Meeting the Green Fairy

In Japan, Absinthe could be ordered online here and here
so I am going to order a beginner's set and see if this thing really works. Let this be an experiment of sorts - D.U.I. drawing under the influence. Ano ang magiging hitsura ng artworks ko kaya? (babaw ko)

I am thinking of gathering all my friends for a night of Absinthe, art, music and other chuvanesstik rituals. But first, let's see kung talgang may epek ito sa utak.

I doubt it has any, check out this page.

I miss my mommy 80(

Hands Of Time
Groove Armada

keep looking through the window pane
just trying to see through the pouring rain
it's hearing your name, hearing your name
I never really felt quite the same, since I've lost what I had to gain
no one to blame, no one to blame
seems to me, can't turn back the hands of time
Oh it seems to me, can't turn back the hands of time

Seems to me, can't turn back the hands of time
Oh it seems to me, can't turn back the hands of time
seems to me, history was left behind

The "Gay Bomb" is real!

This is not a joke, I was browsing the Huff and saw a link to this news about the US military actually considering to build a "gay bomb". Imagine, if this was unleashed we'd have mirror balls for every lamppost, all women would be liberated from high heels and be wearing comfy shoes, some of the men would be wearing them heels now. No more camo-make-up but more of glam! Imagine ALL the possibilities!

Everyone will actually be MAKING LOVE not WAR.

BRING 'EM ON, I say!

Ano kaya ang tinutukoy ni Tom Waits dito?

Filipino Box Spring Hog
(Tom Waits - Mule Variations 1999)

I hung on to Mary's stump
I danced with a soldier's glee
With a rum soaked crook and a big fat laugh
I spent my last dollar on thee
I saw Bill Bones, gave him a yell
Kehoe spiked the nog
With a chain link fence and a scrap iron jaw
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring hog

Spider rolled in from Hollister Burn
On a one-eyed stolen Mare
Donned himself with chicken fat
Sawin on a jaw bone violin there
Kathleen was sittin down in little reds recovery room
In her criminal underwear bra
I was naked to the waist with my fierce black hound
And I'm cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

Dig a big pit in a dirt alley road
Fill it with madrone and bay
Stinks like hell and the neighbors complain
Don't give a hoot what they say
Gotta slap that hog
Roll em over twice
Gotta baste him with a sweeping broom
You gotta swat them flies and chain up the dogs
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

Rattle snake piccata with grapes and figs
Old brown Betty with a yellow wig
Tain't the mince meat filagree
And it ain't the turkey neck stew
And it ain't them bruleed Okra seeds
Though she made them especially for you
Worse won a prize for her bottom black pie
The beans got to thrown to the dogs
Jaheseus Christ I can always make room
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog
Cookin up a Filipino Box Spring Hog

Call-a-Glacier janai yo!

Follow-up sa "Call-a-Glacier"-- SUMIMASEN sa tinawagan ko kagabi. Mga 1:50 am na yun, akala ko ang sasagot glacier... biglang, "Moshi moshi..." I hung up. SUMIMASEN! GOMEN NASAI!

Brocka on DVD - It's about time!

Sa wakas, mapapanood ko na rin yung mga Brocka films! More info in this INQ7 article. I have been 'brain damaged" by Disney and Hollywood films, being so shocked to learn about Doraemon - the cat from the future, is so popular in Asia, except in the Philippines! Another shocker, my all-time Japanese anime faves VOLTES 5 and DAIMOS is almost unheard of in JAPAN! I went around asking my Japanese friends about these two and they went... "ehhh? nani? I have never heard of them?!" It turned out that MAZINGER Z, the one I found so lame, is one of the robot granddaddys here.

Back to Brocka, kudos to the people who finally had the gumption to preserve the golden years of modern Pinoy cinema. I believe that this is where all the new wave of kick-ass Pinoy directors and screenwriters touch base with, ang mga direktor and the movement in the 70's. I have to admit that Imelda Marcos also played a big role here, remember the MIFF?

Sige na, isalang na yung DVD ni Brocka, manood na tayo.

Call-A-Glacier

Hanggaling naman ng artist na si Katie Paterson, naglagay siya ng waterproof micrphone na loob ng isang glacier, tapos nakakabit ito sa isang telepono. Tawag lang sa mobile number 07758 225698, at konektado ka na sa polar icecap, at ang Vatnajokull, pinakamalaking glacier at mabilis na natutunaw sa Europa!

Maririnig daw ang "death throes" ng glacier na ito.