Oh great, there’s no one in the house now except me. Rishi’s gone to Bangalore, Vineet to Bombay. Sasi’s gone home to Eluru, and Vasu’s gone with him. And I am leaving for Bangalore tonight.<\/p>\n
Christmas Day passed by like any other holiday, except there was no sunshine, and it was real<\/i> chilly outside, which gave me quite a shock when I woke up in the morning, expecting the watch to say 7:00 AM. “Congratulations, buddy.” I was telling myself, “You woke up early today.” *Shocked look at watch* “Sputter! Gak! 10:30??!! It can’t be! ”<\/p>\n
But it was. The clock said twelve before I finally got into the groove, that is, before I decided what to do with the half-day that was left. Finally made it to MR Book Stall, where I had to repay some money – and as usual, the guy had a couple of new books. I was in control – asked him to keep them until next month, by then I would either change my mind, or get the money to buy them.<\/p>\n
The books were – Burton on Burton<\/a><\/b>, by Tim Burton.<\/p>\n And another book on Stanley Kubrick, about which I am not too sure whether it’s the Vincent LaBrutto<\/a> book or the Paul Duncan<\/a> one. ( Yes, that’s the way it was, iI didn’t even look at the book, I saw it was about Kubrick, and I looked inside and read the first couple of pages, which were all very good ) He was charging 250 rupees for the first book and 450 for the other two.<\/p>\n I bought a couple of back-issues of Cinefantastique<\/a>, and two issues of Cinescape, an original game cd of Kingpin<\/a><\/i> for eighty rupees, gulped a couple of panipuris, and that was that. <\/p>\n Forgot to mention this, but I seem to have become a very good DVD ripper. All you need is the programs Smartyrip<\/b> and FlaskMPEG<\/b>, a nice big hard disk ( look again, that’s ‘s’ )and oodles of patience, and you’re done. <\/p>\n Kevin Smith’s Mallrats<\/b> was brilliant!!! The kind of movie that makes me glad I am me. Which is not a very sensible thought, I know. Next stop: The Clerks<\/b> animated series, and then Chasing Amy<\/b>, and then Dogma<\/b>. Cinema Paradiso, I love you!<\/p>\n Dinner at Angeethi’s with Mons, followed by an unsuccessful attempt to buy tickets to Bangalore. God help me, I need to go there and I don’t have tickets yet. It’s the holiday season, so chances are slight. It’s chilly, very chilly, so I am not going by General Class in the train ( besides, I hate going to Kacheguda station ) Let’s see……<\/p>\n
\nStanley Kubrick: Interviews<\/a><\/b> by Stanley Kubrick.<\/p>\n