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I am reading the new bio of Steve Jobs. Even though I'm a PC and very suspicious of empires like Apple, I find Jobs to be a fascinating character.
I watched Bollywood movies again a lot of this weekend. Barry pointed out that I haven't had any severe mood dips since I started watching Bollywood movies.
What I've had, however, is an increased interest in sex, or rather, increased feelings of desire. Since I've been dead from the waist down for a couple of months, this is a very nice change -- although, as before, there's not much to do with it. There hasn't really been anything to do with it for 3 or 4 years, except enjoy it on my own (ahem). This is a tough-to-solve issue, and my husband is not much help -- won't be the guy, and won't sit still for anyone else to be the guy (I've never asked, but his attitude about this is pretty clear). Some months ago, he said to me something along the lines of that he was sorry he hadn't been able to provide the "intimate" part of things, and that's when I realized that there was no hope that he would even try to participate again. I am determined not to spend the rest of my life without sex, but I'm not sure how that's gonna work. I had something of a patched-up solution during the early '00s, but that particular scenario, as the other person used to call it, is off the table.
I'm not sure if analysis is helping with this, or if it's just my hormone replacement pills -- that is, the return of desire. Maybe it's just the Bollywood movies.
This is the part of Baghban that didn't make me cry. What a weepie that movie was! Here, they celebrate the holiday of Holi, big B looking his fine 2003 self.
In an earlier movie, Silsila, there's another Holi scene, featuring the beautiful song Rang Baarse, but Silsila (1983) made me squirm a little. Amitabh-ji plays a guy who's cheating on his wife. His wife is played by his real wife, Jaya. His girlfriend is played by Rekha, with whom he was suspected of having a long-running affair. In this clip, he dances at Holi with the girlfriend, where the wife looks unhappy in the back. The Amitabh/Rekha scene are very sexy, though she barely speaks in the movie -- mostly just looks smouldering.
This song, Rang Baarse, was actually written by Amitabh and his father, who was a famous poet (and I can't remember the spelling of his name just now). Beautiful song, though not as peppy as the Holi song from Baghban.
Rang Baarse is the third song in the Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap medley, along with Kaike Paan Banaraswala and Pag Ghungroo. (This is just in case you think I didn't do my Bollywood homework.) It's interesting to see AB stealing his old steps, but some of them are the best steps ever.
I watched Bollywood movies again a lot of this weekend. Barry pointed out that I haven't had any severe mood dips since I started watching Bollywood movies.
What I've had, however, is an increased interest in sex, or rather, increased feelings of desire. Since I've been dead from the waist down for a couple of months, this is a very nice change -- although, as before, there's not much to do with it. There hasn't really been anything to do with it for 3 or 4 years, except enjoy it on my own (ahem). This is a tough-to-solve issue, and my husband is not much help -- won't be the guy, and won't sit still for anyone else to be the guy (I've never asked, but his attitude about this is pretty clear). Some months ago, he said to me something along the lines of that he was sorry he hadn't been able to provide the "intimate" part of things, and that's when I realized that there was no hope that he would even try to participate again. I am determined not to spend the rest of my life without sex, but I'm not sure how that's gonna work. I had something of a patched-up solution during the early '00s, but that particular scenario, as the other person used to call it, is off the table.
I'm not sure if analysis is helping with this, or if it's just my hormone replacement pills -- that is, the return of desire. Maybe it's just the Bollywood movies.
This is the part of Baghban that didn't make me cry. What a weepie that movie was! Here, they celebrate the holiday of Holi, big B looking his fine 2003 self.
In an earlier movie, Silsila, there's another Holi scene, featuring the beautiful song Rang Baarse, but Silsila (1983) made me squirm a little. Amitabh-ji plays a guy who's cheating on his wife. His wife is played by his real wife, Jaya. His girlfriend is played by Rekha, with whom he was suspected of having a long-running affair. In this clip, he dances at Holi with the girlfriend, where the wife looks unhappy in the back. The Amitabh/Rekha scene are very sexy, though she barely speaks in the movie -- mostly just looks smouldering.
This song, Rang Baarse, was actually written by Amitabh and his father, who was a famous poet (and I can't remember the spelling of his name just now). Beautiful song, though not as peppy as the Holi song from Baghban.
Rang Baarse is the third song in the Bbuddah Hoga Tera Baap medley, along with Kaike Paan Banaraswala and Pag Ghungroo. (This is just in case you think I didn't do my Bollywood homework.) It's interesting to see AB stealing his old steps, but some of them are the best steps ever.
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