Saturday, November 14, 2009
"TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person."
"Yesterday you told me you have the impression of being a captive. You have this impression because there is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world--any place at all. This pressure is exerted in all sorts of ways , on all sorts of levels, but it's exerted most basically this way: Those who refuse to take a place do not get fed(36)."
"They've been told an explaining story. They've been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything, including the deterioration of the ozone layer, the pollution of the oceans, the destruction of the rain forests, and even human extinction--and it satisfies them. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it pacifies them. They put their shoulders to the wheel during the day, stupefy themselves with drugs or television at night, and try not to think too searchingly about the world they're leaving their children to cope with(44-45)."
"So now we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it(74)."
"I'm saying that the price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that cast mankind as the enemy of the world(77)."
"Yes. I no longer think of what we're doing as a blunder . We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it(132)."
"Giving it up would mean . . . It would mean that all along they'd been wrong. It would mean that they'd never known how to rule the world. It would mean . . . relinquishing their pretensions to godhood(170)."
~Ishmael Daniel Quinn Bantam/Turner: 1992
"TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person."
"Yesterday you told me you have the impression of being a captive. You have this impression because there is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world--any place at all. This pressure is exerted in all sorts of ways , on all sorts of levels, but it's exerted most basically this way: Those who refuse to take a place do not get fed(36)."
"They've been told an explaining story. They've been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything, including the deterioration of the ozone layer, the pollution of the oceans, the destruction of the rain forests, and even human extinction--and it satisfies them. Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it pacifies them. They put their shoulders to the wheel during the day, stupefy themselves with drugs or television at night, and try not to think too searchingly about the world they're leaving their children to cope with(44-45)."
"So now we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it(74)."
"I'm saying that the price you've paid is not the price of becoming human. It's not even the price of having the things you just mentioned. It's the price of enacting a story that cast mankind as the enemy of the world(77)."
"Yes. I no longer think of what we're doing as a blunder . We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it(132)."
"Giving it up would mean . . . It would mean that all along they'd been wrong. It would mean that they'd never known how to rule the world. It would mean . . . relinquishing their pretensions to godhood(170)."
~Ishmael Daniel Quinn Bantam/Turner: 1992
BSC Mystery #9: Kristy and the Haunted Mansion
Synopsis:
This was one of the stories I found really creepy as a kid, and even creepier as an adult. Kristy and Bart (her sort of kind of maybe love interest) have put the best players from both of their baseball teams (the Krushers and the Bashers) together to form the Krashers and they play against another rag tag team in a town thirty miles over. Charlie drives Kristy, Bart, and some of their team members and equipment in a van (four Bashers, Karen--insert shudder--David Michael, Jackie, and Buddy). On the way back from the game, there's a storm and they get lost. Outside this huge old mansion known as the Sawyer House, a couple of bridges wash out and so they're stranded. The caretaker who lives in a little old cottage lets them stay up in the old house till morning. Everyone's worried back home because there's no phones to call and it's back in the day before you could just use your crackberry to Twitter: "Staying in a creepy old house with my older brother, my beard, and eight kids, one of whom is Karen Brewer--someone kill me, kthnxbai."
The house is a bit spooky because the electricity is out and there are rumors of ghosts. Doing some snooping (newsclippings and an old diary), the kids find out that a young woman named Dorothy Sawyer used to live here. She wanted to marry her fiance, Will Blackburn, whom her father didn't think was good enough for her. She planned to run off with Will one night outside the creek and elope but she never showed up and was presumed dead (drowned, one assumes).
Kristy and the others figure out that the old caretaker is Will and they ask him what's up. He explains that he moved back here and bought the house as a way of keeping his love for Dorothy alive. Too bad you're separated by oceans and time from another literary loon who'd be perfect for you. Miss Havisham and Will would make quite a couple. I've really got to start up a Missed Connections page on the blog.
Kristy goes back home and a week later the BSC has a sleepover. Karen, bitch that she is, stole a snapshot of Dorothy and brings it up to Kristy's room to show the others because she's figured out who Dorothy is. Turns out she looks just like the woman who owns the Stoneybrook sewing shop and Mary Anne agrees. The next day, the sitters go to the sewing shop to ask Dorothy about what's going on and if all goes well, play matchmaker between her and Will.
