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How To Destroy Angels & First Clas Mild Menthol

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How to Destroy Angels is a musical group featuring Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor, his wife Mariqueen Maandig and Atticus Ross. Rob Sheridan is the group's art director.
The group is named after a 1984 Coil single of the same name.



The band's first release, a six-song EP was released on June 1, 2010. The band released a track from the album, "A Drowning", as a digital single. A second song, "The Space in Between", debuted as a video on www.Pitchfork.com on May 14, 2010. The video was directed by Rupert Sanders. Both tracks were released as multitrack audio files.

A third track, "The Believers", was made available through Wired magazine's iPad application, along with a dissection and analysis of the song, and through a free digital download from the official website.

Sejak tanggal 1 Juni kemaren, HTDA bagi2 6 free track... coba aja liat ke http://www.howtodestroyangels.com/store/

Bwat yang mau liat v-klipnya, yang di bawah ni adalah v-klip yang diuplod di youtube tanggal 14 maret lalu...



BTW, ini hari = hari pertama kali beli clas mild menthol... :D
Dan menikmati ses baru itu sambil dengerin ini:


Underworld - Scribble (Radio Edit)

SIMM #14 Across The Borderline

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Biru Production Presents
SIMM #14 Across The Border Line
24 April 2010 | 19.00 - 23.00


DP Run Down:
Song 01 - To Destroy
Song 02 - Take It Back
Song 03 - Echoplex (NIN)
Song 04 - THTF (NIN)

Pasukan:
Ting Plung
Black Vegas
Black Puma
Sinuwun

ULTRASONIC JUNKIE - AUDIO - VIDEO - PROFILE DOWNLOAD

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Ultrasonic Junkie? what a stupid name for some people who don't really know 'bout us. Ultrasonic Junkie was made on early march 2005. We bring an unusual kind of music, with electro beat and other sounds, guitar effects, growl vocal mixed with light charm girls voice, dirty emo boy voice, and dark lyrics. Some of our friends marked us as a technocore music.
Theres a 4 members on this ultrajunk and we have a lot of kind group and music that be inspire us. The Brain of this group is Charly "DEVILICIA PROJECT", the brain of all this shit... then came Boyd "ex- LOVEHATELOVE" he wants to play on the stage, but he wants to make it different than other group, then he brings Byaz "KILLS TOMORROW (RIP)" to join. We met each other on early March, and we decides to have one more player to fill the guitar sounds, so we choose Sigit "DOWN FOR LIFE".
We have plan to make our first EP on this 2006, it's called SAVAGE TRIBE EP, it would be 4 songs demo and 1 bonus clip. We hope we can release our EP as soon as possible. And we just hope that we can have a big chance to introduce our self in mainstream or non- mainstream music here in Indonesia. We want to make many shows and make friends on every shows that weve played.

from: http://www.myspace.com/ultrasonicjunkie

FREE FILE DOWNLOAD
Ultrasonic Junkie Full File 2005-2006
- - Audio, Video, Lyrics, Profile - -

Just one click, direct you to indowebster

VIDEOS:

BOYHARDCORE LIVE @ SOLO RADIO


SAVAGE TRIBE

Nonton sHati

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sHati



Tadi malem nonton sHati maen di TBS. Seru!!!
Shati itu band POP (hehehe... jangan bilang najis mah gwah yah. Soalnya gwah emang suka banyak aliran musik, alias ndak pilih2 aliran musik. Biarin situ mau ngatain gwah not cool :P).
Mau cerita banyak tentang SHATI, tapi lagi males, so... I kasih link aja sesuatu yang ada hubungannya sama topik di atas... Huhuhu... tak tahu maksudnya kah? Tahu lah! (Wong edian omongan dhewe jawab dhewe)

Photo2 dari multiply:
http://charly.multiply.com/photos/album/41/ShaTi_Main_Neng_TBS_4_Feb_2008

http://sinuwun.multiply.com/photos/album/4/Shati_Live_TBS

Klo pingin tau lebih banyak tentang SHATI, visit aja myspacenya:
http://www.myspace.com/shatiband

Video dari YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4vYbGbmVQ64http://youtube.com/watch?v=gZQm4dYxNC4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ypRPbul7VTY


Sukses aja buat ShAti...
Aku akan selalu menjadi fans & team penggembira, always... Hehehe...

