Probably the cutest thing I've seen this month

Happy Birthday Graham Coxon

Come across nme.com and found these two images about beautiful love songs. Oh yes.

1. Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See

2. Radiohead - True Love Waits

Salah nih...

Gue barusan buka official website Dr. Martens dan stumble upon the women section there...

GILAAA JADI PENGEN SEMUA!!

Oke, hiperbola.
Mungkin gak semua, I narrowed down sepatu idaman gue jadi segini aja:

1. Shorestud
 It's white, high top, and there are studs all over. What more can I say?

2. Pierce
Gue jatuh cinta sama pink lace-nya. And, can you see? Bagian dalem sepatunya bercorak bunga-bunga victorian style gitu. Super cute indeed!

3. Aldgate
Motifnya gokil men! Psychedelic-psychedelic gimanaaa gitu.
Terbuat dari acid scrunch denim, this pair of shoes surely will caught everyone's attention everytime we put em on!

4. Carrie
This one is kinda girly I admit. I mean, kayanya orang gak bakalan nyangka deh kalo sepatu cut out oxford ini masih produk keluaran Dr. Martens. But still, they're too cute to resist ;)

Friday Mixtape

 

Side A

• Joy Formidable - This Ladder Is Ours
• Two Door Cinema Club - Handshake
• Janelle Monae - Cold War
• The Strokes - Taken For a Fool
• Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone

Side B

• Florence and The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
• Radiohead - The Daily Mail
• The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
  
• Alt-J - Matilda
• The Drums - Make You Mine

Dulu gue sebel banget tiap liat video ini ditayangin di MTV, sekarang kangen~

Back so soon?

bye

I think I'm gonna leave this blog
for a while, for good
Idk for how long

I just want to going hiatus
So I can focus on my tumblr only

B Y E

This is...

Sweet dream, please do come true

Pernah gak sih mimpi indaaaah banget sampe ga rela rasanya buat bangun? Atau pernah gak sih ngerasain mimpi bersambung? 

Maksudnya mimpi bersambung itu adalah ketika kita terbangun dari mimpi indah dan super duper ngerasa kecewa karena ternyata itu hanya mimpi, lalu kita pun berusaha tidur lagi untuk kembali meneruskan mimpi indah itu. 

Last night, gue ngalamin itu semua. 

Gue mimpi nonton konser. Konsernya bukan sembarang konser, konser Radiohead men! 

Gue mimpi ngeliat Thom Yorke di depan mata gue, nyanyiin lagu Fake Plastic Trees. Di mimpi itu gue berdiri paling depan dan ikutan nyanyi. Taunya si Thom ngasih mic ke gue hahaha, sumpah naon pisan. Jadi di mimpi gue jarak antar panggung dan penonton itu deket, si Thom tinggal lean forward dikit dan dia udah bisa nyodorin mic ke gue hihihi. Disana dia super keren banget dengan pake jaket kulit dan rambutnya tiba-tiba udah pendek lagi ala-ala In Rainbows era. Ga keliatan deh om om looknya. 

Gue nyanyi ampe serak terus after concert gue ngeliat si Thom pergi dengan menaiki kuda, padahal Colin, Jonny, Phil sama Ed pada naek mobil ahahaha. Makin aneh aja ini mimpi. Nah di mimpi gue juga ikutan pulang setelah mobil gue dianter sama valet. Di mimpi itu tiba-tiba ada beberapa temen gue nongol dan ikut nebeng, padahal kan gue tadi nonton Radiohead sendiri ya? Haha. Anyway pokonya gue kebangun dan feel so sad karena itu semua cuma mimpi. Oh God... :(

Akhirnya karena masih dini hari, gue tidur lagi. Taunya mimpi gue bersambung! 

Jadi di mimpi 2.0 ini, tiba-tiba ade gue nongol dan ngasih kabar kalau dia baru ditunjuk jadi orang yang harus nganterin Thom Yorke balik ke hotel buat istirahat. Dafuq. Terus karena dia tau gue ngefans abis sama Radiohead, dia pun ngajakin gue buat nemenin dia. My oh my.

