This is a fabulous recording. Lovely songs by an older generation of Cuban singers. They come from varied backgrounds, and have wonderful stories to tell. I first got the Audio CD from the Public Library, and then ended up purchasing the DVD. The DVD is a simple documentary that has interviews with the singers, interspersed with shots of Cuba, and with recordings of their performance in studio and concert settings.
Thank you, Ry Cooder, for bringing to light this great music.
November 11, 2003
October 09, 2003
Magnatune
Magnatune is a very intriguing experiment. A combination of the Creative Commons License, some good music, and a simple online distribution scheme that minimizes marginal costs might actually make this idea viable.
The music from Magnatune that I have listened to so far seems wonderful. Indian Classical Sitar, and Bach Violin Sonatas.
May be John Buckman will turn out to be the Linus Torvalds for music. Wait and watch!
October 05, 2003
Remember Shakti: Live in Chicago
I made a quick, one-evening trip to Chicago for the Remember Shakti concert at the Chicago Theater. John McLaughlin, Zakir Hussain, Selva Ganesh and U. Srinivas are touring the US.
Their previous albums include "Saturday night in Bombay" and "The Believer".
It was a more typically Indian concert than I thought it would be. The string players U. Srinivas (mandolin) and John McLaughlin (guitar) were in the middle of the stage with the percussionists , Zakir Hussain (Tabla, Drums) and Selva Ganesh (Kanjira, Mridangam, Ghatam) sitting across from each other on the side. They played some tunes from the 2 albums for the first hour or so. New compositions and some "jugalbandi" playing was the remaining hour.
Nice concert.
Their previous albums include "Saturday night in Bombay" and "The Believer".
It was a more typically Indian concert than I thought it would be. The string players U. Srinivas (mandolin) and John McLaughlin (guitar) were in the middle of the stage with the percussionists , Zakir Hussain (Tabla, Drums) and Selva Ganesh (Kanjira, Mridangam, Ghatam) sitting across from each other on the side. They played some tunes from the 2 albums for the first hour or so. New compositions and some "jugalbandi" playing was the remaining hour.
Nice concert.
Taxi Driver and Raging Bull
A few days back, screenwriter-director Paul Schrader visited Ann Arbor. The film and video department at the University of Michigan had arranged for guest lectures, and a special screening of 3 of his films - Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and Affliction at the historic Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.
I managed to go for the Taxi Driver and Raging Bull screenings. Both films are considered classics, defining films in the 1970s. I had them in my wishlist for a long time!
Robert De Niro plays the title role in both films. Fantastic performances - now I understand why De Niro is considered an actor of actors! His facial expressions, voice, body movements, and everything else he does on screen make you see him as the character he's playing - the lonely taxi driver, or the proud champion boxer.
Taxi Driver captures New York in all its moods. Through the lens of Travis Bickle, the Taxi Driver, Scorsese shows the audience New York as it is - raw and beautiful in its urban, ragged form. Night time New York, in the rain, with the lights reflecting off glass panels of stores, the taxi windshield and mirrors, is by itself worth a watch.
This capped a great two weeks of movie watching - I had seen Orson Welles' classic "Citizen Kane" just the week before.
I managed to go for the Taxi Driver and Raging Bull screenings. Both films are considered classics, defining films in the 1970s. I had them in my wishlist for a long time!
Robert De Niro plays the title role in both films. Fantastic performances - now I understand why De Niro is considered an actor of actors! His facial expressions, voice, body movements, and everything else he does on screen make you see him as the character he's playing - the lonely taxi driver, or the proud champion boxer.
Taxi Driver captures New York in all its moods. Through the lens of Travis Bickle, the Taxi Driver, Scorsese shows the audience New York as it is - raw and beautiful in its urban, ragged form. Night time New York, in the rain, with the lights reflecting off glass panels of stores, the taxi windshield and mirrors, is by itself worth a watch.
This capped a great two weeks of movie watching - I had seen Orson Welles' classic "Citizen Kane" just the week before.
September 12, 2003
Some photos taken over the summer
I bought a new camera phone a couple months back.
I went for a nice long walk in Nichol's Arboretum. Some photos taken at the Arboretum.
I went for a nice long walk in Nichol's Arboretum. Some photos taken at the Arboretum.
August 22, 2003
Journey Planner for Mumbai
Wonderful tool for getting to know your way around Mumbai. It would be nice to have a map though.
