(Santa Ana)
Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Danny Boyle) (Lamelle Colorado, with Rajay, Vijay, and Ding-a-Ling)
The Old Fashioned Way (1934, WC Fields) (Aero, with Dad)
You're Telling Me! (1934, WC Fields) (Aero, with Dad)
The Wrestler (2008, Darren Aronofsky) (Edwards University, with Mom and Dad)

JANUARY

1 A Night at the Opera (1937, Leo Wood) (Aero, with Mike) (Rn)
1 Animal Crackers (193x ) (Aero, with Mike) (Rn)
5 Synecdoche, New York (2008, Charlie Kaufman) (Laemmle's Fairfax 3)
9 The Towering Inferno (1974,) (Egyptian, with Rajay)
14 part of Ghajini (2008, Murgadoss) (Naz8 Artesia, with Amanda)

(Oakland)
18 a short movie (2007, Julie Kerr) (living room, with Julie)
23 Chandni Chowk to China (2008, Nikhil Advani) (Naz8, with Miriam and Chris)
25 Duck Soup (+1) (Contemporary Jewish Museum)
25 Monkey Business(+1) (Contemporary Jewish Museum)
25 Ace in the Hole (195x, Billy Wilder) (Noir City at the Castro)
28 The Harder They Fall (Noir City at Castro with Boyk, Rich, Anthony, Josh, Rebecca?)
28 Johnny Stoolpigeon (Noir City at Castro with Boyk, Rich, Anthony, Josh, Rebecca?)
31 Gran Torino (2008, Clint Eastwood) (Grand Lake)

FEBRUARY

1 part of The Killers (only part of it due to sleep and a Serious text message) (Noir City at Castro with Michael M (and Boyk & co. and Haggai elsewhere in the audience)
1 Sweet Smell of Success (Noir City at Castro with Michael M (and Boyk & co. and Haggai elsewhere in the audience)
5 had-anhad (first half; saw second half a year ago at Linda Hess's House (Shabnam Virmani) (CSAS)
11 Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen) (Castro)
11 My Winnipeg (2007, Guy Maddin)
11 Manhattan (1979, Woody Allen) (Castro)
14 pinku
20 Velvet Vampire (197x) (Silent Movie Theater, with Amanda)
23 Luck by Chance (2008,)(Naz8 Artesia, with Mike)
26 Koi Sunta Hai (Shabnam Virmani) (Morrison Hall, with many people)

MARCH
3 Billu Barber (2009, Priydarshan) (Naz8, with Boyk) (yawn)
8 Gomorrah (2008,) (South Coast Village, with Adam and Dad)
12 Crips and Bloods: Made in America () (Roxie)
13 Watchmen (2009, Zach Snyder) (Grand Lake, with Julie)
14 (continued from a few weeks previous) Driving Me Crazy (198x) (V) (home) (borrowed from Rajay)
15 Kanichivaram (200x, Priyadarshan) (PFA, with Rivian, Rivian's friend whose name I forget, Kiran, Ajlai, Vasuda, and various eminent personalities I didn't quite meet)
17 Hedwig and the Angry Inch (200x, John Cameron Mitchell) (Parkway) (R2)
18 Down By Law (198x, Jim Jarmusch) (Red Vic)
22 Duplicity (2009,) (Grand Lake, with Nick)
28 Sunshine Cleaning (Edwards University, with Mom, Dad, and Adam)
The Godfather, Part 2 (home, with Adam)


APRIL
3 Alias Nick Beal (Noir festival at Egyptian, with Rajay)
13 bits of Hatim serial (youtube)
15 Dehli-6 (2009, Rakeyesh Omprakash Mehra) (Naz8)
16 Reefer Madness, Powers of Ten, and a few shorts with soundtracks by some student DJs (PFA)
18 Mister Scarface (197x) (Alamo Drafthouse Apocalyptica at YBCA)
18 Chained Heat (1983, )(Alamo Drafthouse Apocalyptica at YBCA)
19 Vigilante (19xx) (Alamo Drafthouse Apocalyptica at Castro)
19 Lady Terminator (1988, Jalil Jackson) (Alamo Drafthouse Apocalyptica at Castro)
20 Stumble (2002, Prakash Belawadi) (ATA; also present PB and Chris Chekuri and Raka Ray)
23 Pulp Fiction (1994,Quentin Tarantino) (UA Berkeley) (R4?)
26 A Woman Under the Influence (1974, John Cassavetes) (Castro, with Sabin and Nick)
30 Chalo Hamara Des (Shabnam Virmani) (Stephens Hall, with Kiran, Carlos, et. al)