Poppies AMLW

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POPPIES

Jrot!
Ini Poppies (Foto dari kiri ke kanan - Ting Plung, Wondo, Ulil). Poppies itu nama band yang dibuat mendadak, gara-gara ada A Mild Live Wanted 2008. Namanya aja Poppies, aliran musiknya sudah pasti 'Pop' dong. Hihihi... Sekitar seminggu sebelum Audisi A Mild Live Wanted, kita punya niat buat 'coba-coba' ikut. Lhoh! Kok cuman coba-coba? Apa ndak serius? Klo ngomong masalah serius ato ndak, sama sekali no comment. Yang penting bisa 'tampil', dan bisa gawe orang2 yang nonton menikmati musik yang kita bawain, sanajan kita blm bisa tampil maksimal karena pengalaman 'tampil' juga cuman sedikit. Yang jelas, kita suka sama musik kita dan syukur, banyak temen yang suka sama musik kita juga. Setelah ngirim CD ke AMLW, ternyata Poppies masuk 47 besar dari Solo dan kita ikut audisi. Tapinya waktu audisi, kita ndak masuk final, tapi gara2 panitianya temen sendiri dan 'sungkan' mengeliminasi kita, akhirnya kita bisa lolos ke babak berikutnya. Hehehe... Kita curang ya? Hahahaha!!! Yo cuek wae lah... Kemampuan musik kita ndak seberapa, tapi kita tetap terus maju dan berkarya.

Ini foto diambil di dalam mobil sebelum kita ke HAILAI. Cerita tentang persiapan kita ke AMLW, rasanya sama sekali ndak begitu berat. Soalnya kita semua serba santai. Kita nyelesain 3 lagu yang disetor ke AMLW cuma selama 3 hari sebelum batas pengiriman. Dan kita cuma latian 2 kali sebelum tampil di HAILAI, dan sempat bingung sama format band yang cuma 3 orang aja. Huduuhhh... walhasil akhirnya kita memutuskan tampil bertiga tanpa embel2 additional basis dan gitaris. Mengingat persiapannya mendadak, milih safe aja. Tampil bertiga dengan persiapan yang minim pun, belum pasti bisa tampil safe. Masa bodo cah, yang penting bisa tampil. Horeeeeeeee!!!! (Lho??!)
Dan kalau mau ngomong jujur, baru kali ini kulo tampil dengan wardrobe yang bukan milik sendiri dan didandani sama make up artist yang handal. Hihihi... Thanks to ma sista Siska yang syudah bersedia nyediai wardrobe dan me-make-up kita dengan imut. Kita jadi tambah muda... kayak anak-anak SMP... :D (Padahal wong tuwek-tuwek)...

