Hooray for Bollywood

I am a Netflix subscriber and I will confess that I watch a fair amount of movies.
Because what else is there to do in the evening besides sex, pot and Scrabble?
But unfortunately the pickings for decent movies are slim.

After their release good flicks don’t appear in a Netflix lineup for months, even years, but unfortunately turkeys (like The Interview) show up right away.

Since I am a finicky viewer (I don’t like sci-fi, horror stuff, vampires, brainless teenagers stories, cowboys, action, sports), and since I don’t like listening to endless four-letter words, I have been in a bind.

Because of this unfortunate situation, I have sought solace in Bollywood movies.
That’s right, I hooked up with the Guys of Mumbai.

Conventional Indian movies are feel-good, entertaining yarns. And they always end well.
They are also very predictable.
It starts with a good-looking guy or a good-looking girl looking for (what else?) love.
These two people are handsome, likable, but inexplicably unable to find love.
Is that possible? But never mind…

Bollywood sagas are long, involved stories, with a lot of unexpected developments.
To make a story interesting you need conflict, and since in an Indian love story, the entire family is involved, we are never short of those.

The father is usually a dignified, upright gentleman, but it is his wife who runs the show.

Incidentally, in India women are often called “auntie”.
It is a term of endearment used mostly by children and teens for a female (not related to them) who is middle-aged or older.

Indian-dancing-credit-.Bala_In a Bollywood production, singing and dancing are a must.
Every so often the main protagonists will break into songs.
If they are sad, they will sing sad songs, if they are happy they will sing happy songs.
When they are very happy they dance.

In Indian movies (at least those I have seen), there is no sex and no kissing. Those disgusting practices are evidently left to decadent westerners.

The movie usually ends up with a wedding ceremony.
The bride is always covered with jewelry (with a ring in her nose) and the groom looks like a maharajah. And there is natürlich a lot of dancing.

If you were sick with the flu and in low spirits, what would you choose to watch: a Freddy Kruger movie or a Bollywood flick?
It’s a no brainer!
You will pick Bollywood over Hollywood.

After watching the rousing finale of a Bollywood pic, you will be cured and itching to get up and go dance.

Namaste!

Alain

Net surfer

Je suis un “net surfer”. Ce n’est pas une maladie honteuse et je ne m’en cache pas.
Tous les jours, en équilibre précaire sur ma planche journalistique je navigue les flots souvent capricieux de la Toile.
Je butine comme une abeille vagabonde. Je vais de site en site un peu au hasard et je me pose parfois sur des endroits surprenants.

C’est au cours d’une de ces escapades que j’ai amerri (les pieds devant comme un canard) sur le site de BritBrit Chérie.
J’ai été immédiatement conquis par le style, la gouaille, l’esprit de cette demoiselle. Je ne sais pas si elle est gironde ou moche comme un pou, mais elle me plait.
Une femme ou un homme qui ont de l’esprit ne sont d’ailleurs jamais laids.

BritBrit n’a pas de fausse honte et parle de tout le plus naturellement du monde.
Elle parle de caca, de pipi ou de sperme comme je parlerais de pommes Dauphine ou de Crêpes Suzette.

Je me souviens d’avoir lu dernièrement un de ses article intitulé « tout ce que l’on devrait savoir sur le vagin » et qui commençait par cette phrase : « Tiens, c’est l’été, et si j’attirais le chaland avec un billet cul ».

Jarnicoton ! Cette mousmé n’a pas la langue dans sa poche ! Voilà une chose qui me plait.
BritBrit Chérie est drôle sans être vulgaire et j’ai la plus grande admiration pour les gens qui ont de l’esprit.

« L’esprit est le sel de la conversation, non sa nourriture. » William Hazlitt
Et une nourriture sans sel est insipide, n’en déplaise aux gourous de la santé.

Elle n’a pas peur de s’auto déprécier et c’et une autre chose que j’apprécie.

« Mon derrière et moi avons un pacte : je me mêle de mes fesses et en échange, il se mêle des siennes. En bref, on ignore chacun notre propre existence. Chose d’autant plus facile pour moi, que je suis née au départ, sur témoignage de ma mère, avec deux machins rebondis et qu’aujourd’hui, j’ai deux trucs dont on ne sait s’il s’agit de kystes éclatés ou d’un prolongement des cuisses jusqu’en bas du dos. Pour faire plus simple dans le descriptif, je dirai que de fesses, je n’en ai point ; vue de cul, je suis portée disparue. »

Bref, si un jour vous avez un coup de pompe, ou le moral dans les chaussettes, allez faire un tour chez BritBrit.
Je vous garantie que vous  retrouverez la pêche illico presto!

Je suis devenu un fan et ai même ajouté (honneur sans précédent) la longitude et la latitude de son site (a droite, au bout de la page) sur mon blog.

Pour être honnête, je suis admiratif mais aussi jaloux. Cette nana écrit beaucoup mieux que moi et mon ego souffre comme un lombric accroché a un hameçon.

Merde BritBrit Cherie ça fait mal de dire ça, mais quand on aime il faut s’attendre a souffrir !

Alain

Merci Caroline pour ces petits clips:

Wanna cheat & get away with it?

Your smartphone is probably one of your most cherished possessions.

I am saying this based on the way people (especially women) carry on, clutching their phone like a holy icon.
Your phone is your confidante, your “BFF” that will never fail or betray you.

But beware! Your chum can also turn against you.
Under duress it will spill the beans. All the beans. It will reveal whom you called, how often and how long you blabbered.
It will give away names, photos, videos, and telephone numbers.

If you have a clear conscience, you have nothing to fear. But if you are a bit of a scoundrel, watch out. Your bosom friend will testify against you, because (just like Washington) it cannot tell a lie.

A recent article in the San Francisco Chronicle revealed that 45% of people have either cheated — or contemplated cheating — on their partner because the other person pays too much attention to their phone.”

Women-in-Tight-Jeans-IdeasIf you are carrying on an illicit affair and if your live-in partner becomes suspicious, the first thing he/she will go for is your Smartphone.
And nobody is more motivated than a jealous lover.

Ruth Stafford Peale is credited for saying, “find a need and fill it”.

Clever entrepreneurs are always on the lookout for such things.
Some (probably cheating) programmers came up with the idea that many people have things to hide and wrote clever little apps to allow them to conceal their shenanigans.

One such an app is called Cate (Call And Text Eraser).

According to the Chronicle:
App: You can only open (or even see) Call And Text Eraser, called CATE, if you know the secret code. The app lets you communicate with privacy by hiding calls, filtering flirtatious text messages, and allowing you to clear all the app’s contents quickly and easily. 

User Review Highlight: One Google user wrote, “This is the very best app on the android market. This marks the dawn of a new day. A new day where you sneaky women no longer can snoop.”

So, if you are an occasional (or serial) philanderer, it would be wise to get such an app to cover your rear.

I am not condoning such behavior mind you; I am just keeping you up to date with the most recent technology and you ought to thank me for it.

In parting,

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.
Joey Adams

Toot-a-loo!

Alain