Rolling Stone, April 1994
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After we finished Lollapalooza, we went to Australia and to New
Zealand, which was the true end of our touring for Blood Sugar Sex
Magik. Then everyone else went back to L.A., and I met my friend Hank
Schiffmacher on the west coast of Borneo, which is one of the largest
remaining rain forests in the world. We were going to cross the entire
island. And that turned into the most harrowing, semiunpleasant test of
survival that I’ve ever subjected myself to.
How so?
Well, I had these great images of myself swinging from vines and
playing in the jungle and finding orangutans and dancing among exotic
flowers. But it turned into more of a Vietnam experience. Everyone got
brutally ill. At night, we would sleep in these incredibly
uncomfortable, wet, seething-with-jungle-life conditions. The first
night in the jungle, we weren’t using our mosquito netting, and I woke
up with this incredibly painful buzzing and humming inside my brain. I
woke up Hank and said, “Please, look in my ear, my head is vibrating,
and I’m going insane.” He’s got this flashlight, and he’s looking in my
ear: “No, I see nothing, I see nothing.” And then he drops the
flashlight and screams, and I feel this animal crawl out of my ear. He
said it looked like an oversize jungle roach that had somehow collapsed
its body and worked its way into my ear canal and gotten stuck.
Oh, gross.
Yeah. So I wasn’t having the greatest time. And halfway through, we
got lost in these mountains in the middle of Borneo. And when you’re a
white guy from California, and you’ve run out of food, and you can’t
fluidly communicate with your guides, it becomes a source of concern.
How long were you lost?
We were lost for a week. I finally get back to L.A., and it turns
out that I’m stricken with dengue fever. It’s a very rare fever – like a
distant cousin of malaria – and I had to go into the hospital for a
week. But I got over the dengue fever and regrouped with the boys in
the band. Then Flea and I took a trip to Costa Rica. There were lots
of high-adventure traveling activities because we knew we were getting
ready to make another record.
De Grote Borneo Expeditie
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JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com -- Bagai tertimpa durian runtuh, itu yang dirasakan pembawa acara Daniel Mananta. Ketika pergi ke Rusia beberapa waktu lalu, ia bertemu dengan Anthony Kiedis, vokalis Red Hot Chilli Peppers (RHCP).
Percakapan pun terjadi dan, siapa sangka, pria kelahiran 14 Agustus 1981 ini menemukan kenyataan yang mengejutkan. "Saat di Rusia ketemu Anthony Kiedis, 'Gue ngefan sama lo.' Dia balik tanya gue dari mana, gue bilang 'Lihat kaus (t-shirt) gue, tulisan Damn I Love Indonesia.' Dia malah bilang, 'Justru gue yang ngefan sama lo,", cerita Daniel.
Ia juga menceritakan bahwa Kiedies jatuh cinta kepada Indonesia. Vokalis band rock asal AS itu rindu merasakan alam di Indonesia dan mengaku iri kepada Daniel sebagai Warga Negara Indonesia. "Dia (Kiedies) bilang, 'Gue rindu sama Mentawai. Gue mimpi kapan bisa surfing lagi di sana. Beruntung lo jadi orang Indonesia'," tutur Daniel menirukan ucapan Kiedies.
Tapi, Daniel juga harus menerima kenyataan bahwa banyak temannya di luar negeri lebih mengenal Pulau Bali daripada Indonesia.
(Source: entertainment.kompas.com)
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