Yoho!!!
Setelah sampe di HALAI, tanggal 10 Februari 2008, jamnya lupa, yang jelas masih siang hari (duoh guobloki!), kita ndak langsung tampil, soalnya masih antri nunggu giliran. Sempet mikir juga setelah lihat band2 yang lain tampil. Huih, gila, mereka hebat2, dan yang pasti, lebih hebat dari kita. Tapi kita sama sekali ndak minder sama sekali ramikir opo-opo, soalnya kita terlalu excited keburu pingin 'manggung'. Huhuhu...Ugh... gitu deh pokoknya. Grogi pora? Huaduh!!! Jelas grogi dunk... Si Ulil grogi, soalnya dia jarang tampil nyayi di panggung... Aku yo grogi, soalnya jarang2 tampil di panggung sambil pukul-pukul drum (Ouch!!!), dan I juga bukan drummer. HAHAHA!!! Untung ada laptop (buat playback loop) dan monitor (headphone minjam sama Pak Gimbul), enak bisa dapat bantuan loop biar ngedrumnya stabil. Mas Wondo kayaknya cool-cool aja, soalnya dia punya banyak 'jam terbang'. Hehehe... Jadi ya cuma dia aja yang ndak grogi kali...
Waktu kita tampil, kita bawain 3 lagu. Yang pertama lagu andalah, "Kekasih Rahasia" (lagu ciptaan Mas Wondo). Sumprit cah, lagunya bagus, enak... (Pantes aja enak... Yen ra enak, mana bisa dia menang CILAPOP. Plus, karakter lagunya cocok banget buat KIKAN Coklat... HAHAHA!!!) Tapi sayang banget cing, mungkin karena lagu pertama, baru pemanasan, si Ulil grogi dan ada falesnya. Tapi OK lah karena setelah lagu pertama dibawain, banyak penonton yang tepuk tangan. Trus, lagu kedua, "Kuakhiri" (ciptaan Mas Markus), lumayan lebih enak dari lagu yang pertama, karena mungkin pemanasan kita udah bekerja lebih keras (maksudnya?! aku yo bingung ki karepe opok). Trus yang brikute lagu terakhir "Hanya Ingin" (Ciptaan Mas Wondo). Ting tong! Waktu kita ngebawain lagu itu, bisa lebih enak dari lagu pertama utowo kedua... Tapi sayang.... Aku ngedrume sempet meleset... Di bagian lagu pas break yang harusnya mandeg dilut... EEeeeK! Aku malah nuthuk Tom, dan asli ketahuan banget yen salah!. shauhsuahsuhauhsuhaushuahsua!!! Edun!!! Biariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!! Cuih!!! ( :o ) Syukur aja abis kita kelar, aplausnya tetep meriah dan rame hehehe...
Dari hasil tampil di AMLW Seumur-umur baru waktu itu aku ngerasa koyo... anak SD utowo SMP yang pertama kali belajar ngeband dan awal-awalnya main band (Mungkin karena biasa manggung jadi vokalis ngerock dan bukan drummer pop, rasanya seperti anak kecil yang baru bisa ngedrum). Damn it lah! Yang penting fun :)
Well then... tentu aja kita ndak bakal lolos ke babak berikutnya... Soalnya band-band yang laen jauh lebih OK dari kita...
Poppies Are:
Ulil - Vocal
Wondo - Keyboard
Ting Plung - Drums & Programming

Kapan ya Poppies bisa manggung lagi? Pingin deh...
Akhir kata, makasih buat semua temen2 yang udah bantu dan dukung Poppies.
______________________________________


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Poppies links:
http://amp.channelv.com/poppies
http://www.myspace.com/poppieskids
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I'm hunting his stuff!!!
I don't think you know what I'm talking about.
Hehehe.
Maybe you don't even know who he is. :-)
I wish I could have all of his vinyls without going back again to Homburg!

Whoaaa!!!

Tripping! Tripping! Tripping! PPO (Pura-pura tripping)! Heheheh.

Jonny Jonny

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XXX...kangen sama jonny...XXX



jarang bgt nonton jonny di layar kaca. mengingat jarang nonton tv ato liat2 klip musik. di rumah, paling muk denger genjrengan dia thok. :(. dan lagi, kopian cd yang isinya klip2/live2 yang ada dia ludes semua alias ilang. hiks hiks...

padahal dia pas lagi live keren pol aksine...

si Jonny ini ternyata udah sempet rilis album solo, soundtrack to the film 'Bodysong', yang rilis Oktober 27.


Full trek list :

'Moon Trills'
'Moon Mall'
'Trench'
'Iron Swallow'
'Clockwork Tin Soldiers'
'Convergence'
'Nudnik Headache'
'Peartree'
'Splitter'
'Bode Radio/Glass Light/Broken Hearts'
'24 Hour Charleston' (bareng collin' kakaknye).
'Milky Drops From Heaven'
'Tehellet'



tiba-tiba kok kepikiran sesuatu?? apa coba ber'jonny greenwood' style ajah ahh ya?

