Potpourri

Web draft of new book on complexity by Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak is available here .

I saw recently a silent movie. It is called, "Film". And its about a man who is trying to get away from all the eyes. Eyes of everybody and then he realises that how much ever he tries he can not escape his own eyes. Reminds me of Cypher as a counter example. A man who has understood something about oneself and the world. But the unbearable reality doesn't suit him. He doesn't mind hiding away from one's own eye and live, go on living. I wonder how Cypher (in the movie matrix) would have evolved if he went back to Matrix. Knowing all along that its a lie. Reminds me of another phenomenal movie called "Fight Club". Where the main character goes into a dream and he keeps getting reminded that "its a lie". The more he realises this, more he wants to fabricate lies around himself. Takes me to the point of undoing, rather a convenient undoing, of knowledge. The knowledge about self or the world almost always is unbearable. To realise one has failed ...

Things falling at place, really reminds me of one line V says in the movie V for Vendetta: "There are no coincidences, only an illusion of coincidences." I stumbled upon a fantastic music blog called everybodycares.blogspot.com. Do visit it and check out the great music posted every day here. That was around January '06. At that point, I discovered the whole world of music blogs, however, this was the only one which I kept visiting the most. And I still do. At that point, the "About me" part of the blog read as follows: " After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley , Music at Night and Other Essays. I felt it suited his blog. Recently the About me section changed to a quote from a movie called Joe Vs. The Volcano. I got curious about the movie and read about it on imdb . Today I watched the movie and realised the picture on the blog is also a scene from ...