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Passport
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Female
Scorpio
5'4"
49 kg
Hazel eyes
Long hair
Toxic
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Interests:
Rock,
smooth jazz, manga,
anime, sociocultural studies, philosophy,
history, satire,
cartoon strips, novels,
children's books, cats,
Javanese
cuisine, pancakes, A&W rootbeer, Torabika
coffee, lemon tea, soybean
cakes, tofu, knitwear, white gold, platinum
blond, online communities, English
Premier League football, Manchester
United FC, A.S. Roma, A.C. Milan,
Real Madrid, the color of terracotta, Japan,
Britain, Germany,
USA,
bushido, tribal
motifs, Minamoto
clan, rain and wind, midnights,
wooden handicrafts, small islands, motorbikes,
hummers, trucks, Jeeps and such SUV's, small
towns, democracy, 16th-century
warlords, Oda
Nobunaga, 18th-century revolutions, katana,
industrial lampshades, coffee mugs, rings and earrings, necklaces,
tattoos,
men who never crave ice-cream, the best
Asian movies, Siemens cellphones, cloved cigs, sanity, interior
decoration, huts and cabins,
boats, lighthouses, mountains,
rivers, Ito Hideaki, acrylic paints, kokeshi
dolls, mirrors, waterlilies,
palms, samurai
talismans, cypresses, sweet bull at four a.m., guitars
and guitarists, art in general but never artists. |
CORNERS
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The
FAQ of my life.....
.....is
"Why starting your profile with music?"
That
necessitates truth-slinging.
And
Truth walks in with the grace of a lawnmower: There
are some people out there who sincerely, cluelessly believe
that they have talked with some other sincere, equally clueless,
people, when all they ever blurted out was (and in bed at
three a.m. and upon some severe want of medication) "You
know the song by that girl Britney?" ("Yeah.")
Then
they went on to the divorce court.
Such
a stunning innocence of any knowledge is never rare.
So,
beware!
Learning
from fortunately other people's mistake, I hereby dish out
first of all musical stuff I am sort of made of.
Otherwise
we would never get anywhere towards a divorce.
Sail
on!
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My
favorite musical quotes
"If
you play a wrong note, you go on and play another wrong
note. 'Cause you should have taken up turnips."
[Reverend
Sir Billy Jefferson Hosea, in one of his sober days]
"If
you play a wrong note, you go on and play another wrong
note. 'Cause harmonica isn't intended to be played."
[Reverend
Sir Billy Jefferson Hosea, in another sober day] |
Reverend
Sir
William Jay Hosea |
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 At
the moment I (think I) am crazy about Chad
Kroeger -- his voice turns me on like nothing ever did before except
Peter
White, Simply
Red, Santana,
Earl Klugh,
Todd
Cochran, Yngwie
Malmsteen, Lee
Ritenour, Fourplay,
Joe Satriani,
Toto, Metallica
after the black album, Nirvana
when unplugged, Everlast,
Earth Wind &
Fire, Dave Matthews
Band, Linkin
Park, Disturbed,
Karimata, Dewa's Elfonda
Mekel -- well, regardless; you know what I mean.
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The
first half of 1990's stays in my mind as some songs launched by
the likes of Soundgarden, Nirvana, Faith No More, and Stone Temple
Pilots. Later came Linkin Park, Chad Kroeger's Nickelback, and
Disturbed. |
My
kind of music is basically rock.
Santana
can be categorized so, along with of course Metallica, Yngwie
Malmsteen, and Joe Satriani. They're forever in my life.
Relics
from the days when I was a kid and then an existential angst
on two legs -- i.e. 1970's and 1980's -- are still among
my favorites today, like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen,
Queensryche,
Judas Priest, Marillion, Twisted Sisters, and the Japanese
glam rock bunch Loudness. |
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My
latest personal xcavation unearthed Finger
Eleven, a band so cool in being so square (oh yeah, and the name
isn't synonymous with what you think it is); a little hard to
clear some place up for. But that was something I didn't go on wondering
about once I knew they are from Canada. Ah! Anyway, individually these
guys play like a storey above average, and collectively they are the
kind of band I take as real -- they got power, man. Plus the
stringwhanger draws. They've been recording since 1997 or so -- you
can still catch up with the fortunately short list of CD titles.
