slightly misanthropic

Blue Sky Noise Review

2010-04-22T09:37:00.000-07:00

After almost 3 years of waiting, finally Circa Survive released their brand new album Blue Sky Noise on 20 april 2010. This is their 1st album on Atlantic, having released their previous album on Equal Vision titled Juturna and On Letting Go, when i heard the news that they have part ways with EV, i was scared and excited at the same time. Scared because of the possibilitites that they're gonna change their sound and becoming more mainstream, and excited because now that they're on major labels, exist a possibility that someone in Indonesia realize these guys potential and invite them here over than bringing stupid bands like *Cough, cobra starship, fall out boys, and many others.

Finally the waiting is over and i got the album two days ago, my 1st impression is this, what will happen when geniuses like Circa Survive attempted to make a traditional and straightforward rock album, voila you got Blue Sky Noise. While i hate the term "traditional and straightforward rock album" Blue Sky Noise is different, we know that the unique thing from Circa Survive's sound is their ability to create ambient sounds by combining the sounds of two guitar, and we can still find them in some of the songs in this album like "Frozen Creek", "Glass Arrows" or "Dyed in The Wool" yet there are some songs like "Get Out" and "I Felt Free" that contains straightforward and tradtional guitar melody, hence the term "straightforward and traditional rock album". And there's this amazing song called "Fever Dreams" which shows the ability of their amazing drummer, Steve Clifford, which opens with a fast paced, furious acoustic guitar, something that is rare by Circa Survive standards. The quality of the lyrics hasn't diminished a bit, Anthony Green still shows his ability to create cryptic, riddle-like lyrics while at the same time create easier to understand lyrics like in "Get Out" or "I Felt Free"

I have to say that i am amazed by this album, Circa Survive still retains their ability to create great music in major label, Blue Sky Noise is better than On Letting Go which i found a little bit dissapointing, although it wont be able to match Juturna,which i think is their masterpiece.

for the score, i give this album 4.5/5

Top 5 overrated things

2010-01-21T05:36:00.000-08:00

Whew, its been ages since i last updated my blogs, the main reason is because the layout sucks and im too lazy to change it so i ask theta to do it, and she did, thanks theta haha.

As the title says, i will describe my version of the most 5 overrated things in the world, you should know upfront (yeah yeah i know this one is from 500 days of summer) that this post is subjective, so don't feel offended.

I will start it from the least to most

5. Blackberry and its clones
I know its old and nobody gave a shit about BB-bashing anymore, but to hell with it. The reason i put BB in the least most overrated things (f-up grammar i know) because BB can be useful in the right hand, but put it in the hand of 13 years old and instead you will see a zombie pushing their qwerty keypads and ignoring everyone else, well much everything else just to update their status in some social network status, which is pretty useless if you ask me, given the situation their in, which usually is not important, and the more more disturbing fact is other people who cares about the useless situation their in, its kinda like a bubonic plagues ,well more of a stupidity plague.

4. Gold Casio Databank
I dont know what's the deal with this one, i know im not much of a fashion afficionado ,but this flashy fake gold rolex wannabe is the new hottest thing around, that's something i never understand.

3. Malam minggu
I dont get it, wtf is with malam minggu, does SBY gives a free BB for people who hangout on malam minggu, nu-uh he doesn't, so why bother driving your car in the crowded street of Jakarta on malam minggu, try reading some manga, or playing some video games, it's certainly better than wasting money and driving on a crowded street hahaha

2. Curhat
The fact that some people need to talk to others about their or worse, other people problems (from the unimportant to the severe ones) to their friends (usually BFF, lol) amuses me. I mean come on, you know that all they can do is say "aww, that's too bad or im sorry for you bla bla bla" or give some useless advice that you won't use in the end after all. I know that this one is kinda disturbing for you people out there, but i can't trust other people to hold the knowledge of my problems, because you know how people are these days (esp. in Indonesia). They like to exaggerate things and most of them have the urge to pass on their knowledge of our problem into other people (even those who are not acquainted with us, and dont understand the problem at all) and so our problem evolve into stupid gossips and such.

1. Boy/Girlfriend
Loneliness is overrated - Tom Hansen-
I can't agree more with that quote over there, sometimes i wonder why people felt that they desperately need to have a bf or gf and doesn't take it easy when i said to them to. I mean, im perfectly fine when im single (altough having a gf is better haha) and doesn't waste my time chasing over a girl, and sometimes it bothers me that some people find another gf/bf so quickly after they broke up with their ex, sigh get a life people. I know that for some people, love is the thing that moves them forward, but you don't have to make that a priority, just take it easy and maybe it will eventually find you.