QUEEN OF NOISE IS OVER

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solo - jkt, cileduk - bulungan
balik ke solo lagi dgn selamet! horeeee!
--suka dukanya--
sukanya :
kita sampai dgn selamet di cileduk, tempat dd crow. istirahat cukup, esoknya latian di legend studio, latiannya sukses, walo si boss besar cuma nyesuain 1 hari latian di jkt.
pas hari h, kita maennya di 'perempuan berteriak' enak! bisa dibilang devilicia project sukses!!
walopun menjelang terakhir acara setelah stepfoward manggung, kerusuhan terjadi, shg kubik ndak jadi maen....(maen ora ya? abis kerusuhan itu kita langsung pulang sih..)
dan 4 lagu yg kita bawain : 1. to destroy 2. fearless 3. dancing in the grave 4.not meant for me (jonathan davis cover), berhasil dibawakan dengan bagus, diiringi gitar extreme-nya imam & dd crow, juga betotan bass si jojo, dari awal - akhir lagu berhasil membuat para penonton 'ndomblong'. ndak tahu yang nonton 'ndomblong'nya karena apa...
kita di jkt makan istirahat terjamin, soalnya mas wondo sang road manager bener2 momong kita. hehehe...
apa lagi ya? saking banyaknya, jadi ndak bisa ditulis semua di sini..

dukanya :
asem! jadi trauma perjalanan darat pake mobil. susah tidur, takut, ndak bisa tenang di perjalanan, soalnya takut mobilnya nabrak dll. kalo kecelakaan mati gimana? tp alhamdulillah akhirnya tiba dgn selamat balik lagi ke kampung halaman.
waktu kita checksound, kita ndak puas. sampe kepikiran sebelum kita manggung nanti. 'gimana kalau pas kita main soundnya kacau?' payah pasti...eeee... tapi untung aja pas kita naik soundnya enak! hehehe...
kalau balik pulang, ndak bisa ketemu boss besar lagi... :((, tapi rapopo.. nanti pas lebaran juga ketemu. hehehe...
kita bawa camera digital, tapi kita ndak sempet nyuting pas kita manggung, masalahnya, baterenya abis!! huwaaaa!! pak gimbul sih! gak dipake dinyalain terus, jadi ya abis tu batere. rapopo, sing penting maine asiik..!! coba bawa kru sendiri! pasti lancar! tapi mengingat uang ganti transport yang dikasih sama panitia, kita ndak mungkin bawa kru banyak2. bawa mobil sendiri sih iya, tapi hanya muat buat 5 orang. huh...

acessories :
- lampu clubbing sapu 2
- lampu clubbing stick 2 ( yang satu putus, tapi malah bisa buat kerlip2an waktu pegang mic, lampu yang putus nyala terus. padahal rencana, 2 lampu stik itu bkl dimaini pas bagian melody lagu 'feaarless').
- bedak bayi yg harganya murah. buat lempar2 di atas panggung.
- pyur kerlap-kerlip...
- gelang punkers 1
- sarung tangan lengan 3 biji (2 dipake yang satu di pake ama imam)
- males nulis yg laine. lupa...

