Gulbadan

At a friend's suggestion, today I watched 15 Park Avenue, an elitist-type Indian film about a schizophrenic young girl and her much-older sister. The film is very nice, very moving, very slow, and very highly recommended (especially and only for days when you feel lazy). I, being the perennial prick that I am, found a few things I didn't enjoy about the film:

1. The slow pace
2. The plethora of random, unnecessary characters
3. The ambiguous ending
4. The fact that the film was in English. I hate desi films in English. They appear elitist and unapproachable. They also make it unrelatable and unwatchable for a large chunk of the population. As if goras are going to watching these films in any case. Plus I have issues with understanding spoken English. Which is why I don't listen to English songs. At all. Yep, I'm paindu by default.

One line in the film that's really cool, especially in the context of the whole darned film: "You know, it would've been funny, had it not been so sad."

And now for something completely different: (Talk about unoriginal lines)
Today, while trying to catch up on my European History stuff, I was reading about the Thirty Year's War on Wikipedia. (Wikipedia, by the way, is the best website in the whole wide world. It's much more useful than stupid and ridiculous course readings. If you don't agree with me, you deserve to be rolled up in a carpet, and trampled upon by a dozen horses till you are made mincemeat of. Hmm, that's another historical reference, to be thrown light on some other day.) The Thirty Year's War was a religious-cum-political conflict fought by Protestants and Catholics from all over Europe in the 17th century. Now fuck the rest of the war, there's this rather interesting story about a mock court trial in Prague (which was near the area where this shitty war began). Two Catholic men were tried of treason (or God knows what nonsensical crime) by the people of the city (who happened to be staunch Protestants, or at least most of them). After the trial, they were thrown off a window 50 feet high, to fall to a miserable, shameful and gruesome death. They survived, the bastards. How, you may ask? Ah, here starts the fun. The Catholics say that angels appeared and carried the two men to safety. The Protestant version? The two fell on cow manure, which broke their fall. And I thought us Muslims were this demented.


Continuing the historical-bullshit bit, here's a picture to tickle your, well, fancy. It's Louis XIV, the greatest king in the history of France, the guy who called himself the 'Sun King', the guy who brought glory and power to France, made it the most powerful nation in Europe. The guy who made that spectacular palace at Versailles. Really one of the most important characters in the history of the modern world. And here he is, in tights. I have never seen such beautiful and shapely legs on a man before. Ever. Stunning!!