Dangdut must only be dangdut in itself and as of KayEl experience - a quaint little place to exult if only to dance the quintessential but universal four steps to the boogie. It is old if taken upon the KayEl perspective and unmoving whence time and of which is perenially young for young people to celebrate - rolls. Decades ago dangdut was young and trendy but now out of place and out of time. Passionate followers are also old and dancers too have become mature girls spotting beer bellies! An anachronism that doesn't know till when it'll lasts! Thenceforth there could really be nothing new to something old and obsolete but only unbounded nostalgia! However dangdut can persist following a musical genre wanting to find its own tad bit-niche in history and much of nothing besides. Dangdut pundits if there are any left will seek justifications for dangdut but only for dangdut's own reasons yet dangdut in the end will only be dangdut that is fast forgotten. Howsoever I will still be dangduting once in a while when the establishments still exist and the music still played, yet, considerations other than the antiquated wiggle moved quickly ahead. Club Bosses will always see profit so should the associating components of being inebriated and flirtatious and ones that bring in the cash began to be viewed to lose in importance: dangdut or the dance and musical genre will fast be discarded and verily and of present; contemporary club music holds sway with dangdut being only token songs. So its not hard to observe that dangdut will not be long in place and straight into the dustbins of history. Karaoke,on the other hand will be hard to go away if younger and younger singers be available and comely they are - because SEX forever sells! Nocturnal Life can only be of the said aspects and of which exalts much - wine,women and songs! Girls must be pretty,wines - vintage and expensive and songs - contemporary: leaving nostalgia useless and irrelevant! In that respect what reason can be a self professed dangdut philosopher if not inconsequential,futile,hopeless,impractical,profitless and existing only for his unproductive own! Hohohohoho!
#KayEl - Kuala Lumpur.
Monday, March 18, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Epistemology, A Dangdut perspective,no less
A 101 configuration nonetheless wherein 101 being a prime consideration yet epistemology cum metaphysics if imbued altogether within dangdut will make a study into obscurity but an idea nevertheless. Western philosophy has a way of explicating entirely the senses with respect to any explanations needed to justify a certain proposition. However Eastern thought has in its elaboration a tad spirituality albeit glued wholesomely into any exposition coming from which. And emanating beneficially from such proposition a divine reflection and always from source: the likes of what was revealed actually from Holy Scriptures throughout the era plus none at all questioning their validity. Perhaps a statement from God that bears no politics nor sophistry but totally as truth revealed primordially. Senses identify things of relevance to thought and knowledge and what perceived outside of the ones present in mind are what minds thought as knowledge so whatever knowledge has justifications from sense,conception and in mind as what was in mind matters. But things outside and from what that matters that came from mind or the thing in itself can be gauged and measured thus its shape defined, however, what was in mind could be abstract in its shape distinct from what's outside where what was in mind could be slightly rectangular but the same thing outside is a perfect square. Therefore the thing in mind or the phenomena or phenomenon as proper terms dictate is the thing perceived before actual measurements as per external and in itself the thing is. And the thing before perceived in mind what then can it be or was there a first cause before sense perception? Or a first instance that makes what matters later on. Eastern stories see first cause as divine and unquestionable thenceforth truth and reality to be gleefully accepted ne'er with doubts associated. And the beginning that is reality is at once being,knowledge and bliss without having to rely on sense alone as a priori and to be prodded further and further as flimsy base!
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Dangdut To Last?
There has never been dangduting from year start to date as every member of the consociation is skint or suffering aches and pains due to tight budget and weary bodies. Every one has aged and lost the wherewithal to flirt if only a song to dance and a tune to sing ala karaoke and to spend a late night too: taxes much on the entire physique the next day. Or could there be more motivation to exult the odd evening but to what avail? If to be merry for a while and to reminisce a week later,yet,the narrative of what was a while ago will be entirely lost in the scheme of things afterwards. Meaning dangdut has no significance ever and even less to bu[ld dreams and manufacture hopes of universal good and its philosophy lasts only in that it be allowed its philosophy. Or that only a crazy dangdut lover will want to philosophize on a dangdut existence that ne'er does exist,an existentialist that finds extremely hard to question his dangdut existence. And a discipline or a science or an art that be anachronistic to a big nought! However dangdut in its origin locale gets to be that very anachronism that in fact flourishes into a misplacement that bears its own;that it becomes sensual and erotic in its gyrating buttocks and sexy dresses where singers cum dancers belly dances the quaint tone into a spectacle one would like to totally avoid if only a few diehard dangdut enthusiasts still hold enamored. Or lovers of old dangdut but all the more toothless and aging...but still have this strange love of dangdut eternal. Come to think of it,dangdut's actually ridiculous but not raga - its original or that dangdut is derived from, and where raga retains its identity and evolution but dangdut just evolves not. A dangdutist can never be an existentialist but perfectly mad!
Sunday, January 6, 2013
What's Dangdut For The New Year?
Alas! There is actually nothing much about dangdut for a dangdut New Year,a year will actually without much ado as the year last or the one before last much be the same as the year coming. Days and nights and the weather would be similar particularly in sunny paradise where one is wont to face seasons of freezing cold to gradual heat. But happenings between do make bulletins and should peace prevail as before why would there be earth shattering happenstances unless life and limbs are lost and folks dislocated. But people are still being killed and thrown from their homes and not immediate as in next door but far far away in nether land. We see,we empathize and even helped a little but beside a tinge of sadness we do not do more. Like a story of somebody who only awaits at Heaven's Door but not allowed in because he does much but not more. Is it because the underlying philosophy world or terra wide is to get what can be of profit in terms of extreme or sufficient comfort while the day is good but days are similar if not for what fills the day to be peaceful and delighting. Or an undertone of greed masked in notions of survivability or to survive whilst alive whence death is always a probability that is less probable in fact imminent. Not to call to all and sundry that one dies and only dies with barely about what life connotes. God bestows death because he gives life and life without death is aimless and death only is a diminished tone without any reason for living. And God orders much to exult a transient life limited by biological constraints. Elixir for youth may exist but only for numerous years that will still end at the end of which. Coming to a philosophy overriding everything else since he is our maker and his philosophy matters when nothing else can or that he being the reason for everything. Could we make our own then our doctrines can become truly ours and our reasons alone. He could promised of time coming in after another time or an epoch that upgrade another. Meanwhile I as in We and You has only to seek humility and to surrender and to ask and beseech him for eternal peace and delight. God Willing! As for dangdut it only could be the same ever since it is only dangdut and dangdut to the day everything ends. Beside I haven't been in a club for so long and all memories from a fore have all been blogged so there is actually nothing left to blog unless I go dangduting again so soon! Hohoho
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