January 2011
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Ous Mal - Nuojuva Halava (2010)
The record’s simplicity and motion will prompt the hair-yanking frustration of mixing novices everywhere. And to the average listener, the eleven-track LP will not fail to create a personal and other-worldly atmosphere that displays maturity and wisdom. - Brent Andrew Dare (The Silent Ballet)
Ini album debut luar biasa dari musisi ambient dari Helsinki yang baru berumur 22-tahun (22...
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“I’m the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she’s the sea. The sky...”
– - Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
Always sent a shiver down my spine when I read this line. Beyond beautiful.
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Ma nuit chez Maud (1969)
Jean-Louis: If I'm happy with you, it's because we'll never meet again.
Maud: Now I've heard everything!
Jean-Louis: The thought of the future needn't depress us, since we have none.
Maud: Yes, but surely we'll meet again sometime?
Jean-Louis: Maybe not... or very rarely.
Maud: Is that a premonition?
Jean-Louis: Just a logical deduction: You're leaving.
Maud: Not right away.
Jean-Louis: And I'm going to be very busy.
Maud: Business or love affairs?
Jean-Louis: Love affairs, of course.
Maud: So it's true.
Jean-Louis: I love teasing you. Anyway, you'll be the last to know.
Maud: So there's something to know.
Jean-Louis: If it makes you happy.
(You'll be the last to know)
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Manusia Es - Haruki Murakami →
citralith:
AKU menikahi Manusia Es.
Pertama bertemu dengannya di sebuah hotel di ski resort, tempat paling sempurna untuk menemukan Manusia Es, memang. Lobi hotel begitu riuh dengan anak muda, tapi Manusia Es duduk sendiri di kursi sudut yang letaknya paling jauh dari perapian, diam membaca buku…
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“Cinta itu indah, Minke, juga kebinasaan yang mungkin membuntutinya. Orang harus...”
– Jean Marais (Pramoedya, Bumi Manusia)
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Kisah Hujan di Jalan Ibrahim Singadilaga
Apa yang dikisahkan hujan kali ini, kala segala desah pepohonan bertukar rasa dengan tiang-tiang malam yang merajuk begitu mesra, sedikit kesunyian aku beli dengan mahalnya kali ini hanya untuk sekedar memahami seorang kawan lama yang tertinggal karena gelombang angin berdecak iri, tentang kita, ya, angin memendam dendam pada kita, sayang
dan hujan mengisahkan dongeng klise tentang...
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“Beragam manusia datang kepadaku untuk bercerita, berlalu di atasku dengan...”
– Haruki Murakami (Hear the Wind Sing)
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Harold and Maude (1971)
Sutradara:Hal Ashby Penulis naskah: Colin Higgins Sinematografer: John Alonzo Pemeran: Ruth Gordon, Bud Cort, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner Musik: Cat Stevens
Harold adalah remaja labil mungkin berumur 20 tahunan yang hobi melakukan aksi bunuh diri untuk menarik perhatian ibunya seorang sosialita yang tak peduli dengannya. Maude adalah nenek nyentrik yang hobi mencuri mobil yang...
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The Warriors (1979)
Sutradara: Walter Hill
Produser: Lawrence Gordon
Naskah: Sol Yurick (novel), David Shaber, Walter Hill (screenplay)
Pemeran: Michael Beck, James Remar, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, David Patrick Kelly
Musik: Barry De Vorzon, Joe Walsh
Plotnya: sembilan perwakilan dari seluruh geng di New York berkumpul di sebuah taman di Bronx di tengah malam yang dimotori oleh Cyrus presiden dari geng...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via justanothermugglegirl)
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KAWAI: As I see it, it’s ridiculous to think that two people who fall in love and get married are then going to live happily ever after. People get depressed after they get married because they marry on that assumption. My belief is that you get married to suffer—to dig a well. It isn’t any fun to dig a well. So, sometimes I wonder if people should bother.
MURAKAMI: That’s an important perspective.
KAWAI: That’s right. If you’re going to complain about being miserable and make others miserable as well, then one option is to get divorced.