July 26, 2003
Penguin Books India
Excellent listing of Indian, and India-themed books published by Penguin. I have used this site often to find books that are hard to find in bookstores in the US. These can be bought online at the few sites that are mentioned under the "how to buy" section. I especially like the India Book Club site modeled after Amazon. The only issue: Book prices here are quite high.
July 17, 2003
Kishore Kumar
I just read the definitive biography of Kishore Kumar, written by Kishore Valicha, and published by Penguin India. Very analytical (given that the author has a PhD in Film Studies, that was to be expected), but contains a good number of anecdotes about Kishore-da. It also contains excellent background information on the Hindi film industry. The emergence of the stars in the 1950s (Raj Kapoor - Dilip Kumar - Dev Anand) and the differing themes and subjects of films are explored.
In the context of Kishore Kumar as a comic actor, Valecha argues that prior to Raj Kapoor's integration of the comic with the main ccharacter, "comedy" was not seen as mainstream Hindi cinema. He also goes on to describe Kishore Kumar's unique comic talents, and spontaneous energy.
In the most significant part of the book, Valecha traces Kishore Kumar as a singer through the 1950s to the 1980s. In the process, he presents nice analysis of the evolution of Hindi film music, from its classical/ folk Indian roots, to the influence of western music and orchestration. He also describes in detail the musical styles and inspirations of various music directors through those decades. Kishore Kumar's unique, untrained voice, and ability to express emotion through his voice, and improvisational skills are also mentioned in great detail, with several examples of his best songs.
Valecha also describes Kishore Kumar's personality and its various contrasting traits. The child in him that possesses boundless energy, the loneliness, the longing for the simple life of Khandwa and other uniquely Kishore facts creates a nice portait.
On the whole, it is an excellent book. I found it to be a bit too analytical for my taste.
In the context of Kishore Kumar as a comic actor, Valecha argues that prior to Raj Kapoor's integration of the comic with the main ccharacter, "comedy" was not seen as mainstream Hindi cinema. He also goes on to describe Kishore Kumar's unique comic talents, and spontaneous energy.
In the most significant part of the book, Valecha traces Kishore Kumar as a singer through the 1950s to the 1980s. In the process, he presents nice analysis of the evolution of Hindi film music, from its classical/ folk Indian roots, to the influence of western music and orchestration. He also describes in detail the musical styles and inspirations of various music directors through those decades. Kishore Kumar's unique, untrained voice, and ability to express emotion through his voice, and improvisational skills are also mentioned in great detail, with several examples of his best songs.
Valecha also describes Kishore Kumar's personality and its various contrasting traits. The child in him that possesses boundless energy, the loneliness, the longing for the simple life of Khandwa and other uniquely Kishore facts creates a nice portait.
On the whole, it is an excellent book. I found it to be a bit too analytical for my taste.
June 24, 2003
Reputations Research in the News!
Today, the New York Times featured the research project that I worked on while at the University of Michigan. And carried a nice picture of my advisor, Prof. Paul Resnick. It's great to see the research featured in NYTimes, even though the only quote from Paul was "The data are a researcher's playground"!
Online markets are certainly growing in size, and also maturing as they grow. Economic studies of these markets are certainly vital to the field. Do check out the website: Reputations Research Network.
There are several excellent research papers listed at the site. For a gentle introduction, read the Reputation Systems article.
Online markets are certainly growing in size, and also maturing as they grow. Economic studies of these markets are certainly vital to the field. Do check out the website: Reputations Research Network.
There are several excellent research papers listed at the site. For a gentle introduction, read the Reputation Systems article.
June 16, 2003
Laughable Loves
Milan Kundera is a very strange writer. I don't really know what to make of his stories. I like the stories, the characters and the narration. There is a lot of subtle humor. However, I can't really say I enjoyed the book. Its strangely paradoxical just like most of the stories in "Laughable Loves".
This book is truly a collection of short stories. The stories are all built around the same theme, and are in some way connected with each other. The first few stories build up the intensity, while the later seem to focus more deeply on what Kundera wants to convey. They are delightful and at the same time, quite sad. To some extent, the plot seems to be extraneous to the story.
Read it, and you'll probably know!