selama show kita berjalan :
sebelum naik panggung, tak corengi pipi kiwo tengen sik ala indian di belakang panggung, di belakang panggung gelap bgt dan ada kaca yang gedhe. biar terang dan corengannya ndak blepotan, tak urupke sik lampu clubbing sing stick. corengan indian itu ndak sekedar iseng lhoo..tapi corengan itu bg ku bisa nambah spirit waktu manggung di atas. rambut ndak sempet di gatsby wax lagi, padahal udah ndak terlalu kaku (tapi masih ngepunk, hehehe), soalnya kita nungguin hampir brapa jam ya? dari jam 7 pokoknya (baru maen jam setengah 12 hiks!). dd crow, imam & jojo naik duluan test suara equipment. begitu beres, aku genti sing naik, test monitor buat vs selama 4 detik. ternyata suaranya ok! begitu semuanya siap, langsung lepas jaket (pinjem jaket si jojo hehehe), play vs, lompat ke tengah panggung. lagu 'to destroy' langsung kita bawain. begitu lagu sampai ke speech, tak lempar bubuk putih (bedak coy!) ke dd crow (dd crow sempet iseng mukul pantatku hahahah!!!), urut... ke jojo & imam, abis tu ngelempar ke aku dhewe. ngelempar bubukan bedak itu ora asal iseng ngelempar, itu artinya ngasih power ke mreka & aku sendiri spy kita tambah semangat. stlh lagu ke 1 sukses, kita bawain lagu ke 2, 'fearless'. di tengah2 melodi, tak mainke lampu 'clubbing' (lupa gayaku waktu itu, pokoknya muter2in lampu). begitu lagu 'fearless' slesai, langsung teriak "break it on the day!!!!", ada suara tepuk2 tangan (seneng ada yang tepuk tanganin aksi panggung kita :)...). lagu ke 3, 'dancing in the grave', lebih seru lagi. soalnya suara gitar massive si imam & dd crow didengernya asyik. si jojo ngebass-nya juga pas ama lagunya. waktu itu aku nyanyinya gimana, rada2 lupa (kalo manggung asyiik gitu kadang suka lupa, saking enjoynya), yang jelas....bagian reff shouting abiss!!!. begitu teriak "wake uuuuuup!!" di bagian akhir lagu, lakone langsung mati tergeletak di tengah panggung (hehehe. cape cah! abis bawain 3 lagu loncat2 & teriak2 nganti suarane entek, nggubrak wae!). lagu ke 4, 'not meant for me' tak nyanyekke sambil tidur. saking menghayati lagu, sampe nangis barang. ( sampe2 lupa rencana berikut, ngrurupke lampu clubbing yang wes digantolin di celana, hehehe). hampir mendekati bagian akhir lagu, aku tangi, lungguh neng tengah2 panggung, masih nyanyi sambil nangis, sempet lemparin pyur kerlap-kerlip ke penonton (itu artinya nyucapin terimakasih buat mereka), & di ending lagu... langsung teriak "tengkyuuuu!!".  nggak nyangka, semua yang nonton pada tepuk tangan..!! gila bgt.. tak kira shownya ndak bakalan gitu coy... sebelum turun panggung, tak sebari stiker dadakan yang dibikin sbelum kita brangkat ke jkt, semua pada rayahan & stikernya nyaris abis. krn aku turun, yg nonton semua pada rebutan, sampe cincin jatoh & ilang.. hiks.. (gpp lah..yang penting shownya sukses)..
tiap devilicia manggung, ndak pernah ngajak ngomong penonton. ndak suka basa-basi & ndak ahli ngomong ke audience. cukup dg ucapan terimakasih aja di akhir show (kebiasaan). huweeeyyy!!

udah ah laporannya. lagi males nulis banyak2. yang terakhir thanks to, ya? hehehe..
mau lihat foto? coba aja baca blog-nya akasa, ok?? (tengkiu akasa...!!)

thanks to :
our sesepuh, ongking (lik acung), atas dukungannya dari jauh. mbok yo ikut dong kali kita maen di luar kota!
our road manager, wondo, you're the best road manager, boss!!
our additional guitarist, dd crow, i love you boss!! hehehe..
our asst. road manager, gimbul, tengkiu for the power and support!! (kalau nyetir, pasti gawedeg2an! hiks! awas..awas...kalem..kalem..hehehe).
our additional guitarist imam, geng geng geng abis! metal boss! sip dah!
our additional bassist, jojo, gayamu oke punya man! sip bgt!
benny sofa, tengkiu atas diperbolehkannya kita numpang di sono. hehehe..
kang anwar (powerslaves)
dhitta & dratt, tengkiu karena njenengan, kita bisa manggung di jkt. sayang, dratt ndak jadi manggung. hiks hiks.. :(
iqbal, makasih udah sempetin dateng & jepret kita manggung.
koes & si ehemnye, hehehe.. tengkiu bro! udah dateng nonton kita, 2 kali lagi, waktu diparkinsound juga.. :)
sayco, the addict insane, our othersite maker
yan, jilmi, arief & semua panitia 'perempuan berteriak', makasih udah ngundang kita maen. kapan-kapan kalau bikin event lagi, kita diundang maen lagi ya?
buat semua temen2 biru komuniti, tengkiu atas dukungannya dari jauh! lain kali kalau kita manggung mbok ya pada ikut semua, biar rame! we love ya'll!
yang terakhir, semua temen2 yang udah pada dateng nonton kita manggung, tengkiu all!!

