2:30

found an old mixtape o mine labeled ‘2:30’. think all the songs are under 2 mins 30 secs. order of the day. will try to write down the song list (including names of albums/eps) from memory. no cheatin. wanna know if i had really liked the songs then or if i was even more of an indie poseur than i thought i was.

SIDE A
i’m ready – royal trux (from accelerate (?) pokoknya same album with the song stevie about steven seagal white/red/blue coloured cover)
waterpark – royal trux (from visions of disorder)
cut your hair – pavement (from crooked rain crooked rain)
never – the meanies (from come n see)
puss n boots – new york dolls (from too much too soon)
dumb – silver sun (i was dumb to like this band! my ex gf’s power pop freaks’ bad bad influence hahah blame someone else whydontcha – cant remember the album it was sort of robot-themed i remember one of their lines was ‘you were the alien conduit’ which they then rhymed with ‘do it’ cheapskates)
summer babe – pavement (slanted enchanted original not remixtered version)
mike love not war – smudge (from mike love not war ep)
barbarism begins at home (? – ‘bruises bigger than dinner plates’) – the smiths (from first self-titled album)
lady in the front row – redd kross (cant remember album prolly one of silver sun’s major references in hindsight)
i wanna be sedated – the ramones (from the rhino anthology)
the kkk took my baby away – the ramones (from same anthology)
get me away from here im dying – belle & sebastian (from if you look sinister haha this sounds wrong! what the fuck is it?)
the good in everyone – sloan (fuck if i know what the album is called. the only sloan song i could stand. cant.)
wait – even (ack cant remember album! only album from great mid-90s melbourne band)

SIDE B
tally-ho – the clean (from a compilation but what was it where the hell is the cd?)
sick of myself – matthew sweet (from 100% fun)
winning smile – snout (from the new pop dialogue)
girlfriend in a come – the smiths (from strangeways here we come)
busby berkeley dreams – the magnetic fields (from 69 love songs vol. ? ill take a stab 3)
cemetery gates – the smiths (from the queen is dead)
head in stereo – the john reed club (from death metal ep)
bengali in platforms – morrissey (from viva hate)
flavor – jon spencer blues explosion (from rocketship ep)
heavy metal secret – smudge (from slight return ep)
backslider – jon spencer blues explosion (from extra width)
forgot the title cant believe this this was one of my favorite tearjerkers! but the chorus goes ‘could you be my little movie star? / could you be my long lost girl?’ – matthew sweet (from girlfriend)
personality crisis – new york dolls (from first new york dolls album think it was self-titled)
why bother – weezer (from pinkerton)
new pollution – beck (from odelay!)

gapang kok

i walked away to beach, leaving her with a plate of tuna slop rice (nice, if a bit salty), leaving her with her friends, leaving her with whatever disappointment she felt over me. i just wanted to go to the beach, feel the sand on my feet, maybe stand under one of the bakau-ish trees and look up at the half-formed moon. i did that. and the cafe owner’s dog, a mongrel lab, ran with me down to the beach, to a bakau-ish tree under which i thought i could feel some calm and just stood there next to me. no demanding playing fetch, no barking, no rubbing wettish cheek on calves. she was just there. as self-contented as i ever wished to be.

close shaves

goin into sudirman from tokyo joe, metro mini rushing for potential passengers on kerb [fuckin close]. toot toot air horn a go go before goin for the narrowest of space between a sky blue avanza coming out of a sudirman office’s gate and a kijang goin the same way as tante sophie (at the speed of light) [fuckin close the avanza even airhorned back]. moral of the story: rapal mantra lebih sering: anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, jaemanis, anya, 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atsep

Di dalam pesta,
ada laser show
Musik 178 bpm,
juga derai tremor
Di dalam pesta,
ada gerah tawa
T’rasa malam semakin hacep sob

Di dalam pesta,
buanglah Aqua
Biarkan saja,
angan-angan melintir
Di dalam pesta
mari masukkan kepala ke speaker
Ambil glow stick,
ikuti irama trance

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ke kiri dan ke kanan
Anggukkan ke depan
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