“Suatu negara tidak akan kekurangan pemimpin apabila masih banyak pemudanya yang mau menjelajah hutan, merayapi tebing, mengarungi sungai dan menyusuri goa. Karena dengan begitu mereka tahu betapa sulitnya menjaga tiap jengkal tanah di negaranya.”
The 69th Annual Golden Globes Predictions Nobody takes the Golden Globes seriously and nobody ever knows what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are up to (see The Tourist last year) so we might as well just have fun and try to guess. Here are my predictions: 1. Best Motion Picture - Drama: The Descendants 2. Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama: Viola Davis (The Help) [Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady] 3. Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: George Clooney (The Descendants) 4. Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical: The Artist 5. Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical: Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn) 6. Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical: Jean Dujardin (The Artist) 7. Best Animated Feature Film: Rango [The Adventures of Tintin] 8. Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation 9. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Octavia Spencer (The Help) 10. Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Christopher Plummer (Beginners) 11. Best Director - Motion Picture: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) [Martin Scorcese - Hugo] 12. Best Screenplay - Motion Picture: Stan Chervin, Stevel Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin (Moneyball) [Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris] 13. Best Original Score - Motion Picture: Howard Shore (Hugo) [Ludovic Bource - The Artist] Update: my final score turns out to be 8 out of 13.

The 69th Annual Golden Globes Predictions

Nobody takes the Golden Globes seriously and nobody ever knows what the Hollywood Foreign Press Association are up to (see The Tourist last year) so we might as well just have fun and try to guess. Here are my predictions:

1. Best Motion Picture - Drama: The Descendants
2. Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama: Viola Davis (The Help) [Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady]
3. Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama: George Clooney (The Descendants)
4. Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical: The Artist
5. Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical: Michelle Williams (My Week With Marilyn)
6. Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical: Jean Dujardin (The Artist)
7. Best Animated Feature Film: Rango [The Adventures of Tintin]
8. Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
9. Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Octavia Spencer (The Help)
10. Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture: Christopher Plummer (Beginners)
11. Best Director - Motion Picture: Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) [Martin Scorcese - Hugo]
12. Best Screenplay - Motion Picture: Stan Chervin, Stevel Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin (Moneyball) [Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris]
13. Best Original Score - Motion Picture: Howard Shore (Hugo) [Ludovic Bource - The Artist]

Update: my final score turns out to be 8 out of 13.

A list of David Fincher’s favourite films, in his own handwriting - 8 1/2 , Alien, All The Jazz, All the President’s Men, American Graffiti, Animal House, Being There, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cabaret, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, Days of Heaven, Dr. Strangelove, The Exorcist, The Godfather Part II, The Graduate, Jaws, Lawrence of Arabia, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Paper Moon, Rear Window, The Road Warrior, Taxi Driver, The Terminator, The Year of Living Dangerously, Zelig
beingindonesian: River crossing, Java, Indonesia. (by zuraisham)
dcmetropeople: Seeking Enlightment. Submitted by Pablo Benavente.
beingindonesian: Suluban Beach, Pecatu village, Badung, Bali, Indonesia. In its local language, Suluban means walking under something. The beach is named so since visitors must walk among stone cave before reaching the wide, white-colored sandy spot. (by ©Helminadia(Traveling))
newsweek: Forty-two years ago today, the successful execution of mission Apollo 11 allowed humans access to the Earth’s moon for the very first time. American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin explored the lunar wonderland, erecting the flag of the United States on its rocky surface. That week, Newsweek ran with the above cover—a grainy shot of mankind’s first steps on the moon. Here’s how our editors at the time summed up the moment:  “The feat of Apollo 11 was, in fact, the culmination of centuries of painstakingly acquired knowledge; the realization of dreams and myths as old as man’s consciousness itself; a magnificent opportunity to look deeply into the origins of the moon, the earth, and perhaps the universe; an exciting portent of the future. But most of all, it was a demonstration of what man’s ingenuity and courage and will can achieve when mobilized to a grand design.” [Newsweek; July 28, 1969]
beingindonesian: Island of Bunaken on the northern tip of Sulawesi Island, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. (by ignacio izquierdo)
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