February 2012
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Happy 50th Birthday to my all-time favorite writer, Chuck Palahniuk!
Semoga dia tetap sehat selalu, panjang umur dan terus menghasilkan banyak cerita menarik lain lagi.
“Marla tells me how in the wild you don’t see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren’t meant to get old. Marla lies down...
Pilihan.
Jika melihat ke belakang kita akan sadar bahwa apa yang menjadikan kita seperti sekarang ini dan mengalami apa yang terjadi sekarang hanya dimulai dari satu keputusan kecil. Keputusan yang terlalu kecil untuk merubah takdir hidup kita menjadi yang sekarang. Terlalu kecil dan sederhana bahkan.
Andai ada mesin waktu saya yang sekarang akan menasehati diri saya yang lalu untuk menghabiskan malam itu...
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Conspiracy (Adam Marcus, 2008)
This film is fuckin badass. No, this is shit. Utter shit. I thought I could get me some nice bloody stupid B-Film shit but all I could get is some Seagalesque shit.
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Beberapa hari ini saya seperti tak punya motivasi untuk menjalani hidup. Sepertinya hidup itu hanya berisi berbagai macam seri dari kepedihan dan hal-hal menyakitkan. Semua hal begitu menyebalkan dan bodoh. Tak ada yang menginspirasi, tak ada yang diapresiasi. Apa bagusnya hidup ini jika udara yang kita hirup hanya berisi penyesalan akan yang lalu dan yang nanti. Kemarin saya teringat...
January 2012
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Dante and Randal On Comfort Zone #jleb
Randal Graves: Oh what, what's with you, man? You haven't said anything for like 20 minutes. What the hell's your problem?
Dante Hicks: This life.
Randal Graves: This life?
Dante Hicks: Why do I have this life?
Randal Graves: Have some chips, you'll feel better.
Dante Hicks: I'm stuck in this pit, working for less than slave wages. Working on my day off, the goddamn steel shutters are closed, I deal with every backward ass fuck on the planet. I smell like shoe polish. My ex-girlfriend is catatonic after fucking a dead guy. And my present girlfriend has sucked 36 dicks.
Randal Graves: 37.
Dante Hicks: My life's in the shitter right now, and if you don't mind, I'd like to stew a bit.
Randal Graves: Aw, that's all bullshit, man. You know what the real problem here is ?
Dante Hicks: l was born ?
Randal Graves: You should shit or get off the pot.
Dante Hicks: l should shit or get off the pot.
Randal Graves: Yeah, shit or get off the pot.
Dante Hicks: What are you talking about ?
Randal Graves: I'm talking about this thing you have, this inability to improve your station in life.
Dante Hicks: Fuck you !
Randal Graves: it's true, man. You sit there and blame life for dealin' you a cruddy hand, never once accepting responsibility for the way your situation is.
Dante Hicks: What responsibility ?
Randal Graves: All right, if you hate this job and the people...and the fact that you have to come in on your day off, why don't you quit ?
Dante Hicks: Like it's that easy.
Randal Graves: it is. You just up and quit. There's other jobs. They pay better money. You're bound to be qualified for at least one of 'em. So what's stoppin' you ?
Dante Hicks: Leave me alone.
Randal Graves: Oh, you're comfortable, right? This is a life of convenience for you, and any attempt to change it...would shatter the pathetic microcosm you've fashioned for yourself.
Dante Hicks: Oh ! Like your life's any better.
Randal Graves: I'm satisfied with my situation for now. You don't hear me complaining. You, on the other hand, have been bitching all day.
Dante Hicks: Thank you. Why don't you go back to the video store ?
Randal Graves: it's the same thing with Veronica.
Dante Hicks: Leave her out of this !
Randal Graves: You date Veronica because it's convenient and she's low maintenance. But meanwhile, all you ever do is talk about Caitlin. You carry a torch for a girl you dated in high school. In high school, for God's sakes. You're 22.
Dante Hicks: Leave me alone !
