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"For it is written" / "Maktub"

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:22:00 +0000

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

* * * * * / 5

All of my struggles and the sum of my faith is vocalised by the story told in this little book.

A few excerpts:"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

"It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil," said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouth that is."

This is a soul changing book. A parable both ancient and timely and eternal for all generations of men. It at once is a single life changing book as well as a book to help you shape your present life. If Paulo Coelho hasn't achieved spiritual enlightenment or Moksha there certainly ain't anyone else who has either. His books may not be literary elite prose. But his story is a universal language of love, faith, eternity and humanity. I am privileged to have read it and feel honored in recommending it to all in turmoil in body or mind or spirit.

And the Adventure explodes like madness upon the rabid

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 07:38:00 +0000

Book Review: The Man of Bronze by Kenneth Robeson

* * * * * / 5

I started reading this yesterday and in a matter of 8 or 9 hours I have finished reading it cover to cover. It is a true page-turner. Gripping from the first line to the next to every paragraph, it is masterfully designed to thrill you into unseen adventure.

It is miraculous how this really dated novel seems to feel captivating even today, generations and cultures apart. It is a timeless masterpiece of genre fiction.

Lot is said and described about Doc Savage in this first book in the series. But it had to be done to establish this superhuman character. His strength, physical and mental, his determination in spirit and wisdom, is unmatched world over.

Lot of the physical exercises he is described to be doing is exactly like the yoga resistance exercises I learnt under the tutorial of Sri Paramahansa Yogananda. The California ashram of Self-Realisation Fellowship continues teaching these exercises in USA and rest of the world till today.

I feel greatly elated upon beginning this adventure. I rarely read series and sequels unless they are independent of each other. I have often exclaimed my distaste of Harry Potter and The Dune and the likes. This is more in tune to the adventures of say Tarzan or Conan the Barbarian or the modern James Bond. Very readable and never feels out of date.

Mayan gold is waiting to be discovered and an ancient civilisation will be visited by the Feathered Serpent and the miraculous Man of Bronze. Read it to believe it.

Here is Ron Ely who was also a TV Tarzan and the Doc Savage in the 1975 movie in a promotional photo of Doc Savage 1975.

Muscle Movie Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:44:00 +0000

Spectacular reboot

* * * * * / 5

KHAAAAAAANNNNN - is back! Fun and entertaining sequel. Can't say it is better than the first movie but is definitely not lagging behind in thrills and action and drama and special effects. Thoroughly engaging with plot twists and a Superman Vs. Spock fight which is a must see and the best part of the movie. Very much what fans would want to see in the reboot of TOS. Good stuff from JJ Abrams. Well written and directed. The chemistry of James T Kirk and Spock begins to show in this movie. The Scotty and Bones and all are also brilliant in their characterised roles.

Muscle Movie Review: The Wolf of Wall Street

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:27:00 +0000

Captivating and spellbinding 3 hours

* * * * * / 5

Brilliant. Every second of it is entertaining. You can't take your eyes off the screen. No! This is not an action movie or a special effects display. This is a movie about brokers in Wall Street and yet it is spectacular. You just spend 3 hours watching it without feeling a second is wasted. Leonardo is awesome as always. Others play a good role, especially his team of misfits on the pinksheets. A must watch this year. Sure nominees into the Oscars.

Book Launch Promo: Circus Solace ebook free

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:48:00 +0000

Free Ebook this Monday Jan 13, 2014

CIRCUS SOLACE by Chris Castle

Genre: Young Adult, Adventure, Coming of Age

Only at: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HTAERNA

Best Wishes,
Ujjwal Dey
Managing Editor, FreedomFiction.com

“Time’s a little of a mystery when it comes to Moon-Dip history” ~ Marcus

“Circus Solace is a story about growing up, loss and being a child, in some ways, forever. It is a story about father and sons, friends and enemies, families lost and families re-forged in curious circumstances. It is fantastical and down to earth and explains why zombies need to juggle, if only for an hour a day.” ~ FreedomFiction.com

“A diner owner, a chameleon and a zombie are not surprising. What is surprising is that this story has already happened to so many of us. Metaphors. Meaning. Mazel-tov.” ~ Raymond Hamilton

Review from Raymond Hamilton: “Circus Solace is a glimpse of genius. As always Chris Castle weaves family, emotions, loss and friendships into one story and makes an epic heart-wrenching tale of relationships and the human condition. His grasp of human nature surpasses the best of qualified psychiatrists. Chris Castle has not written a children’s story as an adult. He has written a story for all adults using the perspective of innocent, all-loving, curious children. Therein lies the proof that we will hear Chris Castle’s name echo in literary circles soon enough.”

