Pounding The Keyboard

          Vertigo (1958) is one of my favorite films and my favorite Hitchcock films (I like it better than Psycho). Frequently voted as the greatest film of all time, Vertigo is the story of a retired detective who suffers from acrophobia and suffers vertigo whenever he is in high places. One day, he was tasked to secretly follow and observe a mysterious woman by her husband and—to tell you more about the plot will be a crime.           But what I really want to discuss here is a different kind of vertigo—the dizzying type.           Almost two years ago, I was inside our house when I suddenly felt lightheaded and nauseous—the room started to spin and the ceiling started trading places with the floor. It felt like being very drunk without drinking anything remotely alcoholic. It was scary because I thought I was having a stroke, although I always thought that my blood pressure was always okay.           I tried to enter my room to reach for my bed but the floor w

“Dammit!”          -- Jack Bauer           I first heard about 24 (yeah, the award-winning show which main character is a gung ho agent named Jack Bauer) around 2006, I think. At that time, few seasons had aired.   I wasn’t that interested on TV shows that time (movies are enough for me to help me while away my time when I wasn’t doing anything) but I decided to give it a try.           I searched for DVDs of the show, watched it and I got hooked immediately.           24 is suspenseful, nail-biting, exciting, exhilarating and smart—in short, very entertaining.   It goes over-the-top at times but never insulting and never boring. Boring is a word you will never use to describe 24 . What is boring is a night without an episode of 24. Tee-hee. The show regularly uses split screens (to show different scenes occurring at the same time) and uses real time in its narration.   Every season has 24 episodes. And the whole season happens in just one day (one hour per e

 “If one of us is going to be called Pink Floyd, it’s me. It’s my pig up there, it's my plane crashing, It’s their dry ice…”                                                 --Roger Waters, former Pink Floyd bassist/vocalist           It has been confirmed that Pink Floyd (in my book the greatest rock band of all time) is coming out with a new album and it’s entitled   The Endless River, which recording started during The Division Bell sessions, the reason the late Rick Wright was still able to contribute.           This should have been a really, really fantastic news   for the fans (which obviiously include me) if only Roger Waters is in the album.           David Gilmour fans will definitely contest this but I am of the opinion that Roger Waters was the heart and soul and the creative genius behind Pink Floyd Without him, there would have been no Dark Side of the Moon , Wish You Were here, Animals and The Wall —these are all fantastic CDs and Ro

That moment when you want to write another blog entry but you feel too miserable to even think of another sentence to write after this one. So you just uploaded a YouTube video so you could quickly go back to your miserable ways. I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour But heaven knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now   In my life Why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die? Two lovers entwined pass me by And heaven knows I'm miserable now I was looking for a job, and then I found a job And heaven knows I'm miserable now   In my life Oh, why do I give valuable time To people who don't care if I live or die? What she asked of me at the end of the day Caligula would have blushed "You've been in the house too long" she said And I (naturally) fled   In my life Why do I smile At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye?