strange addiction

[Cathulhu]

It's not my fault. First, it was the cliffhanger last season of "Sanctuary", where the male lead was hallucinating his sick little head off and it ended in a Bollywood dance number, with the guy dancing for--I'm not making this up--the avatar of a giant spider. Then, on my all-time favorite web comedy, The Guild, this happened.

http://www.watchtheguild.com/the-guild/ ... o-game-on/

Now I'm totally hooked on Bollywood dance numbers. Oh, the horror!

[littleroundman]

Think of it as being like rubbernecking drivers and freeway accidents.

EVERYONE knows not to do it and that it can even be downright dangerous to do so, but some strange, primordial urge forces us to turn our heads and watch, even as we shudder in horror.

[Cathulhu]

I started on kung fu movies when still a teen, but resisted Bollywood until the dance numbers got to me. Could do without the falsetto singing, though. But I consider parody one of the finest forms of humor, and Felicia Day and company certainly understand parody.

In watching The Guild, I also feel a moral certainty that if I'd had a son, he would have been exactly like Bladezz. And doubtless driven me mad! Except any son of mine would likely have been called Conan. It's a family name in my husband's family, and I own a first edition of Red Nails.

[Cathulhu]

I've read them. Moorcock is the most interesting, but I'll take my damascus steel katana over any black blade I've ever seen.

[Green Lantern]

So, you finally discovered Bollywood movies eh? Kind of a late comer, but better late than never.

For the record, a lot of the female dancers and Bollywood stars are smokin' ghost chili hot.

I totally agree---there is something strangely compelling about this.

My son's high school is near an Intel plant, so most of his friends are Indians. He's getting into Bollywood, too.