Listen to the intro of this song from the Tamizh movie Ullasam. Stop after ~13 seconds.
Now jump to the first movement of Mahler’s 4th Symphony.
Filed under – ‘I am not sure whether it’s a hat-tip to Mahler or plagiarism’ bucket.
I’ve just been prescribed a cough syrup called Grilinctus. The name sounds less like a cough syrup and more like a large, furry animal that’ll crawl out of the Forbidden Forest at night and will be fed and befriended by Hagrid.
The label on the bottle promises that the concoction is non-narcotic. This factoid hasn’t stopped it from inducing spells of sweet slumber that all cough syrups are so good at bringing you down with.
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
—Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (via)