Chatting with a friend in yahoo messenger and discussing about writing “serious” stuff. His suggestion: “Just pepper it with theoretical shit”. I just love how he nails the ambiguity of many so-called theories that often pass for intellectual discourses right to its very digestive track. I always thought it was all in the language. Yes, […]
Last night, I went out with my officemate to look for this bar that is supposed to be gay and internationally patronized. We threaded the whole road that had little quaint stores. There were many teenagers with weird 80s hair who had practically colonized every bar and al fresco coffee shops. Their noise and their […]
Note: Because this is a very informal review, and a blog entry, I will do away with polite criticisms, big words, and politically correct statements. This piece spews a lot of unfounded biases, stereotypes, chauvinistic tones, and b.s. Anybody who lives in Manila knows that traveling to CCP is like traversing an ocean. Unless one’s […]
The funny thing about coffee conversations is that they tend to be about everything, and nothing. (footnote coffee conversation: people sit down to have coffee and talk about almost anything, except work matters). When you have to really think about it, they do not amount to something – like close a business deal or a […]
I held off writing something about La Pianiste (2001) directed by Michael Haneke for a while because I could not immediately understand it. And yet I knew I loved it right away. I rarely get to see films that touch on complex and miserable human relationships. I found it disturbing, something similar to the feeling […]
I live in a street that trails down Edsa; wherever I go I simply orient it either to my left of Edsa, which is southbound, or to my right. My sense of geography – and my life on the whole – is sort of simplified by my relationship to this road: my grade school was […]
I was incited to “review” Independencia (2009) directed by Raya Martin because of the following: everyone I knew who saw it at the French Film Festival gave the film a thumbs down and I wanted to process why this was so; I read my friend’s take on the film and I couldn’t help but also […]
Forwarded email: Registered nurse si Maria sa States. Kasama nya ang kanyang ina na nagpapagamot din doon pero di nagtagal namatay din ito. Dahil sa kamahalan ng pasahe pabalik sa Pinas, nagtipid si Maria. Pina-uwi nya na lang ang kabaong ng kanyang ina nang mag-isa. Pagdating ng kabaong, napansin ng mga kapamilya nya na […]
Si Eva, yong auntie ko na galing America nandito ngayon nag aaral ng nursing sa Guadalupe. Kapit bahay namen. Walang araw na ginawa ng Diyos na may reklamo siya: sa MRT, sa pilahan sa grocery, sa mga taxi, sa kalsada sa labas ng bahay, sa EDSA, sa squatter sa street namen, sa missing na toilet […]
Finally caught this movie which all gay men in Metro Manila have been raving about in their blogs but which was so elusive it couldn’t be found in cinemas except in obscure and forgettable eerie places. So it was that I and a friend had to be in Binondo on an unbearably hot Sunday afternoon […]
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