PRETTY FLY FOR A WHITE GUY..

It's been galactic years since I last posted, and the plain simple reason is that I have had nothing to write about(writer's block, do I hear?). Life trudges along at a wary pace in this sleepy college town, except for when exam season is in full bloom. These past few days, my mind has been cluttered with but one thought.. americana.. Maybe it's the largesse I'm showing towards sitcoms and movies that project the country as a place where even the unemployed lead swanky lives.. Everytime I see something taking place in an american backdrop, it evokes nostalgic memories that come gushing through from my 1999 trip and extrapolated as to how it would be to lead a life there.. It's ignominious how I absolutely detested the place when I was actually there, but now that I'm not, it just seems like THE place to be..

I guess the main reason we so revere the western way of life is the rose tinted glasses through which everything relateed to their country reaches us.. The media of their country goes out of its way to ensure that in the eyes of the world, america is utopia.. The Indian media, on the other hand goes through great pains to see to it that everything related to their country is dragged into the mire, except if it has anything to do with Pakistan(when latent patriotic sentiments start bubbling over)..

Life throws up numerous circumstances wherein you yearn for something, only to devalue it when it is with you, and once you go away from what you pine for, you start yearning for it again..or something to that effect..


P.S: Watched "The graduate" today, and found it far below expectations. It was endearing in parts, but in others it was hair-tearing-slow.. The soundtrack by Simon and Garfunkel was by far the best I've heard in a movie, with gems such as "Sounds of Silence","Mrs. Robinson" and "Scarborough fair". Dustin Hoffman looks life he walked off the sets of this movie and immediately onto the sets of ""Rain Man".. Anne Bancroft is extremely aged, and the shots showing her contrasting skin take bad taste to a whole new nadir.. Mr. Robinson is by far the best character in the film.. The low point ofthe movie was the first scene, where Anne Bancroft tries to seduce Dustin Hofmann.. The scene looks contrived and artificial every which way you look at it..