Title: “LASKAR ORBA: Abjection Your Honour!: (police-)state-imposed self-hatred in Riri Riza’s later movies” Supervisor: Gratiagusti Chananya Rompas, MLitt Student name: Mikael Johani Student #: B6761CLQ Outline: – both Gie (2006) and Laskar Pelangi (2008) are about products of private (high)school systems, the former a student of Canisius College (CC), an elite Catholic school in JakartaContinue reading “Laskar Pelangi Orba – a film studies thesis proposal at UvA, autumn ’09”
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buat liu ching-wen
su tung-p’o bunga teratai kering tak bisa lagi memayungimu dari hujan; tinggal seranting krisan bertahan melawan embun beku. kuingin kau ingat semua hal yang indah sepanjang tahun ini, terutama sekarang, saat sitrun kuning dan limau hijau menggantung di ranting. *diterjemahkan dari terjemahan bahasa inggris burton watson, dalam the columbia book of chinese poetry:Continue reading “buat liu ching-wen”
panas
twiterranny killed me i have no compunction to write beyond the roof of my mouth you were waiting for me to rip your daster off you were waiting for me to offer you a chinoiserie fan you were waiting for me to give in to your stare and i cracked open another can of beerContinue reading “panas”
hey you out of wedlock rajput bastard
i forgot what i was supposed to tell you what infos about my monkey life i shd impart on yr forest floor but here goes: three days to forever, ill send u the dvd when it comes out jakarta: a history (revised edition), library copy that blog that has a link to the blok mContinue reading “hey you out of wedlock rajput bastard”
the deal is real
oh yeah it’s real penny joy you hot lunch you my girlfriend’s name is really bunga i know it sounds like if pronou- nced in your anglo-sa- xon toungue like it mi- ght go well with bamb- agada the yam farmer but it is actually pron- ounced boo-nga with a soft -ng and it mean-Continue reading “the deal is real”
kewl
cool? what’s your idea of cool nowadays? we’ll give you a taste of all the parallel universes in this hellhole eh? remember after ice age comes life. you coming makes me think how i miss us just being boys. ok boyo? we’ll be boys again eh, for old time’s sake. for life’s sake. for fuck’s.Continue reading “kewl”
travel plans
for geoff page i wanna go to lake toba then see the orangutans. my girlfriend bunga is batak the original inhabitants of the great lake. they were cannibals one hundred years ago. if she comes with us we’ll go head a-hunting yeah. her grandma still lives in a tiny village called porsea. i wanna stayContinue reading “travel plans”
Love Meal
Gimme a hand Gimme a kiss Gimme an ass Don’t be a miss Gimme extra sauce Gimme a napkin Gimme rock n roll Don’t count me in U want love to go with that ? Meet me at Wendy’s Meet me at Burger King Meet me at a mosque Allah is the King Meet meContinue reading “Love Meal”
pink
You keep stirring your baby faluda and I keep stirring my tea masala I didn’t put any sugar in my tea masala and you can never have enough vermicelli on your faluda The vermicelli breaks when you stir too strongly and I break when you can’t stop telling me How much you loved going toContinue reading “pink”
PEREMPUAN BERMATA BESAR YANG DONGENGNYA TELAT AKU DENGAR
Sebenarnya, aku yang mendongeng kepadanya lebih dulu. Di bangku keras di luar Burger King Djakarta Theatre, suatu malam yang luar biasa panas. Susah sekali bernapas. Dia duduk di sampingku, tapi aku tidak tahu. Tiba-tiba dia bilang, ‘Dongengi aku sesuatu!’ Poninya dipotong pendek menutupi dahi yang kelihatannya besar. Bando emas. Aku melihatnya dari sudut mataku. DanContinue reading “PEREMPUAN BERMATA BESAR YANG DONGENGNYA TELAT AKU DENGAR”
Divagyrations 