Dorothy explains that she ran away because she was afraid Will would make her live the conventional boring existence of a housewife in a pre-Gloria Steinem or Betty Friedan world: "I didn't have to answer to any man: not Father, not Will. For, as much as Will loved me, I knew he would have given me the same sort of life that Father had...I knew it was wrong to let them think I was dead, but it was the only way I could see for me to take control of my life." This is what happens when you base your strong willed female characters off of Aladdin's Princess Jasmine.
- When the kids meet up with Dorothy, they think that she should tell Will she's alive. She smiles, thinking it'll give him a surprise and that she'll do it. Yeah, that won't traumatize him even a little. Dotty, you creep, you're probably planning to give him a heart attack so you can take over your old house, hire the kids who weren't good enough to be Krashers as your Oompa Loompa-esque minions, and make cutesy kitschy craft items galore with an even lower overhead than an Indonesian sweatshop.
(Claire, Margo? "Crap" has a "p" in it.)
- This book was ghostwritten by Ellen Miles. I'll refresh your memory--she normally writes a series called The Puppy Place and no, it's not as cutesy wutesy as it sounds. It's worse. It makes Pound Puppies look like that show on Animal Planet with all the hoarders who collect dogs.
- And yes, this time, I know Ellen didn't farm out any ghostwriting to a hip twentysomething aspiring writer. If some young hipster with more TV knowledge than sense had written this book, Dorothy would be a really awesome old person, like a former hippie who ransacked a Nuclear Power Plant back in the day, now going under the alias Muddy Mae Suggins to escape the fuzz. Or she'd be Dr. Ruth. Or Carol Kane's character in The Princess Bride. But no, Dorothy comes back to Stoneybrook and takes the absolute hippest, coolest job that Ellen and Ann M. could think of. She owns a sewing supply store. It's called Sew Fine. Not even the Widow Towne or Nannie, the resident Stoneybrook biddies, could top that.
- You know how we associate some of the books with food? I always associated Island Adventure with candy bars, Stacey's Emergency with homemade brownies, and Jessi and the Awful Secret with Burger King. This one sucks in terms of food. Will gives the kids some apples, bread and a jug of water instead of readimade pop tarts and double chocolate Oreos. And since it's Ellen Miles, not Peter Lerangis writing, you just know that the bread was whole wheat and that those apples weren't even Granny Smith. If the BSC members weren't such goody goods, instead of solving old people love affairs, they'd go back the next weekend to egg and TP Will's house. But no. They had to go and create an American version of As Time Goes By.
- I wonder how that meeting between Will and Dorothy will go. "So, Dorothy, how's your life been?" "Wonderful! I've been around the world several times, met countless suitors whom I've all turned down, and seen all kinds of thimbles from around the world. How about you?" "My collection of gnarled apples that look like you is almost complete...so...I've got that going for me."
- Dorothy thinks she's so empowered because she ran away and let all her friends and loved ones think she was dead. When I reread that, I had the same reaction as when I found out that damned Lindberg baby wasn't kidnapped at all and really ran off to start a career as a baby model for Gerber.
- Babysitting! On the fateful night that Kristy's missing, Claudia's babysitting for the Newtons. She shows up wearing a tie dyed shirt. Since it's raining, she's covered in colors and has to call Janine over to bring her fresh clothes. Not shown: Stacey's commentary on Claudia's wardrobe malfunction.
Stacey: "Gee, Quinn Claudia, it's almost like you're saying that people don't need to buy out Bloomingdale's to look good."
Claudia: "No, Stacey! I just meant that since..."
- Claudia doesn't lose another opportunity to mock Janine for being smart. When she's worried about Kristy, Janine comments that Kristy will probably be fine because she's so intelligent and resourceful and Claudia eyerolls because Janine thinks intelligence can solve any problem. Duh, Janine. Wearing a cute pink tank top with matching pink elephant studs in your ears is the best way of coping in a crisis when you're stranded in the rain. Besides, popular people don't need to be intelligent in a crisis.
- Later, Janine has no idea what to do to make baby Lucy stop crying, so Claudia suggests Cheerios (oh, Claud, bleemers and compulsive eating are right around the corner for you, aren't they?). Janine responds with, "'She'll get milk all over herself'" and Claudia smiles thinking that Janine may be booksmart but she sure doesn't know kids. Ann? When I last met you, you said the child you'd must love to spend time with was that five year old Dexetrin addict on last month's Toddlers and Tiaras ("She could be the next Gabby Perkins!"). And Ellen, the last time you spent any meaningful time with an actual puppy was the cover shoot for one of your books where you tried to stick a tutu on a bulldog who promptly peed all over it.
