Tuesday, July 19, 2005

To those who haven't been to see War of the Worlds yet, DON'T!!!! The movie was a 116 minute special effect. Yes, the special effect was stunningly good but then, if a movie is being made in the 21st century, with Steven Spielberg directing it, would you expect anything less? After the initial "wow, how cool is that" - a feeling that lasted all of 15 seconds, the crowd at Nishat Cinema ended up being more entertaining.

On a much, much happier note, I have just discovered Coldplay. It feels like an eternity since a contemporary band produced a decent album. Almost all the songs in X & Y are listenable but particularly appealing are Fix You, Speed of Sound, and Swallowed in the Sea. YAY!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile, half a billion songs have been sold and legally downloaded from the iTunes Music Store.

If you are an aspiring activist and are looking for inspiration and ideas for direct action, get hold of We Are Everywhere - The Irresistable Rise of Global Anticapitalism. "We Are Everywhere is a book of stories written by activists from the front lines of resistance against capitalism and economic globalization, tales of struggle and rebellion from participants in a movement of movments that is gaining ground on every continent. These stories, told with both words and pictures, have been collected over the past three years by a collective of activists, writers and artists, all of whom have deep connections to the movement."

“It is not only by shooting bullets in the battlefields that tyranny is overthrown, but also by hurling ideas of redemption, words of freedom and terrible anathemas against the hangmen that people bring down dictators and empires …” - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, 1914

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