Bertemu Aik dari Underground Tauhid

Sabtu lepas, selepas solat Subuh aku bertemu dengan Anuar yang datang dari Bota. Selepas sarapan, kami menuju ke sebuah hotel berdekatan KL Sentral untuk bertemu dengan Aik yang datang dari Surabaya. Dia singgah ke KL selama tiga hari selepas berseminar di Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Dia salah seorang scenester yang aktif di sana dengan zine punk/dakwah Sub Chaos, Sa'i, dan lain-lain.

Aku masih belum baca zine-nya, tapi di muka depan nampak macam ada unsur dakwah dan perbandingan antara nilai agama Islam dan etika subculture punk.

Dia juga ada menyertai band hardcore bernama The Fourty's Accident yang main ala-ala Minor Threat, Youth Of Today...tapi liriknya...ada unsur pendirian yang kuat tentang Islam. Aik adalah penulis kesemua lagu-lagu mereka dan dulunya bermain gitar untuk band ini. Namun setelah vokalis asal mereka meninggal dunia, dia tukar posisi menjadi vokalis.

Ini merupakan satu lirik dari The Forty's Accident;

Muslim Hardcore is What We Stand For
This is not time to debate
What kind of hardcore do you stand for
There’s no need to answer
The question about what the hardcore is

We aren’t avoid your judgement
that we bringing Islam in anything we say
coz for us hardcore is just a tool
to deliver our thought

# muslim hardcore
that we stand for!

Explanation:

Ya, kami memang tidak benar-benar menjadi hardcore sebagai gaya hidup kami. Bermusik hanyalah alat kami untuk menyampaikan pesan. Beberapa orang memaki kami karena sikap kami ini. Padahal kami sama sekali tidak mengganggu mereka. Silakan saja berpikir yang sama sekali berbeda dengan kami, tapi jangan harap kami tunduk dengan definisi hardcore yang sudah mereka buat sendiri. Lagipula sejak kapan hardcore/punk punya definisi tetap dan baku?

So, here we are.
This is how we define our movement: Muslim Hardcore!
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Dia juga aktif menulis dan berkongsi berita/cerita di website Underground Tauhid yang aku baru mula ikuti. Dia juga merupakan seorang penggerak pergerakan Punk Muslim di Indonesia. Disamping itu, aku dapat info di facebook, dia juga menjadi tok imam di masjid di tempatnya. Harap-harap di Malaysia pun ada juga vokalis band hc/punk yang mampu jadi tok imam masjid.

Malangnya, jadual dia di Malaysia agak ketat. Jadi kami dapat berbual dengannya hanya kira-kira 20 minit dan dia terpaksa berlalu kerana ingin tengok-tengok suasana di Putrajaya. Sebelum jam 9 pagi, temannya dan datang untuk membawa mereka bertiga pensyarah jurusan design ke Putrajaya.

link di bawah ini merupakan catatan Aik semasa bertemu dengan "anak-anak punk" di Sarawak dan KL.

http://www.undergroundtauhid.com/catatan-pimred-underground-tauhid-tentang-scene-hardcorepunk-malaysia/

 Aik di zine picnic di Surabaya

Musim Tengkujuh di Kuala Ibai

gambar oleh Eddie

Musim tengkujuh di Kuala Ibai

Hujung tahun ia datang tak berjemput

Hujan lebat, berhenti sekejap, hujan renyai

Begitulah hari-hari, berturut-turut

Angin pantai di Kuala Ibai

Bunyinya uuuuu uuuuu uuuuu!

Bertiup kuat bagaikan badai

Siang dan malam pun begitu

Apa khabar penduduk pantai?

Tenangkah tidur malammu?

Usah bimbang usah risau

Tawakallah pada Tuhan yang satu

Nizang, 23 Muharram 1433 H

SYB: Tiba-tiba terasa nak tulis puisi ni masa pulang ke kampung hujung minggu lepas.
Buat lirik lagu band punk cun gak ni.