- Claudia almost doesn't take that sitting job, FYI, as she's so worried about Kristy. But she does because she knows Kristy would have
made Claudia eat her own headbeen upset and told her it was unprofessional. BSC Uber Alles!
Ann M. and Ellen have no clue what feminism really means. Not a clue. That's how they created a character like Dorothy, who thinks that being a strong woman means pulling a Falcon Heene and making your family and friends worry while you go off and have fun. Note to Ann and Ellen: those self involved, "I just need to find myself on my parents' dime in an Indian ashram/hitchhiking around the country/in the loft apartment of every guy in the East village" that you knew in college were not feminists. When I e-mailed Ann about this, I got a smug response about how Amelia Earhart disappeared and isn't she a feminist? Oh, Ann and Ellen, I'll send you guys copies of The Second Sex and Vindication of the Rights of Woman--review before you create another adult female character ever.
Reverend's Interview: Poppins Fresh Men
Walt Disney’s cinematic masterpiece Mary Poppins has enthralled viewers since its original release in 1964. Based on a series of books by P.L. Travers about a “practically perfect” nanny with seemingly supernatural powers, the movie was a box-office hit and won a number of Oscars, including Best Actress for its first-time film star, Julie Andrews.45 years later, Mary Poppins has become a smash on stage, thanks to wunderkind theatre producer Cameron Mackintosh (Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera). The current national tour makes its eagerly awaited southern California premiere November 15 at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
Movie Dearest was able to speak recently with not one but two gay, out cast members of the Mary Poppins ensemble. Troy Edward Bowles (who goes by “Eddy”) and Tom Souhrada were eager to discuss their backgrounds from the tour’s stop in Dallas following a six-month run in Chicago.
“This is the perfect show for me,” said the 34-year old Bowles. He joined the touring company after roles in the Broadway productions Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Pirate Queen, as well as the national tour of the Billy Joel-Twyla Tharp mash-up Movin’ Out.
“I grew up on a dairy farm in Idaho and just danced around all the time,” Bowles recounted. “It seemed inevitable that I would one day dance professionally. There weren’t many outlets for dance, though, so I got into gymnastics, which had a little dance.”
Bowles, who is, by his own admission, an “out and proud” gay man performing in traditionally family-friendly Disney fare, went to New York City following his high-school graduation. However, the former farm boy found Manhattan “overwhelming.” After a few weeks there, “I ended up going to the University of Utah, which was closest to my parents’ home,” Bowles said.
Mary Poppins is, according to the former gymnast turned dancer, “a highly choreographed show, and there’s so much character to the choreography.” The dances were staged by the acclaimed Matthew Bourne (best known for his all-male Swan Lake and the ballet version of Edward Scissorhands) with an assist from co-choreographer Stephen Mear.
Bowles, who also serves as the tour’s dance captain, singled out two numbers in the show as being particularly challenging. During the famous song “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious”, the ensemble “spells out all the letters!” Also, “Step in Time”, Bowles says, “is a huge tap number and exhausting.”
This holiday season promises to be a high-profile one for Bowles. In addition to the LA engagement of Mary Poppins, he can be seen on the big screen — sort of — in Disney’s new, motion-capture digital version of A Christmas Carol. “I’m one of 14 dancers who play 100 characters in the big dance scene,” Bowles reports. “I was also Bob Hoskins’ (who plays Fezziwig) dance and stunt double.” All in all, the dancer reports, “It was an incredible experience.”
Bowles’ fellow ensemble member, Tom Souhrada, fell in love with the Mary Poppins movie at an early age. “It was such a big part of my youth,” Souhrada recalled. “It was actually the first movie I ever saw.”
Souhrada, who grew up in south Florida and is in his early 40’s, went on to say, “My sisters and I used to do little shows in our backyard, and Mary Poppins was one of them. When I heard they were doing a stage production, I got very excited.”
However, Souhrada’s eventual casting in the show proved unexpected. “Last fall, I did a show with an actress who had been cast in the Mary Poppins tour,” he said. “She called me one day to let me know the actor playing the Park Keeper had pulled out and told me to call my agent. I did, got an audition and got cast!”
Souhrada, who is single and lives in New York City, shared another special connection he has with Mary Poppins. Earlier in his career, he starred in a production of the 1920’s-set musical spoof The Boy Friend directed by its original star … Julie Andrews!
