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Susan Sontag dies

2003 - Regarding the Pain of Others

1.Peace - the spirit of Islam: There's an exibition on this theme on at Palace Grounds till Sun. so drop in fya can. my inimitable self will be today.
2.Theres a shodyatra (grassroots creativity thingi) to Idukki next month. wish the walk's name were less sanskrtic though. planning on it.
3.Dont know for how much longer I can continue blogging the life. Now that the script proposal work is over, been eating from off the pavements and all dishevelled. so shooting around the cv.
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Tells you something about the changing complexion of bangalore when in the last 2 years of the 69 iggy's spent here, she's had to spell out her name. infact now iggy ONLY spells it out, doesnt bother pronouncing it at all and contend with at least 4 aeh?s. Leaving that, really why bother being given a name, when everyone gives you their own convenient anyway. Many of the following names Iggy accepts because theyre largely anagrammatic or atleast hold significant consonants:
guinea pig, agony, gony, agneepath, path, agnee, eggs, egghead, iguana, igua, ganes, ganesan, ganesh, and this doesnt make any sense at all: hyena. but now i remember why the hyena part. Iggy can also judge a person from the name they give her. The ones who call her ganes/ganesh are usually the creeped sevak kinds with acultural pretensions. But I accept it anyway. And Finny, has really been her official by-name since 3: the only marginally elder sister thought she looked like the sound of finny and said 'finny' in a way that stuck. Accepted it. A year later at 4, was particularly intrigued that hookers on the tv serials seemed to consistently share that by.

A Feral Feral day

The Hindu, pg.8 Jayalalitha against Hindi Inscriptions on milestones in State
Iggy, political observer extraordinaire thinks the troucning in the LS elections has shaken Jaya to a kind of enlightenment. First the exquisite Shankacharya move and now this. more more - cottonian to the fore. No really - more affirmative action to revive the spirit of dravidianism.
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Wish i were a kiddy cat.
i'd paddy on my pat.
i'd buff my nails,
and stalk the rails,
and psych-e on my mat.

blink blank

Absolutely nothing to say. Rickshawed to the wheeler road dry cleaners in a rage today evening cos they hadnt removed the price print on 'the' sari - just the reason it had been handed to them. Was ready to decalim on the rank of the sari, the ancestral town antecedents and the trouble. But held forth on the injustice of being shortchanged instead after they denied weakly they ever promised such a miracle. Sure, with so many other customers lined up, my case rang with terrific precision right around and the proprietor watched while pretending to attend to another customer. The proprietor btw is a young lech, linked to the mla of the constituency - bharathnagar i think. The minions were eventually asked to submit the offending sari to him with a brief take on my grievance. He seemed to have decided well in advance he'd play superman and agree to what his minions could not.

Thats nice. One of the intrstng things to come from blogging is being got in touch with by a brasilian kabbalist*. Glad the french helps in the selection of words. After considerate portugese friends from a rather baffling, scruffy childhood, think it's about time i studied portugese. thinking of maria who tried hard to teach me to whistle but never returned to give me the promised elephant hair bangle. and mafalda, none of whose femininity rubbed off on me. hey a spider just walked across my screen. lovely.

* a shaming typo turned this something else before. {curtsies din for pointing out}

LEMONY SNICKET'S A Series of Unfortunate Events

TM & Copyright © 2004 by PARAMOUNT PICTURES and DREAMWORKS LLC.
Jim Carrey is the only actor I will unreservedly pay money to watch on screen and ye, anywhere else.(depp's place is understood k). I can only respond to full-throttle entertainment. and JC fits. full-blooded, full-on. Its hard to see how or why he's so morbidly blackballed. JD works the other way - getting under the skin. celestial.

2-piece suit

Never intended going for the manic mindless mignight mass at all this christmas. But decided will do so just to cockasnook in a 2-piece 'kerala' sari at all the westlife chics and salwar suiters. Well in possession now is just the white sari and the 2 piece is really hipper; so dont know if we must go out just to buy this 2-piece and also wonder if mum will be of any help helping with it. She's the last laugh kind of lady - never know with her. So - its the 2-piece, but if one really wants to be respecting to legacy at all, the real choice has to be the veshti, which isnt so different from the 2-piece cept that its strict about the midriff cover and sgot this fan-like development over the rump. kwaaah - am i ready for it? shown first in pic is the 2-piece and second the veshti with kunuk (earrings). can it be done? holding talks with mum.(and the pics - dont know if have the right to display, will take down soon.)
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What is with everyone and the indiacoffehouse? no. no. no. one more time someone says lezz meet ich - and will have run out of reactions for life. decided its gone on too far and the only ppl i'm going to agree meeting over there are the script ppl cos cant bother realigning with them anyway. I'm sure it has its secret charm with the turbans, camp posters, mirrors and general fashionable squalor. o right and its offical toilet for mg road. the sane waiters ply downstairs and know only 2 I really like. How about lakeside or premier books or night watchman, pecos or the third ditch behind the second bush from the start of church street this side?