Story of My Life - Social Distortion lyrics

Antara band yang aku dengar dari mixtape kawan kakak aku masa tahun 1996-97 dulu. Tak silap lagu yang melekat kat benak time tu "ball and chain" dengan "ring of fire". Ni lagu lain yang bes gila dan lirik ada macam idup aku jugak sikit-sikit. Bab kat sekolah aku tak minat sukan -merentas desa pun ponteng setiap tahun dengan alasan 'asma!'. Pastu pasal hometown aku sekarang dah takde familiar faces nak lepak kalau balik kampung sekali-sekala. Semua orang merantau/sibuk dengan kehidupan masing-masing sekarang ni. Well, that's life. Enjoy.



High school seemed like such a blur
I didn't have much interest in sports or school elections
And in class I dreamed all day
About a rock 'n' roll weekend
And the girl in the front of the room
So close yet so far
Y'know she never seemed to notice
That this silly school-boy crush wasn't just pretend

Chorus:
Life goes by so fast
You only want to do what you think is right
Close your eyes and then it's past;
(it's the) story of my life

And I went down to my old neighborhood
The faces have all changed, there's no one left to talk to
And the pool hall I loved as a kid is now a seven eleven

I went downtown to look for a job
I had no training, no experience to speak of
I looked at the holes in my jeans and turned and headed back

Chorus

Good times come and good times go
I only wish the good times would last a little longer
I think about the good times we had and why they had to end

So I sit at the edge of my bed
I strum my guitar and I sing an outlaw love song
Wonderin' bout what you're doin' now and when you're comin' back

Chorus

Father And Son -Cat Stevens lyrics

It´s not time to make a change
Just relax and take it easy
You´re still young That´s your fault
There´s so much you have to know
Find a girl, settle down
If you want you can marry
Look at me
I am old but I´m happy
I was once like you are now
and I know it's not easy
to be calm, when you found, something going on
take your time, think a lot
think of everything you've got
for you may still be tomorrow, but your dreams may not
How can I try to explain
When I do, he turns away again
It has always been the same, same old story
From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen
Now there´s a way and I know that I have to go away
I know I have to go

Blind -Face to Face lyrics

What if I'm right and you are wrong?
What if you knew it all along?
What if I figured out that I did not belong?

What if it always bothered me?
What if I never did believe?
Would it be wrong if I decided I should leave?

If I pretended I was blind
And struck it from my mind
Would it still be there?
What if I'd do anything to make it seem all right
It's all right

What if it's all inside my head?
What if those words were never said?
Would it be easier if I could just forget?

What if I didn't run away?
Could it be any other way?
Would it be wrong if I decided I should stay?

the secret song from always last's antidotes

Yeah baby, Always Last just released their debut album. On the last track, there's a hidden track called 'the secret song' I think. It sounds like a song by Rivers Cuomo from Weezer and it's acoustic. It'll touch your heart so much and make you think about your past memories. Please please don't miss this hidden track in this must-listen album...!

Missing you

Can’t get you out of me

And I felt so wrong

If I could have met u somewhere else

I would like to say

For you, I’ll never call your phone

For you, I’ll slowly let u go

In my heart I felt so tired

So I wrote this song

In my heart I felt so empty

Only you only you

Would make me feel free

Dreamt of you

Can’t get you out of me

And I felt so wrong

Even if your heart would let me in

I will let you go

In our secret song

In our secret song

langkah jika berlaku kebakaran

Aku dah tahu akan wujudnya filem ni zaman awal 2000an dulu. Tapi aku tak pernah berpeluang menontonnya. Beberapa bulan lepas aku dapat beli VCDnya dan semalam aku baru berpeluang menontonnya. Ternyata, filem ni antara filem terbaik pernah aku tonton.

Filem yang sangat punk rock, anarkis, burn the state, kill the khinzir. Lagu-lagu dalam filem mengingatkan aku pada band Petrograd, poppunk bahasa asing yang sungguh bes dan menaikkkan semangat.

