#*aktivitas

Hekate's approach to touring was to expect the worst and to have as much fun as possible in the mean time. We weren't planners; we worked with chaos. We did it for the transcendent moments, those flashes when the sweat and the feedback and the lights and the crush of bodies collided in a hot burst—but between those fleeting crests, it was mostly loading gear up and down unventilated stairwells, getting misgendered and patronized during soundcheck, rinsing out our sour underwear in some grimy punk-house sink, pissing in Slurpee containers and tossing them out the window as the van accelerated, finally, up the ramp to the eternal highway, where nothing but gridlock, entropy, and endless tolls awaited.

Tadinya kupikir menerjemahkan itu perkara mudah, tapi ternyata untuk mengalihbahasakan rilis berita sehingga menjadi luwes, enak dibaca, sebagaimana lazimnya artikel berita, membutuhkan keahlian khusus. Kalimat panjang yang dalam bahasa Inggris terdengar anggun, begitu diterjemahkan ke dalam bahasa Indonesia berubah cerewet dan tidak efektif. Biasanya kalau sudah begitu, kalimat akan kupotong jadi dua atau tiga. Istilah teknis yang tidak ada padanannya kupertahankan dan hanya kucetak miring.