Berita Duka

2009-09-08T02:12:00.000-07:00

im deeply saddened to announce you this shocking news

on Tuesday, September 8th, my xbox 360 sufferred a massive injury called E74

here's his condition
i hope that all of you would pray for his safety, so i can continue playing games with him

Review Film cin(T)a

2009-08-26T06:24:00.000-07:00

cin(T)a adalah film independen produksi Sembilan Matahari, bercerita tentang 2 manusia dan satu tokoh bukan manusia, tokoh - tokoh itu adalah :
1. China
ini bukan SARA, nama karakternya emang china. Adalah seorang lelaki berdarah chinese dan batak, yang bersifat naif, optimis, dan tidak pernah gagal sekalipun dalam hidupnya
2. Annisa
adalah seorang perempuan yang pernah berprofesi sebagai artis, namun sedang hiatus selama 2 tahun. Annisa terkena stereotype bahwa artis = bodoh, murahan, sombong padahal sebaliknya Annisa adalah seorang perempuan yang pintar, baik hati, tidak sombong, dan rajin membaca
3. God/Tuhan/Allah
dari pandangan saya karakter Tuhan disini lebih bersifat antagonis, kenapa ? akan saya bahas nanti

first impression gw terhadap film ini ketika melihat trailernya adalah sebuah film drama biasa dengan dialog yang tajam dan tema yang tidak biasa (hubungan beda agama) namun itu semua berubah ketika gw melihat filmnya. Filmnya sendiri rada absurd dan unique, dikarenakan beberapa segi :

1. Minimnya karakter
ya, selain tiga karakter yang gw sebutin di atas, ga ada lagi karakter lain, kalaupun ada itu juga cuman jadi figuran dan line-nya sedikit
2. Breaking the Fourth Wall
Pada satu adegan, entah ini benar atau cuma gw yang sadar, karakter annisa seolah berbicara kepada penonton. Dan di adegan lain terlihat bahwa Annisa dan Cina menjadi bagian dari syuting film cin(T)a itu sendiri, padahal mereka tokoh utamanya (susah jelasinnya, nonton aja sendiri haha)
3. Timeline yang agak susah dimengerti
ini sih pendapat pribadi gw aja, menurut gw alur waktu di film ini agak2 kacau, kesannya kayak lompat dan banyak plothole, tapi sepertinya ini disengaja oleh pembuat film, mungkin tujuannya supaya penonton tetap fokus terhadap tiga karakter tersebut dan tidak ke-distract hal2 lain
4. Pengambilan Gambar
Hampir semuanya merupakan close - up China dan Annisa, argumen pembuat film sih katanya film ini kan bercerita tentang kisah asmara dua sejoli, jadi dia memilih pengambilan secara close up, karena saat pacaran dunia serasa milik berdua.

Kekuatan film ini ada pada dialog dan temanya. Dialog di film ini benar2 cerdas dan terkesan mengantagonisasi karakter Tuhan, seperti dialog "jadi arsitek itu berasa jadi Tuhan, berasa tau bagaimana rumah yang terbaik bagi klien, padahal kan yang tau rumah terbaik itu kan klien sendiri" dan masih banyak dialog2 lain yang tentunya gak bisa gw sebutin satu2 disini. Mengenai tema yaitu hubungan beda agama, adalah tema yang tidak umum di Indonesia, padahal banyak sekali orang - orang yang menjalani hubungan tersebut, mungkin ini juga lah yang menjadi magnet buat penonton

Gw saranin buat yang belom nonton film ini segeralah nonton, karena filmnya sendiri menurut gw informatif namun tidak berkesan menggurui, itu sendiri terserah penonton mau digurui sama film ini atau tidak....

nb : maaf kalo reviewnya nyampah, karena gw sendiri masih amatir

First Post

2009-08-26T06:10:00.000-07:00

Whew, akhirnya setelah lama berniat membuat blog karena lelah oleh situs jaringan sosial, or whatever they called it these days, akhirnya niat ini terealisasikan juga

okay first let me introduce myself

name : uh, better not give away my names in the internet, people say it's dangerous, well the first letter of my name is h
occupation : a laid back university student in a university full of hungry wolves (in this case, people) who are ready to eat each other
hobbies : music, sneakers (thanks to a friend of mine), action figure (currently in hiatus), photography, movies, not having fun, comic books, videogames

well, that's quite undescriptive for a description, ah to hell with it