we got Mastodon covered,….again

for many and counteless times, i took fuck-em-all approach, until i am happy with everything, not you. good, i never been happy. jadi semalam saya bermalam di rumah anak2 saudara saya, i had big talk with their ibunda, since she’s a woman.

"i even had a hard time with an easy type like your bro. but you, hard and reclusive one,…. i dont know what else to say…"
"i like her, since the day one. and i always wanted to like her like the day one. i always feel like i got no time for al these."
"God give us 24 hours a day, all of us. And we feel ,… we never had it enough. To think, i dont even have time to be with kids."
"Me too. Funny, dont you think,… i show up in front of your door, on Saturday. When were the last time,… August?"
"… for love and money, you need to think about it now. You are a damn hard and reclusive one."
"…. dude, you know the last time when i wanted all these. It ruined everything. Jadi saya perlu kukuhkan perkara yang pasti, yang satu ini dahulu."

dan Kak Saliza, art-graduate yang pada usia mudanya ada satu bentuk kepala otak macam saya pada satu masa, made us think. is it about convergence, evolution, devolution or destruction?

ada la sebulan lepas, what i had is devastation. devastator you are.

i got answer from Jonny Rej, one-second who responsible for Mastodon video, "Seabeast". (he did like almost Mastodon video,… ). It’s Moby Dick. and, God, I have to spent much more time on browsing all those Herman Melville hardcopy and remember again that 50’s movie that once appear in tv, in the early 90’s. all that memory i had.

Thanks, Jonny.
While you are at it, can you tell me too about the image of Javanese puppet appeared as black shadow in the video? Is it the idea came after the painted cover image of Leviathan by Paul Romano or you got another story behind it? Being an Asian myself (I come from Malaysia, and we have this shadow puppet thing that derived from Javanese and Siamese puppet show), i would like to know how people outside Asia like you look at this sacred art living in this contemporary art world today.

Many thanks for your time,

Nazri

— Jonathan Rej wrote:

> Hello Nazri,
> Sounds great, I’d love to tell you the details
> behind Seabeast video
> for your magazine! Let me write it up and I’ll
> email it to you soon.
>
> Thanks a lot for the interest!
>
> Jonny
>
>
> On Jun 22, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Blitzenius Nazri
> wrote:
>
> > hi Johnny,
> > I’m Nazri from ROTTW magazine ( Malaysia. I would like to know if you’re not busy and willing to give a story behind Mastodon music video - "Seabeast", like how you and Tom got the idea of the video. Is there any specific style that you guys followed? And also the inspiration on the character design (is that worm-like-mouth creature is resemble Chtullu created by Lovecraft) ? How you guys get to work with Mastodon? Are you and the band know each other before?
> >
> > And also I hope you can provide us the profile picture
> > of Authority Films team (means you and Tom). Is there
> > any new project from Authority Films? Love to know
> > since there’s no news and update on the website.
> >
> > Keep up the good work,
> >
> > Nazri
> >
> > A Nazri Ngah
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> > Seksyen 17, 40000, Shah Alam,
> > Selangor, MALAYSIA.
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an almost superhuman ability to dodge the zeitgeist

"A call for penance cracks in the hands of a stranger ; rescue me to come back, [while] a call for deliverance [is the ] ghosts in the air that we breath ; watching our every last word… " - Craig B, ‘A Simple Process of Elimination’.

" walaupun tiada kena mengena tapi;

what a coincidence, i’m turning a quarter of century old soon & i’m going mental annnnnnd my bonda is literally going mental around me.

glad to know that i’m not alone in this, ha ha ha!" n. Friday, June 08, 2007 at 7:29 AM

" i guess semua orang ada masalah.

parents aku ok. i have the best parent, walaupun tak kaya. tapi aku ada problem dealing w/ my own, that i think it’s not normal, …. banding dgn orang lain.

aku jadi dengki dengan orang, dengan masa yang diorang ada, rutin diorang, duit diorang, awek diorang…. and then they said, parents diorang berantakan, tak macam parents aku.

diorang nak trade parents dgn aku. "good, now gimme all your money…"

but in the end, it’s better if we start to listening to each other and help each other, except for the fact i got no credit. yang tinggal ialah panggilan kecemasan, …. or the last coin on phone booth, w/ self-tortured voice di akhir track ‘a simple process of elimination’." - yours truly, Friday, June 08, 2007 at 7:54 AM

so the story;
i get into my room looking at my mag work i did for past one year, that is thick as hell,… but it’s the last 5 months that i realized my life went completely out of the norm. i never do a thing about it. i dont know where all the moneys gone, but still i look unstuffed. desire went out with horrible people, see how strong they stand. desire stripped naked in front of me, but she’s with someone else, kissed someone else, make me open the book of Kasner, … in 6 months you’re under my spell and pentagram. unfortunately , blood didnt came with purple. it’s butterfly fall with displeasure. surrounding by moths.

pain ; get used to it.

the next day i cant move my arms, my legs, i cant think anything intelligent, ….

i cant do thing but want to do many thing.

there came logic that this struggle coupled with an almost superhuman ability to dodge the zeitgeist have taken its toll.

there goes my money flow to the drain, looking it’s life ruined.

to evariel, would you like to go back to my kampung, meet my parents as a trade? not then, would you suggest me anyone else? who can drive me not nut? i’m about to move in less than 10 days.

and when we come back, they’ll look onto our eyes, not around the eyes, don’t look around the eyes, look into our eyes. .. and with a click of finger, they’re under.

galvatron too they are #2 : kempen banyak membaca sekolah

dulu, semasa perhimpunan sekolah, ada seorang guru yang diberikan ruang untuk menyampaikan ritual kata-katanya.

"sekolah mengadakan kempen membaca buku. yes, you heard it right! ada sebuah buku yang hidup segan mati tak mahu tu yang sentiasa diberi ketika pendaftaran semester baru, bersaiz buku latihan. untuk diisi senarai buku-buku yang anda baca. produktiviti. progressive. mathematical. polyrhythm. tapi tak pernah listnya penuh, dan bertukar ganti. all you need to do girls and boys, isi senarai buku yang anda baca. c'mon! we have competition! there's money rollin'! keep on rotting in the free world!"

ia dibalas dengan tawa kecil. kelakar tengok presentation guru tersebut atau ketawakan diri sendiri sebab sepanjang sekolah, program membaca ini tak diambil endah pun.

bukan nak suruh baca thick text book pun. but, yeah, they're kids. hard to get it what the man told 'em.

dan benar, there's money for 'em who read the most , the lots. there's even award presenting ceremony. how geek us.

tapi sorang pun tak ambil peduli. there's our friend, a chinese. yang fail subjek bahasa melayunya. but i think he speak better terengganu than most of you guys. he didn't look promising.

but he grab the chance, once in his life ke atas podium perhimpunan mingguan sekolah, sebagai pembaca terbanyak (tak pasti jika ada cheat code), but what the hell. he got the money!!

poor us geek guy. we listened to nofx alot and breakfast schmeakfast alot. and nintendo (ketika semua beralih kepada ps versi pertama, atau at least sega).

it's been like,.... 10 years now. saya pernah menang sesuatu untuk sekolah. tempat pertama dan ketiga, in just a week, splashing paint (that's pain with a 't', as well as like.... spam, like spasm w/o an 's' ). tapi saya tak pernah ke podium. dude, keep on rotting....

to conclude, jika puan countess menjadi president kelab buku majalah rock, i'll be her first member.

thanks for reading galvatron number 2.