movie-marathon!

Simpsons the movie

Absolutely entertaining.
Creative script-writing : by popular standards. I would give it 8.5/10.
There's no acting involved....thus, n/a for that rating

Hairspray

Total entertainment (musical) package with a social message.
Acting: 9.5/10
Script: 9/10

Good recreation of the 70s!

I know who killed me
Sex and Violence are the primary props used by the producer.

Script: 7/10. Lacked flow - storyline is not well-executed. I guess that in a bid to shorten the reel-time, the movie-makers made an abrupt transition from the FBI tracked victim to an independent person who is trying to take the bad-guy down. Lilo needs to improve a lot w.r.t. acting.
Acting: 6/10

I pronounce you Chuck and Larry
One might perceive from the trailer that this movie has an interesting topic. However, the end was meaningless. I guess the script-writer got tired and had a lazy ending.

script: 4/10
acting: 5.5/10 - there wasn't much required to perform, anyways.
Sense of humor was fairly primitive.

License to Wed
dont watch - unless you have issues in your relation and want to correlate to this story.
It aint worth watching...
script: 4/10
acting: 6/10 (I didn't want to be mean) - Robin Williams has lost his charm.

Next in queue:
Bourne Ultimatum
Death Sentence
Harry Potter (whichever part has come out) (waiting to watch it in a iMAX 3D movie hall)

spooky linkedin

Linkedin gave me a pointer to an old acquaintance who barely had anything in common except for undergrad. It came as a surprise to me because I never provided my undergrad to linkedin.

Search has evolved to a degree that algorithms are able to relate to you contextually. The biggest conquest comes from the fact that algorithms ensure that it is

Now, that's what I call spooky !

smoking ban inside

Club-crawling in NYC clubs could be a clean experience with smoking ban inside the clubs. This alongwith the outrageous prices of tobacco products discourages smokers heavily.

In a way, that's a right way to go. Hurray !

movie-marathon

Last weekend, I was on a movie-marathon:

Live Free or Die hard, Knocked Up, and Evan Almighty.

Live Free or Die Hard: 6.5/10

Bruce Willis must retire now... He is made for this role - however, he is getting old and the effects are not as good.

Knocked Up: 7/10

It was a neat movie from the perspective of a new generation of US. Californians can relate more to the movie as the movie is shown based out of California. Some people found it funny. However, I found the movie weird. May be I wasn't in a mood to watch it at that time.

Story line was unique: 8.5/10
Acting was natural: 8/10
Appeal to audience in general: 5/10
Last one is due to specific instances of unnecessary nudity and verbiage which was fairly unnecessary.

Evan Almighty: 4.5/10
Jim Carrey - we missed you? The new Evan in form of Almighty is not good enough in his acting. Story line was incoherent. Special effects were satisfactory.

basement bhangra

Yday evening, I was skeptical on my decision to go for Basement Bhangra because my roommate's move-in procedure exhausted me before the bhangra event. However, the environ at the club ensured that I kept going without feeling any physical exhaustion.

SOBs holds the basement bhangra every first Thursday of the month. The place is just one stop away and a few blocks from Christopher St Path Stn. Initially, I met a couple of old acquaintances and later, met someone at the bar (btw, the bartender made some nice mojito). She posed an entry point for me into a pretty enthusiastic group of ladies, who were all colleagues at Amnesty. Devin, one of them, had been to India and was telling me her stories from Rajasthan and Delhi. Others had interest in grad school education and joining UN or private, for-profit work. With her, a funny event occured - that of an Indian young guy trying to show her his mojo and in the event, turning out to be a misfit in the crowd.

DJ Rekha didn't start the floor. It started off with some hip-hop music for a while - in order to warm ppl up. Later, the patrons started crowding the place. At around 9pm, the lessons for Bhangra started. Ppl stepped over each other trying to do the steps because the place was getting crowded. At around midnight, the peak crowd was present as barely anyone left and the crowd kept on pouring in. The temperatures soared and so did the suffocation.

DJ Rekha played a fresh new song of "Basement Bhangra" couple of times yday. She seemed fairly tomboyish - but she plays good music! Her protege, DJ Sweety was playing good numbers as well. The crowd kept on going constantly. The stage got invaded in a matter of minutes after the lessons were over. Non-Indians had some really nice freestyle moves when it came to having freestyle Bhangra. Of course, there were the hardcores Sardarjis who knew this folk dance since their childhood and showed off on the stage. They were followed by all types of ppl on the stage - after a while, it was an outrage !

The place was crowded with Indians - however, the proportion of non-Indians was sizeable. It reminded me of Carnegie Mellon somehow.

Overall, I would give the following ratings:
DJ's music: 8.5/10
Place's ambience: 7/10
Capacity planning: 6/10
Bar: 7/10