Foreword

Circus Solace is a parable of the 20th century. A fable that narrates the decline of the modern man. Using the simple devices of a teenage story, Chris Castle paints a portrait of visible decadence in humanity. Our generation, as with the generation before us, have cared for now and worried not about tomorrow or the ones from yesterday. Circus Solace weaves a network of characters and incidents and instances where you say, “I can relate to that!”

If there ever was a man who has gauged humanity, who has understood every emotion, who has insight into the very everyday actions of modern citizens – it is the author Chris Castle. A teacher by profession, Chris Castle proves that he is in a noble profession and our children have a bright future in the nourishing hands of such educators.

As you read this novella, if you feel a tear-drop, let it drop. If you feel a sad smile, let it break upon your face. If you feel joy for a simple accomplishment, go ahead and cheer. The story is alive. The people in it are alive. You can name them. Re-name them as per the people in your own life. This book hits that close to home. Don’t worry about possibilities, or consequences, or absurdities. Look at it objectively and you can’t help but feel subjectively as to your own past experiences. Let the story consume you. As it devours you, page by page, it will invoke a spark. A little flame inside your heart asking you to be noble, be kind, be considerate. We are all in this together. We are floating and crashing across the galaxies in the same ship called planet Earth. Why be a stranger? Be a friend to have a friend. You own this ship. So does your neighbour. So does the dung beetle and the salmon swimming upstream. Take this epic tale of search, longing, discovery, passion and providence as a milestone after which you become the change you want in others.

Death of American Culture

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 10:09:00 +0000

American Culture - how corporates sold America and forgot to be American.

Big Brother - Big Boss.

India and China are such big markets that biggest of brands have to adjust to local culture and taste to make a sale.

And everyone wants a piece of the action from two biggest unexploited retail markets in the world - China and India together represent half the human population of the planet.

MTV which prided upon never changing wherever it goes changed colours in India after just two years in Indian Television market. Today MTV India is unrecognisable to any American MTV fan. It airs only crappy Bollywood song-dance and cheap teenage reality shows where innovative public insults are their USP.

The Big Brother show of Endemol was adapted in India as BIG BOSS. It makes news every year as a new low in Indian Television's display of crassness and crudeness aired on satellite television worldwide.

The reason Big Brother is called Big Boss is also interesting. In Indian culture Big Brother is a term associated with benevolent, generous, helpful and supportive elder brother/s.

So the show is called BIG BOSS in Indian TV screens. As a Boss is the most universally despised person in East and West. LOLz.

Woody Allen refused to release his latest movie in Indian cinema halls. Because the hypocrite Government of India which earns billions of US Dollars from taxes and excise from cigarette sales has a statutory mandatory declaration before each movie - which features horrible graphic videos of cancer patients and worse.

Bravo Woody Allen!

But all are not so idealistic. Most American Studios including Disney, Warner Bros, Universal, Fox Studios, etc are more than willing to bend over backwards to adapt their "content" for India, Indian Government and Indian sensibilities.

The American way is apparently a fallacy. The American culture is disguised and distorted beyond recognition in India and China.

No wonder there is so little goodwill for USA despite its booming sales all over the world. The corporates sold the product/service but forgot to sell the AMERICANA CULTURE to these worldwide moneybag audiences.

Muscle Movie Review: Phata Poster Nikla Hero

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:56:00 +0000

Muscle Movie Review: Phata Poster Nikla Hero

* * * * * / 5

The name of the movie says it all. Shahid Kapur is awesome as larger than life hero from a village, landing up in big bad Mumbai. Padmini as a mother shines and proves her skills as an accomplished actress. Ilena is charming and delightful. She livens up the screen while sharing it with a matching "hero" played by Shahid. Definitely a family movie and very much in the mad-cap style of the director's former "Andaz Apna Apna". Don't miss the cameo by Salman Khan, he is at his best playing himself in the movie.

