A movie, a goat and the death of an umbrella…

Jun 3rd, 2009 by Joshua Neiderer in Dharamshala

Monday, Tristan, Adam and I made the rickety rickshaw ride from Dharamkot down to McLeod to buy some warm clothes, and ended up catching a movie.

We each payed Rp.100 to watch a pirated version of the new “Star Trek” movie.

A quarter of the movie was cropped off and occasionally a Russian subtitle flashed across the bottom, linking to the bootleg online. The title screen read “tar tre”

The theater itself was a series of office chairs situated on metal crates. The walls were lined with blue fabric and the screen was illuminated by a projector which read “please replace bulb.”

Despite this, I nearly forgot we were in a theater in India. It wasn’t until the lights went on and I looked down to see a metal framework through a torn burlap sack that I remembered where I was.

This interlude was especially welcome because it came on the heals of my first serious bout with homesickness.

On my way to use the internet I found a child wrestling with his goat. The goat won and escaped up the street. The child, ran the opposite direction crying while the local men laughed.

What an odd place.

For you pleasure, here’s the last known picture of my umbrella alive. It succumbed to the pressures of being used as a walking stick for a week, falling to pieces.

power

Tristan took the photo, go to his blog for more.

1 Comment

  • you look ridiculous.

    tell tristan i hope his amoebas go away. i would tell him myself, but i don’t know enough computer to leave a comment on his blog without making a wordpress account.

    also, ‘rupees’ has always sounded like a fictional video game currency. tell him i said that too. be sure to start off by saying “marlow said something funny online, would you like to hear it?”

    i’m hoping that the laughter that would soon ensue would be powerful enough to expel his amoebas.

    your welcome in advance.

    -marlow