GOODBYE LESLIE

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Cantonese pop star and actor Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing, who starred in the hit film "Farewall My Concubine," jumped to his death in Hong Kong on Tuesday.
Gila.
Gue baru baca beritanya tadi malam.
Leslie Cheung si aktor & penyanyi kondang itu bunuh diri, man!
Turut berduka cita, soalnya ngefans.... Sayang banget.
Kenapa bisa bunuh diri?
Padahal dia punya ambisi besar jadi sutradara kondang. Cita-citanya blm kesampaian, dong..
Hiks..hiks...
I emang salah satu fans dia yang merasa kehilangan nih.
R.I.P, Leslie....
R.I.P...

T.A.T.Y

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Нас недогонят...

Толькоскажи, дальшенас двое.
Только огниаэродрома.
Мы убежим, насне догонят.
Дальше от них,дальше отдома.
Ночь -проводник,спрячь нашитени Заоблака.
За облакамиНас не найдут,нас неизменят.
Им не достатьзвездыруками.
Небо уронитночь наладони.
Нас недогонят, насне догонят.
Небо уронитночь наладони.
Нас недогонят, насне догонят.

Нас недогонят...

Мы убежим,все будетпросто.
Ночь упадет,небо уронит.
И пустота наперекрестках.
И пустота насне догонит.
Не говори, имне понятно.
Только безних, только немимо.
Лучше никак,но не обратно.
Только не сними.
Только не сними.

Нас недогонят...

Небо уронитночь наладони.
Нас недогонят, насне догонят.
Небо уронитночь наладони.
Нас недогонят, насне догонят.

Нас недогонят...



Dua cewe ini kalo pas nyanyi teriak2 suaranya nyaring & bisa tinggi bgt...

Ck..ck..ck..

INDUSTRI MUSIK INDONESIA TELMI

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Lagu-lagu kaya gitu baru muncul sekarang?? Hah! Bullshit! Pada ketinggalan jaman semuanya!!!
Endingnya, gue pingin bilang...
FUCK INDONESIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY!!!!! FUCK!!! FUCK!!!! FUCK!!!!
WHAT THEY WANT IS NOT MUSIC WITH SOUL!!! WHAT THEY WANT IS MONEY!!!
FUUUUUCK!!!!!

ill ninyo

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What do you think about ill ni?o?
I like to listen to their song, and I like it.
I think it is different when you listen to fear factory, soulfly, linkin park, korn, sick of it all, POD, statix-x, deftones or another groupie that has the same genre.
I think, ill ni?o is more �latin�.
Am I right? Or I just made it up?
Well, play ill ni?o now. You�ll know...
I love the metal stuff & the latin touch on their music...
So cool...

I just hear and compare the song �What Comes Around from the album Revolution Revolucion� and �What Comes Around (Day of the Dead Mix) from the soundtrack Resident Evil�.
Hmmm...
All good...
The song from Resident Evil seems more industrialize with the beating beat from the drum machine and the conga beat, guitar strums, make the song more mellow although it is �metal�. The one from the album Revolution Revolucion (originally called �the album version�) is also good. It has more distortion guitar sound. I like the interlude on the middle of the song which have soft latin touch.
"Tu vida es mia...bla...bla...bla..." Waaaa!! (Love it!!)

I only know a little about ill ni?o, not much...
The band :
Cristian Machado � Vocal
Marc Rizzo � Acoustic / lead guitar
Lazaro Pina � Bass
Jardel Paisante � Rhythm guitar
Dave Chavarri � Drums & Bongo
Roger Vasquez � Percussion

I think they got 1 album that came September last year called �Revolution Revolucion. I heard that this band has already released an album from roadrunner records before they came with �Revolution Revolucion�. They also contributed one song in the album A Tribute To Pantera (with a song, 5 minutes alone), and appeared in the soundtrack Faust & Resident Evil...

