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Femmeconne was awesome, but made me sick as a dog (I had to get Cam to pick me up early) I mean to write it up later, but anyone who was there and said "Can you email me/post about *blah*" etc please remind me or I'll forget by the time I am well. I blame Felix the adorable lurgy carrying baby.
Just watched the Bollywood film "Om Shanti Om". It's a comedy/romance/drama set in Bollywood (with lots of melodrama about past lives and such), I get the feeling I was missing the context for a lot of the references (even just minor things like the significance of names) but it was still a lot of fun. The trailer has an amusing scene: the main character is doing a tragic love story about a deaf blind amputee, and decides what it really needs is this dance number "The Pain of Disco"(*) (nb the rest of the film contains much less in the way of topless men and blondes in spandex) I also really liked the credits: as in a lot of movies about the film industry, the cast comes out on a red carpet as if attending the film within the film and has the actors real names come up underneath..and then the (afaict entire) crew does this as well. The choreographers in particular clearly enjoyed having chance to dance onscreen :)
things I remember I said I would do
-femmeconne synopsis for people who didn't go and are curious as to what it's like
-email aboriginal womens meeting thing stuff to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emma_in_oz. Emma: I seem to have lost your email address! Can you email me so I can email you?
-post about50_bookspoc to femmeconne list, plus revised version of page about race panel
-post fanvid recs to femmeconne
-literally post fanvids tolilysea :)
-possibly post about times I've screwed up wrt race since actively trying to engage with antiracism (someone asked me but I was too fuzzy to think of any good examples, and I think it is something people might find useful, since it can feel like you're the only idiot or you don't know what sorts of mistakes to look out for)
-wire crochet link
(*)Lyrics sample:
The feeling in my dreams, stung so badly
So I roam in London, Paris, New York, Alai, San Francisco
In my heart is the pain of disco
Just watched the Bollywood film "Om Shanti Om". It's a comedy/romance/drama set in Bollywood (with lots of melodrama about past lives and such), I get the feeling I was missing the context for a lot of the references (even just minor things like the significance of names) but it was still a lot of fun. The trailer has an amusing scene: the main character is doing a tragic love story about a deaf blind amputee, and decides what it really needs is this dance number "The Pain of Disco"(*) (nb the rest of the film contains much less in the way of topless men and blondes in spandex) I also really liked the credits: as in a lot of movies about the film industry, the cast comes out on a red carpet as if attending the film within the film and has the actors real names come up underneath..and then the (afaict entire) crew does this as well. The choreographers in particular clearly enjoyed having chance to dance onscreen :)
things I remember I said I would do
-femmeconne synopsis for people who didn't go and are curious as to what it's like
-email aboriginal womens meeting thing stuff to
emma_in_oz. Emma: I seem to have lost your email address! Can you email me so I can email you?-post about
50_bookspoc to femmeconne list, plus revised version of page about race panel-post fanvid recs to femmeconne
-literally post fanvids to
lilysea :)-possibly post about times I've screwed up wrt race since actively trying to engage with antiracism (someone asked me but I was too fuzzy to think of any good examples, and I think it is something people might find useful, since it can feel like you're the only idiot or you don't know what sorts of mistakes to look out for)
-wire crochet link
(*)Lyrics sample:
The feeling in my dreams, stung so badly
So I roam in London, Paris, New York, Alai, San Francisco
In my heart is the pain of disco