Until

If I caught the world in a bottle
And everything was still beneath the moon
Without your love would it shine for me?
If I was smart as Aristotle
And understood the rings around the moon
What would it all matter if you loved me?

Here in your arms where the world is impossibly still
With a million dreams to fulfill
And a matter of moments until the dancing ends
Here in your arms when everything seems to be clear
Not a solitary thing would I fear
Except when this moment comes near the dancing's end

If I caught the world in an hourglass
Saddled up the moon so we could ride
Until the stars grew dim, Until...

One day you’ll meet a stranger
And all the noise is silenced in the room
You’ll feel that you're close to some mystery
In the moonlight and everything shatters
You feel as if you’ve known her all your life
The world’s oldest lesson in history

Here in your arms where the world is impossibly still
With a million dreams to fulfill
And a matter of moments until the dancing ends
Here in your arms when everything seems to be clear
Not a solitary thing do I fear
Except when this moment comes near the dancing’s end

Oh, if I caught the world in an hourglass
Saddled up the moon and we would ride
Until the stars grew dim
Until the time that time stands still, Until...

This song by Sting.. brings out the yearnings long subdued.. pushed down the deepest darkest corners of my heart…It never fails to move me..

For those who are not familiar with this song… it is from Kate & Leopold, OST sung by Sting. This song won the golden globe award for best song in 2001. Kate & Leopold is in the genre of magical realism, in which, Leopold from 19th Century accidentally lands up in 21st Century New York where he meets ambitious Kate. Kate is a successful career woman who believes in “practicality” but is swept off her feet by charming and chivalrous 19th century Duke. Kate goes back in time to be with Leopold and chooses him over her career and her present day life.

Why I wrote all this because this flick got me thinking. Not just about Hugh Jackman, but other stuff like Time traveling, kismetic inevitability, chivalry and sensitivity, chasing dreams and most importantly of eternal love.

That’s precisely I think to myself, whenever I hear this song..that is any of the above mentioned stuff is a possibility?

I shall think, research and present my take on all of the five stated believes, one by one.

La Fee Verte - Truth behind the Green Fairy-

Let your mind be free. Shed your inhibitions, discard those ideas…values.. Question their existence… only when you undo… you can come undone…

The Green Fairy is the English translation of La Fee Verte, the affectionate French nickname given to the celebrated absinthe drink in the nineteenth century. The nickname stuck, and over a century later, "absinthe" and "Green Fairy" continue to be used interchangeably by devotees of the potent green alcohol. Other names of this elusive green colored alcohol: poets and artists were inspired by the "Green Muse"; Aleister Crowley, the British occultist, worshipped the "Green Goddess". But no other nickname stuck as well as the original, and many drinkers of absinthe refer to the green liquor simply as La Fee - the Fairy.

Absinthe contains a lot more alcohol than most other liquors. Actual content varies by brand, but many absinthes are nearly twice as alcoholic as, say, scotch, gin or vodka. To put it another way, a shot of strong absinthe roughly equals two shots of whisky or similar spirit.
For easy reference, here is an example of alcohol content in a few of the better-known brands:
Typical whisky, gin or vodka: 40% alcohol
Absinthe Kubler: 53% alcohol
Pernod Absinthe: 60% alcohol
La Fee Absinthe: 68% alcohol
Hills Absinth: 70% alcohol
King of Spirits Absinth: 70% alcohol

The symbol of transformation
But Green Fairy isn't just another name for absinthe: she is a metaphorical concept of artistic enlightenment and exploration, of poetic inspiration, of a freer state of mind, of new ideas, of a changing social order.

To the original bohemians of 1890s Paris, the Fairy was a welcomed symbol of transformation. She was the trusted guide en-route to artistic innovativation; she was the symbol of thirst (for life) to Arthur Rimbaud, the first "punk poet": it was the Fairy who guided him -- and his fellow poet and partner Paul Verlaine -- on their quest to escape the conventional reality of their time into the sanctuary of the surreal.

It is said, as the cool water liberates the power of wormwood oil and the other herbal ingredients from the green concentrate, so will new ideas, concepts and notions be set free in the mind of the drinker -- be he a poet, an artist, a scientist, or the common man on the street.
Inspiring and liberating, the Green Fairy was a powerful symbol of the avant-garde elite that gathered in Parisian cafes at the turn of the last two centuries. In this sense, the Fairy was what pot later became to the hippie subculture of the 1960s. In her company -- or under her influence -- Belle Epoque writers and artists became lucid commentators on an emerging new world. With the stroke of a brush or a pen, they experimented, they rebelled, they provoked, and so they successfully subverted the stuffy conventions of the time.

As a metaphorical creature locked within a bottle of absinthe, the Green Fairy continued to earn her reputation as the artist's muse all over the Continent.

Contents

As I am staring at my newborn blog, I was wondering what this blog will be about.. and then I thought it need not be specific.. (if I have to write about marketing and advertising.. since its what my profession is... then what will Philip Kotlers of the world will do...!! i don't want them to envy me!)

This blog is a collection of my thoughts, musings, likings, dis-likings, poetry, fiction, literature.. (very much like Paulo Coelho's "like a flowing river.." only difference is that he can afford to get his "collection of thoughts" published.. )

Someone asked me recently that why i am not into Creative writing and what I am doing as a servicing person (old school version of Account management, in advertising).. somehow this question struck home. I guess this is another reason which pushed me to start writing... maybe.. we'll figure it out.. won't we ?

Have taken the leap!

Finally.. finally after much thinking, musing, deliberating.. i took the plunge.. into this ever shrinking world of Digital blogging... why did I start this.. hmmm honestly.. I was too bored with myself in office.. one of the days where you feel completely unproductive, demotivated being.. so I thought, why not be proactive (at least in my personal space) why not chase my dream of blogging.. so here I am..

So let me fasten my seat belt and go through this crazy rollercoaster ride called "life".

Happy Blogging!!