For those of you who are my friends and reading this blog maybe know how randomly I favourite some kind of musics. From the peacefully rhythm guitar sounds local band like The Trees and The Wild, K-pop girl bands whose songs are catchy and it goes on and on in your mind, then a band that everyone like, Coldplay, another English band that hmm some people like (and know) Arctic Monkeys,  Imagine Dragons is also good and I remember during this semester I listen to a lot of local jazz music like LLW, Balawan (Jazz? Maybe. I watched him in Jazz Traffic), Radiohead's old songs from middle 90's, because I think it's better, oh and I love the new Arctic Monkeys album very much. So I completely listen to songs that aren't based on billboard.

And lately I'm being fond of an old band from English (again). The band was related a lot to the Britpop era, and was having a rivalry with Oasis during 1995 (the year when I was born). I find my self unusual because I started looking for their news and pictures and saving some in my laptop. It was like back then when I was in high school, loving a korean band so much called FT Island. But of course as I get more mature now, I'm not as crazy and stupid as I was back then. I think when you're (hem) let's say young adult and you're having crush on a celebrity you know it's based on their look and they're human whose live on TV, they have bad sides too, not just being good person to please their fans.

I found Blur when I was searching for "Creative Music Videos" in Google. Actually, I was looking inspiration for my final assignment in making a theory architecture video, later I'll show you the vid. I found it surprising that there wasn't many list of "creative music videos" on the first page of Google. Then I stumbled across a list of "29 Brilliant Music Video" (here's the link), one of them is Arctic Monkeys' A view from the Afternoon. I watched some of the list, and the last video I watched was Blur's Coffee and TV.

I searched the video on youtube not because what was written on the website about the video, it was just because I heard of Blur during six years of reading GADIS (a girly local magazine) and I remembered that Blur was written as an English legendary band and I lot of their fans were pleased because they were having a reunion. I thought, maybe because they were a famous band and probably the song is nice then I can add it to my playlist.

From wikipedia:

The video won several awards in 1999 and 2000 including Best Video at the NME Awards and the MTV Europe Awards. In 2005, it was voted the 17th greatest pop video of all time in a poll by Channel 4.^[4] In 2006, Stylus Magazine ranked it No. 32 in their list of the Top 100 Music Videos Of All Time. In a similar poll, NME ranked it the 20th greatest music video of all time. In addition the video received heavy rotation on MTV in the US.

(Just googled, heavy rotation means a song that being played frequently during a broadcast. Ohh)

So I watched the video and yes the song is nice, I think the music video featuring a moving milk cartoon is nice and cute. But what caught my attention the most was the person the milk cartoon (his name is milky, yes he's got a name) looking for, who was turned out to be Graham Coxon, the band's guitarist. He was mostly filmed from the left or right sides. And the silly me thought that he is handsome even from the sides and I wanna see his face from the front and I was curious.

So I googled Blur and read the long history of the band. And I realized even back then people in my country tended listening to what famous in America rather than in English. That's why I know I have heard the riff of Blur's Song 2 "Wooo Hooo" because it was very successful in America. The song is the kind of song you must have heard somewhere maybe in the radio, TV programs, because It's catchy so you remembered it but you don't know whose song it was. (Just like when I found Radiohead's Creep) I know how Blur was dominated the Britpop era, and said to be the drunkest band in the world, how handsome Damon Albarn was (but Graham still got my attention), and his eight years relationship with Justine ... (I forgot the last lame) and what a coincidence that during the Coffee and TV videos Graham left the band and four years later he really did.

Have you seen this? I have I dunno when it was and dont know who they were , and I always thought that the fringed man from the blue background looked like 'mas-mas kangen band' I'm sorry Alex

Left to right. Damon, vocalist, Alex, bassist, Graham, guitarist, and Dave, drummer.

The band reunited in 2008 (if I'm not wrong), They released some singles and went touring, they came to Indonesia to my surprise. I forget in what year, and some of them got interviewed on Kompas TV. Oh what a surprise.

Today, they're as old as my father, haha. And it always feels weird. On the other sides, it's also interesting reading the news about them, their popularity peak is not in the present and you can see how those rock stars got older.

Older Alex, Dave, Damon, and Graham (left to right)

And how. Damon and Graham are still having their carrier in the music industry. Have you heard of Gorrilaz? the world's most successful virtual band, one of the creator was Blur vocalist, Damon. I know Gorrillaz four years ago or more I forget. Graham has released a lot of solo album. While Dave being a lawyer and politician, and the most interesting is Alex, he's now living in the country, and being a cheese maker. His cheese even won award.

Sorry about blabbering too much about this. Haha. better than left this blog without any latest post.

Bonus : Two creative music video that I like



This one is a must watch

Nemu film ini waktu baca artikel di archdaily.com tentang film-film yang wajib ditonton arsitek di tahun 2013 (klik sini), tertarik seketika waktu baca sinopsisnya. Akhirnya baru  sempet nonton tahun 2014 ini, dan ternyata film ini masuk lagi di list film tahun 2014 (klik disini)

Mungkin ada yang tahu dan sempet nonton drama Korea The Heirs di akhir tahun 2013? Saya salah satunya. Film ini agak mirip begitu. Tapi kisah utamanya bukan tentang seorang anak laki-laki yang memperjuangkan cintanya dengan anak perempuan berbeda kasta.

Film ini melibatkan perasaan penontonnya secara dalam (sekalipun tidak tertarik dengan dunia arsitektur), bukan hanya karena ini kisah nyata, mungkin karena hidup terkadang semacam drama, ini sebuah film tentang cinta, karir, dan keluarga.

Tiba-tiba pingin nulis di bahasa Inggris, so let me....

Nathaniel Kahn is the only son and the third children of world wide known architect, Louis I. Kahn. His father died because of heart attack when he was eleven. His father body was unidentified for about three days after collapsed in the Pennsylvania Station in New York 1974. Later on, an article about the Architect's death appeared in the New York Times. "I was looking for my name but it wasn't there" Nathaniel narrated in the film referring to the article. It was written in the article that the architect left a wife and an only daughter. The truth it wasn't.

Besides his legitimate daughter, Louis Kahn had two illegitimate children each from two illegitimate wife. Unfortunately, Nathaniel is one of them, whom his father never lived with and rarely met. And when he died, it left Nathaniel thousand words of question, and what I get is if he had lived longer, would have his father marry his mother and live together with him? because it is what he and his mother always believed.

This documentary film is about Nathaniel search in order to know his father more through his architecture. Nathaniel visit his father works and meeting his father colleagues such as famous architect Philip Johnson, I.M. Pei (semua orang tahu piramid kaca segitiga Louvre), Frank Gehry, Moshe Safdie, and Louis' employee even his father student in the university.

It's a very beautiful film and journey, and often will make you shed your tears. This film is also a reminding for us to love our family more and be grateful for the love we have received. And in the end, his last journey to Bangladesh where his father latest work was completed after eight years or seven years after his death closed the movie perfectly. I was surprised in the end because I really don't know how this movie should ever end.

This oscar nominated film is really worth your 110 minutes of live. You can watch this on vimeo (click here), or simply ask me the file. I have downloaded it.