Disconnect

What I probably need right now is getting myself disconnected from this digital life of mine.

Not checking any social media, answering any calls or text message, emails, or whatever that involved electronic means.

Why?

Because right now I feel lost in so many information that not really essential to my well-being. For my work, yes, very important stuff. But for me as human?

Not so much.

Now the next step to do is to arrange and plan for disconnecting myself.

Menghindari Kerugian

Sebenarnya aku tak tahu apakah mereka berusaha menghindari kerugian -- which is something that I really doubt could happen -- atau memanfaatkan momen saja. Bayangkan, pada hari Senin yang kebetulan adalah hari terjepit, sebuah jaringan bioskop terkemuka di Indonesia menjadikan harga tiket menonton di tempat mereka menjadi harga weekend!

Wadefat?

Maksudku, ayolah berpikir: seberapa sih jaringan yang sudah pasti kaya itu? Seberapa pentingnyakah konsumen mereka dan apakah cukup berarti perasaan para konsumen tersebut? Pada hari kerja yang kebetulan adalah hari terjepit mereka menjadikan harga tiket mononton menjadi harga weekend!

Kurasa mereka tak peduli pada konsumen. Kurasa mereka hanya mengejar keuntungan semata. Kurasa mereka tidak menghindari kerugian. Kurasa mereka mengejar keuntungan saja. Dasar kapitalis!

Cross-Franchise Actors, More To Come?

Tahun 2009 ini kita akan menikmati konklusi dari saga John Connors dalam TERMINATOR SALVATION.

Uniknya, bermain sebagai John Connors adalah Christian Bale (Batman Begins dan Dark Knight)!

Wowowow! Bale sebagai Bruce Wayne dan Bale sebagai John Connors? Memangnya ke mana si bengal Edward Furlong? Is he dead?

Lalu aku berandai-andai: Mungkin gak ada aktor lain yang juga tampil lintas waralaba?

Jawaban: Ada! Harrison Ford dalam serial Indiana Jones dan Star Wars!

Lebih spesifik: Kalau yang lintas platform? Misalkan Terminator dibuat dan dikembangkan untuk movies sedangkan Batman berasal dari komik lalu ke serial televisi (Adam West!) baru kemudian ada versi layar lebarnya. Pemeran utamanya adalah Christian Bale.

Bagaimana kalau...

Brandon Routh (Superman Returns, 2006) selain sebagai Clark Kent/Superman bermain dalam sebuah film layar lebar dari tokoh game!
Mungkin sebagai Luigi? Itu, saudaranya si Mario dari Super Mario Bros.?
Brandon Routh berkumis lebat memakai overal kuning?

Ahem...

A Female Autobots!?!?

Menyusul kesuksesan The Transformers (2007), beredar rumor tentang karakter-karakter baru yang akan muncul di dalam The Transformers 2. Salah satu yang paling menarik tentunya adalah kemunculan sebuah Autobot perempuan (betina?), dengan konsep model seperti ini:




Yang kubayangkan adalah Megan Fox mengenakan sejenis jumpsuit ketat dengan warna senada memacu motor ini mencoba menyelamatkan si chickensh*t Shia Lebok(!) -- or whatever his name is -- dari kejaran Starscream (Decepticon yang di ending film terlihat terbang tinggi menembus awan).

Ehem ehem. What about this idea, Mr. Bay?

Memang fantasi tentang robot perempuan dari dulu selalu menarik - terutama bagi laki-laki. Mungkin ada yang salah di otak kami ini? Entahlah. Daya tarik tema seperti ini begitu besar bagi kami yang mungkin tergolong ke nerd, geek, atau sekedar kutu buku and/or AFC.

Mungkin kalian ingat tentang video clip Aerosmith yang "Falling in Love is Hard on Your Knees", aku rasa itu tentang seorang pemuda yang menciptakan fembot. Yup, fembot dan bukan robot perempuan (atau bahkan robot betina). Bahkan di internet kita bisa menemukan forum tentang fembot seperti yang ada di sini, atau sebuah tulisan yang mengulas kenapa kita (laki-laki!) begitu tertarik dengan fembot.

