Doofus Quote

I just watched an oldschool TV series, "That '70 Show". And I found a quote that still lingering in my mind. A pretty darn dumb one.

" Women are like muffins, okay?

And once you've had a muffin, man...

You will put up with anything to have another muffin."

-- Danny Masterson as Steven Hyde

Well, it's not like I'm in the same page with Hyde. *SMH

However, He's not completely wrong though.

So guys..

Be good..  

:))

London Boulevard (2010) || The Mechanic (2011)

London Boulevard (2010)

directed by William Monahan

It's a UK movie about a man (Colin Farrel) that just newly freed from jail. He falls in love with an unsociable young movie star (Keira Knightley). He get some unfinished problems from his past and find himself into a fight with a ferocious gangster.

It's a decent crime romance movie, the only thing I like about this movie because the ending was kinda twisted.
My humble rate is 7 out of 10.
:D

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The Mechanic (2011)

directed by Simon West

 

It's an action crime movie with a bit of thriller touch that tells about an elite assassin (Jason Statham) who kills his victims by making the crime scene like a clean coincidence set. He has a apprentice (Ben Foster) that has a connection with his previous victim.

I'm gonna give 7,5 out of 10.

:D

Well, it's Jason Statham anyway, no wonder the movie looks good ~most of my friend suggest me to watch this movie~. He's becoming a symbol of action movie nowadays.

Hmm, there was a good quote tough...

"Amat Victoria Curam"

means

"Victory Loves Preparation"

That would be all.. cheers!!

Kampoeng Jazz 2011 ~But mostly, Dira Sugandi~

Kampoeng Jazz 2011

Kampoeng Jazz, like the name implies. It must be something about jazz. Yeah, it's an event that presents music performance by some jazz musicians.

The performer of KJ'11 were Sabrina, Tahiti 80, Dira Sugandi, Syaharani & Queen Fireworks, Yovie Widianto Fusion and many others.

Sabrina and Tahiti 80 were their aces of this event, even though ~for me~ their musics are barely jazz. But who cares, in fact they were the (biggest) magnet of thousands people who came.

In these past years, I've been learning and following about jazz music. Well, not the pure and fully jazz maybe, but I'm just really into it. So for me personally, Sabrina and Dira Sugandi were the reason I came for, though there was an unmusical reason also.

Sabrina is a female musician from Philippines. Amongst youngster she's so famous because of her 'creativity' to recycles and covers the popular songs in acoustic.

She transforms R&B, Soul, Pop, Rock and many other songs into a wonderful and easy listening acoustic songs. It's a good way to appreciate the joy of the genres you're not really into.

Dira Sugandi, oh, I hope I'm not exaggerating this, but... Indonesia is blessed and grateful to have such a talent like her. Dira is gifted the voice like the great black woman powerful voice. Ironically, most of Indonesian listeners ~including me~ had just known her recently.  

Well, she's maybe a new player in Indonesian music industry, but she's definitely not in music industry itself.  She had started her career in USA. Well, from what I read, the reason she chose USA instead of Indonesia because of her music and some financial issues for recording stuffs.

Dira's music is created for specified listeners. As all we know in Indonesia, if you want to be a successful (read : rich) musician, sometimes you have to put aside your idealism in the trunk then steer your music wheel right where to the market wants.

In the mean time, she wasn't able to afford the cost of recording things and stuffs in Indonesia. Here we can see the irony, in her own country she couldn't do anything because of Rupiahs but in USA she was doing great just with her talent without concerning about Dollars.

So, 'Something About The Girl' is her first album, it contains 11 songs. And in my inexpert opinion, I could sense the modern jazz blended with a bold thick soulful voice of her in this album, and if I'm not wrong there's even a Balinese touch in one of her song in this album.

We can tell that even her music will barely be the unconscious humming of most Indonesian people, she still weaves the Balinese touch in her music. She loves her country, doesn't she? :)

'Inside Love', 'Time Out of Time', 'Essentially Yours', 'Hand on Your Heart' and 'Won't You Come with Me' are Dira's songs that I always put in my playlist for these past nights. They are relaxing. They really are.

Those songs are also sung by Dira in Kampoeng Jazz last night. Well, I haven't memorized the whole lyrics yet so I only sang in the chorus parts.

She performed right after Sabrina. Well, it must be hard on her to made a good performance right after the main guest star performance. But, from what I saw, she could bring back the intimate atmosphere of jazz music by the thick voice of hers that waving stealthily into the air amongst us.

