The Jakarta Globe

The Jakarta Globe, my daily source for all things bemusing, saddening, and downright baffling about Indonesian politics/culture.

Whether it's the House of Representatives spending more than half of their budget alone on 'international and domestic traveling' or how some California man is in jail because he allegedly shutdown his neighborhood mosque for being too loud... Indonesia may be backwards at times, but boring? Never.

Sunset

Alila Villas Soori in Tabanan, Bali.

Road Trip: America

Some lomography pictures from my recent trip back to America (NYC, DC to Oklahoma, then northeast again to Kentucky and then doubling back) are finally up for view. This was back in April-May 2010. More pics can be found here.

"The Road" - Cormac McCarthy

Holy shit. I finally finished a book. Been awhile since I picked one up but felt compelled when my girlfriend is yellin' James Patterson in one ear and my sister is yellin' Cormac McCarthy in the other.

So I went with Cormac McCarthy's novel "The Road", largely because I knew he'd written "No Country For Old Men" and my sister swear's on her life that "Blood Meridian" is second to none. Originally written back in 2006, "The Road" has garnered a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 and in 2008, Entertainment Weekly "named The Road the best book, fiction or non-fiction, of the past 25 years." Who knew that Entertainment Weekly was filled with literary geniuses???

Sarcasm aside, the book is about the journey of a man, and his son, along a post apocolyptic road that is leading them south in search of more survival sources and more of the "good guys". They meet anything but along this trip, human civilization reduced to cannibalism and an entire hope vanished in a mysterious world-ending event that is never explained. Readers beware, if it were not for McCarthy's poetic prose I myself would have thrown in the towel after the first 10 pages, it is a VERY bleak and depressing story but again, McCarthy's choice descriptions really bring it along.

Can't say I agree with Entertainment Weekly's review but I read this after I saw the movie and will at least admit the book is better, I was hoping for more explanation in the book as to what happened with the world but the book and movie stay committed to each other. Next up, James Patterson's "Swimsuit", a story I'm sure is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum for the mere fact that the characters actually have names...

13th Witness X NYC

Run 4 Cover (Starring : Nigel Sylvester) from 13thWitness™ on Vimeo.

13th Witness with the camerawork and Nigel Sylvester on the bike. Some sick moves, and i'll never get sick of listening to "Juice".

Found at The Original Winger.com

Off The Beaten Path - Vol. ???

After swinging thru the jungle, Avery over at Off The Beaten Path blog finally blessed us with some more mixes, peep them...

Avery - Ao Vivo
Avery - Chegada

Erick Morillo - Dancing (A "Little" "More" Dub) (1994)

Another throwback, this time from Mr. Subliminal himself with much needed remixing help from "Little" Louie Vega... One of my dancin' faves from Baltimore radio house mixshows circa 1994.

Erick "More" Morillo - Dancing (A "Little" "More" Dub) (1994)