Screening Brownies

karl has gone to Virginia till Friday for some work....so yesterday evening was wondering what i was going to do after working (by working i mean mailing you) from karls office, when adele gave me a call and asked if i wanted to watch a short film by her friend in the evening.....so definitely said yet...i want to be more arty....so left the office at 4:30...went home to pick up the laundry we had given in (a process we follow due to the bed bug thing..playing safe)...then met up with adele and came to NYU where they were screening the film.

(*a brief history.....if New School University (karls school) is GOA...then NYU is mangie....so was a weird trip of loyalties as i entered that place)

anyways we got there at around 7 and was a nice little screening room in the school....20 odd people had come..so was almost full house. i didn't know what to expect for this film....cause Ive seen a lot off short films....and some off them are...well.....like Thai iced tea (in other words not what i expected...in otherer words weird :))

well first thing they handed us a feedback sheet for the film with qs like...what scene you liked best...what scene was worst / unnecessary...etc

so at 7:04 they started the film.....the director was this one Vietnamese American young lady....like adele

the movie was based on a true story and was about this old guy who had lung cancer and was dying, his wife had passed away earlier, and he had a autistic son who needed taking care of.....so the movie was about how this father is desperately asking neighbors to take care of him...approaching a special place for these type of people ...and other such things.....nothing seems to work out and the father starts to get desperate as to what to do. so lots of drama and stuff in between and at the end....(which totally surprised me)...the father takes his son and sits in the car and they kill themselves with carbon monoxide poisoning.....i was super shocked....never expected it.....maybe im not giving a good gist of the film...but there was awesome scenes...outstanding direction.....you need to see it.....like in the start the father is shaving his son...and starts coughing cause of his sickness and accidentally cuts his son and then dumps the razor in the water cup..and you see the blood swirl...stuff like that!!

after the screening...which lasted 20 minutes..there was a Qs\Ans round.....the director was looking for feedback...everyone gave their two pence....some good suggestions...some i thought were pointless.....anyways we all also filled the feedback form and then adele and me left.

we decided to stop over at a diner and try the burgers that are supposed to be amazing...was overstuffed by the time we finished....and was walking to the subway when we passed "strand bookstore"...adele thought i should visit it

outside the store they had racks of books...all going for a dollar....i was like wow.....i didn't know what to pick up.....adele kept handing me books she thought id like...shes sweet.....i was hardly through browsing 5 racks when adele says we should go inside......any book lover would cry at this place.....there were racks and racks of books...reaching to the ceiling.....you needed ladders to reach the top shelves...and books about everything.....i spent an hour just browsing through the music books section....saw loads on the Beatles and one cool one on sting.

adele was checking the film section...she showed me a few nice ones and then told me..this was just one floor....the bookstore had two more apparently....i was like HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...you got to be kidding :)

but i noticed new yorkers really read a lot.....on the subways you always find ppl with books

anyways decided to finally head home....i stopped over at her place and she made some guacamole dip with chips and brownies (the brownies were a totally seperate entity from teh guacamole and chips of course) :)

went to karls place at 12 ish had a bath...opened a book and read till 1:30...then fell asleep...

woke up in the morning with some woman knocking on my door asking to sign a petition to allow a arts and crafts fair in the street.....i said cool...why not?

looked at the clock and noticed it was 12:30 in the afternoon...i really slept...maybe its cause my body is still running at Indian time and when its morning here its night there...

anyways get a call from adele asking me to come to her place as she made lentil soup and brownies....so i brush my teeth...do one and a half push ups (after all i am arm candy here so wanna keep that image) and went to her place.....yummy lentil soup and chocolaty brownies later i come here to karls office.

lets see what today has in store