Hi. Christian. Me.

A letter to Congressman Ivy Arago

2009-04-21T03:44:00.001-07:00

Subject: Piracy

Greetings Congresswoman.

I am a concerned San Pableño and I noticed the widespread piracy in our city. Our only video rental store just closed. One music store (in San Pablo Shopping Mall) closed and was replaced by stands selling pirated CDs and DVDs. It's just a sign that people, and the local government alike, favor pirated materials over the authentic ones.

I don't know if it's appropriate to email you about this because you're a congress person and it's an issue the local government of San Pablo should be dealing with. But as a congress person, we should deal with this issue in a larger scale. I mean everywhere I go, even beyond the geographical boundaries of the third district of Laguna, I witness piracy. And what happened in San Pablo is a fine example of a dying industry.

And I'm not sure either if it's under your jurisdiction. The only committee you're in that concerns this issue is the Committee of Basic Education and Culture and according to it, one of your concern is "...the preservation and enrichment of Filipino culture."

I am an artist, a musical artist that is. I'm just starting and I don't know if I'd be successful in this field I chose. Aside from the fact that I can't please everyone, some other people who'll just copy-disk-reproduce-disk will definitely benefit from my work, crafted from talent I was born with plus the hardwork I put into it. It's hard to be a Filipino artist with this kind of climate.

I don't care about royalties. I don't put a price to my work. All I need is my capital back so I can continue making albums cos I love doing it and I can't continue making songs if I it will forever be a liability making art. Money don't grow on trees they say.

And I don't know how to make a formal letter. Sorry.

Back to Buddhism

2009-03-29T21:43:00.000-07:00

Maybe some of you know I didn't have a religion.

Maybe some of you know I was a Buddhist 2 or 3 years ago.

Well I'm back to being a Buddhist. Versus having no religion, it is better having one... especially Buddhism. It makes me think more of my actions and people around me.

And while studying the religion one more time, I think I can manage pain and sufferings better than having no religion. I am becoming more selfless and forgiving, which is good thing.

Good karma, here I come.

Nine Inch Nails in Manila!

2009-03-29T20:06:00.000-07:00

August 5, 2009.

Araneta Coliseum.

Front row center ticket price: Don't know. Don't care.

See you!

An Artist's Dilemma

2009-03-28T10:53:00.000-07:00

Money.

Like Nina said, an artist can either be sitting in a 7th floor balcony or no less than a hobo living under the bridge.

I think I'm ready. I'm gonna be a hobo, fine. Or cool. I mean why am I thinking about money when in the first place I am living the "Code of Manchester '79"? I forgot what punk means. What DIY means. What would Tony Wilson do? It's not about money. It's about art. I gotta get money off my mind and focus on doing things cool and good. The Dalai Lama.

Induction Ball

2009-03-26T17:05:00.000-07:00

Will be held on April 3 at Villa Eliscore (the name of the resort), Miramonte Subd., Calamba City.

It's a "White Party" so you should be wearing totally/dominantly white. Otherwise you'll be put into a jail booth so you better make sure you got a friend around. Just kidding. It's not an "Elementary School-type Fair"-themed party.

Catholics, listen!! If you don't wan't to worsen the spread of HIV, don't use condom.

2009-03-22T19:44:00.000-07:00

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/17/pope-africa-condoms-aids

That's what the pope said quoting, "[AIDS is] a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems".

Sweet. I don't understand how money can't stop AIDS, I mean, condoms cost less than a half pack of cigarette. Or how condoms cannot stop AIDS. But I agree with the pope with this: condoms worsen AIDS.

That's right. Adding to the pope's statement, "...cigarettes cure lung cancer, sugar prevents diabetes, fatty food won't make you fat and alcohol is good for the liver..."

Of course you can't argue with the pope. HE'S THE POPE! And if you got sex related problems, ask the pope. Noone knows shit about sex better than the pope.

Abysmal Darkness of the Spotless Mind

2009-03-18T16:55:00.000-07:00

It's funny how the doctor who does the operation in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind described it (the operation): "like a night of heavy drinking".

Though it's not, unfortunately, a painful memory. I hope Tangerine remembers Montauk. The place. What happened. Or the feeling, at least.

100+ GB!!!

2009-03-14T23:39:00.000-07:00

100+ GB of files were to be deleted, cos my laptop got a disk error message which spells F-O-R-M-A-T.

Files include:

http://phileos.org files
Movies and TV series
10 GB mp3
Ableton Live 7
Adobe Audition 3
Lots of games
And two music projects one to be moved till June, one till December. Two albums are scheduled to be released June this year.

Fuck.

LOLz... surveyz on my blogz

2009-03-09T03:23:00.000-07:00

RULES:

1. Put your music player on shuffle.

2. Press forward for each question.

3. Use the song title as the answer to the question even if it doesn’t make sense. NO CHEATING!

4. Bold the questions and with the answers, give your own comments on how it relates to the questions.

How are you feeling today?
The Beatles - Do You Want to Know a Secret (Lolz)

Will you get far in life?
Death Cab for Cutie - Death of an Interior Decorator (OK, that's not funny)

How do your friends see you?
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again (Lost and Found) (What? Maybe I'm always lost.)

Will you get married?
Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body (I think it's a positive answer.)

What is your best friend's theme song?
Built to Spill - Velvet Waltz (They know Built to Spill?)

What is the story of your life?
The Beatles - I'll Follow the Sun (Lolx, I've got a sad life)

What was high school like?
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love (Yeah... College I'm in love)

How can you get ahead in life?
The Shins - Young Pilgrims (WTF man)

What is the best thing about your friends?
M.I.A. - XR2 (They like to party)

What is in store for this weekend?
Sigur Ros - Takk (Yeah, It's gibberish)

To describe your grandparents?
Erykah Badu - The Cell (They're not criminals)

How is your life going?
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Heavy Metal (I'm rockin it! \m/)

What song will they play at your funeral?
Modeselektor - Hasir (I'll have to convert to Islam or Hinduism, I think)

How does the world see you?
The Cure - Never Enough (What?! It's against my "Less is More" principle. Lolz)

Will you have a happy life?
Maria Taylor - Hitched! (OK...)

What do your friends really think of you?
Pixies - Tame (Ok. The person described in the song... That's not me!)

Do people secretly lust after you?
DangerDoom - Space Hoes (Hoes lust after me. For what reason, I have no idea.)

How can I make myself happy?
Daft Punk - Rollin' and Scratchin' (I think, party's the answer)

What should you do with your life?
Bon Iver - Blindsided (Never be blindsided... again.)

Will you ever have children?
John Legend - Green Light (I think it's positve)

LOLZ. Surveyz on my blog

2009-03-06T00:10:00.000-08:00

- TO TAKE THIS SURVEY, SIMPLY PUT YOUR MUSIC PLAYER ON SHUFFLE -

- AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WITH THE TITLE OF THE SONG THAT COMES ON -

[it's better if you don't cheat and don't skip any songs.]

What is your name? Or what should your name be?

->Thom Yorke - And It Rained All Night

Comment: I wanna be Thom Yorke but I don't want my name to be Thom. I don't want Rain to be my name, either.

How is your life going?

->Stars - Window Bird

Comment: It's stellar!

What is your nickname?

->Death Cab for Cutie - Brothers on a Hotel Bed

Comment: Cutie. Yeah.

Feng shui tips for 2009!

2008-12-28T16:47:00.000-08:00

Gawin ang sumusunod para sa maswerteng 2009!:

1. Alamin kung ano ang pinagkaiba ng ox sa regular na cow.

2. Magpadala ng sulat sa mga kakilala. Imbis na "xoxo" ang gamitin pag nagsa-sign, "oxox" ang gamitin.

3. Maglaro ng tic tac toe pagsapit ng January 1. Hulaan nyo kung bakit.

4. Wag bumili ng kotse sa 2009. Lalo na ang mga 2009 model na sasakyan. Mauuso ang hybrid cars pagsapit ng 2010. Magcommute. Mura ang gas. O sumakay sa likod ng ox. O karitelang hinihila ng ox(en).

5. Ang pinakamaswerteng mura sa 2009 as "Holy ox!"

6. Magconvert sa Hinduism. Pwede rin ang Hare Krishna. Meron sa Alaminos, Laguna.

7. Magtanim ng kinakain ng mga ox, damo. Ilegal o legal na damo.

8. Swerteng business ang bulaluhan. Wag lang ox ang gawing bulalo. Masyadong macho ang muscles ng ox. Wag din problemahin ang pagtayo ng bulaluhan kung nag-convert ka na sa Hinduism.

9. Mag-alaga ng ox. Patabain nyo lang at wag magkaroon ng emotional attachment sa ox dahil ipapakain nyo to sa tigreng aalagaan nyo sa 2010.

Wikiality: Twilight

2008-12-14T21:28:00.000-08:00

I'm sorry for the passive agressiveness I showed towards Twilight. I skimmed the whole Twilight book and it was awesome! Well, I skimmed at random pages and found kissing scenes on almost every pages I read.

This is awesome! It's the closest thing to Xerex Xaviera which was very meaningful to me. Xerex was the first newspaper article I've read. I was three years old when I first knew how to read and then there's this tabloid I found on the couch of our old house and.. you know what happened. I have no idea what hiyas really meant that time. My father caught, well found (I didn't meant to), me reading Xerex (I was reading aloud) and he just laughed and did the crossword. I just realized what really happened.

Anyway, fans of Stephen Colbert called the Colbertnation edit Wikipedia pages to support its noble cause: to create truth out of concensus thought or opinion. And guess what? I edited the novel Twilight's Wikipedia entry:

And:

And I say, you're welcome.

Hey, and did you know there's a character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer named Twilight? Is he a vampire? Cos that would be awesome. And there's a 1998 movie starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon named Twilight? I gotta rent that one!And a metal band named Twilight?

Boy I love Wikipedia.

Postscript literature number 1.55. I'm childish at times.

2008-12-02T02:28:00.000-08:00

This article's supposed to be posted on the next issue but I decided not to cos the first version of this article is somewhat personal slash... ok, bitter. And some other minor "accidents".

The first version contains words like "fool", "immature", "pride", "ego", etc.

This version's more light-hearted. =)

Etymology 101

Ramon Claveria

I’m fond of studying etymologies. It’s fascinating where words come from and then relating the English word from what the ancient root word meant. Sometimes you’ll find them witty and/or humorous.

You can also discover interconnections between words, which are pretty awesome when you figure them out. For example, did you know that salary and salt are related words? Turns out ancient people give salt for payrolls because salt had high value back then. And also salad. Put salt on [insert name of raw ingredient] and then you’d have [insert name of raw ingredient] salad.

Or are you aware that river and rival came from the same roots? Ancient people living on riversides fight over who owns the water. Idiot and idle… No, I’m starting to make things up (except for the salt and river parts).

Aim v. developed from esteem “calculate with a view to action”.

Free adj. from Old English freo “noble, joyful”.

Happy adj. originally means “lucky” from hap “chance, fortune”. Related to mishap.

Hope n. from Old English hopian meaning ”wish, expect, look forward (to something)”. Some suggest relation to hop on the notion of “leaping in expectation”.

Music n. from Greek mousike meaning “art of the muses”.

Muse n. from Proto-Indo-European root *mon/*men/*mn “to think, remember”.

Satire n. “work intended to ridicule vice or folly” from Latin satira “satire, poetic medley”.

Smile v. from Proto-Germanic smieron from Latin mirus “wonderful”.

Soul n. from Proto-Germanic *saiwalo. Originally means “coming from or belonging to the sea”.

Wit n. from German witz “wit, witticism, joke”.

With from Proto-Germanic *withro “against”.

Source: etymonline.com

Read... Just Because It's the Fucking Uso

2008-11-22T00:26:00.000-08:00

What's the deal? People seem to read cos they wanna look smart. You read books... just because, not to use as props for pose.

I'm talking bout this buzz surrounding the new hit Twilight, everybody's talking about it. There's lots of people claiming they love books. I do, but don't read commercially-driven/accepted books like Dan Brown and Bob Ong books to look like a critical thinker or Harry Potter and Twilight books just because it's the fucking uso or A Purpose-Driven Life to appear saintly. It's like hearing a title from alot of people makes it good, and then so you can have something to put in your Friendster profile under "Favorite books".

It's like listening to Canon in D Major and then claim you love classical music just because you heard the song in some Korean drama movie. And it's probably the only classical piece you know. Or listening to artists heavily circulating on MTV and the radio and claim you love good music.

I apologize if I sound elitist but I feel the need to extinguish the fire these books are catching. It's the mentality of fanboys and girls that feed these commercial monsters.

An apolitical blog post about movies, TV shows, comics and music.

2008-11-16T19:20:00.000-08:00

So you might be getting real tired of my blog posts with some political tone in them. I didn't mean to. I mean there's the US election and was psyched by Obama's victory cos I liked him from the very start (the democratic primaries). I just really wished Ron Paul won.

Plus, what can I say? I'm a big fan of Obama, not a big fan of the GOP (though I'm a big fan of the Libertarian Party), and a big fan of Jon Stewart. I have no intention of having political tone with my blog posts. It's just that there are some issues that concerns me, and I have to say something. I am also pissed with those bloggers saying political stuff just to look activist. They think it's cool, I don't think so.

Anyway, enough of the political shit. I don't have the intention to be a political blogger. I'm more of a pop culture blogger. :) So here's some of the stuffs I downloaded during vacation. (I wish it would be longer than less than a month).

