Dreams aren’t what they used to be
Some things sat by so carelessly
Some things in life they just don’t wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin’
He wouldn’t let this be..
i dont know what make they smile,
but the only thing i know God made smile for everyone..
as my friend said : keepssmile..
picture : googling
keyword : secret
inspired by : suryo pranoto
SBENERNYA AGAK GAAK PENTING SIH NIH SUZANNE CERNY
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Suzanne Cerny is known for her jazz art imagery. She likes to sketch on site at jazz clubs when musicians are performing, and then transforms the images on on canvas. She has recently added computer art to her portfolio.. Suzanne attended the High School of Music and Art in New York City and then graduated from The Cooper Union in Fine Art and Design in 1959. She studied plastic arts with Michelle Behar and Celito Medeiros in Brazil in 2004.
Lily Rose Beatrice Allen [born May 2nd 1985] is an English singer-songwriter. Best known for her songs ‘Smile’ and ‘LDN’ and their Mockney style, Allen is the daughter of actor/musician Keith Allen and film producer Alison Owen. 
Her single ‘Smile’ reached No.1 on the UK Singles Chart in July 2006. In December 2006, her debut album ‘Alright, Still’ was voted the third best album of the year by Mixmag. In 2007, it was nominated for the award of Best British Album at the BRIT Awards and for Best New Artist at the 2007 MTV Video Music Award. The album was nominated for a 2008 Grammy Award in the category of “Best Alternative Music Album”. ‘Alright, Still’ has sold over 2,600,000 copies worldwide.
‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’ is the second studio album by British pop singer-songwriter Lily Allen. It was released in the United Kingdom on February 9th 2009. The outspoken mockney popstrel Lily Allen’s debut album, ‘Alright Still’, established her as the voice of a new breed of young person, and the long-awaited follow-up ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’ is full of similarly zeitgeist-inflected tunes. The first single, ‘The Fear’, is somewhat heavier in tone than previous singles such as ‘LDN’ and ‘Smile’, and sees Allen dealing with notions of a modern celebrity, a theme that continually crops up on the album. The second single ‘Not Fair’ is No.10 on the UK Singles Chart at the time of writing. Allen also confronts political issues on this markedly more adult album than its predecessor, perhaps intentionally preparing a more mature image fot the future. In its first week of release in the UK, ‘It’s Not Me, It’s You’ sold 112,568 albums, rocketing it to No.1 in the UK Album Charts instantly. At the time of writing [April 24th 2009] the album is No.5 in the UK Album Charts.
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Perk your ears up Asia there’s a new revolution in town and it’s heading your way. Debuting at the 2008 MTV Asia Awards, Project East Asian Revolution or E.A.R. will see musical titans – Pop Shuvit from Malaysia, rockers Saint Loco from Indonesia, Filipino rap metal pioneers Slapshock, Thai super groups Thaitanium and Silksounds as well as hip hop crew Ahli Fiqir from Singapore get together to bring the best of South East Asian culture to the stage.
Between them, they have countless awards, chart-toppers and hundreds of screaming fans throughout the region. Hardly a wet ear in sight, MTV Asia snagged courtside seats for a tête-à-tête with buddies Moots (Pop Shuvit), Way (Thaitanium), Joe (Saint Loco), Jamir (Slapshock) and Dandy (Silksounds) and find out how music, Ramlee Burgers and getting tongues wagging makes their world go around.
The chance to perform at the MTV Asia Awards. What’s that like? Are you guys excited or nervous?
Way: I’ve performed at the awards before so this would be my second time. MTV is a good place to come back to. It’s great reaching out to all our Asian fans. There’s a lot of responsibility getting on that stage.
Moots: It’s my first time and the awards is finally on home ground this year. I’m looking forward to it and excited.
How did the idea for this collaboration come about?
Moots: We’ve all been working together for a while and we were touring last year together when we just said “you know what, we should just come up with a name for this thing we’re doing, this whole collective” and the name E.A.R. just popped up. Then when MTV asked us to do this performance, we were thinking we can’t just call it E.A.R. because it would sound really weird so we added ‘Project’ to it.
You guys are obviously separated by distance, so how does the working process in coming up with the performance and songs go?
