Human Connections, Up in the Air !

The cross line between what you’re doing and what you’re selling is slowly fading.

Clooney in an ER-performance cameo – minus the sweet talk and the romcom, starring as Ryan Bingham; a “walk up” caller as he described in one of his scenes, his job is to fire people and effectively handle the impact .. That’s by giving them a package. I don’t know which came first for him, the numbness selfish awareness or the career. The movie couldn’t care less about his victims but focuses on the dialogue development between humanely connect-less Clooney and the fresh, young college graduate, not ready for the real world; Anna Kendrick. Followed by how Clooney was fooled for thinking he can have a normal life and a normal relationship.

Life is a pack bag, an analogy used to emphasis that relationships are the heaviest components of your life. Living with no attachments has it’s pros but defiantly the cons outweigh them. Life is all about connections with people, whether it be friends or lovers. It's not about material things, it's about love and enjoying the company of others. Even loners don’t want to be alone, everyone needs a co-pilot.

Good movie, Oscar worthy

Side notes:

• The open-ended scene has much interpretation into it that makes you appreciate the 2^nd time you watch the movie.

• The 1999 masterpiece Fight Club touched the subject of what frequent flying careers can do to a human psyche

• If I was to be fired by a computer monitor, I’ll be sure to crash the hell out of it.

• How can a guy who makes a living out of firing people do motivational speeches as a side gig?

RIP Maadi

http://www.mcit.gov.eg/ar/contactcenterspark_maadi.aspx#Location

مش كفايه رمووكي في حلوان

لأ و عايزيين يفشخوكي و يخلوكي مدينه نصر او المهندسين

المعادي الي اكبر شارع فيها حارتين حتتردم عربيات

مش مهم الي ساكنين .. المهم نشغل 40 الف شخص

أصل البلد ضيقه قوي و مفيهاش مكان (92% صحراء ) و مش محتاجيين تعميير

شكرا للحكومه الذكيه و تخطيطها الرائع

رابطه مشجعين "اي دوله ضد الجزائر"

يلا نشجع العالم الحر و سلوفنيا ضد البربر

Random Lyrics #7

"When the silence beckons,

And the day draws to a close,

When the light of your life sighs,

And love dies in your eyes,

Only then will I realise,

What you mean to me"

Inner Silence - Anathema

Alternative 4 (1998)

Small things- Part 7

• Listening to “Cover” songs
• Football forums
• Cats chasing dogs
• Fizzing of a glass of coke when adding ice to it.
• Biting your fingernails
• Watching the upcoming movie trailers before an exciting movie
• Buying tomorrow’s newspapers the night before
• Remote controls
• Steve Carrel deserved success
• Mario-related merchandise
• President (Blue cheese flavored) spread cheese
• When you order a shisha & comes on the spot
• “Mother Care” display window
• Winning her attention

Top 5: My Negative “personality” aspects

5- Planning the unplan-able

disappointment is the end product of such eccentric fashion of thinking.

4- Anxious when handling finance

Thank God I’m not a banker or else I’d suck .. bigtime.

3- The inability to deal with the stupid or the stubborn

My objectivity fails to descend to their intellectual level; therefore I can’t seem to communicate with 80% of the population.

2- Pissed off easily about the so called “Little things”

Not being punctuate, Not respecting the queue, Littering, Cutting off a conversation, Bumping cars while parking, Responding to “Salmu alaykum” with “Sabah el Nor” or vise verse, Ridiculous mobile ringtones, Cars blocking the street .. etc

1- Being victim of “Entertainment”

… and I have become comfortably numb!

The United States of "Sadness"

When everything is OK, this means that things are going wrong but you can't see it. We do bad things because we want to or have to, maybe that's why we made up satin .. to blame him for all the bad things in our lives.

A "well done" movie, The opening minutes of the movie puts you in this nostalgic state, Leland is a kid who couldn't stand any more sadness in his life so he commits a murder .. his prison teacher wants to know why .. it turned out he's not asking the right question.

Quick thoughts on the actors:

• Ryan Gosling is the next "non commercial" Edward Norton
• Kevin Spacey "owns" his very few scenes
• I can't make up my mind if Don Cheadle is overated or underrated

Hypocrisy un”veil”ed

If we are banning the niqab in Egypt, How is that any different from Europe banning the hijab?

Top 5: Things women “Cannot” do

5. Dress in less than 10 minutes

4. Talk on the phone for less than 5 minutes

3. Admit doing something wrong (instead, a plethora of senseless excuses)

2. Mind their own business (Gossiping)

1. Parallel Parking

The Road Less Travelled

Like kings & queens from a dying age who thought they can change the world .. we paired.

With our own cleverly concealed scars .. we bonded.

Like an E minor followed by an A7, A baseline with a drum snare .. we rhymed perfectly.

Chopin may admire the power chords of Blackmore, Malmesteen must appreciate Yanni’s notes. Yet sadly both cannot jam together; it’s a different gig.

The road less travelled; the most appealing of roads; mysterious and fascinating; is also known for being a dead end; a pitfall from the nicest of dreams to the oblivion of reality.

Now I realize why men & women of imagination hesitate to choose that road. We all want to play it safe.

God bless your winged soul

Juno

A weird movie with a bizarre - yet childish- soundtrack, emotionless on many fronts yet strong on underlying messages... The script is well written with genuine stylized dialogue yet not worthy of an OSCAR! .. It’s a pro-life advocating film about a teenager knocked up by her best friend.

I really don’t know if I like this movie or not. One thing I appreciate is the clever attention to details and the wacky Juno.

