well ...Beirut ! sin city of the middle east
hmm ill start by saying that its impossible to get anywhere in beirut without being stuck in traffic for an hour
minimum cars per household is 3 + plus cars from arab countries
events every weekend ! ... international dj's....rock festival .... hip hop stars ! ...every1 but OL
new years party start on the 30th by a huge concert for Armin van bueren
on the 27th MIssy eliott and pitt bull and Sean Paul !! ...gr8 night for hip hopers !!
every single coffe shop and restaurant is full daily ...
u know we like street full of pubs and bars ...yea its all full ...everyday !!
it sooo weird yea i know !! ..
Malls are packed !!
ppl work for show off ...cars and suits ! ......
so this pretty much is how we spend our days in BEIRUT !! hope u can join this journey sometime soon !
Hey Fadi,
Well, given that Las Vegas is an
overrated place for (sorry if I'm stepping on any crocodile-boot toes, sorry but I ain't sorry really), uh, yeah, peeps who like performances by :zombie: Celine and other annoying aberrations of creation, I'm real glad that there's another Sin City!
OURS SUX ROTTEN EGGS! And I'm especially glad that it's in Beirut, not "just" anywhere in the Middle East. You've got some serious sinful history
. Beirut started off, so to speak, as the "Riviera of the Middle East," after all, did it not? And then, well, you know what happened
So y'all bounced back? That's the best revenge. What a vivacious, determined people you Lebanese are. Y'all can teach everyone here some serious lessons in beating the odds, shoot! Is there still that south/north cultural separation I remember, sorta? And, oh yeah, I suspect that the peeps out east are more, hmmm, traditional? Well....
Dumba@@ Q, but I like asking stooopid Qs, 'cause, hey, I'm
American. Yeah, so, you mentioned
"cars from Arab countries." Got me curious: You talking about
Arab car-brands? If so, I'd love to know about them 'cause I'm nuts about cars and this would just be so dang interesting and stuff. Them cars of yours can't be like the Yugo, which nobody (in Europe or here) misses at all. Or the Israeli dreck-car called "Susita" ("Sus" equals "horse;" it had about 1 HP). Dang, it would be encouraging to read about nice cars manufactured in the Orphaned region. Economic growth is one of the many thang the Middle East needs, and spells i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-c-e (darn, that was hard).
Rock n' Roll in Beirut
!
OL==>Inshallah, they'll get there. Maybe if Israel and Syria negotiated, kissed and made up
and, together, chased certain foreign-backed skankass fundamentalist up to Siberia, walack! Let the polar bears deal w/'em. They eat people. Check this out: Maybe if
Orphaned Land got, oh, Turkish passports (I've read they've got some powerful connections there) and showed up as a band called, say,
OasisSlurper. Feel free to come up with alternate suggestions. I don't like mine. Hate it. But you know--in Sin Cities, everything's possible if the mob gets involved, and what's a major city without a mafia? Y'all must have one; it's a beautiful thing as long as you're not on the hitlist. Heck, it got my ancestors booze during Prohibition :Smokin: Sheeyat, yeah, mobsters could get OL into Lebanon safely and effectively using all sorts of smoke n' mirrors. But there's got to be a demand, 'cause the mob loves one thang only: $. Is there a demand? WTF knows, huh? Maybe the new album will rock the entire Middle East and kick the hateful pigs of all denominations and from every country into the Sea, figuratively speaking.
Well, hell, makes me happy as a S.H.A.R.P. good ol' boy nutcase Jewish-Christian (they manufacture such models in the USA; keeps the peace) redneck into drinkin' moonshine and much better stuff, hoodoggy, to read that Beirut life is bustling, people are clearly unafraid, to put it mildly...sounds like Tel-Aviv and a few times naughtier. I can handle that.
How'd they treat a shaved-head punk dude who showed up with an American passport for a vacation, with a USA-passported chick? Do y'all still have those unpleasant kidnappings from time to time? Mexico's plagued by them, so I stay away even though we're so insane here that we drive thousands of miles to vacation. We don't like airplanes much. So peeps from here used to drive plumb to the Mexican border in a few days, pay a few bribes for extra protection and have a great time. Thangs have changed, sadly. Just ain't worth having your ear lopped off and sent to your relatives for ransom while you sit tied up in some Gringo-hating hideout (sans one ear)
The econ out your way sounds, per your description, like how ours
USED TO be. Yeah, it's way F@@@ed now. Well, hey, then, like, heh heh.... Are Americans and other Westerners checking out your waters, if you will? Do you hear lots of English and so on in the streets?
I am so glad to read your enthusiastic report. Y'all are a stunningly strong people; how can one not respect that? Well, if s/he's a racist MF'ing pigdog, s/he/it'd have a fit (and die
) but none of the real-deal OL Disciples' like that. That's why we're so into this music, aside from the fact that it is so much more interesting than the Hollywood pap. Yeah: We don't believe in all that nasty propaganda fed to us by our respective society concerning
we (fill in the blanks) are better than (fill in the blanks) them. Those attitudes only help fill the weapon-manufacturers' pockets, as well as excite the bitch-radicals' sick minds and trigger-sticky fingers, GD. We're gonna whup the badguys' butts this time; 'cause it's time for some good news for an Orphaned Land that extends way beyond Israel, c'mon!
Salaam Aleikum.
So, welcome to the most hands-down diverse online community on the planet...darn right. And people respect each other here even more if their countries have been fighting for years. See, none of us wants any of that crap; it's time for the haters to drop dead, maybe with a little loving assistance
. We're like the Love n' Peace types from the sixties, except that we don't hang out in comfy California and London singing 'bout how cool we (think we) are; that was so bogus. This is the real thang...and there never was a real thang even though our parents thought so. They dropped too much acid; it ain't their fault. This here bunch is GLOBAL, but in love with Middle-Eastern rock and the sounds and sights of the area in general. Dammit, Orphaned Land and we Disciples (peacefully
) kick any other significant phenomenon daring to happen in music and music-fandom off the blessed map, so help me all the Gods and things that go "bump" in the night. I ain't picky.
Shukran (that right?) for joining,
Hill
