Park-Avenue

Somewhere Only We Know

2006-11-08T05:19:00.000-08:00

By : Keane

Taken from Album : Hopes and Fears

I walked across an empty land

I knew the pathway like the back of my hand

I felt the earth beneath my feet

Sat by the river and it made me complete

Oh simple thing where have you gone

I'm getting old and i need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and i need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree

I felt the branches of it looking at me

Is this the place we used to love

Is this the place that i've been dreaming of

Oh simple thing where have you gone

I'm getting old and i need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and i need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go

talk about it somewhere only we know

this could be the end of everything

so why don't we go

somewhere only we know

(Break)

Oh simple thing where have you gone

I'm getting old and i need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and i need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute why don't we go

talk about it somewhere only we know

this could be the end of everything

so why don't we go

somewhere only we know

(Instrumental)

this could be the end of everything

so why don't we go

somewhere only we know

Sugar We're Going Down

2006-10-28T06:01:00.000-07:00

By : Fall Out Boy

Taken From Album : From Under The Cork Tree

Am I more than you bargained for yet
I've been dying to tell you anything you want to hear
Cause that's just who I am this week
Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum
I'm just a notch in your bedpost
But you're just a line in a song
(A notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)

Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team

We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded gun complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded gun complex, cock it and pull it
Is this more than you bargained for yet
Oh don't mind me I'm watching you two from the closet
Wishing to be the friction in your jeans
Isn't it messed up how I'm just dying to be him
I'm just a notch in your bedpost But you're just a line in a song (Notch in your bedpost, but you're just a line in a song)

Drop a heart, break a name
We're always sleeping in, and sleeping for the wrong team

We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded gun complex, cock it and pull it [x2]

Down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded gun complex, cock it and pull it

Down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded gun complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down (down, down)
Down, down (down, down)
We're going down, down (down, down)
A loaded gun complex, cock it and pull it

We're going down, down in an earlier round
And Sugar, we're going down swinging
I'll be your number one with a bullet
A loaded gun complex, cock it and pull it

Cool

2006-10-27T00:47:00.000-07:00

By : Gwen Stefani
Taken From the Album : Love, Angel, Music, Baby

It's hard to remember how it felt before

Now I found the love of my life

Passes things, get more comfortable

Everything is going right

And after all the obstacles

It's good to see you now with someone else

And it's such a miracle that you and me are still good friends

After all that we've been through

I know we're cool

I know we're cool

We used to think it was impossible

Now you call me by my new last name

Memories seem like so long ago

Time always kills the pain

Remember Harbor Boulevard

The dreaming days where the mess was made

Look how all the kids have grown, oh

We have changed but we're still the same

After all that we've been through

I know we're cool

I know we're cool

Yeah, I know we're cool

And I'll be happy for you

If you can be happy for me

Circles and triangles

And now we're hanging out with your new girlfriend

So far from where we've been

I know we're cool

I know we're cool

C-cool, I know we're cool

I know we're cool

True

2006-10-27T00:37:00.000-07:00

By : Spandau Ballet
Taken From the Album : Gold : The Best of Spandau Ballet

(ah ah ah ah ha)
(ah ah ah ah ha)

So true - funny how it seems, always in time

But never in line for dreams.
Head over heels
When toe to toe -
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound.

I bought a ticket to the world but now I've come back again.
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh
I want the truth to be said.

(ah ah ah ah ha)
I know this much is true
(ah ah ah ah ha)
I know this much is true.

With a thrill in my head and a pill on my tongue
Dissolve the nerves that have just begun.
Listening to Manrin all night long -
This is the sound of my soul
This is the sound.

Always slipping from my hands
Sand's a time of it's own.
Take your seaside arms and write the next line
Oh
I want the truth to be known.

(ah ah ah ah ha)
I know this much is true
(ah ah ah ah ha)
I know this much is true

I bought a ticket to the world but now I've come back again.
Why do I find it hard to write the next line?
Oh
I want the truth to be said.

(ah ah ah ah ha)
I know this much is true.
(ah ah ah ah ha)
I know this much is true.

This much is true.

