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Everything seemed never worked since Mom was gone. Dad always tried to look so gentle in every issues, but his eyes couldn't lie. He hit hard on everything to put it all together. Being a father and a mother at the same time never crossed his mind before. But he was trying, struggling very hard because it is the only way to move on and live the life as it should be for his two boys, Bro and I. I went out of town to continue my study. He was so happy and worried at the same moment when he knew I was going to college that's really far from home, yet I remember he embraced me to be a big grown up man as he put himself as an example. Bro has moved out from home. I really have no idea where he lives right now but ever since he left home, Dad was all alone. Not literally, since my two lovely uncles also live with him, but I know he always feels the absent from both of us, Bro and I. Once I came home after a long tiring 5-hour-trip by train. I remember the look on his face by his eyes meeting mine when his youngest careless kid came home without telling him in the first place. I knew that he welcomed me as he began reminiscing how hard it was to realize that he was just alone right there welcoming me, no Mom. He felt something different. I felt he felt it, yet he kept on trying to look as fair and decent as everything could be or like everything has been. But all I know, everything has never been ever since. Everything seemed never worked since Mom was gone. Bro was always busy with his dream that he knew it's hard to reach. I rarely see him, but I know he's trying. His shoulder suffered the weighs that he couldn't imagine before. But he's getting used to it, though. I never knew him more than I should. He's more like acquintance than an elder loving care brother, yet he's my brother. He never finished his study and pretty sure it was the one he regretted the most. Just like Dad, Bro always tried to keep everything on the line, except it was the only thing that he knew he wasn't ready for it. I recall I was so furious when I heard he moved out from home, leaving Dad alone. But I never cared about it anymore. I wasn't sure why, but I know home didn't seem like a home to him anymore. Everything already looked like a ruin, like a shipwreck, yet he kept on trying to convince himself that home will always be home, just like everything has always been. But all I know, everything has never been ever since. Everything seemed never worked since Mom was gone. And that day, I just died partially.

#Family #Home #Brotherhood #Parents

• I'm so sick with these bunch of IDIOTZ feel they're enjoying the time of their lives. Oh, I'm sorry it's not their faults, it's their job. But, while everyone called them artist I'd rather call them moron. Again, they're just trying to make money. Yes, and make their audiences become more retarded as they're getting richer and richer (and some of them become assholes for sure). I feel so much wrong to judge them by the way. There are some big capitalist corporations behind those STUPIDZ, I knew it. They called themselves television industry. Trying every damn thing and every damn way to gain rating. The more rating you get, the more money you collect. And of course, their hands are clean as hell! They got hundreds and thousands talent as their factory-fabricated doll to do whatever the fuck they want! Also don't forget with a hundred-thousands worker that have been underpaid and trapped in between an unemployment or keep being dairy cows. Even tough some of them still trying to look hot as a damn 'ngehek' middle-class. The last of all, in Indonesia as we know it, not enough with being so 'centralized' or so 'Jakarta-centric', Indonesia's televisions keep making stupid people richer and famous.......for clowning around and doing fucking nothing!!!! • Throw Away Your Television on By The Way (2002) by Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

#rhcp #turnoffyourtv #maap #kartukuningnyamanayah #biarkayaaktipis #tv #sorry #lagisokiye #maapmulukeklebaran #ormaybejustgetfuckingridofit #redhotchilipeppers

• The first time I heard "Peggy Sue", It was a song on Cheshire Cat album by blink-182 which released in 1995. It turned out, there was a song with the same title that I didn't know but have been released a long before that, 38 years erlier. That song was written by a Rock n Rollah named Buddy Holly. Born in Texas during America's Great Depression, Charles Hardin Holley (know as Buddy Holly) had been influenced by the Great Elvis Presley. He stated that, "without Elvis, none of us could have made it.." 4 months before the release of Peggy Sue, He with his band The Crickets released they're No. 1 Single called "That'll be the Day" which became The Top US Best Seller in Store. The song also had been covered by The Quarrymen (the band that became The Beatles). With just two terrific songs, Buddy has introduced and brought me to the door of Rock n Roll, alongside with Elvis. Too bad he passed too soon and also too young. On February 3, 1959, He and his fellow musicians, Ritchie Valens and J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash headed to the concert venue. That day also known as The Day the Music Died. But still, his music always runs in my veins.

#peggysue #rocknroll #letterpress #buddyholly

Tragedi: Bencana dan Sesat Pikir a la Seringai

"Kepicikanmu dalam dogma, mengaburkan pikiranmu.

Di mana korelasi antara bencana dan akhlak manusia?

'Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.' –– buah pikiran yang keliru.

Pembenaranmu akan dua hal.. logika sampah!"

Penggalan lirik lagu Tragedi dari Seringai di atas mungkin masih sangat relevan dengan kondisi masyarakat Indonesia saat ini. Terutama pada momen-momen bencana alam seperti yang terjadi pada tengah malam kemarin di wilayah selatan Pulau Jawa.

Banyak respon bermunculan persis setelah gempa terjadi. Ada yang menyebarkan informasi, ada yang gencar membendung hoax-hoax yang umum tersebar, ada pula yang sibuk mengaitkan musibah tersebut dengan hal-hal yang sepatutnya menjadi urusan personal masing-masing individu, akhlak.

