a collection of thoughts by reno nismara

Liars, corruptors, fakers, police, environmentalists, talk show hosts, hypocrites, junkies, politicians, lawyers, lovers, psychiatrists, gangsters, chief executive officers, geniuses, supermodels, bloggers, prophets, actors, students, entrepreneurs, fortune tellers, hackers, magicians, teachers, whores, accountants, journalists, photographers, alcoholics, poets, scientists, drivers, athletes, musicians, writers, directors, beggars, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, uncles, aunts, cousins, nieces, nephews, grandfathers, grandmothers, great grandfathers, great grandmothers, et cetera et cetera et cetera.

They’re all pigs, and they all live in this pig farm we call Earth.

Me, you, and everyone we know. Tragic.

What the fuck are you doing here? It is exactly like the title above.

No fucking update. Go away.

“Tick… tock… tick… tock…,” that’s the sound of the clock, the sound of our reminder, the sound of our boss telling us what to do. Like any boss, the clock still can get confuse sometimes. Actually, it always get confuse.

“Why does it always get confuse?”
That must be the question that is running over your head when you read the first paragraph of this post.

“I have an answer for you.”
That is my response to your question. You better be ready for my answer.

I bet you already realized that a clock is always ticking and tocking 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, or in short 24/7. I believe that you also already realized that a clock has 1-12 as its number.

“What can you determine from you explanations, moron?”
Of course, that must be your response when you read my post at this point.

“Be patient, readers. I will explain the answer. Ready or not, here I come.”
That is my reply when you asked such dumb question.

I determined that a clock is always confused because it always ticking and tocking by making many circles. Why is it always ticking and tocking and making circles? Because it still searching for something that it cannot found, which is the number 13.

“What the fuck are you talking about, idiot?”
Another dumb question from you.

“Nothing, I am just bored.”
Another dumb reply from me.

Another dumb post by me.

Forget Madonna. Forget Britney Spears. Forget Jenna Jameson. Forget Paris Hilton. Forget Christina Aguilera. Forget Inul Daratista. Forget Kim Kardashian. Forget Demi Moore. Forget Luna Maya. Forget Bjork. Forget Grace Slick. Forget Nancy Spungen. Forget Hayley Williams. Forget Maria Ozawa. Forget Alice Glass. Forget Natasha Khan. Forget Agyness Deyn. Forget Lily Allen. Forget Audrey Hepburn. Forget Deborah Harry. Forget Buck Angel. Forget Janis Joplin. Forget Lovefoxxx. Forget Winona Ryder. Forget Nico. Forget Shannyn Sossamon. Forget Dewi Persik. Forget the girl that is sitting beside you. Forget the girl that you made love with. Forget the girl that gave you a lapdance. Forget your mother. This is much sexier. Or not.

I admit it, I was exaggerating. I just want to post this disgusting live performance video from an Indonesian female dangdut singer, but I don’t know what are the reasons to post this video, so I exaggerated by comparing her to almost everybody that are famous, sexy, and controversial, which are her characteristics. Well, she is not actually sexy. Instead, she is cheap. Oh yeah, her name is Lina Geboy. In English, it means The Plump Lina. For your information, she is the hottest, no, the cheapest export from Indonesia. Oh, maybe I want to post the video because I want you to know the example of an Indonesian product, which is quite cheap, quite rubbish, and quite shameful.

Enjoy!

Yes, the big bang has already happened and killed tyrannosaurus and all its kind.

Yes, Adam and Eve have eaten the forbidden fruit.

Yes, Noah’s ark has left the shore.

Yes, Jesus of Nazareth has been crucified.

Yes, the last prophet of Islam is dead.

Yes, Isaac Newton has proved that the earth is round.

Yes, Albert Einstein has his own theory of relativities.

Yes, Hiroshima and Nagasaki has exploded.

Yes, Mark David Chapman has shot John Lennon.

Yes, the disco has ruled the world.

Yes, the teenage angst of grunge has also ruled the world.

Yes, Saddam Hussein has been hung.

Yes, the economy is such an ass.

Yes, a black man has been chosen as a president.

But no, the world has not ended, yet.

It’s not too late to change for the better.

