Reflecting on India and enjoying NYC

I'm loving NYC. I'm just having a ball here. I don't ever want to leave right now. I just wanna figure out a way to make money on the streets selling stuff/artwork, or get a job at the Apple store and/or some sweet bar where I can make good tips, continue to bounce around my friends couches of the city until I save up for my own place, and just not go anywhere for a while.
Today was yet another beautiful day in the city, even if it did take me until 6pm to finally get there only to find that there was a line an hour and a half long to get the new iPhone even at the 5th avenue amazing store. So I pressed on and took in the movie "Hurt Locker" with two buddies and was not particularly impressed after reading all these glowing reviews.



Where did I read said reviews? I wish I could remember. Time Out NYC I think? Could it have been The New York Times? Not happy with them if it was. Anyway, I can see how some would find it great, I suppose it had a nice sort of angle that managed to allow you to root for the military hero without feeling like a war monger in a movie about Iraq. Nevertheless, I think I would of rather have seen this:





Yes, its a movie from India's "Bollywood" film industry about 9/11. I somehow happened upon this as I searched the internet, after it occurred to me that I had no idea what was going on in India as of late, especially in the world of Bollywood. For those of you who don't know, but should be able to see from this trailer, Bollywood has sharpened up its act seriously in the very recent past. Well, at least sharpened in the sense that the films don't all have that blur/glow to them anymore, the film quality, sound quality, and special effect quality all seems to have taken a quantum leap in the past half decade, the styling is much more polished and worldly, the babes and dudes much more buff, cut, and basically contrasty in general.

But nevertheless, I'm sure you can also see from this trailer that Bollywood still has plenty of ridiculous to go around.

That being said, what an interesting take on 9/11 this seems to be. I'm totally intrigued to see it. For those of you who also don't know this: India is the largest democracy in the world, and has the third largest Muslim population in the world, second only to Indonesia and Pakistan. There are 121,000,000 Muslims living in India. That's real religious diversity, unlike the sham of diversity we have in America where we are so dominated by Christianity that other religions seem to exist simply for cutesing up the place. Ok, sorry, that was a little far, but you get my point, India's a real democracy, where Muslims don't hide themselves away for the most part. New York also looms large for Indians, many families have big connections to NYC, so its interesting to see this film being made.

But anyway, enough about that. I gotta go to bed. The sun's coming up.