"Aku ada baca artikel hari tu tentang sikap audiens seni pada era pasca moden ni. And they usually sound exactly like the composer friend. Everything is either FUCKING RIGHT (a great piece) or FUCKING WRONG (a bad piece), and they’re losing the ability to appreciate arts yang sort of fall in the middle. It’s especially bad when it comes to the work of sastera like cerpen - so what, every cerpen is expected to be difahami kulat-kulat ke? Cerpen adalah satu wahana sastera yang doesn’t feel like it was ever intended to be that at all."

lepas tu, Nazri perasan, sebab dia tak nak ko marah dichead tu, dia tukat kulat-kulat kepada bulat bulat.

Namely Michael Bay (check out his Transformers' commentary), James Cameron (check out his personal quotes kat IMDB), Johnnie To (check out his interview about going to Hollywood [which dia finally agreed to go for it baru-baru ni]) dan of course, our own Profesor Madya A. Razak Mohaideen (check out Melodi bila filem dia keluar).

Gee, who knew?

Seorang peminat filem summer blockbuster pernah bertanyakan aku soalan serupa ini tentang "filem-filem berat." I guess, as always, people are just afraid with things yang dia tak faham. Sbg komposer patutnya dia sendiri tahu: A great art sepatutnya challenge expectations audiens, not meet 'em. It's not so hard to pick up a kamus and check the words. And even the writing is very Zaen Kasturi-ish, it's not really a gigantic effort to understand the thing fundamentally or at least bits of it, kalau dia betul-betul berminat nak tahu.

Aku ada baca artikel hari tu tentang sikap audiens seni pada era pasca moden ni. And they usually sound exactly like the composer friend. Everything is either FUCKING RIGHT (a great piece) or FUCKING WRONG (a bad piece), and they're losing the ability to appreciate arts yang sort of fall in the middle. It's especially bad when it comes to the work of sastera like cerpen - so what, every cerpen is expected to be difahami bulat-bulat ke? Cerpen adalah satu wahana sastera yang doesn't feel like it was ever intended to be that at all.

Akhir sekali, dia pun kena lihatlah konteks buku tu jugak, if it's a koleksi of "peraduan penulis cerpen remaja 1998," then it's justified la, but kalau a koleksi of "Bukan Mitos Burung Stoik dan Cacing Epikurian," so how?

Aku harap dalam deleted scene, that composer friend tu ada buat uji kaji depan kau dengan kasi anak dia baca dan bagi feedback, "See, anak aku pun tak suka." Man, that would be priceless.