Sign Of The Times?

11 05 2010

Seen on a Gramedia bookshelf – a Quran-reciting VCD sitting quietly next to the “Hantu Jamu Gendong” VCD.

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Buat yg cari kerja – new job opening

11 11 2009

lincahSubmitted by reichan.

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In The Meantime, Let’s Honk To The Beat

9 11 2009

So Jakarta aspires to become an international music city. It makes sense, given the amount of large-scale music events and festivals recently held in Jakarta. One thing: if Jakarta can manage to convert the howling din of daily honking from cars, buses, motorcycles and sate sellers into music, it certainly would earn that title.

Maybe Plis Deh Jakarta can start a side business selling musical car horns?

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Singing ‘Copacobana’ All The Way To Surabaya… And Back

6 04 2009

All you karaoke lovers out there can sing your way to Surabaya in a plan from PT Kereta Api to hire out a refurbished antique locomotive for the Jakarta-Surabaya trip. The company plans to rent out Joko Kendil – the train’s name – for Rp 60 million per trip, and for that purpose the train will be outfitted with meeting rooms complete with LCD screen, sofas, and, you guessed it, a karaoke machine.

Well, as much as I’d like to ridicule it, it’s actually an interesting business idea! Maybe RCTI should hire it for a non-stop accelerated new season of Indonesian Idol, as a 18-hour uncut live telecast.

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Up To You, You’re The Jazz Expert

8 03 2009

Overheard at Java Jazz Festival 2009:

“Yuk kita nonton RAN aja, Tohpati kurang ngejazz nih….”

Thanks to Dika.

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I peed at Tabac, and I didn’t buy anything.

23 02 2009

I used to love Tabac Kemang. Until tonight.

Sure, some friends like to say “what’s so great about that place? It’s bloody expensive, pretentious, and the crowd is not even that flattering”

Well, I felt differently. I went there occasionally. As a meeting point to meet friends, or as the final destination after a fun night of club hopping.

I had fun memories there. From doing a split just to amuse my friends after a few glass of beers (see pic below), or simply having a fun night out for winding myself down after a stressful day at work.

Read the rest of Chibialfa’s entry here. Believe me, it’s appaling!

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TV Is The New Truth

1 02 2009

So this guy found out he was actually doing something wrong seeing himself on TV, in a news item reporting the search for him as the head of a deviant sect.

So I guess he didn’t realize that exchanging partners between married coulples was frowned upon in Indonesia until he turned on the telly.

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Karaoke Is Certainly Evil

12 11 2008

Inul Daratista, of hip-gyrating fame, has been receiving threatening text messages and also has been reported to the police due to claims of unauthorized duplicating of copyrighted songs for her karaoke chain, Inul Vista.

Yes. The karaoke chain, and thus the owner, is much more a criminal than the CD/DVD pirates. Yes. Even though Inul claims to have paid royalties to the Indonesian Copyrights Commitee, whatever that is.

The charge has been retracted by Deddy Dores, of dark-sunglasses, lagu cengeng fame as being ‘wrongly addressed’. Seriously, if you want to sue someone, get the address right! And… how come the other karaoke companies aren’t being sued? Hm.

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Jakarta What Parade

14 07 2008

To all its good intentions – really, somebody had to do it – the Jakarta Rock Parade failed to meet a lot of people’s expectations, even the bands who expected to get paid. Many of the high-profile bands who were scheduled to go on weren’t paid a downpayment on the performance (as is the standard procedure), so they boycotted the event with disgust. That, and the event was marred by mismanagement (the event organiser appointed to run the event almost backed off at the last minute, also due to payment problems) and even worse promotion. The event was quiet, to say the least.

One of the defunct stages, since a lot of the bands did not play. When there was a band playing, there was at least 20-30 stragglers around the stage watching with disinterest.

The merchandise stalls, which were just basically tables with stuff on top, really. But as you can see, The Police made an appearance although they forgot to bring their instruments.

