Summer film list
My annual summer film blitz has begun. Here's the list of films that I've seen so far. Though all of these are classics, the titles with the little asterisk next to them have been my particular favorites:
Cynara [*]
Directed by King Vidor
US, 1932, b/w, 75 min.
With Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, Phyllis Barry
Under the Roofs of Paris (Sous les toits de Paris)
Directed by René Clair
France, 1930, b/w, 92 min.
With Albert Préjean, Pola Illery, Edmond T. Grèville
Nightfall
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
US, 1957, b/w, 78 min.
With Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft
Great Day in the Morning
Directed by Jacques Tourneur
US, 1956, color, 92 min.
With Virginia Mayo, Robert Stack, Ruth Roman
A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) [**]
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
Spain/ Italy, 1973, color, 112 min.
With Renato Salvatori, Florinda Bolkan, Daniel Quenaud
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini)
Directed by Vittorio De Sica
West Germany/Italy, 1970, color, 94 min.
With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi
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To the spammer: Leaving a link to your commercial webpage on my blog was in extremely poor taste!!
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Hi,
I happened to chance upon your comment on primal soup's blog. Somehow after reading that comment I felt I would find some more insightful thoughts here. Apparently, that is not the case.
All the same, your blog speaks of your myriad interests.
Yup, that is indeed so -- no insights here, only "outsights".
I finally waded through your archives. And while I understand this whole boredom setting in, you seem to have stopped somewhat abruptly.
As in most people who quit, do the fond farewells speeach routine! :)
Or wait, you have actually not quit?
Can I call you [Primordial Soup] instead?
What is the status of this blog, you ask?
My answer is: GIRAFFE!!
Okay, more specifically: The original intent of starting this blog was for it to be little more than a central repository for the kind of stuff that I used to compulsively bombard my friends with by email. This "stuff" inevitably being "cool" titbits of trivia about the inane and obscure (saris brilliantly meet this criteria); movie and book recommendations; and assorted miscellania. You could say this blog was intended to be little more than a glorified, self-inflicted spam filter rather than a BLOG-blog.
Having a 0.02 nano-watt bulb for a brain, it took a while for it to dawn on me that this isnt quite what blogs are expected to be - in content, writing style, stance, etc, etc. So, I thought I had a blog but then I realized that I didnt have a BLOG.
With this realization, my enthusiasm and interest to maintain this project as a "blog" has almost completely evaporated. If and till I get around to finding an alternate and more appropriate home for all this stuff, I'm just leaving it sitting around. :) Maybe I ought to add a disclaimer to this collection of webpages on blogspot.com that, a la Magritte, says -- This is not a blog ;)
Now if I remember my word list from my cramming for MBA exam days right Primordial would mean - early stage of evolution. Which means you think I am the not so evolved form of life?! Very perceptive I must say! :D
But if we are going to be referred by anonymous names, one is as good/ bad as the other! :) So, go ahead call me just that!
Wow, I think you are being too harsh on your poor blog. I mean there are no rules here, and anything goes…
There is no science in terms of what a Blog is. Some are very literary and clever. Some are exaggeratedly cute. Some are deep and very layered. Some are banal and celebrate the Bourgeoisie life (Ahem). Some talk about a general Bohemian existence. Some seek attention. Some scurry into obscurity. Some champion causes. Some talk about the bizarre. And I have sort of run out of breath…
So, its just some place where you dump stuff which you are open to/ or actively seek to stash away in a public place - thoughts/ interests/ raves/ rants/ blah.
But I think what happens is that over a while, you get curious, you click around, you see some kindred souls and given our social needs you connect. Soon you have a readership and then you perhaps pander to them… that is when the original intent gets lost – when from sharing you go to selling. The trick is to avoid going there, or at any rate going there too often! :)
Anyway, in all of this long winded comment, my point is that you are perhaps putting this Blogging thing into too much of an air-tight compartment and giving it more credit than it deserves. Credit is not the right word, but it’s the closest I can think of! Remember, anything goes…
The Primordial Soup isnt just some early state of evolution, its the soup from which life as we know sprang forth (atleast by the Oparin/Haldane hypothesis)
Primordial Soup
[by Brian McKinney]
1 brain, drained
1 hand of God, fingernails trimmed
3 cups seawater, filtered, desalinated, no-salt substitute substituted
1 onion, sliced, diced, riced
1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato, more
Spice, rice, lice, mice
Simmer for three million years under an open sun.
As for this "blog", your persuasive characterization notwithstanding, we'll just have to wait and see whether any signs of life show up one of these days.
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