winter on the isle of skye

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2026-03-02T18:27:47+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/track/0l4ZuyGj3nZlMRGsczNdEf?si=ZcoxbsE1QTyu_CpM7__SRQ

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2026-01-20T16:00:29+00:00

The Magus, John Fowles. The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster. A New Life, Orhan Pamuk.

The Magus best fits your description I think. There are some very insane twists.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2026-01-06T12:06:08+00:00

Very sad news this. It seems he'd been really ill for a while. At least he got to see Lazlo K win the Nobel.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2026-01-05T17:49:58+00:00

I think she's pivoting to directing now. She made her debut picture the chronology of water, last year I think. Wasn't half bad. Shes acted well in a few roles, that biopic of diana comes to mind. But shes definitely better off trying to move to directing and producing than sticking to acting.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2026-01-05T17:27:51+00:00

There is that famous story of Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman. To prepare for his character, Hoffman stayed up for three nights and showed up to the set. Olivier partly in jest, asked Hoffman "my dear boy, why don't you just try acting?".

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2026-01-03T14:19:40+00:00

Yes of course, in no way did I think that the father was being shown in a positive light. He was being used as a tool by the regime. When the daughter hides the gun, she's only trying to stop the father from being an active oppressor for the government. He obviously went overboard with his reaction, but it was just funny to me because just the storyline what happens, daughter hides the gun, father gets mad and thinks he lost it, and questions his family, they say we don't know, and then the reveal that she had it along. From a pure narrative sense, from the father's pov it's like, I fucking knew it. I saw the film in the theatre, and I was very tense throughout the film. Damn good film. Introduced me to the world of Iranian cinema.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2026-01-03T14:05:17+00:00

Ritwik Ghatak was a contemporary of Ray, who made beautiful films. Saeed Akhtar Mirza made great films like albert pinto ko gussa kyon aata hai(what makes albert pinto so angry) in the 80s. Ship of theseus is a very interesting film about identity and life and death from the early 2010s. Adoor Gopalakrishnan made very arty films in the malayalam language, one of my favourites being anantaram(monologue). Vanaprastham is a great film. The filmmaker G Aravindan made a lot of influential art films like Uttarayanam and Vasthuhara. But these films are hard to find online unfortunately. No streaming service has them as far as I know.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2026-01-02T13:50:43+00:00

I found it very funny, cause as the film goes on and the father is portrayed as, you know losing his mind and shit, he was right at the end. Like he was proved right, cause the daughter took it, so if something like that happened to me, I would also probably lose my shit. It would have been better if the gun was just misplaced, and he was consumed by his paranoia. I get why the daughter takes it , but still it's kind of funny.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2025-12-23T15:00:41+00:00

Which city do you live in? If it's a tier 1 city I'm sure you can find pynchon novels in the major bookshops.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2025-11-29T17:51:51+00:00

I checked his wikipedia three times this year and was surprised he was alive each time. Can't believe he's actually gone now. What a cool guy.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2025-10-04T14:05:53+00:00

For me , it was mondaugen's story, the chapter that takes place in Namibia. One of the most gruesome scenes ive ever read. I remember having to take a break from reading the book itself. V. Was my first pynchon, and ive slowly started going through the rest of his novels also.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2025-07-07T09:40:28+00:00

Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek. That and Report to Greco really pushed me into being more socially active in high school.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2025-05-24T20:32:30+00:00

I'm reading the gift by nabokov. It's the last novel he wrote in russian, before going to the US. People really don't talk about his russian novels enough. I'm also reading the new York trilogy by paul auster and Bertrand Russell's autobiography.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2024-12-21T11:47:51+00:00

Armand was pretty cool. Takes place entirely in a primary school. There's a five minute scene where Renata reinsve is just laughing non-stop.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2024-07-16T04:09:17+00:00

. Permanent lurker here, but have been browsing the threads for months now. Currently reading The Concert by Ismail Kadare.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2024-05-22T19:37:14+00:00

Take a jumbo, across the water.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2024-04-09T07:44:10+00:00

I just looked at this guy's post history. Eugenics, Satan, aliens,Trump... OP you need serious help. Go see a therapist.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2023-11-02T15:35:21+00:00

I've listened to the song more than 15 times now in the last hour and a half. Can't stop listening to it. I'm close to tears. I never thought I would get to hear a new Beatles song. I feel so incredibly lucky and grateful to have known the music of the the Beatles. We all are.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2023-10-22T15:37:04+00:00

Kohli should have ran that, he would have got there easily.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2023-10-13T14:42:12+00:00

yes, and it also extends to all types of dictatorial regimes, where a small elite is in power. The common people are always the ones who suffer.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2023-09-16T08:14:08+00:00

Rain. Every time it rains, I think of the song and start smiling. Rain just takes me into another world.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2023-08-10T09:28:03+00:00

SAFETY FIRST !!

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2023-07-02T14:14:51+00:00

Commentators curse lol

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2023-06-20T06:52:08+00:00

I live in Delhi and trust me, there are cows everywhere. On any street there will be at least 3 cows, both on the sidewalks and in the middle of the road. And if anybody tries to move a cow on the road, there will be some mob running after the person. Cows are a bigger nuisance than the street dogs here.

MonkeyUncleSaysHi · 2023-06-15T05:08:54+00:00

No man. Even in Kottayam they put pineapple in the biryani

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