Muscle Movie Review: Grand Masti (Hindi)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:46:00 +0000

Muscle Movie Review: Grand Masti (Hindi)

* * * * / 5

This is a hilarious vulgar movie. It is a movie-length non-veg joke. It keeps surprising you at every new scene and seems like a perfectly molded adult mis-adventure. Definitely worth a watch and it has worthily broken box-office records for adult rated cinema in Bollywood.

GovernaTorr.com launches www.GoodNews.name

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 12 Sep 2013 03:24:00 +0000

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Muscle Movie Review: Madras Cafe

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:43:00 +0000

* * * * * / 5

Saw Madras Cafe today at 12 pm. It was a housefull show at PVR Mulund. It is yet another great production by the actor turned producer after Vicky Donor. Intelligent cinema in India has a new name: John Abraham!!!

Oscars will hear about this movie. Box office profits are immaterial in measuring the success of storytelling and cinematic production of Madras Cafe.

The timing of this movie release with the upcoming fateful elections of Central Government of India is also in the media spotlight. The movie starts off by sympathising with the innocent victims - the Tamils in a world of ethnic cleansing and genocide by Sri Lankan locals. But this changes within minutes. Soon all violence is considered wrong and unacceptable. Political peaceful solutions are to be implemented at all costs at any means necessary. The pace of the movie is engaging for every single minute from start to end.

The post-interval movie is mostly a sympathy generation machine for Rajiv Gandhi - a young inexperienced and an ex-Prime Minister with questionable talents. This may not be the intent of the director but the script drives this movie and the script favours sympathy generation for Congress and ideals promoted by Congress which include disarmament of Tamil rebels as a way to create a peaceful solution in Jaffna.

I was satisfied with the movie and believe it is a well made movie. Whether it is propaganda is not clear because Kamal Hasan's VISHWAROOPAM was blocked by ruling political parties of this nation of fools and illiterates. But this movie went ahead and released worldwide without glitch or delay or agitations.

Make up your own mind. But when casting a vote for election - look toward future leaders and not past pedestals.

Paid Media in India: Rape of Mother India is okay

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 07:16:00 +0000

So again there is a big hype on rape cases in India. Even though, clearly India is safer for women than elsewhere in the Western hemisphere. This is typical tactic of paid media in India.

Every news channel and radio channel and newspaper and magazine in India are promoting and instigating Indian citizens to protest over stray incidents of rape and drunken driving and a celebrity smoking cigarettes.

But this paid media of India has zero interest in similar public reaction nor public debate on thousands of corruption cases by elected Government officials of India amounting to billions of dollars. So billions in black money is daily moved from India to foreign bank accounts by ruling Government of India and its corrupt ministers. Yet, paid media says, don't talk about that. We don't want to discuss Government. We want to blame India, blame Indians and blame Indian culture for stray incidents of rape, drunken driving and a celebrity who can't quit smoking cigarettes.

Shame on these journalists. They are the ones sheltering these black money corruption rackets in India. The enemy is not India or Indian culture. The enemy is paid media which has taken over Indian television, radio, newspapers and magazines.

No one has the guts to air the names of elected or dynasty members taking part in illegal activities. These paid media wants soft targets - some poor person committing crime against another poor person is breaking news, requires morcha and agitation and insult of police officials. But the ministers and dynasty members are protected by these paid media who only want soft targets and protect the billions of dollars of black money shared by corrupt elected officials of India with the paid media journalists.

Rape and gang-rape and India and Americans and Europeans

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 05:53:00 +0000

India has a population of over 1.2 billion humans plus millions of illegal immigrants. USA in comparison is so small. But in USA rapists don't even get arrested, forget about conviction and punishment. In India at least people get convicted and punished under our slow steady legal system. India is safer for women than USA and Europe. Stop maligning India. In a population as big as this, crime cannot be erased 100%.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/jan/01/delhi-rape-damini

Delhi gang-rape: look westward in disgust
The coverage of Damini's death strikes a particularly ironic note following recent media controversy over a rape in Ohio

by Emer O'Toole
theguardian.com, Tuesday 1 January 2013 16.39 GMT

There's something uncomfortably neocolonial about the way the Delhi gang-rape and subsequent death of the woman now known as Damini is being handled in the UK and US media. While India's civil and political spheres are alight with protest and demands for changes to the country's culture of sexual violence, commentators here are using the event to simultaneously demonise Indian society, lionise our own, and minimise the enormity of western rape culture.