Happy two decades, moron.

Really? Am I that old?

Actually, I want to write this post weeks ago, but it must wait, because there are other things that are more important, such as college life. Well, this post will talk about a praise that I had weeks ago. A praise that used text messaging as its media. A praise that read like this…

“Son, I have just finished reading your blog. I like it. It was excellent. It shows me the side of you that I didn’t know. Keep it up.”

Yes, it is from my dad. It’s such a surprise that he read my blog, because I never told him the URL of my blog. Know why? I am too shy to tell him about my opinions at something, because he is quite smart himself. Not reasonable? I know. Do you know from who he knows my blog site? Actually, it’s not a who, but a what. You got that right! It’s from my Facebook page. Yes, he has a Facebook page. He’s a 45 year old father of 2 children who has an addiction to a social networking site. Oh yeah, he loves beer and Halle Berry. I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

I always wanted to randomize the letters in my name and turn it into a new and unique sentence. Sadly, I am too lazy to think about the new position of a certain letter in my name.

That sadness won’t last forever because when I browse the internet the other day, I found a software called Anagram Genius. You can download the trial version of it for free at http://www.anagramgenius.com/.

So, after I installed the software and did everything that needs doing, I typed my name on the screen with a keyboard. I typed Reno Nismara, and then the software founded not 1, not 10, not 100, but 1000 different sentences based on the letters in Reno Nismara! The software also rank the anagrams from best to worst based on many things that I don’t know. But the ranking is not quite good, because there are many anagrams that are good for me, but not good enough for the software. Well, taste is relative, isn’t it?

I am sure that you are all interested at what the software did to my name. If you don’t, just pretend that you do, ok? Anyways, these are my 5 personal best of what Anagram Genius did to my name…

1. Iron Man arse.

2. No arse in a Mr.

3. O man! Rare sin.

4. I snore an arm.

5. Main, rare son.

Nice, eh? Now, what you have to do is download the software and compare your results to mine!

# Each blogger must post these rules.
# Each blogger starts with ten random facts/habits about themselves.
# Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their ten things and post these rules. At the end of your blog, you need to choose ten people to get tagged and list their names.
# Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’ve been tagged and to read your blog.

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1. I get obsessed at something quite easily.

Conspiracy theories. Prophecies. TV series. Toys. Musician’s biography. Books. Counter culture. Posters. Science fiction. Manchester United. Movies. CDs. Et cetera et cetera. I collect and browse almost everything that are related to things that I obsessed with.

2. If I’m going to take a shower, there must be hot water.

It’s true. That is why sometimes I don’t take a shower when I go somewhere. It’s because the water is too cold for me, and I can’t stand it.

3. I don’t like night clubs.

I don’t know why, I don’t like the environment there. Maybe it’s because I don’t like seeing people dance to some music that aren’t very danceable.

4. I love junk food.

From instant noodle to french fries, I like them all. There are certain people who said, “Eat junk, then you will become junk”, but aren’t we all?

5. I danced to Billy Idol.

My dad told me this one. Everytime he and my mom played Billy Idol music, I danced like a crazy street punker kid. I was 4 years old?

6. I don’t like watching news shows.

I get this since I was a little kid. Watching news shows just giving me the creeps, it makes my feeling uncomfortable. I prefer news paper.

7. Lou Reed and Kurt Cobain are my music gods.

Both of them are a vocalist/guitarist/the brain in their own band, both of them change the face of music forever, both of them are legends, both of them are geniuses, both of them are rebels, both of them are music gods. Well, at least for me. Sadly, only one of them that is still alive.

8. I drool much.

That’s what I do when I’m sleeping. The drool produced stains on my pillow, and the stains looks like a collection of islands that stinks like anything you would never smell before.

9. Manchester United is the best football club in the whole world and Eric Cantona is the best footballer of all time.

Do I need to explain this to you? I write it lucidly above. And yes, Eric is much better than Pele, Maradona, George Best, Johan Cruyff, et cetera et cetera.

