In OC:
3 Ichi the Killer (2001, Takashi Miike) (Imaginasian LA, with Rajay) (Rajay: "Congratulations on choosing the worst movie ever")
4 Hell Up in Harlem (1973, Larry Cohen) (V) (home, with Adam) (CAHN-BREAD!)
5 Welcome (2007,) (Naz8 Artesia, with Dad)
some Oliver Hardy shorts (V) (at home, with Dad)
Back in Oakland
9 Ardh Satya (V) (at Boyk's, with Boyk) (we watched the first fifth in November)
12 Karz (1980, Subhash Ghai) (V) (Bollywood marathon at Boyk's, with Joel, Holly, Eli, Rich, Nate T,...)
12 Anbukku Naan Adimai (1980, R. Thyagaraajan (starring Rajnikanth)) (V) ("Bollywood" marathon at Boyk's, with Michelle, Eli,...)
Detour to Eugene
17 the first half of the interminable Lars and the Real Girl (2007, Craig Gillespie) (Bijou Theater, Eugene). I didn't even manage to sleep very much.
18 Jimmy Carter: Man from Plains (2007, Jonathan Demme) (Bijou) (which was pretty interminable though it was much more interesting. it could have been 2/3 or 1/2 as long without losing much content...I love Jimmy Carter but the extra half an hour of watching him answer the same questions didn't give me any more love or insight)
21 Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge (1995, Aaditya Chopra) (V) (Nick's office and bedroom, ALONE, to drown my sorrows. A++, would use to alter my mood again)
Return to Berkeley 24 most of Kumar Talkies (1999, Pankaj Kumar) (Lawrence's class)
26 Sunday (2008, Rohit Shetty) (Naz)
27 Moonrise (1948, Frank Borzage) (Noir City at the Castro) (not bad, but not what I was in the mood for...)
29 Duck Soup (1933ish, Leo McCarey) (V) (home) (R~15 or maybe 16; I wrote 14 last time it's entered in this log in Fall 2004, but I'm pretty sure I watched it once in between)

FEBRUARY

11 Ram Teri Ganga Maili (1985, Raj Kapoor) (Moffit Media Center, for Lawrence's class)
13 A Night at the Opera (1937) (V) (home) (R)
17 Jodha Akbar (2008, Ashutoth Gowariker) (Naz, with Gaius)
Inside Man (2006, Spike Lee) (V) (home)
There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson) (Piedmont)
(most of) Dil Chahta Hai (200x, Faran Akhtar) (V) (home) (R2)


MARCH
2 Shatranj ke Khilari (197x, Satyajit Ray) (V) (home, with Mom, Dad, and Adam until they fell asleep)
7 D?yayi kurtaran adam (1982,), AKA Turkish Star Wars, withlive accompaniment (ATA, with Partha)
11 Binka: To Tell a Story about Silence (2006, Elka Nikolova) (Polina, Elka, and miscellaneous Bulgarians)
11 The Attached Balloon (1967, Binka Zhelyazkova) (Polina, Elka, and miscellaneous Bulgarians)
16 881 (2007, Royston Tam)
18 sing along Colma: The Musical (AAFF at Kabuki)
26 Paranoid Park (2008, Gus van Sant) (Cinema 21, with Tim)
31 Journeys with Kabir (or perhaps a different Kabir documentary, I never caught the title (?, Shabnam Virmani) (Linda Hess's house, with a whole lot of people (Sean, Kiran, Nikhil, Karuna, Guy M, LH, SV and a bunch of people I didn't actually meet)

APRIL
i think something i forgot
4 Planet B-Boy (Shattuck)
5 Deewar (R3) (Natalie from class's house)
9 Making of "Sagar" (Karuna) (youtube on my laptop)
9 Everyone Says I'm Fine (Rahul Bose) (CSAS)
10 about half of mother India (Lawrence's class)
10 A Colt is My Passport (1967, Takashi Nomura starring Joe Shishido) (YBCA)
another action movie at ybca?
17 an episode of Full House with seizure stuff added (YBCA)
23 Let's Talk (CSAS)
26 Calcutta My Love (Ghose) (PFA with Vikrant and Sunanda)

