first run through

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of new show
95% of it
...

?
...
!
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audience of one
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not so much nerve-wracking as... hmmm
hmmm
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a lot of work to do
...
though that is always the way
...
yet a certain quantity of new technique must be acquired...
...
and storytelling is different
...
in some ways you have to let the story do the work
while i'm very used to chucking the whole technical kitchen sink into the mix
...
hmmm
...
...

enjoying calcutta
bloody hot but an easy place to be
good food
good for strolling
nice and easy
just a few days left after 150 days
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calcutta

...
like taking a bath in heat
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de...

All those swirls of words

Those twists of dissipating vapour

Now vanished into the ether

More gone than a deleted file

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100 movies

in no particular order
...

come and see
loneliness of the long distance runner
hana bi
once upon a time in the west
city of god

hiroshima mon amour
ugetsu monogatari
citizen kane
spartacus

festen

adaptation
les enfants du paradis
yol
apocalypto
peeping tom

8 1/2
battle of algiers
jules and jim
weekend
great rock n roll swindle

aguirre: wrath of god
secrets and lies
ai no corrida
the seventh seal
fitzcarraldo

a matter of life and death
the masque of the red death
twenty-four hour party people
l'apartement
farewell my concubine

la haine
psycho
bridge on the river kwai
deconstructing harry
black cat white cat

the magnificent seven
the sweet smell of success
the ladykillers
nights of cabira
grizzly man

my name is joe
doctor strangelove
night of the living dead
life of brian
casino

the pianist
alien
bruno
o brother where art thou
reservoir dogs

chinatown
gone with the wind
kill bill
total recall
taxi driver

a clockwork orange
psycho
night and the city
hairspray [orig]
la dolce vita

doctor zhivago
fargo
mary poppins
dogville
all quiet on the western front

city lights
the great escape
crouching tiger hidden dragon

groundhog day
monty python and the holy grail

roman holiday
ashes and diamonds
what a wonderful life
casablanca
terminator 2

the lives of others

fallen angels
high noon
high plains drifter
night of the hunter

duel in the sun
the third man
annie hall
to kill a mockingbird
the godfather

carry on cleo
rashomon
its a hard day's night
metropolis
sunrise

golddiggers of 1933
raiders of the lost ark
who framed roger rabbit
memento
boogie nights

hotel rwanda
trainspotting
downfall

leon
pixote

tis difficult to list your fave hundred movies ever
not least because some films had a massive impact at the time
yet years after...

que?

...

what happens when a disintegrating

society is too crowded?

has no room to collapse into?
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more no everest

...

darjeeling
up in the clouds
ten days ago we were in nagarkhot in nepal for a non-view of everest from the west
and now here we are for a non-view of it from the east

hoorah

slow 1kmh crawl

up round the tight bends

some more than 360 degrees

into the mist

...

kinda jaded

and not enjoying the cold

and thinking to the next stop

beyond calcutta and hyderabad

to england and edinburgh

...

so will chiefly stay in and read

... have learnt 7400 of the 8100 words of the new show

and will less learn

rather than naturally acquire

the last 700

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plus

am reading UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

not a book i thought i'd ever read

but well

its one of the most successful books ever

ever

the antithesis of BIRTH OF A NATION

and very well put together in terms of a drama...

so here we go

its gonna be grim

WORST JOURNEY EVER

O HELLISH NIGHT

IMAGINE GOING OVER A SERIES OF BUMPS
WORSE THAN ANY BUMP YOU'D
EVER GO OVER AT SPEED
IN EUROPE OR AMERICA
AND GOING OVER ABOUT
ONE A SECOND OR SO OF THEM
FOR NINETY MINUTES
...
AND THEN EVERY COUPLE OF MINUTES OR SO
GOING OVER A REALLY BIG ONE

and then the whole thing happening again

...
worst journey ever
o hellish night
kathmandu to kakadbitti, the eastern Nepalese border
meant to be 15 hours
but takes 20
and you spend the first five hours in the
worst traffic jam ever
worse than getting out of glastonbury festival
the getting-out-of-the-kathmandu-valley bit
which is endless
and then settling down toa crazy speed on terrible roads
the main arterial road in this country
and yet appalling
...
and the driver always like this?
or the driver making up for time?
...
and the bashes
the crashes
the bangs and the kerrangs
AND THE BASHES
AND THE CRASHES
AND THE BANGS
AND THE KERRANGS
...
so you are tenderised
exhausted
boneshaken
bone-shattered
bone-battered
sleepless
aching
cursing
AND THEN A REALLY BIG BANG FLIES YOU OUT OF YOUR SLEEP INTO THE OVERHANG
for hour upon hour
upon hour
...

and meanwhile

not least the limb ache the head ache

the grind the gruel the numb the urrhh

you rashly ordered some lukewarm chicken and

o yes

you are suffering the consequences

...

o yes

so you are wiped for two days while recovering