Wednesday, June 25, 2008

interoperabilitas

Banyak orang bilang ga suka blogspot karena ngasih komentarnya susah. Saya sendiri ga tau, tapi kalo punya akun google mestinya sih bisa (dan kayaknya udah banyak juga yang punya).

Tapi saya baru tahu kalo ternyata saya ngga bisa post komentar di blog yang ada di livejournal.com, meski ada tulisannya login dengan OpenID (yang selama ini saya kita ada buat tujuan meninggalkan komentar di blog dari host lain). Haih.

Does God exist?

I certainly hope so. After all, wouldn't it be such a shame if centuries of war, violence, and hatred were all committed in the name of... a mass delusion? Oh we certainly wouldn’t want that, would we?

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

After Sex

Rasa-rasanya film After Sex yang baru saya tonton semalam di laptop ga bakal tayang di bioskop Indonesia. Sayang, padahal judulnya provokatif, dan di kumpulan vignette ini 'adegan' yang ditampilkan tidak ada yang benar-benar 'full-frontal nudity' juga. Namun secara konten, mungkin masih terlalu provokatif sih, dari delapan potongan yang ada, ada 2 vignette gay, dan 1 vignette lesbian. Sisanya hubungan heteroseksual. Favorit saya? saya sendiri paling suka vignette pertama dan terakhir.

Vignette pertama (Christopher&Leslie), karena meski temanya tipikal (soal gengsi, "We're [just] friends who fuck."), eksekusinya bagus. Vignette terakhir? Tentang one-night stand, dan coba baca saja sendiri transkrip percakapan mereka dibawah:

[Guy and Girl finished having sex in roof, and then dressed up]
Guy: Uh...
Guy: What's your name again?
Girl: Alanna.
Guy: Ah.
Alanna: What was yours?
Guy: Uh, Marco.
Alanna: Oh. It's nice to meet you again.
Marco: Yes. You, too. R-Really.
Marco: Where, uh--Where are you from?
Alanna: Arkansas.
Marco: Huh?
Alanna: This little town outside of Little Rock.
Marco: Um...Little Rock?
Alanna: Yeah, it's one of the bigger cities in Arkansas.
Marco: No, no, never heard of it.
Alanna: Where are you from, Mexico or something?
Marco: Uh, well, I'm Spanish, and, uh... I'm from Madrid.
Alanna: Is-- What part of Mexico is that in?
Marco: Oh, no, it's--it's in Spain.
Alanna: I know, but isn't that in Mexico?
Marco: No, it's in Spain.
[blank look from girl]
Marco: It's a country?
[blank look from girl]
Marco: In Europe?
Alanna: Oh! Okay, like, by England.
Marco: Y-Yeah, kind of.
[awkward silence]
Alanna: What, um-- What language do they speak there?
Marco: Spanish.
Alanna: I know, but isn't that what they speak in, um--in, uh...Mexico?
Marco: Yes, but the language--uh, the language originated in Spain.
Alanna: Are you sure?