হিমাদ্রি চ্যাটার্জী Himadri Chatterjee 🎗️
@hairygit
Retired operational research analyst. Loves Shakespeare, Verdi, Ibsen, Sherlock Holmes stories.
This book is on a subject very close to my heart, and I can only hope my love of these plays come through. As well as my thoughts on them, of course. You may order it from contubernalesbooks.com/essays-on-ibsen , or from amzn.eu/d/bX9nj2t .
Alfred Hitchcock was fine with individual sequences, but, a handful of exceptions apart, his pacing over long stretches was all over the place.
What’s an unpopular opinion you believe is genuinely true?
The Iranian champion wrestler Navid Afkari would have turned 32 two days ago. He was murdered (“executed”) in 2020 by the Islamic Regime. He managed to send one final message out from prison “I'm not only addressing Iranians. I'm addressing any person out there who believes in…
I particularly love Strindberg's mad, staring eyes.
Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it. —August Strindberg
Saw Sean Bean play Romeo in Royal Shakespeare Theatre back in 1986. “But soft! What light through yon bastarding window breaks?” Sean Bean - Yorkshireman - Bastard Compilation. youtu.be/tE8d-uGmIWk?si… via @YouTube
It’s good that universities have abandoned weird dead languages and now communicate in language everyone can understand
A @uniofwarwick spokesperson comments on the Beyond rebrand: “We have leveraged our academic expertise as part of the Vogue media partnership as well as our professional services marketing and communications work” #Beyond #branding timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick-m…
I don't care what they have to say, It makes no difference anyway, Whatever it is, I'm against it, And I've been yelling since I first commenced it, I'm against it. #MarxBrothers #Horsefeathers youtu.be/3cKUppvjJuw?si…
I really like it that immediately after playing Peter Cushing’s wife in “The Mummy”, Yvonne Furneaux (who really was a beautiful lady) flew off to Rome to play Marcello Mastroiani’s fiancée in “La Dolce Vita”. All part of a day’s job, I guess!
No particular feeling for either of Liszt’s piano concertos, but the Totentanz is great fun!
Football as a treatment for depression? I support Scotland, for heaven’s sake!
FOOTBALL ON THE NHS 🤨⁉️ Live football is to be prescribed 𝙁𝙍𝙀𝙀 on the NHS as a treatment for depression… Doctors will direct patients to watch matches in the hope it boosts their mental health 🧠 The first team that people can get a prescription to see will be National…
The Big Four? Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel & Hardy, Marx Brothers.
what’s ’the big 4’
Wodehouse, for me, is the greatest English novelist of C20. I can’t think of anyone who wrote more perfect prose; structured novels so brilliantly; created so distinctive a fictional world, & so vivid a gallery of characters; & who told us not to take ourselves so damn seriously.
Like Dürer almost 400 years before him, van Gogh found single blades of grass and weeds to be worthy of our full attention ~ here’s Dürer's Large Piece of Turf (1503) and Van Gogh’s Patch of Grass (1887)
Definitely bookmarking this thread.
Ongoing thread of literary criticism books. 1/ Practical Criticism (1929) by I. A. Richards Richards analyzes Cambridge students' responses to poems to discover the most common barriers to understanding and evaluating poetry.
I've started getting ads for mature dating sites again. Now, if these targeting algorithms were to know me personally, they'd know I'd fit in better with *immature* dating sites. Wahey!