Sunday, May 30, 2010

Song of the Sea


One day I saw the sea

with a girl at its shore

collecting dead shells

singing the song of life.

she had blue eyes like the sky

and tears like the rain

and she tastes like the sea.

so I called her,

my sea…

taste of chocolate coated strawberries

and blue berry cheese cakes with

bitter espressos..

she taught me

a world full of red apple wine and blood.

It was maktub

holding her hand

and kissing the saltiness

of her short hair try to fly with the wind..

I spent years and years

under the same yellow sun

popping up and drowning down

each day same way.. with same tears

and same laughers.. boring.

I was thirst

and ask my sea to kiss my lips

till they get wet..

sea never kisses..

but sea loves.

I am thirst..

and I am dying..

If sea kisses.. you wil die..

from the saltiness sea has.

It is maktub

sea is full.. but you cant drink..

you can die.. but you cant live..

that's the song of the sea.. she sang.

They did edit? The road from elephant pass and How i wonder what u r a very personal,professional aesthetic Xperience

It was a very sad day,

the day i watched first time

'How i wonder what u r'

no doubt it was boring.

it was a special gathering of few people

including two foreigners,

and not a public screening.

That day

i told them,

(to Udaya and Chinta co -directors of the film)

nothings gonna happen to me after i watched yo film.

i thought it's wasting my time on fake orgasmic out put.

Everyone of us not so high

Everyone of us not so low

Everyone of us not here

Everyone of us has no hope

So,it was a sad day.

it was happend in November 2009

It was the 1st story

The 2nd is,

As a music director

for the film Road from E; pass

i sat with Chandran Ratnum to edit background score

and we made it without breaking musical grammer

and kept the mood

Agreed

No Greeks

Then we went to India

and did the final mix

of picture and sound.

i came back to sri lanka

with my sound engineer

but

Chandran stayed there

to finalize

the whole thing

and re-edit the sounds without me.

I t was another very sad day

i watched premier of the film

Road from E;pass

and no doubt it was boring.

i told him, ( to Chandran Ratnum director of the film)

nothings gonna happen to me

after i watched yo film

and I quoted

Frank Sinatra

’I leave umbrellas on the bushes my plants all die’

and i thought it's wasting my time

and it was a fake orgasmic out put.

According to my point of view,

Chandran’s re-editing of the sound and picture

with lack of knowledge of musical phrasing,

breaking musical grammer

and mute counter tracks of some of the bits.

no sharing

destroyed the mood of whole film.

Then i gave my relentless criticism against his re-edit.

Then he promised me

that we are going to india again to

correct the things before public screening.

But it was not done.

But the film came out for the public

it was happend in

last september 2009.

It was a very sad day.

After above two stories

The time was rolling under the different suns.

Again I was invited for public screening of the film

‘How I wonder what u r’.

At Alionce france on 27th may 2010.

I watched ‘how I wonder what u r’ second time.

Ooou It was hard to believe

contombling into a good film

in a sense of

non-conventional way of young generation’s emotional catharsis.

Directors (udaya and chinta) re-edited the film with editor Duminda.

They changed

the rhythm of the film,

ambiance,

musics.

No perfect cadences

but they used interrupted and plagal cadences to make infinity.

Everyone of us is so high

Everyone of us is so low

Everyone of us is here

Everyone of us has hope

It did not come from the head.

from some other place.

i think that they are on good sharing way of moods

and criticisms to do

a change

better change isn’t it exchange?

through exchanging views.

It was a good change.

They did edit on their way

But

I felt it’ s on my way.

It ‘s a very beautiful day.

‘how I wonder what u r’’

Ajit kumarasiri

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

I am boring


Today I have to meet Boody. I have to go to his film set 'cos this will be the last day I can be there. I have to be there b'cos it's the film written by both of us with so many expectations and inspirations. He asked me again and again to be with him at this last moment so I have to go there.
But something stops me from waking up. Something tells me to stay on the bed as i stayed all the day with a tea and a good book. My friend's told me to meet Boody and if not he would hurt. I know he will get hurt and will think like I betrayed him. But my mood is not set. My feelings tell me to stay where I stay and I can't feel any reason to be right with the common feeling about a good friend, and a bad friend.
If I think it's a boring day to go out there can be no reason to move me out of this metress 'cos my inner self is not set to stand on my feet. And if the mood is not fixed I don't find any other thing to force my body to get up and run where. It's so violent. So I listened to my self. Forgetting all the right things out spoken. And decided to be the bad guy, remaining good as ever to my silence inside.
'Boring'. It's my life.
When it is boring it's not something anymore to compare with good and bad.
It's just Boring.
So I think, If my Boringness cannot be expressed in a friendship, that friendship is a constitution that already written. fascist and violent. And is not needed any more.
Friendship is something which understands the being of each other, Not ethics.
So I believe my friends will able to see my 'boringness' of being good and the greed to stay without waking up...in my boring dreams.

