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[retiredinmy20s]

Gearing up for another high energy, high positivity, high impact night in the Jersey shore. Last night was bigger then the night before... I wonder what tonight's turn out will be. Don't get left out and left behind on the wave, u might wanna get an invite #TSNJ #TSJS #InviteOnly #LetsGetIt (at Neptune)

[moooojie]

@okmalumkoolkat ezilanda...phegcelezi fetching them! #majayvani #thesissocialjam #tsjs #lifestyle #jozi #southafrica #futuremfana #killerperformanceinternational #cycling #fixindairies #fixie #fixedgear #singlespeed (at The Rock)

[herisuryono]

Zona nyaman #part 2#

zona nyaman.

nyambung dari tulisan sebelah.

edisi Maudy Ayunda bertanya saya menjawab (ngimpi mode:on):

*arti zona nyaman menurut kakak apa?

-nyaman itu menurut saya ya, waktu pikiran kamu ada tempat buat di bagi. ada orang disekitar kamu yang berinteraksi dengan kamu, memahami pikiran kamu itu sudah tentu kenyamanan yang mahal harganya. ditambah lagi disekelilingmu banyak orang yang nyambung, dan hidup kamu disitu isinya seneng terus, jarang sedihnya. nah itu deh ciri-ciri zona nyaman menurut saya.

*nah trus sekarang kakak sedang di zona apa?

nah, saat ini saya sudah move dr zona nyaman saya. zona nyaman saya bernama jogja. move on nya gak nanggung2... kalo sekarang mau balik ke zona nyaman yang kemarin bakalan nangis2 deh.. yah, anggap saja sekarang saya pergi ke planet mars, nah, trus jemputan pesawat buat balik ke buminya nunggu setahun-dua tahun lagi, baru bisa balik ke bumi...

anggap aja lah kayak gitu. jadi ibaratnya komunikasi sama orang di bumi ya cuma ketemu via dunia maya, namanya dunia maya ya gak nyata-nyata amat. gitu aja.

dan mereka yang di bumi gak setiap hari ada. dan mereka juga punya kesibukan masing2. dan kita disini sendiri.

dan disini gak ada teman ngobrol yang sevisi untuk dibagi ceritanya...

dan yang ada hanyalah kekosongan. tom hanks pasti ngerti perasaan saya, pas tom main di film cast away. (sambil natap langit di kejauhan)

*serius kakak sekarang di planet mars?

-enggak juga, sekarang lagi di hatimu ciat ciat ciaaaattt hahahaha :p

* -_-' dasar Jones.

-eh tadi ngomong apa barusan?

*enggak, tadi ada kucing lewat...

-ohh...

*trus, jadi kakak pengen balik lagi ke zona nyaman yang kemarin?

-ya enggaklah. pengennya cuma mengenang aja. sesekali nostalgia juga boleh. tapi kalo balik lagi ke kehidupan yang dulu itu sudah enggak. itu satu fase dari hidup yang musti kita jalanin (ceileehh bahasanya)

-maksudnya gini lho dek maudy, zona nyaman saya yang dijogja itu emang udah cukup sampai disitu. 6 setengah tahun di jogja itu udah istilah melayunya *udah ngam lah (udah pas). dan keputusan saya untuk move on itu juga udah bulat. kelamaan di posisi nyaman itu malah bikin gak nyaman lagi. kita harus menengok dunia untuk belajar melihat segala sesuatu dari segala sisi...

*nah sekarang di "planet mars" nyaman gak?

-kan baru beberapa bulan disini jadi masih belum nyaman..nah mungkin suatu saat kita akan menemukan juga titik kenyamanan itu. tapi saya pengennya disini cuma buat belajar. ya istilahnya sekolah jilid 2 lah. jadi gak dibikin berat pikiran. (yah walaupun kadang kepikiran juga sih hahahaha :p)

*trus pesan2 kakak tentang zona nyaman?