Of
all these guys (only an accident that none of them has my chromosome),
the voices that fit into my definition of 'wow' belongs to Ian Gillan
(Deep Purple), Niihara Minoru (Loudness), and David Draiman (Disturbed).
They're of the same kind -- there's some gothic grandeur in the voices
-- so 'glam rock', reaching some perhaps three octaves. Freddie Mercury
(Queen), of course, was there, too -- but the power made him different
from the ones I have mentioned before. Nobody could give us what he
easily did, unless Luciano Pavarotti switches to rock and recruits Andrea
Bocelli. James Hetfield (Metallica) is of another sort; Everlast and
Chad Kroeger (Nickelback) belong to still another kind. They are great
in their own ways.
But
nobody can obtain restraining orders for whatever is dubbed 'not my
music', so I also listen to a chunk of smooth jazz. The term 'smooth
jazz' only came into the musical lingo after my favorite jazzcat Dave
Grusin collaborated with my favorite jazz stringwhanger Lee Ritemour
on Early A.M. Attitude, 1985 (in the album titled after my favorite
fictional character ever, Harlequin). Gosh, I love good coincidences!
Anyway, Grusin is a piano man, like Todd Cochran -- yet my ears couldn't
resist loving their tunes -- they're simply too good. In the case of
Early A.M. Attitude, the Grammy Awards people agreed with me;
they gave Dave Grusin one of their trophies to dust for the rest of
his life.
In
the crooning department of jazz only one name I can mention as the one
I like; Level 42.
In
general, almost anyone who sings and plays guitar automatically
gets my attention.
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My
real favorite musical quotes
"Everything
else is Las Vegas or circus music."
[Carlos
Santana, 1996]
"We
don't believe in screams without melody. And we're not that
depressed as individuals."
[Finger
Eleven's Scott Anderson, 2003]
".........................................."
[Nickelback's
Chad Kroeger, 2001] |
Chad
Kroeger |
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I
can't stand country music, most of rap and hip-hop, trash -- oops, thrash
metal, and the species of Britney Spears'.
Of
course it is silly to try to name certain songs as 'mine'. But mentioning
names doesn't really give away what I want to say, so maybe I should
add that Serpentine Fire (Earth Wind & Fire) is one of the
best in my memory, of Peter White's I love the album Caravan of Dreams
most, of Simply Red's the album Blue, of Nickelback's the album
Silver Side Up, Dave Matthews Band's the album Under The Table
And Dreaming. Even Santana, of whom I can say tons of good things,
perhaps the albums I love best are Abraxas (1970), Moonflower
(1977), and Supernatural (1999).
Some
songs out of nowhere got into my mind and it never let them go again.
These songs don't really have anything to do with the artists who gave
them life, or so my mind said, because the creators are never among
the ones I love in all weather like the names that made the previous
paragraphs so crowded. The following songs stand out on their own:
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Acai,
a smooth jazz tome from the album My Name Is Gal, by Gal
Costa - Roupa Nova © 1990 Polygram do Brazil Ltd. When it comes
to Portuguese, I can't even imagine what the words are all
about -- while guesses still work when I encounter Spanish, Italian
and German. But Acai will never need a translator. Nevermind
everything but where it carries you to. It's the rhythm divine. |
It's
Gonna Rain,
a techno-pop product of Bonnie Pink and Toré Johannson, one of
the ending theme songs for the anime series Rurouni Kenshin.
The song only takes up a few clots of seconds to listen to, but in that
span it weaves the rain as it always is -- I've never found any
other song that could do that, no matter how many times the word 'rain'
is spat out. Not much can be said about Japanese anime's theme songs
in general -- and when it comes to the lyrics, I better shut up than
piss myself off. But lyrics don't matter in It's Gonna Rain.
The music is the rain, abridged without missing a single drop of the
essence.
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And
some other songs come from the genre I never endorse: the so-called
'inspirational music' folder up there in the industry.
Things
are either inspirational to you or not, and I mean anything.
But
I'm not going to take up this subject anyway.
In
this bin there are Enigma's Sadness (from the album MCMXC
A.D. © 1990 Virgin Schallplatten GmbH); Kitaro's Matsuri
(from Kojiki © 1991 Kitaro), Rashni Punjaabi's Chant
Of The Magic Flute (© 1999 Daya Rec.), and Beyond
Antares, by Jim LaDiana and Garrett King (from Silent
Partners © Island Born Music & Gatosoundworks,
1997). |
| Carlos
Santana |
James
Hetfield |
Everlast |
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| Y.
