BMTH live in Jakarta 2024

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This time around Ravel gets it right and BMTH (Bring Me The Horizon) are headlining the Nexfest festival in Jakarta which also features Babymetal. In this format there is no seating - which makes for a much more intimate experience - although you do have to arrive really early if you want to pick a spot right up close to the stage.  We arrived about six hours before BMTH were scheduled to start their performance and bought plenty of drinks to stay hydrated in the tropical afternoon heat (mind you, some of those were Iceland vodka mix!) This was a gig I had long been looking forward to - especially after the debacle last year. Not everyone likes BMTH of course. For deathcore fans the band sold out. For metal heads the band is not purist enough. And for the wider mainstream audience, the band is too heavy. You can't please everyone of course but there are few bands in the rock world which can match the sheer emotional velocity of BMTH. To bring metal and even aspects of metalcore t

Stiff neck syndrome hits Indonesia!

Bizarre medical conditions. So strange you’d think someone was pulling your leg (or perhaps hacking off theirs). Yep, that’s called Body Integrity Identity Disorder and it ain’t very nice. 

Then there’s Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome (that must be hard to come to terms with!), music-induced seizures, Fatal Familiar Insomnia and even – would you believe it – a condition affecting people who are unable to open their eyes

But the bizarre medical condition which is sweeping Indonesia at the current time is slightly different. Stiff neck syndrome. And here’s a sufferer from Jakarta being examined:

Stiff neck syndrome
So what’s causing the problems? Well, at first the doctors were completely perplexed. But after collating data from a large number of cases, they were soon able to ascertain some interesting facts: Many of the affected were either office workers or university students! Further investigation finally pinpointed the cause of the problem:

Stiff neck syndrome
Yep, that’s right, Indonesians have been spending too much time watching the leaked Indonesian sex videos that seemingly feature two very prominent female celebrities, a guy called Peter Porn, and a little mouse called Jerry. 

But not everyone is impressed and the Minister for the Empowerment of Women, Linda Amalia Sari Gumelar, said that she simply “couldn’t bear to watch” the two celebrities being bedded by Indonesia’s new Don Juan. 

Being an ostensibly conservative society where “good people don’t have sex”, Indonesia’s moral brigade are in uproar of course and calling for the culprits to be punished severely under Indonesia’s highly contentious IT and anti-porn laws (I actually wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted Peter Porn hung by the b**** - although I admit he should certainly have his head examined for wanting to record his sordid trysts on his handphone in the first place). 

But what the moralists need to remember is that Peter Porn is a GUY. And guys are hard wired to be the alpha male and get all the women they can. That’s not a choice but biological engineering (thanks God). 

I mean even former president Sukarno was a noted lady-charmer, gaining acclaim for bedding a beautiful Japanese nightclub hostess who also became his wife (Dewi Sukarno). 

I’m not saying that we should condone what Peter Porn got up to (or down to as the case may be), but to simply admit that with the same temptations and opportunities that somebody like Peter Porn has, a lot of us guys might do something similar.
But please. Leave the handphone at home!!! Hahaha!

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