WOMEN'S DAY

To celebrate Women's day, I'd recommend watching documentaries on the different stories of two admirable woman: Jyoti Singh and Susan Sontag.

Jyoti was an Indian girl from a poor family determined to become a doctor. She finished medical school in 2012 and went home to visit her parents in Delhi. Her life was crushed when she hopped on a night bus after going to the movies with a friend. Jyoti was brutally raped by six man and died days later. The documentary features interviews with rapist defendants and one of the convicted, who showed no remorse and blamed the woman for not behaving "decently". Controversially, "India's Daughter" has been banned in India, but you can see it here: bit.ly/indiabbcdaughter

I've read "On Photography" and other essays by Susan Sontag while in university, and became an admirer ever since. Susan was an American writer and filmmaker, teacher and political activist, who wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, human rights, feminism and many other topics. The New York Review of Books called her "one of the most influential critics of her generation.^" "Regarding Susan Sontag" is available on HBO GO. bit.ly/leeviasontag

AND I SWEAR THAT I DON'T HAVE A GUN

Nirvana played a huge role in my younsgter years, soothing my family dramas with their mix of rage and sadness. Kurt Cobain was my teenager crush, which I guess was depressing, as he was dead since I was 8. My love for him went as far as spending hours online in prehistoric dial-up 56kbps internet doing my own research wether he indeed killed himself and if I should do it too. He's the reason I started playing guitar.
Teen times.

Leaving the pimple dramas aside, I cannot wait to watch "Montage of Heck", the first fully authorized documentary of Kurt, produced by his daughter, Frances Bean.
The film, which premiered today at Sundance Film Festival,  reportedly "features many never-before-seen home movies and music of Cobain’s, as well as eye-opening interviews with friends and family". According to Rolling Stone, the film doesn't portray Cobain as a spokesman for a generation, but as human being, and a husband, and a father.
Tired of all the deifying reports of Kurt out there, (as it usually happens with dead artists), this is one I really look forward to. 4th of may is the official release.

Read more: http://bit.ly/leeviacobaindocRS

"WHY TAKE DRUGS WHEN YOU CAN GET HIGH ON GOD'S GLORY?"

I'm a kind of apatheist, but still highly curious on the questionable new techniques to attract and convert people to some belief system in the internet/youtube era.

Meet Matthew, the Christian Trance DJ and Brandon, the Red Letter Ministry, who promise to teach  you to "get high on God" by praying, sniffing essential oils and smoking imaginary joints: http://bit.ly/drunkongod

(My mean'n'sarcastic side is tickling after watching this, but we must remember to respect all religions and beliefs that respect other religions and beliefs. Right?)
ps.: Jonathan Rauch described apatheism as "a disinclination to care all that much about one's own religion, and an even stronger disinclination to care about other people's".