MAY
2 Best of Good Vibrations Amateur Erotic Film Festival (in Center for Sex and Culture during Masturbate-a-Thon, including "Phil Love San Francisco")
4 X Men: Wolverine: Origins: Colon: Subtitle (2009,) (Grand Lake)
8 Ms. 45 (1971, Abel Ferrara) (Silent Movie Theater) (second half only due to a flat tire)
8 The Mack (1973, ) (Silent Movie Theater)
9 Watchmen (2009, ) (Woodbridge Dollar Theater, with Mom Dad and Adam) (R2)
10 A Roll of the Dice (1929, Franz Osten; accompaniment by [] and Nusrat Khan) (Silent Movie Theater, with Mike)
13 Baghbaan (2003,) (Naz Artesia, with Mike)
15 Funeral (1993, Abel Ferrara) (Silent Movie Theater)
15 Body Snatchers (1998, Abel Ferrara) (Silent Movie Theater)
15 Trick Baby (1972, Larry Yust) (Silent Movie Theater)
16 Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995, Aditya Chopra) (R9) (Naz Artesia; Rajay for the first half only)
17 Don (2006, Faran Akhtar) (R2) (Naz)
18 Star Trek: Does it have a subtitle? (2009,) (California)
20 Om Shanti Om (2007, Farah Khan) (Naz) (R3)
21 Main Hoon Na (2004, Farah Khan) (Naz) (R6)
24 Domicile Conjugal (1970, Francois Truffaut) (Brattle)
27 Dr. Strangelove (196x, Stanley Kubrick) (Film Forum) (R3?)
31 Polymath, or, The Life and Opinions of Samuel Delany, Gentlemen (2009, Fred...) (Union Docs, with SLD and a bunch of PBR-swilling hipsters)

JUNE 8 Limits of Control (2009, Jim Jarmusch) (Oaks)
9 Detective Story (2009, Takashi Miike) (Another Hole in the Head at the (Little) Roxie)
11 parts of Primal Rap and Feel Mode 2 (Downtown Independent)
13 The Bellboy (,Jerry Lewis) (Silent Movie Theater)
13 The Resurrection of Eve (A Tribute to Marilyn Chambers at the Grindhouse Film Festival at the New Beverly Cinema)
13 Behind the Green Door (A Tribute to Marilyn Chambers at the Grindhouse Film Festival at the New Beverly Cinema)
16 Lagaan (2002, Ashutoth Gowariker) (Naz8 Artesia, with Mr. and Mrs. Rajay)
[lots I need to copy over from my laptop] NOVEMBER 2 All the Best (2009, ) (Naz) 2 Blue (2009, ) (Naz)

Gems: The Old-Fashioned Way, You're Telling Me, Synecdoche, (what I saw of) Ghajini, Velvet Vampire, Koi Sunta Hai, Kanichivaram, Down By Law, Alias Nick Beal, Mister Scarface, Vigilante, Lady Terminator, A Woman Under the Influence, Phil Loves San Francisco, Ms. 45, Trick Baby

PLAYS, PERFORMANCES, ASSORTED SPECTACLES

FEBRUARY
28 Bollywood Berkeley (Zellerbach)
APRIL
17 Nautanki lecture/Sultana Daku performance (Devendra Sharma et. al.) (Morrison Hall, with Kiran and Nikhil)
17 a (cardboard covered) RC car race on a crazy curvy track made of cardboard in a big room in West Oakland filled with hipsters

MAY
1 Prahlad Singh Timpanya (Wheeler Hall, w/ Boyk, Ari, Kiran, et al)
2 Masturbate-a-Thon (Center for Sex and Culture, w/ various other voyeurs)
14 a music video and performance by some people whose name i forgot (the theater that used to be the imaginasian whose name i forgot)
24 Romance (David Mamet) (American Repertory Theater)

JUNE
6 Pansy Division at The Big Idea Night at YBCA
9 RADAR reading at Queer Arts Festival: James St. James, Sean Stuart Ruff, Sarah Shulman, Raquel Gutierrez
10 Michael Winslow accompanying bits of Chaplin, Our Gang, some weird crazy claymation, Mad Max, Star Warz
the Obama porn art gallery thing on Glendale Blvd (with Sunjay)
14 LA Pride

WHAT I'VE READ
Entry represents when I began (reading, flipping through,...) something; i won't repeat it in later months if I'm still reading (etc.) it. unless I do . I don't finish a lot of what I start, and I don't note a lot of it here, both due to general disorganization.

DECEMBER-JANUARY
Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction
A History of the Jews (Paul Johnson)

Asterix and the Falling Sky
some other asterix books
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Naiyer Masud's afsaane
ghalib's shairi
love is a fallacy (Max Shulman)
perfectly reasonable deviations (feynman's letters)
FEBRUARY
some short stories of Tiptree
Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture (Carol Queen)
Woody Allen's collected prose
Alice Let's Eat (Calvin Trillin)
Fourier Analysis (Korner)
MARCH
Freak Show (James St. James)

APRIL
Disco Bloodbath (James St. James)
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman (Richard Feynman)
Contact Homology of Hamiltonian Mapping Tori (Oliver Fabert)
MAY
some Tintins
the 1920s and 1950s volumes of the Time-Life "Our Amazing Century"
bits of Hegemony or Survival (Noam Chomsky)
accompanying booklet of Kabir Thumri meN
The Motion of Light in Water (Samuel Delany)
Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand
Various local periodicals including:
The Boston Globe
The Boston Phoenix
Techtalk
The Improper Bostonian
Stuff
Village Voice
the glastonbury local paper
West Side Spirit
a bunch of NYC Urdu papers
NY Times
Metro Boston
Metro NYC
AM NY