Joe: There’s something called the Internet and it is an amazing thing.
Jamir: We see each other every other day.
Dandy: We’re just two hours away from each other so it’s very easy to hop on a train, bus or plane.
Your MTV Asia Awards performance has been much touted as melding five different languages (English, Thai, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Indonesia and Tagalog) into one performance? Did you face any obstacles doing that?
Way: Nah… Cos’ each person who speaks that language just performs that part. We didn’t switch up the languages or anything like that.
The musical stylings of your own bands are rather different with rock and hip hop backgrounds. Did this play a factor in affecting the sound of Project E.A.R.?
Dandy: That is what Project E.A.R. is all about – different music genres between friends who share the same passion.
Moots: You’ll see it in the performance at the MTV Asia Awards.
Way: That’s the beautiful thing about getting together as a group. It’s not only one genre like hip hop or rock but bringing everything in.
When you visit each others’ countries, is there something that you’ve really liked and something that you’d never even want to touch with a ten-foot pole?
Moots: There’s this place called Metallica in Manila that I totally love.
Jamir: Yeah, that place has good music.
Moots: They love the Ramlee Burger over here in Malaysia.
Dandy: I’m in love with Genting right now (drawls).
Moots: He’s been bitten by the bug.
We’re guessing you’ve had some luck at the casinos then?
Dandy: (Laughs) Yeah, pretty much.
Way: The thing about us is that we all love each others’ countries. They all love Thailand and we love Malaysia because we see each other quite often actually.
Moots: It’s not like a once a year thing. More like every couple of months.
Joe: They’d be in Indonesia or we’d go to Bangkok as well.
Endah N Rhesa is a musical project comprising acoustic guitar, bass and vocal. The musical nuance that Endah N Rhesa tries to bring out is folk, jazz, blues, rock and roll, and ballads. Endah Widiastuti (vocal, guitar) and Rhesa Aditya (bass) met each other in a rock band in early 2003. Shortly after the two left the band in 2004, Endah went solo, just like the way it used to be before joining the rock band.
Endah recorded numerous songs of hers in an album entitled ”The New Beginning”, a four-track mini album which was independently distributed, with a limited number of copy. In one of the songs in the album, Rhesa added some bass thumps and made it a fascinating mix of the three instruments (vocal, guitar and bass). The song is titled “When You Love Someone”. From that time being, Endah and Rhesa started to play together in campus events, and the feedbacks toward their music were tremendously positive. Finally, they decided to create a stage name for their duo/musical project which comes from their own names: Endah N Rhesa.
Endah N Rhesa was inspired to start playing in minimalist acoustic format, surprisingly, because of some local bands, namely: Cozy Street Corner, Bonita and Anda. In terms of singing, Endah is influenced by Alanis Morissete and Norah Jones. Besides, there are also the four “Johns” that influence her in playing guitar: John Mayer, John Butler, John Scofield and John Frusciante. Endah also credits Pat Metheny and multi-talented instrumentalist Warman Nasution of TOR for inspiring her. Rhesa, on the other hand, is a unique personality who is mainly influenced by acoustic guitarists like Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, James Taylor and other folk and ballad musicians. The persons that Rhesa put into credit for making him play bass are Les Claypool, Victor Wooten, Flea and ex-child singer Bondan Prakoso. They both, however, share the same influence in music, to wit: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, which affects them mostly on creating rich groovy and harmonic nuances in the music of Endah N Rhesa.
Endah N Rhesa has released “Nowhere To Go” (old version) in 2005 and “Real Live”, a live recording piece, in 2006. Endah N Rhesa marketed and distributed both the former and the latter all by themselves through their stage acts. After releasing “Nowhere To Go” (repackaged version), which is now on sale in music stores, in 2009, Endah N Rhesa is coming into a whole broader world. “Our music is sincere and it’s coming from inside our hearts,” they say.
If Morgan Spurlock has learned anything from over 30 years of movie-watching, its that if the world needs saving, its best done by one lone man willing to face danger head on to take it down, action hero style. So, with no military experience, knowledge or expertise, he sets off to do what the CIA,
FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do: find the worlds most wanted man. Why take on such a seemingly impossible mission? Simple-he wants to make the world safe for his soon to be born child. But before he finds Osama bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from, what makes him tick, and most importantly, what exactly created bin Laden to begin with.