Malmsteen |
Lee
Ritenour |
Peter
White |
All transcends
the technology so lavishly employed in constructing the songs, and
give us something that can only be described as magical somehow.
Frankly
I always find it hard to kick any Indonesian name into my list of
personal best. But there is Karimata, a jazz band that has been R.I.P
for a decade or so; they were (are) great. The name 'Karimata' is
after the Karimata Straits in the Indonesian territory. One of the
best Indonesian songwriters/arrangers/keyboardmasters Aminoto Kosin
was the band's powerhouse in himself. The other band I like is Dewa,
a pop bunch with twists of Queen-like stuff and The Beatles' immortal
bits. 'Dewa' is an Indonesian and Javanese word that means a (male)
god.
 
Elfonda
('Once') Mekel
Karimata
is for good; Dewa only got into my list since they recruited Elfonda
Mekel (nicknamed 'Once', pronounced 'on-tje') as their singer.
Dewa itself has started out a long way back in the 1980's as a High
School band, its strongman and everything Ahmad Dhani stays on pulling
the strings until today while all other personnels have changed. Once
joined in for the album Bintang Lima ('Five Stars', 1998) and
Cintailah Cinta ('Loving Love', 2002). Both are better and sound
more integrated than their previous albums. But the thing that took
me there is Once's voice; it's perfect for minor tunes, perfect for
love songs like the band always turns out, perfect for a dash of postmeridian
melancholic reveries.
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Man.
Utd logo,
the Red Devil mascot,
David Beckham & Eric Cantona
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Football
(your lexicon might say 'soccer') is a significant part of me.
I follow all leagues, but the must-have is the English
Premier. My club is Manchester
United, whose nickname is 'The Red
Devils'. That's my loudest color.
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don't care about most of other kinds of sport, since football
alone is enough to fill up all days in any year. But there's a
sportsman I like from Formula
1 race, the Finlandian Kimi
Raikkönen, currently a McLaren driver. He's sorta too
young now to really shine in broad daylight amidst the dust and
heat of the world's circuits -- but he has what it takes to be
a true champ one day. Raikkonen himself might have been feeling
like a Monday throughout the first years of this century, but
I believe that he'll make a Saturday night of himself when the
time comes. If, of course, he digs and climbs and stays cool in
all season -- just like his motherland. |
Kimi
Raikkönen
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Of 'football
songsters' I like Chumbawamba
for its song for England in the World Cup 1998, Top Of the
World, Del Amitri for Italy's Don't Come Home Too Soon
(Italy, unfortunately, did), and Dario G for Carnaval de
Paris. The 1998 World Cup in France was the greatest of all times,
coincidentally its musical side lived up to that adjective, too. Ricky
Martin's splash with La Copa de la Vida even took over the
non-football nation U.S. of A, remember?
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Rock, smooth
jazz, football, Formula 1, songs whose words I am totally clueless
of, etc. and the proprietor of the voice that turns me on.
Warlords,
Freakazoid, Kurt Vonnegut, Agatha Christie, one-eyed ninja, American
history, political philosophy, etc. plus a sorceress with small
tits.
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cats, what I am said to have done for a living, painters, etc.
and why I hate t-shirts.
Sort of Thank
You Page, or name-dropping scroll, and what friendship means to
me.
What turns
me off -- a.k.a my homebaked insults.
Transcripts
of conversations in which everyone was mad at me.
So I do the
write thing; excerpts of my books.
My cyberlife,
online friends & what I think of the internet.
My personality,
or so some said.
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me, mine, myself & I.
The wonderful
sin of the Deutsche Bank, my lethal kitchen, backporch seats for
sweaty purposes, etc. plus my dangerous inclination to take up
gardening.
See why my
neighborhood looks like me.
My catharsis:
how I escape humans altogether.
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my life: pictures, cool spots, inconsequential rants & some
sort of a kind of historical footnotes about Yogya, Indonesia;
Springfield, Missouri & Los Angeles, California; Kiel, Germany;
Largs, Scotland.
Autobiographic
sketches of my first 18 years of jaywalking.
Me, Miauw
& Paw.
Every detail
of what makes myself I, in a personal archaeological duel.
My profile
or so, according to 17 guys who hate me.
Where my dark
side came from -- unfortunately there is no bright side.
This one word
is personally synonymous with 'Paradox'.
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