Wednesday, March 02, 2005

Kwentong Barbero

Bago ako magsimula ng kwento, happy birthday muna kay Tseri at kay Rosa.


I had a pretty good weekend. Friday was a holiday, and I read this message on the Cambio mailing list:


From: kris_gorra_dancel <[email address]@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: cambiolist@yahoogroups.com
To: cambiolist@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 01:17:54 -0000
Subject: [cambiolist] Gigs gigs gigs mo ay nakakasilaw.


Here goes here goes:
We have a grand total of *drumroll* (2) remaining gigs this month!

Friday, Feb 25 National Sports Grill, Makati.
Saturday, Feb 26 70s Bistro Anonas (Fundraising for Dumagats)


I wanted to watch Cambio, and seeing that there was also a posting about the same gig in the Sugarfree mailing list, I texted Jam and Leks if they wanted to watch. At dahil pareho silang walang life, siyempre umoo sila (heh).

Anyway, we met up at Greenbelt and had a quick dinner before heading on to the National Sports Grill. We were each already on our second beer when we found out there was no gig at all.

We ended up watching Sideways instead, which was a wonderfully written, flawlessly-acted movie. And it had laugh-out loud moments too, which I totally did not expect. Probably my favorite movie of the year so far. It's just a little sad that at 23 years old, we were able to relate (a lot) to some of the characters in the movie.

Maybe we'll just catch the bands we wanted to see at the Pisay fair, which Kris Dancel also alluded to in her email:


March is fast approaching. Are you from Pisay? Dear wizards of numbers and mindboggling things, thank you for inviting Cambio to make lots of noise, mostly in 4/4 time signature punctuated with the occasional odd 7/8, 6/8 riffs, come March 12 -- your school's Foundation Day!!! I used to be so bitter because I flunked Pisay's entrance exam. So bitter I decided na...magbabanda na lang ako!!! Hahaha! So thanks Pisay for inadvertently pushing me towards the crazy noisy path I am now taking. I hope none of you rebel against the genius given to you by Providence. That's why Cambio is here! To keep you sane! Let's help each other build a strong nation!

-Kris


And when I heard that the Pisay fair name was The Doppler Effect, two things simultaneously crossed my mind: "Wow, cool name" and "What a bunch of geeks". Should be the best gig ever, though, like Dacs said.

The next night, I met up with pretty much the same bunch of guys, plus Po, Oli, and Joyce at Gateway to watch "Lemony Snickets". It was alright, although there was nothing particularly compelling about the movie. If you're choosing, go watch Sideways instead.

Things took a turn for the worse on Sunday though, since I had to go to work to monitor the live webchat on a noontime variety show. I had figured I'd be done with it by four and planned to go to Greenhills to shop for a new bag because my old one broke down, but I wasn't able to leave the office until eight.

I arrived at Greenhills to see that all the shops were closed, so I just went to Yellow Cab to buy a pizza for pasalubong to the family. While waiting for my pizza, I looked around and found that the only place open was a record store.

I went in with the money I was supposed to buy my new bag with, and here's what I ended up with:



I had lost all of my E-heads cassettes a long time ago, and I think all that is left at home are the crappy ones like "Aloha Milkyway". I had purchased their "Anthology" CD, but I gave my copy to Tito Allan when he left for New Zealand. I had always wanted to buy CD copies of the albums before, and last Sunday I figured, "Why not do it now?" So I guess I won't have a bag until the next payday.

Anyway, listening to the CDs again, almost ten years after they were released, was quite an experience. ultraelectromagneticpop! is still a great piece of Pinoy pop music, the Heads at their rawest. Circus was an odd album; it's highs were really high, and its lows were, well, low. It also had the coolest album liner notes and album fillers. Cutterpillow, my favorite E-heads album, showcased Ely Buendia at the height of his songwriting genius, before his steady decline into, uhm, Jesus "Dizzy" Ventura. Whatever.

I suppose I could write more, but you already know I like the band. Look at my blog's name. Heck, they're the reason I wanted to go to UP... they made UP cool! Also, they are the reason the reason I still have these:

Comments:

thanks for the greeting jae! :)

uy, matagal ko na rin pinaplano bumili nyang first 3 albums ng e-heads, 2 albums ng rivermaya at 2 albums ng PnE. hehe! high school days. miss ya all! :)

 

i was pleasantly surprised with lemony snickets. i had such low expectations for it but it turned out to be a good movie naman (nakakatwa and nakakagulat!).

kaya pala nung bumalik ka for the movie eh wala kang dalang bag. wala ka palang nabili. oh well...

 

shake yer head and walk away!

sori di ako nakasama sa sports grill, kahit walang gig.

 

pareho kaming walang life? e ikaw? hahaha! peace bro.Ü

lemony snicket's... sucked! or maybe i was just sleepy then. ehe. tama, dapat sideways na lang ang panoorin kaysa sa lemony...

syete. bakit ba kasi sabay ang gig sa pisay sa play ni chewy?