24 Hour Party People - The movie follows Tony Wilson (played by Steve Coogan), the owner of the Hacienda Club and the Factory Records in Manchester. I downloaded it because it was referenced by Alfred Molina (the actor who played Doc Ock in Spiderman movies) and Steve Coogan (who played Tony Wilson in the movie) during a dialogue in the indie film Coffee and Cigarettes. Plus I'm a big fan of rave music, Joy Division and New Order.
Coffee and Cigarettes - A black and white film showing some people talking funny stuffs over, obviously, coffee and cigarettes. Stars Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes, RZA and GZA of the group Wu-Tang Clan, Steve Coogan, Alfred Molina, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits to name a few. Directed by Jim Jarmusch who will later guest on The Simpsons episode Any Given Sundance.
Who's Nailin' Paylin? - A porno movie starring a porn star who surprisingly looks like Sarah Palin, John McCain's running mate and Alaskan governor. The first scene shows her helping two freezing Russian soldiers by letting him in her house when their tires went flat and then entertaining them. And to the dismay of the Democratic Party, that gives her some foreign affairs experience. *wink wink*
Dexter - A TV show which follows Dexter Morgan, a blood splatter forensic expert who has a night job of being a serial killer. It deals with social justice since he only kills criminals with cases unsolvable by Dexter's own police department, his somewhat abnormal urge to kill, acting like a normal person and getting away with being identified as the killer himself. I like the show cos I can relate to Morgan, like dating to look normal. Lolx.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - My copy of the movie was in my desktop but unfortunately, my desktop crashed. I downloaded it cos it's some hobby of mine to watch it. Over and over, and cry everytime. I'm such a pussy, I know.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall - A movie about a musician who had a girlfriend who's a TV actress though he can't get over their break-up cos she always appear on TV. So he decided to go to Hawaii to clear his mind but guess what. She's in Hawaii, too. A typical Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked Up) Jewish slacker movie.
Futurama - I don't know how I decided to or why I downloaded it. I wanna watch it. That's all
Heroes Season 3 - Spoiler alert! Sylar and Peter Petrelli are actually a gay couple. That's right. You heard it here first.
Maus - A two-volume comic book about the depression Jewish people went through Nazi Germany in the 40s. I downloaded it cos Art Spiegelman, it's creator, guest-starred in a Simpsons episode. Plus, I'm listening to a lot of Matisyahu. So that makes Jewish people close to my heart.
Outfoxed - A movie about the conservative bias the news network Fox News Channel allegedly has.
The Simpsons Season 19 - I'm a big fan. Plus, I was hyped when I read that Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart guest-starred in two different episodes.
Taxi to the Dark Side - A documentary about Afghanistan, Iraq, Abu Ghraib prison, the Guantanamo Bay prison, CIA's use of torture and the incompetency the Bush administration has done during the course of the wars.
The Incredibles - I'm a big fan of Samuel L. Jackson. I kinda liked the movie though I don't really like Disney and the whole High School Musical shit. I'm now liking Pixar movies. "It's all about distribution, it's all about distribution rights," I was telling myself allthoughout the movie.
The Daily Show - I'm a big fan.
The Colbert Report - I'm an avid viewer.
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me - I read somewhere they've done a version of The Cure's Just Like Heaven and Robert Smith kinda like it.
Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love - Cool album. I like it when I realize how bands today were influenced by albums in the past. I noticed how Death Cab for Cutie and Modest Mouse were influenced by Built to Spill's layered vocals and catchy guitar hook.

There. You might wanna download some. Or you can ask me to burn a CD for you. They're cool. Cool. Sorry if I sounded political somewhere. Maybe the entry is political. Lolx, I fooled you with the title.

Jojo A. vs. Jon Stewart?

2008-11-15T22:42:00.000-08:00

Disclaimer: I get a feeling this is gonna be one-sided. This post can be highly opinionated though I assure my statements are based on facts, or statements having some essential truth in them somehow. I'm sorry I might break your might-be-nationalistic heart, but I'm on the side of the truth. Not to mention comedy.

I saw this clown on QTV named Jojo A. who seemed a bit like Conan O'Brien; which sucked in so many ways.

One: Conan's dancing sucks.

Two: imitating his dance would make it more suckier.

Three: Conan, "having a monkey who agrees to everything he says" (quoted from Craig Ferguson), sucks.

Four: imitating the monkey, would suck even more.

Five: Conan sucks (I rank him the second least funny late night show host: Jon Stewart>Stephen Colbert>Craig Ferguson>Bill Maher>Jimmy Kimmel>Jay Leno>Conan>Dave Letterman).

Six: imitating the second least funny late night show makes you the least funny late night show host. Even less funny than Letterman. And he's old.

I was browsing for Jon Stewart videos on Youtube when I found this video:

It is true, a segment by Samantha Bee made fun of the first women leaders:

So why shouldn't Jojo A. respond like that to a segment made by Sam Bee in Jon Stewart's show?

One: he doesn't know what Jon does for living. I noticed Filipinos are new to this thing called satire. Cos when I tried making one, I received negative, irrelevant comments. Just like Jojo's.

And that's it. I mean, I know where Stewart's coming from.

Compared to Sam Bee's subtle argument, which is if America's ready for a slut, a mall-whore, or any negative connotation for a woman for president; Jojo A. calling Jon Stewart "bakla" or gay is pretty weak. I have to point out that Jon Stewart insults popular figures, e.g. politicians, whether conservative, liberal, left, right, democrat, republican, pink, green, red, blue, black, white, French, German, Asian, Canadian, Filipino, slut, or male for a living.

And to add, I might say: The Daily Show is the epitomy, a hallmark if you will of how relatively democratic US is. The TV program shows us how he can say anything, make fun of anyone, reveal subtle truth to everyone without the fear of losing a court appeal to a rich man or getting shot by a pet of a powerful politician. The TV program shows us how pitiful our democracy is, if it at least exists. There is too much fear-driven politics in our country.

Now, I challenge you Jojo A. Make fun of a governor or a city mayor worth millions. Call a politician a slut. You know the political climate in our country, do you? Of course it would be unfair to call a US politician a slut cos they are.. sport I think is the word. So call a Filipino politician a slut. I dare you. Even if it's for comedy's sake I know you know what's gonna happen. It's a negative connotation which spells negative campaining which spells a bullet in your head.

US politicians: not big fans of two-faced, Filipino-style politics?

2008-11-09T14:49:00.000-08:00

I saw this headline on the Inquirer: Palace on Obama ‘snub’: A ‘naughty spin’.

The administration is a big supporter of Bush's 'war on terror' and went as far as supporting McCain... and expecting to return the favor for congratulating Obama.

I think they're not used to the balls-y US politics. Look at what happened to Lieberman. They got.. what's the word? Dignity? Professionalism?

Fuck, Obama Won.

2008-11-04T22:04:00.000-08:00

1. He's a secret Muslim.

2. If number 1 is true, thus follows that he's a terrorist. Plus, he pals around an anarcho-terrorist named Bill Ayers. Google it.

3. He wants to "spread the wealth around". He's a socialist.

4. Plus, Fidel Castro praised him. That makes him a communist.

5. He eats children. I just edited his Wikipedia.

6. The only experience he had is playing basketball and dancing. He sucks at bowling.

7. He smokes. Alot. (See my picture?)

Nicely done. U.S. Nicely done.

Experiment: Music and Basketball (and Race)

2008-10-27T18:55:00.000-07:00

Many people would associate hip-hop with basketball. I did an experiment: I played albums of different music genre while playing NBA Live 08 with a team composing of players representing five continents: (against the Washington Wizards on all games)

North America: LeBron James, Paul Pierce

South America: Manu Ginobili, Leandro Barbosa

Europe: Dirk Nowitzki, Jose Calderon

Africa: Steve Nash (he's born in S. Africa), Dikembe Mutombo

Asia: Yao Ming, Jianlian Yi

And then playing the albums, relating the final scores and the player that did well. It's gonna be an interrelation between basketball, music and race. Plus some highlight reel material and fun facts

(Genre: Artist-Album)

Rave: Spank Rock - Yoyoyoyoyo
Score: 70-58 (diff: 12)
Highlight Reel Mat'l: Nowitzki shooting over 3 defenders

Hip-hop: Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
S: 74-65 (diff:9)
HRM: James went through all the defenders, finishing with a dunk with a foul

Country: Wilco - Summerteeth
58-62 (diff:-4)
HRM/Fun fact: Yao called for goaltending 2 times, Nash to James alley-hoop superstar pass

Rock: Pixies - Doolittle
57-47 (diff: 10)
HRM: James shooting over 2 defenders

Electronic: Figurine - The Heartfelt
87-64 (diff: 23)
HRM: Ginobili going for a reverse dunk and then changing his mind mid-air, went for a lay up instead

Reggae: Matisyahu - Youth
69-55 (diff: 14)
HRM/FF: Nash doing a crossover between two defenders and then finishing with a superstar lay up, Nash made 19 assists

Pop: She & Him - Volume One
64-58 (diff: 6)
HRM:Nash to ginobili alley-hoop, Yao shooting over 2 defenders

Punk Rock: New Found Glory - Catalyst
64-59 (diff: 5)
FF: Ginobili did 34 points

Funk Rock: N.E.R.D. - In Search Of...
61-67 (diff: -6)
FF: The team had 11 turnovers

Post-Punk: Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
74-69 (diff: 5)
FF: Nash had 12 points, 19 assists, James only had 19 points

Garage: White Stripes - De Stijl
59-65 (diff: -6)
HRM/FF: Caron Butler dunking over James and Ginobili on two seperate occasions, James only had 16 points

Alternative: The Cure - Galore
76-56 (diff: 20)
FF: James is the player of the game with only 19 points 3 rebounds, 3 assists, 4 s without dominating the game (yao had 12, nowitzki had 12, ginobili had 16)

Trip-hop: Massive Attack - Protection
71-74 (diff: -3)
FF: My Team's FG%:66.7% vs. the other team's FG%:72.7%

Folk: Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake. It's Morning
71-65 (diff: 5)
FF: calderon was my key player at half with 9 points and 3 steals

Post-Rock: Sigur Ros - Takk..
84-78 (diff: 6)
FF: Nowitzki was the player of the game with 26 points, ginobili had 28

Is it because Ginobili's left-handed or he's an Argentinian or he loves post-rock?

Conclusions:

1. Europeans love rave.

2. Black Americans love hip-hop.

3. Country music makes Asians get hyped.

4. Electronica is the best music to listen to while playing basketball.

5. Africans love Reggae.

6. Chinese people love pop music.

7. South Americans love punk rock.

8. Funk is distracting.

9. (Former) football players love post-punk. African Americans hate it.

10. African Americans hate the whole garage rock revival shit.

11. African Americans love alternative rock. Even making them utilitarian.

12. Trip-hop is boring.

13. Europeans (Spaniards, specifically) love folk music.

14. Europeans and South Americans love post-rock.

Experiment: Music and Basketball (and Race)

2008-10-27T18:54:00.000-07:00

North America: Le Bron James, Paul Pierce

South America: Manu Ginobili, Leandro Barbosa

Europe: Dirk Nowitzki, Jose Calderon

Africa: Steve Nash (he's born in S. Africa), Dikembe Mutombo

Asia: Yao Ming, Jianlian Yi

And then playing the albums, relating the final scores and the player that did well. It's gonna be an interrelation between basketball, music and race. Plus some highlight reel material and fun facts

(Genre: Artist-Album)

Is it because Ginobili's left-handed or he's an Argentinian or he loves post-rock?

Conclusions:

1. Europeans love rave.

2. Black Americans love hip-hop.

3. Country music makes Asians get hyped.

4. Electronica is the best music to listen to while playing basketball.

5. Africans love Reggae.

6. Chinese people love pop music.

7. South Americans love punk rock.

8. Funk is distracting.

9. (Former) football players love post-punk. African Americans hate it.

10. African Americans hate the whole garage rock revival shit.

11. African Americans love alternative rock. Even making them utilitarian.

12. Trip-hop is boring.

13. Europeans (Spaniards, specifically) love folk music.

14. Europeans and South Americans love post-rock.

How I love Laguna College (the high school I went into)

2008-10-23T23:58:00.000-07:00

Did I made a sarcastic statement? I wonder how I miss my high school self: sad, pessimistic and a big fan of sarcasm and satire. I even took UPCAT cos I thought then it would be easier to join NPA, seriously. Good thing my faith to capitalism, healthy competition and laissez-faire went back even before I met a CPP member in UP.

What reminded me of this? I found the Wikipedia entry of Laguna College which we edited. It's hilarious, read it.

It also reminded me of the short story I made I intended to be the Noli and/or FIli for communists. Ma'am (Abi) Reyes gave it a grade of 84 just because she don't understand where I'm going. Fuck her. She wants cheesy love stories ala-John Lloyd-Bea's artless shit. I'll re-compose the story. I'll post it here. VACATION!!!

Me as the electronica artist

2008-10-23T04:51:00.000-07:00

Hip-hop producer slash electronica artist. Why hip-hop? Cos I suck at drumming. I know how to play the drums but if I would critic myself as a drummer, I'd be crying. I have a low self-esteem, what can I say. And because I suck at drumming, I sampled Interpol's song PDA. There, I went Girl Talk in this one.

Problem solved. But I don't have a mic. So maybe, I told myself I could go electronica in this project (Distance Over Time). And then I told RJ SxE I dunno how to play a synth. And then he said I should tingle with the controls, experiment, etc. So I did:

All I can play on the keyboard are the notes D and C. For no apparent reason. I'M JUST STARTING OK??!! If it sounded weird it's because my music's too experimental/avant-garde for your ears. It made me wonder if it's too experimental for Distance. Or too happy. I can go for a dance/party music-oriented project.

To download/stream:

Link: http://xtianlofi.multiply.com/music/item/272/This_song_is_brought_to_you_by_the_notes_D_and_C

Fear mongering in practice

2008-10-11T13:09:00.000-07:00

Before the day ends, October 11, I sent a group message:

Sa mga d p bumati.. Pakyu kau.

Sa mga bumati.. Paktu p rin.. D ako nubusan ng dpt replyan.

Pakyu kaung lahat. Joke lng.ü

"To those who didn't greet yet... Fuck you.

To those who greeted... Fuck you still... I got a lot to reply to.

Fuck you all. Just kidding.=)"

And then there are 5 or 6 people who greeted me.

It's just awesome how something self-absurd (a self-absurd order) would be justified by striking fear to people. PSYCH!

How to get back in time (article ko sa post script)

2008-10-02T02:20:00.000-07:00

How to Get Back in Time
Ramon Claveria

It's funny. I'm not afraid of getting lost in space.

