tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51297562011-04-21T17:39:39.897-07:00There are astronauts. And then there are the astronomers.yagnahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13971998011691410944noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5129756.post-63645063865241758412007-02-27T21:08:00.000-08:002007-02-27T22:13:29.148-08:00

wow...i'm here after a long time. Waiting for blogger to get out of beta was my favourite excuse, but now its gone and i'm back. Dunno if its one thousand movies since i was last here, but sounded nice, so.

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When gopi, a collegue made a passionate plea asking me not to miss this movie, I was pleasently intrigued by the impression this movie could've made on him. The movie was cheran's thavamai thavamirunthu. Having seen Autograph and the effect it had on almost everybody i met, i had no choice but to expect a lot.I was impressed. The very opening shot in black and white and ensuing conversation with

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Haven't got myself to this corner of my life for over a month, so there's a long list to be covered. Don't remember all but top-of mind are:I love Huckabees: wierdMe and you and everybody we know: more wierdHarry potter and the goblets of fire: quite a letdown i thoughtmemento: whoa! If somebody said gajini has been inspired by this i'll slap them. Gajini is more like a crude insulting parody. To

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A communication used to share an idea, concept, feeling is one thing. Communication used to manipulate is another. Actually to me all communication seems to be of the second type but not everbody admits to it.And therefore not employing the device that truely seems to work for the second type seems to be the biggest reason any type of communication fails. A student of mass communication or

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Always wondered why we have such a linear approach to arranging all the information we use- Psychology/cognition/philosophy students would explain it with the psychokinetic phenomena/sequential absorption theory/The premise but i dont care. It is this that is the primary cause of most of our troubles. It is this that makes us think he is placed higher than me or we are lower than them leading to

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All that consumption didn't spoil my appetite for the weekend movie binge- Did two movies back to backThe clearing- A story that was all about storytelling than anything else. Parallel narratives, sensitive details, the works. A rather abrubt ending though.Out of Order- Crazy hollywood crazy- the kind nobody else outside Hollywood thinks crazy- Man has chronic depressive wife mostly high on dope

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Played my consumer tag to the hilt. Bought a car, a vaccum cleaner(well...) and a world space radio. And then did the wardrobe update! Hang on there Mr. Money bags...

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Finally spent time outdoors hanging around with humans (family, actually) so didn't quite do the big list. Didn't want to miss the ritual, so late sunday night went back to my " next whisky bar". This is what resulted:The myth- Was that jackie? And who's that babe doing a tits-on-rat-glue number? Our own mallika sherawat? Oh please. Don't you go anywhere near this if you liked police story. If

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Call me a cynic, but somehow the entire iipm episode smacks of struggles of a-medium-coming-of-age creating the sort of buzz that has other media taking notice. Easy for me to say this post-facto, but suderman already smelled fish. As the interest fades off, rather quickly and quietly for how it spread, there's another pertinent question begging to be answered: have we "indianised" the blogging

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Dunno how many of you listen to the radio these days. Not many, i guess.May be the FM with all those firangi sounding desi RJs. So much for Freddie mercury's radio ga-ga. But shift to our AIR and you can happily move into the waybackmachine. Nothing seems to have changed since the 70's or max 80's. Same songs. Same "presentors". Same bloody sound. Listen to 107.1 fm between 12-1 pm. Again in the

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To makeup for that sorry set over the weekend, raided the DVD rental with a vengeance. This is what i got:Black angel (Senso '45) by the crazy italian director Titi(oops) Tinto BrassJamon Jamon by the crazy spaniard Bigas LunaScore with a HUGE cast like de niro, brando AND edward norton and still...sadKundun by scorceseBeauty & the beast I & IIA mixed bag at the end of it.

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Vague set actually...Zendegi va digar hich by Abbas Kiarostami- Tested my patience. Don't know if the director had not yet arrived at his language but sorta drifted along and then ...poofThe postman by kevin costner. More like a retired post masters take on sabeer bhatia way back in '97. Not a bad movie by itself but the setting was so convoluted that the movie made you turn funny shades of green

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Afternoons, especially between 2 and 4pm is my favourite time of the day. Every thing gets all dull and boring and if you're somewhere in a small town under the shade of some large leafy tree all the better. But here i'm staring at my desktop and its taking every bit of my resolve to stay alive. I thought this post will help. I doubt it.

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Big FishBe coolPrincess diaries2Maria:full of graceSin CityFever Pitch

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Who owns this city? The hip crowds smoking cigars in Distil or the vorion6000-with-halfboil-junta? Or the thick middle watching both and doing nothing much? Does anybody own it at all? Sudhish thinks venkat did a good thing: Pushing people to write to the Dinamalar and tell them what you feel. What do you feel? Am talking about the series of "moral policing" acts thats happening in chennai. From

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