Akhirnya kita berdua (eh gak berdua deng, soalnya tiba-tiba di mobil ada si pacar dan satu temen ade gue haha) pun ngejemput Thom Yorke dari gig dia yang kedua di Indo. Disana finally akhirnya gue bisa semobil sama Thom. Dia banyak cerita dan kita ngobrol. Teuing tah ngobrol naon -__-

Terus pas sampai di hotel tempat dia nginep, tiba-tiba dia minta dibikinin kue. Dengan semangat 45 gue pun bikinin dia kue tart. Ini sih karena efek gue nonton TV Champion edisi kue pengantin pas sore harinya nih haha. Pas lagi bikin kue itu gue kebangun untuk kedua kalinya daaaaaaan kecewa berat karena itu semua lagi-lagi cuma mimpi. *sigh*

 

Photo belongs to nme.com

On the wall

I really love to spice up the wall with wall arts such as posters, paintings, photos, magazine pages.... just anything that can make the pale boring wall become colorful and artsy (in some kinda way haha). I also like the idea to create a "wall of fame" where you can stick anything that so memorable to you. It's like making a scrapbook on the wall hmm..scrapwall it is heheh.
Sooo..before I do my own wall, here are some inspirations I collected from Pinterest. Do follow my pinterest by clicking here :)
And from all of those beautiful inspirations, I can sum up the "rules" to make your walls stand out:

1. Chose a theme that really suit you.
2. Don't go monotone, like, all photos or all magazines pages. Go mix them up.
3. The more the merrier. Use frames with different sizes and styles, add more pictures, add a unique shaped mirror, add cute plates, add writings here and there. Or, if you wanna keep it simple and clean, choose a giant wall art to make a "statement" of the whole room. Like say, vintage photo of your grandparents wedding or your favorite movie poster.
4. "Informative" not only decorative. You can stick beautiful printed recipes, vintage map, chemical periodic table of the elements, or even your study materials. 
5. Last but not least, be creative, stick anything you want (as long as it has aesthetics to your sight). If you have less budget to buy pretty frames, you can make a DIY frames by painting it on the wall with stencil or you can just stick the wall stickers/wall decals in frame shapes heheh.

PS: All pics are not mine. I found them on pinterest. All credit goes to the appropriate owners.

 

Best friend by The Drums

• Simple music video concept
• "Sad" lyrics
• Surf rock
• Dancey tunes
• Jon Pierce's move!

Okay, nuff said :)

Write your story

Is there anyone here wanted to be a writer? 

Well I think every bookworms (or at least those who likes to read a lot) secretly wanted to be a writer too. I mean, by reading those books and find the fact that we can enter the whole new world just by reading a story, our mind can be intrigued by the desire to make our own story too. Am I right or am I right? Oh, the lack of drama in the real life also somehow pushes someone to become a writer. I mean, we can do anything with our characters, our plot, we can write a story about our own life and do anything to our main character (which is yourself hehe).

But what it takes to become a writer? Here I re-post an article from rookiemag.com (that site is soooo addictive and informative at the same time) called Ten Rules for Writers by Etgar Keret (he's an Israeli famous writer btw). There are no exact rules to be a writers I know, because all we have to do is just put our heart in writing and let the imagination running wild (well ok, some research may needed here and there), but these ten rules from Etgar Keret might come in handy.

1. Make sure you enjoy writing.
Writers always like to say how hard the writing process is and how much suffering it causes. They’re lying. People don’t like to admit they make a living from something they genuinely enjoy.

Writing is a way to live another life. Many other lives. The lives of countless people whom you’ve never been, but who are completely you. Every time you sit down and face a page and try—even if you don’t succeed—be grateful for the opportunity to expand the scope of your life. It’s fun. It’s groovy. It’s dandy. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

2. Love your characters.
For a character to be real, there has to be at least one person in this world capable of loving it and understanding it, whether they like what the character does or not. You’re the mother and the father of the characters you create. If you can’t love them, nobody can.