“After the show’s initial read-through, I was walking down the hall when I heard a proper, British, female voice behind me calling my name,” Souhrada said excitedly. “I turned around and all I could think was ‘Julie Andrews knows my name!’ Then it was ‘Julie Andrews is talking to me!’ She gave me a hug and all I could think was ‘Julie Andrews is touching me!’ She gave me a kiss on the cheek and I thought ‘Julie Andrews is kissing me’!”
About the current tour of Mary Poppins, Souhrada revealed, “It’s been an amazing experience, phenomenal. The creative staff has been amazing.” Regarding his fellow ensemble members, he said, “Most of the dancers are half my age, so I’m just trying to keep up!”
Both Souhrada and Bowles are excited about their show’s impending LA run. Bowles said, “I loved Mary Poppins on Broadway; I cried.” He continued, “There’s something about the tour that is more intimate; the set has been re-imagined for the tour, since it was so huge on Broadway.”
Mary Poppins is currently scheduled to play LA through February 7. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit the official website of the Center Theatre Group.
Interview by Rev. Chris Carpenter, resident film critic of Movie Dearest and the Orange County and Long Beach Blade.
Weird Pants by Revolve Clothing
Day by day the pants model was becoming weirder and weirder. like this weird pants.
Trousers are an item of clothing worn on the lower part of the body from the waist to the ankles, covering both legs separately (rather than with cloth stretching across both as in skirts and dresses). English-speakers in areas such as Canada, South Africa and the United States often refer to such items of clothing as pants. Additional synonyms include slacks, kegs or kex, breeches (sometimes pronounced /ˈbrɪtʃɨz/) or breeks. Historically, as for the West, trousers have been the standard lower-body clothing item for males since the 16th century; by the late 20th century, they had become prevalent for females as well. Trousers are worn at the hips or waist, and may be held up by their own fastenings, a belt, or suspenders (braces). Leggings are form-fitting trousers of a clingy material, often knitted cotton and lycra.
Here is the Weird Pants picture
Friday, November 13, 2009
Weird and Bizarre Wedding Gown | Paper Wedding Gown
We have talked many things about marriage and the bizarre wedding ceremony before in the world must be crazy. now how about talk another weird and bizarre things related to the wedding gown?? if most people uses an expensive cloth as their wedding gown material, this lady choose a paper as her wedding gown material.
According to New Life daily, the Chinese woman named Sha Sha wears a paper wedding gown. this paper wedding gown was made from her Wedding Dress Designer friends Zhu Zhu.
Sha Sha and Zhu Zhu has work together for 12 years in Kunming Advertising Agent in Yunnan Province China. Zhu Zhu said "When Sha Sha met her soulmate, i will made her a special gifts"
"as a Wedding Dress Designer, i was bored when looks to a usual wedding dress made from .. so why don't we use paper as the wedding gown material?" Zhu Zhu said. it needs half a month to made this special wedding dress for her friends Sha Sha.
These Gown was made from paper and has the silver ornament to make it more bright under the sun light.
Sha Sha went to his wedding, a local hotel, with six bridesmaids holding her dress, decorated with paper lilies in the tail ..
"I felt very grand, and beautiful. This dress is super comfortable to wear," says the bride.
While the groom named Li, said that if his wife looked beautiful with the dress. He said, "We are very pleased with the dress - but I did not dare touch it lest my eyes wet with tears,"
BMW X1 Replica from Lego
Really amazing.. this BMW X1 Replica was made by a kids.. they made this BMW X1 Replica from Lego.. before that we also post about the golden BMW M5..
A group of 800 highly enthusiastic children aged between 5 and 13 years took just four days to build this BMW X1 from mostly yellow LEGO bricks. Danish brand LEGO has been giving joy to children from around the world for 50 years. The model was built to scale which means it is 4.5 metres long, 1.8m wide and 1.5m high and was made out of around 165,000 mostly yellow LEGO blocks. For each block used, BMW will donate a sum of money to “Die Arche” children’s foundation, in Munich.
The LEGO BMW X1 will be on display at the BMW Welt Plaza until November 25.
