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MySpace and a Movie
Mar. 12th, 2006 07:52 pmA friend of mine, I'll call her Buddy, has gotten really active on MySpace. It has helped her greatly expand her social life, and she's having a blast. She's found people to join her in all kinds of activities, and they give her ideas, too.
She's been encouraging a bunch of her friends to join, if for no other reason than so she doesn't have to post all her activities twice (once on MySpace and once via e-mail). But there are also a lot of other fabulous reasons to join.
Except that after looking the place over I'm not impressed. It feels a little too much like a keg party. With spam. But to access our friend's stuff, Robin and I decided to join as a single, bare-bones user, right after I thought up a user name I like: BuddyMadeMe.
In other news, we watched a movie called "Bend It Like Beckham." It's a coming-of-age film, a sports movie, a romance, and a comedy. It's got your generation gap, your culture clash, secrets, huge wedding, and sappy sections. It's too soon yet to tell whether it will stick with me and I'll want to own it or whether it will be just another movie I forget about. What stands out now are that there are several characters who mean well but do a terrible job. But they continue to mean well, and this helps them get a clue. I like that notion. Also, it kept me chuckling.
The reason I am writing about this movie is to advise you that if you ever get this movie on DVD you should watch the featurette extra called "Who Wants to Cook Aloo Gobi?"
The movie director always fantasized about having a cooking show, and so she took that line from the movie as an excuse to show us how to cook Aloo Gobi, a curry made with cauliflower and potatoes. So of course she's got all the ingredients and explains things about them and shows us the chopping and the measuring. But she's also got her mother and her aunt sitting right behind her the whole time. Both of them are experts at making this dish and neither is at all afraid to speak up. So you get up to three philosophies on how to do each step. It was definitely the most fun cooking show I've seen.
She's been encouraging a bunch of her friends to join, if for no other reason than so she doesn't have to post all her activities twice (once on MySpace and once via e-mail). But there are also a lot of other fabulous reasons to join.
Except that after looking the place over I'm not impressed. It feels a little too much like a keg party. With spam. But to access our friend's stuff, Robin and I decided to join as a single, bare-bones user, right after I thought up a user name I like: BuddyMadeMe.
In other news, we watched a movie called "Bend It Like Beckham." It's a coming-of-age film, a sports movie, a romance, and a comedy. It's got your generation gap, your culture clash, secrets, huge wedding, and sappy sections. It's too soon yet to tell whether it will stick with me and I'll want to own it or whether it will be just another movie I forget about. What stands out now are that there are several characters who mean well but do a terrible job. But they continue to mean well, and this helps them get a clue. I like that notion. Also, it kept me chuckling.
The reason I am writing about this movie is to advise you that if you ever get this movie on DVD you should watch the featurette extra called "Who Wants to Cook Aloo Gobi?"
The movie director always fantasized about having a cooking show, and so she took that line from the movie as an excuse to show us how to cook Aloo Gobi, a curry made with cauliflower and potatoes. So of course she's got all the ingredients and explains things about them and shows us the chopping and the measuring. But she's also got her mother and her aunt sitting right behind her the whole time. Both of them are experts at making this dish and neither is at all afraid to speak up. So you get up to three philosophies on how to do each step. It was definitely the most fun cooking show I've seen.