I'm quite an adventurous man. If I get lost I can get back; I'll just get to the nearest road where vehicles pass and then I can hitchhike. It's fun hitchhiking. I've done it two times now. One is when I went once in a super-rural area and the jeeepneys are gone by 6 PM and I had no choice but to hitch. Another is when I fell asleep in a jeepney and when I woke up, my wallet's lost and yeah, I had no choice.

And getting to experience hitchhiking makes me think that I can never get lost in space (as long as there are good-natured drivers). Except maybe when you talk about outer space which is quite unlikely to happen (how can I get lost in outer space, what the?). And even when you drop me somewhere in the middle of the Pacific, I can swim (minus the factors that I can be eaten by a shark and I get tired easily).

But there's another kind of getting lost, which is getting lost in time. Well, some philosophers, mathematicians or physicists might argue with me but I think of time and space as a box suspended on a string. And the box moves along that string continually. Space is a box or maybe any three dimensional object because the universe that we live in is three dimensional. And as you might guess, time is the string. The difference between the two is that space can be sensed. I mean, it's absolutely real. You can touch it, see it, hear it, lick on it, etc. But time can either be absolute or relative.

Absolute time is the time that had passed. Noone can measure it because noone knows when the universe started. But we use representations like 12:33 PM, AM, Monday, June, June 29, BC, AD, 2008, etc. Relative time is a state of mind. Like the time we eat, we wake up, etc.

Getting lost in time is when your state of mind is not synchronized with what's supposed to happen in accordance to the absolute time. For example you want to watch a television program say, a news program scheduled at 6:00 PM. But the state of mind of the TV network's that they need to earn more so they showed lots of commercial adverts that they don't mind scheduling the programs anymore. Another example is when you're vacant from 12-1 and it's supposed to be a lunch break but you're not hungry so it's not a lunch break anymore.

What's supposed to happen? How will I know? When I'm lost in space I'll need a map and a compass. But when you're lost in time what will I need? Or maybe 'getting lost' is just a state of mind? Yeah, maybe there's just something wrong with my state of mind... again.

Swimming pool meditation

2008-10-01T01:00:00.000-07:00

I lied down on a concrete e.g. stair steps beside the pool such that the water level don't reach my nostrils or else I drown. You won't hear a thing, except for my case (last night). I hear crisp sounds when drizzling, chimes when raining and basslines when storming. I can feel my body's light. I can smell the stench of alcohol everytime breathe which sounds peaceful. I can only hear the sounds I make myself. I then thought of singing but it was a bad idea cos it's too bass-y.

I found peace.

Tony Blair on The Daily Show!

2008-09-21T02:19:00.000-07:00

He's cooler than Bush. Jon Stewart did a great job having Blair on his show but there were moments he's being a dick.

Part 1:

Part 2:

San your flash isks bfor oubl liking on it

2008-09-19T14:15:00.000-07:00

Fuk. My flash isk ha som virus gottn from som omputr I insrt it in.

My anti-virus (avast!) an't sm to fix th shit. Now, my .P.U. ativity's ranging from 80-100% an as you might guss, som lttrs an numbrs on my kyboar o'nt work. Fuk.

I'll try using no2 (anothr anti-virus).

ABS-CBN and emo are fucking killing me

2008-09-14T01:50:00.000-07:00

Fuck them.

Those shows showing stereotypes should be stopped. Seriously. Because Filipinos really, easily believe what's on TV and I'm observing teenagers stereotyping themselves.

And now, they have more reason to do so. "Hey I'm emo, I'm cool. I'm like my idol Gayrald Anderson and be as flailingly queer as him and listen to MCR."

Stop stereotyping and stop being stereotyped. You're losing your freedom to be something else than what TV tells you to be.

I only wish ABS fucking CBN makes a stereotype patterned with my teenage life. A communist teenage boy who wants to go into UP cos he thought it's gonna be easy joining NPA, but no. And then he downgraded his philosophy in life and engaged into socialism and extremist nationalism. I dunno if that stereotype's gonna sell ratings, but maybe not. It's not the fucking uso because I am an I-N-D-I-V-I-D-U-A-L and I don't care what's gonna make me ride the wave cos I have the freedom to be whatever I wanna be.

I feel like I'm Jewish

2008-09-08T21:15:00.000-07:00

We had in our PHLO class an activity wherein your classmates tell you their impresssion about you. Bad ones.

It's cool that I'm a popular kid in the class cos it's a PHLO class so we share philosophies of each another and I'm the sole Atheist in the class.

But after this activity I feel secluded. Some of the comments against my belief goes like: "Don't be too atheist. Give some respect to God." and "How can you neglect such a beautiful salvation."

First of all I don't mean to disrepect any religion's god by being an atheist. I even don't wanna tell people I'm an atheist cos I don't want to start conversation about religion which are quite sensitive to touch specially for the devotees. Plus, I don't wanna sound elitist. Plus, I don't believe in religion and gods and spirits. Ancient people just invented those things so that they'll have something to scare children on doing good things. Let them live in fear: that's their machinery to do good things.

Second, I don't mean to disrespect any religious people. At least you have some machinery to do good things, which is cool but fabricated.

Last, I do believe in salvation. Not in heaven, watery paradise or being reincarnated into a butterfly though, but right here on earth, right now while we're alive. And if you look in a larger scale, think of those who died in wars started by religion. And I'm not only talking about Muslims... Judeo-Christians should be ashamed of themselves as well. Right after your God gave the ten commandments, Joshua led the Israelites to a war that killed thousands of Canaanites to reclaim Israel.

When most of the nations are polytheists, they hated the Jews cos they're monetheists and it's kinda hard for them to swallow the Jews' belief. Now that people are monotheists they despise atheists like me. I feel secluded. I feel like I'm a Jewish. Kurmesh to you all.

Help! Can't stop listening to hip hop!

2008-09-03T01:06:00.000-07:00

Maybe a month from now I would be in "Composer Mode"... Yes, I'm planning to make an album.

When I'm in composer mode, I don't listen to ANY music. I prepared a white noise mp3 file so that I'd plug in some earphone when there's some music playing like those "pambarangay" radio stations.

I don't wanna listen to any music, even music I like cos when I compose I might try imitating songs I wish I composed myself. Of course I rely on influences but I rely on music I like prior to being in composer mode.

And then now, when a month before I plan to compose a blues/folk album I can't stop listening to hip hop artists like Black Star, Dangerdoom, Kanye West, The Roots, A Tribe Called Quest, etc. I'm afraid the album would be too weird. A blues/folk/hip hop album? I'm not ready for that kind of ambitious/experimental album. It's my debut so I'm thinking it would be as basic as possible.

I'm weirded out with the fact that I listen to Radiohead's Kid A and In Rainbows and M.I.A.'s Kala. What more that I'm listening to hip hop? Can't stop the beat! Y-Ooohhh!

Fuck PLDT

2008-08-31T23:15:00.000-07:00

For the nth time our internets down.

For the nth time I went to their office to tell them:

"Fuck you and your service. You can't fix our line but youre 100% eager collecting our bills"

And all they said was "Complaints about bills are to be directed to the Accounting Dept.

Stupid.

Kids don't like the new punk rock

2008-06-28T10:49:00.000-07:00

Our apartment has a lobby facing the street where kids from a high school pass by. I thought of conducting an experiment: I played rock and then hip-hop songs.

When I played rock music, the response were positive. And then I played hip-hop and then I received stares from people like they're thinking: "What the fck is that music, is that music?"

Kids find pleasure nowadays pigeonholing themselves. "I'm a punkista", "I'm a rakista", "I love R'n'B", "I love Bossa Nova and some genre of music alone", etc. or "I'm the mysterious one in my group of friends", "I'm the emo one in my group of friends", etc. And I don't understand the way they classify themselves because they lose their freedom of being an individual by following some trends or what I would like to call "personality templates" they see on TV. But even having this social dillema don't make people listen to socio-politically conscious music. The 60's had folk. The 70's had punk. The 80's was when MTV was made popular and it killed folk and punk by making people watch and care more for what artists look like rather than LISTEN.

And then MYX put lyrics below the videos so you really wouldn't need to listen.

And it killed hip-hop. Realistically, listening to hip-hop is hard. Catching the words is a challenge. Kids don't like challenge. Kids want things instant and spoon-fed to them. MTV spoon-feed kids with visuals and MYX spoon-feed kids with lyrics and that makes kids hate hip-hop.

That's why socio-politically charged hip-hop (fck soulja boy and gangsta) is the new punk rock. Kids don't care about what happens around us. All they care are and want are songs that are personal and self-centered. Plus the fact they hate challenging songs makes me want hip-hop because I'm the "against-the-wave guy" of some group I belong to.

The Truth about Fit n Right

2008-06-08T23:47:00.000-07:00

A can/bottle of Fit n Right contains:

100 calories
25g sugar
300mg L-carnithine

It also says that you have to take it three times a day. So you get 25gx3=75g of sugar a day.

And also:

"Although L-carnitine has been marketed as a weight loss supplement, there is no scientific evidence to date to show that it improves weight loss. A recent study of moderately overweight women found that L-carnitine did not significantly alter body weight, body fat, or lean body mass. Based on the results of this one small study, claims that L-carnitine helps reduce weight are not supported at this time."

Source: http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/carnitine-l-000291.htm#Uses

Movie Lap by Lap Part Nine: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

2008-06-08T01:21:00.000-07:00

The King of Kong is a documentary about Steve Wiebe and his videotape which shows how he broke the world record for the highest score on the classic game Donkey Kong and how the organization that keeps the record (the "referees") rejected his video because of its connection to the 1982 record holder Billy Mitchell.

It's funny because it shows how a subculture can be that absurd.

Movie Lap by Lap Part Eight: No Country for Old Men

2008-06-06T03:06:00.000-07:00

If wanna watch a deep-voiced zombie-looking triggerhappy guy chase after a slippery cowboy, watch this movie.

LOL, I pissed my pants.

Movie Lap by Lap Part Seven: The Devil Came on Horseback

2008-06-06T03:02:00.000-07:00

There's a war in Sudan, in a region called Darfur. You don't know? That's because the whole world's eyes are on Iraq that even the U.S. government and the U.N. don't consider it a war. There'd been genocide in the region and no one's acting on it and noone knows about it but the Sudanese themselves and people from neighbouring African nations until the African Union hired a retired U.S. marine named Brian Steidle as an observer during a ceasefire at Darfur. He then took pictures of the victims of the genocides (remember Nanking?) and then he got them be published on New York Times and then the story goes on.

It is true. There's a war in Darfur and the U.S. troops, including us as a member of the coalition of the willing, shouldn't be in Iraq because there's this real threat in Sudan and situation's getting worse in both Sudan (because we're not there) and Iraq (because Bush don't want the troops to leave, they're busy guarding oil facilities).

And good thing Obama won the Democratic primaries (and, fingers crossed, I hope the general elections as well). He's featured in the film because he helped Brian all through his fight.

To know more about Darfur, check out http://www.savedarfur.org/

Movie Lap by Lap Part Six: No End in Sight

2008-05-31T21:52:00.000-07:00

No End in Sight is a documentary about the war on Iraq.

The approach is fair and unbiased and I like it. Shows the ignorance of the Bush administration about Iraq and their situation. And it's all done objectively, all are based on historical facts and people at the background during the occupation of Iraq are interviewed and they all say the same thing: the war shouldn't had happened in the first place and the Bush administration did a terrible job planning about the war and sustaining the peace in there and they make terrible decisions.

2008-05-30T16:46:00.000-07:00

Nanking is a documentary about the second world war when the Japanese troops attacked the then capital of China which is Nanking.

We'd heard these stories... People bayoneted, women raped, etc. But what makes this movie interesting's not only are there actors playing people who were actually there during the attack (what they say are based on diaries, notes, letters, etc.) and people who were actually IN the war but also disturbing pictures and videos taken by the Westerners who lived there. Women naked and tied down, a man bayoneted through the skull, a lady almost losing her arms, another lady whose skull almost detached, etc.

All I'm saying's not that I want seeing disturbing pictures and videos but there's nothing good that would come out of any war. And when you're at war, you have some political propaganda and the issue of being one-sided and subjectivity's always there. And that's shown in the documentary which reminds us the use of documentaries: documenting. And they did a good job re-telling the war through the use of different sources. Cool...

Movie Lap by Lap Part Four: Once

2008-05-29T17:17:00.000-07:00

Once is about a songwriter/hoover(vacuum cleaner) fixer and a girl whose hoover he fixed. The songwriter discovered her talent in playing piano and then they did a record with few other guys.

It's almost a musical, wait is it a musical? I dunno. But it's good. Shows you the process of making a record... Ahhh, what else...

I liked it because it has some DIY ideology like recording on your own, having a low budget album and being depicted in a low budget picture.

Although... I don't know about the lyrics. It's too cheesy for me taste (That's right, I said it... "ME taste"). The songs are too poppy it gives me the tic you experience when eating too sugary stuffs. But the sound's good, except for the guy's voice which reminds me of suburban-type of alternative bands NIckelback, Hoobastank, etc.

It makes me want to record in my PC again. I miss my guitar.

Movie Lap by Lap Part Three: Away from Her

2008-05-28T23:53:00.000-07:00

Away from Her is about an old couple and the old lady had a problem with her short-term memory so she had to be brought to a care center for the oldies. Now the problem's that they were married for 44 or 45 years and there's a policy where no one can visit the patients just brought in for a month, so that must have been hard for the both of them.

The story deals with the idea of looking after the ones you love or not leaving them when they're in deep shit or even when they tend to forget you or their attention's focused onto someone or something else. Taken for granted! Forsaken! Yeah, that's the phrase and word, thank you...

I am currently reading this book titled The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon and it says "loving someone is helping them when they got into trouble, and looking after them, and telling the the truth...".

Hmm... Wonder if it's true...

Movie Lap by Lap Part Two: This is England

2008-05-28T01:29:00.000-07:00

2-3 films a day! Fck school! Fck even my health! I'm living a watch-nap-watch-eat-watch-nap-pee-nap-watch-bathe lifestyle!