MAY

3 Caged (and an instructional film about how to find needle marks and anally concealed items on prisoners) (Oddball)
4 Tashan (2008,) (Naz8 with Nikhil and Ryan)
9 Iron Man (2007,) (Metro Point, with Mom and Dad)
17 Yuva (2004, Mani Ratnam) (Thomas and Sumita's, with Vikrant etc.)
23 Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922/68,) (YBCA)
25 Race (2008, Abbas-Mustan) (Naz, with Jessica K)
26 Indiana Jones and Some Aliens for Some Reason (2008, Steven Spielberg) (Grand Lake)
27 Time Piece (Levshack with Lev and Molly)
28 The Mission (, Johnny To) (PFA)
28 Fulltime Killer (2001, Johnny To) (PFA), the greatest movie ever
Sa 31 The Fall (2008, Tashem Singh) (California, with Miriam and Chris) gems: Time Piece, The Mission, Fulltime Killer

JUNE
Su 1 Scary Cow 5 (including Julie's Geek Loves Punk and Karuna's Sagar) (Vicoria, with Karuna and Peter)
Tu 3 Krazzy 4 (2008,) (Naz)
Tu 3 Bhoothnath (2008,) (Naz)
W 4 Running on Karma (2001, Johnny To) (PFA)
W 11 Throw Down (2004, Johnny To) (PFA)
F 13 The Incredible Hulk (2008,) (Grand Lake)
Sa 14 Dasavatharm (2008, , starring Kamal Hasan) (Fremont Cinedome, with Sunanda, Erin, and Minh)
M 16 Om Shanti Om (2007, Farah Khan) (R2) (V) (925 Monroe, with Nick)
F 20 Sarkar Raj (2008, Ram Gopal Varma) (Cineplex Odeon Strawberry Hill) (with Nick)
Su 22 OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (Clinton Street Theater, with Nick)
M 23 Chop Shop (,) (Hollywood Theater, with Tim)
Su 29 Thoda pyar, thoda magic (2008, Kunal Kohli) (Naz, with Riana)

JULY
1 Breakfast at Tiffany's (Stanford Theater)

gems: The Attached Balloon, Time Piece, Fulltime Killer, Dasavatharam, OSS 117, Chop Shop

PLAYS, PERFORMANCES
Theaterworks/MSRI short plays
Sultana Daku (Naatak)
Shabnam Virmani singing Kabir (Linda Hess's house)
Stoney Burke on several Tuesdays
5-3 Urdu Culture Show (with Boyk, Michelle, Karuna (and Irfana, Fariya, Aftab...))
5-16 The High Fidels (in North Beach somewhere, with Miriam and her and Chris's pals)

Books and articles and such: (or some subset thereof; a lot doesn't end up on this list, alas...)

Generally over this period:
Woody Allen's Collected Prose (Getting Even, Side Effects, Without Feathers)
Miscellaneous ghazals, largely from diwan-e-Ghalib and "Urdu for Ghazal Lovers"
Manto's Letters to Uncle Sam (SHM)
Romeo and Juliet (1594, some guy) (R4 or R5)

JANUARY
Mr. Pump's Legacy (Herge)
"My Lucknow" (Salim Kidwai)
David Boyk's class paper on Islam in Bengal
"Tandoori Ransom" (Woody Allen), sitting in the U of Oregon student store (his earlier stuff is indeed a lot better)
the last story of Love and Longing in Bombay (Vikram Chandra) so I could leave it for Megan; will i ever set eyes on my copy again? [I read the first four stories in Lucknow]

FEBRUARY
a lot of Woody Allen, with multiplicity
"Shatranj ke Khilari" (Premchand) for class

some articles for Lawrence's class (Dwyer,Kakar,Dickey...)
Ghalib's Lighter Verses (Mirza Ghalib/CM Naim)
" 'Jewish Mathematics' at Gottingen in the Era of Felix Klein" (David Rowe)

MARCH
Contract with God Trilogy (Will Eisner)
"Antar" (for class), which is essentially the Hindi "Hills Like White Elephants)
some of Kabir's sakhiyan (and more at Linda Hess's Kabir evening)
article about Jewish mobsters in Las Vegas
Rushdie's letter on atheism addressed to the 6 billionth person
Chicken (David Henry Sterry)

an issue of "Gay Comics" by Allison Bechdel

APRIL
Khilawan ka Narak (for Hindi)

Dipping in and out of:
lots of Mirza Ghalib's GhazaleN from various books and also some ghazaleN and nazm by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (from the book I borrowed from Boykji)

In the midst of:
Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: An Ethnography of Men's Filmgoing in India (Steve Derne)
The Mad Man (Samuel Delaney)
Bartleby the Scrivener (Herman Melville) (R)
The Club of Queer Trades (G.K. Chesterton)
Stardust (Roopam S...)
What's the Matter with Kansas (Frank)
Brand Bollywood
the parts parts of Gra(e?)nville's history of the twentieth century about the Middle East

Camera India (Rachel Dwyer and ?)