Jika melihat arus dari linimasa berbagai media sosial, banyak yang beranggapan hal-hal seperti keputusan MK terkait LGBT bukan merupakan tindak pidana, hingga lolosnya penyelenggaraan Djakarta Warehouse Project (DWP) tak luput terseret menjadi sebab-musabab terjadinya gempa bumi tersebut. Sebagai peringatan katanya.

Fenomena tersebut turut dituangkan oleh Seringai ke dalam lagu Tragedi pada bagian lirik "..post hoc ergo propter hoc.." yang merupakan sebuah sesat pikir (logical fallacy) –– kekeliruan relevansi antara premis-premis, yang menuju kepada kesimpulan yang salah atau sebuah bentuk pengaburan makna –– di mana terdapat pengasumsian sebuah hubungan kausalitas antara dua peristiwa yang terjadi secara berurutan, bahwa sebuah kejadian yang terjadi sebelumnya (kebetulan mendahului) dapat dikatakan sebagai sebab bagi kejadian lain. Padahal dalam perspektif logika, dua peristiwa yang dijadikan sebagai contoh sebelumnya sama sekali tidak ada korelasi satu dengan lainnya.

Lalu mengapa pada awal tulisan saya menyebutkan bahwa sesat pikir masih relevan dengan kondisi masyarakat Indonesia? Apakah dengan begitu saya beranggapan kebanyakan orang Indonesia mengalami permasalahan dalam berlogika? Bisa jadi iya, dan bisa juga tidak. Hingga saat ini logical fallacy masih tertanam dalam dogma-dogma dan terus diturunkan dan direproduksi, baik itu di mimbar-mimbar, forum ke forum, maupun obrolan ringan yang ditemani oleh secangkir kopi. Lewat interaksi-interaksi tersebutlah kesesatan berpikir masayarakat terus mengakar dan juga berkembang.

Penyebabnya? Ya, secara simple-nya tentu saja kurangnya pemahaman akan bergagasan atau berargumen. Solusinya? Sedikit membosankan mendengarnya tetapi memang perbaikan aspek edukasi dan pengembangan budaya literasi SANGAT perlu untuk diterapkan; dan jika diliha, kembali lagi ini adalah sebuah kegagalan peran pemerintah dalam menghadirkan sarana-prasarana edukasi bagi masyarakatnya secara merata dan adil.

Lagu Tragedi mungkin belum sepenuhnya menjawab apa-apa saja yang sebaiknya dilakukan oleh masyarakat terkhusus para pemangku kekuasaan dan akademisi terkait kesesatan berlogika, tetapi lewat hasil eksplorasi dan pengamatan secara empiris yang dilakukan oleh Arian13, Ricky Siahaan, Sammy Bramantyo, dan Edy Khemod: mereka berhasil menghadirkan salah satu dari banyak "kekonyolan" masyarakat Indonesia dengan contoh yang amat melekat seperti bencana dan mitos kuno akan kucing hitam. Cerdas! Di atas pondasi tersebut, Seringai memberi tahu seluruh pendengarnya bahwa kesesatan berpikir adalah tragedi itu sendiri.

Dan! Ini! Tragedi!

Banjarnegara, 16 Desember 2017.

Sumber Referensi:

1. https://www.jakartabeat.net/resensi/album-dan-lagu/konten/seringai-tragedi-logical-fallacy-anti-theodise?lang=id

2. http://www.rollingstone.co.id/article/read/201

#seringai #tragedi #logical fallacy #opini

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Studio Ghibli Tears

/ISENG MULU GADE SERIUSNYE/ • Back in my younger days, when I was still in kindergarten. My mom used to take me and my brother to the school by car. We always listened to the radio on the way. I loved to listen to MTV Sky (now @TraxFMJKT) which always aired 90's 00's pop, rock, punk, etc, while my mom still kept her memory of 70's 80's era with a radio station I forgot. Those are disco, funk, soul, glamrock, mom-rock thingy. Her musical taste has influenced my vision of music itself. Combined with my dad's favorites such as Iwan Fals, Koes Plus, Procol Harum, Bruce Hornsby, The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel and many more. And of course Phil Collins! Where my name came from. Somehow everything they always listened to became some kind of legacy to my brother and I. All we know that those old records are immortal. We both keep listening to them with our new music player app and platform until now, digitally. • Chris Amoo from The Real Thing.

#therealthing #chrisamoo #oldmemoriesdiehard #amateur #popart #longlivephysicalrelease #warlol #puasaaaa

/HANYA ISENG/ “People see rock and roll as, as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what are the youth to do? Do you, do you have any idea? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture.“ -Thurston Moore Adobe Photoshop Kool Thing on Goo (1990) by Sonic Youth.

#ngacoaedulu #mixedmedia #thurstonmoore #photoshop #goo #sonicyouth

holdbreaker

What kind of carabiners you use most?

i-am-ascension

kulturbasi

I’m sure I was there. No. I wish I was there.

#alien #alienation #unappreciated #not a choice #dont have a chance #justme

eliannevelderen

Definitely showing this to the students when I’m gonna teach latin for my internship ;D Just 35 more days and I’ll be in front of a class of litlle, latin learning kids ;o

kulturbasi

#komikasik