Well This is England is set in '83 England and about a boy named Shaun who's bullied in school and then found comfort from a gang of skinheads older than him. He even had a girlfriend almost twice his height. And then a guy named Combo came back from prison and declared white supremacy and the group of skinheads were divided into two factions: the racists/supremacists and the rainbow group. And then that's when the story was fcked up... I don't wanna spoil it.

Is it appropriate to relate the story to the Iraq War? Ok I'll relate . Well the reason why this Combo became nationalistic was because England's at a war (the Falksland War) with Argentina. Now when you're in a war you gotta be nationalistic but some goes to far as to bashing colored people in the movie. Well like what's happening in the Middle East, us members of the "Coalition of the willing" see Muslim people as "bad" people. And they're "bad" because their religion teaches "bad" things like bombing yourself because when you go to jihad or holy war and die, Allah will give you tons of wine and many many virgins will be yours in paradise in return of spreading his name. Now whoever believe that is an ignorant. First, jihad is not limited to war.. it's literal translation means "struggle" (fasting, fighting temptation, etc.). Second, just imagine who wanna be a Muslim if being a Muslim involves dying in a non-cool way? I don't! I wanna be assassinated because I know too much! Because I'm too smart! That's the way I wanna die!

Just like Combo who's too ignorant to know that the skinhead subculture was started by black people and then they become some Neo-nazi punks... it's ironic and justifying what they do just because England's at war is absurd. We should stop being subjective! We should stop being supremacists! Equal rights and freedom!!!!

Movie Lap by Lap Le Partie Un: Persepolis

2008-05-27T18:08:00.000-07:00

I should have a marathon but since I download and watch a film after another it's technically not a marathon. It's, as indicated, lap by lap. And is "Part One" in French "Le Partie Un"? I just made a guess.

The first movie I watched is titled Persepolis written and directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud. Revolves around Satrapi... That's right, it's an autobiography.

It has cool animation (it's an animation by the way). Things happening on the "present day" are colored while the flashbacks are black and white or grayscale, i don't know.

The story reminds me of Martial Law and how the rich families here fled to Europe and America to escape dictatorship. Which makes me think that it might be better if Satrapi came from a poor family. Because the bottom line of the story's that she complains of not having the liberty to party (seriously) but what if she can't afford to party? That would be a deeper shit.

Movies, eh?

2008-05-27T02:00:00.000-07:00

Because it's vacation time (once again), my goal is to watch as many films as I can until before going back to school (which is 20 days from now). I downloaded a movie yesterday and it sucked... I thought it would be awesome because it stars Will Ferrell's sidekick from the movie Talladega Nights and the actress who plays Pam in the NBC sitcom The Office but it sucked... reeeeally sucked.

Because I became afraid or doubtful with my own taste or intuition, I refered to the experts: Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.com.. and here's their Top 10 Movies for 2007:

Rotten Tomatoes:

1. Life of Reilly - 100%
2. Half Moon: A Musician's Last Journey - 100%
3. I for India - 100%
4. The Band's Visit - 98%
5. Ten Canoes - 98%
6. The Devil on Horseback - 98%
7. Grbvica: The Land of My Dreams - 98%
8. Nanking - 98%
9. Once - 97%
10. The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters - 97%

Metacritic:

1. Ratatouille - 96
2. Killer of Sheep - 94
3. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - 92
4. There Will Be Blood - 92
5. No Country for Old Men - 91
6. Persepolis - 90
7. No End in Sight - 89
8. Once - 88
9. Away From Her - 88
10. This is England - 86

Well, look like two good lists. How do I say? Because I know none of the movies listed! In my experience, the better art forms are the obscure or less known ones. Except for Ratatouille, There Will be Blood and No Country for Old Men which I remember were nominated for Oscars. Anyway it's gonna be a long downloading time... 19 Movies! The movie Once only appearing twice (ironic, huh?) and I'm starting with Persepolis because I took Asian History this summer and I recall Persepolis being an ancient city in either Mesopotamia or Persian Empire... Damn I forgot. Lol.

Bye...

wtf is emo?

2008-03-16T01:26:00.001-07:00

What's the deal with people being emo? And what the heck is emo?

I looked at the tag cloud in my multiply and one of em is 'emo'. And what did I see? Poems and a girl blabbering about how bad her day was.

I think girls nowadays who think they're blonde and love to play barbie when they were young and whose favorite channel is Disney channel and listen to Vanessa Carlton and love to go shopping have a new term to the so 90s "bad hair day" phrase : an emo day.

So you know emo stands for emotive or emotional or short for some word with emo in it but please don't be emotional and tag everything emotional emo. I first heard the term when I was in high school. I used to listen to the jealous sound, knapsack, the promise ring, the get up kids and some other bands tagged as emo. I was then confused with the tag or genre so the scientific thing to do is to research. No music critic would tag two or more bands without a common style. For example, punk bands are characterized by power chord- and barre chord-driven dynamics or blues artists are characterized by songs with the 12 blues chords, etc. So someone might have noticed a group of bands with the same style and then he/she told someone "Hey, this movement in music is something new from their roots, why won't we give this style a name.. Hey, how about emo?" Thus, that's what happened to the hardcore punk music scene in Washington DC in the 80s. Emo which stands for emotive hardcore. Basically they are hardcore bands who talk about their break-up or something sentimental.

Something sentimental? So I can tag Bon Jovi or Michael Learns to Rock emo then! No. As I told you, it's all about style. And that's the problem. All the bands with guitars nowadays are carelessly tagged emo. Because emo must have been mistaken to be synonymous to sentimental which is not. If it is, all artists are emo, because all artists are sentimental. Sentiment is not limited to crying or cutting your wrist.

If you are a self-proclaimed emo and you don't know what DIY means and you buy Gothic stuffs in malls and you haven't heard Rites of Spring and you tag everything emo, you have a problem. If you are gay and you are religious but haven't heard of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, you have a problem. Everyone nowadays have a problem with their belief system.

If between the time I was in high school and today with all these emo craze, the term has changed meaning then I don't know what emo means. Noone does.

OKX: A 10th Year Anniv. Tribute to Radiohead's OK Computer

2008-01-03T03:50:00.000-08:00

Stereogum made a compilation of indie artists' covers of songs from Radiohead's '97 release OK Computer titled OKX. Though you can now only stream the songs (for some legal reasons), you can still just download here (not-so-legally, just don't tell anyone what I told you).

Check out... ALL THE FCKING SONGS! They're all awesome in their own special ways. Special mention to the covers of David Bazan (of Pedro the Lion), John Vanderslice, Samson Dalonoga aka David Cross, Northern State and Chris Walla (of Death Cab for Cutie).

If OK Computer influenced these sorts of awesome artists, no doubt OK is an awesomely influential album. Awesome.

movies!

2007-12-31T01:03:00.000-08:00

It's vacation time once again which means more time for me to watch movies/TV series. But because of the on-going writer's guild strike, mostly movies.

Ron Burgundy - I've watched Ricky Bobby for the third time and I've decided to see Will Ferrell play arrogant again.
Bewitched - I read somewhere Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert are in this shit so I thought I might see it.
The Simpsons Seasons 10-11.
Quentin Tarantino's Grindhouse:Death Proof
All of Kevin Smith's View Askewniverse films minus the alternate endings and extras found on DVD's.

Clerks
Mallrats
Chasing Amy
Dogma
Clerks: The Animated Series
Jay and Silentbob Strikes Back
Clerks II

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction - I read somewhere he's making a book about Filipino indie films and then I remember this film

Vacation, I'll truly miss you.

christmas songs, treenation

2007-12-25T03:39:00.000-08:00

Hey check out the list of mp3s (which you can download) from the albums Maybe this Christmas; Maybe this Christmas, Too; and Maybe this Christmas Tree that I liked. Included in that list are the songs of Vanessa Carlton and Avril Lavigne... Gotcha Lindsay!!

I have 7 friends who I invited that have registered in tree-nation.com. Come register at tree-nation.com and then add me; my profile page: http://tree-nation.com/community/profile.php?id=14979. I need three more friends so that an acacia tree (I once thought that I can choose a baobab tree to be planted instead) will be planted in Niger (which in some UN report reports that it's the poorest country, check the site's FAQ) to prevent it from desertifying.

Desertifying?? Wait, does the word "desertify" actually exist?? According to a Google define: search I made, it doesn't exist! Woohoo! I coined a term!

add me on tree-nation.com

2007-11-10T04:33:00.003-08:00

Click here to add me in tree-nation.com. I currently have 4 friends and if you join in and add me and then I reach ten friends, a tree in Africa will be planted! Add friends of your friends, befriend as much people as you can, and invite more then to get more trees planted! This is awesome!

I wish I can choose what tree will be planted everytime I add 10 people. I want a baobab tree. I'm a big fan of baobab. I also wish I can name it: Bushy Baby Boy Baobab. It's called an alliteration. It only grows in Africa and Australia. You don't know baobab? It's that tree in Little Prince:

I want a tattoo like that on my arm.

"Subtitle-ty": Boycott Myx Channel

2007-11-05T01:38:00.000-08:00

To: myx TV channel

We want to express our strong disapproval of having the subtitles appearing at the bottom of our screen when you, MYX TV channel, are showing music videos.

Poets and real artists have something what we call "subtlety", or the deep-nesss of any literary or art work.

As an artist, you don't want your work to be shallow because that would determine the beauty of your work. The deepness determines your ability, your craft to combine different elements to form a delicate piece of art. As an "appreciator" we try to interpret those combined elements to form a thought.

We can safely classify music as an art. In art, there is what we call "medium", whether it be a painting, a sculpture, audio, video, etc. Now Imagine an artform with a particular medium, being served to you with another medium spoiling your chance of exploring the art form as it is. It cheapens the value.

For example, a painting, say... Mona Lisa. You come into a museum, see this painting and then another medium, say... a voiceover will say: "As you can see this painting is about a lady and you can notice the little smirk on her face... hmmmm.... what can that smirk mean?"

This "cheapening" of art also goes with your display of lyrics at the bottom of every music video you show. You spoil what's supposed to be, an "exploration time" for music fans to discover what the lyrics say and mean.

So you may ask: If an artist's work is "cheapened" by these, then why won't they complain in the first place? You should consider some things: number one is if they really are artists. Number two is if they really are artists caring about their work of art, etc. That also goes with the record labels.

MTV has done its job in the 80s cheapening an art form of an aural medium: music by making a scene, adding a medium(video) so people would care about the musician's look and sometimes forget about the musical talent.

This petition also serves as a social contract to boycott the said TV channel until they make further action. So please stop. Stop making music a cheap form of art.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

http://www.petitiononline.com/boycmyx/petition.html

Sweet Clemency

2007-10-25T03:52:00.000-07:00

When I was young, I want to be either a pilot or the president of the Philippines. When I learned about an actor winning a president, the passion, my eagerness to be a president grew in me: if an actor can win a presidential seat why can't I? It grew more and more: Erap plundered in our money, got sentenced though prisoned in an air-conditioned cell (plus, he can't be absent to any party he likes to be in) just because he's a former president. And now though convicted, got pardoned just because he's a former president.

Fuck Uncle Ben when he said to Parker: "With great power comes great responsibility." Fuck responsibility, I want to be rich, fat and mindless of responsibilities.

Presidency is the ultimate job.

"Public prosecutors my ass, I got high-paid lawyers so
I can still go even to my dog's birthday party."

Hitchhike!

2007-10-18T03:53:00.000-07:00

It was fun.

lo-fi

2007-10-12T04:36:00.000-07:00

so i obtained this lo-fi camera and i started to take pictures of things glowing:

1. Our TV

2. My PC

3. A fluorescent lamp (A long one)

4. A fluorescent bulb

5. A fluorescent lamp (A disc-like one)

6. Freezer

Airhockeying

2007-10-01T05:49:00.000-07:00

RJ and I went airhockeying.

Then we passed thru shoe shops where there're shoes for running, tennis and basketball. We thought of a specialty shop for airhockeying.

RJ used vans. He said it's for more grip.

I used New Balance. For fast feet movement.

kanye west+daft punk+a filipina model/singer+japanese theme=AWESOME

2007-09-23T06:33:00.000-07:00

Art in Manila

2007-09-01T03:23:00.000-07:00

Orenda Fink of Azure Ray and Now It's Overhead fame forms a new group comprising of the several members of her touring band during her solo career days. And what it's called? Art in Manila.

They just released an album via Saddle Creek. And they sounded awesome.

Go to the Saddle Creek for free mp3s.

Hey Art in Manila.. How bout a show in Manila? Maybe bring Rilo Kiley, Bright Eyes, Maria Taylor and/or your friends in Good Life or Cursive with you? Pleeease??

The Electric Soft Parade

2007-08-29T04:11:00.000-07:00

yes, friendster made it!

2007-08-26T04:23:00.000-07:00

You might ask, what does that " It's complicated" status in friendster.com mean? Maybe if you'll ask someone from friendster, they'll reply "Well, it's complicated."

I updated my profile the other day when I saw the "It's complicated" status. Not that I have no idea of this bogus friendster.com already had for the past years, but it's got a TM after it. Obviously, it means that friendster managed to trademark the term "It's complicated."

Honestly, i don't know what the hell that means. What's that for, by the way?

Friendster has 4 other Status(es? or Stati?)

Single- you have no relation to someone
In a Relationship- maybe implying to someone who has a relation not deeper than a domestic partner or marriage
Domestic Partner- maybe implying to someone who has a relation not deeper than marriage. e.g. living together
Married- self-explanatory

So when you say "It's complicated", you mean it's hard to explain whether you're single, in a relationship or married. How the hell can that happen?

Does that mean you you're confused whether you're single or in a relationship? Oh, sometimes it happen. You have no idea whether you're in a relationship or not. Young people, so lazy just asking what's up with them.

Or can it mean you're confused whether you're in a relationship or you got a domestic partner? This might imply if you got a maid with you and you're living alone. Although it's awkward for her. "She? She's my domestic partner."

Or it can mean you're confused whether you have a domestic partner or you're married but you can't remember.

