Heat was on my watch list but after the godfather rewatch experience I am in two minds whether to touch that movie!
🍿 The Godfather Part II (1974) - ★★★★☆
This was way better even at 3:20 run time. Still required me two sittings to get through, and final 45 was a slog allright!
So a new years resolution (or more like continue to do what I am doing) is to keep my interest in various things I’ve been doing past couple of weeks since A and R are on vacation. I feel like I’ve had so much time to dabble in art (not that I am good at it but it just makes me happy and that is all!), cleaning up and going marie kondo around the house and also getting in my walks/gym. I mean sure life with family is definitely busier especially planning our days and weeks around kid activities but still I couldn’t have been THAT busy that I did not have time for any of this? Seems more like self inflicted laziness of why I didnt want to do it vs actually having time. I am sure even with all the chores and time tables I should able to find time to do some hobbies - so this new year I’d like to do more of what I am doing right now. (And no, cleaning is not a hobby but I do need to Marie Kondo so much shit that it will take a few months of weekend work).
Favorite movies of 2024: This was easy - Dune 2 and Inside Out 2 in English, and Berlin in Hindi. Favorite TV show of 2024: This was easy too - Trying S4 and Slow Horses S4, both on Apple TV were the best shows by a long fucking mile.
23 movies and 10 TV shows this year we’ve seen. 10 might undercount by a few since we finished multiple seasons of a single show but they are few. This would indicate a movie every other week with quite a bit of TV shows thrown in. I think its an approximate representation of how much TV I watch, which is not much. We also start a lot of TV shows that we never end up watching beyond 1-2 episodes.
Crazy to think that it’s been five years now since the pandemic. To think that crazy 2020 year was now 5 years ago is just mid boggling.
Merry Christmas! I got a splendid nights rest (admittedly most of this week!) and I am beginning to treasure a good night’s sleep as a gift enough! Plans for the day include doing laundry, art, meeting a friend and finishing up godfather II which I got to intermission last night.
Was talking to bro today and apparently Goa tourism decline is so bad that nobody is showing up anymore. People prefer to go to Thailand or Vietnam for same costs and better service rather than go to Goa and pay the same. I didn’t think Goa had become that expensive but bro was like it’s so out of hand.
🎮 The Godfather - ★★★☆☆
Rewatching the series this Christmas and oddly enough in retrospect the original movie doesn’t hold up as well as I thought it would. I didn’t remember any of it going in so it was like watching a new movie - I mean it’s a good movie but I remember it being great!
I am still searching for that perfect mid-layer jacket that is breathable and can be layered along with another jacket in 20s-30s weather. I layer a fleece pullover and then a 650 fill down-jacket. More often than not I end up sweating a lot because the fleece pull-over is not breathable. Need a jacket that is as warm as fleece but breathable. The search continues - I have already way way too many jackets and pullovers to count so I am not sure one more won’t raise eyebrows yes?
The one workplace training I dont miss from my edtech days in my big company? Microaggressions. Good grief, it was the most painful and absurdly stupid training ever. Like, absolutely anything you say, do or write could be construed as “micro-aggression” by another colleague with possibility of making your life hell (I never faced it, but so many ppl had in the company). It was to a point where every single conversation had to be so measured and so prim-n-proper that it was fucking annoying. Dont get me wrong, and microaggression has its place but good grief it was taken to another extreme in these new companies. Like just focus on your job and get out!
This week I have 6 meetings on my calendar which is a record low anyway, but icing being 4 of them are today! Which means past today whether I take days off or not it’s mostly a forced holiday week 😆
Got the yearly heating inspection done and apparently the heating backup is not working. Nah I ain’t spending another 2k fixing this electric shit. Gonna just budget for replacing it with gas furnance next year. Done with this fake electric shit.
So yeah I did make the vada pav but it didn’t hit the spot coz I didn’t have the right kind of besan flour. Nonetheless the potato filling is tasty enough that I can make open face sandwiches out of it tomorrow!
I tried my hand at “textured” art today. Once it dries up will try some painting as well on it! The title of this piece is “the idiot who has no clue what he was up to!”
📺 Bandish Bandits (2020) - ★★★☆☆
My god season 2 of this show could never make up its mind on what it really wanted to be. So many good ideas on the table and yet felt like the show never wanted to settle on one - should it have been a classical singer coming to terms that classical music is not accessible to all? Should it have been about a pop singer realizing what her talent was? Was it about a disgraced son who rightfully demanded his place? Or was it about math and ai in music (not making this up!). Like anyone of those would have provided a good season worth of material and it does none of them well. The pop music unlike season 1 doesn’t work too well, but the classical pieces on the other hand are absolutely superlative! Even the classical fusion are awesome - Garaj Garaj rock and Saavan mohe tarasaaye were standouts.
On the plus side days are going get longer from now on yay yay yay! Fuck winter can’t wait for spring!