Black and White

Fairy Tales do not come true and so I believed. Fantasies and hallucinations do not give way to reality; even déjà vu seems to be a glitch in the uncountable plugging and unplugging of numerous little charged neurons in your brains.
So what do we have here. A life that just moves on. Dreams meant for the night or for wierd timings in the day when you really need to have yuor thoughts concentrated on the person heading the production meeting...
But on the 18th Feb 2007 it all changed, nuthing would remain the same ever again. Life won't be the same again.

It all started a week before when all the planning started. But you see my brother was down and i wanted to spend as much of time with him that my job offered. Suddenly as time moved on tickets got lesser i realise i still hadn't booked my tickets for the THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY. My brother tells me of a friend of mine who has passes so i call this friend who confirms it. Work done.

At office more people wanted to come, which included my bosses. Fine i could get them the passes. But i was never sure whether those passes were really there or not, so i call this other friend who works for the press to arrange some more, he confirms 8 passes. Wow! 8!

Come Sunday and i don't have even 1 pass. tried for desperate measures... told everyone i couldn't arrange passes and had to hear it from ost of them but for two friends. One guy arranges it and the other tells me we'll go there and see what can be done.

We by the tickets for 2000 bucks from the venue. and can you believe it i got broke and i really didn't feel it. All that i could feel was the music, my heart beat and the feeling of euphoria. Roger Waters performing live in MUMBAI.

Dreams do come true, i always wanted to see a Roger Waters show. And now i want to see a Pink Floyd reunion.

uncertainty brought me to perhaps the best feeling i ever felt.
uncertainty about tickets, about what to do after that since i got broke.
uncertainty about how to get home cos i was left with 10 bucks in my wallet.
but all i remember thinking is the PIG in the sky, learning to fly.

the time when it looked staright into my eyes with its tusks showing.
with the dots around its neck saying, cut through the dotted lines.
with SARVA JAATI EK HAIN written on the side.
and all i could see is god and devil sitting together, floating this pig into the sky, pasting acid strips onto their tongue and laughing at us mortals for we were missing the pyro effects happening on stage.
to be out there and to be part of a single wave of energy all moving to the rhythm of the blip on the satelite on screen, which actually was the same rhythm of a normal heart...so in short everyone at that single point of time had their hearts beating at the same time... or maybe the sound wasn't from the speakers at all , it might have been the collective beating of nearly 10000 people's hearts.

for once i saw the coming together of peoples just having music in their heads and all their hearts beating together, like hearts, like thoughts, like people, like like like like like... like what we like, like what we like, like what we like...

beating hearts beating drums, progressive rhythms, progressive thoughts...music up in the head music up in the head...music in our hearts beating together... two fingers pointing up to the heavens in the shape of a V, waves of Vs towering a dazed and comfortably numbed crowd...
had to be an off day for the devil and god...so much of harmony can only be a result of some thing like that.