(This much is true. 2x's)
I know this much is true.
(This much is true. 4x's)
I know this much is true.
(This much is true. 2x's)
(I know this much is true.)
(This much is true. 2x's)
(I know this much is true.)
(This much is true. 2x's)

When You Were Young

2006-10-27T00:29:00.000-07:00

By : The Killers
Taken From the Album : Sam's Town

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now
Here he comes

He doesnt look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman
Like you imagined
When you were young

Can we climb this mountain
I dont know
Higher now than ever before
I know we can make it if we take it slow
Let's take it easy
Easy now
Watch it go

We're burning down the highway skyline
On the back of a hurricane
That started turning
When you were young
When you were young

And sometimes you close your eyes
And see the place where you used to live
When you were young

They say the devil's water
It ain't so sweet
You dont have to drink right now
But you can dip your feet
Every once in a little while

You sit there in your heartache
Waiting on some beautiful boy to
To save you from your old ways
You play forgiveness
Watch it now
Here he comes

He doesnt look a thing like Jesus
But he talks like a gentleman
Like you imagined
When you were young
(talks like a gentleman)
(like you imagined)
When you were young

I said he doesnt look a thing like Jesus
He doesnt look a thing like Jesus
But more than you'll ever know

Dead Time

2006-10-05T03:00:00.000-07:00

Joko Anwar siap mengedarkan film terbarunya judulnya Dead Time, dan bergaya noir. Semoga film ini setidaknya berhasil menyamai mutu Janji Joni atau kalau bisa melebihi film tersebut. Official site

Best Movie...

2006-08-17T20:35:00.000-07:00

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring.
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red!
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.....

Kutipan sastrawan Walt Whitman tadi menutup plot Dead Poets Society yang sangat memorable. Film tersebut menjadi cult dan terus dikenang banyak orang hingga memberi inspirasi dan pedoman moral kehidupan. Kalau boleh ditilik nyaris film-film hit keluaran di atas dekade 2000'an menngebrak bukan karena f/x heboh yang menyilaukan mata tapi karena kekuatan skrip. Hitung berapa banyak film laris dengan spesial efek dan bandingkan dengan drama/komedi keluarga(Home Alone, Step Mom, Sleepless in Seattle). Saat itu terutama era akhir 80-awal 90'an dijamuri film-film berbobot yang tidak hanya berlalu begitu saja dari benak penontonnya, namun juga meninggalkan bekas mendalam di memori audiensnya. Sangat menggugah emosionil siapapun yang menontonnya. Wajar jika masa itu film blockbuster mampu menerobos panggung nominasi Oscar dalam kategori utama. Semenjak heboh The Matrix dan dwilogi Terminator, studio major mulai menyadari arti f/x yang menjadi disaster dengan minimnya naskah-naskah kuat dan pengarahan berkarakter dari sutradaranya. Efek CGI menjadi raja komersial sebuah film naskah dalam semalampun tak apa asal efeknya bombastis, penonton awampun umumnya suka sajian f/x plotless hingga tren blockbuster selalu mendominasi peta bisnis. Memuakkan bagi pencinta film sejati namun memuskan bagi produser film-film tsb. Sementara film-film kelas Oscar cenderung film kelewat berat yang membuat depresi penonton awam terutama anak remaja dan tidak komersil terkadang sangat segmented. Rasanya lama berlalu sejak duo Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon dan Gladiator menggebrak box offce dan Oscar (demikian pula dengan trilogi The Lord of the Rings) itupun karena film-film tersebut juga didukung f/x cantik selain naskah yang prima. Penantian sebuah film drama beralur kuat minim f/x dan layak dinikmati general audiens terasa masih sangat lama...

