Exotic and irrational entertainment

...books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Federico Mompou: Música Callada

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La noche sosegada en par de los levantes de la aurora, la música callada, la soledad sonora, la cena que recrea y enamora. (San Jua...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Ra.One

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I confess to approaching Anubhav Sinha's Ra.One (2011) with dread. It's exactly the kind of movie I usually avoid, filled with t...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Raajneeti

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As I watched Prakash Jha's Raajneeti (Politics, 2010), I began to experience a strong sense of déjà vu. Bhanu Pratap (Jahangir Khan),...
Saturday, May 5, 2012

Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow

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"...[System 1 is] that stranger in you, which may be in control of much of what you do, although you rarely have a glimpse of it....
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Haruki Murakami's 1Q84

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Haruki Murakami's novels often read like a collaboration between Raymond Chandler and Philip K. Dick. A Wild Sheep Chase , Hard-Boiled W...
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