From May 28, 2006 (when I left Berkeley) to July 3, 2006 (when I arrived 
in Shanghai)

Mujhse Shadi Karogi (2004, David Dhawan) (R) (V, inexplicably edited) (On plane to Dubai)
36 China Town (up to intermision) (New Excelsior, Fort)
X Men 3 (2006, Ratner) (24 Karat, Jogeshwari)
7 Islands and a Metro (YB Chavan Center)
No Men Allowed (2006) (Capitol, Fort)
DDLJ (Maratha Mandir) (R5)
part of something (Imperial)
Chup Chup Ke (Odeon, New Delhi)
part of Maalamal weekly and first two hours of DDLJ on the bus manali-> delhi
part of some (A)-rated movie at the Vijaya, Varanasi
krrish 1.5 times (hind) (first .5 with nick)
Devdas (SRK version) (Jyoti)
V for Vendetta (airplane from Calcutta to Dubai)
about half of No Entry (R) (V) (plane from Dubai to Shanghai)
most of Chupke Chupke (V) (plane from Dubai to Shanghai)

In Shanghai (July 4-August 17) (V) is synonymous with videos watched in my 
Fudan dorm room on my counterfeit Sony DVD player.

X Men 2 (R)(V)
A History of Violence(R)(V) (2005, Cronenberg)
Donnie Brasco (V)
Die Another Day (R)(V)
Paycheck (V)
Singin' in the Rain (V)
Dragon Tiger Gate (Studio City Cinema)
Mission Impossible 3 (Studio City Cinema) (with Kay Aull) (at least I skipped parts 1 and 2...)
part of Sarkar (2005, RGV) (R)
Part of Asterix and Obelix Versus Caesar (with Kay)
Clerks 2 (2006, Kevin Smith) (V)
Fight Club (, David Fincher) (V)
part of Ong Bak

gems: Singin' in the Rain

BERKELEY, 3001 College (August 17-???)

AUGUST
Helen, Pyaasa Neo-Benshi, something (PFA) (slept through, sadly)
Kabhie Alvida Naa Kehna (2006, Karan Johar) (Naz, with Boyk)
Snakes on a Plane (UA, with K) (slept through)
Left Behind (Sarah's with K and various other folks) (slept through)
Idlewild (AMC Block with Adam and K) (2006,)
Aap Ki Khatir (Naz) (2006)
Company (RGV) (PFA)

SEPTEMBER (out of order)
Lage Raho, Munna Bhai (Naz, with Joel and Hannah) (2006,)
Do Bigha Zamin (V) (home)
lots of simpsons episodes
The Protector (2006) (with Jeff Brown and Alex)
Shiva (2006, Ram Gopal Varma) (Naz8)
Lulu (Silent Theater, at the Victoria) (with Lev, Joel, Hannah, and Molly)
30 Films with Roots in Hell: The Effects of Drugs on American Cinema (Oddball, Jack Stevenson curating)
"The Mystery of the Leaping Fish" (1916),"LSD: Case Study" (Lockheed Corp (!), 1968), etc.
gems: The Protector, Do Bigha Zamin, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (so much cocaine!)

OCTOBER

5 history of scandanavian porn clips/lecture by Jack Stevenson (Yerba Buena)
7 part of Venom (196x, ) (Yerba Buena)
36 China Town (2006, Abbas-Mustan) (V, home) (R, though I slept through most of it the first time while jet lagged in Bombay)
11 Jet Li's Fearless (2006, Ronnie Yu) (UA Berkeley)
12 Borat:...Cultural...Make Benefit...Kazakhstan (2006, Larry Charles) (not up to the TV show's standard, but still awfully funny)
15 Kabhie Alvida Naa Kehna (2006, Karan Johar) (R) (Naz)
18 Pirates of the Great Salt Lake (PFA)
22 Don (2006, Faran Akhtar) (Naz with Partha and Case)
Little Miss Sunshine (2006,) (California)
29 Jaan-e-Mann (2006,) (Naz)

gems: Pirates of the Great Salt Lake

NOVEMBER
3 Jules and Jim (Truffaut) (PFA)
4 capitalist propaganda (Oddball, with Peter McCorquodale)
4 Someone Goofed ( & ) (animated adaptation of a Jack Chick tract) (Oddball, with Peter McCorquodale)
4 various Nina Paley shorts  (Oddball, with Peter McCorquodale)
4 Thank You for Not Breeding (Nina Paley) (unfinished) (Oddball, with Peter McCorquodale)
4 Sita Sings the Blues (Nina Paley) (in progress) (Oddball, with Peter McCorquodale)
9 Shortbus (2006, John Cameron Mitchell) (Shattuck, with Scott Morrison)
The Terminator (198x, James Cameron) (V, home)
11 Borat (2006, Larry Charles) (R) (Regal Metro Point, with Dad and Adam)
12 Sholay (1975, Ramesh Sippy) (R5) (Roxie, with Joel, Hannah, Andre, Eli, and Emma B-S)
The Producers (200x) (V, home) (more or less as terrible as the first, modulo "Springtime for Hitler)
26 Vivah (2006, Sooraj Barjatya) (Naz) (like HAHK, except without the humor and good music)
26 Dhoom (2004, ) (V, home) (I watched this at midnight after coming home from Vivah, which I saw only because the last pre-BART Dhoom 2 was house full.)

wow, when was my last 2 week gap in filmgoing (when not travelling, though 
it's pretty rare then)

gems: Jules and Jim; most of the Paley, etc. Oddball program; Shortbus

DECEMBER
The Fountain (Aronofsky)
Jonestown: ...People's Temple...
Dhoom 2 (with Partha, Case, cash, and whatshername) (Naz)



Things that aren't movies:
A circus in Shanghai (with Kay)
Naachmania (with Joel, Andre and Hannah) in which i participated

---BOOKS---
IN INDIA 5/28-7/3
Maximum City (Suleku Mehta)
some essay by Vikram Chandra on Authenticity that Boykji sent me

IN SHANGHAI 7/4-8/17
Karma Cola (Gita Mehta)
piles of articles printed from the online New Yorker and New York 
Review of Books archives since there's nothing in English to read in this 
city

IN BERKELEY 8/17-

SEPTEMBER
American Fried (Calvin Trillin)

OCTOBER
Freakonomics (S. Levitt and a toady)
chapter on Kill Bill in _From Shane to Kill Bill_ (a book on westerns)
Grift Sense (James Swain) (a random Vegas potboiler)
Sandman Vols. 1-4 (Neil Gaiman)

NOVEMBER
Sandman Vols. 5,6
Brainiac (Ken Jennings) (more interesting than I expected)

DECEMBER
Man Without a Country (Vonnegut)
chapters on Buddhism and Islam in Religion in the Soviet Union


Now Reading
A World Lit Only By Fire
Sandman (Neil Gaiman)
Dr. No (Ian Fleming)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
From Ellis Island to JFK: ...immigration...New York City (Nancy Foner)
some articles in New Immigrants in New York (ed. Nancy Foner)