WHERE HAVE THEY ALL GONE...??

Where have they all gone? And why don’t they make TV shows like they used to be? In another 10 years, a kid will never know what Sesame Street was. Remember how we loved the old puppets when we were small? Big Bird… I loved that dude. And the elephant with long eye lashes? Maybe the children today these things are “too childish”? Hmmm… Maybe that.

You rarely see a 2D cartoon these days. When the movie “Toy Story” first came out, I never liked those 3D figures. Maybe I didn’t feel it as a “real” cartoon… like Thundercats.. He-Man.. She-Ra.. I used to love Thundercats a lot. But that sort of movies are rare to find these days. 3D movies are far too beyond our imagination. But still… I love those old 2D cartoons. Well.. a few movies came out this year as 2D cartoons… Batman – The Gotham Knight, for an example. Sccoby Doo… Gummy Bears… Care Bears.. Smurfs… All of them are goners now. I remember me and my sister running to the TV hen we hear the theme song “ We are E..e…e…e..e…e…e.. Ewoks..”.. Yeah.. The Ewoks theme song….

Oh..! There were so many good TV shows those days. Remember ‘Small Wonder’? The story about a robot girl? This is the oldest one I can remember. I used to love it. Little house on the Prairies…That was another one. I think I just started schooling these days. But in the class too, we used to talk about the weekly episodes of Little House on the Prairies… Knight Rider was another craze those days. That was some unimaginable car those days.. the shape and all.. And there was Robin Hood… Still famous I guess.. I think Knight Rider and Robin Hood were the only 2 TV shows which made it to the 2000s.

I remember me being so crazy over the Robin Hood guy…and being obsessed with Hern. Umm.. We even used to drink water from our bottles in school.. saying “May Hern protect us”… The kids in this era.. they will never know how those shows were like. Remembering it all.. I feel like an oldie, I guess.

The TV show makers… cartoon producers, they want to give things for their audience’s taste.. Kids will think of those TV shows as “Not-so-cool” and “boring”…. I think it’s what has really happened. The times change… So does the taste of the people.. Unavoidable things… We have to deal with it…

THE 20TH DAY...

After working 19 days in a row.. I got a weekend to stay at home.. FINALLY!! Phew..! What a relief it is..!! After all the hard work.. it’s all paid back well… Everything is not going to be bad, always. Something always comes up to make you happy. You were planning a load of work on Saturday morning… and when you’re in the shower as a starter, you get an unexpected call from a friend you didn’t get a chance to hang around with for quite a long time, telling you.. “Hey.. I’m on my way to see you”.. The next thing I knew was…I had a great day at home with my friend. We chatted… had a go in the Facebook… looked at our old photos… searched stuff in the net… ate & ate… The day turned out to be the best Saturday after a long time..

When my friend left, I watched Mamma Mia that night, and it didn’t turn out to what I quite expected. It’s an OK movie. Not-so-special, I should stay. Had a good sleep… and my friend Vish waked me up in the morning with a call.. I couldn’t go to the saloon to trim my hair (wanted to color it a bit too), but I did some shopping with my mom. All my supplies were over… 19 days is a long time for them to last. The evening was good with another movie… a call from a from a good friend in Japan.. loads of rain…calling a few frinds… reading newspapers…and a special dinner…

Marriages are made in heaven, they say.. I say… weekends are made in heaven too..

AUGUST RUSH...

It’s not the perfect time for movies for me these days; I don’t even have a time to look after myself. But 3 weeks ago, I managed to find a free time to watch the perfect movie after a very long time. I downloaded it 2 months ago, but watched it only after my best friend commented how amazingly superb it is. He’s the one who watches the movies first, which I download and tells me which ones are good and which ones are not so good. This one.. of cos, he actually said that he’ll stop watching movies if I don’t fall in love with this one.

One fine Sunday… I watched it… and fell in love with music… all over again. It’s a musical. The best one out there yet, I would say. Music is a religion, they say. Tranquility… Peace… Comfort.. That’s music.. The slow tingling sound of the wind chimes… The breathtaking melody of the guitar.. the birds… the sound of the cool breeze flowing across the corn fields… It’s magical. Just magical!! The release date was Nov 13th, 2007. I wonder why the hell I didn’t come across this one all this time. What an idiot I am!

Freddie Highmore stars as Even Taylor aka August Rush, the orphan boy in search of his parents. He’s desperate that one day he would find his parents through music. His parents fell in love, because of music.. and as two people with different styles of music, they live in this world, searching the existence of the other counterpart. The boy… father .. and mother. What will music do to their lives? Will it change their lives?

I won’t babble about it further. It’s just magical… and so beautiful. I recommend it to ANYBODY… just ANYBODY! Download it.. or buy it. No sooner, you’ll find out that I was not lying..