Clap...clap...clap... and bang my head...
Hehehe...drf

Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke

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Si Ethan nulis buku lagi, setelah dulu pernah sukses dengan THE HOTTEST STATE-nya.
Tapi sayang. Aku nggak bisa beli buku baru dia, soalnya aku udah bukan bagian
dari kartu kredit papi lagi. Dan bukunya gak mungkin dijual di Indonesia....

Well, Ash Wednesday is a novel of blazing emotion and remarkable grace, a tale that captures the intensity--the excitement, fear, and jo--of being on the threshold of the mysterious country of marriage and parenthood.
Powerful, assured, large of heart, and punctuated by moments of tremendous humor, it represents, for Hawke the novelist, a major leap forward.


A little story of this book:

I was driving a '69 Chevy Nova 370 four-barrel with mag wheels and a dual exhaust. It's a kick-ass car. I took the muffler out so it sounds like a Harley. People love it. I was staring at myself through the window into the driver's-side-mirror; I do that all the time. I'll stare into anything that reflects. That's not a flattering quality, and I wish I didn't do it, but I do. I'm vain as all hell. It's revolting. Most of the time when I'm looking in the mirror, I'm checking to see if I'm still here or else I'm wishing I was somebody else, a Mexican bandito or somebody like that. I have a mustache. Most guys with mustaches look like fags, but I don't. I touch mine too much, though. I touch it all the time. I don't even know why I'm telling you about it now. I just stare at myself constantly and I wish I didn't. It brings me absolutely no pleasure at all.

My fingers were frozen around the steering wheel. Albany in February is a black sooty slab of ice. The woman on the radio announced the time and temperature: eight-forty-two and twenty-three degrees. Christy and I had broken up fifteen hours earlier, and I was in a tailspin. I had my uniform on, the dress one; it's awesome. Military uniforms make you feel like somebody, like you have a purpose, even if you don't. You feel special, connected to the past. You're not just an ordinary person, a civilian-you're noble. The downside of this Walk of Pride is, it's a lie.
This is my story.

My orders were unbelievable, my lieutenant is an out-of-control high-speed prick. This was his job. I had to inform some dude's wife that her husband had been shot in the head. The soldier's name was Private Kevin Anderson, and he'd been killed outside of Paradise the night before. Paradise is a bar where all the black dudes hang: probably drugs or some kind of bullshit high jinks. I didn't know him at all.



Not to mention, I was all cracked up myself. I hadn't been to sleep, doing speed all night: crystal meth. Breaking up with Christy had been a giant mistake; I knew it the minute I walked away.



The army is more lamebrain than you can even imagine. My lieutenant sometimes has me and my men go into town and stand guard over parking spots: securing position. I joined up because I wanted to be of service to something. I'd tried college, Kent State, for two years but screw that. Who wants to pay all that coin just to drink beer and get VD? My dad had been in the army, and I grew up constantly drawing pictures of machine guns and soldiers killing the hell out of one another other-shit like that-so I thought joining the army made sense. I figured it was my destiny, and it was, but just because something's your destiny doesn't mean it's gonna be any good.



I thought maybe someday I'd be in a Dairy Queen and some bonzo lunatic would whip out an automatic and start wasting people, and I'd be the one guy there who'd be able to stop him, who'd show some signs of personal heroism or integrity. There are a lot of people in the world. It's difficult to find a way to set yourself apart. When I was twelve, I built a working crossbow with bolts I could sink into a tree. That's about the coolest thing I've ever done.



Now, the only thing interesting or worthy of remark about me was my car. It was tits: silver with bold black racing stripes straight down the center. I never had any trouble getting laid.



I was hauling ass through north Albany into the "darker" part of town looking for this Anderson kid's address: 23761/2 Hawthorne, apartment B. I had all his information in a folder on the passenger seat. The streets were icy and lined with piles of crusty pollution-stained snow. I found the house easy, a big old place divided up into eight apartments. All the homes on the block were done the exact same way. Once upon a time this was the swank part of town-about eighty trillion years ago.