Reverend's Reviews: Holy Hunter
Director-producer-writer Peter Rodger took an admirably ambitious project on when he decided to make Oh My God, a documentary opening today in Los Angeles and New York. Starting out in his native Australia, Rodger traversed 23 different countries and asked various people he encountered "What is God?" Rodger, disheartened by historic and current conflicts at least partly motivated by religious intolerance, was hoping to discover there is more that unites religious believers than divides.The filmmaker interviews Roman Catholic priests, Hindu children, African bush people, Jewish rabbis, Buddhist monks, Muslim teachers, and even a Druid or two. Rodger also poses his question, somewhat inexplicably but magnanimously, to entertainers and fellow countrymen Hugh Jackman, Baz Luhrmann and Jack Thompson as well as to musicians Ringo Starr and Bob Geldof.
While a few of the interviewees in Oh My God have unique and illuminating things to say, many of the responses are simplistic and some are downright embarrassing. One reaches the conclusion fairly early in Rodger's gorgeously photographed but obnoxiously quick-cut-edited film that the question "What is God?" has no satisfactory nor universally agreeable answers, even among those who claim the same religion.
This is most apparent, disturbingly so, when Rodger speaks with a Muslim imam who states "To kill homosexuals is a good thing in the sight of God" according to the Koran, as well as with the leader of an Islamic institute in southern California who cites the same scripture in repudiating the imam's claim. Christians don't come off as any more unified, with various clergy and lay people giving divergent interpretations of the New Testament. A fundamentalist Christian woman in Texas who owns a gun shop implies that Christians have the responsibility to kill non-Christians should their presence and/or beliefs encroach too closely.
I came away from Oh My God not having learned much I didn't already know and disappointed by Rodger's shallow approach to trying to spark meaningful inter-religious dialogue. Still, the movie will likely be helpful to novices just starting out on the path of religious understanding. It may prove to be a valuable resource in that regard or for high school and college students. God knows Rodger's well-intentioned question remains an important one to ask, even if it is ultimately unanswerable.
Click here to watch the trailer for Oh My God.
UPDATE: Oh My God is now available on DVD
from Amazon.com.Review by Rev. Chris Carpenter, resident film critic of Movie Dearest and the Orange County and Long Beach Blade.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Vierra sekelompok remaja yang bernyanyi dengan jujur dan lugas seperti layaknya remaja saat ini.....
Sepertinya sudah cukup lama kita tidak mendengar kaum remaja bernyanyi seperti remaja yang sebenarnya. Kebanyakan bernyanyi dengan gaya yang sok dewasa, sebagian lagi muncul dengan lagu-lagu masa lalu yang memang sudah enak.
Tapi coba dengarkan Vierra. Sekelompok remaja yang bernyanyi dengan jujur dan lugas seperti layaknya remaja saat ini. Background musikal tinggi dari orang tua mereka, tidak lantas membuat band ini terpengaruh untuk membuat lagu seperti gaya orang tua mereka. Vierra yang dimotori Kevin, yang notabene adalah putra dari komposer Adie MS, memilih menulis dan memainkan lagu-lagu yang sesuai dengan hati mereka.
Hal itu terlihat dari judul single pertama, "Dengarkan Curhatku" yang terdapat di album perdana mereka, My First Love (2009). Sebuah lagu yang tulus dari dalam hati mereka. Benar-benar tentang kejadian sehari-hari yang mereka alami sendiri.
Vierra ialah remaja yang bermain dengan gaya yang benar-benar remaja, gaya bahasa yang remaja, penampilan yang sangat remaja, karena mereka benar-benar remaja.
Vierra adalah Kevin Aprilio (keyboard), Widy Soediro (vokal), Raka Cyril (Gitar), dan Tryan (Drum).
Hal itu terlihat dari judul single pertama, "Dengarkan Curhatku" yang terdapat di album perdana mereka, My First Love (2009). Sebuah lagu yang tulus dari dalam hati mereka. Benar-benar tentang kejadian sehari-hari yang mereka alami sendiri.
Vierra ialah remaja yang bermain dengan gaya yang benar-benar remaja, gaya bahasa yang remaja, penampilan yang sangat remaja, karena mereka benar-benar remaja.
Vierra adalah Kevin Aprilio (keyboard), Widy Soediro (vokal), Raka Cyril (Gitar), dan Tryan (Drum).
Maya Estianty lahir di Surabaya, Jawa Timur, 27 Januari 1976
Maya Estianty lahir di Surabaya, Jawa Timur, 27 Januari 1976, umur 33 tahun atau dulu juga dikenal dengan nama Maia Ahmad adalah salah satu penyanyi dari grup musik MAIA yang sebelumnya bernama RATU. Selain bernyanyi, Maia juga terjun ke dunia artis dan menjadi salah satu pemeran komedi Extravaganza di Trans TV tetapi kemudian berhenti, lalu melanjutkan berperan di drama sit-kom OB di (RCTI) untuk beberapa episode.
