Saturday, July 23, 2005

Geek Galore!

This morning, Steve, Gisa and I got dough for a work we sold in eBay. So after running to the bank to get our earned dinero, we divided to get our personal share and decided to spend all of it!

I spent most of the cabbage on books... (Geek!)


I lost my copy and I didn’t want to pass out on buying a discounted one—priced only at two hundred ninety-nine effing pesos! O ha!


Again, lost my first copy (a Bloomsbury!) just after passing the half-way mark. Because of this, I left Lorenz lining up alone for the 6th book last week—which he describes as “lining up kasama ang mga makukulit na may crush kay Harry.”


Awesome true story about Bono's school friend living in the shadows of superstardom.


Ha! Leisure reading at its best!


Palahniuk as tour guide in offbeat, historic Portland, the town he calls "the most cracked of the crackpots."


Also got the back issue of the German edition of GQ Cars for a hundred bucks!

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...and a 2001 issue of F1!

Look what they sent me and Pepe in the office last Thursday!

Read it here.

Geek sketch!
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Gotta run, we got to buy tickets to the last screening of Herbie: Fully Loaded haha!

Thursday, July 21, 2005

I! Got! My! Copy! Today!

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The book that was due out May but, umm, wasn't 'cause of printing machine ef-ups is finally here!

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Joel drove by La Salle near midnight last Wednesday to steal his copy before his flight... and started texting us stuff that made us way giddy to see a copy.

So during break from classes today, I ran to La Salle and got my copies too!

The DVD is coming in a few weeks!
Why wait for it?
-more photos!
-all the class music videos featuring the original songs of each class!
-a great DVD case!
-an awesome selection of music, from Dave Matthews to Gwen Stefani! To Britney Spears! I'm not kidding!

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Can Go W/Me Tha Mountain

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I love Tokyo.
OK, I'm closing my eyes... What do I see?
In a totally random order:
Lights, more lights and even more lights, cars (plenty of them as well), superfriendly people, weird people, totally over-styled people, great food, crazy food, beautiful girls, mad architecture (copycats: NY's Empire State, Florida's Disneyworld, Paris' Eiffel Tower), baseball, TVs everywhere with mad TV shows, hurricanes, people with hi-tech gadgets, manga everywhere, and again lights, cars, people...
Hmmm...

Tokyo is also extreme solitude for those without the keys, and you see them wandering here and there, isolated, doubting that their heads were full of idiotic dreams; you see them hypnotized by their isolation, their hands firmly grasping their backpacks.

I prefer the forbidden, the small recesses in the shadows, the dead-ends along the train tracks, the tiny areas full of arrogance, where I couldn’t have gone alone because I couldn’t have made it back. Back there is a small footpath that makes its way around houses, and at four in the morning, it’s probably my favorite place in the world.

PAUSE
Ikebukuro, Tokyo
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As with any café’ that’s worth hanging out in, it’s the atmosphere that makes you want to stay. The music usually hovers in the realm of electronica, and it’s where I discovered the sounds of Taichi (they were playing his I Am album), who—I was told—also happens to be a regular at the café. With custom-made furniture and revolving art showcases (some of it extending to the furniture), it’s a breath of fresh air in a somewhat sordid (‘cause of an old reputation that lives on) part of the city.

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RANDOM TUNES

The Go! Team debut album, Thunder, Lightning, Strike, at first seems like it’s all over the place. A dash of hip-hop raps, some seventies era funk/pop, and some catchy melodies that remind you of classic eighties TV shows that never existed. But it all works, and it forms something that’s still unmarked.

Okay gotta run, off to catch a Cinemalaya film with Gino.
Check out his blog—it's a rather compelling random read!
O ha!

Sunday, July 17, 2005

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NintendoDS and pencils. That's all I need.