Vintagologism (or sort of)

First scenes in Wall-E present vintage La Vie en Rose video played in half-wrecked television. The mix between deserted dystopia and faraway fleshy past creates sweet irony that we could feel sorry for the future earthlings not being able to embrace that romanticism first-handedly. But, at the same time, we are in the middle between past and future, we are on that track. We could sympathize with Wall-E, at least fifty percent. It would be cool if in the future such job of curating vintage, grounded ambiance would be in demand. In fact, they are baking it now at www.radiooooo.com (five O's), where you could go through past and present music in different eras. Just click the interactive map and tick the era box. My favourite for today would be going back to 1950s Argentina.

On Uber

Sharing economy is like fun, meaningless, cheap dates. It is a blast, but you cannot control their ever-readiness to always be there for you. You would always need long-term, committed service even (especially) when it is holidays. This is why I think we still need taxi, ojek pangkalan, and anything that is committed to serve you despite their moods.

The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch could be a story about many things for different readers. Its Littlebrown soft copy edition back cover sums it up as a "bestseller about a son, a mother, and a life-changing work of art". For me, the striking plot is the one between Boris and Theo (the protagonist). Everyone has their own Boris, who thinks what they do to us is funny, fun, who leads us to bad things, yet they would end up very lucky and well (even great) in life. The very same person who actually teaches us to loosen up and might finally make us contemplating nihilism. Or, maybe you are the Boris for Theo.

This book is a nice coming-of-age first person point of view narration. It does not constantly rant like The Catcher in the Rye or even On the Road, which left me with the urge to shut the rant up. But still, it evokes the couldn't-care-less side of you. Also, nihilistic thoughts. 

To accompany your nihilistic thought, give it a bit of scientific flair:

I don't want updates

It bothers me how software updates eat up my smart phone memory and slow the phone down. I am okay with my phone's capability right now and don't need nor want more innovation. However, compatibility with other services, bug fixes, better data mining, etc. will force you to update your phone, delete your unnecessary applications, photos, videos, and in the end to buy more phone memory, and new phone in the end. Silly