A particularly blatant example of this is Libby Purves's piece for the Times. She says the Delhi bus rape should "shatter our Bollywood fantasies". For Purves, westerners enjoy a romanticised view of India, all heady spirituality and Marigold Hotels; and especially romantic in their views, for reasons Purves neglects to address, are the British. Thus, upright Europeans have sentimentally ignored the "murderous, hyena-like male contempt" that Purves says is an Indian cultural norm. Neatly excised from her account however is the relationship between poverty, lack of education and repressive attitudes towards women, and, by extension, the role of Europe in creating and sustaining poverty in its former colonies. Attitudes towards women in the east were once used by colonialists to, first, prop up the logic of cultural superiority that justified unequal power relations (the "white man's burden") and second, silence feminists working back in the west by telling them that, comparatively, they had nothing to complain about.

When it finishes calling Indian men hyenas, Purves's article states that westerners "have the luxury of fretting about frillier feminist issues such as magazine images, rude remarks and men not doing housework". Does anyone else see an unattractive historical pattern here?

Her article is not, by any means, the only one to report on this issue as if rape is something that only happens "over there" – something we civilised folk in the west have somehow put behind us. Elsewhere, the message is subtler, but a misplaced sense of cultural superiority shines through. For example, this BBC article states, as if shocking, the statistic that a woman is raped in Delhi every 14 hours. That equates to 625 a year. Yet in England and Wales, which has a population about 3.5 times that of Delhi, we find a figure for recorded rapes of women that is proportionately four times larger: 9,509. Similarly, the Wall Street Journal decries the fact that in India just over a quarter of alleged rapists are convicted; in the US only 24% of alleged rapes even result in an arrest, never mind a conviction. This is the strange kind of reportage you tend to get on the issue.

Owen Jones's excellent piece in the Independent is a breath of fresh air, asking people to acknowledge that rape, as well as gang rapes, happen in the west too. Similarly, Laura Bates's recent article on victim blaming should act as sufficient retort to anyone who thinks police chief KP Raghuvanshi's advice that women should carry chilli powder to prevent rape is symptomatic of a specifically Indian brand of misogyny.

The coverage of Damini's death strikes a particularly ironic note following recent media controversy over a rape, in Steubenville, Ohio, of a 16-year-old girl – allegedly by members of the high-school football team. The case is that the young woman was dragged, drunk and unresponsive, from party to party, where she was sexually abused. The brutal death of Damini has spurred Indian civil society to its feet, causing protest and unrest, bringing women and men into the streets, vocal in their demands for change. Sonia Gandhi has met the woman's parents. The army and the states of Punjab and Haryana have cancelled new year's celebrations. What happened in the US? In Steubenville, football-crazy townsfolk blamed the victim and it took a blogger – Alexandria Goddard, who is now being sued – and a follow-up article from the New York Times four months after the incident to get nationwide attention for the story.

Purves's article claims that we in the west are "looking eastward in disgust". I believe that disgusted parties would do well to turn their judgmental gazes on their own societies. Let's look east in solidarity and support for India's urgently necessary women's rights movement; let's keep talking about the social discrimination Indian women face, which affluent westerners do not. However, it is both prejudiced and completely fantastical to talk as though sexual violence is some kind of Indian preserve. We might have comparatively better women's rights in the UK, but this is due, in large part, to the social services that our wealth allows. Colonial history helped to create and global capital continues to sustain low standards of living in India. We would do well to be cognisant of our historically inscribed privilege before complaining that this horrific event has destroyed our pretty colonial fantasies.

Understanding a Religion and its Philosophy

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:46:00 +0000

Original Complaint: A Critique of Buddhism
Reply: Tbh, I am a little tired with the western adulation of Buddhism. It's based on total hogwash.
Another Reply: All religions are based on hogwash. Wake up people!

My Reply:
One Pope called Galileo's theories as hogwash.

Tesla's inventions were labelled hogwash by rival businessmen.

Is it Galileo's fault? Is it Tesla's fault?

Same way, Original Poster's lack of comprehension of a foreign culture and lifestyle should be viewed in the same light. It is not Buddhism at fault. It is your inability to comprehend Buddhist philosophy or any religious teaching for that matter.

