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//October 26, 2010//
The truth is, I had another crush (other than Sofia Coppola and Hayley Williams). Dianna Agron is super charming. She is a head cheerleader, she’s so damn freaking smart, she plays with plastic camera, she loves Alice, and she wants to be called Charlie. How cool is that. And yeah, those eyes, those eyes… :)
//September 29, 2010//
While other swears themselves to become Zooey worshipers, I’d like some head banging included. Please welcome Hayley and her 1 million fans out there. I’m just becoming main stream, once again.
//June 04, 2010//
Starting today, I decided to make some lists. A ten number of everything I like, the list will be vary and completely random. But I love to be random, so why bother?
1. Blink 182
Aah, all time favorite. No wonder it’s my number one. Falling in love hearing the Mark, Tom and Travis Show and didn’t exactly remember it already flew 10 years.
2. The Beatles
Who does not love the Beatles? Alien from Saturn maybe. The reason, they’re legend, they’re genius. When everybody just happen to write lyrics about love, they sang hatred and sorrow with menya-menye lyrics. but The Beatles simply said “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and it is just it’a all about. It’s like “Aaaah ~, damn sweet…”
3. Sheila on 7
When people called it guilty pleasure, I called it great pleasure. I mean, the song is just seducing and I use to play their song over and over again without getting bored.
4. Green Day
Aah, another long time best friend. The lyrics just insanely a smart one. This band really can make a song.
5. Coldplay
Chris Martin <3. This is the example of another genius on post modern music. A plus about Coldplay is they happen to have a wonderful music video.
6. L’Arc~en~Ciel
My junior high school crush. A band from Japan in the glory era of early 2000s, whose music inspired many band (including music and performance, like J-Rocks). Though I never really know the meaning behind all those song, I use to love their melody and Hyde’s (the vocalist) vocal range.
7. Arctic Monkeys
After Blink 182 breaks up and Green Day long hiatus, here comes Arctic Monkeys! And I just love the tunes.
8. Spice Girls
An icon of girl power from British. I remember singing along my television set watching their music video on MTV. It is a viva forever for Spice Girls.
9. Save Perris
Ska is so hip on the 2000s, so I treasure this lovely band with their red headed vocalist in heart.
10. SNSD
:) Recently loving the catchy tunes, despite all things about plastic surgery or the anti-fans website. Yeaaa, So Nyuh Shi Dae!
11 and others: Mocca, Ash, Tokyo Jihen, The All American Rejects, Weezer, etc.
/December 23, 2009//
Semua orang pasti punya tokoh favorit, idola nama kerennya. Ada yang mengidolakan atlet, artis, politikus, Albert Einsten, Mother Theresa, Michael Jackson, dan banyak lagi. Banyak juga yang pasti mengidolakan tokoh komik. Gue suka sekali baca komik, bahkan sampai sekarang. Tapi mungkin bacaan kesukaan gue masih berasal dari para pengarang komik zaman lama macam Naoki Urusawa, Eiichiro Oda, Akira Toriyama, CLAMP dll. Di setiap komik, gue pasti punya tokoh kesukaan, macam Hanamichi dari Slam Dunk, Nobita dari Doraemon, Sawamura-nya Harlem Beat, Luffy dan Zoro dari One Piece, dll. Kali ini, gue mau memperkenalkan salah seorang tokoh idola gue, namanya Endoh Kenji dari serial 20th Century Boys.
Buat para pembaca 20th Century Boys, pasti udah taulah, ya. Soalnya dia adalah tokoh utama di seri ini. Dia adalah seorang pahlawan tanpa tanding. Dia memegang gitar layaknya senapan mesin, dan berhasil menyelamatkan dunia. Endoh Kenji adalah idola gue.
Kenapa? Entah. Di awal cerita, Kenji digambarkan sebagai anak laki-laki biasa yang menggemari music rock tahun 70-an macam Rolling Stone, T-Rex, CCR, dll. Kenji punya segudang imajinasi dan banyak mimpi setinggi langit, yang pada akhirnya tidak bisa diwujudkannya. Kenji bercita-cita jadi musikus terkenal, punya band dan tampil di TV. Tapi pada akhirnya, ia berhenti dari band dan membuka MiniMart. Dia terus gagal dan lari dari masalah. Dia orang biasa yang harus tunduk pada tuntutan zaman dan lilitan hutang. Seiring bergulirnya cerita, Kenji ‘diharuskan’ menyelamatkan bumi, dia pun bangkit dan tidak ada lagi yang mampu menandinginya. Dia selalu mengorbankan dirinya sendiri buat keselamatan banyak orang-orang yang bahkan sebenernya rela mati demi dia. Yang hebat dari Kenji adalah entah kenapa, dia mampu menarik banyak orang. Dia mampu membuat banyak orang percaya padanya. Hanya dengan kepercayaannya, dia mampu menggerakkan banyak orang dan hanya dengan sebuah lagu, ia membuat orang-orang kembali berharap.
