feel like i've been at school for weeks, if not months. have to pick topics for my various research papers this week. oddly enough, right now i like all my classes and am not in a hurry to skip any of them in the foreseeable future. and i actually want to do well in all of them. i don't feel any of them are "easy a's," or whatnot.
you know it's bad when you're changing channels on t.v. and see this as a nice big caption on cnn: Greasy, Crying Baby Found in Oven. granted, the show was nancy grace, so it was almost to be expected, but i find that particular title unfortunate because i chortle with glee whenever i look at it. is that so wrong?
aside from watching heroes this past weekend, i was a total bollywood addict and managed to see kabhi khushi kabhie gham in its entirety (again!), as well as finishing hum aapke hain koun, which i actually never did see the end of before. the part where the heroine's older sister pooja dies by tripping and falling down the stairs is hilarious. the actress rolls down a seemingly interminable flight of stairs (i think they sped the film up, then looped it several times for good measure) and finally comes to a halt, head bleeding profusely, at the bottom. the reaction shots at the end of the movie, when everyone realizes that nisha and prem have been hiding their SECRET LOVE FOR EACH OTHER so that nisha could marry prem's older brother rajesh and take care of his and (deceased) pooja's child are simply wonderful (i love writing out the plots-they always seem so ludicrous, not to mention needlessly complex-but really, bollywood films by their very nature are fantastically ludicrous and way too complex in terms of the characters' personal relationships). i love when the director experiments with just how many different shots of a single person's reaction the audience can take before they get pissed off. of course, when you've got a film genre where three and a half hours is considered a perfectly acceptable average movie length, you've got lots more to work with. le yay!
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