Bhansali inspired me! Sangam is SUCH a good movie, and there is so much to consider in it, I think it is a perfect one for us all to talk about.
Continue readingDCIB Book/Movie Club: Sangam! Watch it, and then Discuss it On Saturday Feb 17!
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Sunday Small Talk: Things to Talk About! Bhansali and Dharma Announcements, and Wizard of Oz
Happy Sunday! I am maybe actually feeling healthy, but I don’t want to jinx it. Spent yesterday sleeping and reading and eating and trying to let my body kick the infection, and it MAY have worked? Still have 5 days of antibiotics left and I won’t feel really safe until I finish them all.
Continue readingFighter Release Day Post! Let Us All Remember the Greatest Dance/Flight Moment of Film!
Happy Fighter Release Day! I am SO EXCITED! I’m also still a little sick but hoping I can power through (and I will be wearing a mask because I am a good person).
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to THE WEEK FIGHTER COMES OUT????
Happy Wednesday! I’m sick! Urgent care said maybe strep throat and gave me a prescription just to be safe (I am the reason for mega-bacterial resistant diseases, I feel SO GUILTY. But also very sick, so I’m willing to roll the dice and see if it cures me instead of waiting for tests to confirm). Important for you, I’m putting off seeing Fighter until Friday when I will hopefully be healthy again. So stay tuned! Review/discussion coming then!
Continue readingDiscussion Post: “From Western Union you get messages. From me you get pictures.”, what does it mean to have messages in art?
Let’s be talky talky! It’s a super cloudy overcast just plain BLECH day in Chicago which is a great time to cozy up and exercise our brain muscles.
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Reading and Watching and Thinking and Listening to This Yuchy Day???
Happy Wednesday! It’s 10 degrees warmer in Chicago than it was yesterday, and yet still well below freezing.
Continue readingDCIB Awards 2023: Best SRK Character! In 3 Different Categories!
It is soooooooooooooo cold in Chicago right now! So cold that the schools are closed just for the cold. So I want to huddle inside and think about SRK and warm myself from the inside out.
Continue readingWeekend WatchAlong: Dear Zindagi! 7am Chicago Time! Woo-hoo!
Happy Saturday! I got my coffee, I let the dog out, I’m all tucked in for the morning. Who will join me in watching a lovely beachy movie? And if no one shows up by 20 minutes in, I’ll just shut down and watch by myself 🙂
Continue readingWeekend WatchAlong: Dear Zindagi! Tomorrow Morning! 7am Saturday Chicago Time!
Let’s do this thing!!!! Hopefully it’s not too last minute (especially for the internationals). If it is, that’s okay, I’ll give y’all 15 minutes to join and then just watch on my own.
Continue readingWeekend WatchAlong: I Need Happy Sunshine! Who Will Watch Dear Zindagi With Me? And Saturday or Sunday Morning?
It’s supposed to snow all day Friday and part of Saturday, and then be FREEZING, so I won’t really want to go out this weekend. But I WILL want to take an imaginary trip to Goa for wise words from SRK.
Continue readingDCIB Awards 2023: Best SRK Movie Female Character! RANKED!!!
Not gonna just let Dips in Jawan sweep to victory, gonna force you all to THINK! And at least rank the others.
Continue readingDCIB Awards 2023 SRK Songs FINAL ROUND!
Taking the top three songs in the categories of dance-love-sad, and putting them against each other! Is that fair? Don’t know! We will see! Write ins are still allowed!
Continue readingMonday Morning Questions on Tuesday: What Do You Want to Ask Me on This Depressing Yuchy Week?
Don’t panic! You didn’t miss a news story or anything, it’s just super dark and grey and sludgy in Chicago right now and I’m consequently not doing great. Thus the 6 days of blog silence.
Continue readingDCIB Awards 2023: SRK Songs! Best Love Song
Did best dance song, now best love song! Chemistry, lyrics, melody, all of that. What’s the best one?
Continue readingDCIB Awards 2023: SRK Songs Round! Best Sad Song!
This is mostly Dunki songs. Really good songs, really sad songs. I don’t love the movie, but the songs are perfect.
Continue readingDCIB Awards of 2023! SRK Songs Round! Best SRK Dance Song
Wooo, 3 SRK movies this year! Which means we can do lots and lots of SRK themed posts to start off!
Continue readingWednesday Watching Post: What Are You Watching and Reading and Thinking and Listening to the First Week of 2024?
Happy Wednesday!!! So far, this year has been pretty good for me. Nice New Years, manageable post-holiday work days, fixed Dunki which makes me happy, and scheduled Albie’s annual Vet appointment at a convenient time.
Continue readingDunki Simplified, If It Were Just a Love Story
This is mostly for my own satisfaction. I liked the love story so much, and dislike so much that surrounded it, I just want to lay out how the movie could work if it was JUST love story and no comic relief.
Continue readingHappy New Year! No Viewing Today Because We All Have Friends and Family And Things, Yaaaaaaaaaaay!
New Years Day falling on a three day weekend seems to have made it even MORE likely that everyone has plans. As do I! My plans are, to recover from my very late night last night! Well, late for me. Not actually that late.
Continue readingPodcast Post Part 2! Feedback on Your Feedback!
I’m having my post-holiday meetup with Mark, the podcast producer, later this week. So I want really good specific feedback for him! I looked over your lovely comments on my previous post, and I’m filtered them down to specific points, and now I need MORE feedback.
Continue readingDunki Review (SPOILERS): My Least Favorite Kind of SRK Romance Plot! WHY DID HE DO THIS TO ME AGAIN????
I don’t think that title is a spoiler for people who get it without warning? Unless you happen to know what my least favorite SRK Romance plots are, and even then it’s only a partial spoiler.
Continue readingDunki Review (No Spoilers): It Feels Like Even Hirani Himself is Now Struggling to Make a “Hirani” Movie
Too me 9 whole days, the longest I have taken to see an SRK movie in theaters since Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, but I finally did it! And in the end, it was more Hirani than it was SRK.
Continue readingAnnual New Years Day Happy New Year WatchAlong! Who is Available/Interested???
I’m thinking about moving it to the afternoon this year. Partly because I want to sleep in, partly because I want to make it convenient for more people!
Continue readingSaturday Small Talk as I FINALLY See Dunki!!!!
Happy Saturday!!!! I spent Wednesday sleeping and recovering, Thursday and Friday working flat out to make up all the work I missed, and now today, FINALLY, I get to see Dunki!!!!!
Continue readingMy Lovely Holiday Trip!!! No Really, It’s Just What I Wanted
I got to spend 10 whole days with Nephew A and Nephew B! Who are perfectly perfect for the ages they are. I learned about cars and trucks and incredibly boring baby games (what is with the “I hand you a thing and you hand it back to me” game? Just keep the thing Baby! Just keep it! Your things are so gross and sticky and I don’t want to take them!). And now I am totally exhausted.
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