Religious extremists who can't find any peace in their own religion and own religious philosophy are the ones who attack other religions and philosophies as their misery gets satisfaction that others cannot possibly be at peace through alternate means.

For example you enjoy a Happy Meal at McDonalds. Another neighbour enjoys Pizza Hut pizzas only. A third says both are junk food and survives on raw organic vegetables only. All three are suffering consequences of their actions and habits and conditioning - and each think they are right and healthier and nobler. The meat eater claims protein and strength. The pizza eater claims tastebud and stomach satiation. The vegetable eater bemoans the fate of the Earth and thinks himself as a martyr saint.

Zen is ACCEPTANCE. When you are able to live with yourself - you have achieved self-realisation.

"To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." ~ William Shakespeare (Polonius is a character in William Shakespeare's Hamlet)

Best Wishes,
Ujjwal Dey
Founder: Satya Kiran Yoga

Muscle Movie Review: R.I.P.D

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 09:32:00 +0000

Men In Black without the wit, without the humour, without the acting skills, without an interesting story.

So one officer is suddenly recruited into RIPD just as Will Smith is suddenly made a MIB in the original MIB movie.

Its all downhill from there.

Just one more thing! Dear Sir Mr. Jeff Bridges! Talking about demons and ghouls and deadites - what on Earth POSSESSED YOU to sign up for this crap movie and then actually go through and work in this movie???

And you are playing second fiddle to twits such as Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Bacon? That's conduct unbecoming of an Academy Award Winner. You Sir are a legend. Movies should be written with you in mind. It is mindless for you to compromise for lack of Hollywood talent in movie business and work in bull-shit movies such as these. And well Kevin Bacon himself should be ashamed of having worked in this movie. Are you bankrupt Mr. Bacon? Why sign up for this?

Jesus! R.I.P. indeed.

Muscle Movie Review: THE CONJURING

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 10:48:00 +0000

Based on a true life story this is an engrossing tale of horror and psychology. This horror movie did well in its second weekend at the box office as well. So definitely goes beyond its genre to make inroads into viewership and audiences.

It can only be compared to the cinematic brilliance of The Exorcist which was nominated for an Academy Award or two.

The story unfolds pleasantly with horrible happenings which are actually a video presentation at a class by the duo who fight evil. This duo is man and wife and no they are not priests. Just demonologists or paranormal investigators. They find rational, logical causes and reasons for most ghost sightings and hauntings.

But a sinister evil awaits a family of 5 children when they move into a remote house in the country side.

The movie is brilliant in its narration, pace and imagination. It does not use cheap gimmicky special effects or props or the likes in most run-of-the-mill horror movies.

Don't shy away thinking it is a horror movie and therefore not worth watching. Think of it as a well made movie telling an interesting story and non-genre fans will sit glued and enjoy the roller-coaster ride to the heart of Hell.

Five Minute Novel: Aghora: At the left hand of God

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 12:53:00 +0000

Aghora: At the left hand of God
by Dr. Robert E Svoboda

* * * * * / 5

Anecdotes and Memoirs from an Alternate World

This is a fun, fast read. Even though it is categorised under "Religion" genre. I loved this one and read it in just 2 days since I got hold of it. The only comparison to the mystic tales of miracles and the miraculous mentioned in this book is another great titled "Autobiography of a Yogi" by the genius Sri Paramahansa Yogananda who was a disciple of Benares Saint Sri Lahiri Mahasaya.

The anecdotes are fantastical and larger than any life you can imagine. The introduction and preface warn us against offensive content. But I think that is Dr. Svoboda talking like a typical Westerner assuming that these things will offend the reader. Maybe it will offend the politically correct prudent Western audience. As a common man in India, I found nothing in it - not a single incident, event nor character as offensive.

This book is praiseworthy for its honest evaluation and discussion and merits in recollecting historical or mythological knowledge. I hope the retarded idiot named "Amish Tripathi" who wrote the useless and sacrilegious Shiva Trilogy reads this and dies in shame at his infidel behaviour towards a living God.

Aghora: At the left hand of God is a lively narration. It is written by disciple of Vimalananda which is Dr. Svoboda. But the chapters are written in confessional first person perspective.

So it is like hearing the anecdotes and life story of Vimalananda directly from him.