This book is truly a collection of short stories. The stories are all built around the same theme, and are in some way connected with each other. The first few stories build up the intensity, while the later seem to focus more deeply on what Kundera wants to convey. They are delightful and at the same time, quite sad. To some extent, the plot seems to be extraneous to the story.
Read it, and you'll probably know!
June 11, 2003
Mukhawataa ("The Mask" - in Marathi)
I was looking forward to reading "Mukhawata" by Arun Sadhu for quite some time. Laid my hands on it thanks to the University of Michigan library.
Mukhawata is set in Maharashtra in two time-periods, the 14th century and through the mid-to-late 20th century. It tracks a Brahmin family over the pre-independennce, and post-independence period. The 14th century portion runs as the background story of the family, its particular traditions, and a reference as to how certain rituals come to be. It is a plot device that, while running in the past, connects strongly with the present, and sets up the stage for the goings-on.
The novel is set in rural Maharashtra, in the Vidarbha region. The local references - towns, culture and language are very detailed and wonderfully written. The everyday life in the village- agriculture routines, meals, pooja and the annual Paalakhee - are all wonderfully described. The ritualistic nature of religious practice, devoid of any real connection to a God, and the reality of the surroundings creates questions in the minds of the practitioning Brahmins. This doubt leads the different men, responsible for performing these rituals, in search of truths. Some break the rituals, others try to find its meaning in alcohol, some others see virtue in giving, and some try to find it in the family history and the deep-rooted traditions. Some break all ties with the family, and chose to run away.
While describing a patriarchal society, where the family tree is centered on the Man of the family in that generation, the author actually throws up a contradiction that is novel. He tries to identify the meaning of "family" and shows the real identifiers to be the family traditions, language, food and other issues, most of which take place at home. He notes then that its the women, who are married into the family who are responsible for continuing with and at the same time modifying, modernizing these traditions. Their influence, whichever families they come from, are responsible for the continuation of tradition as well as all changes, small and large, in the way the family lives. It is these women, who adopt the family as their own, and give it meaning.
The novel thus presents a rich new look at the known facts. The caste politics, changing climate of education, rising cities, and redcued dependence on agriculture are all part of the fabric of the story. In the novel's peak moment, which you feel coming all through reading it, the author ties these themes together. The traditional views on caste, education, religion, and human life are thus challenged and layers are peeled off to reveal the richness underlying mundane everyday existence.
Arun Sadhu is one of my favorite novelists. This is undoubtedly one of his best books.
Mukhawata is set in Maharashtra in two time-periods, the 14th century and through the mid-to-late 20th century. It tracks a Brahmin family over the pre-independennce, and post-independence period. The 14th century portion runs as the background story of the family, its particular traditions, and a reference as to how certain rituals come to be. It is a plot device that, while running in the past, connects strongly with the present, and sets up the stage for the goings-on.
The novel is set in rural Maharashtra, in the Vidarbha region. The local references - towns, culture and language are very detailed and wonderfully written. The everyday life in the village- agriculture routines, meals, pooja and the annual Paalakhee - are all wonderfully described. The ritualistic nature of religious practice, devoid of any real connection to a God, and the reality of the surroundings creates questions in the minds of the practitioning Brahmins. This doubt leads the different men, responsible for performing these rituals, in search of truths. Some break the rituals, others try to find its meaning in alcohol, some others see virtue in giving, and some try to find it in the family history and the deep-rooted traditions. Some break all ties with the family, and chose to run away.
While describing a patriarchal society, where the family tree is centered on the Man of the family in that generation, the author actually throws up a contradiction that is novel. He tries to identify the meaning of "family" and shows the real identifiers to be the family traditions, language, food and other issues, most of which take place at home. He notes then that its the women, who are married into the family who are responsible for continuing with and at the same time modifying, modernizing these traditions. Their influence, whichever families they come from, are responsible for the continuation of tradition as well as all changes, small and large, in the way the family lives. It is these women, who adopt the family as their own, and give it meaning.
The novel thus presents a rich new look at the known facts. The caste politics, changing climate of education, rising cities, and redcued dependence on agriculture are all part of the fabric of the story. In the novel's peak moment, which you feel coming all through reading it, the author ties these themes together. The traditional views on caste, education, religion, and human life are thus challenged and layers are peeled off to reveal the richness underlying mundane everyday existence.
Arun Sadhu is one of my favorite novelists. This is undoubtedly one of his best books.