The film starts at the end. Dev Patel’s 18-year-old Jamal is just one correct answer away from winning — or blowing — a 20 million rupee (£280,000) fortune on the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
The handsome and terrified youth is an orphan from the gutters of Mumbai. Jamal’s unexpected success on the show over two intense days turns the stuttering youth into a national sensation.
When the programme breaks for the night before the all-important final question, Jamal is bundled through the back door of the television studio, whisked to the nearest police station, and beaten to a pulp by corrupt and jealous cops who want to know how he cheated. This is where the film actually begins.
“What the hell can a slum boy possibly know?” barks the irritated police chief (Irrfan Khan) as a plump minion clips a pair of electric cables to Jamal’s big toes. “The answers,” spits out Patel’s bruised hero. The plucky martyr reveals how each loaded question asked by the slimy host of Millionaire unlocks a seminal childhood injury.
This being a Danny Boyle movie the precious answers are nailed to brutal scenes. They involve frantic sprints through Mumbai’s crowded markets and grisly flashbacks to medieval slums where the nine-year-old Jamal, and his slightly older psychotic brother, Salim (Madhur Mittal), spend most of their childhood fleeing the clutches of sinister pimps and hungry gangs. It’s terribly Dickensian.
The fairytale power of the film is the way Boyle manages to capture the evolution of the city through the eyes of a child. It’s visually astonishing. The film gets under the skin of the city on every imaginable level. The cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle is an insouciant genius with a camera. You could hang his lush stills of garbage heaps, frowning waifs and skeletal tower blocks in any respectable art gallery. By the same token the film must have been murder to edit.
What would you do if someone knew one of your secrets and tried to exploit the situation for his own gain? That’s the situation facing the lead character in The Customer Is Always Right, written and directed by Oh Ki Hyun. The film revolves around the life of a meek barber named Ahn Chang Jin (Seong Ji Roo, from Super Family), a self-educated professional who takes great pride in his job. To keep everything ship shape, he purchases the best equipment, cleans the shop regularly, and even plays classical music to enliven the spirits of his customers. In his personal life, he’s got a beautiful wife named Jeon Yeon Ok (Seong Hyeon Ah, from The Intimate). Life seems good, at least, at first. Things take a dramatic turn one day when the barber comes face-to-face with a scary-looking intimidator by the name of Kim Yang Gil (Myeong Kye Nam). It seems that Ahn hides a dark past, and the mysterious Mr. Kim has no problem blackmailing the barber through this shady little secret. On the first day, Ahn ends up paying Kim off with a small amount of cash, but each time the man returns, his demands for payment become progressively worse, as the “fee” doubles each time he visits. Desperate to maintain his reputation, he complies with the man’s wishes, but eventually finds himself in fear of his next move. Eventually, Ahn hires a private investigator to look into the man’s background and see if there are any skeletons in his closet. However, this investigation unearths something rather startling about the mystery blackmailer. Adapted from a short story by Japanese mystery writer Nishimura Kyotaro, The Customer Is Always Right proves that some secrets are better left buried in the past!
When they’re not monkeying around with P. Diddy in his Miami mansion (and filming the whole thing!), Brit indie rock darlings the Arctic Monkeys are recording their new album for release this summer. Thankfully, the boys haven’t let their excursion in the Diddy’s hop-hip universe affect the recording sessions — in fact, they’ve found inspiration in something much heavier: metal titans Black Sabbath!
Frontman Alex Turner told NME.com how a performance at last year’s Latitude festival in Sheffield, England, led the quartet to include some metal riffage on their new record: “We went to Latitude, ripped it up… and eventually wrote some songs. We spend the first day there on the most complicated riff you’ve ever heard. It goes round in 7/2 time. It was like Black Sabbath.”
Let’s just hope that Turner doesn’t start biting the heads off of pigeons any time soon.
Arctic Monkeys unveiled “Crying Lightning,” a track off their new album, live this past January at Australia’s Big Day Out festival. Watch footage of their performance here.
