MS D NAKOVA’s milk-white Russian cheek blushed red broken maps of Australia every time she took me to bed. The sandstone walls of her basement apartment coughed up dust and the red flush moved to the tip of her hooked nose, transported by the IGA brand tissues she wiped her allergy-borne mucus with. She readContinue reading “DONALD BARTHELME – ONE STORY”
Category Archives: Ruminations
Scholarships to the Harvard University School of Native Orientalists – Eligibility Requirements
Preference will be given to applicants who serve as sycophants at the Goenawan Mohamad Academy of Other Unfinished Things otherwise known as Komunitas Utan Kayu, Jakarta. Applicants will possess: No degree, but absolute faith in Bernard Lewis Disgust at own country or whatever the antonym is of chauvinism A total lack of understanding of internationalContinue reading “Scholarships to the Harvard University School of Native Orientalists – Eligibility Requirements”
7Down
pada akhirnya yang tersisa hanya tulisanmu bukan? bukan blurbs tentang betapa hebatnya, omongan di belakang punggung tentang betapa jeleknya, omongan di depan mukamu tentang betapa tidak menyentuhnya, bukan bio singkat tentang di mana kamu meneruskan menimba ilmu, di mana kamu besar, di mana kamu sekarang tinggal. ya hanya itu saja. kamu di depan laptopmu, merasaContinue reading “7Down”
Perempuan Bermata Ketimun
Ketimunmu ketinggalan, banyak orang berkata ketika berpapasan dengan Dala. Sisanya hanya memandangnya pergi sambil menahan nafas, lalu setelah jauh, tawa mereka pecah. Ia hanya bisa berjalan pergi dengan diam. Dala harus membiasakan diri. Inilah konsekuensi dari keputusan yang diambilnya enam… susah pertama kali bagiku mencoba membaca lagi fiksi benar benar maxi seperti ini. attention span-kuContinue reading “Perempuan Bermata Ketimun”
Honesty is like a title
this is gonna be more abstract than the usual. it’s gonna be about feelings. or maybe it won’t be, more abstract or about feelings. see if i actually know what i really want. i had just finished watching nip/tuck, season 4. it took me a whole weekend. it ended with a lip-synced medley by theContinue reading “Honesty is like a title”
mod
“–I love Jakarta, even though it isn’t mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.” – Holly Golightly (one word modified), Breakfast at Tiffany’s. modifying sentences inspired by lolipopsuper’s recent posts.
pitchfork realism
pedomanku yang tidak disukai oleh pitchfork berarti keren. secara realism cuma dapet ponten 6 it’s probably a masterpiece. lolipopsuper: gara-gara baca review menggigit Nonesuch Records ttg album terakhirnya The Magnetic Field, Realism, gue jadi buru-buru download dan baru bener-bener kena sama ke-ngehe-an mereka. mereka berdendang, “you think you can simply press rewind, you must beContinue reading “pitchfork realism”
wow
we are nowhere and it’s wow is mikael johani’s first poetry collection. it’s divided into three sections, home, home part deux, away, and we are nowhere and it’s wow. because he likes being coy. home is away, away is home, part deux is part un, nowhere is somewhere etc. includes such orientalist pseudo-political poems asContinue reading “wow”
boker di kantor
boker di kantor adalah hal yang paling tidak saya nanti-nanti tapi hasilnya sering mengesankan karena lama ditahan-tahan
blood red carpet
kimo di bawah tadi lagi sama zeke o si joko sih lagi bersihin kacamata cathy tuh sama gading si indra ngetwit tadi katanya telat hujan si john sih udah dari tadi lo emang studio berapa o bareng titien ya emang ada mbak leila juga si tito o anak mfi itu iya sih si gery jugaContinue reading “blood red carpet”
Divagyrations 