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Accidental Babies


"Accidental Babies"

Well I held you like a lover Happy hands
and your elbow in the appropriate place

And we ignored our others, happy plans
For that delicate look upon your face

Our bodies moved and hardened
Hurting parts of your garden
With no room for a pardon
In a place where no one knows
what we have done

Do you come
Together ever with him?
And is he dark enough?
Enough to see your light?
And do you brush your teeth before you kiss?
Do you miss my smell?
And is he bold enough to take you on?
Do you feel like you belong?
And does he drive you wild?
Or just mildly free?
What about me?

Well you held me like a lover
Sweaty hands
And my foot in the appropriate place

And we use cushions to cover
Happy glands
In the mild issue of our disgrace

Our minds pressed and guarded
While our flesh disregarded
The lack of space for the light-hearted
In the boom that beats our drum

Well I know I make you cry
And I know sometimes you wanna die
But do you really feel alive without me?
If so, be free
If not, leave him for me
Before one of us has accidental babies
For we are in love

Do you come Together ever with him?
Is he dark enough? Enough to see your light?
Do you brush your teeth before you kiss?
Do you miss my smell?
And is he bold enough to take you on? Do you feel like you belong?
And does he drive you wild?
Or just mildly free?

What about me?
What about me?


Damien Rice

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The silent walk



The simplest way of living
No hope, no judgment
Just the being..
Not happy with living
Neither with dying
Just floating moment to moment
In a non ending present.
A being just passing a time on earth
A mind that’s not thinking.
Not in a history
Not in to any breed
Living in society
but not with society.
Just the silent living
With the drops of timing.


A human who’s always a child in his heart
And who sees everything new in every time he sees
That man is the flute who let
The song of Buddha to play in his being.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Waiting for no Bus


There are times that we feel our life have come to its end.
At the bus stands where no buses any more; to go nowhere.
Yellow dim lights..just the silhouettes of dogs, drunkards and prostitutes.
no calls or messages to our phone. life is disconnected.
no more hope. no more sun rises. eyes can only see the past.
where the all meanings we thought as real are getting in to kind of empty jokes.
when any one could be a substitute for your space and no one would care.
when you feel all the life you came through is just an imagination in your head.
At where you feel, who am I?
at that time life is at its end.
I don't feel like getting a new beginning. Every beginning should finally come to this hopeless nights at empty bus stands.
If you are strong enough to cheat your self until the body tells you the time to go..you better wait for the next bus.
But I prefer, waiting for no bus..
just waiting at this empty bus station.

Gone Too Soon


Micheal Jackson is dead. At once I heard this I felt like I was shaken from deep inside. My eyes were wet without my knowing. Secondly I realized how much Micheal inspired me to be my self.
He is the King of Pop.
Pop is Pop not because it's shallow, romantic and not touching any darker things inside being. At least that's not why Micheal was the King of Pop. His performances were highly Socio-Political and therefore highly Philosophical. They made a culture than any leftist made, through out the world. Even when all the elders were threatening me for disobedience in my childhood, I was staring at a Micheal's poster hanged on my wall. I told my self, still he's there. His character which went beyond the natural stereotype of human being, his dance which seems like a sexy, radical attack to the outer, kept me encouraging to be different. He made some thing which is more than him. Finally I realised he was inside me than Che or Karl Marx.
Real Pop is something that goes with the structures of common human taste but changing it to something else. With Micheal he changed the whole world taste in to something rebelious, something beyond hetro/ homo sex, something never-ever experienced. But at the same time it was Pop. That is Micheal Jackson.
His charisma was not something borrowed. It was not something agreed to ordinary stupidity of mass. It was the change. It was a challenge. His politics touched the deep human behaviors of sex. He re-arranged the natural phenomena of sex. They nailed him as a child abuser. He was a rebel like a child.
That is why he is higher than Victor Hara or Bob Marley. They did Socio-Politics. But Micheal was doing Human Politics. His attack was personal to everybody.
I love to quote John Mayors words before I end this.
'A major strand of our cultural DNA has left us'.
But I am sure that strand was highly infectious