Either ways, it's senseless. Be sure to know what's up with you. You don't want to make the whole (friendster) world know your life's so fucked up you're confused with your status.

I don't even see the point of trademarking a term so pointless. Like they can beat Myspace and Multiply just by that.

An update: RJ told me about a show called Y Speak that discussed about this matter and they said its for flings and queridas. Although, why would you like to be known like those? And how can you join other social networks when friendster.com already trademarked the said term? Lolololol.

hey

2007-08-17T22:53:00.000-07:00

jealous sound, new album pls. i've been waiting 2 years...

i wanna grow old well

2007-07-28T08:23:00.000-07:00

Hey

2007-07-21T18:05:00.000-07:00

Ingles

2007-06-20T01:36:00.000-07:00

Ang Blogspot ay maaari nang gamitin sa wikang Tagalog! haha

Bilang pagdiriwang ay nagsagawa ako ng isang laro para paglibangan.

Makikita ninyo sa baba ang dashboard ng aking blog. Huhulaan ko kung ano ang katumbas ng mga tagalog na salita sa wikang Ingles.

(Yung Tulong ay dapat Help ang katumbas, pasensya na)

Pagkatapos ay binago ko ang wika sa Ingles:

Ang hatol:

Meron akong dalawang mali:
1. Ang "Lumabas" ay dapat Sign Out, hindi Log out.
2. Ang "inilathala" ay dapat Published, hindi Updated. At dapat may salitang on pagkatapos ng Published.

Sanay nasiyahan kayo sa isa na namang kabanata ng inyong paboritong blog: Kristiyano, Ang Taong Kuweba!

Paalam!!!

Filipinos>Americans or Paris Hilton=Nazarene slash Virgin Idol

2007-06-13T05:36:00.000-07:00

M. Ward

2007-06-10T18:20:00.000-07:00

wikimyass

2007-06-07T00:34:00.000-07:00

Hey

Yesterday I tried to edit LC's Wikipedia page but some Wikipedians thinking of themselves great reverted the page to its previous version. I tried reverting it back to the version I made but damn Wikipedians always try to correct me! They have some sort of false fact radar.

Anyway you can still view an archive of the page me and RJ made here. At least we made history though it didn't last for a day.

political spectrum

2007-05-21T04:27:00.000-07:00

boo! i've watched imbestigador last saturday and what i saw was worse than what i thought this country's condition is.

i thought politicians take advantage of people's ignorance about democracy but in mindoro, tyrant politicians take advantage of native mangyans' inability to read & write. horrible. they're kept in the politician's compound (like slaves), paid 500 pesos and handed out sample ballots and since they don't know how to write and read, someone will write what's written on the sample ballot.

people do not know how democracy works! far worse, people don't know how to read and write! and worst of all, the tyrants don't want us to be educated... totalitarians!

totali-$&"%$%?

we need more libertarians... someone, anyone, anybody who would change the face of social clubs (bureaucracies) our present leaders belong to, people who would serve for people. all of our leaders today are authoritarians. all of them think leading is ruling. no! we are the rulers, and our leaders are to make sure we don't overpower them as our responsibility to make sure they don't overpower us. there should be balance. not too many far libertarians because that would lead to anarchy. we won't want that. but our condition is pseudo-democracy... it's totalitarian. it's tyranny. how would you know it's tyranny? bloodshed during elections, politicians have this aura like they are grandfathers of some gangster or something, etc. we wouldn't want that either.

this spectrum of politics is civilized politics, a healthy politics. because all of our politicians are authoritarians/totalitarians, the politics they know are personal politics.

political party 1: "heck, what are we fighting for let's unite."
political party 2: "fuck, we have personal quarrel, we'll oppose you."
etc. political party: "FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!"

stephanie's gonna win i knew it

2007-04-20T20:25:00.000-07:00

i knew it! stephanie's gonna win.

rj and hipster mark hoppus's money is on windy while me and stephen colbert's on stephanie.

feel the power of prayer! good thing we're on god's side!

check out the prediction i made:

Interpretation: As you can see, Billie(currently 1st) is going straight west... west to somewhere, check out the red line. Oooh, look at Windy(green line)! She's going... to Colombia? And look at Stephanie (currently 2nd, Blue line)! Heading straight to Galapagos (Finish Zone)

Well i don't know. Anything can happen. Just go to http://greatturtlerace.com though for more turtle race action!

demo- waah??

2007-04-09T22:11:00.000-07:00

long since i posted.

because this is my blog. YOU should catch up on ME. funny how blogs work. lolx

hmmm... smells politics! this time i won't focus on comedy, the books i'm currently reading, albums i'm currently listening too, tv shows/movie ive watched (watch Blades of Glory though) or the stupidities i make, which i call my "cavemanities" (Copyright 2007 http://xtianthecaveman.blogspot.com) . this time i'm gonna talk about politics.

what separate a blog from a news article is the blogs' politics, or lack thereof. For example, a typical blog entry would be: "Oh my god, i went shopping yesterday... the shoes i bought made Ronald McDonald's shoes look like some piece of red cloth wrapped in some giant's feet as tall as Ronald McDonald." its all bullshit and who cares? its hypocritical (unless someone else post comments on your blog saying its bullshit).

so here's my blog.

Demo-waah??

so one night we went to Total gas station to drink gasoline when suddenly, out of nowhere, me, a biology major in los banos, and Edward, who is a philosophy major in diliman had this philosophical conversation. i am not used to this, really.

he asked me things like "who you're gonna choose: a sincere leader or an experienced leader?" or "who you're gonna choose: a rich leader or a wise leader?", we made references to some thinkers like Marx, Machiavelli and Charles Darwin (go biology!) and stuffs.

and then i shittalked about the political crisis we're having in the philippines and hit him with a million billion peso question "whose fault is it? the government or the people?"

it's hard to think of the answer... you know why? because it's a cycle. it's like that stupid tropang trumpo question: "anong nauna, manok o itlog?" whoever's fault it is, his fault would make the other one commit a fault.

but anyway who's fault it is that made the other one made a fault? in other words, wheres the fucking root of the problem?

the answer: the government's fault because of the people's fault because of the government's fault. why you ask?

were you thought of how democracy works when you were in elementary/high school? maybe you'll ask, why is it so important?

democracy works such that the people directly or indirectly rule the government? indirectly: as you know, the electoral process. directly: forming unions, associations or organizations, which may join a body called a party which from those bodies will choose a candidate for the electoral process which would benefit people connected to the unions, etc. and the people not connected to unions, etc. will choose from the candidates.

so that's happening, so whats the problem with the process happening in the philippines? unions are formed or dominated by people from the upper class and not by the "lesser people". why is it important? to bring balance. "lesser people" wont go with what favor upper class. and the lesser people don't know something: directly ruling this country. because they are ignorant. they don't know how to rule. and the government, the upper class, wont let them be educated. why would they like to be outthroned?

capita-huh??

many of you might say i'm a communist, but seriously, i'm not. its like that quote from camara: "when I give food to the hungry, they call me a saint. but when I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist". marx said communism is the ultimate form of capitalism such that corporations one day will be bankrupt and be bought by another corporation until, for example in a nation, only one company is left to control resources of that nation. in other words, there will be monopoly.

i say, there is one other "fate" of capitalism besides communism, which is a healthy capitalism. how? having a healthy competition. how? unlike that board game, players in the real world are not limited to a certain number, which means everyone can join the game. if that's so, the remaining question will be: how can you compete corporate giants? the problem with marketing and commercialization, when solved will lead to a healthy competition. which is way better than communism!

watch Blades of Glory! weee

hey

2007-03-14T23:29:00.000-07:00

wattup. check out http://youtube.com/psychedelious for cool videos.

palate

2007-01-16T06:01:00.000-08:00

Hi. So I was eating in this restaurant where you have lots of choices: chicken and uhm.. chicken. Then I saw this promo poster for one of their (chicken, duh) product and I thought of writing a script for a comedy sketch jokingly about the bad effects of commercial ads:

Me: "I am here at a chicken restaurant. This promo poster of an orange chicken caught my eyes one time and I was intrigued by what it says:

A new twist to ***'s signature chicken.
Glazed with a sweet and orangey sauce
to tease your palate."

Voice in my head: "I didn't realize that this poster made an impact to me. That is, bothering me with a question:
Me: "What the fuck is palate?"

(Enters restaurant)

Me: "Give me an orange... no, wait. I changed my mind, Meal #1 please.

Voice in my head: "Fuck commercials, I am convinced to buy. Not an orange chicken though, but a brown one."

Me: "So I am here enjoying a frahied chihicken. With rahice of course and lots of grehavy. And I'm gonna use one of these fohorks and spoowoons to eat the chihicken here on the palate."

(Light bulb up my head)

Voice in my head: "Eureka"

(Eat some chicken)

(Drink softdrink)

Me: "Oh! Did I mention It goes with a softdirink?"

(Eat some more)

Me: "Mmmhmm... Yahummy!"

(Calls a waiter)

Me: "Can I talk to your mahanager?"
Manager: "What's the problem sir?"
Me: "What the fuck is a palate?"
Manager: "It's a french word meaning something like your taste for good food."
Me: "What do you call this place?"
Manager: "******** ***** *******"
Me: "You named this place after a US state and you use French words for your promo posters? I want my chicken replaced!"

Voice in my head: "From all these I have learned one lesson: why care to buy an orange, when you're free to buy a borown."

yeah!

2007-01-16T05:53:00.000-08:00

Hello, It's 11:38 PM and I am memorizing/scanning/just reading the structures and names of the different amino acids. It's fun.

It's so fun I decided to blog.

It's so fun I decided to play the my currently favorite albums/songs in shuffle while studying:

>Azure Ray - Hold On Love

>Some Beatles' Songs e.g., Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Norwegian Wood, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, A Day in the Life, etc.

>Beck - Guero

>Ben Folds - Songs for Silverman

>Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen

>Blur - Blur

>Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground

>Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene

>The Cure - Galore

>Cursive - The Ugly Organ

>The Decemberists - Picaresque

>Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish

>The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I

>Don Caballero - American Don

>Elliott Smith - Either/Or

>The Format - Dog Problems

>Some Gin Blossoms' Songs

>Gorillaz - Gorillaz

>Heatmiser - Mic City Sons

>Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut

>The Jealous Sound - Kill Them with Kindness

>Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins - Rabbit Furcoat

>Lake - Photograph

>Maria Taylor - 11:11

>mewithoutYou - Catch for Us the Foxes

>Minus the Bear - Menos el Oso

>New Order - some "The Best of" album

>Number One Gun - Celebrate Mistakes

>The Postal Service - Give Up

>The Promise Ring - Very Emergency

>Ramones - Ramonemania

>Sigur Ros - Takk

>Sufjan Stevens - Illinois or Come Feel the Illinoise!

>Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

>Toad the Wet Sprocket - P.S. (A Toad Retrospective)

>Watashi Wa - The Love Of Life

>Some Weezer Songs e.g., Buddy Holly, Say It Ain't So, Hash Pipe, etc.

I don't care if you don't care.

But hey, I've found a way to bring back the good ol' blogcast. Haha. Just stand by.

hey

2006-12-17T21:52:00.000-08:00

its been long since i last posted.

i got a feeling my last post started with that line. and the succeeding ones also.

but anyway here's a sampler of the music project i'm starting (called distance over time):

right click here then choose "Save Link As..." or "Save Target As...".

see you. i'll post something loooong next tiiiime.

bbye.

bowling=sucking

2006-11-30T16:25:00.000-08:00

i suck at bowling.

i'm listening to:

beck - guero
beck - odelay!
ben folds - songs for silverman
ben folds five - whatever and ever amen
copeland - eat, sleep, repeat
elliott smith - either/or
elliott smith - figure 8

i'm watching:

shrek 1&2
wwe survivor series 2006
the simpsons (i love my schedules during moday cos i got an 8-hour vacant time (8am-5pm), so i can go back home and watch it, hehe)
munich
stranger than fiction

gawd i'll miss sem break

2006-11-08T04:33:00.000-08:00

It's 10 or 11 days to go till the next semester...and I don't wanna go to school.

updatism

2006-11-04T04:47:00.000-08:00

Hey, my last post was superlooooooooooooong loooooooooong ago. It's because our internet provider is so awesome. Imagine having cut your internet (and phone line) for nearly 2 weeks, making a scandal in their office to just to get their asses to work (they worked for like 15 minutes though), and then after about 3 days, some goddamn bastard dumbass sonofabtch stole some telephone wiring so all the houses in our neighbourhood won't have line. Awesome! It just shows corruption's not only something concerning politicians.

Books
I bought this book Stealing Time by Leslie Glass but I haven't read it yet cos I'm finishing this book called The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger I lent from Elaine. I think I've read that title before so I thought it's some sort of an 'in' book nowadays, e.g. Harry Fucking Potter, Purpose-Driven Life (as suspected by Ariella, someone I talked to about it, and no, its metrosexual) or The Da Vinci Code so I kind of think it's un-cool to read such, but what the heck... Telephone? Telegram? Cab? Train? Brass Band? So I looked at its year of publication and it's somewhere in the 40s or 50s. I then found it fun to read. Whew.

Music
I hate people who have this T-shirt saying "Music is my Business" when they listen to OPM. When people ask me what I bands listen to (they presume I'm a rocker), I give names of artists I'll stab myself if they happen to know one. I like people to have what I call "brain fart" when they kind of having search for the indiest/undergroundest artists in their brain but couldn't find a match to those I've said. So when they ask "Do you even listen to OPM?" I'm like "What the hell is OPM?" "Uhmm... Original Pinoy Myusik?(I think.)" "Aaahh.. so there exists such thing?" Like yeah, they were made by Filipinos but the music is not to be called "Original Filipinos'" For example, alternative bands shouldn't call their music original if they just redid what alternative/indie artists in US or UK did. Original Filipino Music are those tribal chants/world music-esque bands having material heavily influenced by Filipino themselves. And when a rocker-looking guy asks if I listen to rock I tell em I hate rock because rockers are arrogant and just want to be one because they just want to be cool or something. Like "Yeah, I'm a rocker... I'm smart/critcal thinking, etc. alright"
But anyhow, I'm in this punk band covering Blink 182 songs with Miko and RJ where I play drums. And my acoustic stuff which is halfly done and nothing has been recorded yet. But I smell it's not like two/three/four months from now will ilt be finished. Damn I'm excited.

