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Ketika mendengar berita buruk, jantung kita langsung berdebar, nafas menjadi pendek, wajah kita berkerut.
Ketika mendengar berita gembira, hati kita melonjak, wajah kita tersenyum.
Dari kedua contoh di atas, tercermin bahwa pikiran kita selalu bereaksi/ bergejolak terhadap situasi dan kondisi yang terjadi dalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari sehingga kita kehilangan –“center“ (kondisi bathin yang balance).
Ini menggambarkan kebiasaan reaksi (mind)kita bekerja secara automatis, terkondisi dan tak menentu, sudah terprogram.
Di sinilah kita perlu melatih kondisi mind kita agar selalu berada dalam kondisi Equanimity. (Bagi saya pribadi inilah meditasi yang sebenarnya). Read the rest of this entry »
Ingat film “Singles” (Cameron Crowe; 1992), film pionir genre Gen-X movie (yang kemudian diikuti oleh “Reality Bites”, “Threesome”) yang turut melambungkan nama Pearl Jam ke dalam mainstream (kabarnya saat shooting film itu, nama mereka masih “Mookie Blaylock”). Cameron Crowe bahkan mengklaim bahwa film ini turut menginspirasikan lahirnya serial “Friends”.
Berikut ada artikel di TwoFeetThick tentang cast “Singles”, ke mana mereka sekarang? Tentu saja dalam cast tersebut termasuk band fiktif “Citizen Dick” (beranggotakan member Pearl Jam: Eddie Vedder (drummer), Jeff Ament (bassist) & Stone Gossard (guitarist) di samping Matt Dillon sebagai vokalis).
Bagi gw personally, film “Singles” adalah film yg turut mewarnai usia 20-something gw juga, membuka wawasan gw tentang grunge, dan Pearl Jam tentunya.
Black Code
1. Light Year
2. Immortality
3. Sad
4. Smile (Feat: Hasley Perfect Ten)
Perfect Ten
Intro : Indifference
1. State of Love and Trust
2. Better Man
3. Wishlist
4. I Got Id
5. Present Tense
6. Garden
7. Even Flow
8. Leaving Here
9. Porch
Alien Sick
5. River of Deceit
6. In Hiding
7. Given To Fly
8. Yellow Ledbetter
9. W.M.A
Reza CS
1. Footsteps
2. Angel
Sonic Wood
1. Release
2. Severed Hand
3. Corduroy
4. Red Mosquito
5. Soon Forget
6. Guaranteed
7. Alive (Che)
8. Oceans (Che)
9. RVM (Ryo + Jimmo)
10. Animal (Ryo + Jimmo)
11. Comatose (Ryo + Reza)
12. Come Back (Reza)
13. Nothingman (Reza)
14. Got Some
Pearl Jam’s Ten was a slow starter, floundering on the U.S. sales charts before it finally exploded one day shy of its first birthday. The steady pace eventually paid off for Pearl Jam, whose debut permanently altered rock ‘n’ roll. On Tuesday, (March 24), Ten is being re-released, 18 years after it’s debut. It’s sold a remarkable 12 million copies, making it not only one of the most successful debuts in history, but also one of the biggest alternative rock albums.
There are many stories surrounding the album, including Victoria at the outset of the band’s career.
Suatu hari saya dapat SMS dari Shanty, teman sekelas 3C di SMP 13. Bunyinya bahwa Pak Pieter, guru Orkes (Olah Raga & Kesehatan) waktu kami SMP dulu dalam keadaan koma karena gagal ginjal. Perlahan mulai terbayang sosok Pak Pieter, guru Orkes yang dulu kerap menciprati kami dengan keringat muka beliau, caranya berjalan, caranya berbicara, anatomi tubuhnya yang gendut, perut buncit tapi lincah. Tapi masih samar2. Read the rest of this entry »
A FEW miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in the district of Georgetown is a huge converted warehouse in an anonymous industrial neighbourhood.
It looks an unlikely location for a world-famous band, but for any Pearl Jam fan walking inside, it’s like entering Aladdin’s cave.
It’s the band’s HQ, rehearsal space and merchandise hub and impressively has all the stage sets, band memorabilia and instruments used throughout their 19-year history.
And the full guided tour offers more treats. The late Johnny Ramone’s baseball card and photo collection — he and singer Eddie Vedder were close friends — is on show near a skateboard ramp and an enormous baseball cage plus pitching machine.
Polaroid photos on display show Kings Of Leon in full baseball gear, ready to take a hit as a ball is spat out at 50mph.
Upstairs in the warehouse apartment — a place to crash if rehearsals extend into the night — Eddie is celebrating.
We meet on the day of Barack Obama’s inauguration and for Eddie, who was so central to the Vote For Change campaign, which urged people to choose John Kerry over George Bush in the 2004 presidential election campaign, it’s an extra special day.
“Let’s not even have his face anywhere on show,” he says with a beaming smile, as he turns over a copy of Rolling Stone magazine which features Bush glaring out from the cover.
“I’ve just watched him fly off to Texas on television. Finally we have got rid of him. I don’t ever want to see him again.”
Sam Grobart looks at what effect the departures of Steven P. Jobs have had on Apple and its products.
Steve Jobs’s announcement on Jan. 14 that he will be taking a medical leave from Apple is not the first time the company will go without his services, as Mr. Jobs was not at Apple from 1985 to 1997. A look at Apple’s products before, during and after that time shows what effect Mr. Jobs has had on the company.
On the Mac’s silver anniversary, we look at where it’s been—and where it’s headed next.
by Macworld Staff, Macworld.com
It seems like only yesterday that Macworld released its first issue, with a youthful, besuited Steve Jobs peering over a trio of original Macs on the cover.
OK, maybe not yesterday. But those 25 years seem to have come and gone as quickly as so many Apple CEOs. And that quarter of a century has given us the countless advances and changes—in software, hardware design, operating systems, and more—that make the Mac what it is today. But that’s the old news. What’s more important is what your Mac will be like next year, or the year after that, or five years from now. How will Apple’s ongoing endeavors and other technological developments impact the devices you use in the near future?
In this series, we take a look at how some of today’s trends are driving the technology of tomorrow, as well as how some of the past 25 years’ significant events brought us to where we are today. We’ve also asked some longtime members of the Mac community to share their thoughts on various aspects of the last two and a half decades.
On the Mac’s silver anniversary, we look at where it’s been—and where it’s headed next.
