Not everyone shall spend Christmas sipping Swiss Miss, opening a mountain of gifts, and singing carols.

This playlist has been three years in the making.  I think I finally got it right this year.

"Blue Christmas: a collection of depressing Christmas songs"

1. Simon and Garfunkel - "Silent Night/7 O'Clock News" - Paul and Art sing an extra- ( Read more... )

Bar “High Fidelity” and “The Velveteen Rabbit,” there is no book I adore more than Trina Paulus’s “Hope for the Flowers.”  It chronicles the story of a striped and a yellow caterpillar who met each other in a towering pile of their kin - brilliantly called a “caterpillar pillar.”  After struggling to get up the pillar - to cut a long story short - ( Read more... )

My friend Tantan drew himself lying in a pool of blood beside the Oblation Statue in U.P.

This was back in junior year in Ateneo High School, when our Filipino teacher asked us to draw on a piece of paper what we wanted to become in the future.  Shocked, our teacher asked him what the drawing meant.  "I'm going to enrol in U.P., be an activist, ( Read more... )

Last Night I Shopped for Love.

The stores we come to love the most are the stores that we don't see at first sight.  Not a lot of people know about Cubao Ex, behind Gateway, and its slew of antique shops and graphic design shops.  Even fewer know about Som’s, the almost-authentic and cheaply-priced Thai restaurant behind Rockwell.  The best stores ( Read more... )

Deleting Songs
Glenn Tuazon

Joel and Clementine had it easy.  They met in Montauk, fell in love, then out of love, and then they completely forgot about each other.  His brain procedure had eradicated all memories of her, both good and bad.

It’s not as bad as it sounds.  People invoke memories on their own volition.  With no memories, there’s no ( Read more... )

"Cloverfield"
Rating:  8/10 stars.

*WARNING, MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD*

What's the quickest way to remove all terror from an otherwise scary movie?

Centering.

Horror movies tend to place its characters in the middle of everything. The monster chases after them, they see their friends die, they kill the monster, and they live happily ever after or get ( Read more... )

For music fans, listen to my show Music is My Girlfriend, 9 p.m. - 12 m.n. at 105.9 FM Underground Radio =)

This January me and my co-host Rolly Stone will feature a killer line-up:

January 14 - The Kids are Alright: The Best Music of 2007

Featuring year-defining singles like "All My Friends" (LCD Soundsystem), "1 2 3 4" (Feist), "D.A.N.C.E." (Justice ( Read more... )

Sorry, I've been neglecting this journal. This is my first update in 11 months -- forgive the lack of an LJ cut.

Here are twenty reasons (and pictures!! High tech na ako eh) why 2007 is the best year of my life, in pseudo-chronological order.

1. THESIS: Yaan, Aaron, and I won Best AB Communication Research Thesis. Here's our picture with our adviser ( Read more... )

As Christmas vacation ends, us seniors are now embarking on our last two months of college. (Sniff)

We're all getting older, and my -- how we all have changed.

Look, even our beloved Archie comics are undergoing a major change!


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I usually hate it when people deploy the term "postmodern" to suit just about any sort of absurdity, but I really can't think of any better term to describe the humor in this picture:


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