Tag: music

• Music and Endless Wintering

  

  “Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” ― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World   Last night saw the revival of my 7-year-old iPod (above), opening an emotional floodgate of memories tagged to songs from another lifetime. Despite being in a badly scratched…

  VIKTORIA JEAN

  August 30, 2015

  #mood, blog, My life

  Blog, Dance, diary, haruki murakami, journal, music, viktoria jean

• [THAILAND] oo8.CoCo Tam’s Bar, Koh Samui

  

  Day beds, bean bags, egg chairs, shishas and the island’s most varied selection of cocktails on the beachfront: there’s nothing not to love about CoCo Tam’s Bar. The music was sooo good we had to ask the bartenders for their playlist! Ideal for after-dinner chillout drinks, we took a short walk here from H Bistro…

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  December 10, 2013

  Asia, Food heaven, Koh Samui, Thailand, Travel

  awesome, bar, bar guides, bartenders, beachfront, beanbags, chill, chillout, cocktail bar, cocktails, coco tam samui, coco tams, day bed, hangout, island, koh samui, lazy, lie, life, music, samui sling, sand, sea, shisha, songs, sunset, thai, thailand, thailand best, tourist, Travel, travel guides, travelling, wanderlust

• [THAILAND] oo7.Black Moon Party

  

  This is Koh Samui’s very own Black Moon Party at Chaweng Stadium on a Friday Night. Thailand’s offshore islands of Koh Phangan and Koh Samui are best known for their Full Moon, Half-Moon and Black Moon parties. Us party-goers were a good mix of Caucasians, Chinese and Japanese tourists, as well as the local Thais,…

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  December 10, 2013

  Adventure, Asia, Koh Samui, Thailand, Travel

  asian, beach, black moon party, body paint, chaweng, dark, djs, Fashion, full moon party, fun, girls, guide, half moon party, house, island, koh samet, koh samui, moon, music, neon, ootd, party, partying, phangan, photography, Pictures, sonkran, stadium, thai, thailand, tourists, Travel, travelling, tropical, wanderlust

• London Lovin’: Covent Garden

  What exactly is in Jamie Oliver’s Secret Basement? Found this green door whilst exploring the outskirts of Covent Garden!! When the celebrity chef bought an old bank building in Manchester, his workers uncovered old Joy Division and New Order master tapes, as well as a million dollars worth of treasures (including gold, jewelry and a…

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  November 8, 2013

  Europe, London, Travel

  address, beyond, british, Café, city, coffee, covent, covent garden, diner, dollars, dr martens, food, foodporn, green, hide, high street, jamie oliver, jamie’s, jubilee market, laduree, london, macarons, mall, million, music, patisserie valerie, restaurants, secret, secret basement, sweets, treasures, UK

• For the Love of Music

  Inspired by LP Cover Lover, an amazing site containing the world’s greatest collection of record album covers from the golden age of LPs, I checked out Amoeba Music on my recent trip to San Francisco. Occupying a 24,000 square foot former bowling alley on the eccentric Haight-Ashbury district, Amoeba Music is the world’s largest independent…

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  October 20, 2013

  Adventure, Pictures, San Francisco, Travel, USA

  ’80s, ’90s, 60s’, 70s, alanis morissette, all american rejects, amoeba, amoeba records, art, art deco, ashbury, band, band gig, cassettes, collectibles, collectors, colors, colours, concert, cover, covers, dan hicks, discs, elvis presley, finds, five feet, gig, gun n’ roses, guns n’ roses, gym class heroes, haight, haight-ashbury, heavy metal, hippie, hipster, jazz, jazz hits, jem, Jim Morrison, lover, LPs, madonna, music, music genres, no doubt, playes, poster, punk, record player, records, retro, retrophonic, road, rock, roll, rolling stones, san francisco, soul, stadium, streets, tapes, the beatles, the doors, the vaccines, turntables, vintage

• Travel-diary: Haight-Ashbury, San Francisco

  Welcome to Hippie-Land!