March 17, 2003
Bend It Like Beckham
And while we are on the subject, of strong women characters in movies, here's another one! This one is wildly entertaining and fun film!
Last year, Bend It.. was so popular back home in India, I watched it thrice in two months! And I have never seen so many girls in a movie theater, shouting, whistling, and generally having a great time!!
Last year, Bend It.. was so popular back home in India, I watched it thrice in two months! And I have never seen so many girls in a movie theater, shouting, whistling, and generally having a great time!!
March 12, 2003
The Pianist
Came back a couple hours ago from watching this film.. based on a true story of a jewish pianist (Wladyslaw Szpilman) caught in World War II Poland.. Adrien Brody is excellent in the title role, showing the varying degrees of extreme emotions nicely.. rest of the cast is also very good, as are all the crowd scenes, war scenes and locations.. since its based on a true story, there are not that many "cinematic" moments, but the film still had a lot of impact..
There were too many cuts jumping the screenplay from one time to the next, and the storyline was harder to make out.. I was not "moved" by the film in the same way as I was by "Life is Beautiful" or "Schindler's List".. It was a very good film nonetheless, especially in the currently emerging "war" scenario...
Other similarly themed movies I liked:
World War II: Life is Beautiful| Schindler's List
Ethnic/ religious disputes: Ulysses' Gaze| 1947-Earth
War-themed: No Man's Land
There were too many cuts jumping the screenplay from one time to the next, and the storyline was harder to make out.. I was not "moved" by the film in the same way as I was by "Life is Beautiful" or "Schindler's List".. It was a very good film nonetheless, especially in the currently emerging "war" scenario...
Other similarly themed movies I liked:
World War II: Life is Beautiful| Schindler's List
Ethnic/ religious disputes: Ulysses' Gaze| 1947-Earth
War-themed: No Man's Land
March 03, 2003
Sad Shaun: So near and yet so far
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"Tied matches and rain: the ghosts of World Cup past converged on South Africa in the most warped manner imaginable."
Heartbreak | Pollock: We Miscalculated | South Africa have only themselves to blame
February 28, 2003
MusicBrainz
Imagine a thousand MP3 (or wma or other digital music) files which are either missing ID3 tags completely, or have incorrect tags. Absence of metadata such as album name, artist information, release year, genre and others makes it really difficult to organize a digital music collection. Complex directories-and sub-directories organized by album/artist do not really do justice to the variety of ways in which one listens to music. By genre, by artist, by album, by mood, by year and a thousand other idiosyncratic ways.
This is a notorious problem, even with legal copies of CDs, since most "free" MP3 encoding software tools do not have the capabilities to retrieve track info from online databases and write it while encoding the file. Also, many non-english language albums, and those on little-known labels do not even provide their data to CDDB or other online databases. Add to this mix the songs that you download from peer-to-peer file sharing services. What you have is a digital music collection, with highly unreliable/absent metadata.
Windows Media Player (and a lot of other players nowadays) let you overcome the organization problems through intelligent use of song metadata, allowing creation of such
playlists as "music from the 70s only", "1968 Beatles tracks only", or "hindi only" without resorting to complex directory structures in storing songs on the hard drive.
An elegant, free, open-source solution is provided by MusicBrainz. It provides a tool that analyses a music file on your hard drive, identifies it, fetches album and artist information from its database and corrects the tags in your file. In case of the song being absent in its database, it lets you identify the song yourself, and attempts to fetch data from FreeDB. Nice!
Contribute by supplying information about albums/ artists absent in their database, providing corrections for existing database entries, and approving other people's suggestions. Its free, its open source, and its distributed. I love this.
Money for MusicBrainz? An interesting "public goods" problem.
This is a notorious problem, even with legal copies of CDs, since most "free" MP3 encoding software tools do not have the capabilities to retrieve track info from online databases and write it while encoding the file. Also, many non-english language albums, and those on little-known labels do not even provide their data to CDDB or other online databases. Add to this mix the songs that you download from peer-to-peer file sharing services. What you have is a digital music collection, with highly unreliable/absent metadata.
Windows Media Player (and a lot of other players nowadays) let you overcome the organization problems through intelligent use of song metadata, allowing creation of such
playlists as "music from the 70s only", "1968 Beatles tracks only", or "hindi only" without resorting to complex directory structures in storing songs on the hard drive.
