Crazy thing called the internet.....

The internet can really drive me crazy..

Sample this.....saw a few clips of the movie "Girl, interrupted." on Sony pix....since i cudnt catch the whole of it and memories of Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie still fresh in my mind...i decided to find more abt it and did so...but imdb recommended that i see "One flew over the cuckoo's nest" if i liked "girl,..". I had heard that One flew over was one of Jack Nicholson's best...and turned out that it was set in a mental institute just as the former movie.

Then while goin thru the same movie's spoilers on wikipedia.....comes a word called "lobotomy" and how i really hope that curiosity was not an attribute of the human mind.....it was a surgery that included destroying parts of the human brain to treat certain mental illnesses....it resulted in major personality changes and even mental retardation......

While going thru all of this i suddenly felt necessary to know more about Harper Lee's " To kill a Mockingbird" and it was another story that gives u that sinking feeling.....it rather reminds me how i choose to away from such realities simply coz its less troubling and a grave reminder that the world's not so kind to some...and i m not one of them....

A documentary on Charles Sobhraj and i m trying to find out more abt him only to find myself somewhat a little upset on finding it out....and then i m like searching for "the greatest crimes ever" and then i m not exactly happy on learning the about Jack the ripper murders in Victorian England and the holocaust....

And how abt music....listened to some old song abt "Rasputin, lover of the Russian queen" (was it by boney m or wat) and i had to know abt this so called evil monk which i did gradually........bringing me to the last generation of the romanov dynasty.....quite interesting to know that the purported heir to the throne was actually suffering from haemophilia an ailment not curable then...the tsar nicholas and his queen had to hide this fact from the kingdom and it was also the cause of the queen's dependency on Rasputin who called himself a monk but was actually a hedonist....things go that he cud somewat control the child's illness by hypnotism and how the last generation of the romanov dynasty was shot by the bolsheviks.....which wasnt exactly a happy ending and i was not too cheerful when i got to know about it either.....

Thanks to the internet i got to know that Indira Gandhi felt insecure amongst educated people -courtesy Khushwant Singh....it felt pretty nice to know that....
and i wudnt have ever known that the british rock band Queen's lead vocalist Freddie Mercury was actually Farrukh Balsara and how he tragically died of AIDS......neither wud i hav ever gotta know wat Gia Carangi actually looked like...

And another net research spree triggered by some mention of the indian witch Ipsita Roy Chakraborty( much before sacred evil came out)......about a cult called 'Wicca' (abt witches and magic and stuff)..now that was intriguing....and so was the story of a movie called White Oleander based on a book and starring Michelle Pfeiffer in the role of a woman who kills her lover with the poison of her favourite flower....

Coming back to music.....a pearl jam song called "jeremy"- caught my attention when i heard it on the radio......the song was apparently wrote after the suicide committed by a teenager called jeremy wade delle"( that happened before i was born).....the kid being depressed planted a pistol in his mouth and shot himself in front of his english class........i cant ever forget this......

All these things form a world from which i m totally untouched but which has had a profound impact on me....its a world beyond the limits of my imagination....and it leaves me dazed....because it is in fact a reality which i did not know if existed.....