Those who think this book defames Hinduism are conditioned by the colonialism of Muslim Mughals parda system and Victorian British prudence. Amish with his Shiva Trilogy is the defamer of all Hindu Gods and sects and religion itself.

When you read this - one thing is crystal clear to any reader: "Everything mentioned here is either 100% true or Everything mentioned here is 100% false".

There is no in-between, no grey area, no selective belief systems. You have to accept everything in it as true or everything as false.

The real identity of the Aghori Vimalananda is hidden as his disciple Dr. Svoboda was ordered by his Guru and mentor to do so. If he betrays his teacher to reveal names and locations then Karmic consequences would influence Dr.Svoboda. It is okay that the skeptics think Dr.Svoboda is not revealing the identity for fear of exposing fiction. Skeptics should avoid reading books classified under "Religion" and instead blindly follow and quote their Christ and Bible called "Dawkins".

As a student of Bhakti Yoga, Pranayama, Kriya Yoga and Tantra - I definitely found the book rewarding and enlightening. If you think you can pigeon-hole Hindus and Hinduism the way other religions can be pin-pointed, then it is your sad ignorance of facts. Hinduism is just a way of life. Hindus differ in every State and region in India (and elsewhere). The Gods and demi-gods are many. The ways of worshipping are many. Even the same God is worshipped differently in different regions. There is no one prayer, no one mantra. Many devotional songs and many mantras and shlokas.

Plus Hinduism does not have a single religious manual. There are 4 Vedas, a dozen or more Upanishads, many Puranas, many verse-books such as Mahabharata, Ramayana and Bhagvad Gita. In fact the Vedas mention that all these books are for beginners only. The student or devotee or Hindu needs to go beyond them to lean about God and Supreme Soul and Cosmic forces, etc. No other religious books ask their readers to go beyond their basic outline into self-realisation.

So in effect Hinduism is not really a religion. It is different ways of living of people living on this side of Indus River. Indus name of Indus Civilisation was converted to the word Hindus by Westerners. So we don't even have a name for Hindus except as claimed by Westerners and invaders of India.

The descriptions of occult practice in this book is mesmerising. Fascinating anecdotes and memoirs here in this factual recollection.

http://www.drsvoboda.com/

"Karaoke" novella by Ilan Herman

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 08:12:00 +0000

Karaoke, a novella by Ilan Herman

ISBN: 978-1-304-26305-6

Buy at Amazon.com for $3 only: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E4VRMAM

“Ben is in jail on second degree murder but swears he’s innocent. He shares the cell with George, a convicted child molester, who insists he’d never harm a child. The story unfolds to reveal the truth. The cellmates get entangled in a prison gambling ring and bet on a horse named Karaoke, cause: Like a Karaoke machine can play any song, the horse can run in any weather and on any surface. Karaoke wins the race, but the outcome for Ben is nonetheless tragic, though not without romantic absolution.” ~ FreedomFiction.com

Excerpts from this epic crime adventure:"There are numerous services that connect women with felons. Most are pen pals only and provide much needed distraction and hope for the incarcerated, but a fair amount also end up meeting each other and, few even become lovers."

"The sun radiated billions of candles and the air was dry. The dead grass was crumbling. Soon the ground would swallow the once proud green blades, as the ground does to all—a cosmic sponge soaking, generously, the efforts made by God to reincarnate herself in a blade of grass, an oak tree, a human being, a DLL...no one knew the depth of God, the riddle so simple yet so complex—the agnostic flag raised to confess: ‘I know that I don’t know.’"

“You can’t always get what you want, but it you try real hard, you get what you need”

"Joey was as desperate as when he was eight and cowered under the kitchen table while his dad threw dishes at the walls (they shattered and showered the kitchen with sharp bits). He was trying, one last time, to please his father. That wasn’t going to happen because his father had been dead thirty years, yes, that’s how pathetic our attempt is to snare the past and wriggle it to fit our present...."

"The lingo was filled with acronyms (a section on the site helped me decipher them) such as YMMV—your miles may vary—she may do certain things, like DFK (deep French kissing) with one client but not with all clients. DATY meant dining at the Y and referred to whether the provider allowed the client to eat her out. BBBJ meant bare back blow job—she’ll suck your dick without a condom. A trip to Greece implied she takes it up the ass (for an extra 100 roses). FBSM stood for full body sensual massage, which amounted to a HJ—hand job. The most treasured and expensive category was GFE—girl friend experience, where you get to have sex like you’re with your girlfriend—dfk daty and bbbj—though still use a condom when plowing her promised land. Top notch providers—all quite beautiful—offered GFE for 500 dollars an hour."

