Buku, Kurasi/Kritik

Males Baca Kafka on The Shore

Di penghujung 2019 ini, sebuah tahun ganjil yang gaib, gue dan producer @malesbacapoodcast, Rojak akan membahas Kafka on The Shore, sebuah buku yang nggak kalah ganjil dan gaib dari Haruki Murakami, salah satu dedengkot realisme magis modern.

Di episode ini kami juga masukin satu musik non komersil hasil aransemen gue dan Najmi Ismail yang baru jadian sama salah satu pemeran di drama yang pernah kami pentaskan di Teater Bulungan beberapa tahun silam. Liriknya diambil langsungdari novelnya sebagai sebuah tribute. Vokalisnya Carin, suara aduhai amat dah. Silahkan dinikmati.

dan Selamat Tahun Baru.

Buku, Kurasi/Kritik

Males Baca Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari

Buku kedua yang kami bahas di podcast @malesbacapoodcast ini, mungkin adalah hal yang bisa bikin kami masuk penjara karena penistaan agama. Tapi kami akan suruh yang nuntut untuk memenjarakan Harari dan penerbit saja, karena biasanya begitu di Indonesia. Yang salah buku, bukan pembaca apalagi yang malesbaca cuma bisa percaya. Haha!

English, Filsafat, Memoir, Racauan, Uncategorized

Detecting Fuckers

y’ know how to detect sad people from the social media? If some people are expressing their sadness, like losing a loved one, or getting suicidal, or saying a prayer to God to give them strength in facing problems, they are not sad enough. The saddest and most melancholic people are those who throw off motivational quotes to be happy and good and jolly, that encourage positive thinking in every situations. Those who tells you to take positive attitude toward bad things and double positive towards good things. Why? Because they’re in a fucking denial. Everybody knows things are bad, and that good things wont last. Bad things last longer that’s why there are some good things. And the more you feel good about something, the worst you feel when it fucking ends. Some good things and happy moments do exist, but those are just a glimpse in life, like your mother’s orgasm to your dad.

So those encouraging stuff that they posted, are like fucking fake orgasm. You don’t get to be happy, but you go on. That’s life. Like Rocky Balboa said, its not a matter of winning or losing, its a matter of how many hits you can take. Faking it wont make it less hurtful.

People might say I’m bitter. But who is more bitter: people who says the storm will pass and the sun will shine again, only to find a drought after the flood; or people like me who cries and scream to the rain, and cursing the corporations in creating global fucking warming when the sun comes out not in time?

So next time you see people posting motivational quotes, tell ’em to wake the fuck up. Tell ’em there’s a big difference between optimism and fake orgasm. They won’t please themselves by thinking happy thoughts when things are bad. Tell ’em to be genuine, smoke some pot for God sake! Jerk off! Anything to make you accept the pain and fucking fight it off. You ain’t gonna be happy for long if you overcome that problem with positivity. Overcome it like cum: lubricate yourself with blood and tears, and give a fuck to things that matters and don’t give a fuck to things that doesn’t.