madwomanintheattic

The Three Musketeers Reunited: Umberto Eco, Salman Rushdie, and Mario Vargas Llosa (Pen World Voices, New York, May 2, 2008)

Thanks to technology, I could excuse my laziness to write a long report about the talk. You could listen to the entire event here, on the PEN website: http://pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1794/prmID/1583 I consider... more

Previous blog entries:
Oct 3	-	Contesting Indonesian Masculinity and Nationalism on Cinema, Asian Cinema, vol. 18, No. 2 (Fall/Winter 2007)
Oct 3	-	The Maternal Body in Indonesian Women’s Writing, RIMA 2008
Oct 3	-	Like a Rolling Stone:: "America" and Contemporary Indonesian Films, www.rumahfilm.org

The Police Reunion World Tour, Madison Square Garden, NY 2007

I don’t have much to say, really, except that THE POLICE ROCKS!

This might sound like an unintelligible review, but well, seeing The Police live on stage to me was a more emotional rather than intelligent experience. Dhyta and I watched the... more

Previous reviews:
Sep 23	-	Across the Universe (Julie Taymor, 2007)
Sep 23	-	A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Delacorte Theater, Sept 09, 2007)
Sep 5	-	Nosferatu the Vampyre (Werner Herzog, 1979)

my current writing inspiration

"Vengeance of hell boils in my heart
Death and despair flame about me."
(Queen of the Night Aria, from Mozart's The Magic Flute)

"Haunted by her side
It's the darkness in her eyes
that so enslaves me."*
(She's a mystery/ Roy Orbison)
* Bono... more

Previous playlists:
Oct 1	-	my unconscious blood-red shangri-la

She's A Mystery To Me (Live)/ U2

My writing inspiration, written by Bono for Roy Orbison. Am a huge fan of U2, but Orbison's version is more bewitching.