i'm back!

i' back from a week's worth o' vacation...last week found me drenched in the sea-bathed air of Puri...admittedly it's not one of my favourite places...because i spend most of my time readig whenever I visit----which is not what one does on an exciting vacation...at least, not until bed-time. but i had a seriously great time this year. this could be partly attributed to the scorching, sweltering and uncomfortably un-numbing weather of cal....the sandy beach was an alluring golden, grainy yet smooth, warm and welcoming, yielding beneath my feet. the snow-capped waves breaking upon the shore, as they have been for time immemorial, as they will be through the many hours to come. i was overwhelmed by the thought of the sea being so old, and yet so new, as though it kept re-inventing itself through its constant motion. so vast, yet usually so much in command of itself.
hmmmm.......
i watched this particular movie a few days ago...i was told that it was one of it's kind...i was exceedingly diappointed...not only did I find the movie incredibly pretentious while seeming to not be so, i found it lacked the depth which it aspired towards. it tried to achieve the subtle intensity of a classiclike Roman Holiday, but failed where it tried the most. the characterisation was superficial, the "best original screenplay" unimpressive, without a trace of originality...and i also found it rather sexist. the failure to understand another's culture was portrayed in as appaling a way as celluloidly possible.