O V Vijayan

In August, he was reported critical with a chest infection. He is also suffering from Parkinson's. Hope he's now better and atleast not in any pain, and if he is, his own cool timelesness will abide.
(Photograph: KM Madhusuhanan)

Move over cous

What I envy him is the atmospheric archi of Prague, the frigging archi, my life and joy, that he's pottering by without flipping over and for which I would do anything to study to its depths and heavens. Burning. He tells me the girls are hot - he's having a scream. Quite certain he's missing the woods for the trees. A detailed scrib on what makes Prague the world's most beautiful citie coming up.

Atonement

McEwan's Atonement shaping up nicely.

Lizard hotfoots into my room on tiptoe. At night.

(Inspired by the morning, The Killers, and my resident reptiles)

Limpid lizard on the wall
Of manic toes and wherewithal.
Your dino run and webfoot funk
Have made my simple heart go thunk.
When we meet, your eyes go bug,
And flush we turn in mental hug.
There cannot be a tryst too much
with live and bumpy skin to touch.
Though suitors line the avenue
I will not play parvenu.
So twitch your toe and flick your bum
and tell me you and I are chum.

Ramanujan

Didnt know until last month these 2 were father and son.

Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah

Wot a Pair

I waz walking down Wye front street
When me trousers ran away,
I waz feeling incomplete
But still me trousers would not stay,
When I found where they had gone
De pair addressed me rather blunt,
And they told me they were sick of being put on
Back to front.

I told dem I would treat dem good
And wear dem back to back,
I promised dem protection
From a friend who is a mac,
Me trousers did not believe a single word I had to say,
And me underpants were laughing
When me trousers ran away.

- Benjamin Zephaniah

stranger in the bus stand

It was a nothing moment in a dumb day,
his face received, his head thought
nothing. What was he but a miss
in that moment; anything more than the asylummed
all their lives? Vulnerable, defective, hateable.
Then he saw me watching him,
and hated me.

Maybe it's me, my time, or all the sf blogs ive been dipping into of late or maybe its the balmed book - joy luck. all very quaint and relatable but 1/2 way through could no longer humor the attempts at humor, just deadpanned tan. and leaving it at 3/4th not to be picked up again. think i'll gift it to a friend and expect something better in return. Y tells me she's got this encyclo of myths, alchemy and something else - so lets see shall we? Meanwhile have gratefully resumed Autobio of an unknown Indian.
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Weekend drinking is often a good thing.

Cristiano de Lima Junior

A moment for Dempo Sports Club's Brazilian striker Cristiano de Lima Junior who died yesterday at the Federation Final at Kanteerva Stadium here, from a collision with the goalkeeper right after scoring for his side. The photo on Deccan's frontpage is wrenching. In a country where any sport other than cricket is grossly under-rewarded and under-reported, Deccan must be mentioned for giving this tragedy cover precedence over the putin visit. The questions needs to be answered by KFA: why wasnt the ambulence equipped with oxygen? and why did it drive to hosmat when mallya was closer? Cristiano had married only 2 months back and had settled in Goa with his wife. Fans protested heatedly against the the rank irresponsibility of the KFA.

The mechanics of sleaze

Timing is everything. It either happens or it doesnt. And you dont ever work on it. Say this because a person I didnt know too much about except that he had handed me work on a science script, took the porn leap somewhere else. Last afternoon at the coffee shop, well really I'd brought it up first suggesting my cous was working on porn. he said that really was the best way to start for the struggling. I agreed thinking hanif kureishi all the way and silently daydreamed for a while. And then he threw right at me the idea that if I wanted to work on porn, he would be glad to direct. so. fish. I said - you mean what? i work on the script or (and i didnt say this) - act? He said, anything. After a pause, I launched on the Shankacharya episode and what it tells about the rationalism of the South.
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The good thing is that the prof we're reporting to is a confirmed Marxist so he's only handing this assignment to newbies. and our only competition is a group from cal, which could be something.

Thrall of Neanderthal

So thought that was my last post but when i saw this term for the second time today, had to tag it. Heard of 'living fossil'? (Websters: "an organism that is a living example of an otherwise extinct group and that has remained virtually unchanged in structure and function over a long period of time"). Check out the coelacanth, thought to have died round 90 mille yrs ago - but in '38 found off the coast of south africa; lives in sea depths, scientists believe the first amphibian that crawled out of the sea on to dry land 400 million yrs ago, developed from this scare. Shit - this fish even has teeth, is a meateater and gives birth to live young. just look at those fins, a brief hop to limbs; this thing is clearly hinting at something. This reminds me of the face of a lady i saw when i was 6 and it struck me she had to be an archaelogical intrigue - her cranium was the Neanderthal standard and I was transfixed but in the killing merrygoround of the stations of the cross, lost sight of her forever. prominent brow ridges, low, sloping forehead, chinless and heavy forward-jutting jaw, pale-skinned and utterly anachronistic - a captivating living fossil. sha!

I TAKE A BOW. FOR NOW.

Thankyou.