ultraelectromagneticblog: July 2007

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Jaemark, Jaemark. Jaemark

Putek, wag mo siyang ite-text, nakainom ka.

Wag mo siyang ite-text, nakainom ka.

Wag mo siyang ite-text.

Nakainom ka.

Labels: le sigh

- posted by jaemark @ 7/29/2007 01:43:00 AM 0 comments

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Pisay

Have you guys seen Pisay yet? I saw it last Tuesday with the usual suspects (JAm, Jem, Leks, Jonas, and Chewy; Mark and Hannah were also at the screening but they arrived late). I didn't really want to write extensively about it because there's just no way to do justice to the experience of what Howie Severino calls a 'cinematic love letter to a school'. He gave the film a rave review.

Auraeus and direk Laurice Guillen were right: This may be the first movie that portrays modern Filipino youth as being as brilliant as Rizal had envisioned more than a century ago.

Perhaps the most popular Pisay alum, Jessica Zafra, also liked the movie (in a post with a title that any Pisay kid should get):

Auraeus Solito has three strengths as a filmmaker. One, he draws fine performances from his actors, even those who had no previous acting experience. Two, he can tell a story visually, unlike many Pinoy filmmakers whose movies look like radio drama serials. Three, he knows his strong points, so his confidence is evident even in scenes that might seem problematic. These strengths are on display in his third feature film, Pisay, the intertwined stories of six scholars at the Philippine Science High School in the ’80s.

The film will be screened at UP on July 31, 5PM. I think there will be additional screenings if the film were to win awards in tomorrow night's awarding ceremonies for the Cinemalaya festival. The PSHSAA and the PSHS Foundation will also be sponsoring screenings of the film at The Block on August 24 and 25.

Labels: movies, pisay

- posted by jaemark @ 7/28/2007 08:09:00 PM 1 comments

Friday, July 27, 2007

Lolopalooza

Last night's Play4Serve at Saguijo was one for the ages. Tried to re-construct the set list from memory.

dong abay (featuring sandwich and sancho)
akrostik
state u
tuyo
tsinelas
bombardment
esem
dyad
banal na aso
perpekto
senti (Mahal ka ba niya? Talaga?)

* teeth were running late, so a bunch of musicians got together to play some songs and keep the crowd interested
fatal posporos/imago (kris dancel, aia de leon, buddy zabala, raimund marasigan)
walang break break
cocoboy goodnight
sili song
spoliarium

teeth (ebe dancel with teeth)
bum squad
phone rings
sorry
tampo
prinsesa
laklak
darating
shooting star
* i don't think this is complete, eto lang yung naalala ko yung mga titles

eraser-x (jett pangan, jugs jugueta, kris dancel, buddy zabala, raimund marasigan)
maskara
alapaap
pare ko
julie tearjerky
ang huling el bimbo
overdrive
torpedo
magasin

* at this point, jett pangan left, eheads producer robin rivera took over on the drums and raimund sang
back2me
butterscotch
sembreak

* raimund went back to the drums and the front man for some band i couldn't remember the name
insomya

* the itchyworms' jugs jugueta took over vocals for the last two songs
andalusian dog
lightyears

UPDATE: YouTube user tonemaster has awesome videos from the gig. Here's my favorite:

Labels: eraserheads, music

- posted by jaemark @ 7/27/2007 05:54:00 PM 0 comments