An elegant, free, open-source solution is provided by MusicBrainz. It provides a tool that analyses a music file on your hard drive, identifies it, fetches album and artist information from its database and corrects the tags in your file. In case of the song being absent in its database, it lets you identify the song yourself, and attempts to fetch data from FreeDB. Nice!
Contribute by supplying information about albums/ artists absent in their database, providing corrections for existing database entries, and approving other people's suggestions. Its free, its open source, and its distributed. I love this.
Money for MusicBrainz? An interesting "public goods" problem.
February 25, 2003
The Life of David Gale
Kevin Spacey and Kate Winslet - a very interesting lead pair (which is not really a pair!), an inmate on death row- an unusual plot. I picked this movie after finding out that the theater supposedly showing "The Pianist" was not showing it (or any movie) at all!
Turned out to be a decent choice. Kevin Spacey was excellent as "David Gale", a philosophy professor turned murder convict. Spacey lecturing philosophy in the classroom is a perfect fit, though his exaggerated swagger after a few whiskies, and quoting Socrates in streets in his drunken state is probably taking it a bit too far. Controlled, but a bit over the top I felt.
Kate Winslet is likeable, in the role of the prototypical "reporter". All others, except the murder victim (Laura Linney portraying Spacey's colleague at DeathWatch), do not have a significant role.
The basic theme concerns the volatile issue of the "death penalty" that is the common penalty for convicted murderers in several US states. The protagonist, Spacey, leads a group opposed to the death penalty on moral grounds. Set in orthodox Texas, that's a difficult liberal view to hold. The chief argument is that a wrongful conviction will lead to murder in a state which issues the death penalty. How David Gale's life becomes entwined with the beliefs he fights for is the movie in short.
An up-and-down film most of the time. It builds interest and suspense in some sequences (most notably, the murder scene, and the videotapes). The mysterious truck following the reporter around from day one is too simplistic though.
Turned out to be a decent choice. Kevin Spacey was excellent as "David Gale", a philosophy professor turned murder convict. Spacey lecturing philosophy in the classroom is a perfect fit, though his exaggerated swagger after a few whiskies, and quoting Socrates in streets in his drunken state is probably taking it a bit too far. Controlled, but a bit over the top I felt.
Kate Winslet is likeable, in the role of the prototypical "reporter". All others, except the murder victim (Laura Linney portraying Spacey's colleague at DeathWatch), do not have a significant role.
The basic theme concerns the volatile issue of the "death penalty" that is the common penalty for convicted murderers in several US states. The protagonist, Spacey, leads a group opposed to the death penalty on moral grounds. Set in orthodox Texas, that's a difficult liberal view to hold. The chief argument is that a wrongful conviction will lead to murder in a state which issues the death penalty. How David Gale's life becomes entwined with the beliefs he fights for is the movie in short.
An up-and-down film most of the time. It builds interest and suspense in some sequences (most notably, the murder scene, and the videotapes). The mysterious truck following the reporter around from day one is too simplistic though.
February 20, 2003
February 19, 2003
East-West fusion music
There has been much news of late about the increasing "Bollywood" influence on entertainment in the Western world. The Oscar nomination of Lagaan in 2001, along with the bollywood-inspired revival of the hollywood musical, as shown by the hit "Moulin Rouge" and the west-end success of Andrew Lloyd Webber's presentation of A. R. Rahman's musical Bombay Dreams have just been the high points of the increasing influence of Asian culture, especially in the UK.
As far music goes, collaboration between renowned artists in the West and the East goes back in time. Most famous of all is Pandit Ravi Shankar playing at Woodstock. Another group that went a long distance in finding common themes, and exploring musical possibilities is Shakti. Shakti, with John McLaughlin, L. Shankar, Vikku Vinayakram, R. Raghavan and Zakir Hussain, is often credited with pioneering the east-west fusion concept. This group came out with albums such as Shakti with John McLaughlin, Natural Elements, and Handful of Beauty. From this original 1970s group, some members came together again in the 1990s, to perform a series of concerts under the name "Remember Shakti" with other greats of Indian classical music such as Mandolin Srinivas, and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. The albums are Remember Shakti: Saturday Night in Bombay and Remember Shakti: The believer. Definitely worth a try, if you haven't already. I especially like "Shakti with John McLaughlin" and the "Remember Shakti" albums.