Muscle Movie Review: The Lone Ranger (2013)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:13:00 +0000

The Lone Ranger (2013)
* * * * / 5

I don't understand the criticism of this movie. It was a big budget movie which did poorly at the box office. But not making billions at the box office has never meant that a film itself is poor.

This is a great Western adventure. If you loved the Westerns from Hollywood starring Clint Eastwood and the likes, this one compares favourably to them. The truth is that if the 3 hour plus The Good, The Bad, The Ugly was to be released in 2013 it would do much more poorly at the box office than The Lone Ranger 2013. Because culture and people and movie-goers and expectations have changed.

This movie is a complete Western with good background stories, clear good guys, clear bad guys, shady characters, grey characters, strange characters, plot twists, huge treasures, greed, outlaws, Indians, army and et al.

I loved this movie at its 149 minute slow and fast and slow pace. It told a story. Whereas the audience was the regular Jerry Bruckheimer fans expecting a Bad Boys remake in the Wild West. That's why it failed. NOT BECAUSE it is a bad story or bad script or bad movie. But because it went and told a traditional Western tale which the modern action film fanatics have no stomach for. The director did justice to the legacy of cowboys and unfortunate Native Americans. I am glad this movie is not full of gimmicky stuff and witty one-liners. It would have destroyed all that Johnny Depp brings to his representation of a victimised Comanche Indian. All the actors do a great job. The narration is well-timed and natural. It is a real authentic Western out of Hollywood after a long long time.

Saying that Johnny Depp is awesome as an actor to watch on screen is like saying the grass is green and the sky is blue. He is indeed brilliant. The other lead actors, actresses, villains are equally capable. There is compassion and there is justice. There is honour and there is virtue. This is a good family movie to watch and a piece of fictitious history which also reveals how America as a nation was built on the backs of slaves and bloody rivers of innocent's blood. Must watch for 2013.

Muscle Movie Review: White House Down

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 12:30:00 +0000

Muscle Movie Review: White House Down

* * * * / 5

Roland Emmerich delivers yet again. We see the world at the end of its existence and then rescued by the American heroes yet again.

Okay, you may not really like Hollywood over-the-top action movies but this is a good one. It starts out slow with the first 30 minutes really making you wonder whether you paid for watching an action movie or some political drama about global peace.

But when little Emily waves that Presidential flag on the lawn of the White House, even I had a lump in my throat and I am not even American. Actually it was supposed to be an American flag being waved to call off bombing by air-strike but it was edited out when war-mongers criticised the movie as being a Liberal propaganda machine.

Anyways, emotions run high with the viewer in the last 40 minutes of the movie. A man cannot help feel patriotism and need for sacrifice and initiatives from the leader of the free world.

The story is really about withdrawing American troops from the Middle East mess of a trillion dollar war. Everyone hates the black President wanting to demilitrialise American occupation of Middle East. But there is a vision. Because the war-mongers are just the arms and weapons manufacturers who supply to both sides - the enemy as well as to the American troops. So as long as there is a war somewhere in the world, there is sales of weapons and therefore profit and therefore everyone's in business.

So Jamie Foxx plays this black American president. He does justice to the role. No he doesn't go gung-ho like Harrison Ford in Air Force One but you will be reminded of Ford's belief and vision as Foxx portrays a President under fire from his own staff.

The concept is beautiful. The White House has been taken over by mercenaries which the media calls terrorists but are actually white supremacists wanting to make 400 million dollar cash profit overnight from the Federal Reserve.

The child actress Joey King is an actor to reckon with. Very memorable role and well done to portray a soldier-father's daughter against the bad guys.The twists in the plot are well timed and believable. The action is unstoppable past the beginning one hour of the movie - great pace and direction. I found it thrilling even though the first 40 minutes really made me wonder if I should sit through this movie. I am glad I did.

Hollywood is clearly making a political statement with this epic movie. And current President Obama can't really do any of this. He can't pull out troops from Middle East overnight or over his eight small years. Neither can he possibly redirect the military spending to improve health and education of American citizens. This is a task for a very long term plan. If the Republicans win again, you can be sure there will be much profit to be made by investing in weapons manufacturers all over the world.

