funky eggs!

What? These are actually eggs of a squid

Where? Vaan Island, off Tuticorin – A small coral island in the Gulf of Mannar

When? Over a year ago

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Puckoon by Spike Milligan

I actually bought this book a month or two ago, from a small second-hand-book seller in Kochi – for 10 rupees (!). And till a few days back, it was lying at the bottom of a pile (I’ll discuss this pile some other time) near my bed.

It’s an insanely funny, brilliantly and thoroughly mad book written by an insanely funny, brilliantly mad Irish dude named Spike Milligan.

(Here’s a bunch of reviews, for those who want to read ‘em.)

I recommend!

usha’s top five… and then some…

This is partly an attempt to keep the posts moving…

A list of my top 5 all-time-favourite songs, in random order… (and by all-time-favourite, I mean songs  that I “probably” wouldn’t get tired of  that even if i had to hear them over and over and over a hundred times)….

• Bruce Springsreen – Streets of Philadelphia
  

This was the title song for the movie Philadelphia(which was pretty powerful, itself). The song won an Oscar if I’m not wrong. Worth listening to is a concert version by Dylan and Springsteen.

……So recieve me brother, with your fathless kiss/or will we leave each other ‘lone like this/on the streets of philadelphia…..

• U2 – City of blinding lights

I just LOVE this song! And while the title will make you think of a big/crowded city with big lights, the song brings out a different feeling in me – I play this song and close my eyes, I get transported to a place where I’m all alone under a starry sky – with a road or a railway track or the dark ocean ahead of me.
It works the other way too – when I’m staring out of a train or car window/standing on a deck under a night sky, I need this song to complete the feel.

(Girls will probably remember this as the song that was playing in The Devil wears Prada, when Anne Hathaway landed in Paris.)

….Neon-heart day-glow lights/a city lit by fireflies/they’re advertising in the skies, for people like us….

• Pink Floyd – Wish you were here

This is my favorite Pink Floyd song. Don’t ask why…. I’m not sure myself.

…..running over the same old ground, what have you found?/the same old fears!/Wish you were here…..

• Bob Dylan – Forever young

Hard to pick out one Bob Dylan song from the many I love. But I’m picking this one….. the sweetest.

….May your hands always be busy/May your feet always be swift/May you have a strong foundation/When the winds of changes shift….

• Led Zeppelin – Kashmir

A simply majestic song in every way…. which took three years to write.

…Oh, pilot of the storm that leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream/Heed the path that led me to that place, yellow desert stream….

If this list was longer, I’d have added these>> Bob Dylan – Shelter from the storm, Bob Dylan – Knocking on heaven’s door, Bob Dylan – Lay lady lay, Sting and the Police/Alanis Morisette – King of pain, Pink Floyd – Brain Damage, Led Zeppelin – Stairway to heaven, R.E.M. – Losing my religion