Randal Graves: If you want Caitlin, then talk to Veronica and be with Caitlin. If you want Veronica, then be with Veronica. But don't pine for one and fuck the other. Man, if you weren't such a fucking coward.
Dante Hicks: If l wasn't such a fucking coward. It must be great to have this ability to simplify things the way you do.
Randal Graves: Am l right or what ?
Dante Hicks: You're wrong ! Things happened today. Things that probably ruined my chances with Caitlin.
Randal Graves: Oh, what, the dead guy ? She'll get over fuckin' a dead guy. Shit, my mom's been fuckin' a dead guy for 30 years. l call him "Dad."
Dante Hicks: Caitlin and l can't be together. It's impossible.
Randal Graves: Melodrama comin' from you seems about as natural as an oral bowel movement.
Dante Hicks: What do you want me to say ? "Yes, some of the things you're saying are true"? That's the way things are. They're not gonna change.
Randal Graves: Make 'em change.
Dante Hicks: l can't, all right. Jesus, will you leave me alone? I can't make changes in my life like that. lf l could, l would. But l don't have the ability to risk the comfortable situations...on the big money and the fabulous prizes !
Randal Graves: Who are you kidding ? You can so.
Dante Hicks: Jesus H. Christ ! l can't !
Randal Graves: So you're gonna be miserable 'cause you don't have the guts to face change ?
Dante Hicks: My mother told me once that when l was three years old, my potty lid was closed, and instead of me lifting it, I shit my pants.
Randal Graves: Lovely story.
Dante Hicks: The point is, I'm not the type of person...who'll disrupt things just so l can shit comfortably.
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“But sometimes things happen that no one hopes for. Events that cause everything...”
– Ryu Murakami, Audition
“Duit cekak aja kau mau kawin. Ngocok aja sana kau di rumah.”
– Overheard. (Ngakak diam-diam. Hahaha.)
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“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of...”
– Haruki Murakami - 1Q84
(via durianquotes)
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December 2011
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“What would be my, how should I call it, spontaneous attitude towards the...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via jluddy
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“All too often, when we love somebody, we don’t accept him or her as what...”
– Slavoj Zizek - The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006)
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“I was told that 85% of all fiction sells to older middle-age woman. 85%, my God!...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“I think folks carry on about heaven too much, like it’s some kind of all...”
– Reverend R. L. (Black Snake Moan, 2006)
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Home
Will you wake me when we’re almost halfway I don’t wanna take this trip alone Cause I’d never reach my home No, I’d never reach my home
Malam itu saya baru pulang dari Medan dan leyeh-leyeh mengistirahatkan badan di kasur setelah sebelumnya mematikan lampu, menyalakan rokok dan ipod, dan terdengarlah lagu dari Villagers yang berjudul Home. Di kamar yang gelap hanya...
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Film: October - November 2011
I only watched 6 films in November. Hectic month. Sucks.
1. Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973): 9/10
2. Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin - Wim Wenders, 1987): 9.8/10
3. Hidden ( Caché - Michael Haneke, 2005): 8.5/10
4. Certified Copy (Copie Conforme - Abbas Kiarostami, 2010): 8/10
5. The Wind Will Carry Us (Bād mā rā khāhad bord - Abbas Kiarostami, 1999): 8.5/10
6. North by...
Why It’s Easier To Write When You’re Sad →
“You guys, don’t worry so much about me! I’m not really a gay single guy who’s crying in his bed 24/7. I just play one on the Internet.” Well, sort of.
Haha perfect!
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Ada yang selalu cemburu pada perak-perak hujan pada cemara yang terlalu lelap dalam tiap perjumpaan antara awan dan ajalnya. Ada yang selalu tergugah pada silau lampu sehingga tersadar akan apa yang lari dan terlepas tanpa kenangan pernah mencatat namanya. Ada yang membisu di sudut ruangan meraba gerak cuaca yang melintas di lembab jendela menyiapkan seberkas kerinduan yang terlanjur mengguyurnya...
