Googling Yourself
My writer friends google themselves often, mostly to make sure that they are not getting ripped off by companies using their work for commercial gain, or doing unauthorized productions of their plays, and finally to find out which unlikely places they may have turned up in.
Since I am procrastinating instead of editing our documentary, I googled myself and came across the following:
Bikiinimõrvar jääb pikaks ajaks trellide taha
It is a news headline, and the language is Estonian, which took me a while to figure out. It’s a story about Charles Sobhraj, and somewhere in the end it mentions a film by me, I think:
Mees on jõudnud ka filmilinale, sest tema elulugu pakub ainest huvitavale käsikirjale: kümned mõrvad, noored ja imekaunid naised ning julged ja edukad põgenemised maailma eri vanglatest. Nii on India lavastaja Shashwati Talukdar näiteks teinud sarimõrvarist juba kaks filmi.
I don’t know what it means, maybe it just says, “and some idiot Indian filmmaker thinks Sobhraj makes good fodder for films.” I have no way of telling, but it sounds cool to know that I,”näiteks teinud sarimõrvarist juba kaks filmi.”
Update: Language Hat actually owns an Estonian dictionary, and here is what he has to say:
I’m afraid I don’t know Estonian, but I have a small dictionary, which
sheds a bit of light:Nii [so] on [?] India lavastaja [producer] Shashwati Talukdar näiteks
[for example] teinud [second? another?] sarimõrvarist [serial
killer??] juba [already, yet] kaks [two] filmi [film(s)].Sari is ’series’ and mõrvar is ‘murderer,’ so I don’t know what else
sarimõrvarist might mean. Make of it what you will!
November 10th, 2006 at 2:02 am
Somehow google pointed to this site while i was searching for the soviet-age estonian commercials that supposedly are used in the Borat film.
I’ll translate some things:
Title: “Bikini murderer goes behind bars for a long time”
Mees on jõudnud ka filmilinale, sest tema elulugu pakub ainest huvitavale käsikirjale: kümned mõrvad, noored ja imekaunid naised ning julged ja edukad põgenemised maailma eri vanglatest. Nii on India lavastaja Shashwati Talukdar näiteks teinud sarimõrvarist juba kaks filmi.
The man has already made it to movie screens, because his lifestory has indegrients for a interesting screenplay(?): tens of murders, young and beautiful women, and courageos and succesful escapes from different prisons in the world. For example Indian playwright/director(?) Shashwati Talukdar, has made already two movies about the serial killer.
November 10th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
Thanks Kraak! And I’ll keep an eye out for those commercials in the Borat movie.