“Something’s missing that once was essential to me and is so no longer. I don’t need it anymore, as though I had lost a third leg that until then kept me from walking but made me a stable tripod. It’s that third leg that’s now missing. And I’ve gone back to being someone I never …
Pembentukan perspektif Australia terhadap Indonesia
Tulisan ini saya buat untuk tugas kuliah. Semoga berguna. Pada tanggal 28 Oktober 2012, Perdana Menteri Australia Julia Gillard meluncurkan buku putih (white paper) Australia in the Asian Century, yakni sebuah “peta perjalanan untuk memandu Australia menjadi negara yang lebih maju dan berkembang, sebagai bagian dari daerah [Asia Pasifik] yang terbuka pada dunia,” sebagaimana dituliskan …
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ANU: An Indonesian Perspective on Asia
Agree or disagree, they offer a lot of interesting insights and food for thoughts on contemporary Indonesia.
Notes on gramps & docos
I’m jotting these down as references for an ultra-secret project. Those of you who have had the unfortunate chance of hearing me gush about the motley of gramps who have tottered down the library, will perhaps find sparks of delights and ideas in these biographical docos. Drool over Blanchett’s androgynous Dylan. But check Scorsese’s version. I …
Toute la mémoire du monde
About a month ago, over cuppas of kopi tubruk we talked about the state of archiving in Indonesia, particularly of the Library of H.B. Jassin. Right now I have this usual gnawing itch, worrying that if I don’t write this down, the 30-minute lamentation is going to be yet another 30-minute of, well, nothingness. On …
Memories and lost words
I’ve long stopped smearing drecks across this blog, preferring instead to fire off utilitarian (or so I believed) posts on C2O library’s growing site, and keeping the personal on my handwritten journals. 4 years ago I was hammering and painting the bookshelves using Danny’s notes. Now I’m thinking of upgrading to ceiling-high shelves as more and …
C2O library
The current progress of my latest project — C2O library slash cinematheque. It wasn’t what I had in mind (I had visualised what every gazillion people probably imagine when the phrase “small, cozy bookshop” pops up), but we are working on it. With a tremendous help from Danny’s technical notes, I’m building the wall-mounted shelf …
The Man from London (Béla Tarr, 2007)
Although replete with gorgeous mise-en-scene characteristics of his later works, The Man from London falls frustratingly short to Tarr’s previous works. Tarr’s usual late bag of tricks — richly-textured, gorgeous long takes, Mihaly Vig’s cyclic music (which is rather annoying this time compared to his previous transcendental scores), along with the dance-in-a-bar, unblinking, silent characters …
Giant among cliches
In lieu of a promised ha ha ha: I. One morning a few months ago she forgot to put in her false teeth, which she leaves overnight in a glass of water; she has not worn them again since then; the prosthesis lies in its glass on the bedside table, covered in a kind of …
Ripple, and books
Sorry to those reading from RSS readers — my blog went a bit nuts after I updated WordPress and changed the layout. Ripple – A Celebration of Water in Warringah I will be performing for SoundWaves at a gamelan concert as part of Langen Suka on April 29, 1-3pm. 80 minutes of Gamelan with one …