Streaming thoughts

A post that should do justice to the name of the blog - Random Thoughts.

I had read somewhere about automatic writing. This is an attempt at automatic typing. I will probably just let one thought lead to another and put it down as they come along. I really don't know what or how this post is going to pan out. But I'm only going to try and keep typing till the time that my thoughts run out. So far I am only wondering when that will happen.

The first thought that occurred to me while doing this is how easy it is to think while typing. It helps to know how to touch-type as one doesn't have to use one's faculties to hunt-and-peck. These days, in fact, I find it too much of a bother to write on paper. My wrist starts aching when I do that long enough.

Why is there any writing at all? Probably because we don't have access to an electronic instrument at all times yet. Although I seem to be in front of some screen or the other for most of my waking hours - Television, Laptop and iPhone.

Screens are increasingly becoming important in human lives. But thanks to miniaturisation, our field of vision is getting smaller with every new innovation. There was a time when the only entertainment was watching sport in arenas. After that came cinema. Then Television. Then Computers. Finally Mobile phones. The screens got smaller and our scope of vision with them.

Interestingly, the word 'screen' has two meanings. One is the screen that enables us to see projected images or illusions. The other is the screen that obscures reality. Wonder how two opposite meanings somehow found their way to the same word.

That reminds me that I just finished reading Dan Brown's Lost Symbol. Thought it was strictly okay. Too formulaic and pretty boring in places. Quite an anti-climax actually. Makes one think of the phrase, 'much ado about nothing' at the end of it all. Anyway, I believe there will be a movie made of the book to come out by 2012. Hope Tom Hanks is not wasted again.

Tom Hanks is one of the finest actors alive today. Purely because he doesn't act. He just becomes. Some of his best movies according to me - actually all that I've seen:

1. The Terminal
2. Castaway
3. Catch me if you can
4. That thing you do
5. Apollo 13
6. Forrest Gump
7. Sleepless in Seattle
8. Saving Private Ryan
9. Philadelphia
10. Road to Perdition

I get a feeling I'm missing some. But Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons were a disaster.

I think I'm running out now. Time to go. But looking back, it's quite nice to see the flow of thought above.