3. When you’re writing, you don’t owe anything to anyone.
In real life, if you don’t behave yourself, you’ll wind up in jail or in an institution, but in writing, anything goes. If there’s a character in your story who appeals to you, kiss it. If there’s a carpet in your story that you hate, set fire to it right in the middle of the living room. When it comes to writing, you can destroy entire planets and eradicate whole civilizations with the click of a key, and an hour later, when the old lady from the floor below sees you in the hallway, she’ll still say hello.

4. Always start from the middle.
The beginning is like the scorched edge of a cake that’s touched the cake pan. You may need it just to get going, but it isn’t really edible.

5. Try not to know how it ends.
Curiosity is a powerful force. Don’t let go of it. When you’re about to write a story or a chapter, take control of the situation and of your characters’ motives, but always let yourself be surprised by the twists in the plot.

6. Don’t use anything just because “that’s how it always is.”
Paragraphing, quotation marks, characters that still go by the same name even though you’ve turned the page: all those are just conventions that exist to serve you. If they don’t work, forget about them. The fact that a particular rule applies in every book you’ve ever read doesn’t mean it has to apply in your book too.

7. Write like yourself.
If you try to write like Nabokov, there will always be at least one person (whose name is Nabokov) who’ll do it better than you. But when it comes to writing the way you do, you’ll always be the world champion at being yourself.

8. Make sure you’re all alone in the room when you write.
Even if writing in cafés sounds romantic, having other people around you is likely to make you conform, whether you realize it or not. When there’s nobody around, you can talk to yourself or pick your nose without even being aware of it. Writing can be a kind of nose-picking, and when there are people around, the task may become less natural.

9. Let people who like what you write encourage you.
And try to ignore all the others. Whatever you’ve written is simply not for them. Never mind. There are plenty of other writers in the world. If they look hard enough, they’re bound to find one who meets their expectations.

10. Hear what everyone has to say but don’t listen to anyone (except me).
Writing is the most private territory in the world. Just as nobody can really teach you how you like your coffee, so nobody can really teach you how to write. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels right, use it. If someone gives you a piece of advice that sounds right and feels wrong, don’t waste so much as a single second on it. It may be fine for someone else, but not for you.

PS: This post is especially dedicated to my friends Vie and Dnd who share the same dream to become a novel writer. Well, you already made your first step, I read your stories and they're not bad. You go girls! :)

HBD Bandung

Jalan Braga, then.

Dirgahayu ke 202 dear my beautiful city, Bandung.

Wow, umur udah gak muda ya?

Kapan nih mau berbenah kaya di tahun 2005 pas perayaan 50 tahun KAA?

Kapan bisa merebut kembali predikat kota teraman seperti di tahun 1990 silam?

Kapan semua warganya (baik asli atau pendatang) bisa disiplin dan gak buang sampah sembarangan?

Kapan orang-orang rakus itu bisa dilarang buat ngebangun di daerah pegunungan?

Kapan pemerintahannya bisa bebas korupsi?

Kapan Persib bisa juara liga lagi?
Kapan warganya bisa lebih menghargai sejarah dan lingkungan?

Kapan? Kapan? Kapan?

Anyway, di balik semua kekurangan yang dimilikin sama kota ini, gue tetep bangga bisa jadi salah satu penduduknya. Bisa numpang lahir, numpang sekolah, dan terutama bisa numpang hidup selama 22 tahun disini, yang ternyata merupakan suatu kebanggaan tersendiri, apalagi setelah baca beberapa post yang dibuat sama warga non-Bandung yang bilang seandainya mereka bisa lahir di Bandung. Pfft. Kalo gue sih bakal lebih ke ngebayangin: Seandainya gue lahir di London. Hahaha. 

