RED EYES

Have you ever seen smoke dance to a squealing guitar? Have you ever seen a flash of light so bright, it almost blinds your faith in wonders? And then when you turn around to look, it’s a single stick with a sulfur tip that’s putting the end of a white stick of paper filled with a ‘deceiver’ on fire. Raging hands shaking high above numerous heads. Droopy eyes. Heads reaching for the floor to enhance the effect of the ‘hit’. Bear hugs and love expressions. Crying teary eyes, cribbing, bitching about the bitch. Lyrics pronounced in religious dedication. Unbeaten concentration on the playing of a non-existent guitar in the hands of many. Sluggish feet making their way to the rest room. Some to the smoke vender. Couples cuddling to prove no point of consequence. Loud laughs. High fives. Muffled words. Slurry sounds of unborn thoughts that die in the mind. Dead hopes, dead desire, dead smiles. A violent crisscross of base sounds and drummers beating their lives onto dead skins till they feel they can tear it. Mind numbing jokes. Beer. Cold drafts of air from the A/c over head. Lack of sensation. Lack of control. Lack of logic in finding meaning to what or why one really really BELONGS here. More beer. Nostalgia. Déjà vu. Visions. All three of the above in the same flash of a split second. Reluctance to go home. Compulsion of having to go home. The fight between the two antagonistic sensations. Suspended animation. Some more Beer. Red flames glowing like stars from a different universe. One, more personal than the one you are living in. and of course, more and more beer!

God I love Tavern.

And Jal is an amazing band... since van is a big jal fan, went to see 'woh lamhe' and 'adat' (performing live in bandra) but couldnt get in.... actually did'nt need to. after that was tavern. great fun.