Oca.

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Been rummaging through some of the finest Oscar moments in the past few weeks (1) because I'm an Oscar nut (I used to have this book that compiles all the winners since 1927 and I almost know them all) and (2) I am easily charmed by great movie stars. I'd probably make a list of my favorites sometime in the future but the clip above always leaves me smiling every time I watch it.

Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Roger Moore: what a league of classy gentlemen. And how fitting that another gallant British accepts the award they present? Kevin Kline and his 'tache! That sexy voice!


Rumor Has It - Adele

BP.

"Again, don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions. Go "Over!" Under! Through!" and opinions will change organically when you're the boss. Or they won't. Who cares?

"Do your thing and don't care if they like it."

- Bossypants, Tina Fey, p. 145


Amen - Leonard Cohen

Random Radiohead stuff.

Where's In Rainbows?

I love you, Stanley Donwood!

Releeease meee... releeease meee...

Lotus Flower anniversary!

Week 1

Valentine's special

Week 2

Little by Little - Radiohead

Help!

I need some cash to make a huge dream come true, so if you have any spare coins or bills, please donate to my Radiohead Trust Fund. Will be put to good use, of course! And will love you back immensely! Help me fill up this tumbler by July! Yay.


Moon Fever - Air

Kuwentong basahan.

Bale may kuwento ako tungkol sa isa sa mga unang bagay na ginawa ko nang magsimula ang taon.

Isang hapon nag-aayos ako ng mga damit sa aparador nang may mapansin akong T-shirt na may kakatwang alaala. Noong nakaraang taon ito nangyari. Mga panahong nakikitulog ako sa apartment niya dahil gusto ko siya makasama. Baon ko yung damit na yun. Nasa kanila ako hanggang Linggo kaya nagbaon ako ng dalawa o tatlong extra T-shirt. Nung nagpaalam ako para umuwi, hindi sinasadyang naiwan ko yung damit na yun sa closet niya. Nakalimutan ko, tas hindi rin niya napansin.

Tas isang gabi nagtext siya sa akin tungkol sa naturang damit. Sabi niya, "Chard, damit mo ata tong suot ko. Haha." At saka ko naalala. Siyempre sabi ko ayos lang, bilang halos magkakatawan lang naman kami at wala namang kaso yung ganung bagay. Suot niya yung damit kong yun nang pumunta siya ng Cubao X. Hindi ko na maalala kung anong event, pero dumiretso daw siya dun dahil nalulungkot siya. Hindi ko siya masamahan dahil may tinatapos akong trabaho.

So ayun na. Nung nagkita kami kinalaunan, isinauli niya yung T-shirt. Bagong laba. Mabango. Inamoy-amoy ko pa.

Ilang linggo o buwan ang nakalipas nagkakalabuan na kami. Dahil may angkin akong talento sa pananaliksik, napag-alaman ko ang isang mahalagang detalye. Nung gabing yun sa Cubao na suot niya yung T-shirt ko, kasama niya yung nobyo niya ngayon. Paano ko nalaman? May picture sila. Siya, suot ang damit ko, nakangiti sa tabi nung lalaki. Ngiting-ngiti. Ang saya saya ni kuya.

Nakakatawa lang. Seryosong tawa. Nakita ko yun nung panahong galit ako at nakadagdag siya sa bigat ng mga nangyari. Pag galit ako natatawa ako. Pag malungkot ako natatawa rin ako. May sayad lang. Pero ayun, natawa ako na naiyak. Siyempre rational naman akong tao. Walang malisya yun nung nangyari siya. Pero pag naiisip ko, hmm..hindi rin. Minsan hindi ako naniniwala sa pagbibigay ng benefit of the doubt.

Alam niyo ano nangyari nung hapong yun habang nag-aayos ako ng mga damit sa aparador?

Bale kinuha ko yung damit at ginawang basahan. Nandun siya sa pinto ng kuwarto ko ngayon. Sanay na ako sa existence niya. Tinatapakan ko tuwing pumapasok at lumalabas. Ang lakas niya makagaan ng loob. Araw-araw ko siyang tinatapakan. Araw-araw ko ring naalala na wala siyang halaga.

At ikinasisiya ko ang bagay na ito. :)



Huwag Mo Nang Itanong - Eraserheads

Beau du jour.

JAMIE BELL I LOVE YOU FOR EVER AND EVER AND EVER. BRB DYING

YES, YOU!

YES! YES!

Morning Bell - Radiohead

Chico!

Breathe - Wheat

Elemental.

I stand by my list two years ago and say that this is still the finest album from the last decade. Kid A is by all means groundbreaking, but it can go ahead and suck a lemon.


All I Need - Radiohead

Random.

♥♥♥ BEST PHOTO IN THE WORLD ♥♥♥

Our Plans - Cloud Nothings

Dear Modern Family.

Congratulations! Thanks for the wonderful distraction!


No Future/No Past - Cloud Nothings

Getting old?

I started watching How I Met Your Mother sometime in 2008 or 2009 when I was still working at Alliance. I'm pretty sure it's because of Neil Patrick Harris, whom I've loved since Doogie Howser days. I enjoyed the first and second seasons, most of which I watched on my iPod before I went to sleep. The show was light, not the type of comedy that would make you think about profound things and the like. Plus, it has a cool soundtrack. The song in the opening credits is pretty nice. And once, they used "This Modern Love" to close an episode.

