Shakedown

The MTV Shakedown dance competition is visiting Turkey at the moment. I caught some of it on TV, and noticed a fair number of capoeristas amongst the competitors!

Kandahar

I was looking forward to a nice beer-drinking, film-viewing evening, since Nalan decided to go to our local shopping centre and agreed to bring me back some beer and change the film we had from the DVD/VCD place (I had to clean the kitchen and bathroom floors in exchange, which struck me as a fair bargain).

It thus came as a disappointment that she brought back Kandahar on the recommendation of the guy in the shop (which is odd, considering that when I was there the other day, he recommended Pirates of the Carribean - do I really look that much less intellectual than my wife?).

I saw this film on TV when I was in England a couple of weeks ago, and it drove me nuts. On the positive side, it's about a subject which for some reason I feel a strong interest in (the condition of women in Afghanistan). On the negative side, it has about as much plot as the weather forecast or a Jean-Luc Godard film. This means Nalan is in the next room watching the film with interest (since I recommended it as a documentary, and she doesn't know much about Afghanistan) and I'm here typing this.

Oh well, at least she got the beer.

( What I wrote about Kandahar for imdb.com )