Back in Black!!!

Its been a while since I last wrote. I think I lost my way and found myself out of the zone temporarily. The zone is a writer's holy grail and once you’re out of it the creative ensuing's cease and a blanket clouds your mind . For me this is how it has been like forever. I’m a on-off writer. I have these rather random very spaced out moments of creativity when I almost touch prolific levels. Shortly afterwards follows a depression where the barrenness extends endlessly. And I've resigned to the fact that however hard i try this how it will be for me.

Things have been decent around here for a change. I'm speaking local of course and not about the country in general which by the way is reeling thanks to the ever rising terrorism all over the place. These are days when every single one of us have wondered at some point or the other whether we would reach home in one piece. I every now and then wonder what drives these people. Perspectives bleared out miserably that the divide between the rational and plain old insanity doesn’t exist anymore. I believe in the freedom of expression. These guys have every right to blow themselves up since they've proved beyond and morsel of a doubt that they are the bane of this soil. But the problem lies in these gentlemen ending it all for a whole lot of other people who have dreams to live out , boundaries to cross and families to go home to ..seriously this has to stop. I don’t know how or when!! But it has to!!

Lets get back to how things have been around here. Like I was saying everything’s been OK(I kinda rephrased that a bit. After all its my damn blog) these last few weeks. Whitesugar was in hibernate mode for the past few weeks. Our bassy left us citing some pretty lame reasons and we were pretty much broken. It couldn’t have come at a worser time than this. Everything went haywire and things were not looking good for us. Musicians don’t exactly jump at you from every corner in Kerala. We are a steadily dying species. Then Gil called up his old friend Nijo. Gil and Nijo go way back. He’s a fantastic bass guitarist whos done time with the pros and knows the scene. Welcome Nijo!!!enter the Jungle. which brings things back to normal i presume. Meanwhile we won a competition at Kollam. An appetizer if you will. I realize how much I miss the smoke, the sweat, the unscientific power lights, the crappy sound. I have some positive vibes about this lineup and I dare to dream about big things to come, boundaries to break, pockets being filled. Feels good to be back. Feels good to be BACK IN BLACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!