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Yesterday, I lived in a world with a Steve Jobs in it. Tonight, I don’t. That’s truly how I feel right now.
Posted on October 6, 2011 with 1 note
Source: suntimes.com
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Obviously she’s an Ask and you’re a Guess. (I’m a Guess too. Let me tell you, it’s great for, say, reading nuanced and subtle novels; not so great for, say, dating and getting raises.) Thing is, Guess behaviors only work among a subset of other Guess people — ones who share a fairly specific set of expectations and signalling techniques. The farther you get from your own family and friends and subculture, the more you’ll have to embrace Ask behavior. Otherwise you’ll spend your life in a cloud of mild outrage at (pace Moomin fans) the Cluelessness of Everyone.
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Delhi Belly. Big Shit.
One of my favourite moments of watching Delhi Belly was during the erection gag. The entire theatre roared in laughter. The hands and feet of people, sitting behind me, thrashed about in a moment of ecstasy.
The other was the awkward silence at the end of the movie, when the Aamir Khan item number came on. It was so random that everybody just stared. I think Aamir Khan takes even comedy too seriously.
Other than that, it was OK. It had some new gags, some guys ran around and the music was fun. I know I’ll be in the minority, but I didn’t give a shit about anyone in the film. Its pleasures were fleeting. ‘Twas quintessential timepass.
On a sidenote… does the young Metro crowd think they talk like these guys? Flawless english with some chutiyas for flavour? I certainly write better than I speak; but I sound perfect in my head. See, if you talk like that, the chances are that you don’t live like that.
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Community: Gettin’ Rid of Britta by Some Worries (by greendalecc)
This song is genius as far as flipping-the-ex songs go.
Posted on June 1, 2011 with 4 notes
Source: youtube.com
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Back when Bollywood was merely the Hindi film industry, Amitabh Bachchan attained celestial heights with Deewar and Zanjeer playing the celluloid avatar of Karna, betrayed by societal norms, filled with righteous moral anger, and caught on the wrong side of the battle between good and evil.
Posted on October 10, 2010 with 15 notes
Source: openthemagazine.com
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WORD NOTE
elegant
I like the subtle sense of economy that elegant imparts to what otherwise might be just a synonym for graceful. When you say that a fastball or a legal brief or a dance move is elegant, you’re saying that you admire not just its beauty but also its efficiency—that it gets the job done with surprisingly few wasted components or motions, and even with an ingenious shortcut or two. This is one of those words I like so much that I have to stop myself from overusing it.Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus, 2nd Edition
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Only You” gives us two people who should fall in love and live happily together for the rest of their days. They know it, we know it, and all of their friends know it. We also know with a confidence bordering on certainty that they will fall in love. And so there is a special kind of movie pleasure in watching them pigheadedly postpone their bliss - especially when they do it on Italian locations lovingly photographed by Sven Nykvist.
Posted on April 1, 2010 with 1 note
Source: rogerebert.suntimes.com
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The fact is that Apple users like me are the uncoolest people on earth: we salivate, dribble, coo, sigh, grin and bubble with delight.
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Gulaal, at least partially, is an oblique take on Mahabharata, but one in which the defeated are still alive. If Karan is the Karna of Mahabharata, Dukey Bana is the Duryodhana (the similar sounding name would be too much of a coincidence). Pandavas (the democratic politicians taking turns at bedding Draupadi, the nation) have got their power through Vallabh Bhai Patel (the wily Krishna) and Duryodhana is assembling his army while Karna is plotting his revenge against both the Pandavas and Duryodhana.
Hoarding bits and pieces too big for Twitter.
