Interpol

YEHEYYY! may bagong album ang Interpol!
...cuz today, my heart swings!...yeah!

kung makikita nyo yung link, either ang kamukha ng bassist ay si Freddie Mercury o si Ronaldo Valdez.

Hanggang dun lang ang abot, wag nang pilitin pa!

These past few weeks of depressing cold weather had us holed up in our rabbit hutch. My partner and I watched a lot of movies and that got us admitting to ourselves, "we can try appreciating some indie films but, they surely do tax our brains!" ANG LALIM ng ibang indie films ha.

Halimbawa, I borrowed the ffg.:

Tideland - Terry Gilliam --- loved it! partner was snoozing halfway through

Primer - Shane Carruth --- we managed to stay up until the end, this was
challenging! nagka-gulo-buhol ang line of thought namin sa huling bahagi ng movie na ito. Discussion forums have full-on OTAKU-ness. Tama na yung naiintindihan ko ng konti yung story.

Children of Men - Alfonso Cuarón- left us wanting more out of the story, BITIN! we tried plumbing its depth, and it sent us looking for discussion forums on the film, well, most of the forums say that the storyline was quite shallow and that praises rightly belong to the director's filming techniques.

Na-aalala ko tuloy yung mga nakaraang films na napanood ko na pag-iisipin ka o kaya gigisingin ka, Pi, Memento, The Machinist, Dr. Strangelove, Brazil, etc. Ngayon ko lang sinisimulang panoorin ang mga classic Pinoy Greats, sayang nga at konti lang ang available on DVD.

On our next trip to the rentals, we made sure we had a fare of friendly Hollywood films like, Bewitched, The Sentinel and the one had us laughing in the first few minutes, Jackass. Grabe, this one scene sent me gagging, the guy peed on a snowcone and started eating it afterwards, he was also puking... sabay kami, tapos there was also a scene where they gave papercuts between their toes, fingers and lips!

Watching Jackass was a real waste of time but I was entertained, and not a single brain cell challenged! I could not believe that there's even a second one! Thang-ina, and to think na pinatulan ko yung una!

One remaining DVD we have not yet seen... Nobody Knows. This is a Japanese film which won Best Actor and was nominated for the Palme D' Or at Cannes '04. Depressing and painful daw sabi ng kaibigan namin na true-blue film geek.

Ano ba talaga, Ate?!

I scored an average of 4.52

This result can also be related to the Kinsey Scale:

0 = exclusively heterosexual
1 = predominantly heterosexual, incidentally homosexual
2 = predominantly heterosexual, but more
than incidentally homosexual
3 = equally heterosexual and homosexual
4 = predominantly homosexual, but more than incidentally
heterosexual
5 = predominantly homosexual, incidentally heterosexual
6 = exclusively homosexual

Summary
The idea of this excercise is to understand exactly how dynamic a person's sexual orientation can be, as well as how fluid it can be over a person's lifespan. While a person's number of actual homo/heterosexual encounters may be easy to categorize, their actual orientation may be completely different. Simple labels like "homosexual", "heterosexual", and "bisexual" need not be the only three options available to us.

O KAYO NAMAN ANG MAG TEST!

Kakila-kilabot

Imagine waking up in the morning, you look out of your window and see 3 men in military camo with long arms, M16s. You are in Manila, in the heart of it and you blink once, twice... to make sure you are NOT in some war-torn country.

The smell of someone's breakfast on the stove brings you back to your senses, tuyo't sinangag, your stomach rumbles, you still see soldiers in battle gear, within spitting distance. The urge to spit becomes an afterthought as you try to find some sense in the unfolding surreal tableaux.

Read more about it, soldiers at your doorstep in time for the elections. We had a taste of the Garci tapes before and now the pièce de résistance, mixed greens with a side dish of gunpowder. LET US VOTE, PEOPLE and VOTE WISELY!

http://www.bulatlat.com/
Games of Generals - Patricia Evangelista

Bring back the funk!

The New Mastersounds got me shimmying. Siguro dala na rin itong EDAD at sobrang pakikinig ng electronic music. I suddenly felt so thirsty for good old funk and jazz! Good to hear someone actually banging on a drum and slapping bass strings there.
Pinoy jazz freaks would find Tokyo a paradise, despite the techno-saturated image of this city, traditional things still abound and I guess that is what makes Tokyo tick. Walk around town and you'll still come across live jazz joints, yung pinaka mahal ay yung Blue Note Tokyo, at yung Cotton Club.
Would definitely recommend this new album by The New Mastersounds - An Introduction To The NEW MASTERSOUNDS

Nakasulat sa pader

I stumbled upon this movie website while surfing, "Bomb It", check out the featured artists! Esp. sina Blek Le Rat and Os Gemeos. Sigurado akong may mga Pinoy graffiti artists rin tayo, kung may pics kayo ng Pinoy street art please send them in!

Time is On my Hands

I just realized I have been juggling between several books. Re-reading Gabriel Garcia Marquez' and reading Carson McCullers' - Collected Stories, Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs and Steel , Hillary Rodham Clinton - Living History, Edward P. Jones - The Known World , Edward Said - Culture and Imperialism , Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains Of The Day; and an interesting Pinoy book edited by Emmie Velarde, Aparador ni Lola. They are strewn about the flat, the academic books taking me ages to read and finish, like Edward Said's, I am stuck at the Introduction. To read his work is like going to your favorite class, you become engrossed until you think about your school sweetheart.

There was one book supposedly in the list which I devoured quickly, Radclyffe Hall - The Well Of Loneliness. Written in 1928 and banned for decades, this was one book that I wished I'd read when I was in High School! It might have fast-forwarded my "coming-of-age".