Revive Life

Life's been crazy and hectic. 

 The only one that heals my feels are written words. 

My friend called me a messy blogger, i have two, nope, three blogs with scattered and no themed whatsoever posts. So what if i wrote whatever i like? Maybe i do have a scattered mind? So what. Okay. Enough venting. Sigh.

The Raid

I've been waiting a long time to watch this movie, I've heard the buzz about how great this movie is since last year and i missed the first screening in INAFF 2011 which caused me pissed that whole day.  Finally i watched it last weekend, the eager me standing in the ticket line since 2pm and got tickets for the 7pm slot. It's already half full so i didn't really get the best seat but whatever, i just wanted to watch it right now, that's what i keep thinking and if it's that good you bet I'll watch it again.

I know that it's an action movie, since i watched the trailer like too many times, but i didn't expected it to be that fast and brutal. Five minutes the movie starts i was in awe watching the drug lord villain slaughtering a few thugs after that i got a few minutes to breathe before the SWAT team goes inside the apartment building and then the actions just got escalated from there, it's no more a mission to capture a villain but it became a mission to survive and stay alive. There's so many amazing fighting scenes in this movie and some very clever tricks from the bad guys and the SWAT team to try to take each other down, the kind of scenes that would make you hold your breath the way the SWAT team does. I'm trying not to give spoiler here because i think not knowing what would happen in every scene in this movie is the best feeling, your reaction is the thing that makes this movie awesome.

Everyone knows the hero in this movie is Iko Uwais as Rama, the rookie cop, but i have to give a huge salute and bow to Joe Taslim as Sersan Jaka, Yayan Ruhian as Mad Dog and Ray Sahetapi as Tama. I like Sersan Jaka because i can feel the pressure of  being the team leader, watching your men killed brutally, one by one and losing control of what happened. As for Mad Dog, this guy loves to kill, doesn't like guns and he's literally the real meaning of  Die Hard, John Mclane would kill himself trying to beat Mad Dog. The drug lord villain, Tama, first appear in the screen eating noddles, wore sarong with gun in his hands, that is Indonesian bad ass, right there. No questions ask.

I don't review a movie technically, i review a movie the way i feel when i watch it and The Raid is top notch, you'll be getting fast pace adrenaline rush, a few laughs and a gory sights. What more could you ask for from an action movie.

Life is 50/50

So i got curious and watch 50/50. Joseph Gordon Levitt as Adam Lerner, 27 year old guy whose been living a healthy and perfect life, as he assume he is and then he got Cancer, there's a lump in his spine to be exact. For one and half hour i watched how Adam trying to handle his sickness, cheating girlfriend, worried mom and his buddy who seems taking a lot more advantage from Adam's sickness.

 I'm thinking death immediately while watching this movie. I feel pissed at his girlfriend and buddy whose mean to him but it might be because they're having difficulty trying to adapt with him and his sickness. Like all movie besides the mean girlfriend there's other girl that give hope, in this movie it's Adam's therapist, who encouraged him. By the end, i feel hopeful watching Adam, so it was sad and relieved at the same time. The ending was quite fast though, it kinda left me with, "What? It's done already?".

What My Crazy Hands Do...

I don't know when this habit, seeing pictures i love, cut and stick 'em together, came. I wouldn't dare to called it a collage, because collage is art and it has meaning, mine is a wreckage of images i love to see gathers in one page of blank paper.

The hardest part of making this is choosing which image and combine it with what image, it takes the longest time, not to mention the gluing part. As for the material or the images it's hugely depend on my creative eyes, old magazines, posters, brochures, basically anything will do.

I remember making the Young Truman Capote, it was after i read his novel Summer Crossing and loved it so much. I found this image of him in a local free magazine and decided to not combine it with other images, i want it to be just Truman Capote with my handwriting.

Looking back, I think I've been doing this since i was a kid, not in a piece of paper, but keeping it inside my head. All of this time.

Home, As I Recalled.

I live in one of the most crowded city in the world. It didn't allow me to stand still and just watch. Night and day it pushes me to keep moving. Warning me that if i stop moving and keep up, I'll be lost and stranded in the sea full of people. I've grown my thick skin and fast thinking here. It's toughness encourage me in crazy ways everyday..

But i have my moments where i could stop and watch. When i took pictures of every corner and center of this city. It stops and turns into places where i always want to come back to. I just hope all these concrete walls doesn't change what I am.

All cities are mad:  but the madness is gallant.  

All cities are beautiful:  but the beauty is grim. 

(Christopher Morley)

The Sundays on Sunday

The Sundays - Here's Where the Story Ends

it's that little souvenir of a colourful year
which makes me smile inside

My habit on keeping stuff just for the sake of it's memory is gone overboard. 

I'm turning into a clutterer now...