Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged attire, clothing, dating, funy, humor, life, satire, scarves, stuff white people like, writing on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Stuff White People Like is hilarious.
“I like the guy in the white American Apparel shirt with the glasses.”
“Which one? there are eight.”
“The guy with the keffiyeh.”
“Oh yeah, you’re right. He does look smarter and more political than the other guys. He’s clearly more sensitive to wind, so he’s probably more sensitive in general. You should [...]
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Posted in on certain arts, writings and performances, tagged babies, couch, couches, couple, couples, difference, gays, homosexuality, lesbians, life, love, movie, music, orientation, people, race, sharing, video on April 17, 2008 | No Comments »
Watch twenty couples on twenty couches in a video response to the question “What’s the difference”?
I think the idea was great and the execution was beautiful. My major peeve: too many laptops.
(Link via Instapundit)
Update: The music in the video is growing on me. I wish there was a ringtone version of it.
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“The sonatas of Mozart are unique: too easy for children, too difficult for adults. Children are given Mozart to play because of the quantity of notes; grown ups avoid him because of the quality of notes … Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters”
-Artur Schnabel
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Posted in math, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged blog, blogging, grad student, graduate student, life, math, Mozart, music, personal, phd, research, student, student life on March 17, 2008 | No Comments »
I haven’t had much time to blog this weekend. Ideas for posts came and went. News broke, and got stale. I gave them all a haughty ignore and, with single minded devotion, concentrated on my L-functions.
One of the drawbacks of being a fourth year grad student is that you need to do a lot of research quickly enough [...]
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One of the best terms ever invented in a musical context is chill factor — the spine-tingling sensation caused by the effect of a song. And I can think of no better term to describe this stirring ballad from the movie “Once”.
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This is an awesome site, one of the funniest I’ve ever come across.
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The soundtrack of Pan’s Labyrinth has an transcendent, almost eternal quality that I cannot adequately describe. Every time I hear it, I feel elevated. It makes me sad and happy at the same time. If Long, long time ago does not give you goose-bumps, I don’t know what will.
And the film itself is one for the ages [...]
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I came across Omniverse quite by accident from (surprise!) a wikipedia entry.
I was intrigued, fascinated, exhilarated. I read on. I dug into the archives voraciously, with the excitement of a little boy who has just received a fabulous gift.
Marvelous writing, like all marvelous things, has few true practitioners, and I am elated every time I discover someone.
Why did she stop blogging?
Update: The wikipedia [...]
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On a stream of consciousness from my last post…one of Robert Frost’s best poems
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
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Posted in imported-from-old-blog, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged growing up, harry potter, on certain arts, writings and performances, reviews, rowling on July 18, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Has the world ever seen a phenomenon like Harry Potter? There are a million theories -spanning the whole gamut from writing skills to ingenious marketing- about what makes the series so mindbogglingly popular. Personally, I stand for the simplistic view that they are just outstanding books. Massive popularity quite often signals mediocrity- not in the [...]
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Posted in belles-lettres, imported-from-old-blog, on certain arts, writings and performances, personal, tagged apprehension, belles-lettres, dementor, Mozart, music, poetry, reviews, Salil Choudhury on July 10, 2005 | No Comments »
It is summer, and there’s not much to do. In other words, there is plenty of opportunity to feel sad.
I suppose it is a season of dementors. They glide into you and take control, and sometimes they do their job so well that you think you’ll never be happy again. But eventually they let you [...]
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It’s been a while.
To get over the essentials…
The winter’s over, it’s a new term, new courses. Nothing much happening otherwise. The same old stuff - homework , chat , angst, movies, cricket. An occasional trip to someplace else. Joshua tree, Long beach, Channel Islands.
There are some nice pics at my homepage
Watched an old western today. [...]
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