Wednesday, August 30, 2006

the second mrs de winter's first name

oooh i am so bored that i would die of it
die of boredom that would be it
brown leaves tired of hanging on fall
i cannot believe i wrote that a grief ago
must have been gazillion years ago
was chatting with sam and he says running for president was a hysterically hideous mistake
president was a big thing
now it seems like nothing
rein a fair thought to lie between a maid's legs
that shakespeare really rocks
he knew what he was about
holding horses outside the theatre and finally owning the theatre, he knew every class and so had lovely soliloquies and ribald jokes, ghosts and fencing and what not
oh i read rebecca i thought it would be very difficult to read but it was surprisingly simple
the original mills and boon template no?
but i really got irritated that the second mrs de winter did not have a first name
that i thought was unnecessary
she could have a name na
and then what happened to the spaniel
what happened to manderly
i was convinced the book was not complete
like shanti waiting for the ending of the fellowship of the ring!
and then i go to best book cenre and tell them ki the book does not have an ending and they are suitably shocked
no no they say and they get out this other copy and that also ends in the same way
so what happened to danvers?
oh but that was all so long ago
watched mean girls last night and was reminded of watching it at sangeet for the 1.30 show with cheese sandwiches and paratha rolls and chatting with akshat and pandu
those were the days
and all that food reminds me of lunch and feeding the cow palak

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

long time

it has really been a long time. I once again forgot what the blog was called then crept away to singapore and hyderabad then was sick think i still am
sick at heart and would fain lie down
that was some poem about someone called roland or something like that
about some wicked femme fatale types who does something or the other to this roland person
i just do not remember
all sherlock holmes attics and closets
cabbages and kings and all of that
something rotten was rather disappointing because there was not so much playing about with hamlet
which i would have totally loved
and then i think it is the last book and somehow all the fun of the earlier books just was not there
there was something rotten in it
and for some strange reason i kept feeling that yorrick cane is a character from hamlet
and the resolution was also somehow a bit of a let down only i am thinking
the great indian comedy show has now become comedy show
there is no vinay pathak and ranvir sheorey
i wish they were there
casting vinay pathak as ajit's character in a remake of zanjeer would be like casting hugh grant as a serial killer
too much contra casting only it will be
i remember mani shankar, the ex-bitsian who spoke of contra casting those many years ago when he was talking about casting for tango charlie
am yet to watch omkara
but i was thinking if there was any other way that bharadwaj could set the film in some other environment
i thought casting macbeth in the mumbai underworld was wonderful and there was a felicity in casting naseeruddin shah and om puri as the corrupt cops in place of the witches but the heartland and ajay devgan in othello retelling...
othello is one of those intensely inward domestic things so maybe instead of going for a broad canvas, he should have kept it claustrophobically indoors. Delved deep into the anatomy of relationships
gone for quietude and silence instead of bips and beedis
the devil wears prada is ok ok book
i would like to see meryl streep as the wicked boss miranda
i believe she rocks
i wonder how don will be
that movie was so aspirational how a simple man who sings on the street, could rule the underworld
and just be called don -- not corleone or anything just don
i like farhan akhtar's sensibilities, but i wish it was not srk
he is tiresome
the promos look like he is redoing his badshah act
aw
that would not be happening and is the music the same or are there going to be different songs
questions questions and it would not stop the world if i do not get the answers!