The Sane Lunatic

A biopic about the man who started the journey of the brand McDonald's from a single hamburger joint in San Bernardino, California, USA in 1954. An overnight success that was 30 years in the making. That's probably how it looked like when Director John Lee Hancock and screenwriter Robert D. Siegel started on 'The Founder', but the finished product is so much more, and I'll say it right now that you should DEFINITELY watch it at least once. If not for entertainment, then as a story of a real-life business epic. We follow the journey of Ray Krock, brilliantly brought to life by Michael Keaton, starting from when he was going from drive-in to drive-in restaurant trying to sell five-milkshake mixers. He is shown to have done well enough to have a nice home to get to, but he is still struggling and rarely gets time to sit back and relax. Though that last bit has less to do with his income and more with his character, someone who just cannot sit still and let oth...

Ho. Lee. Crap. It has been an insanely hectic 21 days. A complete whirlwind of events and incidents, from some of the best to some of the most unpleasant. Let's get into it, shall we? Right, so, one of the first big events that happened since the last post, was the cover shoot for awards issue for the magazine I currently work at. And this shoot is like our annual big shoot, a real special occasion. So, yeah, we had a great location for the shoot and some amazing cars coming in which were part of the winners' list, and it was gonna be a full day affair. So, part of being a trainee in this team is that I and the other trainee had to wash all the cars that came in for the shoot, about 10 of them and the two bikes as well.  Among those ten cars, there was pretty much my dream garage: an Audi R8 V10 Plus, a Ford Mustang GT, a Nissan GT-R aka Godzilla and a VW Polo GTI hot hatch. The bikes included a supersport bike, the MV Agusta F3 800, which isn't exactly what I'd...

A lot of stuff happened over the last two and half weeks, since the last episode of the series, let's see if I can remember where we left off. Well, I kinda do. So, first, we had the full week of happy people, what with Christmas and the New Year. While I have ranted about how I feel about festive cheer, I'll admit, I liked the Christmas stuff in the office primarily because I got a bunch of gifts and giveaways in the office, especially a jar of Hershey's chocolate spread and a stocking. The week between that and New Year's was rather dull and uneventful, just shuffling between work and the room. On New Year's eve, I moved to the living accommodations that I shall be staying in for the coming 6 months. It's on the fourth floor, there's no elevator and I had to make a bunch of trips. Yep, that was that day gone. To treat myself, soberly, I overate on pizza, which I didn't regret as much as usual. The week that followed was basically about settlin...

 It's basically a really tightly wound switch. It's not a very big one so most things avoid tripping it, but it also makes it hard to keep an eye out for it. Which is why, anything at any moment could set it off. This one however, is a regular. I really really deeply dislike festive cheer and the whole happy mood that it seems to put most people in. It is hard to put into words exactly how annoying it is, but lets make an attempt. It's like this itchy sensation inside of your head, and no matter what, you can't seem to get at it, and you just want to smash your head open. Or consider the sensation when you feel really hungry and you have access to just about all the usual junk food and delicacies, but not one of those seems to be the thing you seem to be craving for, and then you eat something anyway but it wasn't up to the low standards that fast food has, and now you've spent that money, you're still hungry and even more annoyed. Now, the cumulative l...

With the change of the calendar year, I feel its time to make a slight change to this blog. I say slight, but its actually a pretty big one. You see, this blog came into existence because I had to start one as part of my college syllabus. Back then, on that day, I was in a particularly angry mood and that's how it all started. And lucky too that my teacher was understanding enough to let me run with the name I had picked and have come to love and own. I still have stuff to rant about, because there are many things that really piss me off and get on my nerves and I will express it all without a censor. But, this place is home to more than just my rants. It's home to my reviews of the films I watch, something I love doing. It's also home to all my adventures as I go through life, and I do enjoy sharing my experiences with you good folk. And so, for some time now, I have considered the idea of making the name of this blog a bit more inclusive of all that it is home to. ...