Love at First Sight

One fine summer day at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, my heart was stolen by a 1954 photograph by Richard Avedon. It was an exhibit of his 1944-2000 collection of fashion photography. He is a very famous photographer that did many-a-cover pages for Harper’s Bazar, Vogue etc. and worked with an impressive number of celebrities, including the Beatles (the four psychedelic individual portraits used in their ‘1’ album- if you see it, you’ll know what I’m talking about), Marylin Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Suzy Parker and so on. 

While I was slowly appreciating the ‘Paris by Night’ collection on display, I came across one particular photograph, the very photograph that now sets the benchmark for any and all fashion photographs. It portrayed Sunny Harnett stepping out of an old black Ford, wearing a long evening dress by Dior with a big bow on the front of her hip being greeted by a butler. From the moment I saw it, I fell in love. I stared at it for hours. My friends didn’t think much of the photograph but I was hooked. It was the most beautiful piece of photography I had ever seen. I am not exaggerating, it was the most breath taking photograph I had ever seen. The way the he caught the light that hit her protruding hip and the flirtatious look she gave the butler will stay embedded in my mind forever. I knew I needed to have at least a copy of that photograph for myself. 

Love struck, I Googled it for days, but just could not find it. Heartbroken, after months of searching I gave up and finally went back to the museum to take pictures of it as memorabilia and as proof for anyone who reads this post. You should consider yourself lucky because you can see it for yourself now. However, if by chance you do get to go see it for yourself one day, take your time, take it all in, and I truly mean all, stare at it for hours, ignore everything that is going on around you, you will realize what I was talking about and how it made me feel and I sincerely hope Sunny Harnett has the same mesmerizing effect on you as she did on me and you too would fall in love.

Just Like Heaven

The perfect song for the weird, lowest in 61 years, not so tropical weather Lanka is experiencing currently. So sit back,relax and totally fall in love with this song.

no matter who covers this, it's always awesome, and it's always just like heaven to listen to.

also lend an ear to the Katie Melua and Taking back Sunday versions to fall totally truly deeply madly in love with this song just like I have.

Beauty and the Beast - Tale as old as time.

Someone once told me “All Disney songs make a lot of sense, they are timeless”.

It made me ponder on all the times I have sat down in a daze and dreamt big dreams. Big, happy, colourful dreams.
I’ve dreamt of things that most people would consider, ‘childish’.
I don’t blame them, for fairies and elves for instance were stories created by parents to keep their little ones entertained. But the fact remains that children were entertained. No. They were more than merely entertained they were enraptured by these tales. I am envious of children who spend each moment awed by iconic characters like Mickey Mouse, letting their minds wander into far off places only known to them. No-one tampers with their imagination.

I’ve realised that as we grow older we all spend our lives trying to accomplish goals and grab at numerous opportunities. We are all running a dangerously competitive race willingly or unwillingly. Most of us are so wrapped up in our daily routines that we forget to notice, let alone appreciate the bigger picture, the wonders of this life.

Disney helps us recall the magic we dusted off somewhere along the way. Those who think it childish to dream, and to be immersed in the rainbow of colour of epic Disney movies; they are missing out on too much. They’ve grown up and tucked away the glitter and glam of their imagination.
So, dream as if you’ll live forever and live as if you’ll die today.

I post this song, telling you what someone once told me. “All Disney songs make a lot of sense, they are indeed timeless.”

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony

The Verve - Lucky Man

This will be - Natalie Cole

Just Like Music

Albert Einstein once said ‘If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music’. Amen to that!

Music to me means a lot. Music to me means the world. Music to me is life. Music to me is everything that I am, will be and can be. Music makes me understand, feel, empathise, sympathise, fall in love, fall out of love. Without music, I would be nothing. Music is in every atom of my body. I may not know all the songs, all the artists or all the forms of music, but I know that without music I am not me. I would be dull, I would be boring, I would be ignorant. I can go on for days about how one particular song takes me back to a different place and time, I can explain for hours the meaning of a song, in minutes I can fantasise about the ideal situation for that particular song and it only takes me seconds to get chills every time I even think about listening to it. I can relate any emotion or any situation through music. The right song at the right moment can bring anyone to tears. If someone took that right away from me, I will not survive. I would say, go now go, walk out the door, just turn around now, you’re not welcome anymore! 

So sing as though no one can hear you and dance as though no one is watching you and you will live life as though heaven is on earth.

4 Non Blondes - What's up

We all live in a world governed by norms and standards. Who created these norms? Who is to say that it is the way things are 'supposed to be done'? If it doesn't make sense to you then hell, it doesn't make sense to me either!
This life is what you make of it. Respect every standard and every norm. Try your best to conform but don't restrict yourself. So fight. Fight to take a stand and find your freedom!!

Colbie Caillat - One Fine Wire

Paramore - The Only Exception

"Someday someone will come into your life and make you realise why it never worked out with anyone else"