Page 214: Good stuff

You know it’s a good book or has meaning for you if you want to reread it all of a sudden. Open it on some random page or go straight to your favorite part. Same thing with music – you can just put some songs on your playlist and listen to them repeatedly – and movies, watching it again although you can still remember most scenes in it.

So I reread The Little Prince, listen to Jens Lekman’s Your Arms Around Me, Tame Impala's Solitude is Bliss, Arcade Fire's Wake Up, Beirut's Nantes and Postcards From Italy over and over, and watch Love Me If You Dare again.

Pretty good Saturday, eh?

Page 32: Fake Elephant Nose

Me want... 

that fake elephant nose from Beirut's Elephant Gun video

:D

*me want Zach Condon too x]

Page 31: Let's Stomping, Hopping, and Dancing With Beirut

It’s like you're walking and hopping in a street where grass, flowers, and trees filling up each side.
It’s like you’re in the middle of party where people gather in a circle, barefoot, smiling. Happy.
It’s the sounds you'd find during traveling, almost broke, kinda lost, but then you see some interesting marching band in parade.
It’s the song you want to hear when you’re a bit drunk; blabbering all night long, laughing at tragedy that happened in your life, and do silly dance. Until you finally throw up, fall asleep, and wake up with headache. *errr, yeah, sorta :p

It’s Beirut’s music.

I’m not a fan of ethnic music, or world music, especially Balkan folk. But I had “crush at first hears” moment with ‘Interior of a Dutch House’. And when it came to ‘Postcards from Italy’, I knew I’m in love with Beirut. And of course, with the front man, Zach Condon,