We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

[midwesterngal]

I picked up Joan Didion's White Album, read the first line and was hooked. I don't like everything I read, but there's an energy that carries me. And I keep coming back to that first line, which grabbed hold of me without my asking, without my permission almost. And so, when I should be reading some big fat monster of a Russian novel (my students

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[broccoligirl]

Man. Your movie sounded like it'd kick my movie's butt. That is, if films had lil' legs and big black butt-kicking boots.

I went to see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0213985/ (Partition). I thought it was just awful! Every single Hollywood cliché was used, including a syrupy soundtrack consisting almost entirely of non-diegetic music (none of which sounded Indian). Neve Cambell was utterly unconvincing as an Englishwoman. I kept thinking Party of Five!

And I'm sorry--two people come upon each other hiding in the bushes in the Punjab (a Sikh and a Muslim), and they speak...English?! Shouldn't they be fumbling for words in Punjabi/Urdu or at the very least, Hindi?

Totally disappointing. The 'rents loved it. I told them it reminded me of Gangs of New York, and they got all pissy.

[maroussia]

Обижаешь! DDT слушаю не первое десятелетие :-). Правда, последнее время перключилась на израильскую попсу :-)))).

[midwesterngal]

а я ведь слушаю первый раз! Открыла для себя чисто случайно DDT в 30 с чемто лет:) Израильский поп? дай знать, если чтото хорошее!

[midwesterngal]

PS: слушаю "Это всё..." и у меня слёзы на глазах....

Funny quote

[anonymous]

We all live in a state of ambitious poverty.
-- Decimus Junius Juvenalis

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