Mengisahkan pasal sekumpulan anarkis punk rockers yang squatting dan buat filem. Mereka merakam perbuatan mereka membuat bom dan meletaknya di sebuah bangunan. Bom itu tidak meletup, dan bangunan itu ditinggalkan. Selepas lebih sepuluh tahun, baru bom tu meletup dan terkena 2 orang awam. Polis mengesyaki bom itu angkara terrorists dan berjaya mendapatkan filem asal yang anarkis-anarkis tersebut telah rakam.

Hanya 2 antara anarkis itu masih squatting dan hidup macam muda-muda dulu. Masih bergantung kepada mencuri dari syarikat perniagaan besar untuk hidup. Yang selebihnya, 4 orang lagi dah boleh dikatakan 'jaded' dan 3 antara mereka hidup kaya-raya mempunyai syarikat gergasi sendiri, naik mercedes, beranak 2, dan menjadi pematuh undang-undang yang tegar.

So, apa terjadi lepas tu? Carik movie ni. Cun. Aku ni mmg lembap sket bab-bab movie, dah dekat 10 tahun lepas release aku baru nak tengok, bedallah.

Ni aku sertakan satu lirik lagu dalam movie ni ketika kumpulan ini mengecapi keseronokan. Antara part klimaks filem ni.

A heart thats full up like a landfill,
A job that slowly kills you,
Bruises that wont heal
You were so tired, happy,
Bring down the government,
They dont, they dont speak for her
Ill take the quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide

No alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silent, silent
This is my final fit, my final bellyache with
No alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises, please

Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden
No alarms and no surprises, no alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises, please

Memories -Cromok lyrics

Khamis lepas kat opis aku tibe2 ade orang pasal lagu 'I don't belong here' dari Cromok. Terbaik. Sejurus aku sampai rumah aku pasang album 'Forever In Time' kuat-kuat dalam bilik.

Aku rasa aku ada beli kaset 'Forever In Time' ni mase 1996-1997 macam tu, tingkatan 2 atau 3. Lirik2 Cromok ni bes, aku rasa budak2 sekolah menengah mmg boleh connect dengan lirik2 persoalan hidup dan lirik2 marah sebab zaman sekolah menengah adalah zaman rebellious. Kaset tu dah lama hilang. Tahun lepas kot aku beli versi CD yang masih dijual kat kedai Auntie, tapi aku beli dekat Original Sound, Kuala Terengganu.

Yeah...Sape2 yang takde CD or MP3 diorang, boleh carik lagu-lagu diorang kat YouTube. Teknologi rules.

I'm not angry with life
I'm just bewildered
Chains of uncertainty
Are holding me down

Where am I to go
Who am I to blame
What am I to do
God, am I insane?
I never thought that my smile
Will put me deep into debt

I never thought that my innocence
Would stray me away from reality

I never thought that my live
Would resolved to emptiness

I never thought that in order to live
I have to bear so much pain

The sorrow of life has taught me
To accept many new beginnings

To smile even thought it hurts
To reach out even if there's no one there
To aim high and never say die
Cause there's always sun at the of the night

Chorus

Memories...tortured by my own
Memories...
Memories...Trapped in my own
Memories...

If your eyes are full to the brim
The teardrops are sure to fall down
For whom the eyes may starve tomorrow
Where it get lost, the tears, that I had
Kept hidden in my...(chorus)

Look Back And Laugh -Minor Threat lyrics

Sketch notes:

Aku rasa aku ni jenis yang tak boleh rapat sangat dengan kawan baik. Kalau dah rapat sangat, sampai duduk sebumbung mesti pastu jadi lain. Jadi masam muka. Aku rasa lah. Sebab aku rasa dah dua kali terjadi kat aku.