While on the topic, give a try to these other bands that also play a very interesting blend of Indian/Western music.
- Mangalam is a band that's inspired by Shakti's music. Listen to a few MP3s by Mangalam.
- Karyshma
As far music goes, collaboration between renowned artists in the West and the East goes back in time. Most famous of all is Pandit Ravi Shankar playing at Woodstock. Another group that went a long distance in finding common themes, and exploring musical possibilities is Shakti. Shakti, with John McLaughlin, L. Shankar, Vikku Vinayakram, R. Raghavan and Zakir Hussain, is often credited with pioneering the east-west fusion concept. This group came out with albums such as Shakti with John McLaughlin, Natural Elements, and Handful of Beauty. From this original 1970s group, some members came together again in the 1990s, to perform a series of concerts under the name "Remember Shakti" with other greats of Indian classical music such as Mandolin Srinivas, and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia. The albums are Remember Shakti: Saturday Night in Bombay and Remember Shakti: The believer. Definitely worth a try, if you haven't already. I especially like "Shakti with John McLaughlin" and the "Remember Shakti" albums.
While on the topic, give a try to these other bands that also play a very interesting blend of Indian/Western music.
- Mangalam is a band that's inspired by Shakti's music. Listen to a few MP3s by Mangalam.
- Karyshma
Interpreter of Maladies
A lovely collection of short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri. She has an amazing gift for observing people and reading their minds. Her characters are very real, in their lives, emotions and actions. She possesses the gift of writing elegant simple prose. The book simply eases itself into the reader's mind, seemingly without effort, like eating a rasagulla! The lyrical beauty of her language, well-etched characters and powerful themes makes this collection a winner.
The Real State of the Union?
With reference to the US President George W. Bush's State of the Union address for the year 2003, "The Atlantic Monthly" published a sepcial report under the title "What is the Real State of the Union?". It contains analyses of critical issues such as national unity, health care, wealth inequality, race relations, education, welfare and poverty and others. In stark contrast to the more powerful media (CNN-ABC-NBC-Fox News) that carries the strongly nationalistic, often jingoistic message from the president and his administration, the Atlantic series focuses on the fundamental issues facing the American people.
February 17, 2003
Closed due to Winter...
What a weekend! 4 days back, I heard it was going to be bright and sunny, with 40 F temperatures. Turns out to be a storm, with a mix of rain and ice falling over the last 2 days. My car windows look as if they are made of frosted glass. No amount of scraping, de-icer and such help. Stuck in the apartment for lack of transport... :(
I took a walk down the street. "Closed due to weather" boards on a game parlor door, a couple of cafes open. Empty streets, and more frosted glass car windows.
And I used to think weather in Houghton was bad! Check out the Winter Carnival at Michigan Tech. Check out the photos, and statue cams.
I took a walk down the street. "Closed due to weather" boards on a game parlor door, a couple of cafes open. Empty streets, and more frosted glass car windows.
And I used to think weather in Houghton was bad! Check out the Winter Carnival at Michigan Tech. Check out the photos, and statue cams.
The Warmonger
"Normally, the warmonger is a person with an aura of outspoken piety and an outstanding capacity for blending his religious beliefs with his secular and who, as was said of the Spartans by the Athenians, is most conspicuous for believing that what he likes doing is correct and that what suits his spiritual and personal wants is always moral and best for the nation."
From Picture This by Joseph Heller
From Picture This by Joseph Heller
February 16, 2003
Blog-Surfing
I have been wandering blogs the whole week, especially Indian weblogs. Wow! People out there are doing some really cool things. I have been thinking of "blogging" from a HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) and CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work) perspective.I am not so sure about the "Work" aspect, but there certainly is a collaborative aspect to blogging. Hmm, random thoughts right now, looks like I will have to do some literature searches.
Notting Hill
Just saw "Notting Hill" after a while (a few months I guess). Julia's smile is alluring. Life's little pleasures!
And to think its a winter-storm-warning day outside!
And to think its a winter-storm-warning day outside!
Picture This
Just as I start my Blog,
I near the end of "Picture This"
Strange coincidence,
or is it really?
"I am the strangest of mortals"
Picture This by Joseph Heller... a hell of a twisted book...
I near the end of "Picture This"
Strange coincidence,
or is it really?
"I am the strangest of mortals"
Picture This by Joseph Heller... a hell of a twisted book...
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