Video games
Because I got no internet for like one month, I suddenly became interested with video games. One video game I played is this Atari-made cool, awesome Dungeon and Dragons Dragonshard game. One more is NBA Live 06 which, I know is super duper corny, but whatchagunnado when all you have is an offline PC? Anyway, something interesting happened. I was playing the Phoenix Suns team and after a season I only lost to teams like Houston and Spurs and then I thought it over why did I lost to those teams. And then I decided to release Kurt Thomas and then signed a free agent, 7'1" center named Jalani Burgess (weird name, I know) who's so good at dunking and rebounding and I managed to defeat Houston at Round 2 of Western Conference and then in the Finals I fought Spurs. In Game 1, Steve Nash (who won MVP, yey!) was going for a lay-up when he crashed onto that bastard Ginobili and then Nash has to be out for 12 weeks due to a fucking sprain, so Barbosa took over. I managed to win Game 1. And then Game 2, Burgess will go for a dunk which will be blocked by Duncan but instead got an injury. HAHA! In your face, monkey boy!

So yeah... Life sucks.

Videomnibus!! Pt. 2/bowred? Pt. 2

2006-10-06T17:16:00.000-07:00

I'm bored, what is your favorite videos in youtube?

b********@h******.com

And videos of Ask a Ninja/Hope is Emo and Nobody's Watching. They're all good.

bowred?

2006-09-14T07:39:00.000-07:00

Caveman Dude!

What am I to do? I'm bored. d******@*****.com

Duuuude!

Hi, this is what I do when I'm bored myself:

First, I go to my own desktop.

And then open the internet browser:

Look it's my blog RSS!!

And then go to this site:

And then read:

Read on...

And then hit this button:

Then this:

Then this:

And then I'm happy. :)

Current Auds?

2006-09-07T13:07:00.000-07:00

Hey. I got some positive feedback 'bout my blog! Muahaha. I am such an arrogant b*tch.

Caveman,

Hi, I've been a fan of your blog ever since the "blogcast" days. I see that you and Christian are cool music fans! Tell me what you listen to just because I'm your fan! So I can be a cool fan of a cool music fan, hence, I'll be cool myself!

jev8********@*****.com

Ok. Christian told me what's currently in his jukebox:

Girl Talk, The Aquabats, Shonen Knife, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Brandtson, Weird Al Yankovic, Norah Jones, Mock Orange, Hum, Harry and the Potters, Further Seems Forever, Breaking Pangaea, Anthony Green (Saosin, The Sound of Animals Fighting, Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer, High and Driving, Circa Survive and his solo effort), Toad the Wet Sprocket, Shella, Hella, Ghosts and Vodka, The Perisher, Tim Kasher (The Good Life, Cursive), MxPx, The Ataris, Smoking Popes, Shooter Jennings, New Found Glory, Anathallo, Fiona Apple, Nofx, Millencolin, Lagwagon, The Offspring, Pennywise, Ace Enders (I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody's Business, The Early November), Queens of the Stone Age, Joy Division, Bloc Party, Foo Fighters, The Gloria Record, Fugazi, Magnet, Rage Against the Machine, Head Automatica, Jimmy Eat World, Elbow, The Chemical Brothers, Waking Ashland, Gorillaz, Watashi Wa, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Dismemberment Plan, Rainer Maria, Straylight Run, Piebald, Ray LaMontagne, Taking Back Sunday (early days), Daft Punk, The All-American Rejects (early days), The Other Two, Elliott Smith, Koufax, Motion City Soundtrack, Bright Eyes, Andrew McMahon (Jack's Mannequin, Something Corporate), Architecture in Helsinki, Neutral Milk Hotel, Mute Math, Rufio, Of Montreal, The Appleseed Cast, Paramore, Broken Social Scene, Stars, Hot Hot Heat, Mogwai, Matisyahu, Lakes, Blur, Cap'n Jazz, Aqualung, Depeche Mode, The Cardigans, Reel Big Fish, Reggie and the Full Effect, Owls, Oingo Boingo, Pele, The Promise Ring, Braid, Hey Mercedes, Jets to Brazil, The Get Up Kids, New Order, Texas is the Reason, of course The Beatles, Duke Ellington, Year of the Rabbit, Radiohead, Run Kid Run, The Cure, Underoath, Cartel, Sigur Ros, Emery, Snow Patrol, Anberlin, R.E.M., Dntel, Sherwood, Iron and Wine, Arcade Fire, Jenny Lewis (w/ the Watson Twins, Rilo Kiley), Orenda Fink, Snoop Dogg, Urbandub, Miles Davis, The Format, Ben Gibbard (The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie), Maritime, Maria Taylor, Relient K, Armor for Sleep (first album), Moneen, American Football, Sunny Day Real Estate, Copeland, Mineral, Hellogoodbye, The American Analog Set, Blink-182, +44, Angels and Airwaves, Mae, Jawbox, Sufjan Stevens, Azure Ray, Gym Class Heroes, John Coltrane, Don Caballero, Samiam, Acceptance, mewithoutYou, Broken Spindles, Drive Like Jehu, Blair Shehan (Knapsack, The Jealous Sound), Jawbreaker, Minus the Bear, Lali Puna, The Rocket Summer, Dashboard Confessional, Jonezetta, Ben Folds, Gin Blossoms, Ramones, Number One Gun, did I mention Sufjan Stevens?

Me? Well my current favorite is a project called distance over time, and they're recording now so I'm stoked for the release of their 5 or 6-song EP!! It's coming soon!

The Caveman Tip: Goodluck on being cool. Caveman -ol >o> \o/ dance

Right religion

2006-08-28T03:58:00.000-07:00

What is uuuup? Before I start the blog part here's your favorite portion of the world's awesomest blog: Ask the Caveman!!! Don't forget to email in your questions to cloamic [at] gmail [dot] com. We live making gimmicks.

Caveman:

Hi, you can call me G. I have 2 kids and a wife. I got a decent job managing a mail delivery service in a small town. I finished college at a decent school with a degree in Marketing. But I got this little, no i mean BIG problem, Caveman... I feel like something's missing in my supposed to be decent, good life. So tell me Caveman, how can find true happiness???

G.

G:

Hey, I got the same problem before I became the Caveman I am now. The Caveman tip: get a religion! I studied all the religions in the whole wield woyld and chose the best for me. And I ended up choosing between Buddhism and Christianity. And you know what I did?? I chose both! And you know what I did next (after becoming a Christian Buddhist)? I gave up all the materialistic materials I have and became a hermit monk! And it's awesome!! I get to wear a Buddha bead wrist thingy and a rosary as necklace!! Hell. But then, I were always mistaken as a hippie. I hate hipsters. Like "Woah dude!! Is that what they wear nowadays in MTV??". Bullcrap, I say.

Anyways I'll share you a parable from the book of Matthew: There was once this man who has two sons. He asked the first one to work on the vineyard. That son said "Yes father." But didn't. The man then asked the second one to work on the vineyard. The son said "Hell, no." But did the work. You see? That means that following the "God" of David, the same god Jewish recognize, and the same "God" Jesus claim to be his father(Jesus is a Jew by the way) doesn't limit you from believing other religion as long as you follow His will. So then, you can be half Christian/half Muslim type or half Catholic Christian/half Baptist Christian, and the list goes on. So then, you can be hip like me!! Uh yeah!!

Caveman .o. lol /o/ >o>

==========================================================

Ok. A little update on that music project I'm telling you: I found a producer. Oh yeahs. And we got a studio!! Does that sound cool!! Sure it does! Who disagree? Why you...

On a side note I've created the unofficial site of d/t. And reserved a Purevolume page. Oh boy, I'm excited. I hope you feel the same way. It's a cool feeling. You don't?? Why you...

Christian xoxo

Ask the Caveman

2006-08-16T07:07:00.000-07:00

What is up more civilized citizens of the fast-civilicizing civilization!!!

I, Christian have this friend named Caveman. And he collaborated with me to bring you all the raddest, most original "Ask a question" stuff in the net: "Ask the Caveman"! Email in your questions (anything from dog problems to oh-so-complicated emotional stuffs) in cloamic [at] gmail [dot] com and the Caveman will surely answer your questions, surely.

Note: When you send e-mail you are protected by a privacy policy which means you agree to the terms stated here.

Ok.

Dear Caveman,

I just got this MS Office 2007 from this sexy friend of mine and I don't know how much space is acquired by it in my hard disk. And where could I get an MS Frontpage?

Mr. Plato

Mr. Plato,

Computers are like girls. You can't predict what will happen, like a storm. Dealing with girls and computers are much alike in the manner of how you deal with them. It's like you are in the middle of a big storm and you don't know what to do so you get as much food as you can get and then eat it in just one meal. Nothing feels better than eating a bunchful of food while enjoying the cool weather outside; inside your cosy home, then sleep afterwards. Aaaah~~~. Lazy time, feeeels fine. And then if you feel hungry once more and you can't find any more food, The Caveman tip: sleep your hunger away. It's a love reality.

I hope I answered your problem. With Cave-deep love, The Caveman \o\. \ol lol lo/ /o/

P.S. Nothing feels better than watching an Anberlin video afterwards.
P.P.S. The once posted video (by Christian)for this song is no longer available. So he's reposting it once more times.
P.P.P.S. Rawk it!

well i don't care 'bout botany, rock n roll high school.

2006-07-30T01:44:00.000-07:00

That's when I was in high school, my big problem's I'm not high school anymore. lolx.

It's fun learning tho, I think I'm getting old. Not just the stuffs your heartless professors teach but personal stuffs. I think I'm getting more and more philosophical over time. lolx. Someone told me how she's thinking what might happen when she's got 18. I was like, "Big deal... you can drive, smoke, drink... hey, we're able to do those even tho we're now minors."

Anyway I'm tentatively starting a band with the Faraon brothers with Edward tentatively called d/t. That's so short I don't know if any other band took that two letters before as their name. lolx. Anyway it's a pop rock band. It's like a pop-punk-ish band married with Gin Blossoms and Hum, hope you know that bands. I'll post probable updates, I've written some stuffs and I want you all to hear it so I'll hurry up buying that recorder I want as soon as I got money... which is in reality does not happen oftenly. lolx

Anyway here's a video of the Ramones... enjoy. History's for losers.

how bout an update?

2006-07-04T01:55:00.000-07:00

Hi, what's up? I hope you're all fine... 'Cos I'm not... so at least majority of us is ok...

Uhmmm.... I got nothing to blog about...

Anyways, have you heard the new Dashboard Confessional? Check it out.

Anyhoo, I happened to see this movie called Initial D. It's about a son of a tofu seller who delivers the tofu via zig-zaggy mountainside road and mastered the turns and eventually became a racer... Japanese stories are like that... Anyhoo, the guy had a girlfriend and then, ultimately, it was revealed that his girl was a whore and then the guy was so heart-broken and then this music played... it kinda sound like my stuff. And it's not the first time it happened... It kinda sounded like the track "Heaven Here" by Dashboard in their new album. Dammit.

Anyway, I swear that my material is 100% original and it just happens that the same riff or chords are used by many artists.

You can check it out here.

I am working on a new song but my mp3/mp4 player which I used to use to record blogcasts and the sounds of Dr. Pizzzzle and Staring Pisces came to a crash and I'm planning now to buy a casette recorder anyway, so hang in there people... Long live Lo-fi! hehe.

Anyway I am listening to Ben Folds, Gin Blossoms, Copeland, Urbandub and The Cure. Tryinna get inspiration from them.

Anyhoo, bbye fo' now.

Hey! hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey

2006-06-21T02:42:00.000-07:00

Hey! hey!

Hehehehe... Hey...

The blogcasts are temporarily unavailable... the next blogcast, I think, will be on the next few weeks, maybe... I don't know... I got no one to interview. So if you think you are an interesting person or you know someone interesting I can feature here, IM me (Yahoo:manipulateral, AIM: staringpisces).

Anyhoo... I got a f'in' interesting week this past week. Me, Rich, Net, Eddie and Patty went to Alabang , baby!!

In a mall called Alabang Town Center was held a showcase featuring the new technology Intel, Inc. developed called Dual-Core system in processors. There are DVD systems made by Intel, a Need for Speed Underground 2 game playable on laptops with Cetrino Duo processors (like I can't play such game with a non-dual-core system...), a Warcraft game playable on PCs with Pentium D processors (like I can't play such game with a non-dual-core system...) and PCs showcasing its ability to mix music (like I am not currently using a hyperthreading AMD processor to mix and score songs).

So we (w/ Patty and Eddie) went to the mixing music section, we were met by a guests relations officer, which I prefer to call a "muse" and made us sign our name, address, phone no., etc. in a columned piece of paper. I put Christian Ramone as my name and my address as Las Piñas since the ones who signed before us are all from there, I wrote Las Piñas to avoid discrimination due to being a country folk... haha. So Eddie and Patty signed after me and failed to notice that I faked my personal information and even put their cellphone and e-mail addresses on there. So the "muse" noticed that we are from San Pablo and told us that she's from a town in Laguna I forgot the name. It's near Liliw and Sta. Cruz. So she said "Cool, small world!" and gave us fives. Heaven.

So a trainer told us what to do and then we did our stuff (He said he is a dancer... Hmmm.... hint hint!!). I made a mix of a song by Busta Rhymes, a techno song and a song by Britney. Eddie worked on a Black Eyed Peas song and a Backstreet Boys song.

And then we went to a mall called Festival Mall. We decided to dine in a restaurant not familiar to countrymen like us. So we look for Starbucks but can't find it. We look for Don Henrico's but can't find it. So then we decided to go to Sbarro since it caught my eye a while ago. And then we're struck by the price... we decided to go to Roasters since we knew it's just a floor below Sbarro. We ate a package deal consisting of roasts, java rice, mac and cheese and muffins. I ate two servings of java rice and my tummy.... f'in' full.

