Motley Kamuka

Madhabi Mukherjee I'm going to speak out of my ass. I'm watching  Charulata (1964), and they're discussing literature. Madhabi Mukherjee is so beautiful. I want a poster of her.  So I write a scene in my mind about the great American novel, and this guy and a girl flirting at the upper class party. Moby Dick is the best novel. No, Portrait of a Lady is. And then this borrish guy that spoils everything comes into the room and says, The Sound and the Fury.  "Nobody likes that crap." "I suppose you're an Edith Wharton fan!" You mean the best, sophisticated novel of the time. The Age of Innocence. It's a bad movie, made after an even worse novel. Madhabi Mukherjee

  Les Champs Elysées – Lyrics with English Translation Je m’baladais sur l’avenue le cœur ouvert à l’inconnu J’avais envie de dire bonjour à n’importe qui N’importe qui et ce fut toi, je t’ai dit n’importe quoi Il suffisait de te parler, pour t’apprivoiser I was walking on the avenue with my heart open to the stranger I wanted to say hello to anybody Anybody, and that was you; I said whatever to you All I had to do was speak to you to win you over (chorus) Aux Champs-Elysées, aux Champs-Elysées Au soleil, sous la pluie, à midi ou à minuit Il y a tout ce que vous voulez aux Champs-Elysées On the Champs-Elysées, on the Champs-Elysées In the sun, under the rain, at noon or at midnight You can find whatever you want on the Champs-Elysées Tu m’as dit j’ai rendez-vous dans un sous-sol avec des fous Qui vivent la guitare à la main, du soir au matin Alors je t’ai accompagnée, on a chanté, on a dansé Et l’on n’a même pas pensé à s’embrasser You told me: “I have a meeting in a basement (bar)...

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You'd have to embrace the entitled chaos writing about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Lear and Prospero of course have similarities, but I'm disinclined to collapse them into one, which Roger Lewis does in Erotic Vagrancy (2023). Reading about Rachel Roberts , a fellow Welsh actor, who would jack her dog off was pretty weird, but not in the book, it only referenced something weird she would do to dogs.  I like this book because it discusses a lot of movies, and of course it's annoying to not have seen a movie, but I've watched a lot of movies lately and I feel kind of at an end of having watched essential movies. I guess I need to drill down and watch all of Richard Burton and Liz Taylor and maybe even Rachel Roberts. I didn't know she was in Murder On The Oriental Express . I don't know if knowing an actress jacks off a dog changes my appreciation of a movie, in some ways not having all those details helps you freshly watch a movie without the clutter of ...

My edition has a sticker that it won the Man Booker Prize, and is among the best books of the 21st century according to the New York Times, and the claim that it was a #1 NYT best seller. And a quote from Golson Whitehead. And the horizon isn't just lighter, there's an orangish yellow. George Saunders is 67 year old, 9 years after publishing this book, which seems to be his only book that is not short stories. He was born in Amarillo Texas, and grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Oak Forest. He got an MFA at Syracuse 1988, where he's a professor since 1997. In 1981, he received a B.S. in geophysical engineering from Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. "I really love Russian writers, especially from the 19th and early 20th Century: Gogol, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Babel. I love the way they take on the big topics. I'm also inspired by a certain absurdist comic tradition that would include influences like Mark Twain, Daniil Kharms, Groucho Marx, Monty Python, Steve ...

The Husbands by Holly Gramazio is the next book for the book club, that I can't seem to meet with. I've fallen asleep before the meetings the last two times.  It's speculative fiction where a woman comes home to a different husband. It could be horror because she's so scared at this alteration of reality, but it's more like Groundhog Day . Reality changes enough so that it makes sense, and she has a pictures of the surprise husband on her phone lock screen, and in her photos. There are changes, but not enough to be a completely different world. It becomes a mystery, who is my husband? It's a rorschach for who she wants to be. In the 3rd chapter we learn the mechanism, if he goes into the attic, a new guy comes down and the walls and whatnot change. Some are more handsome than others, one is naked, they have different accents. My first thought was of a German movie called  I’m Your Man (2021) (Ich bin dein Mensch). In that movie, a woman is given a companion an...