 

pareho kaming walang life? e ikaw? hahaha! peace bro.Ühehe, kaya nga ako umoo dun sa next night sa gateway eh, hahaha.

 

I still think Circus is slightly better than Cutterpillow. Parang masyadong "engineered" yung cutterpillow eh, unlike the other. Saka can any e-heads song be better than Alapaap? :) Just my one peso though.

 

Post a Comment<< Home



ultraelectromagneticblog!
 

Weekly Top Artists - Powered by Last.FM


Subscribe to this blog

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Powered by Blogger

Listed on BlogShares

Pisay 98 Blog
Pisay 98 Website
Pisay 98 Message Boards

Bookish Bimbo
Brooding Pit
cartwheels seven times around the oval
The Ergonomic Quotient
Fire Light Song
For the Mail!
Garden Fresh
I'm ur pAL!!!
the jembunao experience
life, the universe, and everything
The Mighty Dacs
Pro Gamer to Programmer
Purple World
Riverwind
The Raven and the Stormcrow
The sad success story of the corporate slave
Sakura Mind Speaks
Si Yayan, Si Michel at ang Diwata
Sixteenth Floor
Verbal Diarrhea
The Wandering Geek
Whatever You
The Unbearable Lightness of Being Me

502 Bad Gateway
Across the Green Plains
ako? ako. ako. lagi na lang ako...
Anime West
The Buckfutter Blog
Contrast Medium
Locoflip's Xanga Site
Gaming Nookie
getting by...
Just The Type 2 Have 1
life of a kkmonster
karloCastertroy
the keep
Lock and Load
Memories From Dinner Last Night
Mic Olivares' Blog
Morning Has Broken
Paradiddles
Princess Toni's Enchanted Forest
Random Thoughts
So Lovely
Think, Pats! Think!!

Recent Posts

Photo Friday
De Quiros on Edsa
Naaalala ko ang mga gabing nakahiga sa ilalim ng k...
Photos from Mark and Han's reception
Interruption
I have seen, I have been to places far and deep in...
Balentayms
Generation natin
From Jona
Forums

The story so far

September 2004
October 2004
November 2004
December 2004
January 2005
February 2005
March 2005
April 2005
May 2005
June 2005
July 2005
August 2005
September 2005
October 2005
November 2005
December 2005
January 2006
February 2006
March 2006
April 2006
May 2006
June 2006
July 2006
August 2006
September 2006
October 2006
November 2006
December 2006
January 2007
February 2007
March 2007
April 2007
May 2007
June 2007
July 2007
August 2007
September 2007
October 2007
November 2007
December 2007
January 2008
February 2008
March 2008
April 2008
May 2008
June 2008
July 2008
August 2008
September 2008
October 2008
November 2008
December 2008
January 2009
February 2009
March 2009
April 2009
May 2009
June 2009
July 2009
August 2009
September 2009

www.flickr.com
This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from jtordecilla. Make your own badge here.


Home
Instant Pancit Canton
The Prose Portal
Email

A Dose Of Cynicism
Adventures in TV Land
Delusions of Grandeur
first draft
Freedom Sessions
Karmic Backstab
Indulgence
Perpetual Paranoia
Project Manila
Sky of Words
Small Furry Alien
telenobela
TravelKage
walanjo ka daril!


100 tears away
55 Words (and more)
Astig-Mama-Tism
Blogging from the UAE
Car Driver
Chaos Theory
Ederic @ Cyberspace
flatride.com
frances.effronte.org
Howie Severino's Sidetrip
The Life of an Earthbound Angel
Manuel L. Quezon III
Mimi and Karl Wedding Photography
moodswings
na(g)wawala
The New Online Confessions
nitpicky.org
No White Flag
Out of Bed
Pinay by the Bay
Rebel Pixel Productions
sablay.org
the silpur life
the sky sweetheart
Some Kind of Wonderful
Tapuy Moments
thinking about tomorrow
The Year of the Dog Woman
Weapon of Choice

Binibini
Clang-Fu
Four-point Play
The Histrionics of a Balding Drama King
i came, i saw, i blogged
intelektwal interkors
The Jason Journals
Mental Foreplay
Orange Pocket
Paiwinklebloo
Paperbag Writer
Peyups.com
Renaissance Girl
Seasonal Plume

avalon.ph
Bill Simmons
Dave Barry
Digg
Everything
Get Firefox!
Guardian Books
HoopsHype
I, Cringley
IMDB
Inside Hoops
Joel on Software
KDE-Look
Lawrence Lessig
Mark Cuban
Newsforge
Pop Matters
Reddit
Richard M. Stallman
Roger Ebert
Salon.com
Slam! Links
Slashdot
The Onion
The Onion AV Club
Wikipedia
Wil Wheaton