… but I swear I won’t rent anything more today. I’m returning my last DVD tonight. In the last few days I’ve seen three films that were all quite different. The best of them all was definitely Donnie Darko, though I must say that they were all interesting. The House of Flying Daggers is a Chinese kung-fu film set towards the collapse of the T’ang Dynasty (though it could well have been any dynasty, if you ask me, and Western viewers are extremely unlikely to care about this bit of the film’s context). Well, if you’ve already seen Hero and …

It must be some kind of overdose or something. In the last four days, I’ve seen four more films that I want to write about here. The first two were Korean movies I watched with Lime: 오!브fk더스 (Oh! Brothers) was a comedy that was, as Korean comedies go, one of the better ones I’ve seen. It was a kind of goofy version of Rain Man, but the long-lost brother had Progeria, not autism, meaning he was twelve years old but had the body of an adult, and was put to work by his brother collecting money for the mob. I …

… is the name of the last movie I saw (imdb | excellent review). It was a title I’d run across before but never happened to pick for watching, but Lime and I are getting to the point where we’ve seen many of the films we wanted to see at our regular DVD-room house, so we asked the girl running the front desk whether it was a good movie. She replied, enthusiastically, that it is, in her opinion, the best Korean movie ever, and that it was sad that it couldn’t have gotten a little more funding so that it …

Writing a novel is the kind of work one can do for a few hours at a time, and then one needs a break. For me, it’s a kind of process of letting my own ideas percolate, and they often do that best when I am occupied doing something else. Also, while I’ve been writing this, I’ve had an incredibly hard time getting into reading fiction. Nonfiction has been easy, but I crave storylines and yet fiction simply hasn’t drawn me in. Even the wonderfully funny and tragic novel The Comedians by Graham Greene hasn’t succeeded in drawing me in. …

Hear of this new Indian movie? Water, the movie. A film by Shekhar Kapur: Thirty-five years in the future in a city of 20 Million, when the Water Wars have begun between those that have it and those that don’t, a young, impetuous renegade falls in love with the one girl he seemingly can’t have. Ah, yes, I dooooo want to see that. Water wars, man. Water wars!