It's sometime after the fourth season when I got a little disinterested in it. Perhaps because I changed work, so it took me a while to catch up on it or I was listening to lots of albums and watching tons of movies that I stopped being a TV series fanatic. You know, addiction wanes when something is big enough to eclipse it. Anyway, late last year I started on the fifth season and finished watching the finale a while ago. It's kinda underwhelming but I expected that. I still love the gang, though at times they become very boring and repetitive and unfunny, mostly because of the writing. It's just not as tight as the first and second season anymore. I'm thinking of putting off watching the sixth season because I got loads of series to feast on. Yay, thanks to Sani. But for now: SLEEP.

*written sometime last week, forgot to post due to laziness (what's new)


Staircase - Radiohead

Like a Bose.

Been wearing this pair of jeans for three weeks now. I checked my cabinet and apparently I have plenty of new ones to wear. SO WHY AM I SO LAZY TO TOSS THIS ONE INTO THE LAUNDRY BASKET???



Love What Happened Here - James Blake

In the Frozen Reaches.

The Idea
by Mark Strand

for Nolan Miller

For us, too, there was a wish to possess
Something beyond the world we knew, beyond ourselves,
Beyond our power to imagine, something nevertheless
In which we might see ourselves; and this desire
Came always in passing, in waning light, and in such cold
That ice on the valley’s lakes cracked and rolled,
And blowing snow covered what earth we saw,
And scenes from the past, when they surfaced again,
Looked not as they had, but ghostly and white
Among false curves and hidden erasures;
And never once did we feel we were close
Until the night wind said, “Why do this,
Especially now? Go back to the place you belong;”
And there appeared , with its windows glowing, small,
In the distance, in the frozen reaches, a cabin;
And we stood before it, amazed at its being there,
And would have gone forward and opened the door,
And stepped into the glow and warmed ourselves there,
But that it was ours by not being ours,
And should remain empty. That was the idea.



Alay sa mga Nagkamalay Noong Dekada 90 - Dicta License

Shaking.

Goddamn Europeans!
Take me back to beautiful England
And the grey, damp filthiness of ages,
And battered books and
Fog rolling down behind the mountains,
On the graveyards, and dead sea-captains.

Let me walk through the stinking alleys
To the music of drunken beatings,
Past the Thames River, glistening like gold
Hastily sold for nothing.

Let me watch night fall on the river,
The moon rise up and turn to silver,
The sky move,
The ocean shimmer,
The hedge shake,
The last living rose, quiver.


The Last Living Rose - PJ Harvey

Walang katumbas na pagod.

Tangina minsan kahit anong pilit kong pasiglahin ang sarili, kahit anong pilit kong tatagan ang loob sa mga bagay na sumusubok sa pasensya, kahit anong pilit kong paniwalain ang sarili na may magandang dahilan ang lahat, hindi ko mawari kung bakit may mga pangyayari pa rin na magaganap para panghinaan ako ng loob, para pagdudahan ang positibong mukha ng mga bagay.

Sabihin mo nga sa akin, ano pa ba, ano pa ba ang kailangan kong gawin? Tangina naman e. Hindi ba puwedeng hayaan muna akong makabawi bago bigyan ulit ng mga mabibigat na pagsubok? Nauunawaan ko namang hindi na ako makakabalik pa sa dati, at natanggap ko nang may lamat na ang pagtingin ko sa mundo, pero maaari bang pakonsuwelo na lang na pagalingin ang may sakit at bawasan ang hirap sa araw-araw na pagpasok sa trabaho?

Hindi lang katawan at isip ko ang pagod. Pati kaluluwa na nagtatangkang gumaling mag-isa.

England - PJ Harvey

D.D.

Matt is kinda high, isn't he? And Sufjan's too pretty pretty.


It's All Been Done - Barenaked Ladies

Hikab.

Ang wagas ng antok ko ngayon. Sobra. Wagas na wagas kayang ipambili ng langit.



Let's Get Tired - SSLYBY

This mess I'm in.

Work is stressing me out lately and it's no longer healthy. I understand that day jobs are really exhausting and sometimes they take the life out of you but I guess I've reached the limit. Nothing excites me about it anymore. Early on I knew it was boring but tolerable, but now it started to becoming utterly boring and intolerable that I began to dread coming to the office almost every day. If not for the salary and the conversations with Ali, I would have been pulling my hair in dismay and sadness. But there are bills are to pay and a life to attend to, however meaningless that life is. I got to escape this mess, though. I just don't know when. Someone please give me a hard push. I want myself out of this.


Countdown - Sondre Lerche

Boom!

Hai friends. Guy and I would like to know how have you been doing. Oh, but since this is an inactive blog, no one would be answering. Hey, that's fine. Happy to be back. No matter where I go and how many good-byes are told, there's no place like home.

xxxxxx


XO/The Host - The Weeknd

Wake and be fine.

Hello Matt! Hello 2012! A new year has come, right?


All My Rage - Laura Marling