Tonite I start a category on my blog that focuses on pinoy tv bashing whose primary function is to effectively bash and describe and disown all the crap that I see on RP TV.
Soon Ill start a storm bcoz Im so fed up with all the things that I see on tv
ciao!
Right now, my brand new mouse is givng me brand new headache. This is supposed to be brand new and it sucked big time.
Its giving me a hard time to draw and finish my documents.
I need to get a new one before i get carpal-tunnel and before my trackball gets broken.
Can u lend me a mouse instead? ung heavy duty kahit 2nd hand.
Ill give it back by christmas.
promise.
CSI season has just started
Its started with CSI Miami’s 5th Season where Horacio and Eric heads off to Rio to catch the mastermind that ordered the hit on Marisol.
Tomorrow is CSI Las Vegas and CSI NY follows suit
Cant wait for the downloads…need to buy CD’s.
This entry will be my last blog pertaining to a great summer spent on listening and watching Rockstar Supernova.
I enjoyed the songs (mostly)
I enjoyed the contenders
I enjoyed the originals of Supernova and the final 6
I enjoyed the rockstar fashion show
I enjoyed the comments from Dave Navarro and Supernova
I enjoyed Brooke Burke even if she was preggy.
Rockstar INXS and Rockstar SUPERNOVA are highly incomparable. each can stand on its own. Lets just hope that next season’s Rockstar will be greater than what was achieved this year and last year.
I also learned that once a rocker, will always be a rocker. Its just a matter of time and accepting change as you go through.
Thank you to those who bared with me since July for what was happening on the show. I felt that I have to share the rock to you guys.
Now I have plenty of reasons to play my guitar again…
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peace
Now that Ive been sick for almost two days. I found out that there are alot of things that you can do while you are healing. These are the things that I did:
1. Update my iPod
2. Download songs and movies and convert them for my iPod
3. Take off the dust from your guitar case and play the guitar. Specifically play slow,lonely and deserted songs to aggravate your situation like PInk Floyd’s Wish you were here & Comfortably Numb, Radiohead’s Creep and Karma Police, Coldplay’s Yellow & Fix you, Harem Scarem’s Honestly, Queensryche’s Silent Lucidity and so forth.
4. Do blogs
5. Try to look at those who viewed you and watch their friendster profile.
6. Drink Water and meds (of course)
7. Reminisce the good ol days of college and high school. (youve got to pick up some of your dusty picture album on this one)
8. Watch Rockstar Supernova (online )
9. Learn new language ( not french but programming languages.
10. Dress your wound.
11. Rearrange your room.
12. Sort out old clothes
13. Play the guitar…again till you hands bleed.
14. Listen to your music via iPod.
Mucus are starting to clog up my nose and throat that I bark like a dog and sniff like a crack user. Anyway I just hope I get to heal soon.
Wish me luck.
I fell sick since yesterday to flu after getting rained down on PJ’s wedding.
Im alone in my bedroom trying to heal myself.
Im excited for tomorrow’s Supernova finale.
Im excited on things thats supposed to happen by weekend.
I cant wait to get back on the saddle.
Its been awhile since I get to read some fresh news that a clear indication of RP’s forward formula. I recently read news articles that the mothballed NAIA 3 terminal is about to get opened between now and mid 2007.Of course , there were some few oppositions outright to this proposal which I think is logical and fair. However, I have some reservations on the pros and the cons of how the NAIA 3 will be surrected from its casket. Are we paying more than what is asked for? In a nutshell, this will create a lot of bad precedent. But since NAIA 3 is a utility, shouldnt it be able to pay for the cost of the project? You see, flyovers are being built right now in order to facilitate immediate transportation to this new airport and I dont see why it shouldnt be opened. Are we filipinos lacking in understanding that " we should use what we have" and live within our means? Its almost always that we obstruct and oppose on things that are supposed to help us get out of the rut and I really dont get it, because we hold into our blindness tightly. Our leaders who have seek "national patrimony" to defend the motherland is a bit well off and unproductive. OUr leaders have unreasonably held on to the "old school rules" and we at the bottom get unreasonably denied of a better life. Is this a case of a blind leading the blind?
How many times we have been shortchanged by our forefathers? Had it not for some misplaced pride and ego, the nuclear power plant in bataan should have been opened 20years ago. The PNRI (Philippine Nuclear Research INstitute) has given its go-signal to use it but we didnt. What our leaders did was to get the oil and coal suppliers wealthy instead of us getting the break from low electricity costs and more blooming economy from oncoming investments.
Like I said, we pinoys deserve better than this. If we have to do "Pol Pot’s method maybe that could get things started. The Oakwood mutineers should have sacked the congress and senate and killed them instead. I would have called them heroes and saviors, not cowards.
Its starting to get chilly at night time and Christmas is really getting closer.
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I woke up late today at around 1130am and its so late that my back got sore. I came out and washed my face and hurriedly ate my brunch while watching American Choppers on Discovery Channel and a bit of the Stve Irwin tribute on Animal Planet.
I still feel a bit left out of something so i decided to pick up my guitar and start playing a tune. My guitar sure is dusty, I mean the bag so I put some oil to grease up the strings and tuned it before I picked up some of the songs that I wanted to play.
First up was Pink Floyd’s "Wish you were here". Here are the lyrics:
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So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell,
blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
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I thought I can shrug it off but I cant, so I played "Blackbird" by the Beatles:
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Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arrive
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.
Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of a dark black night.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
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It felt really good so I wrapped up my loneliness with an INXS song called "Mystify"
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All veils and mistyStreets of blueAlmond looksThat chill divineSome silken momentGoes on foreverAnd we're leaving broken hearts behind
MystifyMystify meMystifyMystify me
I need perfectionSome twisted selectionThat tangles meTo keep me alive
In all that existsNone have your beautyI see your faceI will survive
Eternally wild with the powerTo make every moment come aliveAll those stars that shine upon youWill kiss you every night
All veils and mistyStreets of blueAlmond looksThat chill divine
Some silken momentGoes on foreverAnd we're leavingYeah we're leaving broken hearts behind
You're eternally wild with the powerTo make every moment come aliveAll those stars that shine upon youAnd they'll kiss you every night-
Its hard to imagine somehow that I lasted this long.But I kept the faith.
I wrote this as a tribute to my good old friend Pierre John Cura (or PJ to some of us) who got hitched earlier today to his bride Frencine. Quite frankly, this closes the era of our "childhood rock n roll age" and thus begin our new lives with what he have.
I also dedicate this blog to my former bandmates Alwin Sanchez and Adonis Pabellan (RIP my friend) for the experience that the "childhood rock n roll age" brought to us.
I never thought I’d say this but I miss the band. I miss playing music with those three funny and crazy guys and it never crossed my mind that I’d miss it this much. Yeah yeah, some of you might say that I got this from the movie "Still Crazy" but I would not have known how much I missed it when we saw each other at the lunch reception.
You see, back in ‘92, when I was still in 2nd year high school, I got to know these guys by accident. I met them when my next door neighbor Christian Ferreras and Carlo James Munoz jammed with them one summer afternoon. Christian played his guitar, PJ and Alwin brought along theirs and CJ played percussion. I still remember that first song we played and recorded on tape and its still fresh in my memory on how we messed up or sang U2’s With or Without You. Back then, Nirvana’s debut album is still fresh and "smells like teen spirit" was played heavily on 97.1 WLSFM and most of my friends also played it over and over on their tape deck. During that time, Pearl Jam also released their "Ten" album and Soundgarden released theirs a year earlier. Heavy Metal and grunge rock were making money during that time. CJ lent me his Nirvana and Pearl Jam tapes for awhile and began to appreciate it. I appreciated it not knowing that my voice is slowly emulating Eddie Vedder’s vocals on tape. Now, while humming a Pearl Jam tune one school day of ‘92 (I attended Adamson U at Sn Marcelino during that time) and waiting for a BLTB bus headed to Jai Alai (Taft) under the Magallanes flyover. PJ chanced upon me while hearing me humming the "Jeremy" song. He invited me to sing and jam along with Ondie and Alwin on a saturday afternoon. I still remember how they called themselves that time and would you believe that we called our band "Wernicke’s Syndrome." I remember Alwin giving us that name and it sounded great. So, quickly I got into the band and played rock music altogether. This is where I started to get inculcated with Glam Music (thanks to PJ and Ondie) and our measly band played Def Leppard tunes and Poison Tunes. One time we played a Motley Crue Song "Dr. Feelgood" and I have to train myself to sing in a higher pitch. You see, Im always the "kluts" or the comic relief for the band with my quick reflexes ( which translates to slapstick comedy to them 3 guys) and being the youngest of them all, I had to bear with it and live with it. Honestly, being the kluts and all didnt bother me at all since playing with them is already one hell of a good time. PJ taught me how to play the guitar differently and gave me confidence in playing in front of people. That experience alone is so worth it thats why I enjoyed the ride. So we continued to play for ourselves and slowly joined battle of the bands on schools, Junior Jam on RJTV 29 and parties. We played for four solid years until college came.
It was a hell of a different story when college came. Everybody in the band were also attending college school. So when I attended Mapua, PJ was the closest guy to turn to when it called for carpooling to go to school since he’s in Letran and Im 2 blocks away. Since college asked for a lot of time, focus and attention somehow I thought I should lessen my interaction with the band and it happened slowly. Band practices became rare, countless times have been spent on significant others and making the original songs took the back seat. That same time, they got a new singer. You see, the concept of "side project or side band" was either new or unkown to me during the time and when I heard them practicing with their new vocalist and singing our original song, my ego was hurt. This "hurt" I kept for the next several months while I focused more on school. One Christmas party of 96 or 97, the four of us got the chance to meet on a party held by the community. I dunno what occured to me but I said something awful to PJ and I think I cursed a little too much during the night where they could have called me to sing with them few songs in front. Honestly I hated myself for saying something awful to a very dear friend and God knows how I asked for clarity and enlightenment for the shame that it brought to me.
As expected this caused a rift (a silent rift to say the least) between me and them. It totally ended our connection, communication and our relationship as a band. Three years later, I sought for PJ and asked for forgiveness. A lot of things have happened in between and if there’s one thing that I know is that Im only human and I really am sorry for my mistakes.
Two years ago, we lost Ondie when he committed suicide. All of us wept from this loss. It was only a matter of time that we will get reunited and destiny just played a nasty trick. From what was band or four 12 years now became three. Alwin’s got a wife and a very beautiful daughter and PJ’s got hitched earlier today and me, just plain Me telling you my story which Ive been wanting to tell how blessed I got for playing music with them. For this I’d forever be grateful to them for exposing me to the language of music, for the value of friendship, for the value of respect and communication and humor that keeps us smiling up to this very day.
Rock on fellas till you say some more.
