Mercoledi Musicale

After my little poke at Bollywood earlier this week I sat and watched one of my favorite movies: Monsoon Wedding.

Tracing the two days before and day of the wedding of a modern couple who are in a traditional arranged marriage, director Mira Nair celebrates family warts and all. Despite various problems and situations in the end family and friends join in a joyous dance that even the pounding rain of a monsoon cannot dampen.



I recall when I first saw it at the cinema I came out on a high and I still get it everytime I watch it here at home.

16 lulgio - Nostra Signora di Carmello

Lunedi Lunacy

I had a bit of a Bollywood theme going there last week and was reminded of a music video I saw a year or more ago. Buffalax takes non-English music videos and adds subtitles not with translations but transliterations. The results of what he thinks he hears are sometimes hysterical. And its nice to see that the North American industry doesn't have a monopoly on mindless music videos.



Of course being a Canadian I worried about the "political correctness" of posting this - because that's what Canadians spend most of their time doing: worrying about political correctness, okay that and the weather. And being Canadian I'm falling all over myself in advance with apologies, breast-beating and mea colpaing but I still think its funny.

14 lulgio - San Camillo de Lellis