The Heath Ledger/Nick Drake Connection

Actor claims obsession with Drake, simulates suicide on 2007 video to Drake's music

The already startling death of actor Heath Ledger has taken on another startling dimension following the revelation that Ledger courted a self-proclaimed obsession with another tragic figure, late English folk singer Nick Drake. This obsession even manifested itself in a piece of Drake-inspired performance art that may have foreshadowed Ledger's demise.

SOURCE: PitchforkMedia.com, MTV.com

Coachella announces line-up

The line-up for the 2008 COACHELLA VALLEY MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL — Friday, April 25, Saturday, April 26 and Sunday, April 27 — was announced January 21 at an event in Mexico City. Beyond the line-up announcement, COACHELLA promoters detailed their plans to make tickets and travel packages directly available to music fans throughout Mexico.

“This is really a way for us to get closer to our fans throughout Latin America who have been supportive of Coachella for the past 10 years,”
says Goldenvoice’s Paul Tollett.

SOURCE: Coachella

In regard to obstacles…

Ganesha (also known as Ganapati and Vinayaka) is one of the most worshipped deities in the Hindu faith, also extending into Buddhism and beyond India. He is easy identifiable by his elephant head (as you can see in the picture) and is known as the ''Remover of Obstacles'' but also places obstacles in paths of some.

Ganesha is known as "Lord of Obstacles" in a spiritual and material sense. Paul Courtright said that "his task in the divine scheme of things, his dharma, is to place and remove obstacles. It is his particular territory, the reason for his creation." He is also known as the Lord of Intelligence — Buddhi and Ganesha is closely associated, buddhi being a noun that is translated as wisdom or intelligence.

SOURCE: PurplePJs.com