10. I hate this game.

This “10 things” game is not very enjoyable and very time consuming. Other than that, I don’t get much freedom at writing this post, because the theme of the post is already decided by someone I don’t know. Where is my freedom of writing goes? After I said those things of why I hated this game, you must be confused why do I write this post instead of ignoring it? Simple. I respect my friends who has invited me to write this post, but unfortunately I won’t continue this game. I won’t tag other people, for the sake of freedom writing.

MGMT. Anybody ever heard of this band? This is a good band. They have been dubbed as the leader of neo psychedelia movement that has been around these days. But for me, the psychedelic formulas in this band are just in their fashion style and in their lyrics, which sometimes are related to mysticity and counter culture. For me, the music itself is electronic funk. Just listen to tracks like Time to Pretend, Electric Feel, Kids, and many more that are available on their debut album, which was smartly titled Oracular Spectacular.

Well, my intention at writing this post is not to talk about MGMT’s album or even MGMT as a band. I want to talk about MGMT’s lyrics. Specifically, their song that is called Youth. The lyrics from this song is very suitable for people like me and anyone who is at their final year at college. Why? Because this lyrics talked about our youth. Our final moment at college life. Our final moment at being a youth before we graduate from college. Our final moment before we let our idealism goes away. Our final moment before…well, before everything gets worse. But hopefully we could make it through.

this is a call of arms to live and love and sleep together
we could flood the streets with love or light or heat whatever
lock the parents out, cut a rug, twist and shout
wave your hands
make it rain
for stars will rise again

the youth is starting to change
are you starting to change?
are you?
together

in a couple of years
tides have turned from booze to tears
and in spite of the weather
we could learn to make it together

the youth is starting to change
are you starting to change?
are you?
together

the youth

After a long long time, I finally came back to where my original home is, Jakarta. Oh yeah, for those of you who don’t know, I spent my seconds, my minutes, my hours, my days, my weeks, my months in Bandung nowadays. I go to college there, so it is kinda hard for me to go home, especially that I am now in my last year. It is very hectic nowadays. Never ending assignments, quiz, and of course exams. Because of those tiring activities, I decided to go home. Why not last week? Why not next week? And most importantly, why this week? Because there’s a toys and comics festival at Electronic City, Jakarta! Hooray!! It’s a pre-event before the Jakarta Toys and Comics Fair takes place in early 2009.

On Saturday, at exactly the first November in 2008, I decided to go there.

I arrived at Electronic City at about 12.00 pm. I go to the highest floor of Electronic City, where the festival takes place, with an excited feeling. Guess what greeted me…

Holy shit, right? It was a Batman action figure signed by the artist who drew everything, from Batman to Thor, from Adam Strange to Predator. Of course, I don’t buy that action figure. Too expensive for me. But guess what…

I bought that! Quite nice, eh? I bought this because he will be the first black president in the U.S.A. and someday this action figure will be limited and will be so expensive. I guess the action figure world has the election fever too, eh?

These are the other things that are on sale at the festival. Have a look.

The other highlight from this festival is a space ship that the bad guys from Goodguysneverwin made. It’s a great space ship. The inside part of the space ship is filled with small size action figure that they also made. Genius! Take a look.

For your information, Goodguysneverwin is a local company that made really great action figure. They made the figure from many things, like baby doll head, tank miniature, and many more. Their famous products are Destroyers (left), Tankbobs (center), and Gunbobs (right).

Honestly, I thought that this was a comics festival, only comics. I was surprised when I saw all those toy booths spread around at Electronic City. But overall, I am happy with this festival. It was very pleasant and it was filled with rare toys and comics, and one of those rare comics that I got there is…

U.S., not a short for United States, but a short for Uncle Sam. It’s a two part graphic novel that was written by Steve Darnall, illustrated by the famous Alex Ross, and published by non other than Vertigo Comics. Nice! I haven’t read it yet, but from the synopsis, this will be an unique graphic novel and a one of a kind experience.

Let me write the synopsis for you.

Clad in star-spangled rags, a man named Sam wanders the streets of an anonymous American city, struggling to remember his true identity. But he’s plagued by inner voices that carry him on a time traveling journey to the dark heart of America… and hint at his own violent past. Is he Uncle Sam – or one of U.S.?

Intriguing, right? So intruiging, I am going to read this graphic novel right now and leave you with the feeling of envy. Cheers!