And hey! Have you heard? What? Miami Heat won the finals.. Uhmmm Okay.... I'm a Phoenix Suns fan so I don't know what to feel... Kinda neutral, I have no dispute over the Mavs because it's not their fault Suns lost to them. And who do you think's gonna win 2007 finals? No idea?

Spurs. Why? It's an alternating pattern... they won '03, '05 and so they'll win '07. With its captain Tim Duncan's calmness, it will help in hyping his teammates' spirits to grab the cup again. His calm attitude is so moving... even me. I love Spurs, black and white and gray Rocks!! Whooo!!... All other teams are bowring!!!

And hey! Check out the new material from the band Underoath! There's more machism in their sound now... its a cool progression! You can hear the new record in its entirety here. Check it out yo!

And don't forget that I have my material too... it's called Staring Pisces. I am actually forging sounds into a song right at this very moment... it's a piano ballad-y song and I am excited now just thinking how it would turn out once it's taken its shape!

And hey! Shmellya later!! Bbye!!

VideOmnibus!!

2006-06-10T15:43:00.000-07:00

Youtube/Google Video-ing alot lately, my favorites:

Spongecola is seriously the cutest and humblest band in the world. See that Spongecola fanatic kissed a Spongecola poster? That's a hidden camera!! And they humbly decided to add it in a Spongecola music video!! They are like the most underrated band and they gave justice to it by overrating their own selves.

Remember Run Kid Run?? I made a song of them available for streaming in my last last last last post and the same song came out to be their single and they made it a video. It's a sick video. Check 'em out!!!

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Your Weekly Variety Show... in Blog Form

2006-06-04T00:57:00.000-07:00

That's how I envision my blog is and will be.

So welcome to The Caveman Show!! Yeah!!!

The first part of our show is a fun interview with Patrick with Richard with a commentary. Click here to read/listen to the blogcast of the week.

On the other note, let's talk about the Philippine weather...

The Philippine Census, also known with the extended name National Statistics Office's newest report (October, 2002) states that the "Philippine population is to reach up to 100 million in 14 years (10 years, now), to double in the next 29 years (25 years, now)."

Yo! NSO!

What's the year again? 2002! What's the date now again? What's my age again?

Which brings us to today's

Nu-uh!! When's that research done? 2002?

What's the hit college course as of 2005?

It starts with an N.

To prove that the research done by the NSO is dependent on changing factors on the population, I asked the population:

The Caveman: So what/where do you wanna be in the near future?

Note:Interviewees have "names".

"Shirley": I am a N*ing student... Because my brother only has highschool diploma, he's only a construction worker in an oil field... in Kuwait. I want to have a college diploma and work in a more fragrant country like U.S. or U.K. A college diploma, drinking Dr. Pepper after work... What else could you ask for? In your face brotha'!

"Anna": I wanna work at least as a DH in Hong Kong. Mickey Mouse, would you marry me? And when we're married can my family in the Philippines live in your castle?

"Joan": I want the N*ing course because they have that translucent school uniforms there... Kinda emphasize my big butt. By the way, do you wanna add me in prendster? lil_biatch_joan_69_69@yawoo.com. I only got 350 friends and I personally know about 20 of them.

So whatcha gonna do NSO? Mindsets of people change... trends change! If you think Filipinos are stupid enough not planning for their families... You are damn wrong. Yes, Filipinos are getting stupider but the stupidity of Filipinos are diverted from one aspect to another.

Yeah, and please welcome our musical guests for tonight: Sherwood. Check out absolutepunk.net/sherwood for the free EP. They are the coolest band... ever... that lived.

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Smells Like 'Up Dawg'

2006-05-27T03:54:00.000-07:00

Yo! Good week to you all...

There's a new blogcast... It's an interview with Andrei and Edward just after playing DoTA (that popular Frozen Throne map) just before eating isaw. Hooray for chicken gut!

Uhmmm.. Nothing to blog about right now... Except that I miss someone. And so I told that girl that I miss her and I wanna see her as soon as possible because I have like one more month to live then she told me "Nah, we'll see each other the next semester anyway." (which is 3 weeks from now). -_-

C'MON!!!

You girls don't understand our men's needs. Physical needs. And by physical needs, I don't mean physical alone. That make me believe on that "Men are from Mars, Venus is bullshit" concept astrologists blabber about. I don't understand you women! There's emotion and passion on everything we do to you. And I wanna prove my integrity on everything I say. So give me a chance, girl! You know who you are!!

Which brings us to today's

Disclaimer: This joke's no way based on my personal life. Thank you.

I never quite figured out why the sexual urge of men and women differ so much. And I never have figured out the whole Venus and Mars thing. I've never figured out why men think with their head and women with their heart.

FOR EXAMPLE: One evening last week, my girlfriend and I were getting into bed.

Well, the passion starts to heat up, and she eventually says "I don't feel like it, I just want you to hold me."

I said "WHAT??!! What was that?!"

So she says the words that every boyfriend on the planet dreads to hear... "You're just not in touch with my emotional needs as a woman enough for me to satisfy your physical needs as a man." She responded to my puzzled look by saying, "Can't you just love me for who I am and not what I do for you in the bedroom?"

Realizing that nothing was going to happen that night, I went to sleep.

The very next day I opted to take the day off of work to spend time with her. We went out to a nice lunch and then went shopping at a big, big unnamed department store. I walked around with her while she tried on several different very expensive outfits. She couldn't decide which one to take so I told her we'd just buy them all. She wanted new shoes to compliment her new clothes, so I said lets get a pair for each outfit. We went onto the jewelry department where she picked out a pair of diamond earrings. Let me tell you...she was so excited. She must have thought I was one wave short of a shipwreck. I started to think she was testing me because she asked for a tennis bracelet when she doesn't even know how to play tennis. I think I threw her for a loop when I said, "That's fine, honey." She was almost nearing sexual satisfaction from all of the excitement. Smiling with excited anticipation she finally said, "I think this is all
dear, let's go to the cashier."

I could hardly contain myself when I blurted out, "No honey, I don't feel like it."

Her face just went completely blank as her jaw dropped with a baffled WHAT?"

I then said "honey! I just want you to HOLD this stuff for a while. You're just not in touch with my financial needs as a man enough for me to satisfy your shopping needs as a woman." And just when she had this look like she was going to kill me, I added, "Why can't you just love me for who I am and not for the things I buy you?"

Apparently I'm not having sex tonight either....but at least that bitch knows I'm smarter than her.
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And I've stated my case. I rest it.

On some other notes... Check out the purevolume page I made for the musical project I made. I went with the screen name Dr. Pizzzzle. So yeah. Bbye.

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I Wanna 'F' It Up

2006-05-16T05:33:00.000-07:00

Whattup kiddos... Hope you're all doing fine... good.. good.. no?? Oh yeah, the f'in' weather... Lol.

Mine was kinda cool but not. Discovered an American sitcom called The Office starring Steve Carell of 40-Year-Old Virgin fame. Cool show... 4.5 out of 5 stars! And watched alot of The Simpsons.

I slept all day it rained... kinda boring... no lights/electricity... so yeah.

And a while ago, I got this new record called Punk Goes 90's. Here's my sweet review:

Mae - March of the Pigs (Nine Inch Nails) ****1/2 (out of 5). Check out NIN's new album with Dave Grohl of Nirvana/Foo Fighters. So yeah, Mae and NIN are two of my favorite bands but I don't understand why Mae's in a punk comp., why did they cover a NIN song, why, why, etc.I don't understand the sense of covering a song which ultimately turned out to sound kinda like the original. And negative reactions were expressed by fans with the vocalist saying 'Fuck' with the impression they have a Christian rock orientation. Big deallie... Yet I congratulate them for challenging themselves... If I have a powerpop band like them I'll cover a Rage Against the Machine song... lol. Plus, it's produced by Mark Hoppus of blink-182 fame. Plus, plus, plus.

Plain White T's - Song 2 (Blur) ****. Heavier guitars than the original and more upbeat... A punk cover the way it should be... Brings a 90's nostalgia... A cover song's job... cool song, yet sounds kinda have a generic punk cover sound.

Gym Class Heroes - Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) *****. I love GCH... check 'em out. They're an indie rap band, innovative... And I love the song, 90's SoCal-y sound... Remarkable.

Copeland - Black Hole Sun (Soundgarden) ****. I love Copeland but they didn't made it this time. I expect an indie pop goes Seattle sound kind of sound but I hear a draggy kind of poppy song, the side of Copeland I hate: kinda make me feel drowsy. Plus point for challenging their sound.

Hit the Lights - Hey Jealousy (Gin Blossoms) ****. Should check out this band... Cool punk cover... You won't think its Gin Blossoms'. Yet suffers the same generic punk cover sounditis.

Emery - All I Want (Toad the Wet Sprocket) *****. Emery's always good at making me laugh... Brings 90's memories like Wowie de Guzman and the Universal Motion Dancers dancing to the tune of this song (did they?)... Lol! Check out their Punk Goes 80's cover of Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out for a Hero with the 80's diva tune and then ends with a scream. Superlol. Maybe they love to dance? I have no idea.

Scary Kids Scaring Kids - Losing My Religion (R.E.M.) ****. Generic punk cover sounditis? A bit but it's good overall. Cool guitar solo. Plus on that.

Cartel - Wonderwall (Oasis) ***1/2. Nice try buddy! You thought you're innovative putting keyboards in the beginning? But I love this band... But it didn't sound like a Cartel-y Wonderwall song... Just don't cover anymore songs... Do your own stuff with your own material, I guess.

The Killing Moon - You Oughta Know (Alanis Morisette) *****. Cool work with the synths and the fast singing and some vox with an I hate this world attitude. The synths in the background's kinda The Cure-esque. Plus on that.

Bleeding Through - Stars (HUM) ****. Post-grunge-y guitars are still there. Cool song. Not much of a cover...

Anberlin - Enjoy the Silence (Depeche Mode) *****. Superwow! You won't think its Depeche's! The synths replaced with the guitars are so cool giving it a more alternative rock sound. The European dance club feel of Depeche's songs are kinda taken away but still danceable. Uh yeah.

Eighteen Visions - Beautiful People (Marilyn Monson) ****. Haha... Marilyn Monson is gay. Cool screaming part.

The Starting Line - Big Time Sensuality (Bjork) ****. Generic punk cover sounditis. But TSL established a punk cover trademark sound, yeah. I love their punk covers.

So They Say - In Bloom (Nirvana) ****1/2. Nirvana is punky in the first place. But this band did a good job giving it some decent 2000's punk rebirth. Cool song.

Bedlight for Blue Eyes - Jumper (Third Eye Blind) ****. Supercool cover. Worth listening. Not a bad song to end an amazing record.

So yeah. By the way, you all might like to head to Absolutepunk.net and look for the news headlines 'cos the band Sherwood is giving away a whole EP for FREE!! Yeah, for f'in' free. 5 songs. Cool indie pop band so make sure you check 'em out.

There won't be a blogcast today cos I'm cooking something rad for the following weeks. Anyhoo, if you wonder what song I used for the background of my two-part 2nd installment of blogcast... That song is actually the first track of the first album of the first punk rock band... Blitzkrieg Bop by The Ramones! And you can stream the song below.

That's it for now hipsters! Bbye for now...

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Civilization at last

2006-05-07T03:34:00.000-07:00

Hey.

If you readily became a fan of this blog and your butt is itching for a week or so cos this post is a week late, G*d knows I suffered the way you did, really.

I'd been to Naga City for 4 days cos it's my cousin's wedding. Was that a lame 'scuse or what?

Anyhoo, yeah, I was part of my cousin's wedding. I marched on a red carpet with my girl partner, I'm in barong, and the best part was that I was assigned to hold a golden bling bling with a heart and lots of coins in it I then wore onto my cousin and then her husband-to-be's necks. And I said: "In front of Christ, I bind you with a bling bling: make money or your family-to-be die."

After that we went to Naga's market. It's so cool... I'd say it's much better than San Pablo's... there's one section called the "Dried Fish Section". It's kinda like an aquatic museum like that museum in our campus but instead of the specimen in bottles soaked in chloroform, the exhibitted items were dried. There're dried fish, dried long fish, dried fish cut on the belly into halves, dried small fish, dried squid and lots more. Speaking of San Pablo, I saw a billboard of Bigg's and I saw San Pablo's name in Naga City, I was like "WOw!"

The rest of the time I'm in there, I watched lots of Asian martial arts film in DVD... So cool... I recommend a movie called Ongbak, it's a Thai film and it's literally bone-crashing. The only bummer is that there's no PC with high speed internet I can use all day like I use mine back in San Pablo. Sigh.

And then I went home. My uncle once said "Instant coffe in San Pablo is like brewed coffee in other places". And I prove it to be true.

Yesterday we went to Laiya, San Juan, Batangas to check out the beach. PJ's uncle is on a ministry and there's some beach party for the young ministry members so we saw chance to see.. you know. One stupid bummer is that ministry playing Christian songs, my ears bleedinggg... AAAARGGH!!

We went on a trip on an oversized, macho car with an extra compartment space at the back. I think they call it van. Anyhoo, we ate Oreo, Baby Ruth, impromptu corned beef sandwich, cold peanuts, etc. in the car.

At the beach we swam, what else can we do there. And secretly took pictures of girls swimming. Hehe.

After the whole thing, we went home to San Pablo, ate mami and guess what... the plaza of San Pablo is closed, there's a stage installed and there's a band playing... guess what... Christian songs... AAAAAARGGGH! To stop the bleeding, I stopped by a convenience store and bought a Dr. Pepper. Thanks, doc.

And since my post is a week late, my blogcast is a two-part blogcast. The blogcast I made was with guests PJ and Miko with my partner in crime JM. How sweet was that?

To download, click here to go to the blogcast download center.

