"
Breathe, keep breathing. Don't lose your nerve" -
Radiohead



Page 144: Dear hard-core ancient astronaut theorists

/ Monday, May 28, 2012 /
Although I believe that highly intelligent extraterrestrial beings do exist, and they had visited earth, and you guys have very interesting theories that wowed me to the bone, I still dislike the way you easily dismissed the probability that ancient people, or some of them had invented an advance technique or technology by their own.

That's insulting.
And degrading your own race. IMHO.

They’re probably just genius-flesh-and-blood human beings.

Regards,
Me

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Page 143: Frailty of Popularity

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Captain America: Big man in a suit of armour. Take that off, what are you?
Tony Stark: Genius, billionaire, playboy, philanthropist.
– The Avengers.

I enjoyed the movie. It’s not brilliant like Memento or Old Boy that made such impact for me and made me want to put it right away on Facebook in Fav movies section, or tweet it, or recommended it to a person in some random chat. It’s entertaining; beside Loki whose pale skin and dark hair had captured my eyes or Hulk with his rough childish demeanor during the battle that somehow brought this weird cuteness, Stark is also included in that package of joy.

It’s not because of his intelligence or wealth, but his sense of humor. I don’t know if Stark in comic has the same characteristic; that kind of blatant narcissism and silly words flow from his mouth, which somehow also boost his popularity.

Speak about popularity; I remember articles I’ve read about Lana Del Rey controversy, from her fake lips to her performance on SNL. I’m neither her lover nor hater. I only have two of her songs on my computer. I had watched her SNL video and her other live performance (which was not that horrible, actually).

image from here

I won’t make some pop-culture analysis on her case; I found it well written on these articles below.
The Guardian
GOOD

I think it’s kind of funny how people overly scorn her. I mean, she’s not the first woman on earth who injected silicon/ collagen in some part of her body to “enhancing” her outside beauty. She’s not the first who change her hair color and comb it to make it looks marvelous. She’s not the only singer who use gimmick to gain attention. Yes, I’ve read about the indie spirit which quoting my friend, “her mistake is using strategy that mainstream artist would’ve used.” But is that the major issue? If I like a musician, what matters to me the most is his/her/their songs and performance. Not the cloth, not the physical appearance, or injected lips.

In short, we must admit that she (and her label/ publicist) made it! Their strategy gained audience. And that’s the frailty of popularity; for being famous, for attention and a lot of the people on this planet will recognize you when you walk on the street. Del Rey has her popularity because people also drew the stairs to let her reached it; no matter how sucks her songs and live performance, or how fake her lips and history, society made her famous.

Just like Benny as Sherlock said, “Why? Appreciation! Applause! At long last the spotlight. That's the frailty of genius, John. It needs an audience.” Famous and Genius, when it comes to audience, they're not that different.

From my point of view, her controversy is overrated. We still have real problems that we should put more concern of: poverty, corruption, human trafficking, or even wicked alien race which on their journey to invade our planet and make us their slaves (too much watching ancient alien, sorry).

So let’s move on.

That’s Benny, I love him.

And that’s Hulk, my big green baby. I love him too. :D

Page 142: Anyway

/ Monday, May 21, 2012 /
Obviously, when it comes to forgetting bad memories, i'm a lousy one. Some wounds are healed; I don’t feel the physical pain anymore if I take a look at those scars, but still, those scars contains the memory of ache in it, a memory that fast asleep in the repository somewhere back in my head. And it bugged the hell outta me. I think that has been keeping me uncomfortably piqued since last week; to suddenly reminisce about it.

I know people tend to wish they could turn back the time when they realized something bad happened in the past. Wish they could do something better and change their own history, their mistakes, their imbecility. Cliché. But in this circumstances, I wish I posses the power of the observer in Fringe. Only his power, not his bald head :p.

Anyway...


Page 141: Small Moments

/ Wednesday, May 16, 2012 /
"So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy.

What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals...and not to measure your life by what you've attained in terms of your desires...but those small moments of integrity, compassion...rationality, even self-sacrifice.

Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives...is by valuing the lives of others."

- Kevin Spacey as David Gale -




Page 140: Current Addiction (part 9) - The Undoing

/ Sunday, May 13, 2012 /
I was on my way
I was on my way to tell you it's no good
I was on my way

Chasing my damage
I was chased, thrilled and altered
Chasing my damage
Because I was chased, thrilled and altered
And it raised me


*sigh

Page 139: Disconnect

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Well this is an invitation
It’s not a threat
If you want communication
That’s what you get
I’m talking and talking but I don’t know how to connect
And I hold the record for being patient

The Cardigans – Communication

For the sake of my mental health, maybe disconnecting with you is the best decision I have now. I should’ve done this long time ago. From now on, you’ll be on your own. You won’t receive my call, short message, or any kind of invitation for casual conversation.

And I guess you won’t miss me. I’ve never been that important for you anyway. Never been on the list of top 20 people you’d call when something good happen to you. Why bother?

You only contact me when you don’t have girlfriend or jobless. If you have them both, poof, you’re gone. Such a weird friendship that we had. The problem is on you. Yes, we had good memories, but I couldn’t recall them to keep me participate on this tiring cycle. Don’t get me wrong dude, I don’t despise you for that. Well, maybe a bit. I just think that it’s enough. I have the obligation to keep my heart safe from any pain caused by interaction with any other human being.

This isn’t whining. This is a statement, a closure.

So long old friend. Wish you won’t ever be happier than me in the future. Mwa-ha-ha *sheldon cooper's evil laugh :;

You broke your word
Now that's a lie
We had a deal that you would try
Come on inside, girl, boy, I think it's time
High time we drew the line

But then this bird just flew away
While I looked the other way
Oh to keep her his caged would just delay the spring

Oh you broke my soul
Dear you stole the plot
You left an empty shot
There's nothing left here 'cos you took the lot
An empty cage is all I've got

'Cos when your bird has flown away
She He was never meant to stay
Oh to keep her his caged would just delay the spring
To keep her his caged would just delay the spring

Travis – Cage *with some modification.



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