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25.2.05

Piling Piling Pelikula

While rummaging through SM City Annex Booksale with Jo, this was our line of conversation, on the topic of what movie to watch for that night:

Jo: Dreamboy?
Me: Dream on?
Jo: Let the Love Begin?
Me: Let the Love End?

Of course we were just joking about having those movies as considerations to watch. Hell, when we watched A Very Long Engagement last month, our movie trailer viewing was interrupted by those two’s trailers.

17.2.05

Bakal conversations

Got back home late again. Got down at City Hall and did my late night exercise. Bakal boys littered the sidewalks of Kalayaan. I passed by two of them talking and I wondered, what kind of conversations do bakal boys have? Coming from an outsider like me, I’d be hitting all the stereotypes through and through.while walking along mayaman naman, nakita ko ulit yung dalawang bakal boys Jo and I once saw which I wrote on an earlier entry. Same dudes, except there was a bike beside them.

11.2.05

It's never too late.

if you are a frequent jeepney commuter, your traveling wouldn’t be complete if you don’t get to hear at least one air supply song.

The title of this entry by the way is a title of one of their songs too. One that I would forever associate with a scantily clad woman all of a sudden doing a split in a makeshift stage with a thudding sound that reveals the cheapness of the place.

021105\0421pm

Old friend, it's so nice to see you again

moving into a place much nearer to work gives me time to savor a bit of TV. No cable yet so the channel selection is of a limited escapism. I’m catching up on my commercials too. There’s a funny one about a milk brand so rich in calcium that it’s great for grandparents. Of course they show a grandma still slim, with only a few wrinkles and a few white hair. She gets to carry her apo, swing her even. And her apo gushes out how her lola is so strong, when she is supposed to be saying “why lola, you look like a foreign looking mestisa in her early thirties with make up on to make you look like fifty! That is so great!”

If Sesame Street was a telenovella, the ending remarks would be “this program is brought to you by the number 3, the triangle, and by the sickness called amnesia.”

Also on Unang Hirit, they had the music group Father and Son as guests. They were promoting their new album Mami-miss kita. They’ve apparently undergone major lineup changes since they were once known as “Father and Sons.” I told Jo they were the band who made a living out of the word “miss.” Still are, considering the name of their new album. How distinct is it from their first hit “miss na miss kita” ?

2.2.05

Really now

On the topic of the arts, an artist turned culture and arts savior defined a creative man doing nothing as crazy. And if by chance that man decides to be productive once again, he then returns in the company of artists.

There sure are a lot of procrastinating crazies out there. Ain’t a safe place for anyone anymore.