Am I blogging...or am I pitching my existence?
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Sunday, April 24, 2005 The Pitch: It's like Singing In The Rain meets The Sunshine Boys! No rain here, I'm afraid. It's three o'clock as I write this and the sunshine is smoldering on the carpet. All I heard about this last week was about the big storm coming our way, and the skies were gray as hell on Friday and Saturday, with a few brief bursts of rain. But it's lovely now, and far too nice a day to be sitting inside writing on the internet in my jam-jams.And yet, jam-jams it is. If we can get our act together (by which I mean if I can get my act together) Edi and I will make it outside and walk around for a while. We just finished watching Donnie Darko which E. had never seen and which I've seen some embarrassing amount (like, I dunno, three times or something). Edi liked it and it made me wonder if I would rent the director's cut that came out a few months ago. I sorta suspect it would spoil the movie: part of the charm of Donnie Darko is how it hangs suspended between several different film genres particularly since, at least at the third viewing, I'd suspect it wouldn't hold together if it was any particular one of them. I also watched Dhoom earlier in the week on the recommendation of Sid, the guy at the beauty salon who sells Indian DVDs. The film is kinda like The Fast & The Furious meets Heat with a dash of John Woo and Jerry Lewis, but with a lot of good looking people who burst into song and dance routines. It wasn't great, but it was pretty enjoyable. It was pretty short which seems to be the cases with a lot of Bollywood flicks I've seen these days--they rarely engage in the sort of robust digressions and subplots that made me fall in love with the genre. If the musical numbers go, there really won't be much to distinguish Indian film from most of the other commercial genres of the world and that'd be a genuine shame. posted by Jeff Lester | 3:45 PM | |
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