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  September 14, 2013

  Adventure, blog, San Francisco, Travel, USA

  1970, 70s, amoeba, ancient, beauty, colors, colours, diary, golden gate, haight street, haight-ashbury, hippie, hippies, Landscape, music, olden, photography, photos, Pictures, rainbow, records, san fran, san francisco, sfo, sky, states, sun, sunlight, tags, the seventies, Travel, travelogue, USA, wanderlust, weather, wordpress

• breakfast at midnight

  It feels like one of those nights “22 is basically the only age you can use as leverage. Meaning that because it’s the exact age between life-as-you-know-it and what will later be known as ‘real life’ (that’s scientifically proven, of course), people expect you to make some mistakes. Mistakes like overcooking a pot-roast or dating…

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  June 8, 2013

  Adventure, Catharsis, My life, Quote of the Day

  22, Australia, brisbane, leverage, lights, midnight, mistakes, music, pink, Quote of the Day, quotes, reality, shanelle kaul, song, taylor swift

• oo2 ✦ Dangerous Mind ✦

  Don’t you think you’ve had enough Do their claws make sores Take my hand and come away “We have with us a fresh face from Seoul, where many of you were from. Make him feel welcome. Please come in, Max.” Stoicly, Max stepped in. He scanned the classroom, his gaze never faltering when his eyes…

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  June 6, 2013

  Adventure, Books, Dangerous Mind, Musing

  author, campus, changmin, college, Dangerous Mind, dbsk, dreams, epub, fic, fiction, fiction writing, fictional, heartlands, high school, korea, korean, music, novel, novella, pdf, reading, school, Seoul, stories, tokyo, tvxq, world, writing

• plugged into my iPod under my umbrella in the rain

  Nobody knows we were meant to arrive in somebody else’s life for reasons so obscure we speculate, and plunge into the same mistakes, putting a name, a cause, a title, a status allowing them to stay. I’m listening to your favourite overrated songs; button sunken from the days you’d hit replay. Plugged into my iPod…

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  May 7, 2013

  #mood, Adventure, blog, My life, Pictures, Prose

  apologies, Blog, blue, cold, downpour, drizzle, escape, flutter, haneda, headphones, iPod, Le Daiba, letters, lifetime, memories, music, Odaiba, plugged, poem, poetry, Prose, rain, random, shelter, smile, spiral, splinter, spokes, tags, tokyo, toss, umbrella, Video, walk away, writings, xoxo, yujin

• with every touch you fixed them

  It’s in the stars It’s been written in the scars on our hearts That we’re not broken just bent And we can learn to love again

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  April 3, 2013

  #mood, Adventure

  bad dreams, just give me a reason, live, mind, music, p!nk, song

• gone, not around any longer

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  February 26, 2013

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  Dance, music, routine, sistar, sistar 19, Video

• love in the ice

  Chilling to the bones, icy cold. This song still makes me tear at the climax. Personal favourite since 2008. 冷たいその手 君のせいじゃない 幼き日々ほった　傷抱え 誰かを愛すること 恐れてるの 言葉の裏側 背を向けて 抱きしめた心が 氷のように そっと溶け出す 誰もが誰かに愛される為に この世に命を煌(きらめ)かせるのさ それがもしも僕なら もう一度君の心を 永遠(とわ)の優しさで 暖めるよ… 運命の悪戯(心を痛めても) その涙の先には ひとすじの光が(闇の中舞い降りて) 僕らは気付くさ 苦しいほどに強く 感じあえる 人の温もり 誰もが持ってる哀しみや孤独 癒してもらえる場所探している SO… 君にはその場所が ここにあるさ 恐れないで もう迷わないで 僕が守る 切ないほど(my heart )美しい 愛だから(Don’t be…

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  February 24, 2013

  #mood, Indulgences, Musing

  ballad, dbsk, favourite, love, love in the ice, lyrics, music, song, tohoshinki

• 158. universal language

  “I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.” – Audrey Hepburn   Scheduled to start SIA training in January, but… Letting go of either one; I must be crazy.

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  December 7, 2012

  Adventure, My life

  language, life, music, opportunities, universal