Maia yang beragama Islam ini juga adalah mantan istri dari musisi Ahmad Dhani dari grup band Dewa 19 yang pertama kali Maia temui pada saat mereka bersekolah di SMAN 2 Surabaya setelah lulus dari SMPN 1 Surabaya. Hingga saat ini, ia memiliki tiga anak hasil perkawinannya dengan Ahmad Dhani. Setelah berumah tangga 12 tahun dan gonjang-ganjing kurang lebih 2 tahun Maia dan Dhani resmi bercerai pada tanggal 23 September 2008
D'Masiv merupakan sebuah grup musik asal Indonesia yang berdomisli di Jakarta
Mulan Jameela lahir di Garut, Jawa Barat, 23 Agustus 1979
Andra Junaidi dilahirkan pada tanggal 17 Juni 1972
Andra Junaidi dilahirkan pada tanggal 17 Juni 1972 sebagai anak bungsu dari enam bersaudara hasil pernikahan pasangan A. Ramadhan dan S.M. Fadilah. Andra mengaku terlambat mengenal musik, karena baru SMP lewat ekskul musiklah ia mulai tertarik pada musik. Pertama ia bermimpi untuk menjadi seorang drummer terkenal, tapi karena masalah biaya untuk membeli Drum sangat mahal dan setelah melihat teman2nya asyik memetik gitar, hobinya pun berganti. Bermodal gitar pinjaman, ia mulai belajar gitar, dan memang karena bakat, kemampuan dan teknik permainannya berkembang sangat pesat.
Di SMPN 6 inilah, Andra bertemu dengan Dhani, Wawan, dan Erwin kemudian mereka sepakat untuk membentuk band dengan nama Dewa. Aliran rock yang pertama mereka geluti akhirnya pindah ke jazz akibat pengaruh Erwin. Masalah kemudian bergelayut pada kehidupan Andra yaitu ketika ia harus memilih antara karirnya sebagai pemusik atau meneruskan kuliahnya di jurusan ?desain interior. Dengan pertimbangan yang matang, akhirnya Andra memilih untuk terus meniti karir di dunia musik, tapi bukan berarti langkahnya tetap ?mulus, karena kedua orang tuanya tidak setuju kalau Andra harus melepaskan bangku kuliahnya. Layaknya orang tua biasa, mereka ingin melihat Andra meraih gelar sarjana seperti kelima kakaknya yang sudah selesai. Tapi akhirnya kedua orang tuanya mau mengerti dan memang terbukti pilihan Andra tepat. Setelah melepaskan kuliahnya, konsentrasinya ke Dewa 19 membuat kreativi- ?tasnya lebih tergali. Kontribusi Andra terhadap komposisi lagu Dewa 19 tak bisa dipungkiri.
Dewi Perssik yang mempunyai nama asli Dewi Murya Agung lahir di Jember, Jawa Timur, 18 Desember 1985;
Dewi dikenal karena tembang Bintang Pentas. Nama Persik sendiri diberikan oleh manajernya, Pak Yogi, agar karirnya bersinar seperti buah persik yang di Cina dianggap sebagai buah pembawa keberuntungan. Sinetron yang pernah dibintangi Dewi antara lain Mimpi Manis dan Legenda eps. Nyi Ronggeng. Namun karir Dewi tak selalu mulus. Dewi yang terkenal dengan goyang gergajinya mulai mendapat kritikan atas aksi panggungnya yang seronok, serta pakaiannya yang minim dan ketat. Puncaknya adalah saat Dewi usai mengisi sebuah acara ulang tahun TPI yang digelar di Istora Senayan, 23 Januari 2008. Dada Dewi tiba-tiba diraba oleh seorang laki-laki. Saat itu Dewi mengenakan tank top warna putih dengan strip hitam. Sebelum menyentuh payudara Dewi, laki-laki tersebut iseng mencuri-curi gambar payudara Dewi dengan kamera handphone saat pedangdut seksi ini sibuk diwawancarai. Kejadian payudara Dewi yang menjadi konsumsi umum bukan baru pertama terjadi. Pada tahun 2005, gara-gara bergoyang terlalu 'hot' di sebuah acara SCTV, buah dada Dewi ikut menyembul. Kejadian itu hanya berlangsung beberapa detik.
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