A sexy number

Love it! Happy weekend folks!

Its the car ma'am, the chicks love the car! (Batman, Batman Forever)

Waitress

I hope this movie hits the screens here. Nathan Fillion is such a treat to watch. He's so cute as the bumbling doctor in this trailer, way different from Mal in Serenity. Why doesn't he get more roles? Because he isn't pretty enough?

Nice one

Here it goes again!

10 months ago:

Monday, July 10, 2006
Wishes

I want two days of work with 5 days off. I want bands to make good music. I want to sing out loud. I want my private moment in the crowd. I want love and sunshine. I want ice cream soda and snazzy movies. I want to sit on my porch and watch the world crumble around me. I want a house with a porch. I want madness. I want joy. I want all of life.

I still want all of that.

Some random thoughts

I suppose everyone goes through some sort of an existential crisis, most of us are lucky to have left it behind at college and adapt to everyday life. But then I keep wondering about what would happen if humanity went back to a pure state of existence. By that I don't mean that we should go back to the caves. How would it be if we drop all pretensions and remain true to what we are? What if we dispense with all sense of propriety and just be ourselves for a change? Would we then make this world a better place, or would we just beat each other to death? On that note, here's Cobain with Oh Me.

Oriental Hotness

Takeshi Kaneshiro, last seen as Jin in The House of Flying Daggers. Whats it with pretty boys with prettier names anyway?

I love this song

Lyrics here. Original by Joni Mitchell.

Found a documentary on gender transformation at feministing. I wonder how much guts it takes for someone to do what Mookey did. And tell people about it through a documentary.

New place

After over a month of serious house hunting, my roommate and I have moved into a new place. Phew, the stuff we've collected over the years! And I only have 2 cartons of books!! Unpacking is a nightmare that's not over yet, but my fish tank is up and running. Happy days begin again!

Hmmm

Have you ever unzipped your stomach and let your guts hang out for everyone to see? Anyway, someone told me that I need to get a life. Which set off this song in my head:

Lyrics here. Only if Liam had sung it instead.

Who I wanna be today

Also, found out that a distant relative was on board the Kenyan plane that crashed recently. Didn't Supes say that flying was statistically the safest way to travel? How do the statistics work here? And what about probability?

Say hello to Starbuck...

... the cigar smoking ace fighter pilot in the Sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica, and probably the most fascinating female character in a TV series!

Battlestar Galactica hits the Indian small screen tonight at 9 p.m. on AXN. Those of you who lucky enough to be at home then would do well to watch it!

Monday!

An old favourite!

Next on the list!

Milk and Opium

Why don't movies like this get any publicity?

Tolkien at his gloomiest best

At one point in The Children of Húrin, Túrin is furious with someone for having revealed his true name and therefore exposing him to the curse of Morgoth. To which he is told that his doom does not lie in his name, but in himself. And that just about sums up the story of the tormented life of Túrin, son of Húrin. When Húrin defies Morgoth after the Battle of Unnumbered Tears, Morgoth curses Húrin and his family to eternal doom (or something like that). But even without Morgoth's help, Túrin would have done just fine by himself.

Unlike the sharply polarized characters in The Lord of The Rings, the latest from the Tolkien stable offers us a hero who is more flawed than most. He is proud, headstrong, hot headed and ungrateful. Upon his exile from Doriath, he takes up with a band of outlaws and hardly protests when they go about looting the villages of men. He brings trouble wherever he goes, thanks to his rashness. He also routinely steals the lady loves of his supporters and usurps their authority without so much as a by-your-leave. And to top it all, he marries the one woman that he most certainly shouldn't. His primary redeeming feature seems to be his valour that usually gets him promoted to functional head of the place, which he promptly brings to destruction through his own confusion. And his mother and his sister are equally pig headed. When they finally meet their doom, one feels not pity, but relief that they cannot cause any more misery to themselves or to others.

The Elves, who are such goody-two-shoes in LOTR, are well, more human. The High Elves in The Children of Húrin would rather hide than act against the enemy. They do have more powers since we are early on in the history of Middle Earth, but fail to exercise most of it. In a way, their inaction causes more harm to the doomed Túrin than anything else.

A great read, providing more insight into the genius that was Tolkien. This is the guy who created a whole fictional universe, so vast that most of it is still unfinished. I've read LOTR some 6 times now, and my only problem is that things are too black and white in it. (Though I still love Aragorn, noble and valiant and all that!) In Children of Húrin, Tolkien satisfies my appetite for gray. Amazing book.