Damned Indian censors strike again. Cut the juiciest, squishiest scene out of Kill Bill Vol 2. And a long conversation between BB, Bill and Bea about goldfish and death – and the beginning of the part when BB wants to see Shogun Assassin was cut out, which I think the projectionist did, because the bugger probably had to get home early or something.
There was a heavy downpour today, upto about three in the afternoon, and there was no power for quite a long time. Brilliant. Mother Nature decides to show a little arm and leg on the day there is no office, and one of only two days I can curl up with a book on my beanbag and listen to Ennio Morricone. Just brilliant. It got so dark and gloomy, that I fell asleep at twelve, and woke up at about three thirty with the simultaneous sounds of my tummy growling and the cellphone ringing.
It seems an interview with AR Rahman was supposed to be on today on ND-TV,at 1930 hours. Somehow I was in the vicinity of a television at that time, and caught part of it. The program was called Walk the Talk ( whatever that means!), and well, the guy conducting the interview was one of those mindless twerps who can think of the words “Bombay”, “Roja”, “Sufi” and “Chhaiyya Chaiyya”, and thereby poses his questions revolving around these words, and these along. What an oaf! Buggers Rahman about puerile stuff like where he got the idea behind “Chhaiyya Chhaiyya” from ( which a cursory Google search would have revealed to him. ), and then starts asking things like “How do you compose music?”, and ‘Which is your favourite composition?” Hello? Here, a guy who listens to ARR can’t figure out which song is his favourite, and you expect the person who composed all those tunes painstakingly over the years to pick favourites. The interviewer was some reporter/editor from Indian Express – I never follow that newspaper anyways, and my opinion of the people they hire to conduct interviews has basically been flushed down the drain. Give me a Khalid Mohammed interview of ARR on Filmfare anyday.
Yesterday I found this anonymous comment on my post about Akira, ATC and co, which said “plz use lj-cut”. From what I gather, you, Mr Anonymous Chap is one of those who have listed me as a friend ( after all, if you came to my Livejournal and found it chockful of long posts, you would hardly bother whether they are lj-cut or not ) I was very rude with you, and I shall very rude to you or anyone else who asks me to “plz use lj-cut” the next time. Leave aside the business of this being my livejournal, and me doing what I want and all that individualistic crap, it’s just that none of what I post involves bandwidth-hogging pictures, or inane randomised quizzes which would violate the sanctity of your oh-so-compact Friends’-page. I presume right now you’re not interested in anything I have to say, and you want a free pass that says “here, I just saved you a couple of scroll-bar clicks” from me. Here’s some free advice instead – haul your lazy ass and click on the “manage friends” link, and kindly remove me from your list. There, will save you a lot of free space on your friends’ page, and save me a lot of bad breath and ill-temper.
Humph. Livejournal “friends”, indeed!
Humph. Livejournal “friends”, indeed!
If it was just somebody trying to wind you up, he/she sure succeeded!
(That reminds me – i hogged bandwidth with pictures in my last two posts, must start using thumbnails).
Anyway …….. coolss down, preciousss :-) !!
If it was just somebody trying to wind you up, he/she sure succeeded!
Naah, it was just the bad weather, I guess. :)
:-) – then you’d be a right terror, were you to live around these parts ;-) !!
“Cut the juiciest, squishiest scene out of Kill Bill Vol 2.”
yea man, tht sucked.. i mean wtf is the point when u show the eye being pulled out but cut the squishing part?? @$$holes!
“And a long conversation between BB, Bill and Bea about goldfish and death – and the beginning of the part when BB wants to see Shogun Assassin was cut out”
well, they weren’t cut when i saw the movie .. nya na nya na nya na! :)
Let’s see what they cut out when I go there for a second viewing, and a third, and….
You tell’em!
As you say, it takes one visit to your journal for a person to see that you write lengthy entries, and you don’t use lj-cut much (ever?). If that really bugs a person, why would they visit your journal or friend you? People are dopes.
I love your answer to mr anon. And I concur with your opinions on the lj cut. :)
I assume as a newly inducted `humph…”friend”‘, I may post here. ;)
I have seen it all: eye squishing and the hilarious swordfight of Bill with Michael Jai White. And I just saw Shogun Assassin after the longest time[I first saw it when I was oh…15]. That is one of the many things that I love about Kill Bill. It is a terrific excuse to re-watch all those old favourites.
Vat is dis lj-cut please?
“hilarious swordfight of Bill with Michael Jai White.”
wtf??
>wtf??
This the f__:
the scene is not in the theatre release, but it is in the DVD. It is basically a sendup of the classic chopsocky “student meets slayer of his master” situation. Kiddo and Bill are walking through this village, when they bump into Michael Jai White, the student whose master Bill has killed.
It’s also available on the net somewhere.
aha..that answers my question too..
