for a ride
Just keep your hands inside
And make the most out of life
Now don't you take it for granted
Life is like a mean machine
It made a mess out of me
And let me come between
Like an anchor dream, I was stranded
I was stranded, yeah yeah yeah

And I'm steady though I'm starting to shake
And I don't know how much more I can take

Chorus:
Well this is it now
Everybody get down
This is all I can take
This is how a heart breaks
You take a hit now
You feel it break down
Make you stay while I wait
This is how a heart breaks

Don't you wanna go for a ride
Now to the other side
Feels so good you could cry
Now won't you do what I told you
I remember when you used to be shy
Once we were so fine, you and I
And why you gotta make it so hard on me
Yeah it's hard on me

And I'm sorry but it's not a mistake
And I'm running but you're getting away

Chorus:
Well this is it now
Everybody get down
This is all I can take
This is how a heart breaks
You take a hit now
You feel it break down
Make you stay while I wait
This is how a heart breaks

This is how a heart breaks

You're not the best thing that I knew
Never was, never cared too much for all this hanging around
It's just the same thing all the time
Never get what I want, never get too close to the end of the line
You're just the same thing that I knew
Right before the time when I was running from you

Chorus:
Well this is it now
Everybody get down
This is all I can take
This is how a heart breaks
You take a hit now
You feel it break down
Make you stay while I wait
This is how a heart breaks

Chorus:
Well this is it now
Everybody get down
This is all I can take
This is how a heart breaks
You take a hit now
You feel it break down
Make you stay while I wait
This is how a heart breaks

Oh yeah
This is how a heart breaks
Oh-oh-oh
This is how a heart breaks
I can't take it
How a heart breaks
Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
This is how a heart breaks
This is how a heart breaks
Oh-oh

This is how a heart breaks
This is how a heart breaks

About me

0 comments Posted by vagabond dreamer at 3:21 PM

About me ummm let me think ……….

When I look in the mirror I see three people, the man I am, the man I ought to be and the man I want to be. The conflict between these three tears me inside. But the day these three become one is the day I will conquer the world. Pain is an integral part of my being, my existence. Pain I believe is good it makes me feel alive. The existence of pain lets me enjoy those moments of life to the fullest were I am at one with my self and the inner conflict ceases to exist. Other times it helps divert my attention from the inner conflict that is a continuous part of my existence as a human being. I live my life in search of moments of bliss moments where every piece of my jigsaw life falls in perfect harmony, even if only just for a moment, a nano second in the moment, that fraction of time I can see what I am in search of here. That glimpse no matter how brief I realise what my vocation in life has to be.

I am a nomad in the wasteland of my dreams. Looking for an oasis where my dreams will fructify. I dream of a day when I can chase the sunrise and swim with the whales, Dance underwater with the mermaids and race the clouds. A day when I would be free of expectations, desires and am one with my dreams, a day when I am free. ……

These dreams may sound impossible but then u are forgetting one thing and that is that impossible is just an opinion. Your opinion ……. If Icarus could fly with wax wings, if Neil Armstrong can walk on the moon, then who is to stop me from chasing sunrises and sunsets.

In short I am a dreamer addicted to life, its dangerous combination, I am always waiting to explode, to charge at the horizon chasing an impossible dream climbing an impossible mountain. But then hang on if you can, I promise you that this journey, if you keep up, will be an interesting one.

Life for me is an incompetent mugger who even though fails to mug me, still leaves me with nothing at times and at time with more than I can handle ………. Life is also a beautiful bitch who stomps all over me but is still hard to ignore and still stunningly beautiful. So cheers to life and her addictions.

I love to ride, I live to ride, the wind in my hair, sun in my face feeling that comes from hurtling down a well-paved stretch of tarmac at insane or ridiculous speeds is a high that can never be explained but only experienced. I live for my dreams, my family and my friends, not exactly in that order. They have given every thing to make me the man I am today. Love to eat love to cook, I think the most romantic thing any one can do is serve his or her loved one a hand cooked dinner with a nice bottle of wine and lots of flowers. Love to rock climb, the feeling u get hanging of a cliff 120 feet high with only your fingertips is a rush that puts your entire life in perspective. Love to spend time with my friends, goof around, play practical jokes, play silly games, or just simply laze around. I love to fall in love the feeling of being in love with some one who cares for u the same way u care for them is ecstasy personified.

I aim to achieve one off two things by the time I’m forty-five, head my own agency or travel round the world once. The Wanderlust inside me can only be quietened by the achievement of an onrush of a big high.

That’s all that I can say about me for now because I also believe I am a work in progress, constantly evolving, constantly changing, improving and growing with every moment and experience. To know me you’ve got to walk with me, journey through life with me …………





Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.
Impossible is potential.
Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is nothing.