And here are pictures, care of JM:

1. Before the road trip: Eating Mercy and Evelyn.
2. Us looking at the sea: wonderin' where could Boracay or Hawaii be.
3. What's so emotional about the sea?
4. Whatchaproblem?
5. Sun.
6. JM as the 'Fall Out' boy.
7. The Gayest pose.
8. White Flower! Maroon Five! Red Mungo! Green Mango!
9. Sand Attack: Kung Fu style. (Who said Martial Arts Films promote violence? They promote fun!)

Featured song of the week: We've Only Just Begun by a band called Run Kid Run. Why? Besides watching bone-crashing DVD, I listen to my mp3 player and this track became my favorite. Check 'em out.

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Yeah, yeah.

2006-04-24T18:13:00.000-07:00

Hey yo!

The "cooking" I told you comprises of surprises and one of 'em is the blogcast. It's like a podcast but since i-Tunes will look stupid if Philippines will be its target market, I'll just use the blogworld as a medium of distributing blogcasts. Every week a friend of mine will be joining me, and this week, It's J.M. while jogging at the lake. Yeah.

Last Saturday-Sunday, I partied with the section A2 at their section swimming getaway. Kinda awkward but thanks anyway. You let me enjoy at times I need enjoyment most.

Ask me why?

I got a nightmare.

Funny, eh?

I dreamed of calling a jeep at Los Baños then seeing there's no driver but when it passed by, I saw the driver beheaded. GGGEEESH. Still gives me the creeps.

By the way, I want you to check out the band Cartel. There's a song that should be streamable below. and download the first installment of the blogcast. Stay cool peeps.

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Come crawlin

2006-04-19T06:58:00.000-07:00

Ask me why the title's that? I am listening to a song and whoever can make a guess what that song is... will get a surprise gift. Swear.

I am cooking something up for this blog that you will surely be telling it proud to yer mums and dads. Problem is I'll be needing money and I'm charging it to you suckas... So kindly deposit as much money you have to BPI acct. no. 5-468433385-486-59 to make this blog so commercial you'll never want to check it out again.

On some other notes, comments and suggestions are needed for this blog. IM me at Yahoo: manipulateral or at AIM: staringpisces. If you'd been serious on answering the mystery title and eager to donate money, IM me for those reasons as well at your own prerogative. Lol.

Due to insistent money demand, I am selling T-shirts, the first design would be the cool dude caveman you see up there. More designs will come as time passes and is killed, while money comes and is spent. Please help me be the most self-centered T-shirt designer by helping me see my creation worn by you people. Thanks.

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my humps! my HUMPS! myhumpsmyhumpsmyhumps...

2006-04-15T15:54:00.000-07:00

GOOOOOD MORNING PHILIPPINES!!

I just came from the infamous Sampaloc Lake of San Pablo City and... walked around her. I should walk/sprint but one of my fingers thinks he need my medical attention but I can't do some operation at a crowdy place... geesh, they'll puke if they see it. I don't want to run because running might increase the already bulky calf I have. Sprinting is the best for my condition, I think, for decreasing calf size. That's only a theory, I'll make a study of it and give you updates thru this blog, I promise. Anyway I walked for an hour or so... saw lots of people, including Sir Enriquez doing some tilapia stuffs, Faye, my classmate in grade school and schoolmate in high school, etc. And by the way, please offer some time to e-mail Christian Andrei Palicpic Faraon at xtianxx_02 [at] yahoo [dot] com.

If you click there, there's a sample e-mail stating how stupid he is keeping me waiting, staring at people running at Sampaloc lake for an hour. Log in your e-mail account first or Outlook in Windows will automatically run, use it if you use it (which I doubt). Edit if you want and show my raging anger, care of you. Thanks.

On the other note, I decided to pursue my in-born talent of cooking pasta... You'll never ask, my mother's the ass-kickingest pasta cook in the whole wild woyld. It's her fault I grew up to be a chubby kid til I became conscious of it. So I made a recipe that was luckily been tasted first by Synephrine, Urduja, Melody, Ryan, Karren, Maki and Yla, etc. when I first cooked it. And it's f'in' easy. Here's it:

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You'll need:
Spaghetti
Butter for tasty sauce or margarine/oil if you want a somewhat blunt one.
Onion and Garlic
Water
Tomato
Tomato Sauce/Paste
Lots of Pepper, I mean LOTS
Spicy Tuna Flakes in cylinder can, famous brand, i know you know it
Salt to taste
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How to cook 'em:
1. Follow instruction on wrapper of Spaghetti on how to make it an al dente grub.
2. Put butter on a pre-heated pot. Put onion and garlic, do not overbrown the onion and garlic. Saute with tomatoes.
3. Put water. "Holy smoke!"
4. Put tomato sauce/paste, cover and simmer. Add more water if you use paste.
5. Seperate the tuna flakes from its oil. Put the tuna. Simmer for some minutes more.
6. Put the lotsa pepper. Put about a quarter of all the oil of tuna. Resimmer.
7. Put more water if the sauce became dense. Resimmer for some minutes if you did so.
8. Salt to taste.
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You now f'in' got a tasty spicy tuna spaghetti, my favorite. Observe I didn't put numbers. That's a gimmick corporates devised to make us idiots and make us cook as their way of cooking it. And I believe we should have our own way of cooking food. So yeah, learn on your own. Do not always find the easy way out. Tough guys became tough doing tough stuffs.:)

So yeah, below are three songs you can stream. Good to listen while walking/jogging.

Bop bop.

2006-04-06T21:37:00.000-07:00

What is uff with you!?

I just came from Dolores, Quezon cos its fiesta out there now. We went in the church, pray, stuffs like that... Yeah, it's hot, lots of people, with the tune of My Humps, Narda, and the theme song of Wowowee. I then reminisced the tragedy at Ultra. Stupid people, stupid Willie Revillame. But then the people here... I don't think they're stupid, they came to praise thy Lord. But the target audience of Wowowee are people in like fourth world towns like Dolores... I feel pity for 'em.

After doing holy stuffs I went to the market just outside the church. It's ironic... a market and a church. After faith running in you, then money runs after. Geesh. People in the market has one thing in mind, money, root of all evilish things. Jesus saw a devil in a man then exorcise him and trasfered the evil to a pig, where? In a market. It's like seeing an isaw store outside a hospital and out-patients buying isaw... geesh. geesh.. gees... gee... ge... g.

I saw stuffed animals, electronic helicopters (wonder if they fly), kitchen utensils, kalamay w/c comes in different colors (mauve, orange, brown, etc.), puto seko, and then I saw a store of cactus... I saw a pot with 4 different plants, a cactus with flower, an elongating cactus, an aloe like flower and liverworts on the surface... so cool. The vendor kinda insulted me: "Mahal yan, 80 pesos".

So yah, I bought it... cool. The video of the week is a video of a ballad, non-electronic Depeche Mode. I think you know this, cmon singalong. Haha...

watisapwidyu!

2006-04-04T16:14:00.000-07:00

Whattup webbers? I got nothing to blog about... Really. My life gets boring and boring and boringer.

To tell you exactly what I am into these past days, uhmmm. Nothing. Wait... yes, there was... I watched all the episodes of Star Wars and it's kinda stupid watching episode 3 then episode 4. I should have the feeling of "OMG, Luke and Leia are so perfect loveteam." But then I already knew they were twins cos I watched the prequel... that's stupid.
Plus it's like watching a Peter Jacson film and then Shaider. Lolx, cmon... the technology should've progressed after Luke grew up.

On other things, I am currently listening to The Sound of Animals Fighting. It's a music project from some of the members of Circa Survive, Rx Bandits and Finch. And it's rad. Yeah, rad. Rad. Ra. R.

That's it. I just wanna make you all see how boring it was. The video of the week is a video by the Ask a Ninja ninja. Poor Paul.

psyched out

2006-03-22T06:34:00.000-08:00

Psychology- I'd recently read tons of Psychology books because it's for the research paper for Eng2. Not to be mistaken that I actually love it when people see me reading piles of books in the library. I'm not that nerdy. :P It's about schizophrenia and thinking for so long of what to write already makes me schizophrenic a bit. I actually hear someone behind me talking then I go paranoid all over the place then tell the librarians that there's a sumo wrestler who wanna make me bleed yellow like Ultimate Warrior... geesh. Seriously, I learnt things on reading about schizophrenia: like low IQ people have higher risk of being schizo, it is indeed hereditary, that straitjackets were invented for schizos before it was used by escape artists, etc. I never thought interesting things like that can be found in books in there. -_-

Psychedelia- I got all the releases of Pink Floyd (Yey for that!), at last. 20+, didn't care to count. So yeah. Below are videos both from Anberlin, the one most below was leaked cos it should have a worldwide premier on Myspace.com but here it is now, on Youtube. That's whatcha call hair rock!

pressin' on

2006-03-16T06:12:00.000-08:00

Hey whattup?

Last Thursday, I watched a play called Laramie Project. It sucks.

Last Friday, we kicked off to Calatagan, Batangas to do some bio study/have fun, with emphasis on fun. Night we came there, we're tired (Why did the bike fell? Cos it's tired), so what we just did is talk about emotional stuffs while feeling the breeze at the beach, baby. I got a night-long money problem cos I only got 500 Php. I bought a deodorant, a box of Cream-O and a pack of Dewberry. That would cost around 80 Php. Then when we came to Calamba where we'd be meeting, I then knew that the fare to that place from Calamba is some G-ddamn 185 Php so times two of that would be 370. Yeahs, I still got 50 pesos... but then I never thought of the place we're sleeping. G-ddamn 100 Php for a bed, minus the cushion. Good thing I got good friends who lent me good money. :D

The moment we woke up, it's a super low tide. We walked for about 20 meters or more before we get to feel the summer saltwater (kinda sound like a wrestling move). That's all, my 500 Php.... Sigh.

So yeah, I'm listenin' now to some Relient K's old stuff, The Anatomy of the Tongue and Cheek, pop-punkier than their new stuff. But Two Lefts Don't Make a Right, Three Do is pop-punkier than all their stuff, I guess. I reccomend it. Their new stuff (Mmhmm)has some emotional keyboards on it like the Simple Plan song stupidly called Untitled. And hey, watch the movie Yours, Mine and Ours cos the punk band Hawk Nelson's there. Just stand the cheesy-ness of a Nickelodeon movie and wait when the kids threw a party, the Hawk'll be the party band.

The video of the week is by a band called Hawk Nelson \m/

yawn

2006-03-08T03:57:00.000-08:00

Hello kids, world wide webbers, etc.!

Yesterday and this day was chaotic. Yesterday, me and my groupmates in that G-ddamn Chemistry class were in KFC (I still ate donuts and coffee @ Mister Donut. I dunked the donut to the coffee. That's whatcha call Dunkin' Mister Donut.) from around 6 to 9 pm doing and discussing things about our report that is that next day (this day). 9 pm... Crap... I thought... I'd be late for home and I hate the conscience-wrecking words of my Mom. I hate most of all people who smack my imperfections into my face... Anyone does, I think. There's lots of ways of learning lessons, one is to fail (and I think that's the most effective). And thank those people cos they are kind enough to care to tell you you're failing.

So yeah, back to 9 pm... I rode jeep to San Pablo and the guy in my left was a CAT officer in LC I knew by face. Then to his left was a gay. There's a toad in my bag again. Then there's... I don't know if she's a retard or on a "high". Then we were about to enter the town of Bay but a large truck was in the middle of the highway and the driver said that we're not entering the proper cos there's fire. One guy told us (co-passengers) details bout the fire like "Yeah, I knew it was fire the moment it's on fire. I'm cool alright." So we went highway and then people's heads are on the direction of the town's proper looking for fire. I smell some smoke. I thought what in the hell's going on? The retard/high's singing a song I don't care what, plus there's smoke. I turned to my right and saw the guy beside the driver: he was smoking cigarettes. I shoulda cared to whisper him a sweet F* you.

I went home around 10:30 and examined the frog, who's alive this time and studied until around 1 pm (would you believe that?) and I slept and couldn't sleep well. Damn.

The next day (this day) we did the report for the Chem and the exam for Bio. I bring a giantous bag containg a long sleeve, a slack and a leather shoes (for the presentation thingy) all around UPLB. I thought of going to Synephrine's apartment to kinda deposit the big bag but noone's there so I'm obliged to bring her around.

I went home, turned on the PC and turned on some sweet sexay music. And instantaneously fell asleep. I'm into what is called Bebop now. It's a kind of jazz with progressive sounds of drums, bajo, sax, piano, guitar and/or trumpet. I gots lots of respect for people playing this kind of sound cos they play their instruments so well. You give 'em chords, they play notes impromptu. That's music coming from heart. It's kinda some root of rock and roll which is the roots of punk. Damn, if I trace down the roots I'll end up listening to some tribal chant songs. And I love listening to live Bebop songs cos there are sounds of crowd going wild like pirates. So that maybe's the way they mosh that time. So, yeah. The video of the week is a live footage of a performance by the band of Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Notice the enlarging neck like a bull frog.

Hiyah!!! its mah new blog!!

2006-03-02T05:07:00.000-08:00

Blog...

long since i blogged about something to blog about... migrated here 'cause friendster's site's been bullshitting my pc lately. I tried to find a blogsite dedicated on blog only and where i can edit the HTML so i can add some video, pics, etc. so it'd be a rad blog.

The Blog Part...

Yesterday I went home a toad from the University of the Philippines Los Baños Institue of Biological Sciences and G-d, it's a dead on arrival... I bought a toad to be examined(dissected) at my house in San Pablo and so thinking smart, I put the toad (which is already in a plastic bag) in a surgical glove (for the hand), so the toad was in a plastic bag in a rubber surgical glove so that he's like constricted in a way so people won't panic when they see something moving in my backpack. And when I went home I saw white fluid in the plastic which indicates that I'm killing him all the time... that fluid's a poison toads secrete when they sense danger. Out of curiosity, I still dissected and I found internal bleeding... I then thought of going forensic... it's a cool job. I love watching Crossing Jordan when it's still on... I got hots on the actress playing Jordan...

so yeah, that's it... blogging blog blog blo bl b.

the video you'll see is a cover of blink-182 of the cure's song a letter to elise!, one of my favorite song from one of my favorite band covered by one of my another favorite band? that's whatcha call rad sweetness.