Eclipse 1962: 憎いあンちくしょう

This is absolutely fantastic! It’s so 60s. But… way ahead of the curve. I can’t believe this was made in 1962.

And funny.

Again I’m wondering what lenses they were using in Japan at the time… at the edges, people look really compressed.

I love this movie. I mean, the look of this movie. Sixty years later, it looks so fresh and vibrant and young.

But I have no idea what this movie’s supposed to be about. It’s kinda vague? Or, rather, the opposite? I mean, the plot has been kinda trivial so far, at least.

But fun.

The non-linearness of the lens they’re using makes every panning shot into a slightly psychedelic scene.

Oh deer — it’s been over a month since I last watched a movie? Oh, yeah, I was planning for a trip and then that didn’t happen… And I watched some TV series. Our Flag Means Death? That was fun. And… er… Servant? I watched a season of Servant. I expected more twists. The twist there was that there weren’t more twists. And I watched Get Back — if only they could have shown more versions of the Get Back song! That would have been fun? But it was pretty good. Oh! Yeah! I watched the second season of Raised By Wolves. That was kinda insane, wasn’t it? I love the actor playing Mother Kill-Bot.

Anyway, it’s wonderful watching a movie again.

This is a very mild satire of celebrity culture. But it’s quite amusing, and so stylish.

But… it’s a lot? There’s some brilliant scenes here, but it’s hard to be aboard with the entire thing.

It’s a rom com at heart, but it’s not that rom?

Kitten!

I Hate But Love. Koreyoshi Kurahara. 1962.

This blog post is part of the Eclipse series.

Rock Show

Oh my Emacs. It was so good to be back at a rock show. I think it’s my first since last autumn? But now the pandemic is totally over so cough cough

It was Nadja, and they were great. I even got the t-shirt. Which is a confusing t-shirt.

Yay.

On the other hand, I was supposed to be at the Big Ears festival this weekend so *sigh*.

Further* Legal Developments

Last week, I got a letter from the post dept asking me to declare a package… that had arrived from India. I couldn’t remember ordering anything from India, so I answered “er what” and they sent me this snapshot of the package back:

Such clarity. But I managed to make out “On India Government Service”, and then it dawned on me: This must be that thing where I’m being sued in India again!

As you probably won’t remember (I barely remembered it myself), in 2011 I got several kilos worth of legal documents from India. I, along with Yahoo and Google, was being sued because of statements made by a person in India about another person in India, but it was unclear why or what they wanted me to do.

A later letter clarified things slightly, and then finally I somehow figured out what this was all about:

If I understand them correctly, I’m now party in a counter-suit.

Here’s my understanding of this brain teaser.

Originally, Sanjay sued Milap for libel because Milap said that Sanjay has stolen his land, corrupted the government and tried to have him and his family killed.

Sanjay apparently won this case, which has been going in the Indian courts since the early nineties. I was a party here because Milap had sent an email to a list about this stuff, stored on Gmane.

Now Milap is counter-suing Sanjay.

I’m not quite sure what the suit is actually about, because the papers here deal mostly with trying to shift the case from the Calcutta high court to another high court. Because Milap is afraid that he’ll be killed if he shows his face in Calcutta.

ALLEGEDLY! I know nothing.

(And my part in all of this is that I used to run the Gmane mailing list archive, which stored a copy of the email where Milap had told his tale of woe.)

So I wrote back to the postal service and explained some of this and asked “does it look like it’s paperwork?” (because these days the postal people refuse to actually have a peek inside packages to see what’s what). And they answered “We’re sending it on”, which I interpreted as “yes”, and today I finally remembered to collect it at the post office:

The packaging is made from cotton! That’s very nice and all… But I put in on the balcony in case it’s got, like, anthrax, or even worse: Glitter. You never know!

Hm, I should probably censor some addresses; not because it’s secret but you know.

It certainly feels like five kilos of paper…

Looks like it, too. OK, time to make an incision…

It’s paper!

Uh-oh. It’s from the Sheriff of Calcutta!

OK, it’s a writ stating that I have to appear at the court now?

From the High Court of Calcutta. So Milap wasn’t successful in moving the trial away from Calcutta, so I guess he’s gonna get killed? (That was his fears, apparently.) ALLEGEDLY!

Yup.

Who’s my co-defendants this time? Google’s still on board…

Lycos…

Yahoo…

And there’s little ol’ me!

I don’t even know whether this is the suit or the countersuit. Hm… oh, yeah! This is the suit. Sanjay is suing Milap and the rest of us…

But I guess my reaction to all of this is the same as always: I’m never, ever going to India.

But I guess I should find out if Norway has an extradition treaty with India, eh?

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* I don’t know the iteration.