Today was a fun day. I spent all day att PIFF (Pune International Film Festival) and had an overdose of popcorn and intellectual porn. There was an Almadovar retrospective, and I always thought I liked him, but all the films I saw were kind of repetitive in their theme and quite honestly, filmy. But still, watchable. But my favouite was this Polish film called Sztuczki (Tricks). What a treat. Watch it if you can. There were others too. Zim and Co was another favourite. There was this Argentinian film called Time without Time which was also very interestingly made. There was another one from Turkey called Bliss, which I wanted to see, but we were too late for it. Anyway, it was marathon film watching for the past two days and if hadn't been for the lousy attendance, I would have gone for some more. But shit, we all went absolutely mad while watching this film called The Mid-Street Gang, which was about Thai-speaking dogs. A recommendation NOT. But you could still see it for kicks.

Oh well, so after all this Sudu, Akshay and I went to Sheesha, which is not quite like the Sheesha at Calcutta, but a huge semi-open roofed, jazz bar with this semi-morrocan decor. I like their music, and the food is passable - great 'ambience' and all of that. Anyway, there was a live jazz band from Brooklyn who call themselves 'Sundar Shor' (Beautiful Noise i.e.) and they were pretty darned good. After that, we had ice-cream at Naturals and came back. Sudu is presently playing mid-night badminton (I played yesterday) while I ramble on.

Okbye.