I sat in my Nova under a tremendous barren old sycamore tree that grew adjacent to the Andersons' driveway. Trees are wonderful. My dad was a tree man. He planted and trimmed trees for a living. Sometimes he'd be 180 feet up in the air rappelling around with a spinning chain saw, dead and sick branches bombing down onto the ground. I loved my dad. If I could give you the sensation of being eight years old watching him up in some magnificent maple singing to himself and talking to the branches-if you could hear him yell down, "Jimmy, when you're thirteen and you come live with me, we'll have ourselves some laughs then, pal, you can bet your sweet ass on that!"-if you could be inside my guts for that moment, you'd know exactly what it is like to be me. Summers, growing up, I worked with the ground crews, chopping and clearing. I was Mr. Know-It-All about landscaping. This sycamore in front of me was close to two hundred years old. Unless some ding-a-ling cuts it down it'll be right there on Hawthorne Drive long after I'm dead. Can't tell you why, but that makes me feel good.



I checked my nose to make sure it wasn't bleeding. Four hours before, I'd blown my last line with Tony, Eric, and Ed. Ed brought the crank. I wasn't gonna do any, but they started chopping 'em down, and like I said I'd just broken up with Christy and-bada-bing bada-bam-next thing you know I've been talking about Patrick Ewing, John Starks, and the rest of the New York Knicks for nine hours. Tony, Eric, and Ed are a bunch of numb-nuts, but I hang out with them all the time anyway. It makes me sad to think I'm like them. "Better to be alone than to wish you were." My father used to say that, but I never listen to anybody. I don't say that with any pride. It's good to listen to people.

In no way did I want to get out of the car. My lieutenant is a motherfucker. When I think about him, my body palpitates with rage.

Only eight-thirty in the morning and already things were going terribly. THE ARMY. WE DO MORE BEFORE NINE O'CLOCK. Isn't that the ad line on TV?

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Vanilla Sky

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Beli Vanilla Sky gara-gara lagunya Radiohead jadi soundtrack filmnya...
Opening film, pas si David bangun dari tidur : Everthing In Its Right Place
Di Bar, pas si David ngobrol sama si Ventura : I Might Be Wrong
Clubbing scene : Ada lagunya The Chemical Brothers & Underworld juga!!!
Oiii! Harusnya ngomongin filmnya Tom, Penelope & Cameron. Bukan ngomongin lagu!
Hehehe bodo...

What is happiness to you?
I wanna live a real life
I don't wanna dream any longer
Any last wishes?
Let them read my mind

Hundred Days Off

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Uwah!!
Akhire aku tuku kasete UNDERWORLD - A Hundred Days Off dung deng!!!!! **SOLA SISTIM**TRIM**ESS GEE**BALLET LANE**
Yihaaaa!! Gak nyongko neng Indonesia ono sing dodol, opo meneh neng kuto solo. Huahaha...

Nobody read me (from Blue)
Oh no!
I knew only one person read me (only Bonchu)
Is it bad? I can't beat Sheldon or that writer...
That's OK, that's fine
I still can listen to Underworld anytime I want...
And I bet they don't like Underworld, just like they don't like to read me..
I think they don't know what kind of thing Underworld is..
Hahaha..
I'm glad.. I'm glad..

Queen Of The Damned

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Tadi malem aku jalan-jalan sama si Oncha ke SIngosaren, makan Beff Katsu & apple juice. Uenak wareg.
Sbenernya tadi pingin beli kaos, tapi sayang duitnya kalo buat beli kaos.. jadi ya beli VCD ajah...
Aku beli VCD originalnya QUEEN OF THE DAMNED
Cuman 35.000 perak... murah ???
Kok banyak yang ngomong kalo film itu jelek napa ya? Not obsessed with vamp?
Khan banyak vampnya Anne yang bisa diliat di situ. Marius, Pandora, Armand, Kayman, Maharet, Jesse, David,..
Bisa ngeliat akting terakhir almahrum Aliyaah jadi Akasha...
And thx to Jonathan Davis! Cool song, man! Hehehehe...

CHECK OUT THE BAND!!!
"THE VAMPIRE LESTAT"
And download some 'cool' V-clips there!!