Argo knots

Reading from yesterday first – this excellent article on the NYT film site which deals with the cult of the Big Lebowski, one of Putu’s favourite movies, specially the musical bits. Best song in the movie – Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Looking out my back door – the bit where they croon ‘Dude, dude, dude’ is, well, nice.
Also right up there is this Woody Allen article from the Guardian, and this profile of Chuck Fight Club Palahniuk from the Independent, which Putu would like to dedicate to the bewildered MusicWorld shopgirl who listened to Putu explain the rules of Fight Club as Putu searched in vain for the VCD.
Putu spent a most enjoyable day watching various movies today, the most memorable of which were Moulin Rouge – with which Putu’s only problem is that Putu thought absinthe was blue, and hence Kylie Minogue should have been the Blue Fairy – and Ray Harryhausen special effects spectacular Jason and the Argonauts, in which Putu greatly enjoyed both the flabbiness/emaciation (is that a word?) of the crew members – imagine how washboard-abbedly beefy they would have been today – and the jerky moving monsters, especially the Children of the Hydra’s Teeth. The image says it all.

Putu has also become a lifelong fan of Nancy Kovack, who stars as Medea in this film, and is all thrilled to discover that she also happens to be Zubin Mehta's partner.