'Still Loving You'

After a long time, I'm listening to, "Still loving you", it has one of the haunting progressions ever. Gm-Eb-D7. I first heard this Scorpions song, when I was 17. Starts with a delayed lightly detuned guitar broken chords, and a distant lead guitar picks up the agony of a lonely heart and converges into a beautiful ballad rhythm, just in-time to catch the first words that compliment the guitars 'time, it needs time, to win back your love again'. It still takes me to that smoky, haunting, fire-pit corner place. They transcend your emotions in to a dark tunnel of love and pain. These guys, Scorpions, are the best in broken chords guitaring. My first guitarist in Heaven Band kept insisting that we play one song from Scorpions in all our shows, we figured out the method, but we didn't have a lead singer to match Klaus Meine tonal beauty. All that I could do was 'Another Day in Paradise'.

My best picks from Scorpions are, 'Still Loving You', 'Holiday', 'Send Me an Angel', 'Loving You Sunday Morning'.

Do you like when it rains in Paris?

The movie opens with a debate whether Paris is beautiful in rain or not. 

Gil keeps persuading his girlfriend Inez that its so romantic to settle down in Paris and write his novel. There's no debate in our minds when the first frame blooms out. The landscape of the city glows up in a hue. It looks both spring and overcast. The lights dim into the dark sky and the rain reflects the city lights, its a poetry of lights, rain, sky and the lonesome mind of the aspiring novelist.

This movie magically spins several time periods all along - 1920s, 1890s, Renaissance and present day. That's the beauty of this Woody Allen's masterclass movie.

After enjoying success as Hollywood screen writer, Gil wants to write a novel about a Nostalgia Store, as he discards film writing is not cherishing his artistic skills. In this process he pretty much gets lost in the streets of this lovely city and finds himself living in his greatest dreams. The 1920s. There is a glimpse of Picasso painting his first modern interpretation of Adriana, and you see Fitzgerald and Hemingway commenting on the art piece. Gil moves progressively into the subject and talks to Adriana to understand her reactions to the art-form of Picasso. Can you believe all these happening in Paris, and you are just like the wandering soul of Gil. 

Every midnight Gil takes a mystery cab to 1920s and explores the lives of artists and writers of that time. In daylight the beautiful city glows with its multi-reflection of lotus ponds, medieval bridges and cloudy sky. We still have Paul giving lectures about modern day sculptures and impressionist art of Monet in the present day Paris, when Gil just walks around the city in the perfect lost-hood.

Adriana drifts away to 1890s Golden Era and Inez drifts away from Gil, leaving Gil enjoying his 1920s and settling up in present day Paris with Gabrielle. There is love, art, impressionism, naive imagination and this beautiful city. 

No - How dare you....!

"i'm getting sick when people tell me I should learn to say No --- Damn I know how to say No, rough on your face or smooth like a needle, But the fact is I dont want to say No. I believe in me. That I can do it", shouted Kayal to Big Buck .

Now the big guy is thinking - Was this all because I wanted to know how things went in your Kitchen? do you really follow the recipe, Do you? Never! I know you cook up stuff, but why dont you make as the recipe tells you to do, why do you cook up your imagination. This is not a place to get Imaginative or Learning to say No. I said "No, No to your Chicken Fry. Agree with me please little Kayal"

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