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Every day I think of something I would like to write about here but when I get online it's Bunch, Bunch, Bunch.
I was reading my odometer this morning. It's a kilometer from my house to the monkey puzzle tree. (that is, my odometer reads in miles, but it's .6 mile to the tree). A round trip from my house to the University (that is, the Kresge College bus stop) and back is 8.7 miles. It's about the same to Dominican Hospital. The hospital feels like it's much farther. We walk to the University sometimes. I can hardly imagine walking to the hospital.
Okay, enough of this. Go see "Rang de Basanti" if it ever becomes available to you. I took Gloria to it -- it was free, because it was part of the Pacific Rim film festival, about which more later -- and it was an experience.
Remember what I've been saying about suffering in movies? Here is a movie in which the suffering quotient is high and it is worth every little minute of it. Also it's a movie in which you know roughly what has to happen early on and that doesn't matter either.
I originally intended to do a whole long spoiler number on it but I'm really not feeling well -- and I'm feeling worse by the moment -- so I'll just say that you need to see it. It's about, among other things, the continuity of violence. And why that's not always necessarily a bad thing.
I was reading my odometer this morning. It's a kilometer from my house to the monkey puzzle tree. (that is, my odometer reads in miles, but it's .6 mile to the tree). A round trip from my house to the University (that is, the Kresge College bus stop) and back is 8.7 miles. It's about the same to Dominican Hospital. The hospital feels like it's much farther. We walk to the University sometimes. I can hardly imagine walking to the hospital.
Okay, enough of this. Go see "Rang de Basanti" if it ever becomes available to you. I took Gloria to it -- it was free, because it was part of the Pacific Rim film festival, about which more later -- and it was an experience.
Remember what I've been saying about suffering in movies? Here is a movie in which the suffering quotient is high and it is worth every little minute of it. Also it's a movie in which you know roughly what has to happen early on and that doesn't matter either.
I originally intended to do a whole long spoiler number on it but I'm really not feeling well -- and I'm feeling worse by the moment -- so I'll just say that you need to see it. It's about, among other things, the continuity of violence. And why that's not always necessarily a bad thing.
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