Hmm, I almost forget to tell about the aces.

Tahiti 80, well I don't really know much about this Paris indie band. And I hardly watched their performances that night, I got dilstracted when they performed. They were up right after Dira's. All I can tell that their sound engineer was the greatest that night. He (or she maybe) could manage to produce the perfect proportion of sounds. The guitars and bass sounded just right.

Sabrina. Even though some of my friends told me that her performance was great. But, I kinda felt disappointed. Because, I, myself (or maybe you too), we know and feel the joy of her music because of one thing : "Acoustic".

Yeah, she did, she played her acoustic guitar. However, ahh, there was also the band. Let me describe in my humble perspective (I hope). The sound of the keyboard and violin almost covered the sound of her guitar. The drummers played like in a berserker mode.

Was it all because of her sound engineer? Maybe.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, why the songs had to be played in a full band way? 

Isn't she an acoustic musician? 

Didn't we knew her because of her acoustic playing?

Well anyhow, enough with my 'yotos' talking. :p

Overall, although, not as good as last year, Kampoeng Jazz this year was pretty good. Salute for the committee.

The only good thing of Kampoeng Jazz this year than the last year was..
I happened to spent it with one of the God's masterpieces. :)

So my closure line would be...

"Sabrina barely rocks the night but Dira Sugandi does!!"

Feel free to correct my bad english..

And kindly give me your comments..

:D

Ex (2010)

Ex (2010)
directed by Heiward Mak

It's a Hong Kong comedy romance film. Like its title, the director that also the writer will serve us a movie about exes. Sounds cliche? Well, I know there's a lot movies that rise the exes issue. However this one is happened to be a good cliche movie, ~IMHO though.~

Beside that, aren't we rarely watching HK movies? Why don't we take a look and tell, are theirs any good? As all we know, Asian drama movies have their own spell to make women (and men) viewers shed their tear(s).

Here it goes..

There were this couple, Zhou Yi (Gillian Chung) and Woody (Lawrence Chou). They were gonna took off from HK and having holiday together. But, because one and another things that derailed the conversation, the holiday were called off.

They were split up right before Ping (William Chan) ~Zhou Yi's ex-boyfriend~ very eyes. Ping just arrived from a holiday with his girlfriend, Cee (Michelle Wai).

It later turned out that Zhou Yi's passport and stuffs were in the bag that Woody carried out. Not to mention, she were dumped before by her apartment landlord because of some attitude issues.

It really made Zhou Yi were edged in an unfortunate situation. However, with Cee's (dumb) sympathy, Zhou Yi were invited home. She was allowed to sleep at Ping's study room. Actually, it was Ping's apartment and Cee was just bunking in. Zhou Yi was gonna stay with them for couple days.

Yeah, in this very part you'll find it's a very interesting movie. You'll see if a man could handle having two women that he loves and love(d) are gonna be surrounded him for couple days.

And we'll also witness how a train of memories gonna collides with another train of future promises.

This is maybe the first HK drama movie I ever saw. And it turns out that it's a good movie. If I may say this movie is an inch better than those Thai dramas. As all we know that Thai dramas are having a good popularity these days.

Ex has the great pictures. The taking of the picture just feels right. Like the timing, focused object, contrast and other stuffs that common people (like me) can tell that "The picture is just wonderful".

The music's also well played. Well, I know nothing about the meaning (even a word) of those songs. Those are mandarins, but I bet that you all can tell that the music is beautiful. It comes in and fades out at the right moments.

Well, that would be all, It's a great movie to watch. And my inexpert verdict is.....

7,5 out of 10

------the slices of life note------

Most of us definitely have ex or exes. So, let us play and just randomly imagine if we were ever in the Ping's shoes.

See, you are a man that has a wonderful and kind woman, but with whatsoever problems or reasons. In the mean time, your ex has to stay in your apartment for couple days. And there will be moments that you and your ex happened to be alone in the home.

If I was him, ~well, it's really easy to say~ but, I guess I won't tempt nor be tempted.

It's true that you had some stories with her, but it is through, it is over, it is off. Don't be swayed away by the waves of some stupid flashback scenes in your head.

Flashback scene only shows the good and sweet memories, and it barely shows the hurtful ones.

Well, I won't talk too much about some stuffs of romance. I'm so not an expert in this field.

Anyway, the movie's good, I think the writer was trying to tell us...

"If it's not meant to be, then it's not meant to be."

Feel free to comment and find some errors or typos.. :)