So, friends at the JRP committe – I know you tried, really, really hard, at one point even selling your handphone to pay a band; so thumbs up for effort. Thumbs down for actual result.

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Artis Ibukota

6 06 2008

Sering ada sebuah iklan acara atau hajatan atau apalah, menampilkan “blah blah” (di mana “blah blah” ini adalah selebritis yang cukup dikenal, bisa penyanyi, bisa pelawak, bisa MC, atau emang sekedar pandai menjual diri) dan artis ibukota.

hm.

Ada yang bisa jelasin gak, ‘artis ibukota’ itu siapa?

Apa ada sebuah klub, klan, paguyuban atau koperasi yang harus pake daftar-daftar dulu untuk jadi artis ibukota? Atau ini semacam PT yang merupakan perusahaan artist management untuk… artis ibukota. Gimana caranya seorang penyanyi dangdut kondang dari Jember bisa masuk dalam golongan ‘artis ibukota’ ini? Mungkin ada sebuah Badan Penilaian Artis Ibukota di bawah pemerintahan DKI Jakarta, yang bertugas memonitor segala aktivitas hiburan. Nanti badan ini akan mengumumkan sebuah daftar tahunan, artis-artis yang dianggap masuk ke golongan tersohor ‘artis ibukota’. Mungkin band-band besar kayak Ungu atau Samsons dianggap ga layak masuk ke daftar ini karena mereka malah seringnya manggung di kota lain selain ibukota (iya toh?), jadi ini lebih cocok buat yang memang konsentrasi di dunia hiburan Jakarta.

Di sisi lain, artis ibukota kan sering disebut-sebut tuh… tapi kenapa gue nggak pernah ketemu seorang artispun yang menyebut dirinya ‘artis ibukota’? Apa malah ini sebuah perkumpulan rahasia, yang hanya diketahui namanya, tapi tidak diketahui anggota-anggotanya, macam Freemasons atau Illuminati? Mungkin tiap tahun si badan rahasia monitor hiburan Jakarta bertemu dan melakukan inisiasi pada artis-artis yang dianggap layak ke dalam perkumpulan ‘artis ibukota’. Hampir bisa dipastikan semua artis yang pernah menyentuh panggung mall lebih dari 5 kali pernah ikut dalam inisiasi ini – untuk memastikan mereka mematuhi segala aturan kelompok artis ibukota. Hm, mungkin karena itu di tiap mall hiburan-hiburannya sama-sama aja.

Atau ya, Artis Ibukota adalah sebuah organisasi massa dengan sebuah agenda politik – gak jauh dari berbagai organisasi massa yang bercokol di Jakarta macam FPI, FBR dan perkumpulan akronim lain. Kita semua tau bahwa media adalah salah satu cara untuk mempengaruhi dan mengontrol masyarakat banyak – kenapa gak lewat acara hiburan? Udah pasti yang namanya Artis Ibukota mendapatkan perhatian lebih banyak ketimbang berbagai organisasi yang berusaha mencari perhatian dengan melakukan berbagai atraksi di Bunderan HI, sekitar Monas dan lokasi-lokasi lain. Lha wong masyarakan Jakarta itu maunya dihibur terus, carinya hiburan. Yang belom ketahuan adalah, organisasi Artis Ibukota ini (belum ada singkatan), agendanya apa ya?

Atau Artis Ibukota bagian dari sebuah reality show yang besar, di mana para pesertanya wajib tampil di berbagai acara ibukota untuk penilaian umum? Yah kayak acara yang mencantumkan “Indonesian Idol” atau “KDI” atau “AFI” sebagai bintang tamu. Ini apa judul acara TV? Mungkin acaranya disiarkan di JakTV atau O Channel? Atau ada sebuah stasiun TV lokal yang kita masih belom nangkep di TV? Oooh, better yet, it’s so 21st century – it’s TV on the internet, macam Youtube atau IPTV gitu… mungkin ya…

Nah coba aja search ‘Artis Ibukota’ pake Google atau Yahoo… hasilnya apa tuh? Makin bingung kan…

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