Favorite Songs for Traveling

I've always dreamt about listening to RHCP's song for traveling. There were some problems coming, like: I only bring one smartphone while traveling, and there was no RHCP's songs in it, because I always change songs in my phone. Before going to KarimunJawa last week, I remembered what I must do, I put RHCP's songs. One of my dreams come true :) Such a little happiness...

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Road Trippin

Road trippin' with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It's time to leave this town
It's time to steal away
Let's go get lost
Anywhere in the U.S.A.

Let's go get lost
Let's go get lost

Chorus:
Blue you sit so pretty
West of the one
Sparkles light with yellow icing
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun

These Smiling eyes are just a mirror for

So much as come before those battles lost and won
This life is shining more forever in the sun
Now let us check our heads
And let us check the surf
Staying high and dry's
More trouble than it's worth
In the sun

Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun
Just a mirror for the sun

These Smiling eyes are just a mirror for

In Big Sur we take some time to linger on
We three hunky dory's got our snakefinger on
Now let us drink the stars
It's time to steal away
Let's go get lost
Right here in the U.S.A.
Let's go get lost
Let's go get lost

Chorus

These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
These smiling eyes are just a mirror for
Your smiling eyes are just a mirror for

The fact is that I went there with my two friends, Astri and Zahroh.

RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS - Scar Tissue

With the birds I'll share
This lonely view

This song is actually really nice when you're on a boat wearing headset. Enjoying a beautiful sunset view alone when there's a bird around.

Wait, this two songs are from "Californication" album. This album is gonna be one of my favor. I like "Californication" because it contains my thoughts about life. Although my most favorite RHCP's album is "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" because it is so funk but not too funk, do you understand what I mean?

I know I know for sure that life is beautiful around the world (Red Hot Chili Peppers - Around the World)

Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers) and Indonesia

Rolling Stone, April 1994

(Source: anthonykiedis.net)

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

 (Source: hestfe.host.sk)

 

 Anthony Kiedis in Borneo

 (Source: rhcpfrance.net)

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)