Quote of the Day
"Ughhh... remind me to eat more fiber."
-Amit, after returning from the restroom

Yeah I know I blogged a bit ago, but I thought of something else to add.. So there I am, banging my head away to my iPod, while the taxi blares annoying as hell Hindi music. I mean it's not just because I don't understand the lyrics, no, it's something fundamentally different. I hate it because it reminds me of gay Hindi movies. That's it. Nothing more.

But then I started thinking.. I consider myself to be relatively open-minded when it comes to music. I'll listen to just about anything.. or so I thought. In actuality, I'll listen to most anything on my own iPod is what it really boils down to. Country? Not gonna listen to it. Hindi? Will probably listen and decide before it starts that I'm going to hate it. Classic Rock? Not gonna happen. So what have I become, really? I read this thing today about 'iPod people'. How we're basically just micro-focusing ourselves so much that there's no more variety left in the world. I like rap. But not all rap. Mostly Eminem rap. And not his old stuff. Just everything after the Marshall Mathers LP. And not all of it, but...and so on.

Am I, after all this, a product of my society's technological advances?

Or am I just closed-minded?

I pray it's the former.

You know, I was just about to put another quote by Amit when I realized that the guy sounds like a total douche. I mean, all that I've had him quoted on are on women, and usually in a "hehehe.. we're guys so we can say this.." kinda way.

And yet, is that really so bad? I mean think of it this way: If two women were talking to each other and talking about some issues about how one of their husbands is a bad lay or even worse, doesn't even WANT to do those things, would we consider it abnormal? Not at all. It would merely sound like something that 'women can talk about'. Either to themselves or to their gay friend or to their metrosexual male friend. Whatever. The point is, why are men chastised for having 'guy' conversations? Why does it consistently put us on the level of being Neanderthalic when we're only doing exactly what women are doing?

The sexism is unfair, I say. And it must stop.

With that, I'd like to submit the following Quote of the Day..

That girl better watch out, or I'm gonna havta bone her."
-Amit

Quote of the Day
"Have you ever hooked up with a FOB?.... Like an ANIMAL, man. Like an animal.."
-Amit

That's it. I'm never watching a movie in a theater in India again. Nope. Not gonna happen. I'll just see if I can get some pirated copy somewhere if I REALLLLY want to see a new movie, or I'll just stick to some classics. The problem of course is that even the 'classics' are sometimes prints of some jackass with a videocamera in a theatre. Movie piracy (and horrible quality piracy) is VERY popular in Asia.

Anyway, to the reason why I will never go... first off, the movie is supposed to start at 9:45 pm. Surprisingly, the theater actually had it start on time, with the previews and stuff being done before the movie started. Good good. Nice. But since there's assigned seating here, people show up after 9:45. You know, INDIAN time. I mean, there were people strolling in 20 minutes into the movie! And I'm not talking about one or two. I'm talking about groups of people!

Next: No one really pays attention to that whole rule about keeping silent during the movie. Nope. You can talk in a regular conversational voice to ANYONE during the movie, with no probs. Oh yeah. And cell phones? No need to put them on silent! Keep 'em ringing during the movie, and talk even when others are trying to watch.

All this led to a horrific movie-going experience. It was kinda cute/interesting when people started cheering when Keanu Reaves first enters the scene, but the negative aspects definitely outweighed any positives. Oh yeah. And regardless of the raised levels of seats behind each other, it's still done horribly and you have some guy's head blocking your view the entire time.

Have I vented long enough? I think so. Alright, I'm out.