Kenji mungkin memang orang biasa, tapi Naoki Urusawa (pengarang komik ini) bisa saja membuat tokoh ‘sekuat’ ini (Kenji gk punya kekuatan aneh2 macam bisa melar atau punya senjata laser, dia diceritakan sebagai ‘manusia biasa’). Luar biasa, luar biasa. Hal inilah yang membuat gue suka sekali sama Kenji, ada satu kalimat yang gue inget, “Orang yang akan bertahan hidup adalah orang yang punya keinginan untuk bertahan hidup.”. Kalau ada yang sempat, coba saja baca komiknya, pasti kalian gk cuma jatuh cinta sama jalan ceritanya yang luar biasa tapi juga suka sama penokohan setiap karakternya yang gk biasa.
Hmm, tahun 2010 sudah di depan mata. Kalau boleh mempunyai harapan, gue pengen seperti Endoh Kenji! :D
Trivia: Dalam serial ini, Kenji membuat sebuah lagu, yang diberi judul Bob Lennon (singkatan dari Bob Dylan dan John Lennon). Di Jepang, rekaman lagu ini dijadikan bonus untuk setiap pembelian komiknya. Lirik aslinya ditulis dalam bahasa Jepang, ini lirik bahasa inggris-nya:
The sun goes down, and I can smell
curry cookin’, somewhere.
How long will we have to walk
before we get home?
Will the croquettes from my favorite shop
still taste the same,
waiting for me?Night comes down upon the earth,
and I’m hurryin’ home.They say
the ogres will be laughing next year.
And I say
let ’em laugh all they like.
I’ll keep talkin’ about
five or ten years in the future.
And fifty years later, If I’m still with you.Night comes down upon the earth,
and I’m hurryin’ home.Well the rain may fall
and the storms may come
And the spears may fall.
Let’s all go home.
They can’t stop us.
Nobody has the right to stop usNight comes down upon the earth,
and I’m hurryin’ home.
Night around the world,
the entire world is hurrying home.
And I pray that these days will
continue for you,
forever and ever.
//December 19, 2009//
Neil Gaiman is an amazing writer. He is genius! His writing is like a river from a waterfall, it is rich and full of passion.
Neil Gaiman is the man who responsible of the amazing Stardust, Coraline, Mirror Mask, and many beautiful works (now you know who I’m talking about, right?) . More of his writing can be found on here. I want to share this lovely essay he wrote for the game SIMCITY. I love the essay because it is deep and full of imagination. I really do hope I’ll write like this someday (finger crossed).
SIMCITY
By Neil Gaiman
Cities are not people. But, like people, cities have their own personalities: in some cases one city has many different personalities — there are a dozen Londons, a crowd of different New Yorks.
A city is a collection of lives and buildings, and it has identity and personality. Cities exist in location, and in time.
There are good cities — the ones that welcome you, that seem to care about you, that seem pleased you’re in them. There are indifferent cities — the ones that honestly don’t care if you’re there or not; cities with their own agendas, the ones that ignore people. There are cities gone bad, and there are places in otherwise healthy cities as rotten and maggoty as windfall apples. There are even cities that seem lost — some, lacking a centre, feel like they would be happier being elsewhere, somewhere smaller, somewhere easier to understand.
Some cities spread, like cancers or B-movie slime monsters, devouring all in their way, absorbing towns and villages, swallowing boroughs and hamlets, transmuting into boundless conurbations. Other cities shrink — once prosperous areas empty and fail: buildings empty, windows are boarded up, people leave, and sometimes they cannot even tell you why.
Occasionally I idle time away by wondering what cities would be like, were they people. Manhattan is, in my head, fast-talking, untrusting, well-dressed but unshaven. London is huge and confused. Paris is elegant and attractive, older than she looks. San Francisco is crazy, but harmless, and very friendly.
It’s a foolish game: cities aren’t people.
Cities exist in location, and they exist in time. Cities accumulate their personalities as time goes by. Manhattan remembers when it was unfashionable farmland. Athens remembers the days when there were those who considered themselves Athenians. There are cities that remember being villages. Other cities — currently bland, devoid of personality — are prepared to wait until they have history. Few cities are proud: they know that it’s all too often a happy accident, a mere geographical fluke that they exist at all — a wide harbour, a mountain pass, the confluence of two rivers.
At present, cities stay where they are.
For now cities sleep.
But there are rumblings. Things change. And what if, tomorrow, cities woke, and went walking? If Tokyo engulfed your town? If Vienna came striding over the hill toward you? If the city you inhabit today just upped and left, and you woke tomorrow wrapped in a thin blanket on an empty plain, where Detroit once stood, or Sydney, or Moscow?
Don’t ever take a city for granted.
After all, it is bigger than you are; it is older; and it has learned how to wait…
Now you know why I love Neil Gaiman.