Battle of Fantasy Epic

2006-08-09T06:35:00.000-07:00

Setelah trilogi The Lord of The Rings sukses menghajar penonton dunia tentang betapa hebatnya film epik fantasi jika digarap dengan serius , serbuan peri, kurcaci,dan mahluk dongeng lainnya terus bereksodus kelayar lebar, menyusul sesudahnya The Chronicles of Narnia : The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe yang berhasil menggeser perolehan franchise teranyar Mr.Potter dan Piala Api yang notabene memiliki lebih banyak pengikut dibanding legenda lemari ke negeri dongeng. Hollywood jadinya semakin tak ragu menyuntik dollar yang tak sedikit hingga mengiyakan berbagai proyek fantasi epik lainnya. Sebutlah selain franchise Harry Potter yang seri terbarunya rilis summer tahun depan(Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix), dan The Chronicles of Narnia : Prince Caspian yang edar 2008 ada Eragon yang siap dilempar ke bioskop akhir tahun ini serta besutan Guillermo Del Toro yang dititeli Pan's Labyrinth, Stardust dengan jualan Michelle Pfiffer serta dukungan banyak nama tenar(Merryl Streep, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Peter O'Toole, Rupert Everett, dan Robert DeNiro) , His Dark Material : Golden Compass yang menghadirkan Nicole Kidman dan Eva Green sebagai nyonya lalim dan ratu penyihir baik hati, Beowulf yang disutradarai Robert Zemeckis dalam format CGI yang semoga lebih nyata dari Polar Express (yang berisi manusia dengan ekspresi jadi-jadian) dangan bintang seksi Angelina Jolie, lalu adapula kisah Natalie Portman yang mewarisi toko ajaib dari Dustin Hoffman di Mr. Magorium 's Wonder Emporium, hingga yang baru memasuki tahap pematangan naskah seperti Inkheart untuk rilis 2007, sekuel lepas trilogi The Lord of The Rings- Ancanar yang masa post-productionnya sangat lama(tujuh tahun), Artemis Fowl, hingga versi dewasa dari Alice in The Wonderland yang menghadirkan Sarah Michelle Gellar. Peperangan film-film fantasi di atas diperkirakan akan mengorbankan beberapa judul yang bakalan terjatuh gagal meraih penonton untuk menambal bujetnya yang gila-gilaan dengan jualan f/x dashyat. Kisah fantasi pasca keberhasilan The Lord of The Rings dan franchise Harry Potter sendiri tidaklah semanis The Chronicles of Narnia ataupun Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Peter Pan dan Ella Enchanted gagal mendulang laba meski Peter Pan malah bisa disebut merugi kendati filmnya tidak buruk sama sekali. Intinya semoga Hollywood tidak hanya latah mengikuti trend sehingga membuat film dengan naskah asal-asalan dan tergiur laba besar genre ini belakangan.

Don't Wait

2006-08-09T06:00:00.000-07:00

By : Dashdoard Confessional
Taken from album : Dusk and Summer

The sky glows
I see it shining with my eyes closed
I hear your warnings but we both know
I'm gonna look at it again

*Don't wait, don't wait
The road is now a sudden sea
And suddenly, you're deep enough
To lay your armor down (3x)

You get one look
I'll show you something that the night took
A bit to early for my own good
Now let's not speak of it again

Back to *

Don't wait, don't wait
The lights will flash and fade away
The days will pass you by
Don't wait
To lay your armor down (5x)

Mean, Meaner, Meanest Bitch!

2006-08-02T20:00:00.000-07:00

Seolah menjadi garam dalam sayur, kehadiran gadis-gadis culas dapat memepermanis tampilan film remaja sekaligus mempertajam konflik yang ada, Nancy Allen sukses melakoninya ketika menjadi karakter keji tak tertahankan dalam Carrie (1976). Heathers bisa menjadi acuan betapa gadis remaja terkadang dapat berlaku lebih ganas dari teroris sekalipun, di sini gadis-gadis berhati iblis namun bersosok manis ini menghabisi teman-teman lemah mereka yang malang dan tak mampu melawan kebuasan mereka. Stereotip ini rupanya terus dipertahankan dalam banyak film remaja walaupun porsinya kecil dan tak lebih sebagai pelengkap konflik SMA, sebelum Mean Girls kembali memfokuskan plot pada geng populer yang jahat dan kejam. Masa SMA yang manis serasa berat memang jika dilihat lebih lanjut terutama bagi siswa-siswi kuper yang cerdas tapi berpenampilan buruk.