I really liked Bend It Like Beckham. I thought it was a pretty accurate depiction of Indian culture. Predictably, my mom didn't like it because the girl ended up with a white dude.
We knocked 'em deader!
Willow ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polter-Cow - Jan 22, 2012 6:08:51 pm PST #17892 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
JenP - Jan 22, 2012 6:10:06 pm PST #17893 of 30001
Baked oatmeal:
Sorry for the pain, sarameg, but glad you went to urgent care. I was concerned. Eye shit makes me go on high alert. For no reason I can discern; it just does. Here's to fast healing.
Minor drama + snow on Fri/early Sat. condensed what was supposed to be a leisurely, relaxing weekend in MD into a whirlwind, ending in heartbreak. I'm kind of wiped after the drive home, yo.
JenP - Jan 22, 2012 6:15:15 pm PST #17894 of 30001
Oh, my gosh; I caught up mostly on phone earlier and did not post...
Welcome to the world Samuel!!! Congratulations, Stephanie.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 6:28:03 pm PST #17895 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought it was a pretty accurate depiction of Indian culture.
I don't know particularly much about the Indian cultures, but it really rang true for me as an immigrant experience. Universal foreign truths, and all that.
Predictably, my mom didn't like it because the girl ended up with a white dude.
Tell her the original version had the girl ending up with a white girl. She should count her blessings.
Consuela - Jan 22, 2012 6:34:07 pm PST #17896 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Tell her the original version had the girl ending up with a white girl.
! Was it really originally a lesbian romance? That makes so much sense, and yet it wouldn't have been nearly as popular, I fear. Certainly it wouldn't have gotten the marketing it did...
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 6:46:14 pm PST #17897 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah, it was, and I just finished reading an AfterEllen article that said pretty much what you did--it was transgressive and niche enough, that they didn't mind not getting a lesbian romance on top of it, because now they have a movie they can share with a lot of people, as opposed to something only seen by a few.
Parminder won an award as a soccer celebrity on the basis of the movie. And it pretty much got her ER. Good on her!
Polter-Cow - Jan 22, 2012 6:48:23 pm PST #17898 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And now she's on Alcatraz !
JenP - Jan 22, 2012 6:51:09 pm PST #17899 of 30001
Sometimes I have the most random browser tabs left open up there -- apparently I wanted to see what a huntsman spider looked like a couple days ago. Yeah, most of my random tags are not so random when I remember where I post and read most days. Still funny, though.
Steph L. - Jan 22, 2012 7:28:45 pm PST #17900 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Ugh, we're supposed to get severe thunderstorms overnight, possibility of tornadoes.
It just started thundering here. It's the dang 4th week of January -- thunder ain't right.
§ ita § - Jan 22, 2012 7:43:02 pm PST #17901 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I forget that for me she pretty much went directly from BBiLB to ER. But I notice she voiced Cassandra Cain up in that gap. Pretty damned sweet.
Polter-Cow, at the end of the second episode of Alcatraz, what was the twist?
I was reading someone (in Jezebel, natch) complaining of the lack of racial diversity of the show. All white main characters! Well, perhaps, but also Latino. Poor Hurley. Big fat WHITE guy, he seems. The cast list doesn't look that whitewashed, actually. I think the lead's blondess and Sam O'Neill's representation of the patriarchy has blinded people to the actual actors.