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Akhir-akhir ini saya entah kenapa sering kesulitan untuk bernafas. Dada sesak dan mual. Untuk pertama kalinya dada saya sesak bukan karena jatuh cinta tapi karena sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan kesehatan tubuh saya, entah apa. Bau-bau menyengat yang selalu memicunya; asap rokok dan segala jenis asap, ruang sempit yang sedikit udaranya, pasti akan membuat saya kesulitan bernafas. Asap rokok, ya...
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The 7 types of book lover. →
I’m The Dog-Earer, The Did-Not-Finish, and The Underliner. I don’t mind with The Book Thief. Love to be The Serendipity Screamer, sometimes act like The Self-Conscious Reader and The Reader-of-Things-You’ve-Never-Heard-Of.
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catatan desember 2011 #1
Jalanan telah jadi remang mengkafani sempuras kirana Desah angin masih menangisi kota-kota yang ditinggalkan Dan segala yang ditahan-tahan tetap ada di sana Pada kursi-kursi kosong berbau tembakau Juga cengkeh yang membekap namanya di udara November bagai sepetak lahan-lahan terasing Kusam dan tak terurus layaknya lidah kita Yang tak lagi beradu meski ada yang terucap. Kenangan tak pernah sadar...
Kapan hari itu waktu baca The Perks of Being of a Wallflower di sana tokoh utamanya, Charlie, hobi memberikan mix-tape ke orang-orang di sekitarnya. Saya sih beberapa kali memberikan mix-tape buat orang-orang tertentu dan tidak pernah ingat ada yang pernah membuatkan mix-tape untuk saya. Sampai saya membaca buku itu, dan teringat bahwa seseorang, dulu waktu SMA, pernah memberikan CD mix-tape yang...
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
“I just know that another kid has felt this. This one time when it’s peaceful outside, and you’re seeing things move, and you don’t want to, and everyone is asleep. And all the books you’ve read have been read by other people. And all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. And that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people.”
Buku ringan yang lebih manis...
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“She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don’t want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I’ll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. It almost feels like of the three things involved: Mary Elizabeth,...
November 2011
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“Too bad people didn’t fall in love at the same pace, at the same time, for the...”
– Eric Jerome Dickey (the novel Pleasure)
October 2011
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Film: September 2011
1. Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu, 2010) : 9.5/10
2. The Kids Are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko, 2010) : 8/10
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop (Banksy, 2010) : 8.5/10
4. 28 Weeks Later (Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, 2007) : 7/10
5. Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz, 2009) : 7.3/10
6. I Love You Phillip Morris (Glenn Ficarra, John Requa; 2009) : 8/10
7....
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“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
September 2011
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Haruki Murakami: Fuwa Fuwa (A short children's... →
fuckyeahharukimurakami:
I found this a while ago, someone had scanned the book so I typed it up… enjoy :)
Fuwa Fuwa Haruki Murakami (Translated by Alfred Birnbaum)
Of all the cats living in this world, one big old female is my favourite.
This cat, when she’s napping in the sun on the engawa deck-floor on a really…
Maybe it was because I had no brothers or sisters, but often when I...
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Film: August 2011
1. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 1996): 7.8/10
2. The Science of Sleep (La science des rêves - Michel Gondry, 2006): 7.8/10
3. Stranger than Fiction (Marc Forster, 2006): 8/10
4. Y tu mama tambien (Alfonso Cuarón, 2001): 8/10
5. I Heart Huckabees (David O. Russell, 2004) : 7.8
6. Ghost World (Terry Zwigoff, 2001): 8.2/10
7. You, The Living (Du Levande - Roy...
Rindumu dan Rinduku
“Rinduku padamu sebesar banyaknya rindumu yang dibagi dengan nol. Bagai semesta yang tak bertepi dikali dua.” Maaf aku tak mengerti dengan pengandaianmu. Jika maksudmu rindumu adalah tak terbatas maka aku lebih tak paham lagi. Aku mungkin memang tak pernah bisa mengerti dirimu yang berlebihan selalu. Baris-baris sajak yang kau kirim hanya membuatku makin tak percaya denganmu. ...