Anyway, mungkin perlu diperjelas, fembot itu secara penampilan luar mirip dengan manusia (perempuan), sedangkan karakter baru Autobot itu (kalau benar dimunculkan) adalah jelas-jelas hanya sedikit menyerupai wanita. Yang dulu sempat muncul dalam pikiranku adalah: apakah dia digilir oleh para Autobot? Atau dia "gula-gula"-nya Optimus Prime?

Apakah sebenarnya pertempuran Decepticon dan Autobot itu selain merebutkan energy cube, juga merebut/mempertahankan satu-satunya robot perempuan (betina?) di planet Cybertron? Apakah ini juga menjadi semacam analogi bagi kita di bumi, bahwa wanita adalah sumber masalah? Ingat Kuda Troya?

(Arguably, is the REAL problem just because of the male EGO?)

Jepang sudah memproduksi boneka perempuan yang memiliki tubuh idaman para pria (dan wanita juga). Kepala boneka ini bisa dipertukarkan. Bahkan dada mereka (kabarnya) sangat mirip dengan dada perempuan bila diremas (and they even jiggles too)!!!

Tak lama lagi kita akan menemukan (bukan robot perempuan yang bisa berubah jadi sepeda motor) dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, robot perempuan atau fembot seperti yang sudah ada di Kanada (lihat video):




Ha ha ha!

18 and Life

"Ricky was a young boy,
he had a heart of stone..."



I didn't know it before - but now I do - how I could even headbanging to the sound of hair-metal!

And even did air-guitar acts!

That quote was from Skid Row's 18 and Life and you sure are familiar with the melody, that is if you grew up the way I did, listening to rock and metal bands alone because nobody in your house seemed to enjoy the melody of the guitars, the heavy riffs, distortions, screaming and high vocal pitch, agressive drummings, etc.



You see, sometimes in those adolescent years I felt kind of lonely because not many people I knew of were listening to rock bands.

Ah, that's not the point here.

I mean that while listening to Skid Row's album -- I played 18 and Life and I Remember You again and again -- I felt kind of nostalgic. And I was daydreaming of being a young boy (like Ricky) and being angry at the world that let me struggle to get through life even since a very young age.

"He had no money, oooh no good at home.
He walked the streets a soldier and he fought the world alone."

Now that was something that I thought I could relate to. Not in the way that I must be working so I could eat. I felt that somehow I was being alienated in my early years, as a kid, a teenager, and first couple of years in the college.

I am being nostalgic.

Imagine that: Me. Nostalgic.

Gee...

I must be old.

Terminator: Salvation

Just like any other sequels, I have heard for a long time that there will be a fourth(!) Terminator movie.

After The Rise Of The Machines, I thought that those Holywood execs won't be making another sequel because in my personal opinion, that TROTM was a flop.

Who'd want to see aging Terminator? Even a child can see that Arnold "The Governator" IS OLD. Yet he played and even bare his chest! Arnie seemed really beefed up! (I wonder what did the makeup artist put on his pecs)

Anyway, all I can do is wait for TERMINATOR: SALVATION the way I have to wait for IRON MAN 2 and THE AVENGERS.

It's Not That Hard Being Mediocre, But It's Hellish Torture Listening To Cinta Laura's "Oh Baby"!

Omigod omigod omigod!

Talking about another up and coming shooting starlet -- a very mediocre one -- that is very perfect for dissing!

But Cinta Laura is different. She is so young of age that (back then a couple of decade ago) she is innocent. Just look at her, so sweet, funny, cheerful, friendly personality.

Although she is a (sinetron, thus infotainment) star that everybody loved -- to adore or to despise.


This video was uploaded by sonybmgindonesia.

Let's quit the crap, shall we?

I mean, aren't you, my fellow Indonesian citizen, are being ridiculously stupid for making this particular girl as Indonesia's Sweetheart?

What do you see in her, actually?

Her made-up Indo-English-ish(!) accent?

Her fair skin?

Her beautiful face?? (d'oh!)

Her (less-than-adequate) acting talent?

Her (horrible) singing talent?

Her (tremendously lame) dancing sequence?

Do you love her just because she is physically attractive (or: beautiful)???

I PERSONALLY HELD IN CONTEMPT THE VIEW THAT PEOPLE SHOULD GET MORE CHANCES AND OPPORTUNITIES JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL, because, in its own way, it is A DISCRIMINATING ACT.