To satisfy everyone’s Kill Bill needs, here’s a One chop samurai shop . It’s a blindingly good set of rips and cuts- and fast too.
Else, go to killbill2.net and go down into the audio forum. It has a complete and detailed listing of exactly which track appears when, and is also an alternate download site for rare stuff.
You, my friend, (and no, I don’t mean the “humph…friend”-type-of-friend when I say ) are a miracle!). I love the link just because of the Meiko Kaji folder. Thank you!
If you haven’t got it already, somebody has seeded four 5-6-7-8’s albums on suprnova.org. They’re brilliant, check ’em out sometime. :)
No, I had not idea about the 5.6.7.8s being available.. Thanks!
So
Is
lj-cut
fun?
Re: So
Depends on who’s cutting whom, usually. ;-)
I don’t like LJ cuts. Show me all, or show me nothing! Er, something like that, anyway.
Heh. I think I understand what you mean.
In an ideal world, I would want to see the pics you put up on progressiveruin on my lj-friends’ page, instead of having to ( sigh) open my bookmarks folder and click on the link. Ah, forget it. That’s just my lazy old bones creaking.
I agree, too…I hate not allowing my pictures to show up in the feeds, but the alternative is every other weblogger and webmaster on the planet leeching off my bandwidth.
Luckily on the LJ feed there’s a direct link to each entry on my website, so you don’t have to go to your bookmarks!
LOL– how presumptuous of Anon! Maybe he/she/it is about 12 years old and hasn’t quite caught on yet?
Do they allow 12-year olds on lj?
Oh, right, you mean mentally.
Plz use LJ Cut
What in God’s name is an LJ CUt, honey…
Priyanka
Re: Plz use LJ Cut
RTFM, sugarbumps.
:(
I have to admit that this particular form of social policing got to me, and I learned and used an lj-cut in the last entry. It sucks!
You bet it does! You made me click twice to read you. Humph!
Well said!
That dude is Shekhar Gupta. He is absolutely pathetic. He apparently writes well, but he can’t interview anyone for sure. I have seen a couple of episodes, he truly sucks.
Well, this is the only episode of Walk the Talk I’ll ever see, and good riddance!
you had it bad brother… the eye squishy scene is definitely cut, but the rest was in house censorship by the theatre-wallahs to pack in more shows by saving 5 minutes, or something similarly sinister.
And these fucking cut nazis seem to have cropped up a lot recently. I wonder if it has anything to do with the world stupidity factor increasing by 12.41%?
ONLY 12.41%? You’ve got to be joking!
Shekhar Gupta! The way he talks, the show should be retitled ‘Talk the Talk’ or something like that. What particularly riled me was when he asked ARR what he felf about Gujarat. What a fuckwit!
I missed that early part about Gujarat. Damn. Who lets that guy go do all this weirdo stuff anyway?
An lj-cut does make sense sometimes, mate. When you are posting photographs, for example. :) I suggest using them accordingly.
LJ cuts are a pain for people who use Internet Explorer and have to open another ‘new window’ to see the entry. Ahem, Firefox?
Chill out. It’s *your* blog, your rules are the Word. :D
pictures….
Correct! And that’s something I would do ( except in rare, oddbally cases I completely lose my mind), because I would be showing people pictures, and there would be some people who wouldn’t be interested in pics, or would be reading ljs in an office, and I ought to be mindful of this.
Piratey Matey!
Aye matey! LJ cut is fa’ a bunch a lolly – gagging, milk – sop jackanapes, foolla’ took sissies. We ain’t that nancy, be we? :P
Re: Piratey Matey!
We ain’t Nancy, nosirree. We be Hardy Boys…er…men.
It wasn’t me!
It was the one armed man Mr.Mate! I seen heem!
Re: It wasn’t me!
Of course it wasn’t you, senor. It was Shaggy. He said so heemself!
no?
so that means you’re not in favour of lj-cuts?
Re: no?
IMO, lj-cut is about acknowledgement. It’s about knowing that a person who’s reading me ( as a “friend” ) does not suddenly expect his friends-page to bloat out of size because I have linked to a hundred different photographs. In such a case, even scrolling down does not help, because the images are loaded one by one, causing the browser to “jump” ( I hope you get what I mean). I would readily go for an lj-cut in such a case.
Also, for major personalised crap, like a humongous Amazon wishlist, or a long list of anything at all which I would like to scroll through in the future, but which I realise someone else wouldn’t be equally interested in.
But an lj-cut when I am actually writing something that *I* would like to read and refer to later? Nosirree.
And just for the record, I wouldn’t think of going to someone’s lj and commenting “plz use lj-cut” with or without correct spelling. Your journal, you know how to use lj-cut. *My* interest in reading what you say, hence your name in my friends’ list.
The answer to your question?
I am in favour of lj-cuts, in the right kind of situation.