-menurut saya, orang yang hidupnya bisa sekolah-kuliah-lulus-kerja itu termasuk orang2 yang beruntung. di zaman sekolah dan kuliah kita menemukan sahabat, cerita2, empati, cinta, sisi2 humanis yang bermunculan, hati kita yang berkembang lebih terbuka. trus fase kerja, keluar dari zona nyaman, bertarung dengan ketidak nyamanan itu, menaklukkan sisi ketakutan kita untuk kemudian menjadikan kita lebih komplet memandang hidup. dan mmenjadikan bekal nanti ketika berkeluarga... itu super sekali, pengalaman yang bisa kita ajarkan untuk generasi mendatang... jadi berpikir positif untuk segala kemungkinan yang ada. itu menurut saya sih gitu...

ok dik maudy. ada yang mau ditanyakan lagi?

*sip kakak. sudah kakak, makasih ya kak atas obrolannya.

-sama2 dik maudy, kalo pengn tau tulisan lain tentang zona nyaman versi saya bisa diliat di sini

*okeesip kakak.

[tsjspress-blog]

The Saint James Society

Bab(a/y)lon Rising (Tee Pee)

Standing tall in glitter-painted cowboy boots, one hand spinning a Fuzztones LP and the other clutching the Necronomicon, the Saint James Society storms the church of Lone Star psych. Bab(a/y)lon Rising, full-length follow-up to last year's defiantly odd eponymous EP, ebbs and flows like the ocean at night, the moonlight undulating waves of pollen-fried garage rock ("Get Cold"), colored-smoke balladry ("Letters Signed in White," "Ode to the Turquoise Ox"), bonfire epics ("House of Snakes," "Blood & Sand"), bad-dream ambience ("Celestial Symbols Interpreted"), and even classical piano ("Post Tenebras Lux"). The Society succeeds at painting with whatever colors adorn its brushes, but the album takes shape when leader Brandon Burkart spreads his legs, blinks his eyelined peepers, and struts through the black-hearted, swivel-hipped tab & roll of "The Serpentine Highway," "Refractions," and the title ode. It's like Aleister Crowley crashing the acid party with silver stars painted on his cheeks. The locals' organic blend of brown acid and leather 'n' makeup swagger puts a new spin on the Roky Erickson tradition of bad-vibes psychedelia, where angels and devils copulate loudly in the poppy fields of the soul.

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The murky vintage sounds of The Saint James Society will grab the ears of stoner doom fans, but the rest of ours will love that the “Pentecostal Desert Glam” unit is more interesting than their generic genre mates. Vocalist/bassist Brandon Burkart’s detached Josh Homme croon plays nicely off the whispy, no-fux-given backing vokillz of the group’s two absolutely essential “percussion” ladies, Candice Bertalen and Elza Burkart. The darker alternative feel of many of the songs on Bab(a/y)lon Rising also makes the SJS feel a little more relevant that average fuzz abusers.

[elzaburkart-blog]

COLLABORATION COMING SOON

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Spinning on Harris Radio: The Saint James Society

The Ballad of The White Horse, from Austin's The Saint James Society, taken from their self-title EP.  It's on Harris Radio'spodcast #22.

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Pentecostal Desert Glam is a genre I don’t recall having come across, but then nowadays many band invent new labels to make themselves seem interesting. A fact is that The Saint James Society from Austin, Texas is a mightily rocking retro band, although fortunately are not one of those countless clones of Airbourne, The Darkness or Kings Of Leon. The Seventies must have come and gone unnoticed for this quintet which is rooted in the deepest garages of the late Sixties. Consisting of a bassist/vocalist, a guitarist, a drummer and a twin vocal tandem of rebel queens (don’t shoot the messenger, I am only quoting!), the latter of which doesn’t leave much an impact on record though, apart from some backing vocals, and I surmise that they are probably shining live on stage as gorgeous eye candy, as the promo photos let me suggest.

It’s a bit of a shame that this self-titled debut EP contains only four tracks and is already over so soon, as The Saint James Society are doing something quite refreshing to the retro genre. Instead of riff-heavy hard rock, we get a hypnotically pumping bass line, a freewheeling guitar, pounding drums and vocals full of the powers of incantation. This band must surely have come across The Cramps, Velvet Underground and The Doors, but they are more than just a plain old boring copy. There is a highly pleasant psychedelic component to their music, adding some mystery to the sexy groove of their garage sound. The songs, although actually never longer than five minutes, always take their time to build up momentum and suspense. This could have sounded boring with any other band, but the Texans are smart enough to make it work, leaving you after short seventeen minutes only wanting for more. If their hopefully soon upcoming longplayer continues in that high quality vein, I am certainly awarding them an even higher grade.