yours.

paralysing-damning-charming-hypocrisy,
i want you to know:
hookergold
and charcoalblack
i was, for one last night,
made-of-love.
chokingback
tearsonatrain
"i see in your face the eyes of a stranger"
how much you hurt
i heard i can never forget.
and so it goes...
a never ending moment.
and one long silken burnt bridge.

If You Should Go. go now.

Bleagh.

Apologies for the oomph-lessness of "Strange Times, My Dear". Caught in a mire of work and reading and reorganising the mess that is life. Promise to blog with integrity once the weekend and feminist-critiques-of-Dickensian-women is done with.

Coming soon:
Film review of Waltz With Bashir which I watched last night.
Hi-larious double entendre quotes from Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure (rightly called Jude the Obscene by critics of the era)

But for now, something silly.
LOL photo of the day:






Anti-establishment bird

You wanted "Different"?

Yo! This is sick! Trippy Devdas. Took the words right out of my mouth, Anurag Kashyap. Right out of my XTC-rolling mouth. Patna ke Presleys have it bang on with their take on love: emotional attyachar (torture/manipulation).

March 3rd, it comes out on D(e)VD (see what I did there! clever, na?) - it's already sitting pretty at the top of my Netflix queue. The rest of you can just stand in line (unless you live in India and have anyway been able to see it in the cinemas since Feb 6th. argh!)...this self-destructive haraami is all mine!

Giggles

After a weekend of beautiful visitors, Valentine's Day shopping, hot chocolate & macaroons, late night chats over steaming cups of tea, warm hearts & frozen fingers...WORK. Anti-climactic is right! So all of yesterday and today was spent tap-tap-tapping away at a weary laptop. For le moment, essays are done, printed, handed in. And I have returned!

Some LOL news from the BBC (note to un-cool people: LOL = laugh out loud). For those of you too lazy to read the article - a study of confessions carried out by Friar Roberto Busa, a 95-year-old Jesuit scholar reveals the following amazing fact::

Top Deadly Sins for Men:
Lust
Gluttony
Sloth

Top Deadly Sins for Women:
Pride
Envy
Anger

HAH! Not that we needed any more proof, but now we have evidence from god's messengers that men are more carnal/gross than women! Lust-Gluttony-Sloth...imagine being married to that...*shudder*. So what are your "top 3 deadly sins"? I'd say mine are...hmm...Pride, Anger, Sloth. Impossible to live with, I know.

Also, here's a super-funny WTF piece (WTF = what the f...you know). Ole Billy Shakespeare is doing cartwheels in his grave.

AND it just started to snow...niiiiice. Sometimes, life really IS all Ha Ha Hee Hee.

Looking for a stupid quote?

Look no further than Preity Zinta. Here's the latest bakwaas from a woman who proves that it takes a lot of work to be this dim-witted and uninformed. "a bra-burning psychotic chic [sic]" = a Feminist?!?! I think such outdated characterizations of Feminists are only touted by the completely illiterate or the frighteningly-conservative (I am fighting the temptation to say "one and the same"...oops :P). I am not the biggest fan of Preity Zinta (read as: if I had to choose between a date with a cobra and an evening out with Zinta, I'd emphatically choose the former) and I always knew that she wasn't, by any standards, the brightest bulb in the box (read as: she makes candle light appear sunglasses-worthy). But thoughtless crap like this? REALLY? It is an embarrassment to brain cells everywhere. And, just in case you think this is a slip-up from an otherwise intelligent, talented actress...please, watch this:


I think the only disservice the Feminist movement has done to our world is to provide integrity and a public space for this woman to voice her opinions.

For My (Pink) Chaddi Buddy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TINA!!!!

No matter that it's Friday the 13th. Today is the luckiest day of my life. I cannot be thankful enough to whatever greater force controls our lives for this day - and for the greatest gift of my life. Thank you for making me a part of your world, thank you for always reminding me to be a better person, thank you for being the sister I never felt like I didn't have.

Tina is really one of the most incredible people I have ever met. She is warm and loving, fierce and opinionated and you only have to watch her belt out Ek Pal Ka Jeena* to know that she's the very definition of the word 'cool' :P She is one of those rare people who inspires hope, from the very moment that you encounter her. And, despite the whole world sniggering at us - we've dreamt many an idealistic dream together.

Wisdom, empathy, love, kindness, pagalpan, and a huge dash of golden-spirit...mixed together in a bowl and sprinkled with cinnamon (coz I know you love it) and garnished with just-ripe blueberries = Tinu didi. My love, my inspiration, my joy.

May the year ahead and the future see your life happier and more blessed than you can even begin to imagine. And may you grow to be the person that the world needs you to be. Have a lovely day, my jaan. I love you :D

*For old times' sake:

A Reminder From Sudhir Mishra

"The past is not dead. It isn't even past"
- The Sound and the Fury, 1929

The title of the film comes from a ghazal by the god-like Mirza Ghalib

hazaaron khwaishein aisi ki har khwaish pe dum nikle
bahut nikle mere armaan lekin phir bhi kam nikle

rough translation:
a thousand desires like these, each worth dying for
many are fulfilled, but still they remain unfulfilling [alternatively, "yet still more remain"]

One of the most overwhelming movies I have seen in a very long time. And, yes I'm glad I waited this long to see it. I don't think I would've ever understood the crimson depths of this film if I had watched it a day earlier. It is maddening, liberating, challenging and draining. And timeless. The only kind of film really worth watching. It says so much - about politics, revolution, love, quests, desire, (in)justice, loyalty, terror, loss, restlessness, awakening, joy...India. The soundtrack will search the darkest, most unexplored parts of your soul. It will converse with you. It will teach you about love and belief.

This is not hyperbole. Netflix it. Watch it online. Buy it. Travel to India for a copy, if you must. Just...WATCH IT.

A Thumri from the film to end the night.

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**EEP! Tomorrow is my Tinu didi's birthday! I'm so excited you'd think I'm seeing her...boo, big, huge, giant Planet-Earth :(**