MURAKAMI: Some people get married and divorced over and over, three or four times.
KAWAI: Generally speaking, people like that balk at digging a well. They find it painful, so instead of digging they keep looking for new people. But usually they end up with the same sort of person.
MURAKAMI: I’ve heard of people who divorce and marry someone else, but then end up remarrying the first person.
KAWAI: That’s right, they’re just repeating the same pattern over and over. In the old days, marriage was just two people cooperating. If they did that until they died, then it was considered to have been a good marriage. These days, people want to understand one another, not simply work together. But if you want to understand one another, you have to dig awell.
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MURAKAMI: What really strikes me about American couples is that as long as they stay together, they’re really intimate and inseparable. Some of them hold hands wherever they go. But when they break up, it’s all over, just like that. You almost never see couples who stay together even though they don’t love each other, for the children’s sake or whatever, as in Japan.
KAWAI: Also, I think many American couples have trouble believing in the reality of their relationship.
MURAKAMI What do you mean?
KAWAI: They feel compelled to fawn over each other because they always have to be making sure they’re really in love. Otherwise they feel very insecure. And if they fail to confirm their love, then they break up, just like that. In Japan, to put it in a favorable light, the husband and wife somehow sympathize with one another even without needing to reassure one another. I happen to think that’s a more interesting kind of marriage.
MURAKAMI: Because there are more facets to the relationship?
KAWAI: That’s right. In the West, there’s always this premise of romantic love. Romantic love doesn’t last very long. If you want to sustain romantic love for any length of time, you can’t have sexual relations. In my view, it’s impossible to sustain romantic love for a long period of time while engaging in sexual relations. So if you want to maintain the marital relationship, you have to be willing to move it to a different dimension.
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KAWAI: In the final analysis, it’s a matter of how you yourself want to live. It may be that only a minority of people are capable of investing a great deal in marriage, I personally think it’s a terrifically interesting way to live. In fact, I can’t think of anything more interesting. I also think that for us Japanese, marriage can offer a pathway to understanding religion.
MURAKAMI: I feel that’s something I have to wrestle with myself.
KAWAI: Really? It seems to me that in marriage people realize there’s no perfect answer, and that there are things and emotions that are beyond their control, and in that sense the marital relationship can open the door to religious feeling. Of course, it’s not the only way.
MURAKAMI: If you enjoy researching old documents, why not, right?
KAWAI: Except that the man might get all his pleasure from examining old documents, while his wife seeks a meaningful marital relationship. If you’re not careful, the results maybe be tragic. If, on the other hand, the wife lays aside her views on marriage and pours all her energy into raising the kids, or making pickles or whatever, then it’s possible for things to go along more or less on an even keel. In other words, there are any numbers of possible variations, and I don’t think it’s possible anymore to say which is the best. But I do think it’s important for people to have a clearheaded awareness of what they’re doing. We also have to think of others. If the husband is studying documents while the wife is getting her pleasure from taking care of the kids, then, as I said, the situation is likely to be stable. But if the wife seeks a meaningful relationship with her husband, then what he’s doing is causing her tremendous harm. My view is, you have to think about who might be hurt by what you’re doing. Call me westernized if you will, but for me, it’s a question of individual responsibility.
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KAWAI: I find that really interesting—for example, the way someone is branded “antisocial” if they miss a group activity. Individual freedom is curtailed. Those who stick with the group in everything are considered fine upstanding people, while those who try to act individually are heathen. In the West, though, people commit themselves as individuals. They come when they want to, and if they don’t, that’s OK.
MURAKAMI: Everyone who volunteers time has different constraints.Some are able to volunteer three
times a week, while others can only volunteer once a week. In Japan, you always find someone who’s able to volunteer three times lording it over the others.
KAWAI: There’s always one like that.
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“You’re just a part of everything that’s happened tonight…and...”
– Swan - The Warriors (1979)
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“Harold, *everyone* has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just...”
– Harold and Maude (1971)
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“Creation comes out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a...”
– Waking Life (2001) - Kim Krizan