“Outlaw Justice” novel by K.Randall Ball

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:25:00 +0000

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Free ebooks this weekend

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 13 Jul 2013 03:10:00 +0000

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Movie Review: Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 14:07:00 +0000

Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeh_Jawaani_Hai_ Deewani

* * * * * / 5

The movie made me have tears in my eyes at three different moments. The third time, I let the tear fall. Those three moments I was able to personally relate to the experiences and situations of the characters and events.

Muscle Movie Review: G.I.Joe: Retaliation

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:00:00 +0000

* * * / 5

This is supposed to be an all-out action entertainer. A sequel to the first G.I.Joe movie which was awful, boring, senseless and disappointing. This Retaliation is barely watchable.

The only reason anyone would watch this movie is because it stars Dwayne The Rock Johnson. That is the only reason I watched it from start to end. The Rock's screen presence is incredible. He puts up the show and everything else bad about the movie doesn't matter.

Bruce Willis is in a cameo as the first G.I.Joe. It is completely unmemorable role with zero witty lines.

Everyone else is forgettable. No personality, no character, no fun.

The explosions are all nice. The big guns are great. But it fails as an action movie.

More importantly it fails to match the military movie standards set by franchises such as Bourne Identity and James Bond. Even the 60s and 70s Bond movies are better written and made than this G.I.Joe movie.

Watch it if you are The Rock's fan. I enjoyed his part in the movie.

Muscle Movie Review: The Karate Kid 2010

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 04:27:00 +0000

* * * * * / 5

Whenever a classic movie or character is renewed for a new generation, we hear jeers. The old fans of the movie scream bloody murder. They don't want a re-imagination. Would you reboot The Godfather they say. Would you reboot The Game of Death they say.

But is it really the same thing rebooting Star Trek, Star Wars, Jason X, Aliens, etc.

So relax, ignore all the bad rumours and reviews about this remake. As a standalone movie, it is a great movie. No need nor purpose to compare it to the original movie which was great in itself. Compared to the Karate Kid sequels, this reboot is much better and desirable.

Jackie Chan shines in this movie. Typically any Jackie Chan movie has him all energised and frenetic and fast and funny. Here he plays the role as it should be. He plays a depressed man who has lost his wife and child and has resigned himself to a fate of anonymity and servitude as a repairman.

He plays the role like a veteran actor that he is.

Jaden Smith also shines as the new Karate Kid though the movie is about Kung Fu and set in China. Jaden is a good child actor and he executes his differing roles in first half and second half really well. The chemistry between Jackie Chan and Jaden Smith is brilliant and they must have been friends during the film's shooting.

The other child actors are also very talented. The training of the kid is inspiring and original. The climax is honorable.

It is a fun movie for all ages and definitely original storyline and presentation.

Truth about Jiah Khan / Nafisa suicide

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 04:00:00 +0000

The media mockery of daily news is all said and done. The circus has come and the freaks of Indian news media have displayed their grotesque shit-face.

What's the truth? Suicide happens in every occupation across all demographics.Students of 10th or 12th exams commit suicide. Students of graduate and post-graduate degree in Arts, Commerce, Engineering and Management also commit suicide. Artists, musicians are also known to commit suicide. Rich people are known to commit suicide. Middle class people commit suicide. Poor people commit suicide. Healthy people commit suicide. Sick people commit suicide.

Ordinary labourers and farmers commit suicide. Simple office going 9 to 5 cubicle people commit suicide. Businessmen and traders commit suicide. Unemployed people also commit suicide.

So the hype by news media which should be rechristened tabloid speculative sensational journalism about deaths of models and film stars is an illusion and false.

Deaths caused by suicide are personal to the individual and not to the vocation nor occupation. Saying it is common or frequent or likely to happen to a particular profession is false, stupid, unfounded in any research, speculation and scare tactics by modern India news channels and newspapers.

So relax and pursue any profession you believe you are capable of doing.

For the spiritual minded, seek inner happiness by chanting the below Mantra with a Smile Only.
To remove tension and depression - spread happiness
"Aum Namah Shivaya Shubham Shubham Kuru Kuru Shivaya Namah Aum"

Best Wishes,