Aku rasa mungkin sebab bila dah kenal rapat perangai aku, dah tahu semua kelemahan-kelemahan aku dan tahu pulak aku ni jenis tak kesah, diam, tak pernah marah orang nak cakap, buat, ape-ape kat aku, amik kesempatan atas kelemahan aku. So, jadiklah kutuk, gelak atas muka secara direct depan-depan. Takde cover-cover. Aku diam, aku senyum tak bermakna aku tak kesah korang kutuk aku yang no talent ni, kutuk rumah aku macam pot mat pet, macam rumah perumahan, kutuk aku dan gelakkan aku dalam segala macam la.

Macam biasa, aku...aku. Aku diam, aku senyum, aku pendam...kat dalam...ikutkan hati nak saja aku terbalikkan meja kat uptown malam tu. Tapi aku...macam biase...bila kene ape-ape...diam jer. Dah 2-3 jam lepas tu baru pikir nak marah. Ahh...

So, untuk kawan-kawan baik aku yang pernah rapat ngan aku pastu jadi kurang ngam ngan aku...aku tujukan lagu kat bawah ni... lagu yang asik main dalam kepala aku 2-3 hari ni.

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I want to tell you a little story
'Cause it makes me warm inside
It's about some friends growing up
And all the things they tried
I'm not talking about staple shit
They went for something more
I guess it was too much dreaming
Too much to hope for

One day something funny happened
But it scared the shit out of me
Their heads went in different directions
And their friendship ceased to be (x2)

Someday, look back and laugh...

I'm telling you I want it to work!
I don't like being hurt!
Something's not right inside!
And I can't always put it aside...
What can we do, what can we do?

Try! (x4)

Fuck it man!

I guess I make too much shit
Someday we'll look back and laugh

I'm telling you I want it to work!
I don't like being hurt!
Something's not right inside!
And I can't always put it aside...
What can we do, what can we do?

Try! (x4)

Fuck it man!

I guess I make too much shit
Someday we'll look back and laugh

Mr. Present, go away
Come back and fuck with us some other day
Mr. Feelings, run and hide
You have no right to what you feel inside
Motherfuckers, quick to kiss
Talk your shit, but don't fuck with this
All I want to know...
All I want to know is
Am I holding on? Am I moving on?
What can we do, what can we do? (x4)

Try! (x4)

Everything -Michael Buble lyrics

You're a falling star, you're the get away car.
You're the line in the sand when I go too far.
You're the swimming pool, on an August day.
And you're the perfect thing to say.

And you play it coy but it's kinda cute.
Ah, when you smile at me you know exactly what you do.
Baby don't pretend that you don't know it's true.
'cause you can see it when I look at you.

And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times
It's you, it's you, you make me sing.
You're every line, you're every word, you're everything.

You're a carousel, you're a wishing well,
And you light me up, when you ring my bell.
You're a mystery, you're from outer space,
You're every minute of my everyday.

And I can't believe, uh that I'm your man,
And I get to kiss you baby just because I can.
Whatever comes our way, ah we'll see it through,
And you know that's what our love can do.

So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times
It's you, it's you, you make me sing.
You're every line, you're every word, you're everything.
You're every song, and I sing along.
'Cause you're my everything.
Yeah, yeah

So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
So, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Alamraya Sekolahku

Aku baca nama band Marjinal first sekali dalam zine Roots#3, dan memang sangat tertarik tapi aku tak tahu mane nak dapatkan stuff diorang. Tahun 2004, Ronin Distro release kaset diorang yang bertajuk 'Termarjinalkan'. Time tu aku kerja kedai fotostat (designer sebenarnya di kedai printing, tapi kerja-kerja fotostat, binding, jual top-up tu seme termasuk tugas aku). So, Cikgu Fazri (masa tu blom dpt title cikgu) suruh aku fotostatkan cover kaset ni. Hehhe...ok la tu untuk intro. Aku suka lirik lagu ni, lagu ni siap ada part dangdut lagi, memang lain dari punk biasa. Jadi kita layan...

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