Yah, apapun deh. Pokoknya sekali lagi, Dirgahayu Bandung. May Allah always bless this city and its people :)

Quite true

Editors, finally :D

I can’t believe it, I liked this band (esp for their song, Munich) for ages and I barely know their look..haha. I once posted that fact on Path and this friend of mine was just like, “youtube dong” I know, in this internet era, everything is just one click away. But I just kinda like to enjoyed their songs without really knowing how they look like (same like The Temper Trap case before I finally googled them). Today, giving up to my curiosity, I finally looked up for Editors’ music video a few minutes ago through youtube and I kinda…pleased. I mean, once again I got fooled by how the band sound and how they look. At first I thought they were from Germany (cause of the song title.. pffft) or somewhere else in Europe… guess I’m wrong because it’s England where they come from, okay it’s quite close since it still in Europe lol. And the singer! I can’t believe it. In my mind, I imagine the singer would look like Kaiser Chiefs’ singer or even like the guy from Kings of Leon. But then again I’m surprised cause actually he looks like this:

I mean, how can that icy, deep voice come from this skinny guy? :D

Oh, and his name is Tom, Tom Smith. Cool.. but why are there so many frontmen with the first name Tom? Tom Delonge, Tom Powers, Thom Yorke, and now Tom Smith? Haha. The different is, Tom Smith has a unique and deep voice (which is sexy to me). His vocal range is baritone, the kinda voice you can expect to hear from a mature man with beard and suit. Or, from the jazz singer like Louis Armstrong (what a wonderful world). His vocal style has been compared to that of post-punk singers such as Ian Curtis of Joy Division, Paul Banks of Interpol, Robert Smith of The Cure and Michael Stipe of R.E.M.. But Tom is Tom. He can sing very well in the live shows and not many singers can do that I think ;p

The former Editors line up consisted of Tom Smith, Chris Urbanowicz, Russel Leetch and Edward Lay. Unfortunately, Chris left the group in April 2012 and his position replaced by two new members: Justin Lockey and Elliot Williams.  

According to Daily Mail UK, Editors are the second biggest British band of the decade behind the Arctic Monkeys: Their debut album, The Back Room, sold more than 500,000 copies. They were also nominated for Best British Group in the 2008 Brit Award.

Editors discography:

• The Back Room (2005)
• An End has a Start (2007)
• In This Light and On This Evening (2009)
  

“We put our hearts and souls into a song and to have it used as a tool to make money for something else is sickening.”

- Editors about sticking their tracks on TV advert.

Now Reading

Edgar Allan Poe and John Connolly, I might say: this is one hell of a reading time! :)

And this is why I cannot be a good Accessories Reseller, I end up bought them for myself instead :|

We are accident, waiting to happen

Radiohead - "There There"

The video for Radiohead's "There There" was inspired by Bagpuss, a British TV show for children. It features frontman Thom Yorke in a forest, where he is stunned to encounter woodland creatures engaged in activities he never expected to see in species other than human beings.

In 2003, "There There" won Best Art Direction in a Video at the MTV Video Music Awards.

source: here

Video klip ini punya kesan yang berarti bagi gue, soalnya gara-gara lagu dan video klip inilah gue jadi jatuh hati sama Radiohead :)

There There adalah single pertama dari album Hail to the Thief yang dirilis pada tahun 2003. Waktu itu gue masih 13 tahun. Seorang abg kelas 1 SMP yang sangat tergila-gila sama MTV. Anak nongkrong MTV banget lah haha. Gue inget banget waktu itu MTV membuat Radiohead sebagai artist of the month or something like that..I forgot, it was long, long time ago.. Pokoknya, akibatnya video klip ini diputer terus menerus dalam kurun waktu sebulan. Ada kali sejam sekali diputer haha. Oleh karena itu akhirnya irama lagu ini nempel banget di kepala. Awalnya sempet rada aneh gitu sih. Ini band apaan sih? Lagunya aneh, video klipnya aneh. Eeeeh namanya juga gak kalah aneh. Kepala Radio, apa itu? Haha. Tapi ya itulah, dari benci suka berubah jadi cinta. 

Sampai sekarang Radiohead adalah salah satu band favorit gue :)

I love them. So freaking much. Gue bisa merinding semerinding-merindingnya kalo lagi nonton video live mereka. Apalagi yang From The Basement yang In Rainbows. It's just so....magical.

Sembilan tahun sudah gue jadi penggemar lagu-lagu Radiohead... dan entah kapan mereka bisa 'nyangkut' ke Indonesia agar gue bisa bener-bener liat mereka live in concert.Well, let's just pray, wait and see then.