Head Banging On The Banks Of Euphrates

It’s not another documentary on the adversities of war. It’s not “yet another rock related” movie. It’s about surviving, because if you can’t give people someone to love or something to hope for .. At least give them something to do. And they do it beautifully.

Good news is .. it turned out ok, if they care for what they wish .. they have just got it.

God bless you, Acrassicauda

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=42059

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/03/arts/music/03metal.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=heavy%20metal%20in%20baghdad&st=cse

The Most Influential Man in Music History

An icon of showbiz, a freak that everyone loved, a king on stage where his wicked ultra ego manifestations burst artistically; augmented by some of the most original and captivating dance moves you’ll ever see.

People may argue that the Beatles, Elvis Presley or even Frank Sinatra had better prominence.. But Michael was simply THE king “sorry Elvis”. He surpassed them all commercially, publicly, and even culturally.

My fond of Michael Jackson stopped after his 1996 - not so great- album “history”, simply I grew up and he grew weirder. But I’ll never forget his impact on me during my childhood & teenage years. I grew up in the 80’s & 90’s so the guy was around in many of my tapes & CD mixes. I won’t explain how he excelled or what is so grand about Michael, this is not what the post is all about, this post is simply a recognition of the man’s legendary status in the music business and a deserved respect to what he had accomplished in the realm of entertainment.

Thanks MJ, for all the good memories.

Congrats, We Lost !

Yesterday, Radio & TV kept airing patriotic anthems since our glorious win – sorry defeat - against world football champions Brazil, WTF????

We are probably the only country in the world that celebrates failure; we value good performance & display more than we value positive outcomes & results, it’s like buying defected products as long as it’s wrapped pretty nicely. Unfortunately, that’s the mainstream ideology, it doesn't matter if it works right as long as it looks OK.

We used to praise mediocrity, now we get our kicks from defeats!! Even for the pessimistic me, that’s a new level of “low”.

God, have mercy on us.

picture from filgoal.com

نصيحه للشباب الي بيشتغل

الشغل في اي حته فيكي يا مصر يخضع لقانون واحد بس .. قانون صاحب المال او قانون صاحب الشأن (في حاله الشركات ذات الجنسيات المتعدده و الباشا هو العضو المنتدب) ، حتقولي ازاي ده فيه قانون عمل و تأمين اجتماعي و ضرايب .. حقولك ده موجود فقط حفظا لحق الحكومه و بس ..  يعني لو صاحب الشغل اصدر اي قرار- من وجهه نظرتك الي مش مهمه تماما-  صح او غلط .. حق او باطل .. قانوني او غير قانوني .. حضرتك مفيش في ايدك حاجه تعملها .. المشكله بقي انك لو اعترضت او أبديت رأيك المخالف لرأي "الباشا" ، كده ممكن يحصلك حاجه من 3:

1-تتحط في البلاك ليست و اصبحت من المغضوب عليهم ..  خطواتك بقت محسوبه و ايامك معدوده

2-تنال لقب "المشاغب بتاع المشاكل" و ابقي قابلني لو اترقيت او خدت زيادتك السنويه حتي!

3-حد فيكو "يتهور" و النتيجه الحتميه الاستماره السداسيه

طب واحد محترم زيك يقعد في مكان مقرف كده ليه .. الي رماك علي المر؟ .. والله لقيت مكان احسن اتفضل روحه .. ملقتش يبقي تبلع لسانك و المبادئ علشان ده أكل عيش .. علشان كده تلاقي الturn over عالي بين شباب الرجاله بالذات .. المنصب و التقدم الوظيفي مبقاش مضمون يبقي نخلينا في الي بيدفع اكتر .. فلوس اكتر دلوقتي اضمن من بناء مستقبل وظيفي افتراضي.

يا سلام بقي لو جالك عقد عمل في الخليج .. فلوس كويسه و عربيه هوندا أكورد .. حر فظيع بس البلد كلها مكيفه ..  عيشه نضيفه و باسبورك مع الكفيل .. تستحمل كام سنه هناك علشان ترجع مصر تفتح مشروع و تبقي صاحب مال و تعمل الي انت عايزه .. طلع كلاكيعك بقي زي منتا عايز .. فقد عبرت للجبهه الاخري  حيث تتحول رغباتك و أراءك الي قوانين و لوائح.

 

Only One Ahly

بطل الدوري 2008/2009 رغم انف الحاقدين

و المانجا باظت

Small things - Part 6

• Chinese crackers
• British comedy
• Stealing over-priced cable TV
• Websudoku.com
• The sting of the aftershave cologne
• Shelves
• Finding the perfect parking spot on a busy street
• Facebook status (although I’m not a fan)
• The first 10 minutes under the blanket in a cold winter night
• Last page of “Elmasry Elyoum” newspaper
• Markers
• Clipping your toe nails
• The many ways we justify our shortcomings

Random Lyrics #6

بلالين بلالين بلالين

منفوخيين منفوخيين منفوخيين

طب علي مين علي مين علي مين

والله ما فرقتش كتير


محمود العسيلي - طراطير
طول منتي جنبي - 2009

Note to Self

Don't fight it, Just go with the flow..

Just swallow it for a few years


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The road to nowhere leads to me

From the outside it seems like the perfect trance, from the inside... It is just how unruly life is and how the stark brutal truth can mess up the relationship of 2 suburban couple who clearly & genuinely are unhappy, non-conformal, and are severely injured by the splinters of their shattered dreams.

Warning: This a depressing film that you will NOT enjoy; it’s not made to be enjoyable... if you aim to be entertained, check out “watchmen” or anything else.